The CHIVO Chimes 27 July 1945 Submitted by TM2(SS) Jerry Levy, Plankowner

JULY 27, 1945

GUAM:
THE COMMANDER OF AMERICA'S TWENTIETH AIR FORCE FRIDAY BOLDLY LISTED NAME BY NAME THE NEXT ELEVEN CITIES MARKED FOR B29 DESTRUCTION, AT LEAST FOUR OF THEM WITHIN A FEW DAYS.   THIS HISTORY MAKING MOVE WITH ITS OBVIOUS PROPAGANDA PURPOSE EMPHASIZED SURRENDER DEMANDS ON JAPAN.   PAMPHLET SCATTERING PLANES AND REPEATED RADIO BROADCASTS CARRIED THE BLUNT WARNING TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE.   THEY WERE TOLD TO FLEE FROM THE DOOMED CITIES OR IF THEY WISHED TO PREVENT FURTHER DEVASTATION, TO FORCE SELECTION OF A NEW AND GOOD LEADER WHO WILL END THE WAR.   THE UNPRECEDENTED ACTION CAME A DAY AFTER THE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER ULTIMATUM ISSUED AT POTSDAM BY THE UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITIAN AND CHINA.   IT ALSO DECLARED THE ALTERNATIVE WAS UTTER AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION.

SUPERFORTS OF THE 20TH AIR FORCE SHOWERED ELEVEN JAPANESE CITIES WITH PAMPHLETS WARNING THEM TO EVACUATE OR BE BURNED OUT.   MAJOR GEN. CURTIS LE MAY SAID "THE JAPS HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOOK FORWARD TO EXCEPT DESTRUCTION.   WE HAVE REACHED THE POINT WHERE THEY REFUSE TO FIGHT WHILE WE BURN DOWN THEIR CITIES.   NOW WE ARE TELLING THEM WHEN AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO IT.   THIS IS A FRANK EFFORT TO CONVINCE THE JAPANESE PEOPLE THIER CAUSE IS HOPELESS AND THAT THE MILITARY IS POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEM".   THE WARNING PAMPHLETS HAD ON ONE SIDE A PICTURE OF A B29 DROPPING ITS BOMBS AND UNDER THE PICTURE WERE ELEVEN CIRCLES EACH CONTAINING THE NAME OF A JAPANESE CITY MARKED FOR DESTRUCTION.   ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHEET IS THE TEXT OF THE WARNING TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE.   IT TELLS THEM THAT THIS PAMPHLET MAY BE THE MEANS OF SAVING LIVES.   IT WARNS THEM THAT THE 11 CITIES WILL BE DESTROYED BY U.S. FIRE BOMBS AND THAT FOUR OF THE CITIES WILL BE BURNT OUT WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.   THE MESSAGE TO THE JAPANESE TELLS THEM THAT THE U.S. AIR POWER IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY ALL THE TOOLS BEING USED BY THE JAPANESE MILITARY TO PROLONG THE WAR.   THE MESSAGE SAYS "UNFORTUNATELY BOMBS HAVE NO EYES, SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH AMERICA'S WELL-KNOWN HUMANITARIAN POLICIES THE AMERICAN AIR FORCE WHICH DOESN'T WISH TO INJURE INNOCENT PEOPLE NOW GIVES YOU WARNING TO EVACUATE THE CITIES NAMED TO SAVE LIVES."

GENERAL LE MAY, WHO WILL LEAVE THE 20TH AIR FORCE SOON, TO TAKE OVER AS CHIEF OF STAFF FOR AMERICA'S STRATEGIC AIRFORCES IN THE PACIFIC, SAID THE FOREWARNING IDEA WAS HIS.   IT WAS CARRIED OUT IN COOPERATION WITH THE U.S. FLEET'S PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OFFICE.

SAN FRANCISCO:
THE SEMI-OFFICIAL JAPANESE DOMEI NEWS AGENCY CLAIMED FRIDAY THAT THE ALLIED ULTIMATUM TO SURRENDER OR MEET DESTRUCTION WOULD BE IGNORED BUT OFFICIAL RESPONSE WAS AWAITED AS JAPANESE WAR LORDS DEBATED THE DEMAND.   DOMEI, IN THE FIRST REACTION TO THE PROCLAMATION BY THE UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITIAN AND CHINA DECLARED IN A BROADCAST FROM TOKYO THAT IT HAD IT AUTHORITATIVELY THAT JAPAN WOULD REJECT THE PROPOSAL AND WOULD PROSECUTE THE WAR OF GREATER EAST ASIA TO THE BITTER END.   (ED: THE CHIVO CHIMES PROUDLE POINTS OUT THE SCOOP OF THIS ITEM.   THIS WAS COPIED DIRECTLY FROM DOMEI NEWS AGENCY LAST NIGHT BY OUR INDEFATIGABLE, COFFEE-DRINKING EDITORIAL STAFF.)

WASHINGTON
THE CAPITAL BUZZED WITH SPECULATION AND RUMORS TODAY OVER THE POSSIBILITY OF A PROMPT JAPANESE SURRENDER UNDER THE POTSDAM ULTIMATUM BUT NONE COULD OR WOULD PREDICT IT.

WASHINGTON:
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT AIR GROUP 82 OF VICE ADMIRAL MARK MITSCHER'S CARRIER TASK FORCE SANK OR PROBABLY SANK 105 JAPANESE VESSELS TOTALING 66,000 TONS IN FOUR MONTHS.   THE GROUP DESTROYED OR DAMAGED 642 ENEMY PLANES AND DAMAGED ANOTHER 118 VESSELS TOTALING 220,000 TONS.   INCLUDED WERE TWO BATTLESHIPS, THREE CRUISERS, AND EIGHT DESTROYERS.   THE GROUP, WHICH INCLUDED TWO MARINE FIGHTER SQUADRONS, NOW IS BACK IN THE STATES FOR REST AND REASSIGNMENTS.

LONDON:
THE PASSING OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AS BRITIAN'S PRIME MINISTER, BROUGHT A MIXED REACTION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TODAY.   THERE WAS GENERAL REJOICING IN THE RANKS OF LABOR, SOME ANXIETY ON THE PART OF BUSINESS INTERESTS WITH BRITISH AFFILIATIONS AND CONSTERNATION IN THE RIGHEST CIRCLES.   THE MOSCOW RADIO SAID THE LABOR PARTY LAST MAY CALLED FOR A CONSOLIDATION OF RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH RUSSIA AND ISSUED A WARNING AGAINST ANTI-SOVIET PROPAGANDA.   IN WASHINGTON, CONGRESS WAS FACED WITH THE MEANING OF THE EVENT BUT INDICATED THAT SIMILAR ISSUES MUST BE FACED IN THE UNITED STATES.   AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY LEADERS SAID THE RESULT INSURED AN AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY VICTORY IN THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTIONS THERE.   THE SYDNEY TELEGRAPH SAID THE RESULT WAS DUE TO THE INSUFFERABLE BURDEN OF CONSERVATIVE REATIONARIES CHURCHILL HAD TO CARRY THE POLLS.   LABOR'S VICTORY WAS INTERPRETED IN SPAIN AS A DEFEAT FOR THE FLANGIST AND THE FRANCO REGIME.   SPAINS WORKING CLASSES, HOWEVER, WERE FRANKLY DELIGHTED.   OFFICIAL COMMENT WAS LACKING IN ARGENTINA.   PIEDRO WINNIO, LEADER OF THE ITALIAN SOCIALIST PARTY SENT CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LABOR PARTY.   IN INDIA, THE PRESS GENERALLY AGREED THAT THE CHANGE WOULD NOT MEAN MUCH IN THAT COUNTRY.

CLEMENT ATTLEE PLUNGED INTO WORK TODAY AS HEAD OF BRITIAN'S FIRST LABOR GOVERNMENT IN FOURTEEN YEARS AND WHICH HAS PLEDGED ITSELF TO GIVE TOP PRIORITY TO FINISHING THE WAR WITH JAPAN.   THERE WAS GENERAL BELIEF THAT HE WOULD RETURN TO POTSDAM DURING THE WEEKEND.   A BRITISH PRESS ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDENT SAID FORMER PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL PROBABLY WOULD NOT RETURN TO THE POTSDAM TALKS.

ERNEST BEVIN WAS NAMED FOREIGN SECRETARY THURSDAY NIGHT SUCCEEDING ANTHONY EDEN.   HUGH DALTON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE IN THE FORMER COALITION GOVERNMENT, WAS NAMED CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.   A PARTIAL LIST OF THE NEW CABINET WAS PUBLISHED IN A SPECIAL LIST APPROVED BY THE KING AND RELEASED FROM TEN DOWNING STREET.   THE TEXT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT: "THE KING HAS BEEN PLEASED TO APPROVE THE FOLLOWING APPOINTMENTS: LORD PRIVVY COUNCIL - HERBERT STANLEY MORRISON.   SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS - ERNEST BEVIN.   CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER - HUGH DALTON.   PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE - SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS.   LORD CHANCELLOR - SIR WILLIAM ALLEN JOWIT."   MORRISON WILL BE THE LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

POTSDAM:
BRITIAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER, CLEMENT ATTLEE WILL RETURN HERE SATURDAY TO REPLACE DEFEATED WINSTON CHURCHILL AS BRITIAN'S MEMBER OF THE BIG THREE, IT WAS LEARNED FRIDAY.   THE CONFERENCE HAS BEEN IN RECESS SINCE LAST WEDNESDAY.   THE NEW PRIME MINISTER WILL MOVE INTO THE NEW LITTLE NUMBER TEN DOWNING STREET UPON HIS ARRIVAL.   SOURCES HERE SAID FRIDAY NIGHT THAT THEY HAD NOT HEARD OF ANY EXCHANGE OF MESSAGES HE MAY HAVE HAD WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN OR PREMIER STALIN.

BERLIN:
COLONEL FRANK L. HOWLEY, AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT OFFICER FOR BERLIN, SAID FRIDAY THE ALLIED RULERS OF THE GERMAN CAPITAL WERE NOW OPERATING IN COMPLETE UNANIMITY FOLLOWING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF INITIAL MUTUAL SUSPICIONS.

FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN:
SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON HINTED TODAY THAT THE BIG THREE POWERS WERE MEETING DIFFICULTIES IN REACHING A UNIFIED POLICY ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF GERMANY.   HE DECLINED TO COMMENT FURTHER.   (ED: HAVING READ THE ABOVE DISPATCH FROM BERLIN'S COLONEL HOWLEY, NO DOUBT.)

MOSCOW:
A RED STAR DISPATCH FROM THE SIBERIAN MILITARY DISTRICT TOLD TODAY HOW RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ENGAGED IN SHOOTING PRACTISE AGAINST A "HYPOTHETICAL ATTACKING ENEMY" (ED: JAPAN?) UNDER SIMILATED BATTLE CONDITIONS.

WASHINGTON:
BRITISH REJECTION OF THE CHURCHILL GOVERNMENT SET AMERICAN POLITICIANS WONDERING TODAY WHETHER THE POSTWAR ERA WILL BRING AN AMERICAN TURN TO THE LEFT AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF IT DOES.   SENATORS INTERVIEWED INDICATED THAT THE MAJOR PARTIES HERE WILL HAVE TO IMPROVE THEIR FLEXIBILITY IN MEETING ECONOMIC POLITICAL INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS.

CANBERRA, AUSRALIA:
PLANS TO REDUCE HER ARMY FIFTY PERCENT AND HER AIR FORCE NEARLY AS MUCH BUT CONSIDERS IT VITAL THAT HER FORCES TAKE PART IN THE MAIN OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, PRIME MINISTER CHIFLEY TOLD THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TODAY.   HE SAID THE ARMY WOULD BE CUT FROM SIX TO THREE DIVISIONS AND THE AIR FORCES FROM FIFTY THREE SQUADRONS TO THIRTY SIX.   THE NAVY WOULD BE MAINTAINED AT ITS PRESENT STRENGTH.

BUENOS AIRES:
FOUR UNITED STATES NAVAL PLANES ARE DUE HERE TOMORROW TO TAKE TO NORTH AMERICA THE OFFICERS AND CREWMEN OF A GERMAN SUBMARINE, THE U530, WHICH PUT INTO MAR DEL PLATA JULY 10TH.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA:
THE RIGHT OF NEGROES TO VOTE AS A DEMOCRAT IN FLORIDA PRIMARIES WAS UPHELD TODAY BY THE STATE SUPREME COURT.

WASHINGTON:
THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION DISCLOSED THAT TRAINING OF A FEW WAR VETERANS IN FOREIGN SCHOOLS SOON WILL BE AUTHORIZED.   TO BE ELEGIBLE FOR SUCH TRAINING, VETERANS MUST BE RESIDING ABROAD OR MUST SHOW THAT TRAINING IN A FOREIGN INSTITUTION IS INDESPENSABLE.

WASHINGTON:
THE ARMY IS NOW DISCHARGING ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND MEN A DAY UNDER THE POINT SYSTEM WHILE NEW INDUCTIONS UNDER SELECTIVE SERVICE AVERAGE ABOUT THREE THOUSAND A DAY.   (BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS, SHIRT OF NAVY BLUE, STILL STEWING IN THE NAVY LIKE HIS DADDY USED TO STEW!!)

PASADENA:
EYELIDS DROOPED AT HALF-MAST AS A DOZEN SLUMBERLESS HUMAN GUINEA PIGS STUMBLED DOWN THE HOME STRETCH TODAY IN A CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENT IN FATIGUE WHICH ENDS AT TEN O'CLOCK TODAY.   THE TWELVE VOLUNTEER SUBJECTS WERE RESORTING TO EVERYTHING SHORT OF HOTFOOTS TO FINISH THEIR ONE HUNDRED HOUR VIGIL.   IT'S ALL FOR SCIENCE AND THE BENEFIT OF THE ARMED FORCES.

LOS ANGELES:
SUPERIOR COURT CLOSED THE BOOK TODAY ON HOLLYWOOD'S ONE TIME PERFECT MARRIAGE BY GRANTING ACTRESS JOAN BLONDELL HER FINAL DIVORCE DECREE FROM ACTOR DICK POWELL.

WIESBADEN, GERMANY:
A RELIABLE INFORMANT SAID TODAY THAT AT LEAST FIVE COUNTRIES BESIDES RUSSIA WERE USING GERMAN LABOR IN REPAIRING WAR DAMAGE.   THEY ARE FRANCE, HOLLAND, BELGIUM, NORWAY AND LUXEMBOURG.

CHICAGO:
FIFTY THOUSAND WORKERS AGREED TO RETURN TO WORK FRIDAY AT FIVE WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL CORPORATION PLANTS AND AT CHRYSLER CORPORATION'S DODGE CHICAGO PLANT.   THREE THOUSAND WORKERS FOR WRIGHT COMPANY VOTED TO END THEIR SIX DAY STRIKE AND RETURN TO WORK ON LATE AFTERNOON SHIFT BUT UNION OFFICIALS SAID ALL STRIKERS WOULD ABIDE BY THEIR DECISIONS.   UNITED PRESS SAYS WALKOUT BEGAN OVER A UNION GRIEVANCE AGAINST COMPANY ARISING FROM FIRING OF A SHOP STEWARD WHO THE COMPANY CHARGED WITH USING ABUSIVE LANGUAGE.   THE STRIKE AT THE DODGE PLANT IN CHICAGO BEGAN IN PROTEST TO A COMPANY REFUSAL TO GRANT FIFTEEN MINUTE DAILY WASHUP PERIOD FOR EMPLOYEES IN ONE DEPARTMENT.

WASHINGTON:
THE SENATE IS FACED WITH PROSPECTS OF HOLDING EXTRAORDINARY SESSIONS AT NIGHT IF IT IS TO MEET THE GOAL OF RATIFYING THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER BY THE END OF THIS WEEK.   THIRTEEN SENATORS LISTED ON THE SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY ARE TO BE HEARD IN SENATE DEBATE ON THE CHARTER.   SENATOR TOM CONNALLY (D) TEXAS, SAID "WE'LL RATIFY IT THIS WEEK EVEN THOUGH WE MIGHT HAVE TO MEET INTO THE NIGHT SATURDAY."   MOST OF THE LONGEST SPEECHES ARE OUT OF THE WAY.

PARIS:
IN THE TRIAL OF MARSHAL PETAIN, FORMER PREMIER LEON BLUM TOOK THE WITNESS STAND AND CHARGED THAT PETAIN DESTROYED FRANCE'S REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS BY FORCE.

BERKELEY:
FRIDAY ARMY OFFICIALS TOLD FARM LEADERS AT A CONFERENCE HERE THAT APPROXIMATELY 28,000 GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR WILL BE PROVIDED TO WESTERN STATES TO HELP IN HARVESTING BUMPER CROPS DURING PEAK MONTHS OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.   PRISONERS WILL BE STRICTLY REGULATED AS TO NON-FRATERNIZATION AND WILL BE UNDER RIGID ARMY CONTROL.

FROM:   THE EDITORIAL BOARD, "CHIVO CHIMES"

TO:       HDIT,   B.G.,   Y 1/C,   337-49-42,   USN

SUBJECT:   SOMETHING - WHATSA MATTA, YOU SLEEPY OR - ?

REFERENCES:

• (A)  THIRD LINE, PARAGRAPH FOUR, PAGE 123457, CHAPTER XXX, BUREAU OF PERSONNEL MANUAL

• (A)  ONE (1) TYPEWRITER RIBBON, OF THE BLACK-RED TYPE.
• (B)   TWO (2) EMPTY, NON-SINKABLE, SOFT FEATHER CONTENT, BUILT-IN FOOTPAD SLEEPING BAGS.
  • (1)  LOCATED PERMANENTLY IN THE FORWD. TORP. ROOM
  • (2)   PORTABLE MODEL TO BE STOWED IN THE UPPER DRAWER OF THE FILING CABINET LOCATED IN THE SHIPS OFFICE....FOR EMERGENCY USE.
• (C)   ONE (1) PAIR HORSE BLINDERS TO BE USED FOR PLEASANT UNINTERRUPTED SACKING DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS.
• (D)   ONE (1) YEOMAN STRIKER NAMED "BIRTH OF A NATION" MILLS OF THE CHOW-HOUND CLASS

1.   BY THIS LETTER YOU ARE OFICIALLY INFORMED THAT THE USS CHIVO (SS341) ENTERS PORT THIS DATE.

2. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT YOU PROCEED UNESCORTED TO THE DESK FROM YOUR PRESENT TOUR OF DUTY IN HOT BUNK NO. ONE.   THE STATION ASSUMED BY YOU SHALL ROUGHLY RESEMBLE A MAN IN A VERICAL POSITION.   ANY DELAY BETWEEN SACK AND DESK SHALL BE COUNTED AS LEAVE.

R.V. WINKLE
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
BUREAU OF MENTAL SURGERY
"WAKING HOUR PROLONGATION"
DIVISION.