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RECORD AIR RAID ON JAPAN CONTINDING MIGHTY U.S. BATTLESHIPS SHELLING JAP HOMELAND A HUGE BALL OF SMOKE AND FLAME SPURT FROM THE BIG GUNS OF A U S. BATTLESHIP AS SHE POURS SHELLS INTO JAPAN i nting their power, American fleet units are making a regular prac- moved in so dose to a Jap home island that a hilly ; c ms, la y is .-taemrg right up to the shores ot Japan aiia letting go with distinctly visible as our warships poured salvo after salvo >n tc Japan's huge guns at strategic enemy targets located along the coastline. "sacred soil" (International.) ! ' . vd in this photo just released by the Navy is one task force that Silence Meets-Demand For Army Cut Report Given By Big Three V, ., ugton. Aug. 2. — ( AIM—t're ■: i>ig live eouneil "I ‘oi-eign in write the peace treaty I it* was disclosed today in the , : i-jiiirt o! the big three meet ing .a I '1 tsdam. T ti cbnieal document • 1 aim it f:."!i.i win'd- dealt at length With ] ; m political problems and 1 - 1 i.d slap by President Truman. I : -He Minister Attlee and Premier Stalin at Franco's government in Spam !’, i it did iv d discuss the war against Japan. A.! ' • ili it'ii cent .-aid about 11. ■ 1 - • ay natters was in these liti.il tun lines: A . ' 1 d-ieuinu t said about mili !.,i v :• .liters was in these tinul two J.r.es ■ :1 , ... the conference tin re .vi u wetting- between tile . lliels ot s'talt 1 -i ihree gi vernmeiits on u ihtary common interest." !':ic a mm ample indicated a high ta give oi understanding had been it, an by tin- ehiets oi tile three gin .n ' iweii occupy li g Germany i; : a. lJritain and the United St ill a. ! ■■ or ..ilems covered ranged from , .-I iii-meiil 1 in politic.! 1 and eonn>n.:c 1 ni 1 pie.- to some broad under standings 1 11 the question of repa rations. The big three agreed that in po litical matters, "so tar as is practi cable. there shall be uniformity ul treatment of the German populate it through'a 1 Germany " In economic questions, they s . d: "Germany shall be treated as a jingle economic unit." in all matters of industry, farming, trade, money, transport and communications, and reparatii i s. German administrative machinery is t i be used to the iu 1 lest extent in carrying out these objectives, the communique declared, so that "it should be brought home t the Ger man people that the responsibility lor the administration of such coii tn Is and any breakdown in these controls will rest with themselves." Further. the big three determined that German ee> * "my shall be rid o cartels, trusts and "other n ‘wop oli-tic arrangements." Ail dies: things are to be begun under the five-power control eoun.il. which in cludes France. The five-power council of foreign ministers includes lh< se officials of Britain. Russia. China, Fr > c • avi the LTliAid States. Their ti -I m- d mg is to be held in London by Sep tember 1. London will be this per manent headquarters of the c ■ mcii. Discharge Point System In Army To Remain Same & 25,097 Men Home From I War Duties New York, Aug. 2.—(AP)— The huge liner Queen Mary, with 14,690 ligating men crowding her decks, was given a lusty pre-dawn welcome | today as the great ship steamed into j the hatbor. Troops gave a tremendous cheer I a- a WAC band aboard a "Welcome f home’’ boat played "America the ■ Beautiful,” and "Sidewalks of New York.” Both whistles blasted in j greeting. Waving and shouting, the GIs peeled through the darkness to eaten then i! st glimpse of home. l’hc great British Queen led a procession of ten troop-carrying ships schedul ed to dock today with 25,097 sol dier- from Europe. Stocks Shuffle In Narrow Range In Day’s Market New York, Aug. 2.—(API— Lead ing stocks shuffled over a narrow course in today’s market. Ahead at intervals were Good year. Sears Roebuck and Westing house. Backward inclinations were displayed by General Mot >rs, Good rich and General Electric. Bunds and commodities were un even. Will Be Revised When 800,000 Men Have Been Let Out Washington, Aug. 2.—(AP) The Army announced today the present point secure lor discharge will be left at 8a while about 800,000 men with that seme are being released. Later the score will be rev ised to provide lor the d.scharge <>i anothei 700,000 men by June 1, the date by which tile Army had announced a total of 1,500,000 men would be discharged under the credit point system. In announcing this, Secretary of War Stimson said lie could not say now when the new score would be given. The War Department pre viously had staled it expected to announce the new critical score, with points slightly lower than the pres ent figure, sometime m July. Stimson said that at the time of the revision of points to provide lor discharge of the 700,000-man group, a new computation of individual scores would be made to give >ol diei s credit for serv ice after May 12, 194a This was tile date to which credit points ran under the original interim score of 85. This new com putation, Stimson -aid, wdl allow some men who would not have had enough points by the computation of last May to earn their discharge by their service between then and the time of the new compulation.. This, he told a news conference, "will obviously give the advantage ol battle credit and overseas credit to troops in the Pacific. \\ hatever the new score, Stimson saal. it will not affect the right to discharge ol those who previously qualified ai der the May score of 85. if they have not already been discharged when the new score goes into cited, they will remain eligible for release "at tne earliest opportunity.1' *;i War Department And Draft Board A re Mum Senator Claims No Need For Retaining Great Army Forces Washington. Aug. 2.— (AP) —- Hu War Department and Se lective Service met with tight lipped silence today a demand ol Senator Johnson that the army be scaled down from S,000,000 to .'>.000,000 men. Targets ul .lull sun's caustic criti cism in the Senate yesterday, b. th brandies declined comment. Army public relations >Uicei\s. however, pointed to a War Department state ment of May 5 which said the gen i ral stall : ad it s' mm ended .1 turee i 6 968,000 to crush Jap; >. "in the shortest possible lime and with the smallest is -t m American lives" .Although Juans ai t. .Id lim e ti le -'a’. 11..1! .1 Army . such ize • ever could m use 1 against Japan, he added to reporters later: "1 here's no .mg I can do no >ut .1. The Army .-imply wai't i'.m|:r.mi,' The Semite - recess until Oft«>i•»••• 8 is the compelling reason v. nothing can be dene, the senator < b serve.i, adumg "the best way w.'iiki ire through lac Ar y s apprupui.i tions." "A maxim an numoer of men that we car trun port, - ,iply : 1 d use on the Jap.me e hunt by the end o 1946 catniut in- mure than A.OOU.mii men." tie 1 .Id hie Senate. "Then why in the name .0 common sense must we a.a:.b.mi an army ul H.OOO.UOtlV" He s..id Mamr (icnera! Lewis Her shev, dire, tor . f Selective Serv ice. ■ let the cat out ot the bag" 1 statement that 100.000 men would be drafted monthly even after V-J clay. Meanwhile. Chairman May of the House Military Committee, said a group of emigres men has been try ing lor several weeks "to convince tin War Hep.a taunt that extreme hardsliips on the home front are fac ing the American pt .plc, and will result 111 the u.">: crisis n the rim ing winter heeause u! the shortage of coal and perchance the lack ot food." The Kentuckian contended that thousands o! unit 'lined men uuiili 1'ird to operate trains, dig coal and till the soil could lie spared without detriment to the war et'lmd. "it Hie Army will just let them go." _. Meadows Auditor Accused Of Taking Verbal Statement Oreem die. Aug -.— (API—So licitor D. M Clark tried t 1 show to day in the trial -of Dr. Leon R. Meadows on charges of false pre tense and embezzlement that Farnk Wall certified public accountant, ac cepted Dr. Meadowy.' verbal explan 1 ations for the expenditure of cer tain sums the former president of East Carolina Teachers College is charged with converting to his own use. Wall, "ii direct examination, had testified that all expenditudes had ! been properly accounted for. | Clark, however, contended that 1 i),- Meadows had not satisfactorily ! explained his spending of special ! and student funds, and that Wall lid not hie e enough evidence tc support his laim. Defense Of Detain Is Bolstered Balked Nazi Plans Against Gibraltar; Aid From America Pan-. A . 2 (AP) —General: Bernard ! iv tratified at t»ie trea son trial ' ; Mar-ini! Pc' n today that Hi!:c • early in 1 !)41 onumded Gem 11 - i ■ F .mm In , , a Ger mans te send •.null).- through Spain to attach G nraltai. The general, who do-, hed him self as in!* 1 .he : .end of the ’: , h t1. . ; F . co iad discliised the de : . - ':..g with the inloriiMt.i'!! : nit he had refused. Petain h: ii-et: v, • - .iiiea.-y about Spain, tlic :"o • e-tit cd. But Ice quoted the nt.c a i a.- ,-aying: j "F'raneo can count on me in resist ing the Gtl : .a,, de.iialiu for pc: inissii>n to cios- Spain." As the trial started its tenth day. dhlense cutin.-et read a ea'ote .- gned by John A. Schaeffer, d rector of the National Republican Vhgilance .i mittee of New York City, which said: "American vetci'ans who had the honor ol .-erving in France under General Pershing, and who have ad : red you through the years as a soldier and pat: ot, salute you in th - grave ioui With ab .mg j/i’ee tion a ml confide ice, we condemn your trial as unrepresentative ot ' ie great French peo lie and pray that the rouse.ence ot F'rance will i’im pel tern limit ii m ■ ! tire proceedings." There -till wa- no announcement when Pierre . chict ot govern ment in lVtam Y.cliy government, would be called from prison to te.-tity. Miners Decline To Resume Work Without Doctor Ft UNO, Pa.. Vug. 2 — (API — A spokesman for Sad coal miners, al ready idle nearly three weeks, de clared today they would not return to work until .. company phy.-ici m i- pro\ ded ' • them and sanitary I condition- are 1 proved in a tow n -acre child on : .y in sewage-filled ditches On the other hand. Brown Lam bert. gone a' - luager of the Shmv ! nut Min rig Co • pany, said: "Mining towns nave a life expec tancy ol about 2a years. These towns ill the F ere d strict are old. and their loos are urn ing out. It warn! : j be loo expensive to equip them for modern c mdit. ms, I don't know where y.> ,'d get the pipe and labor." Saying she mo “very disgusted over the intnle: iblo sanitary condi tion.-." I' Khz.moth Have.- resigned i as company doctor July 15 and threatened to move out of town. The miners walked out because they wouldn't wan - without medical pro tection. They liked "Dr. Betty ideas for bathrooms, running watei and the sewage system” in a com munity 'hat had admitted no im i provoment in electricity tor 42 years Japs Unable To Resist L. S. Blows Fires Started Are Visible 180 Miles From Points Struck Guam. Aug 2.— (AT)—Soldi sheets of flame visible mmv lhalt ISO miles blanketed fmr •Japanese cities and a huge oil I'elinei'y center today as a great fleet of S20 II-2!>s smashed Ja pan with G.GG2 tun.- of bombs and mines in the greatest air raid in history. “The sight was incredible— beyond description." declared Sergeant Lester Sharpe, of Kan sas City, Kails., as juldlent crows returned to their Mari anas bases. Fast little tighiei carried 0:1 ' hr at !:u-k . - ' a- Miper. c. ' - winged li.imr. Siimilt..nr nisiy. r-I p . : ;■ III! Ad nil I Admit. and T ■ kyn '. .kIi i r id el .-abiia.i me an.) war.-hip Ijua b.ii'dnn nts a ciiae: .-.clr r! "i'p i-iv■ till' .-helling • ! Wat.e Island and a daring rest' ■ : Japanese-held Marshall I• i.• ruts at<ili "They knew \y e were coming, hut they didn't do any tiling i about it." said a major irom Springlielu. Ohio. "He hu//ed in and bombed, then liarrelled out yyitli practically no opposition. i General Lemiiy was right, the Japs are flat on their backs." Of the attack on : m: iagnstnal cities, t ii're rail and • :.r ai anin a ten'a i', tile pilots said. "Hr idling was goad t.> excellent.' It was the sai: against the Kawa saki petroleum area near 'Id .yvu Smu at the S.ipertorts ca;: ed eir. the deepest in rang opera:ion of thi Fact fit war, reaching almost to tilt ItUssian tiarder. isixty Mustang lighter planes j laslu-d Osaka, Japan's second city, and nearby Kobe, its prin cipal seaport and shipbuilding center, at noon, Radio Tokyo reported. Sixty more Mustangs hit laetories and transportation in another area, but poor recep tion of the enemy broadcast gar bled the name of the district. Radio Tokyo reported tli.it Al! • a carrier planes and w.if-h.ps honii'cn (: i- !.,nd. To miles null ••• T ■ 'kyi . in Inc S. gauii Se.i. vcsleru.iv, unh ealing An 1.1 al llal.-ey . 1! i .1 tlcei laid resumed its af.i.n. iion.eland ally r tin . e than fa . day. ot oliie.al silence on its if.ivitii s. J5-29 pilots reported general e ui llagratiotis were raging > a! day's large!s. Both lighti i and anti-aircrat't lire were "none t" n.ode. ale." Tim total bomb and mine load (;.(i32 tons was reporteu to be the world's greatest. It compared It. !0P t ills cascaded t n Normandy ■ Europe's D-Ilay. The raid also est lisheil several B-39 records, includ ing both the total participating an I the tonnage. <! ■ ■ test provi s Sit— periort raid involved (>2u ot lue skv giants, and some 4.■ ■'!t> tons bombs'. The raid !■ :■■>' pul 9.ttn'' airmen over tbe homeland and a quived tile services i l 4A.tttlU gr 1 crewmen—a to’,,.! ol .»4.hou -to i-stau lish more ri'cords. Elsewhere in the Pacific, Hit Wake Island "milled into the new - a. - Admi; al N ' reported I’aeil earricr plane- , nil a battles:: a b. nbed and shelled enemy install.: I , , tin re yesterday. Results waae not reported. TrumanMeets With KingGeorge VIAnd Begins Trip Home — , ... _ _ _ Ickes Testifying SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR and Fuel Administrator Harold lekes, shown testifying before the Senate War Investigating Committee in Washington, warned that the U. S. faces the coldest winter of the war unless the Army releases its en listed coal miners. (International) 1 INew Record ^ W -!: a y 2 AD—Tile j ever directed ag.-in.-t die more : irei ■ to i X.:■! isulii-' .1 targets dt 'ppe I a ei i Page imi ie ntol.::eii bo ■ s. D e tannage was a re.■-*:•;! nat only fa;- Sciiorl'.irt laid b t 'he yi'enti -• e. I •• et . ise oil ,i singly 1 Tin liggest b nb I ... a ever . . ippi i cm was 4,302 '.ms id., ded a Gent any ' hist Chi ti i!.. ; i a. tat tle a ‘".a ii.i ye. I; ta ... 2.055 heavy I iiann ais :.. handle :;,.y attack ayainst Go: n.ieiv. ay ;; A11 of the tit B-29 . Ma ianas imes fiy. .a liu E ipean t ee -rd by Iietter ;;i i I y : -e; at f GRIPSHOLM BRINGS 1.496 MISSIONARIES New York. Aug. 2.— (AD — The exchange ship Grips^din is due to dock at Jersey ( it\ today with 1.190 missionaries and 211 Chinese and Indian students, chiefly from the Cliina-India area, are returning on furlough. weathirT toil NORTH ( \ROI INA. Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature tonight and 1 i iday : lew widely scatter ed evening tliundershow crs. Britain Accuses Laval Of Plotting Vichy War London. A . : - t'AP) Pierre l.ax.il, under .wrest in Paris w: charges of eollaborati at with the Germans, was i■.>nl; • >n11■ ; t 'day w a a m .liar .1 it!a! -it statement are ; — mg him if i1'1 tting t ■ involve It. - lain i'l V. ai1 with tin Why govern ment in the fall of 1940 The illegal ion against the forme:' | Vichy ehiet ot government w. s made j n a British wilt te paper issued List night, while Laval was awaiting in terrogation by French authorit < The paper said Sir Sam el H -a w the British ambassad# to Madrid, had eabled the foreign oP ee on \o ' ember 4. 1940, that the French am bassador to Spain had informed him ],a\a! was planning t" use the French fleet and military units in efforts to recover French colonic. whieh had rallied to General Cl. les De Gaulle. [ Sir Samuel was quoted as saying ill ' !' r i F ' T . >.is s. i i-i tN. .■ no: 11'iiv vi • \ ' | y eve:. He agreed w :*h ■ i il i: was e.ir r'ed -a' i.iioimti ilv \\ aid mean w.i :v:.'hi:i Great IF tain and Vi. \ 11 ' d am: sod ■' support Do <1 . ■ ' e v •, p i,■:■ sa d. and ii tiie i'liy .! and French fleet had come ml t, La i w > tld have t ggression. S : S ,: i ! , d ■ i: ’ :!u iv after ! s emr. ersa-a a .' >th l ie French am.'.issador. : .e British naval at t. . : Mai attempt, ed to sound oM the French naval attache on the mailer. The latter was quoted as asking: 'Do I understand that it tin 1 earn naval ships tried to conic thro gh the Strait of Gibraltar you :ld n ■’ a1 tow tin ■ to pas.*.’ lie was told that was correct. - * President Lunches On British Warship As Guest Of King With President 1 rumaii. Aug. 2. — t a P) — President i rum an (leaded back to the I'nited Plates today, -pmping at Ply mouth for a k’u-ma ate talk with King tieorge Vj. as the big three's Benin declaration was drawn up !"r release to the world tonight. A1: 1 1... i . :. s ii the Uri: .mi i... U H i> Maj esty • -ml i’l \\ ... iy :11a (.Jl the v., r-n. 1 - .,. |, • . : i v ah. The k111g : 1 . ■ ■: I’ii' idi':t laic. ..mi tiie l S S A ugusta, tl • .a.-i ■ •.' him to I'lui' Ilf. The British monai' Ii and the first Vmeriean President to visit Britain since President Wilson's visit alter World War I met aboard the battle cruiser at i t.iO p. m. (7:10 a. m. 1 WTI. ' Well-'..,me to my i ..ut \. •.lung said. The Pi’i'Mik'ii'. .mu 'a* ... a: -hook hands with ird Uy ant ' id chat ting while clasping i c Air. Tnmian w hehl giav hi .w . • a • • ivneck, brawn sinn.» .aid . .. gray hat. He made i.ue ' ::’i Henown . i ■ • . boarding i ■ S i Au S;.-ta. which had ; jo! ..m to Europe far the big tmvc 'in'erence at Potsdam. I I .... .1 1 . . . i . at the docks ot this hontb scarred old port on the i bailee of seeing the I’resident on Iiis ar rival by plane from Potsdam. But a last-mirute change of landing plans robbed tin m of the opportunity. Bemuse 01 Hying conditions. President Iruinan and his party landed it an K.\F field about Id miles north of Ply mouth. They had been sched uled to land at a field -ill miles to the yyest. I S. trim automo biles waiting at the latter field scurried to the airdrome w here the President's plane came in. Mr. Tram; i .. . . I the b mb damage • • • >n went !• * he r. s. nay i c a: .irked ->n a b..!.:r • A. He missed the 1 Plymouth and i the: mg : >r him at the dock The king ! ■ .1 a Piy a,nth by special y... i a' it :?n a. m„ nd was il Pie lord ii. • .1 Pen, wit fineen n m Ali mg dp I ■ i i ;um the pict < pit dllggt Yi el ten, ♦tear the t ■ « nded, many , ,j : ■ . . cars '1 e i -.'e, .1 iiy. At Otic ! • I 'll Pel up a o ...m chalked: •Co ed .eel;. M : W! cM n a tag by on tht b rge. it t i Augusta, nc w..s a ; c. lent \ iew o: the aluaei : :• * g the his— M e V c a , e the Filgrin inrdi thi M wet for then trip America. 1 1 • Pri ’ Si - : .. y of •St..it iiyo’t - Ai \V ilianv lj. la v : hI • ne Pol '.mi : irfl a brig:.: g:a i ;; a, rge : .y mg the I I'e.-nli , " mug \ a:ted at Pa • . 1 v 'he K. ' H :,lila\, Ht'i',isit 'Mssa'i • ' o United Si.ties, .md . o • : Pc battle cruiser. Ta, iv, . , ■ c was piped aboard. Mr Ti mi ■ ■■ itten tion tit tin itlor w hile Rovan Marini \ 'The Star Spallglcd Pi. me He md _ tted <•« the uter dot . 'me Presi dent inspectc,• ' a . 'P at honor. A Hi r Mr in! -educed a , a.Pel's a.! his n.aay ’ ., Ping, ite . ■ a "ie o .\ air, the ad jua "o ■ tted pri y ,:c v for tv.i nty minu es betoro I luncheon |Fiimous Composer j Of I ta I \ Dies At ’ Qu arters In Rome Rome. A a r i API —Pietro M c a gr.: UP. ’ " 1 ip- iser nf Cavalleria ifd ather oyer.is. died a' 7:1a e today of !• onchi.il "io ami;) aid hardening of the arteries Ma-cagn. did at I'm Plaza hotel, vthere he had n ado his him,.- re • i"'"' Hi a . is a 28-yeur-old widow The C"nipo.>er had a long and bril— ■ : cat cc: and had : gaped a large hotline in royalties from his operas. He had been hit hard by the war, however. His home w.i.« seized by 1 ■ e So " lists i'V: lb, fo-rmans were driven Iron. Rome. His for tune had vanished.
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