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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 <R-SD> 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 —</P>—
'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
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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.—<AP Wirephoto)
SHAEF Is Dissolved;
Eisenhower Praised
Supreme Commander Hopes Unity Among Allies
Achieved In SHAEF Will Point Way To Peace
PARIS, July 14.—(/P)—The greatest unified military
command of all time—Supreme Headquarters of the Allied
Expeditional Force—was dissolved at 12:01 A. M. today.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
supreme commander, said it was
his “hope and prayer” that the
“unparalleled unity which has
been achieved” would “point the
way to a permanent and lasting
peace.”
Ending 17 months and one day
after it was launched to bring
Germany to her knees in defeat,
SHAEF was disbanded virtually on
the eve of the “Big Three” Pots- j
dam conference for inter-allied
agreement on the first steps of re
habilitation under the peace.
British newspapers paid tribute
to the .supreme command and Eis
enhower’s leadership and the army
newspaper Stars and Stripes hail
ed it as a “conclusive demonstra
tion of the effectiveness of inter
national cooperation.”
NATIONAL CONTROL
As SHAEF was dissolved, the Al- j
lied armies reverted to their own
national control and Gen. Eisen
hower became strictly an American
commander for the first time in
nearly three years. Eisenhower
stepped into his new job as com
mander of U S F E T—United
States Forces in the European
Theater — and as American repre
sentative on the European control
council at Berlin.
Gen. Eisenhower, who returned
to his Frankfurt, Germany, head
quarters from the United States on
Wednesday, bade farewell to the
troops who had served under his
command in an order of the day
which said “no praise is too high
for the manner in which you have
surmounted every obstacle.”
AT FRANKFURT
Under the new set-up, U. S.
headquarters, at least for the time
being, will be at Frankfurt. Under
USFET will be two major groups,
or functions: the communications
zone and occupation and control.
The former is commanded by Lt.
Gen. John C. H. Lee, and will de
vote itself to the major task of
getting men out of the European
theater.
Occupation and control covers all
American troops in Germany, whe
ther there to stay or not. It may
be well toward the end of 1945
before the number of troops left
in Germany is down near the size
to be designated ultimately as the
army of occupation.
Russia And China
Reach Understanding
MOSCOW, July 14. — A joint
Soviet-Chinese communique an
nounced today that Russia and
China had received a broad mutual
understanding on important ques
tions involving relations between the
two countries in discussions here
the past two weeks.
The communique said the discus
sions had been suspended because
the impending meeting of the Big
Three in Potsdam demanded the
presence of Generalissimo Stalin.
Chinese Premier T. V. Soong has
left for Chungking and these dis
cussions will be resumed in the near
| future, the communique added.
CHINESE GIVE
JAPS DRUBBING
Inflict 3,000 Casualties
On Nips In Flank
Attack
Bv SPENCER MOOSA
CHUNGKING, July 14. —(^P)—
Chinese forces inflicted more than
3,000 casualties on Japanese troops
in. a flank attack six mile^ from
Yunsiao, a Fukien province coastal
highway town 55 miles southwest of
Amoy, the Chinese high command
said today.
The enemy troops were part of a
force which landed southwest of
Amoy June 30 in what possibly may
be a prelude to total evacuation of I
the depleted Japanese garrison at j
Amoy, the Chinese said.
The Chinese said that in the ad
vance toward Yunsiao the Japanese
entered Chengkwang township but
were driven out in last two hours.
The next day the enemy force by
passed Chengwang and headed for
Yunsiao where it was attacked.
TAKE YEUNGKONG
Meanwhile, Japanese troops, in an
advance of 50 miles from Tinpak
along the coastal highway in
1 Kwangtung province, have captured
Yeungkong, 145 miles southwest of
Canton, the high command said.
Chinese troops are launching
flank attacks against the invaders,
who were believed bent on safe
guarding communications between
Hainan and Canton, the high com
mand said.
Other Chinese forces driving up
the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad from
Liuchow have reached Huangmin
kai, 50 miles southwest of the form
er U. S. air base city of Kweilin,
the high command reported.
Chinese troops have reached
Kahnsien, another former airbase
city of Kiangsi province 240 miles
north of Hong Kong. Bitter street
fighting is raging in Khwnsien, last
reports said.
Iron, Steel Works Wiped
Out; Carrier Planes Blast
Other Mainland Targets
By Leif Erickson
GUAM, July 14.—(/P)—The U. S. Third Fleet, bombard
ing Japan for the first time, set great fires raging through
a steel city on northern Honshu today as 1,000 of its carrier
planes blasted nearbv targets of the northern home islands
NEWSMAN TELLS
OF SHELLING
U. S. Battle Squadron
Swaggers Along Japa
nese Coast 3 Hours
By JAMES LINDSLEY
ABOARD BATTLESHIP SOUTH
DAKOTA IN SIGHT OF JAPAN,
July 14—t/P)—High explosives, bear
ing made in America stamp, whis
tled for two hours from flaming
muzles of big naval guns into the
great Japanese iron works at
Kamaishi in northern Honshu to
day.
It was my privilege to watch
this bombardment of Jgpan for
the first time in this war — a
bombardment which caused
sky - reaching explosions and
started roaring fires which
blanketed the area with smoke.
A battle squadron of three bat
tleships, two heavy cruisers and
numerous destroyers, was in plain
sight of Japan for three hours be
fore the bombardment started and
for sometime afterward.
For two hours the squadron
swaggered back and forth within
-rifle' shot of Honshu, drawing only
most meager and apparently timid
opposition.
DO NOTHING POLICY
It was as if you strutted back
and forth on some enemy’s front
porch, peeped in his front door,
messed up his parlor and asked
him what he proposed to do about
it.
The Japanese chose to do very
little about it.
‘As this is written there is no
report of damage to American ves
sels in this action, one of the most
spectacular of the Pacific war.
Kamaishi is 275 miles north of
Tokyo. It has a pre-war popula
tion of about 42,000, but an influx
of workers to the steel mills is
believed to have swelled it to
nearly twice that.
The Imperial Iron and Steel
Works, prime target of the bomb
arding warships, is one of the
most important in the whole Jap
anese empire.
Harrison Appeals
30-Year Sentence
In Higham Death
RALEIGH, July 14—(A5!—Harry
C. Harrison, 19-year-old ex-ma
rine, has appealed to the state
Supreme court a sentence of 30
years passed yesterday by Judge
Clawson L. Williams after a Wake
! county trial jury found the youth
guilty of second degree murder in
the slaying of Mrs. May Davis
Higham last Easter Monday.
Judge Williams ordered Harrison
held without bond pending the
high court decision.
Harrison faced a first degree
murder charge in which the state
sought to show he struck Mrs.
Higham, a 71-year-old widow and
distant relative, a fatal blow on
the head when she surprised him
robbing her home. The state al
leged the youth then set fire tc
Mrs. Hlgham's home to cover his
crime.
A charge of arson is pending a
gainst Harrison in connection
l with the fire. Solicitor William
Y. Bickett said he had not decided
what action he would take re
garding the arson indictment.
U. S. Comes Close To Apology
I To Japs For Sinking Awa Maru
WASHINGTON, July 14 ——
American officials fervently hoped
today that Japan will permit ad
ditional relief shipments to Allied
prisoners now that this country
has accepted full responsibility
for sinking a Japanese relief ship.
The State department ac
knowledged last night that an
American submarine had sunk
the ship, the Owa Maru, about
midnight April 1 off Formosa.
The ship was torpedoed in a
fog with loss of more than 1,
000 lives.
“The United States government
*
j in accepting the responsibility for
! the sinking of the Awa Maru
| hopes that the Japanese govern
! ment will Lv willing to accept fur
' ther shipments of relief supplies
| for distribution to Allied nationals
j detained by the Japanese,” the
: State department said.
; ON RETURN TRIP
The Awa Maru was sent to the
j bottom on a return trip to Japan
I after delivering a cargo of food,
- medicine and other supplies at
| Hongkong, Singapore and other
'
i
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in co-ordinated blows.
The guns of the newest battle
ships, cruisers and destroyers wiped
out the Imperial Iron and Steel
Works Rolling Mill at Kamaishi—
275 miles north of Tokyo—and fierce
fires raged through adjacent coke
ovens.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, an
nouncing in a special communique
that the bombardment thundered
on for two hours, reported that the
entire area was covered by dense
smoke clouds that rose thousand;
of feet above the city.
The Third fleet poured a hurri
cane of 5 to 16-inch shells into the
city before retiring.
The bombardment force, com
manded by Rear Adm. J. F. Shaf
roth of Denver, apparently did not
meet any Japanese opposition.
In his report to Admiral Nimitz
Shafroth did not mention opposi
tion by shore batteries or planes.
His announcement that the shelling
continued for two hours indicates,
also, that the results were closely
observed by slow flying observation
planes from cruisers and battle
ships.
“DEMOLISHED”
Close observation would have been
required for the admiral to report,
without qualification, that the Im
perial Iron and Steel works rolling
mill was “demolished”.
The fact that the powerful
American force fired upon Ka
maishi for two hours suggests
the ships were able to close
within the 10-mile range of five
inch guns on the screening de
stroyers and in secondary bat
tleship and cruiser batteries.
The latest communique was the
fourth issued by Admiral Nimitz to
day, a record number.
The Imperial Iron and Steel works
mill was supplied with coal from
the neighboring island of Hokkaido
which was attacked by the carrier
planes.
The coal is transported across
Tsugaru strait in ships and rail fer
ries which were hammered through
out the day by the Avengers, Hell
divers, Corsairs and Hellcats.
Halsey’s attacks by gun and by
plane seemed designed to put north
ern Honshu’s most important steel
works out of business at both the
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Nazi-Seized
{Treasure Piled
| Ceiling High
By GEORGE TUCKER
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 14.
—<JP)—The pillaged wealth of Nazi
occupied Europe, taken from the
I teeth of murdered Jews and the cof
! fers of seized governments alike, was
| piled ceiling high today in the
1 Reichsmark bank of Frankfurt.
In addition to gold and silver
there were hogsheads of pearls,
rubies and sapphires. Wooden
cases held gold and silver fill
ings from the teeth of concen
tration camp victims.
Currency experts from the United
States treasury and the Bank of
England were identifying making an
inventory of the nazi loot.
“An accurate estimate of the to
tal value can never be made," said
Col. Bernard Bernstein, d: rector of
1 the finance division of the U". S.
j group control council.
He said the collection includ
{ ed 53 separate deposits hidden
by the nazis and unearthed by
U. S. troops during the final
days of the war. These included
' the gold bullion discovered by
the U. S. third army in the
Merkers salt mines and special
hidden hoards of Heinrich
Himmler’s SS organization
which were buried under chick
en coops on a German farm.
WEDDING RINGS
In one cache thousands of wed
: ding rings stripped from the fingers
j of women victims of the nazis in
i Germany, Greece. Poland and otliei
occupied countries were strung on
■ ropes like country sausages,
i We have iound barrels of silver
| and gold wrist watches., cigarette
! cases, wedding rings, bracelets anu
: jewelry of every description,” Bern
stein added. “This was taken from
1 nazi concentration camp victims,
j The bullion was stacked like
cordwood and one large room held
nothing but securities from almost
| every country in the world. The
I loot includes millions of Russian
; rubles and $34,000,000 in U. 6. gold
j coins.
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