The CHIVO Chimes 20 July 1945 Submitted by TM2(SS) Jerry Levy, Plankowner

JULY 20, 1945

GUAM:
THE U.S. AND BRITISH PACIFIC FLEETS BLASTED AND SEARED THE INDUSTRIAL AREA 25 MILES NORTH OF TOKYO TODAY WHILE AN ARMADA OF MORE THAN 2000 ALLIED PLANES STRUCK DEVASTATING NEW BLOWS AT THE JAPANESE HOMELAND IN A CONTINUED SERIES OF AIR RAIDS.   TO THE VERY GATES OF TOKYO, THE COMBINED BRITISH AND AMERICAN FLEET, THE GREATEST STRIKING FORCE EVER ASSEMBLED, VENTURED AND HURLED TONS OF EXPLOSIVES INTO A CLUSTER OF WAR FACTORIES ON HONSHU ISLAND'S SHORELINES.   THE ALLIED WARSHIPS PARADED IN BATTLE LINE WITHIN SIX MILES OF JAPAN TO HURL BROADSIDES INTO THE JAPANESE MAINLAND FOR TWO HOURS.

BRITIAN'S MIGHTY 35,000 TON BATTLESHIP HMS KING GEORGE V AND LIGHTER UNITED STATES BATTLESHIPS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET JOINED THE 3RD FLEET IN A MIGHTY NIGHT BOMBARDMENT OF JAPAN.   FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ DISCLOSED THAT AT LEAST 30 MORE ENEMY VESSELS HAVE BEEN SUNK IN SWEEPS RANGING OVER SOUTHERN JAPAN, ITS SURROUNDING ISLANDS AND OFF KOREA AND CHINA.   GEN. MACARTHUR REPORTED THAT THE US 5TH AND 7TH ARMY AIR FORCES ON OKINAWA ALSO SENT 200 FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS AGAINST KYUSHU DURING THURSDAY'S ACTION.   SIR BERNARD RAWLINGS ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS SLIPPED INTO THE ALLIED BATTLELINE AS REPORTS INDICATED THAT THE JAPANESE STILL WERE UNABLE TO COUNTER MOUNTING SEA, AIR BLOWS AGAINST THE HOMELAND.

WASHINGTON:
THE UNITED STATES HAS ALMOST COMPLETED THE TERMS WHICH JAPAN WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET AFTER UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IT WAS REVEALED TODAY.   THEY WOULD GIVE THE ALLIED MANDATE CONTROL OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY MACHINE AND WAR INDUSTRY AND WOULD FORCE THE ENEMY TO YIELD ALL STOLEN TERRITORY INCLUDING MANCHURIA, KOREA AND OTHER CONQUERED AREAS.   PERMANENT CONTROLS COULD BE WORKED OUT BY THE ALLIED NATIONS LATER.   THERE HAVE BEEN PEACE OFFERS, EITHER OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL BUT THE US POLICY IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

IT IS ASSUMED THAT PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL WILL DISCUSS THE CONDITIONS OF UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER WHILE ATTENDING THE BIG THREE MEETING, MEANWHILE, THERE ARE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS ARE IMINENT IN THE JAPANESE WAR.   SOME OF THESE ARE THAT RUSSIAN PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN MAY HAVE CARRIED A JAPANESE SURRENDER OFFER TO THE CONFERENCE.   THAT SOMETHING BIG IMPENDS ALREADY HAD BEEN PROVED BY MR. TRUMAN'S DECISION TO HURRY BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE AS SOON AS THE CONFERENCE ENDS.   HE ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO TOUR WESTERN EUROPE.

WASHINGTON:
THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER TICONDEROGA WAS SO DESTRUCTIVELY HIT LAST JANUARY 21ST THAT SHE LOST 144 KILLED AND MISSING.   SHE WAS SEVERELY DAMAGED BY TWO JAP SUICIDE BOMBERS.   AN ADDITIONAL 193 OFFICERS AND MEN WERE WOUNDED.   A NUMBER OF PLANES SET ON FIRE ON DECK HAD TO BE PUSHED OVERBOARD.

CHUNGKING:
IN THE FIRST INTERVIEW GRANTED AN AMERICAN SOLDIER, CHIANG KAI SHEK TOLD SGT. WILLIAM ANDREWS OF LOOK MAGAZINE THAT HE BELIEVED A HUGE AMERICAN LAND OFFENSIVE IN CHINA WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY TO DEFEAT JAPAN.   "GIVEN PROPER EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES THE CHINESE ARMY TOGETHER WITH A STRONG AMERICAN AIR FORCE CAN DEFEAT THE JAPANESE ON THE CONTINENT." SAID CHIANG.

WASHINGTON:
COMBAT CASUALTIES REPORTED BY THE ARMED FORCES SINCE PEARL HARBOR REACHED 1,053,000 THURSDAY, AN INCREASE OF 3,997 IN THE PAST WEEK.

WASHINGTON:
REP. RANKIN OF MISSISSIPPI TOLD THE HOUSE THAT SECRETARY OF WAR HENRY STIMSON AND TWO OF HIS KEY AIDES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.   RANKIN DECLARED THAT STIMSON, UNDERSECRETARY OF WAR PATTERSON AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR JOHN MCCLOY "ARE USING THEIR OFFICES TO INDOCTRINATE SERVICE MEN WITH COMMUNISTIC IDEALS."

GUAM:
A FORCE OF MORE THAN 600 SUPERFORTS STRUCK FOUR JAP MAINLAND CITIES AND A PRIME OIL REFINERY BEFORE DAWN THURSDAY WITH THOUSANDS OF TONS OF INCENDIARY AND DEMOLITION BOMBS.   IT WAS THE 56TH FIRE RAID ON NIPPONESE CITIES BRINGING TO 46 THE NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL CITIES HIT BY FIRE RAIDS.

ADMIRAL HALSEY TOOK THE CHALLENGE RIGHT TO TOKYO BAY THURSDAY AND THE JAPANESE, STILL DECLINING THE CHALLENGE, WORRIED OVER WHERE THE NEXT BLOW WOULD FALL.   THE US FLEET WAS CONTINUING ITS DESTRUCTIVE RAMPAGE ALONG THE HOMELAND PACIFIC COAST INTO THE ELEVENTH DAY, TOKYO RADIO ASSERTED.   TOKYO SPECULATED WHETHER THE SERIES OF DAMAGING ATTACKS WERE "SPASMODIC" OR A PRELUDE TO A QUICK INVASION.   AMERICAN CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS WHICH SHELLED THE ENTRANCE TO TOKYO BAY WEDNESDAY AT ELEVEN PM CONTINUED THE BOMBARDMENT INTO THE EARLY HOURS OF THURSDAY.

CHUNGKING:
JAPANESE TROOPS STRIKING ACROSS THE INDOCHINA BORDER IN THREE COLUMNS HAVE BEEN SMASHED BACK BY THE CHINESE DEFENDERS IN A TWO DAY BATTLE, THE CHINESE HIGH COMMAND ANNOUNCED THURSDAY.

POTSDAM, GERMANY:
PRESIDENT TRUMAN ENTERTAINED PREMIER STALIN AND PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL THURSDAY NIGHT AT A STATE DINNER, THE FIRST SUCH FUNCTION OF THE BIG THREE CONFERENCE NOW PRECEEDING ON A WORKMANLIKE SCHEDULE.   IT WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THAT THE THREE LEADERS ARE MEETING REGULARLY WITH THEIR AGENDA PREPARED EACH MORNING AT ELEVEN OCLOCK BY THE FOREIGN SECRETARIES.   THUS THE BURDEN OF THE PRELIMINARY WORK FALLS UPON SECT. OF STATE BYRNES, FOREIGN COMMISSAR MOLOTOV AND FOREIGN SECT. EDEN.

NEW YORK:
PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A POWERFUL AVIATION FUEL SO SAFE THAT A LIGHTED MATCH CAN BE DROPPED INTO IT WITHOUT CAUSING A FIRE WAS ANNOUNCED THURSDAY JOINTLY BY THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY AND THE PANAMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS.

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA:
FIRE SET EXPLOSIONS AT A ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY MUNITIONS DEPOT JARRED THE HALIFAX AREA.   THERE WERE THIRTEEN KNOWN CASUALTIES, TWELVE INJURED AND ONE MISSING.

LONDON:
YARDS OF RED TAPE WILL HAVE TO BE UNWOUND BEFORE NORA CARPENTER, MOTHER OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER'S QUADRUPLETS CAN GET HER THREE SURVIVING BABIES INTO THE UNITED STATES.   SGT. WILLIAM THOMPSON, OF PITTSBURGH, WHO ACKNOWLEDGES FATHERHOOD OF THE CHILDREN HAS RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES TO WORK OUT THE PROBLEM WITH HIS WIFE WHO HAS REFUSED A DIVORCE.   AT THE U.S. EMBASSY WHERE VISAS ARE GRANTED FOR IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES AN OFFICIAL SAID THE APPLICANTS MUST SUBMIT AFFIDAVITS OF SUPPORT FROM SOMEONE IN THE UNITED STATES.

SAN FRANCISCO:
HENRY J. KAISER SKETCHED TODAY HIS VISION OF A POSTWAR WESTERN INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE WHICH WOULD STIMULATE EMPLOYMENT FOR THIRTY MILLION PEOPLE IN HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC HEALTH ALONE.   IN A TALK BEFORE THE COMMERCIAL CLUB AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE INDUSTRIALIST DECLARED HIS BELIEF THAT THE WEST WOULD TAKE THE LEAD IN PREPAID MADICAL HEALTH CENTERS, ARTERIAL HIGHWAYS, AND CONSTRUCTION OF AIRCRAFT AND AUTOMOBILES.   HE EXHORTED SAN FRANCISCO TO BUILD THE GREATEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN THE WORLD.

WASHINGTON:
THE SENATE PASSED AND SENT BACK TO THE HOUSE THURSDAY LEGISLATION FOR AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN THE WORLD MONETARY FUND AND RECONSTRUCTION BANK AGREED UPON AT BRETTON WOODS.

BUENOS AIRES:
HUNDREDS OF POSTERS APPEARED ON THE STREETS OF THIS CITY THURSDAY ADVERTISING A MEMORIAL MASS MEETING FOR VICTIMS OF A RECENT CHILEAN COPPER MINE FIRE AND DENOUNCING "WALL STREET IMPERIALISM".

MANILA:
ADM. LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN, ALLIED EAST ASIA COMMANDER, AND HIS STAFF RETURNED TO INDIA BY AIR AFTER A THREE DAY CONFERENCE WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR WHICH WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED AS INTENDED TO ARRANGE COMPLETE COORDINATION BETWEEN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMANDS.

WASHINGTON:
ASSURANCE THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL INSIST ON EQUAL PARTICIPATION IN ANY BIG POWER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPOSED ELECTIONS IN POLAND WAS RECEIVED BY SENATOR VANDENBURG OF MINNESOTA FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT.   THE SENATOR MADE PUBLIC A LETTER FROM UNDERSECRETARY GREW SAYING THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CONSIDER ITS RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THE YALTA AGREEMENT TO HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED BY CREATION OF THE PROVISIONAL POLISH GOVERNMENT AT WARSAW.

BASEBALL SCORES:
THE ST LOUIS CARDS AND THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER HERE LAST NIGHT.   FIRST GAME - PHILADELPHIA THREE, ST LOUIS SEVEN.   SECOND GAME - PHILADELPHIA FIVE, ST LOUIS FOUR.   THE GAME BETWEEN THE CLEVELAND INDIANS AND THE PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS WAS CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF RAIN.   THE DETROIT TIGERS WON BOTH GAMES OF A DOUBLEHEADER LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT FROM THE WASHINGTON SENATORS.   FIRST GAME - DETROIT SIX, WASHINGTON FOUR.   SECOND GAME - DETROIT FIVE, WASHINGTON ZERO.   OTHER SCORES - BROOKLYN ONE, CHICAGO THREE.   CHICAGO FIVE, BOSTON THREE.

MANILA:
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS IN A FIVE MILE THRUST HAVE CAPTURED SAMBOJDA, VITAL OIL CENTER OF EASTERN BORNEO, GENERAL MACARTHUR ANNOUNCED THURSDAY.

BUENOS AIRES:
ARGENTINE FOREIGN MINISTER CESAR AMERIGO SAID TODAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT ADOLF HITLER AND HIS SWEETIE PIE, EVA BRAUN, HAD BEEN LANDED ON THE ARGENTINE COAST BY

SUBMARINE AND HAD TAKEN MEASURES ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS BELIEF THAT SUCH A LANDING WAS MADE.   ALL REPORTS ON THE MATTER ARE SUPPOSITION AND CONJECTURE WITHOUT ANY BASIS OF FACT, HE SAID.   THE GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD DELIVER GERMAN U-BOAT 530 TO THE US AND GREAT BRITAIN AS RECOMMENDED BY THE FOREIGN MINISTER, FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION.   AMERIGO WAS TAKING COGNIZANCE OF SPECULATION SWEEPING THE COUNTRY.   TODAY THERE WERE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS THAT TWO MORE U-BOATS WERE SIGHTED OFF THE COAST.

GUAM:
MANPOWER COMMISSIONER PAUL MCNUTT ARRIVED AT MANILA FRIDAY AND WAS GREETED BY GENERAL MACARTHUR.   MCNUTT IS FORMER UNITED STATES HIGH COMMISSIONER TO THE PHILLIPINES.   HE IS IN THE ISLANDS ON AN ECONOMIC AND HEALTH SURVEY AND IS ACCOMPANIED BY A STAFF OF HEALTH AND RELIEF EXPERTS.   THE STAFF WILL SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO TO LOWER MANILA'S HIGH VENERAL DISEASE RATE AND RECOMMEND IMPROVEMENTS IN FILIPINO LIVING CONDITIONS.

PARIS:
THE MAIN BODY OF AMERICAN THIRTEENTH ARMORED DIVISION EMBARKED THURSDAY AT LE HAVRE ENROUTE TO THE UNITED STATES AND THEN TO THE PACIFIC.   ADVANCE UNITS OF THIS DIVISION SAILED JUNE 13TH.

PARIS:
PRESS DISPATCHES REPORTS CARRIER PIGEONS OF TWENTY FIRST ARMY GROUP HAVE BEEN RELEASED FROM BERLIN'S OLYMPIC STADIUM AND ARE NOW FLYING HOME FOR REDEPLOYMENT OR DEMOBILIZATION.   IN ALL, ONE HUNDRED TWENTY CARRIER PIGEONS HAVE BEEN RELEASED, INCLUDING ONE WHICH HOLDS THE PIGEONS VE MEDAL.   FIFTY ONE PIGEONS WENT TO LONDON AND THERE WERE SMALLER FLIGHTS TO BRUSSELS AND THE HAGUE.

LATEST PRESS DISPATCHES SAY ADMIRAL HALSEYS GIGANTIC TASK FORCE IS BELIEVED TO BE CRUISING ALONG ENEMY COAST LINE FOR ELEVENTH CONSECUTIVE DAY OF ITS UNPRECEDENTED OFFENSIVE.   AS FOR PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ATTACK BY FLEET CARRIER PLANES ON COMBATANT SHIPPING AT YOKOHUKA NAVAL BASE, ADMIRAL NIMITZ SAYS THERE ARE NO REPORTS ON RESULTS WHETHER OR NOT ANY MAJOR UNITS OF THE FUGUTIVE JAPANESE WERE CAUGHT THERE.