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SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1945
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THIRD FLEET BOMBARDS STEEL CITY OF KAMAISHI
CHARTER GETS
ROUSING VOTE
OF COMMITTEE
Senate Will Begin Debat
es On Peace Document
Monday
20 TO 0 APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, July 14.—
(A*)—Approved by a thump
ing 20 to 0 vote of the For
eign Relations committee, the
United Nations charter took
its place on the senate calen
dar today for its most critical
world test.
Without a move to dot an “I"
the 23-member committee indorsed
the 50-nation peace-keeping agree
ment and handed it over in the
senate. There debate will begin on
the document July 23 amid signs
pointing to its overwhelming ap
proval.
If this approval is given without
reservations or amendments, as
leaders confidently expect, sup
porters feel other nations which
have been waiting for this country
to act will hurry to attach their
official ratifications.
The committee's endorsement
came at the end of a half hour
closed session yesterday which
wound up five days of public hear
ings. Three members who were ab
sent wiU have an opportunity to
get their names on the rolls later.
OPPOSED LEAGUE
Senator Johnson (R-Cal), who
had a dental appointment at the
time of the meeting, may register
his vote today. Although he op
posed American entry into the
I League of Nations, he has indi
" cated he might go along this time.
Senator Shipstead (R-Minn), who
has not said how he will vote, and
Benator Murray (D-Mont), a
»-harter supporter, were out of
town.
The charter still may face pro
posed reservations in the senate.
Senator Bushfleld says he
has four in mind.
USE OP TROOPS
Briefly, he wants to deny the
new organisation power to order
use of U. S. troops without ap
proval of Congress, refuse it au
thority to limit American arma
ments, bar the proposed world se
curity council from Interference
with the Monroe doctrine and pro
vide for congressional definition
of the powers of American repre
sentatives to the league.
Dulles told the committee the
authority of the American dele-,
gate to order the use of U. S.
troops ought to be defined when
this nation makes a treaty agree- j
ment later on the forces it expects
to make available toward policing
the peace.
Sharp Drop In
Civilian Sugar
Quotas Coming
# WASHINGTON, July 14 —
—
'lAn eight-point cut In butter ra
tion values and sharp reduction
In civilian sugar supplies during
the last three months of the year
appeared to be possibilities today.
The chief of OPA's dairy pro
ructs branch, Eugene Brocken
brough, disclosed last night that
a trade proposal to lower butter
ration values to 16 points a pound
is being given “very careful con
sideration."
The butter committee of the
New York Mercantile exchange
recommended the eight-point re
duction to prevent spoilage during
peak butter production months.
OPA previously has said a “slight”
cut In butter ration values will be
made July 29.
LESS SUGAR
Meanwhile, agriculture depart
ment officers reported that the
civilian supply of sugar during the
final quarter of the year may be
pared 25 percent under the July
September quarter allotment.
The civilian supply for the year
Is estimated at 5,100,000 tons —
about 3,000,000 tons short of po
tential demand. Approximately
2,800,000 tons were purchased In
the first six months and 1380,000
tons have been allocated for the
current quarter.
This will leave less than 1,080,000
tons for the final quarter unless
additional supplies can be found—
and food officials say there’s little
prospect of that. Last year, ci
vilians got 1333,000 in the Octo
ber-December period.
' The civilian allotment Includes
. supplies for bakers, hotels, res
taurants, soft drink and candy
^manufacturers and other indus
trial users.
PITTSBURGH RIDES OUT TYPHOON—A booming gale whips up Paci
fic waters around the American heavy cruiser, the USS Pittsburgh, after
she had her bow torn off in a typhoon southeast of the Ryukyus June 5.
In the picture of the bow end of the vessel, 100 feet of the bow has already
been snapped off.—(AP Wirephoto from U. S. Navy.)
Chennault To Quit
Army, Leave China
Announcement Comes Two Doys After Appointment
Lt. Lt. Gen. Stratemeyer As Overall Commander
KUNMING, China, July 14.—(#*)—Maj. Gen. Claire L.
Chennault is leaving China and retiring from the U. S. army.
He made this announcement today, two.jdays after the ap
pointment of Lt. Gen. George L. Stratemeyer as commander
of all U. S. air forces in China.
I
I
ROYSTER QUITS
WELFARE POST
Board Chairman For 21
Years Resigns To Take
Hospital Trusteeship
Dr. S. S. Royster, for 21 years
chairman of the Cleveland County
Welfare, today tendered his resig
nation of that office ia order that
he might qualify for the county
hospital trusteeship without violat
ing the state’s double-office hold
ing statute. Dr. Royster, who has
headed the Shelby Hospital board
from its inception, was appointed
by commissioners Monday to mem
bership on the new county hospi
tal board.
He directed his letter of resig
nation today to Chairman Glee A.
Bridges. The welfare board post
will likely be filled at the commis
sion’s meeting next Monday.
Mrs. Mary Bums Parker, coun
ty welfare officer, today paid tri
bute to the "devoted, unselfish
service” rendered by Dr. Royster |
during her association with him ]
as head of that board. "No man (
could have given more to the work
than he has done and it has been
a pleasure and inspiration to work
with a man of such splendid civic
spirit,” Mrs. Bums added.
Whats doing
SUNDAY
10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.—U.S.
O. center open to service folk
visiting in the city.
MONDAY
7:30 p.m.—City council meets
at city hall.
Chennault. who is 55, has been
commander of the U. S. 14th air
force. and before that directed
China’s “Flying Tigers” against the
Japanese.
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
commander of all U. S. forces In
MAJ. GEN. CHENNAULT
the Chinese theater, announced ac
ceptance of Ohennault’s resigna
tion.
TELLS NEWSMEN
Chennault called In correspond
ents to disclose his decision. He
said he would not continue as
commander of the 14th air force
although Wedemeyer, in announc
ing Stratemeyer’s appointment
Thursday, had said that Chennault
would retain his command.
Chennault once before retired
from the U. S. army, In 1936 be
cause of disability. He came to China
in 1937 and started working for the
Chiang Kai-shek government. He
See CHENNAULT Page 2
THE WAR TODAY:
Invasion Of Japan May
Dwarf D-Day In Normandy
By DeWITT MacKENZIE, AP Writer
1 ■ "Tmm
The greatest amphibious invas
ion the world has seen was D-day
for Normandy, when the Allied ar
mada of 4,000 ships swept across
the English channel against the
French coast, under a canopy of
air power.
That represented the utmost
which man had even envisaged in
the way of such an operation. Yet
we now are headed for another
D-day—perhaps still months away
—which may exceed anything we
saw in Normandy, and that’s the
invasion of Japan.
Of course any effort to
forecast what will happen
when we make the grand as
sault on Nippon would be pure
speculation — and this is no
forecast. As a matter of fact
we aren’t sure at this time
that we shall have to land
troops at all. It’s humanly
possible that the Japanese
war-lords will succumb to
bombing and surrender. How
ever, we must plan on invas
ion.
All in all, the gods of war were
kind to the Allies when our gal
lant men swarmed up the beach
See INVASION Page 2
BRITISH MEN
OF WAR ESCORT
TRUMAJfS SHIP
President Will Go To Ant
werp, Fly From Brussels
To Potsdam
PREPARES”FOR TALKS
By Ernest B. Vaccaro
ABOARD CRUISER AU
GUSTA WITH PRESIDENT
TRUMAN, July 14.—(/P)—
Seven British men of war
loomed up out of the mist
shrouded English channel to
day to escort President Tru
man’s cruiser-borne party to
Antwerp. From there the
President will fly to Pots
dam for his first “big three”
meeting with Prime Minister
Churchill and Marshal Stalin.
Mr. Truman was on the Augusta’s
bridge when the Rendezvous was
joined - with the British cruiser
Birmingham and six of his majes
ty’s destroyers.
At 7 a.m., Greenwich meantime,
the Birmingham and her accom
panying destroyers were sighted on
calm but misty waters.
The destroyers took their places,
three on each side of the Augus
ta, and her companion ship, the
Philadelphia, turning about with a
precision comparable to parade
ground maneuvers of smart cadets.
The Birmingham, with Rear Ad
miral Cunningham-Graham aboard
encircled the president’s ship, all
of her seamen standing at atten
tion along her rails.
LEADS PROCESSION
After this formal greeting, she
raced quickly ahead to take her
place fti"front er-ftte Philadelphia
to lead the procession past lands’
end and the historic cliffs of Dover.
One of the destroyers put out
a small boat which bounced over
to the Augusta with a mail pouch
from the White House.
Two floating mines which had
broken from their moorings were
sighted near the formation.
Upon arrival at Antwerp, Presi
dent Truman will motor to Brus
sels and there take off in his big
C-54 plane for Potsdam and his
first meeting with Prime Minister
Churchill and Generalissimo Sta
lin Monday or Tuesday.
PROPOSALS
The President completed today
the examination of the proposals
he will present to Stalin and
Churchill and of the data these
two have submitted as subjects
for discussion.
Mr. Truman is firmly opposed to
any secret agreements, his asso
ciates say, and will report to Con
gress immediately upon his re
turn to the United States from
the conference.
A side trip to France already
has been y#led out and a reported
visit to London is not more than
a possibility. The length of the
conference may determine the
feasibility of such a trip.
NEW LANDING
ON MINDANAO
Aussies Push Through Jap
Defenses Of Sambodja
Oil Fields
MANILA, July 14. —An Au
stralian surge through collapsing
Japanese resistance to within nine
miles of the Sambodja oil fields on
east Borneo and a fleet-covered
American amphibious landing in
southern Mindanao of the Philip
pines were reported today.
The hitherto fiercely fighting ene
my was routed at a point more than
20 miles north of the conquered oil
port of Balikpapan as the Aussie
Seventh division scored a gain of
four and a half miles.
Tokyo radio, meanwhile, made the
unconfirmed claim that Japanese
planes have sunk “at least one ene
my destroyer” in an attack on ship
ping outside Balikpapan harbor.
ON MINDANAO
To speed up the cleanup of invad
ed Mindanao, elements of the U.
S. 24th division were landed Thurs
day under bombarding guns of the
Seventh Fleet in Sarangani Bay.
The infantrymen, also covered by
Marine aircraft, were unopposed as
they moved inland in pursuit of
enemy forces retreating in that sec
tor. *
In northern Luzon, Sixth division
infantrymen have captured the
mountain province stronghold of
Kiangan where the Japanese had
held out in caves and bamboo
thickets for weeks. Northeast of Ba
guio, the last provincial capital of
Bontoc fell to guerrilla forces.
THE ADMIRAL BREAKFASTS WITH MOM—Vice Admiral Marc A.
Mitscher, naval hero of the Pacific, has breakfast with his mother, Mrs.
Myrta Mitscher, 82, in her home at Hillsboro, Wis., just before that town's
homecoming celebration in his honor. It was their first meeting in 11
years.—