The CHIVO Chimes At Sea 30 July 1945 Submitted by TM2(SS) Jerry Levy, Plankowner

JULY 30, 1945
AT SEA    

GUAM:
ADMIRAL NIMITZ DISCLOSED TODAY THE SUM OF RESULTS OF SATURDAY'S CARRIER PLANE ATTACKS.   THE JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS HARUNA AND ISE AND THREE CRUISERS WERE LEFT BLAZING.   PILOTS ALSO REPORTED SEEING THE THIRD ENEMY BATTLESHIP, THE HYUGA, LYING ON THE BOTTOM WITH WAVES WASHING OVER HER.   AN ESCORT CARRIER WAS DAMAGED, THREE SUBMARINES WERE SUNK AND TWELVE OTHER SHIPS DAMAGED.   NINTY-FOUR ENEMY PLANES WERE DESTROYED AND FIFTY-SIX DAMAGED.

OKINAWA BASED PLANES HAVE JOINED IN THE INLAND SEA PATROLS AND SEA RAIDS.   SOME OF THESE PLANES THURSDAY SANK NINE SMALL ENEMY VESSELS TOTALLING 16,000 TONS.

JAPAN'S ONCE MIGHTY FLEET LAY WRECKED AND FLAMING AS RUIN SPREAD THROUGH SIX MORE OF HER CITIES AFTER TWO DAYS OF MASSIVE AERIAL BLOWS.   WHAT ONCE WAS THE WORLD'S THIRD GREATEST NAVAL FORCE HAD BEEN REDUCED TO A PIGMY FLEET WHICH NAVAL AUTHORITIES SAID AMERICAN DESTROYERS ALONE COULD DISPOSE OF.

SAN FRANCISCO:
JAPANESE PREMIER SUZUKI DENOUNCED AS UNWORTHY OF OFFICIAL NOTICE THE ALLIED POTSDAM SURRENDER ULTIMATUM.   HE INSISTED JAPANESE AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION HAD BEEN INCREASED AND TOSSED INTO THE LAPS OF THE NIKADO'S ADVISERS COMPLETE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RECENT DISASTROUS TURN OF EVENTS.   A SCHEDULE BROADCAST THE PREMIER WAS TO HAVE MADE LAST NIGHT TO THE JAPANESE NATION FAILED TO MATERIALIZE.

THE JAP RADIO ACKNOWLEDGED SATURDAY'S HEAVY BRITISH AND AMERICAN AERIAL STRIKES AGAINST JAPANESE TARGETS AND THE HUGE B29 RAIDS WHICH SET AFLAME SIX OF THE CITIES WHICH THE U.S. 20TH AIR FORCE HAD PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IT WOULD ATTACK.   SUZUKI CLAIMED THE FCC MONITORED BROADCAST REPORTED THAT THE POTSDAM ULTIMATUM WAS MERELY AN EXPANSION OF THE CAIRO DECLARATION AND SO FAR AS THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED, NO NOTICE OF IT WILL BE TAKEN.   THE PREMIER PAID MUCH ATTENTION TO THE PURPOTEDLY INCREASED AIRPLANE PRODUCTION IN JAPANESE UNDERGROUND FACTORIES AND BRUSHED OVER WITH A SINGLE SENTENCE QUESTIONS AS TO DEFENSE AGAINST THE HEAVY NAVAL AIR ATTACKS.

MANILA:
GEN. MACARTHUR DISCLOSED THAT B32 DOMINATORS HAVE BEEN IN ACTION FOR TWO MONTHS AGAINST TARGETS ON LUZON AND FORMOSA.   THE B32 IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE B29 AND HAS LARGEST RUDDER OF ANY COMBAT PLANE AND A REVERSIBLE PROPELLOR.   THE REVERSE SPEED PROP ACTS AS A BRAKE AND WILL ALLOW THE PLANE TO BANK ITSELF INTO REVERSE ON THE GROUND.

GUAM:
MUSTANGS FROM IWO JIMA SHOT UP TOKYO AREA SATURDAY.   THEY MET NO OPPOSITION FROM ENEMY INTERCEPTORS BUT SEVEN OF THE P51'S WERE LOST, PRESUMABLY TO ACK ACK.   THREE OF THE PILOTS WERE SAVED.   THE MUSTANGS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED 16 PLANES ON THE GROUND AND SHOT UP TRAINS, AIRFIELDS, RADIO STATIONS, POWER PLANTS AND SHIPPING.   ONE DESTROYER ESCORT WAS AMONG THE MORE THAN TWENTY SMALL VESSELS HIT.

POTSDAM:
PRESIDENT TRUMAN HAS EXPRESSED OPPOSITION TO BRINGING THE WIVES AND FAMILIES OF U.S. SOLDIERS OVERSEAS TO EUROPE.   HE SAID HE DOES NOT WANT AMERICANS TO SETTLE IN EUROPE.   (???)

FT. DEMOINE, IOWA:
THE ARMY DISCLOSED THAT FORT DEMOINE IS TO BE A STAGIN AREA FOR ALL WACS GOING OVERSEAS.   FOUR THOUSAND WACS HAVE BEEN TRAINED AT FORT DEMOINE FOR OVERSEAS DUTY SINCE THE REPLACEMENT DEPOT FROM FORT OGLETHORPE, GA. WAS MOVED THERE LAST FEBRUARY.

POTSDAM:
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS SAID WORK OF THE BIG THREE CONFERENCE IS PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY.   BRITIAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE HAS NOW REPLACED WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE MEETINGS.   HE WAS IN EARLIER TALKS AND SO HAS NOT HAD TO DO ANY CATCHING UP ON CONVERSATIONS.

MAINZ, GERMANY:
LT. JOHN S. HILLIARD OF NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, SAID THE NAZIS CITED THE SALE OF PLAYERS BY AMERICAN BASEBALL CLUBS IN THE UNITED STATES IN TEACHING GERMAN SCHOOL CHILDREN THAT SLAVERY STILL EXISTED IN THE U.S.A.   HILLIARD, A MEMBER OF A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE UNIT AND FORMER STUDENT AT HEIDLEBERG UNIVERSITY SAID NUMEROUS PERSONS IN GERMANY HAD TOLD HIM THE STORY.

NEW YORK:
AN ARMY BOARD OF INQUIRY SEARCHED SUNDAY THROUGH THE DEBRIS IN THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING TO DETERMINE IF POSSIBLE THE CAUSE OF THE SPECTACULAR CRASH OF AN ARMY BOMBER INTO THE FIFTH AVENUE SKYSCRAPER WHICH KILLED AT LEAST THIRTEEN PERSONS.

WASHINGTON:
THE SENATE WAR INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE CALLED FOR A SHAKEDOWN OF THE WAR AGENCIES TO PLACE THEM UNDER DIRECT SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF WAR MOBILIZATION DIRECTOR, JOHN W. SNYDER.

THE SENATE WANTS TO BE DEALT IN AT THE PEACE TABLE JUST AS IT WAS REPRESENTED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE.   LEADING SENATORS ENDORSED THIS PLAN AS THEY SURVEYED WITH SATISFACTION THE EIGHTY-NINE TO TWO VOTE BY WHICH THE CHAMBER SATURDAY RATIFIED THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER.

SAN FRANCISCO:
WHEN TWO HOLDUP MEN ACCOSTED GARAGEMAN WILLIAM A. SMITH, HE TOOK A GUN AWAY FROM ONE OF THEM.   THE BANDITS STARTED RUNNING.   SMITH PULLED THE TRIGGER.   NOTHING HAPPENED.   WHEREUPON THE BANDITS RETURNED, TAPPED SMITH ON THE HEAD WITH ANOTHER GUN, AND GATHERED UP $160.00 AND 300 GASOLINE COUPONS AND FLED, SMITH TOLD POLICE.

NEW YORK:
WHILE BASEBALL FANS THROUGHOUT MAJOR LEAGUE CITIES WERE DISCUSSING THE DEAL BY WHICH HANK BOROWY WAS SOLD BY THE YANKEES TO THE CHICAGO CUBS FOR $100,000 IN CASH AND PLAYERS, PRESIDENT MACPHAIL BEARING UP UNDER THE BACKWASH OF THE BIGGEST PLAYER DEAL SINCE DIZZY DEAN WAS SOLD BY THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS, TOOK TIME OUT AND ISSUED A COUPLE OF REPLIES TO SOME OF HIS CRITICS.   MACPHAIL ISSUED A BLISTERING REPLY TO CLARK GRIFFITH, 75 YEAR OLD PRESIDENT OF THE WASHINGTON SENATORS, WHO WAS FIRST WITH CAUSTIC COMMENT ON BOROWY'S PASSING FROM THE AMERICAN TO THE NATIONAL LEAGUE ON WAIVERS.   HE DENOUNCED CRITICISM BY BRANCH RICKEY, PRESIDENT OF THE BROOKLYN DODGERS WITH THE STATEMENT THAT RICKEY HAD THE WAIVER REQUEST ON HIS DESK FOUR DAYS AND CLAIMED THREE OF THE PLAYERS INCLUDED ON THE LIST.   HE RESTATED THAT THE DEAL WAS MADE IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE YANKEE BALL CLUB AND HIMSELF AND AILING MANAGER, JOE MCCARTHY.   HE EMPHASIZED THAT THE SALE OF BOROWY DID NOT NECESSARILY MEAN THAT HE HAD ABANDONED HOPE OF YANKEES WINNING THE 1945 AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT.