26 July 1945 Submitted by TM2(SS) Jerry Levy, Plankowner |
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***THE CHIVO CHIMES***
JULY 26, 1945
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B 29 RAID:
MORE THAT THREE
HUNDRED FIFTY SUPERFORTS FROM THE MARIANNAS DUMPED BETTER THAN TWENTY-TWO
HUNDRED TONS OF FIRE BOMBS ON THREE JAPANESE INLAND CITIES BEFORE DAWN FRIDAY
ENEMY TIME. RAID WAS ON OMUTA, MATSUKAMA, AND TOKUYAMA AND PILED MORE
EMPHASIS ON GENERAL DOOLITTLES PROMISE THAT, "AMERICAN BOMBERS SOON
WILL CONVERT JAPAESE ISLANDS INTO A NATION WITHOUT CITIES".
OMUTA CHEMICAL PRODUCTION CENTER AND COAL PORT ON KYUSHU ISLAND TOOK ITS
SECOND INCENDIARY RAID. MATSUYAMA ON WESTERN SHIKOKU ISLAND AND
TOKUYAMA IN SOUTHWESTERN HONSHU HAD BEEN HIT BEFORE IN DEMOLITION BOMBINGS,
BUT FRIDAY STRIKES WERE THEIR FIRST FIRE ATTACKS. TWENTIETH AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCED B 29'S HAVE DEVASTATED ONE HUNDRED FORTY THREE
SQUARE MILES IN THIRTY NINE JAPANESE CITIES.
SOMEWHERE OFF JAPAN:
THURSDAY BATTLEWAGONS
AND CARRIERS OF ALLIED PACIFIC FLEET ROAMED THE PACIFIC, READY TO LET FLY
ANOTHER MAN MADE TYPHOON OF BOMBS, ROCKETS, TORPEDOES AND BULLETS AGAINST
ENEMY HOMELAND. ONLY FOG THAT ROLLED IN WEDNESDAY SAVED ENEMY FROM
ANOTHER CRUSHING CARRIER PLANE BLOW SUCH AS TUESDAYS WHICH DAMAGED THREE
BATTLESHIPS, SIX AIRCRAFT CARRIERS AND FIVE CRUISERS. IN FIFTEEN
DAYS OF RELENTLESS SLUGGING, ALLIED NAVAL FORCES THROUGH TUESDAY HAD SUNK
OR DAMAGED SIX HUNDRED TWENTY JAPANESE SHIPS, WARSHIPS AND MERCHANT VESSELS,
AND DESTROYED OR DAMAGED SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY EIGHT PLANES.
MANILA:
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR
ANNOUNCES IN LATEST COMMUNIQUE, THAT SEVENTH AIR FORCE HEAVY BOMBERS ATTACKED
IMPORTANT AIR CENTER OF TWUICI ON JAPANESE HOMELAND OF KYUSHU. WHOLE
AREAS WERE LEFT IN FLAMES AND ROCKED BY REPEATED EXPLOSIONS. OTHER
HEAVY BOMBERS FROM OKINAWA CRATERED RUNWAYS ON KIKAI ISLAND IN RYUKYUS
SOUTH OF KYUSHU. FORTY ONE JAPANESE OFFERED BATTLE, AND SEVEN OF
THIRTY ENEMY INTERCEPTORS THAT ROSE TO CHALLENGE BOMBERS WERE SHOT DOWN.
ONE AMERICAN BOMBER WAS LOST. BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS RETURNED
TO ATTACK ON SHANGHAI UNLOADED FOUR HUNDRED TONS OF BOMBS ON FOUR ENEMY
AIRFIELDS AND SHIPPING.
CHUNGKING:
CHINESE HIGH COMMAND
REPORTED TWO TRIUMPHS FOR CHINESE ARMY IN CAPTURING OF NAMYUNG ONE HUNDRED
FIFTY FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF CANTON AND SEIZURE OF RAILROAD TOWN OF
YUNGFUO IN NORTHERN KWAGSI PROVINCE. NAMYUNG IS SEVENTH FORMER
AMERICAN AIR BASE CITY TO BE RETAKEN FROM THE JAPANESE IN RECENT MONTHS.
RECOVERY OF NAMYUNG OPENED WAY FOR RESUMPTION OF SHIPPING OF
WOLFRAN TO AMERICAN STEEL MILLS. RICH WOLFRAN MINING AREAS NEAR
NAMYUNG ALREADY ARE IN CHINESE HANDS. CAPTURE OF YUNGFU WAS STANDOUT
DEVELOPMENT IN CHINESE MULTIPROLONGED DRIVE TO TAKE KWEILIN, ANOTHER
FORMER AMERICAN AIR BASE.
ON BORNEO:
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS
HAVE MOVED STEADILY NORTHWARD ALONG INLAND ROAD FROM BALIEAPAPAN AND
HAVE ENCOUNTERED SMALL GROUPS OF JAPANESE SOME SIX MILES NORTH OF FALLEN
ENEMY STRONGPOINT OF BATOCHAMPAR.
WASHINGTON:
THE WAR DEPARTMENT
REVEALED PLANS THURSDAY TO DEPLOY SEVEN MILLION SOLDIERS FOR ONE GIGANTIC
KNOCKOUT PUNCH UNLESS JAPAN HEEDS POTSDAMS LITIGATION OF SURRENDER OR BE
DESTROYED. NEW CHIEF OF ARMY GROUND FORCES, GENERAL JACOB DEVERS,
SAID HE HOPED TO GET SEVEN MILLION MEN REDEPLOYED AGAINST JAPANESE FOR
SINGLE BLOW. HE ADDED, "THERES NO USE TO DOING IT PIECEMEAL".
SEVEN MILLION TOTAL WILL BE THE APPROXIMATE SIZE OF ARMY AFTER
PARTIAL DEMOBILIZATION. GENERAL DEVERS EXPLAINED HE DID NOT MEAN
THE WHOLE SEVEN MILLION WILL ACTUALLY BE ON FIRING LINE. MILLIONS
WILL BE IN ARMY SERVICE FORCES AND OTHER BRANCHES IN UNITED STATES AND
ELSEWHERE, BUT ALL WILL BE PART OF SINGLE TEAM WITH SINGLE OBJECTIVE.
WASHINGTON:
NAVY REVEALS
CRUISER SANTA FE HAS ESTABLISHED RECORD ON LONGEST FRONTLINE TOUR FOR ANY
MAJOR WAR UNIT. SANTA FE MADE THIS WHEN SHE STEAMED MORE THAN TWO
HUNDRED TWENTY ONE THOUSAND MILES IN TWENTY FIVE MONTHS WITHOUT OVERHAUL.
BEFORE RETURNING TO WEST COAST RECENTLY FOR ROUTINE REPAIRS, THIS
VESSEL SANK SEVEN JAP SHIPS AND DOWNED SEVEN ENEMY PLANES WHILE PARTICIPATING
IN FORTY TWO AIR STRIKES, TWELVE SHORE BOMBARDMENTS, FOUR SURFACE ACTION.
DURING THIS TOUR OF ACTION, SANTA FE DID NOT LOSE MAN OR SUFFER
ANY SERIOUS DAMAGE.
QUINCY, MASS:
TWENTY TWO HUNDRED
TON DESTROYER U.S.S. JOSEPH KENNEDY JR. WAS LAUNCHED THURSDAY AT QUINCY,
MASSACHUSETTS. DESTROYER WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF LIEUT. JOSEPH KENNEDY
JR. SON OF AMERICAS FORMER AMBASSADOR TO BRITAIN.
THESE ARE THE TERMS OFFERED BY THE UNITED NATIONS TO THE JAPANESE.
POTSDAM DISPATCHES SAID PROCLAMATION WAS DRAWN UP BY TRUMAN AND CHURCHILL, WHO SUBMITTED IT TO CHIANG, CHINESE LEADER PROMPTLY CONCURRED. ALLIED ULTIMATUM CAME ON TWENTY FOUR HOURS AFTER TOKYO RADIO HAD URGED UNITED STATES TO ADOPT MORE LENIENT ATTITUDE TOWARD JAPAN AND INDICATED POSSIBILITY OF SURRENDER IF EASIER TERMS WERE GRANTED. IN REFERENCE TO THEIR ENEMY BROADCAST, ACTING STATE SECRETARY JOSEPH GREW, SAID IN WASHINGTON, JAPANESE MILITARISM MUST BE CRUSHED, AND THAT POLICY OF GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE TO BE "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER".
IN BRITAIN:
THE LABOR PARTY
WHICH ADVOCATED SOCIALISM PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION STUNNEDLY
DEFEATED PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL'S CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN BRITISH GENERAL
ELECTION. LABORITES ROLLED UP TWO TO ONE MAJORITY
WINNING 381 OF THE 640 SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, THE CONSERVATIVES WINNING
ONLY 193.
STILL SMOKING ONE OF HIS FAVORITE CIGARS CHURCHILL MOTORED TO BUCKINGHAM
PALACE. THERE HE HANDED IN HIS SEAL OF OFFICE AND REQUESTED THE KING
TO SUMMON MAJOR CLEMENT ATTLEE LEADER OF THE LABOR PARTY TO PRIME MINISTERSHIP.
HALF AN HOUR LATER ATTLEE ARRIVED AT THE PALACE AND THE KING FORMALLY
REQUESTED HIM TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT. CHURCHILL'S BID FOR POSTWAR
LEADERSHIP FOR BRITAIN HAD FAILED IN ONE OF THE MOST SENSATIONAL ELECTIONS
IN MODERN BRITISH HISTORY. CHURCHILL AND FOREIGN MINISTER ANTHONY
EDEN WERE RETURNED TO PARLIMENT BUT CONSERVATIVE PARTY WHICH HAD RULED FOR
10 YEARS INCLUDING WAR TIME COALITION WAS SWEPT FROM OFFICE AND LABOR PARTY
HOISTED IN TO TAKE ITS PLACE.
INGLEWOOD CALIFORNIA:
NORTH AMERICAN
AVIATION COMPANY IN INGLEWOOD REPORTS THE FASTEST PLANE PRODUCED IN AMERICA
HAS BEEN IN PRODUCTION FOR MONTHS AND NOW IS READY FOR PACIFIC ACTION.
AN IMPROVED VERSION OF THE MUSTANG FIGHTER AND DESIGNATED AS P_ _ _ _ _,
THE ARMY'S DESIGNATION FOR FIGHTER. IT HAS MORE SPEED, LONGER RANGE AND
HIGHER CEILING. THE PLANE WILL TRAVEL BETTER THAN 460 MILES PER HOUR.
HAS A COMBAT RANGE OF MORE THAN 2000 MILES AND WILL OPERATE EFFICIENTLY
UP TO 42000 FEET. THE ARMAMENT INCLUDES FITTINGS TO CARRY TEN RAIL
ROCKETS UNDER THE WINGS GIVING IT "DESTRUCTIVE BLAST OF A DESTROYER'S
FULL BROADSIDE".
GUAM:
MAJ. GEN. CURTIS LE MAY
HAS DISCLOSED THE TWENTIETH AIR FORCE HAS NOW REACHED FULL OPERATIONAL
STRENGTH WITH FIVE B-29 WINGS BASED IN THE MARIANAS. HE ALSO REPORTED
THAT PRIOR TO FRIDAY'S RAIDS RECCONAISSANCE HAD DISCLOSED THAT DEVASTATION IN
JAPAN'S URBAN INDUSTRIAL AREAS HAD REACHED 143 SQUARE MILES IN 39 CITIES.
ALBANY NEW YORK:
NEW YORK EMPLOYERS
WHO REFUSE JOBS TO PERSONS OF JAPANESE OR GERMAN DESCENT BECAUSE OF THEIR
RACIAL ORIGIN ARE VIOLATING THE STATE OF NEW YORK'S LAW JULIUS J. RICHARDS OF
THE COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ASSERTED THURSDAY.
WASHINGTON:
SENATORS HEARD THURSDAY
THAT THE ARMY ALLOCATED 480000 GALLONS OF GASOLINE AND 75 TONS OF RUBBER TO
PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY PROJECT IN 1943 WHEN BOTH COMMODITIES WERE IN
EXTREMEMLY SHORT SUPPLY.
LONDON:
ANTHONY EDEN FOREIGN SECRETARY OF THE
DEFEATED CHURCHILL GOVERNMENT SAID THURSDAY NIGHT THAT HE WOULD RETURN TO THE POTSDAM
CONFERENCE IF HE WERE ASKED AND WOULD CONTINUE TO DO HIS BEST TO HELP.
PRODUCTION OF ENGINES FOR ARMY'S B-29'S WAS REDUCED TO A MERE TRICKLE TODAY BY NEARLY 48000 STRIKING WORKERS IN PLANTS IN ILLINOIS AND NEW JERSEY. MORE THAN 18000 ARE OUT IN CHICAGO IN CHRYSLER CORPORATIONS DODGE CHICAGO PLANT WORLDS LARGEST AIRPLANE MANUFACTURER. THAT STRIKE BEGAN YESTERDAY. ONE UNION LEADER TERMED CAUSES AS AN ACCUMULATION OF GRIEVANCES.
BASEBALL:
AMERICAN LEAGUE:
NEW YORK 13 -----PHILADELPHIA 4 (ONLY GAME)
NATIONAL LEAGUE:
ST. LOUIS 10 -----PITTSBURGH 2
CHICAGO 2 -----CINCINATTI 1 (NO OTHER GAMES)
KNOWN BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS OF ENDEARMENT: "MATRESS BACK", "'GRAVITY GUS", "THE MEDFORD MONSTER", "SYNCHRO SAM THE ELECTRICIAN MAN", "THE HAIRBREADTH HARRY OF CASABLANCA".
HOPEFULLY LOOKS FOR THE DAY WHEN HE CAN CATCH AN LIBERTY AND HANG A "TO BE FIXED TOMORROW" SIGN ON THE BRIDGE.
HAS A PASSION FOR SPEED. IS PROUD OF THE 24 KNOTS HE MADE ABOARD THE WHALE - - - IN DRYDOCK.
HIS IDEAL CONDUCT ASHORE HAS RESULTED IN THE LAUDATORY PHRASE "MAKING A BIG MORRISSEY OF HIMSELF". THIS TYPE OF BEACH ACTIVITY INDICATES A FEW HOURS AWAY FROM THE MADDENING PACE OF THE CHIVO SPENT IN A QUIET CUL-DE-PAC LIKE THE SUB RESTAURANT. HERE "WATER CLOSET" MORRISSEY QUIETLY REPOSES AND VIEWS THE PASSING THRONG - - - PASSING OVER HIM.
THE CARTOON IS SELF-EXPLANATORY. IT PRESENTS IN MODEST TERMS THE REAL MORRISSEY WHO IS FOREVER ATTEMPTING TO RETURN TO NATURE. SOME OF HIS MISUNDERSTANDING COHORTS CALL HIM "THROW 'EM AWAY"; BUT BASICALLY MORRISSEY IS A "PETER PAN" TYPE OF CHARACTER - - - FOREVER SEEKING THE SIMPLE, RUSTIC LIFE....
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