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Truman Heads Home Afte
eting British Monarch at Plym
Big 3 Write
Reich Rules
POTSDAM, Aug. 2.— (UP)— British spokesman said the Big Three
agreed on the machinery for the control of occupied Germany at the
Potsdam conference which ended early today.
William Ridsdale, head of the British foreign office press section,
said the Polish and Balkan questions were, discussed fully at the
a meeting of the American, British and Russian leaders. .
7 “An immense amount of work has been done," Ridsdale said before
he departed for London. He disclosed no details of the agreement on
control of Germany and the discussion of Poland and the Balkans.
President Truman, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee, at their
final meeting, approved a communique on the 17-day meeting in the
former German crown prince's Cecilienhof palace on Wansee lake. The
Ommunque will be issued in the Allied capitals within a few hours.
The last act of the conference was the dispatch of a personal message
from the Big Three to Winston S. Churchill, the British leader in the
first part of the meeting, and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. It
expressed appreciation for their most valuable contributions to all previous
conferences and the start of this one. . z______,
Although the Big Three were known to have discussed the
4 Pacific war, it was understood the communique would not mention
it because of Russia’s neutrality in the eastern conflict.
The Big Three wound up the Potsdam conference at 12 30 a. m. in
an exchange of compliments and an
atmosphere of good fellowship.n I
President Truman was understood | OVAC Poniard
$ be happy over the results of the | UAU J NogurCi D
conference, at which he served as
chairman. DLL. nann
Two sessions were held yester- Disband: Demo
day, with the communique the | ‘
dinal order pf business. The first
session was held in the afternoon
and the second last from 10:30 p. m
to 12:30 a. m
After disposal of the main items
on the agenda, Mr. Truman asked
« there were further business None
developed and he adjourned the
conference.
Attlee made a short speech thank-
ing Stalin for completing prelimi-
nary physical arrangements for the
conference and complimenting Mr
Oruman on his conduct as chair-
man.
Both Mr. Truman and Stalin
acknowledged the tribatea brief-
ly, Stalin praised the foreign
secretaries and other members
• of the three delegations for
their work. He also mentioned
former Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and former Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden.
Peace at Hand
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug 2—(P— Dem-
ocratic party unity in Texas ap-
peared to be the possible objective
of two political moves here today.
On the heels of an announce-
ment that the Texas Regulars
party, recalcitrant group which
broke away from the Democrats
last year on the fourth term
and other issues, had dissolved
as of yesterday, plans were
shaped for a long-delayed
Jackson Day dinner in Austin.
Mayor Tom Miller of Austin
scheduled a luncheon conference
with Myron G Blalock. Democratic
national committeeman for Texas,
with the purpose of determining a
date for the dinner.
The regulars filed with the see-
Plane Wings
President to
Port Parley
By the Associated Press
WITH PRESIDENT TRU-
MAN, Aug. 2.—President Tru-
man headed back to the Unit-
ed States today, stopping at
Plymouth for a 20-minute talk
with King George VI, as the
Big Three's Berlin declaration
was drawn up for release to
the world tonight.
Mr. Truman had lunch with ”
the British monarch aboard H.
M. S. Renown, lying off the
war-battered port of Plymouth.
The king visited the president
later aboard the U. 8. S. Au-
gusta, the cruiser which brought
him to Europe. At 3:55 p. m..
the Augusta pulled out of Ply-
mouth.
The British monarch and the first
American president to visit Brit-
ain since President Wilson’s visit
after World War I met aboard the
British battle cruiser Renown at
12:40 p. m. (B:40 a. m., central war
time).
•Welcome to my country,” the
king said.
The President and the monarch
shook hands with cordiality and
stood chatting while clasping hands
Mr Truman wore a light grey
lounge suit with a red overcheck,
brown shoes and a light grey hat.
He made the visit to the Re-
newn after boarding the U. S. crus-
er Augusta, which had brought him
to Europe for the Big Three con-
ference at Potsdam
Hundreds of persons gathered
at the docks of this bomb-scar-
red old port on htechance of
seeing the President on his ar-
rival by plane from Pitsdam,
red old port an the chance of
landing plans robbed them of
the opportunity.
Because of flying conditions.
President Truman and his party
landed at an RAF field about eight
, retary of state a resolution of the miles north of Plymouth at 9:40
• Mr Truman enlarged on Stalin s party’s executive committee dissolv-
compliments for the lesser members ing the group as of Aug. 1
the delegations the eyewitness The resolution, signed by E.
said, and a warm exchange of hand-
shakes followed.
Then all the conferees filed out
and returned to their respective
quarters.
We Remember
Work, Winnie!
The resolution, signed by E.
E. Townes of Houston, execu-
Live committee chairman. Mer-
ritt H Gibson of Longview,
campaign manager, and Ray
Sanderford of Belton, perman-
eat convention chairman, as-
serted there remained no fur-
ther actual or legal necessity
for the party because it had
brought about the selection of
Horry 8. Truman as vice-presi-
dent, “which resulted in his be-
coming President."
Since Truman has been President,
the resolution added, public senti-
ment has been aroused to the point
where recognition hss been given
LONDON, Aug. 2—<^—The Big
Three messaged Winston Churchill to the political responsibility of Con-
atoday that the whole world knows gress and Texas' citizenship.
The greatness of his work, and It The Regulars grew out of a Dem-
will never be forgotten " ocratic party split over the fourth
The message: term last summer. The new party
i ■ President Truman. Generalissimo which opposed the fourth term and
Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee,
assembled at the final session of
@he Berlin conference, desire to
send a message of greetings to Mr
Winston Churchill They wish to
thank him for all his work in the
• first part of the Berlin conference,
which helped greatly to lay the
foundations of its successful con-
@usion.
‘They remember with gratitude
the untiring efforts and the un-
conquerable spirit with which at
earlier conferences and through-
out the war he served our common
gause of victory and enduring peace.
The whole world knows the great-
ness of his work, and it will never
be forgotten."
Connally Offers
Meat Price Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug 2 -
Senator Connally (D-Tex) yester-
day introduced a bill which would
require that government purchases
of meat and meat products for two
Gears after the end of the war with
Japan reflect to the livestock pro-
ducer not less than the market
prices which prevailed on Oct 2,
1942, —
• The Weather
1 s. DEPARTMENT or COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU
ABILENE AND VICINITY — Partly
cloudy and continued not this afternoon,
tonight and Friday.
EAST TEXAS Partly cloudy this
ECternoon tonight, and Friday with
scattered afternoon thundershowers
south portion Gentle variable winds this
afternoon and tonight becoming mod-
erate northeast Friday on coast
WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy this
afternoon, tonight and Friday with
scattered late afternoon and evening
thundershowers except in Panhandle
Wd South Plains
Maximum temperature last 24 hours 91
Minimum temperature last 12 hours 71
TEMPERATURES
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a. m. (3:40 a. m. CWT). They had
been scheduled to land at a field
40 miles to the west
Mr Truman inspected some of
the bomb damage at the port, then
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Sunrise this morning 6 55.
Sunsets tonight, 8.35.
mon
7875
aves of Flame Roll Over
our Nippon War Centers
820 Supers Loose
Record Bomb Load
By the Associated Press
CAMOUFLAGED JAP CARRIERS in the Kure naval base, Honshu, are targets for the
3rd fleet carrier-based planes. One ship (arrow right), is concealed by netting running
from ship to shore, with number of huts built on flight deck to further hide it from U. S.
Navy planes. Ship (arrow left), is surrounded by near misses. (U. S. Navy photo from NEA
Telephoto).
POINT SCORE LEFT AT 85; Laval to Testify
NEW GROUP DUE RELEASE In Trial Friday
I VL CTVA 1 " ‘14 - PARIS Aug. 3 —(— Pierre
Solid walls of fire swept over four Japanese cities hit
today in the world's greatest air raid.
"Incredible" flames raging over three forewarned rail-
way centers and an aluminum-producing city were only part
of the day’s work of 820 Superforts which unloosed 6,632 tons
of destruction in the early morning hours shortly after four
American naval bombardment and rescue operations stretch-
ed across 3,000 miles of the Pacific.
Mine-laying B-29s reached almost to Soviet Russian ter-
ritory in their biggest penetration of the Nipponese empire.
It was only one phase of a widening campaign which Maj.
Gen. Claire Chennault, retiring leader of America’s Flying
Tigers in China, said would cut off Japan completely from
the Asiatic mainland within a month.
Reports from Admiral Nimitz and Tokyo radio said a
small naval task force shelled 0 island 70 miles from Tokyo,
a submarine fleet shelled southern Hokkaido island north
of Tokyo, a battleship bombarded Wake island, and other fleet
units rescued 283 natives from Nipponese-held Jaluit atoll in
the Marshall islands. All actions occurred yesterday.
Superforts, packing 232 tons more bombs than hit Normandy an
Europe’s D-Day. set fires raging in four Japanese industrial cities,
wrecked four oil plants in Tokyo bay, and mined waters, linking
Nippon with Asia.
Only a few interceptors and relatively light antiaircraft fire opposed
the greatest air fleet ever mounted Only nene B-29 tailed to return. Tokyo,
which reported attacks extended over eight cities in Japan and Korea,
claimed 11 were shot down.
“General conflagrations” raged through the four announced target
cities, all of which were told the attack was coming. It was the initial
WASHINGT ON, Aug. 2—(PP —The |
Army announced today the present
point score or discharge will be
went to the U. S. naval base and .
embarked on a barge for the Au- left s’ 83 while about 800,000 men
gusta He missed the Lord Mayor
of Plymouth and other officials
waiting for him at the dock.
with that score are being released.
Later the score will be revised
New Deal policies in general filed
its own slate of presidential electors
who were not pledged to support
any candidate for president The
Regulars electors received 135,439
votes in the 1»44 general election
Democratic electors received 821,605
votes.
One of 5 ETO Vets
To Pacific Theater
While Mr Truman was going by
on the barge, headed for the Au-
gusta, he was afforded an excellent |
I view of the ancient port, including1
the historic Mayflower steps where
the Pilgrims boarded the Mayflow-
er for their trip to America.
The President, with Secretary of
State Byrnes snd Adm William DI
Leahy, boarded the Renown from a
bright green barge flying the pres-
idential flag
The king waited al the rail
with the Earl of Halifax. Brit-
ish ambassador to the tailed
States, snd officers of the bot-
tle cruiser. The President’s party
wss piped aboard.
Mr Truman stood hatless at at-
tent ion at the top of the ladder while
Royal Marines played the C
Spangled Banner
WASHINGTON, Aug 2—(AP)
Only one man in five of air force
personnel from the European and
Mediterranean theaters will go to
the Pacific.
The other 80 percent will be as-
signed to jobs in the United States
said Maj Gen Frederick L. An-
derson, assistant chief of air staff
personnel, in a broadcast last night
Most of those who go to the Pa-
cific have not been in combat, An-
derson said.
to provide for the discharge of
another 700,000 men by June 1.
1946, the date by which the
Army had announced a total of
2 Labor Dispute
Hearings Called
1,500,000 men would be dis-
charged under the present point
M° enouncing this. Secretary of tomorrow in the treason trial of
war Stimson said he could not say Marshal Petain, the court announce-
now when the new score would be ed today. ...
given. The War department prev-. The old marshal fell sound asleep
iously had stated it expected to as did three of the jurors, as a pro-
cession of defense witnesses por-
fire raid on each.
Targets were Mito, rail center 60 miles north of Tokyo: Hachioji rail
center 23 miles west of Tokyo: Nagaoka, railway town on western Honshu
.Island and Toyama, west coast aluminum city. High explosives were
Laval, whose name has flitted fre- loosed on four Kawasaki oil plants in Tokyo bay with "good effect’
quently through ten days of tea- These attacks were carried out by 1
timony, will be called to a witness 778 B-29s. r
The remaining 42 Superforts, 1 IF AT 1
mined Shimonoseki strait south of 1 VUI V I Cl III
Honshu and waters north of Korea.
announce the new
critical score.
with points slightly lower than the
present figure some time in July.
Stimson said that at the time
of the revision of points to provide
for discharge of the 700,000-man
group a new computation of indi-
vidual scores would be made to
trayed him as anti-German and as
. a patriot who gave up French artil-
[ lery in North Africa to prevent the
give soldiers credit for service after
May 12, 1945 This was the date to
which credit points ran under the
original interim score of 85
By the Associated Press
The regional WLB has two ma- said, will allow some men who
jor labor dispute hearings slated for would not have had enough points
today at Dallas by the computation of last May to
Company and union officials of earn their discharge by her serve
the Sheffield Steel company of ire between then and the time of
Houston and the Teche Greyhound
Star Lines from New Orleans were to ap-
This new computation. Stimson
said, will allow some men who
pear.
Sheffield workers tailed to return
to their jobs yesterday in response
to a WLB order because, CIO union
President Paul W Davis said, the
notice wasn’t received in time to
call them together He reported «
meeting had been called for Friday
night and that wll be the first
opportunity to contact all workers
The stoppage began Monday night
after the union said, the company
refused to reinstate a workman af-
Two-Year Fight for
Life Ends for Vet
DALHART Aug 2- T—A two-
year fight for life which began when
he was wounded in action in Italy
has ended for Elmer Metz. 26, plucky
Panhandle paratrooper who will be
laid to rest here tods'
the new computation
This, he told a news confer-
enee, “will obviously give the
advantage of battle credit and
overseas credit to troops in the
Pacific.”
Whatever the new score, Stimson ‘
said. It will not affect the right to
Germans from marching through
Spain to attack Gibraltar.
It was Gen Bernard Serigny, long
a friend of Petain, who told how
Hitler early in 1941 demanded from
Generalissimo Franco the right to
send troops across Spain to attack
the British bastion guarding the
western entrance of the Mediter-
ranean
The general, who described him-
self as an intimate friend of the
Marshall said Franco had disclosed
the demand to Petain along with
the information that he had re-
fused
Pelsin himself, was uneasy
about Spain the witness testi-
fied, but he quoted the marshal
as saying:
“France can count on me in
resisting the Germans demand
for permission to eross Spain."
As the trial started its tenth day
defense counsel read a cable signed
discharge of those who previously
qualified under the May score of__________
85. If they have not already been by John Alexander Schaeffer, direc-
discharged when the new score goestor of the National Republican Vig-
into effect, they will remain eligi- dlance committee. New York, which
ble for release “at the earliest op-said
Metz was returned to this coun ter he had served a ten-day suspen-
try and underwent a dozen surgical sion following a quarrel with a
operations. Paralyzed from the -
waist down, he was discharged a
year ago and moved from an Army
foreman.
The bus company dispute, which
.tied up Greyhound lines in Louis-
hospital in Memphis. Tenn. to the Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
Veterans’ hospital here
55
portunity."■’American veterans who had the
By the nature of the point sys- honor of serving, in France under
rem and the disposition of (forces, Gen Pershing and who have ad-
Stimson said a substantial part” -----* •" - ---------
mired you through the years as A
of the 700,000 men will be those soldier and patriot salute you in
now in the active Pacific theater
and Florida grew out of the dis- State Aides Quit
charge June 1 of five driven for
participating in an unauthorized
walkout The union is demanding tion of Assistant Attorney Generals
they be reinstated with back pay _
for the time lost A hearing sched- has been announced effective Aug.
uled for yesterday wss reset after
the union representatives failed to
appear
A NLRB representative, Carme
Russell, went ahead with plans to
hold a strike vote at North Ameri-
can Aviation’s plant at Grand Prat-
rie. Tea, after the union declined to
withdraw its request
Attlee in London,
Works on Cabinet
LONDON Aug 2.- P —Prime
Minister Clement R Attlee returned
from the Potsdam conference by
plane today to complete formation
of his new Labor government
A stream of government officials
entered the prime minister s official
residence at No 10 Downing street,
carrying dispatch cases and files
Woman Drowns
DALLAS, Aug. 2.-P—The body
S FIGURES IN DOMESTIC TANGLE—Corp. Stanley Heck
« (right), 30-year-old infantryman who lost both legs in Ger-
" many, has filed suit for divorce against Henrietta Hedk (left), of A29-veer-old womanwhodroen:
26, his wife and asked for $50,000 damages for alleged theft
of his wife's love. She is in Chicago, he is in McCloskey gen-
eral hospital. Temple, Texas. (AP Wirephoto).
ed yesterday in a Lagoon at Fair
park was identified today as that
of Mrs Myrtle Gamble Jamieson
of Longview.
this grave hour With abiding affec-
tion snd confidence, we condemn
your trial as unrepresentative of
the great French people and pray
AUSTIN Aug 2.—P>Resigna- that the conscience of France will
compel termination of the proceed-
Benjamin Woodall and C F Gibson
15. Woodall will return to the pri-
vate practice of law at Marshall,
and Gibson will enter a law firm
here
Welcome Home!
ings.”
July Tax Incom*
Triples ‘44 Record
Delinquent tax collec ions in Abi-
lene during the past month almost
| tripled the amount collected here
in July 1944. Claudine McCall, city
tax collector, said today.
Collections in July, this year.
• amounted to $11 938 82. on real and
personal property and with $6.16
for occupation taxes and court
With friends and neighbors
costs, totaled $11,944.97
For the same period last year.
$4,323. TO was collected for delin-
| quent taxes and $14 for occupation
| and court costs, a total of $4,337.70.
Plane Crash Probed
' RIO VERDE San Luis Potosi
/ Mexico, Aug 2— .— Investigation
| was under way today of a trans-
port plane crash near here yester-
day which killed all 12 persons
aboard
The Reporter-News joins in
welcoming home the follow-
ing now wearing the honor-
able discharge button:
Joe Leslie Reynolds, 131st
Stray Bullet Fatal
SAN ANTONIO, Aug 1—(P——A
,field artillery battalion.
stray bullet In the heart killed the'
I Rev. Clyde S Strait 43, of Sealy,
Tex as he stepped from a bus here
yesterday.
Tokyo reported SO Mustang fight- CI %
ers from two Jima struck Honshu I hoArC V ankc
again today aiding the Asaka-Kobe Ul J 1 UI
area for two hours while Okinawa-
based planes struck other points CHUNGKING, Aug J—n—Lt,
Seventh fleet patrol bombers Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, back
sweeping down the China coast de- ,. . L
stroyed 28 enemy coastal craft from * 5.000-mile tour of six Chi-
around the ports of Hongkong and nese provinces, says that as a result
Swatow.
Closest to home of all fleet
actions was the Japanese-re-
ported bombardment of O Is-
land Tokyo said carrier planes
supported the bombarding force,
which consisted of one cruiser
and three destroyers the Island
is In the Sagami sea, 70 miles
south of Tokyo.
Admiral Nimitz admitted some
American ships were slightly dam-
aged by shore batteries in the bom-
bardment of Wake 1,985 miles
southeast of Tokyo Carrier planes
attacked the island while a battle-
ship shelled it The bombarding
force probably was expending its
spare ammunition on the way back
to Pearl Harbor -
of what he saw he feels "more op-
timistic about a speedy end to this
war against Japan "
Concurring In this belief was
Lt. Gen. William H Simpson,
former commander of the U. S.
Ninth army In Europe, who ac-
companied the China theater
commander on the tour
At one point during the tour,
Simpson addressed 3.000 American-
trained Chinese troops snd urged
them to envelop the enemy. Oet
behind him Kill him Show him no
mercy—he hss shown your country
none
Spelling Corrected
On State Monument
Nearly 1,000 miles to the south AUSTIN. Aug 3—oF—The in-
a destroyer escort and several LCD scription on the monument to Ste-
’landing craft, infantry) took 283 phen F Austin in the state park at
natives off a Jaluit reef despite San Felipe de Austin near Sealy
Japanese attempts to break up the now spells the word vigorous" as
attempt Previously 1,500 natives it should be and not "vigerous,"
and 318 Japanese prisoners were a d travellers to the shrine of Tex.
taken off by-passed Marshall is-as history need no longer bo
lands I shocked
General Chennault said Japan — --------—— - ’
Labor Parley Urged
itself soon would be as isolated as
the Marshalls, unable to move either
troops or supplies between the
mainland and Japan He thought
chances were very good" of opening
a China port before the end off the
rear to land supplies for Generalis-
simo Chiang Kai-shek s forces.
WASHINGTON Aug 2.-
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich I to-
day proposed a conference of top
spokesmen for labor management
and government to seek industrial
peace
SO CLEVER-JAP FLIERS HIDE
AS RAIDERS SCOURGE NIPPON
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 2— tacks, cleverly refusing to fall for
Big headlines in Tokyo newspapers enemy tactics seeking attrition of
today assured readers Japan now our air power," the newspapers re-
stands ready to win the showdown ported.
fight on our homeland" — even
while 820 Superfortresses were visit-
ing fiery destruction upon an in-
land oil refinery in Tokyo bay, and
four nearby cities.
The emphasis of the mewspa-
pee stories, as detailed In FCC.
intercepted broadcasts, was that
the Japanese ale force has
“cleverly” remained intact by
refusing to fight American raid-
ers over the homeland, leaving
The newspapers played ap the
unconfirmed claim that daring
July anti - aircraft batteries
dawned 478 carrier planes and
crippled 400 more—"equivalent
la having nullified the striking
power of six to seven aircraft
carriers of the Essex class."
"Let the enemy come,” said 8
Yomiuri Hochi headline
"Iron defense set up on our land
Army and navy forces in full readi-
ness to strike at enemy invaders.”
“The main strength of our air! Mainichi headlined “Japan "
force has patiently refrained from fully prepared to smash the enemy
participating in these counterat- invasion.”
the job entirely to ground gun
erews.
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