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Promise Japan
Unprecedented
Destruction
GUAM, July 30 — (^P) — Three
high American military leaders
have promised Japan an unpre
cedented dosage of destruction
which will be climaxed by inva
sion of an overwhelming force.
Rear Admiral D. C. Ramsey,
Ch'ef of Staff of the United
States Fifth Fleet in a broadcast
stated that the United States inva
sion had already begun in effect
with every tightening of the
blockade and the ever increasing
of bombing and shelling of the
home islands.
Maj. Gen. LeMay, commander
of the Twentieth Air Force broad
cast his remarkable advance no
tice pamphlets dropped on the
Jap cities marked for erasure “so
all Jap people must realize that
further resistance is senseless.”
General Spaatz, commander of
the Strategic Air Forces said in a
press conference that fleets of
more a thousand B-29s would
soon be sent against the enemy
with twice the tonnage ever drop
ped on Germany in one mission.
Ramsey declared it will be the
“most overwhelming fork ever
concentrated in military history”
to invade.
Fleet Air and the rampaging
fleet since striking Tokyo on July
tenth has cost Japan one thou
sand seventy-six planes, ninety
one ships and small craft destroy
ed or damaged, according to the
box score issued at Admiral Nim
itz’ headquarters.
One officer said, “This is it.
This is the end of the Jap navy.”
Listed as sunk are seventeen com
batant ships, including the battle
ships Kyuga, Ise, Haruna, and
the heavy cruiser Aoba.
Japs Will Ignore
Allied Ultimatum
To Surrender
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30—</F0
—Japan will ignore the Allied
surrender Ultimatum. Even as the
land of the Mikado was rocked by
the latest shower of shells and
bombs, Premier Suzuki declared
“There will be no change whatso
ever in the fundamental policy of
of governs tent and we will con
tinue the pvosecution of the war.”
The Premier, 78, thus put the
rejection stamp of the govern
ment on the Potsdam declaration
In a statement aired by the Tokyo
rridio.
DANISH WATERS SWEPT — British minesweepers
with Danish crews leave Copenhagen to sweep the waters around
the Danish coast for mines. Captured German minesweepers and
crews also are aiding in the work.
1,500 Allied Planes
Rip Up 60
Jap Airfields
GUAM, July 30 -^-The
Navy sent the Third Fleet in to
shell industrially important Ha
mamatsu, one hundred twenty
miles houth of Tokyo today; and
fifteen hundred American and
British carrier planes ripped up
sixty airfields and other military
installations from Kyushu to
Tokyo.
Staff officers already have
written off the groggy Japanese
navy following Saturday’s knock
out punch at Kure naval base.
The Japanese have acknowledged
surface and air attacks and said
some seven hundred planes par
ticipated in the Tokyo area at
tacks.
Domei’s claim that Japanese air
units went into action is unsub
stantiaed by Allied airmen. Do
me! later reported Iwo based
Mustang fighter planes attacked
south and central Honshu, bomb
ing and strafing air bases, war
ships in the bay, and Osaka.
Syrians from Asia Minor settled
on the Mediterranean shores of
France 600 years before the Chris
tian era.
8,000 Army Planes
Will Carry Air
War To Japan
WASHINGTON, July 30—(£>)—
An all-out air attack on Japan
will be waged by at least 8,000
Army planes with bomb loads.
Superforts will be taking off from
Okinawa soon with triple the
loads now carried.
On an Army Hours broadcast
adresses by air force commanders
revealed that Lt. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, commander of the
Eighth Okinawa, said a thousand
Superforts were required for his
force.
Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay said
if Japan elects to remain in the
war they had nothing to look for
ward to except total destruction
of the entire industrial domain.
CON YENNEY IS PATIENT
IN HOSPITAL
Con Yenney has been a patient
for the past 9 days, the cause of
day. He has had the hiccoughs
since last Sunday, the cause of
which has not been determined.
The use of the bean scale for
weighing was known to the Egyp
tians 5,000 years before the Chris
tian era.
Conference Of
Big Three Enters
Home Stretch
POTSDAM, July 30 — UP) —
President Truuman, Premier Att
lee and Marshal Stalin have
worked out the final language of
the tentative agreement which
was reached after eleven days, as
the deliberations of the Big Three
conference entered the home
stretch with a keynote of har
mony.
Observers believed the har
monious resumption following
the defeat of the Churchill gov
ernment means an early conclu
sion, perhaps in the next two or
three days.
Comment was withheld on the
Australian refusal to subscribe to
the ultimatum ot Japan because
it was too lenient. Australia was
not consulted.
ALVIN POLET LEAVES
FOR FAIRBANKS
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Alvin Polet, northern division
manager for the Alaska Airlines
left for Fairbanks Saturday via
Anchorage. He has been visiting
friends and his family here for a
few days after his trip to the
States, where he had gone as a
delegate from the Masonic Lodges
of the Second and Fourth Divi
sions, to the Most Worshipful
Grand Lodge, which met in Seat
tle this year in a limited wartime
communication.
Vaudeville originated with a
show opened by B. F. Keith in a
vacant candy store in Boston In
1883.
Army B-25 Crashes
Into Empire State
Building In Fog
NEW YORK. July 30— UP) —
The Empire State building re
oponed for business today despite
the shattering impact of an eight
ton Army B-25 bomber which
Saturday crashed into the seven
ty-ninth story of the one hundred
two story building, the tallest
building in the world.
The bomber was enroute from
Boston to the Newark, N. J., air
field, and in the dense fog which
shrouded the city, crashed into
the building, killing thirteen and
| injuring twenty-six. and scatter
ing debris for several blocks down
the street.
Only the observation tower is
! to remain closed. Hugh A Drum.
; president, of the building organ
j ization, said that no structural de
fect had occurred,
j Tentatively it was first esti
I mated the damage would run up
to five hundred thousand dollars,
but it is thought now the damage
is close to one million dollars.
Army authorities are investigat
ing.
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Senate Ratifies
United Nations
Charter
WASHINGTON, July 30——
Saturday the Senate ratified the
United Nations charter by a vote
of eighy-nine to two. Only two
Senators, Langer and Shipstead
opposed the ratification.
ICKES GIVES DECISION ON INDI AN
“EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS” CASE
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WASHINGTON, July 30—(/P)— |
Claims of southeastern Alaska In
dians to exclusive rights to about
three million three hundred thir
ty nine thousand acres are large
ly rejected by Secretary of the In
terior Ickes. He also rejected the
Indians petition for exclusive
rights to fish certain ocean wa
ters with valuable salmon fisher
ies.
Secretary Ickes upheld the In
dians claims to two hundred sev
enty-three thousand acres, ap
proximately each petitioning, and
land adjacent to the villages of
Hydaburg, Kake, and Klawock.
The order affirms the opinion
of Judge Richard H. Hanna of
New Mexico, appointed last year
to hear the case. The order is sub
ject to modification on rehearing
on petition before August eigh
teenth. The Indians are also given
the right to hunt, fish, trap and
gather wild produce in common
with other persons in the greater
portion of the area claimed, so
long as it remains under public
ownership.
The order also recognizes that
where native occupancy has been
continuous, exclusive of certain
beaches and submerged lands,
the use and occupancy of which
is protected by law. The order
concluded the policy of recogniz
ing aboriginal possessory rights
where native possession has been
continuous and exclusive, applies
in Alaska as well as in United
States.