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Pacific Fleet
Wrecks Convoy In
Outer Tokyo Bay
GUAM, July 23—</P)—Ameri
ca’s mighty Pacific fleet thrust
boldy inside the mouth of Tokyo’s
outer bay to wreck a four-ship
convoy. Admiral Nimitz said car
rier planes sweeping over the
same waters Wednesday blew the
top off of one of Japan’s last two
seaworthy battleships.
In all, carrier pilots have sunk
or damaged twenty-one enemy
vessels. It is the fourteenth con
secutive day the fleet has prowled
unopposed off Japan. Significant
of the total lack of opposition the
fleet is operating in at least two
widely separated units, while one
light force has ventured farther
into Tokyo’s outer bay than ever
before in this war, another light
force of warships bombarded Chi
chi Jima five hundred and fifty
miles southeast.
Seventy-five to one hundred Su
perforts added to the clouds of
flying debris with a four hundred
fifty ton demolition strike'on the
Ube synthetic oil refinery on
southwestern Honshu. Crewmen
observed “excellent results” and
all planes returned.
Movements of the combined
fleets of heavy units remained
hidden by radio silence. There is
no indication of typhoons which
stalled General MacArthur’s aeri
al thrusts.
Okinawa for the second consec
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Warcraft Shell
Mt. Suribachi
On Paramushiro
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20—<JP)
—Seven “enemy warcraft of un
identified category” attacked Mt.
Suribachi on Paramushiro Sunday
the Tokyo radio said. The report
is unconfirmed by American
sources.
On the same day, Tokyo said,
Jap destroyers “attacked and re
pulsed” three subs which appeared
off Chichi island in the Bonin
group south of Tokyo, two and a
half hours before the island was
shelled by American surface ships.
Iwo Jima Landing Fields See Plenty Of Service
FUEL FOR FIGHTERS — At a field on Iwo Jima maintenance men of the 72nd fighter
squadron, 21st group, unload auxiliary fuel tanks for a Mustang plane.
I Japs Called On To
Surrender Or
Fight The World
POTSDAM, July 23—OP)—1The
United States warning to Japan,
calling for immediate surrender
in a broadcast from Washington
is viewed as part of President
Truman’s strategy here to secure
American aims in the Far East.
The broadcast intimating that
Jap leaders would not be able to
deal with Americans alone unless
they surrendered promptly is
known to have the President’s
knowledge and fits into the pat
tern of Truman diplomacy at the
parley with Premier Stalin and
Prime Minister Churchill.
The broadcast thinly veiled the
warning that Russian participa
tion in the war against Japan may
be imminent as Russia is not now
at war with Japan.
Snyder To
Consolidate Govt.
Agencies
WASHINGTON, July 23—(JP)—
A movement to consolidate gov
ernment agencies gets a boost to
day when-John W. Snyder took
oath as director of war mobllizi
LONG DISTANCE
PHONE SERVICE OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC
Lt. Stanley Morgan has in
formed us that tomorrow morning
at seven o'clock the Alaska Com
munications System will open the
long distance phone service to the
public. Many civilians now have
their names on the waiting list to
be among the first to talk to their
families in the States.
The rates to Seattle, have been
set for civilians as follows: 8 a.m.
until 6 p.m, or day rate will be
$9.00 for the first three minutes
and $3.00 for each additional min.
ute. The night rate is $7.50 for the
first three minutes and $2.50 for
each additional minute and is in
effect from six p.m. to 8 a.m. The
men and women in service have a
special rate of $2.50 for five min.
utes and 50 cents for each addi
tional minute.
PAUL WELLS CALLED TO
STATES BY SON'S DEATH
Paul Wells, painter and Interior
decorator, was called to the States
by the death of his son.
tion and reconversion. Snyder’s
record as consolidator favors sim
pier organization of government,
as does President Truman.
i Jap Casualties
On Luzon Mount
To 432,000
MANILA, July 23——Amer
ican Sixth Infantry Division
troops driving eight miles along]
the highway lined with enemy
dead, captured the Jap mountain
retreat of Banaue on northern Lu
zon and are now within two and
one-half miles of a junction with
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Chinese Sever Jap
Communication
Route At Kweilin
CHUNGKING, July 23— <#) —
Chinese troops tightening the
pressure on the former American
airbase city of Kweilin, severed
the main Jap communication
route between Kwangsi and Hu
nan provinces by reoccupying the
rail town of Chiehshou the high
command announced.
Chinese troops closed to with’n
eight miles of Kweilin from south
west of Chiehshou, forty-one miles
northeast of Kweilin. Chinese also
overran the road town of Liang
feng fifteen miles south of Kwei
lin in a drive which threatened to
cut off Jap forces deployed to the
south.
American Mustangs supported
attacks on the China coast. The
communique said Chinese troops
are following Jap units heading
from Amoy to Swatow and had
reached the border of Fukien
and Kwangtung provinces, which
means that Fukien has been
cleared except for a handful of
Japs at Amoy whom the Chinese
expect to leave by sea.
VISTORS IN NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Calhoun
and small son John, teachers for
the Bureau of Indian Affairs
School at Deering, are visitors in
town for a few days.
Americans Arrest 80,000 Germans In
Surprise Search Raid On Homes
A_
FRANKFURT ON MAIN, July
23—</P)—Half a million American
troops arrested upwards of eighty
thousand persons and searched
every single house in the Ameri
can occupation zone in Germany j
over the weekend it has been dis
closed. It is perhaps the greatest
mass raid in history.
Americans were seeking wea
pons, ammunition and loot. Many
of those taken into custody were
members of the Elite Guard,
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hunted as war criminals. Fifteen,
million Germans in the American
zone were caught in the surprise
raid. They were bewildered and
scared but offered not the slight
est opposition.
Brig. Gen. Edwin Sibert, head
of the Intelligence Division of
United States forces in the Euro
pean theater lifted censorship of
the raid. Only two Germans tried
to escape the search he said. At
least one was shot to death.
Siebert said a considerable
number of guns, ammunition and
loot, such as American uniforms,
K rations and gasoline vehicles
were uncovered but not a sign of
an organized German under
ground. A lot of the Elite Guard,
many of them posing as discharged
Wehrmacht prisoners of war were
rounded up he said.