This was the thirtieth conaecutive day of non - stop air war~n Japan. okyo reported that three American air fleets pou ed a rain of bombs on widely separated places in the home islands of Honshu and Iyushu. One of them was at Tot70. Another was agasaki. Again between four hundred ant fi•• hundred of our big planes toot part. The last time I sat in on an interrogation at a B-29 base where the big planes were coaing iD troa a raid on Japan. Geaeral Arnold asked oneJof tbe 7oung Generala in command of a superfcrtres• greap whether it would Be neces s ar7 to go baot to Tot70 -- blast the Japanese capital again. The General, Toaa7 Power, said t hat one more raid •uld juat about fiaiah off Tokyo. General Barn,1 Giles, in command of all the Ary•• ai r forces in that part of the Pacific, t .enfir med this. ~ any are still wondering: What about the E m peror's Palace? lhy not level it to the g round? c-. ... Author and Far Eastern Expert Jimmy Young, who lived out there so any years, is one of those wb.o says that e should destroy the Emperor's palace,and the Emperor too, if we caa. Be says it would co pletely demorali • the Japanese-- throw them into such a state of funk and despair that i-t might hasten the end of the war. Be admits, however, that the ikade is th ne man who might be able to arrange for a surrender, arrange it in a way that would appear to 'be on a face-savia1 basis . but that really would amount to a coaplete aurrent!er. The last report I bad was that the laperor' 1 palace was still standing. The Tokyo radio aga ~oday return td story about an A erican battlit fllet in th~ waters north of Japan. The Jape first broadcast about this and none f1om Washington. At any rate, Tokyo today declarei that t be bombardment of 8akhal in Island, 1eported 1esterday, ,as carried 9ut by eight Aaer · l&ll warships, an some of our submar1 es. A n w j ob or G en ral C ar l A. S p aatz , c ommand er of he S tra e ic Air F o rce s i n E ur o pe, a f f ection a tely kno wn t o his fri n ds a n d f e l la offi c ers a s T h e hig h com a n d has chosen him to repeat in the Pacific ~ - the job he did in Euro p e. ~ A. ha1e,,,.over-all command of the strategic air war a ga inst Dai Nippon. Under hia will be n~t only the Twentieth Air Force with its monster B-29s, but also the Eighth Air Force now being deployed from Europe to the Pacific _, \ ~ b. ~ 'Z;J,Ur:a:f.. ' ~ " t - - Lieutenant G e n e r a l ~ Doolittle.~fl be a ~ommaatt_ Major General Curtis Lemay, chief of the Twenty-First Bomber Command, will become commander of the under ' ~ '-:I" 7 ~ ~ ~."- Twentieth Air Force~~ TaugbX Spaatz, wkte41 ~, a promotion for Lemay. ) The announcement from Washington does not sa7 where Spaatz will make his headquarters, but the tt:::4:.tlg h_ltt ~ Fleet Admiral ffheat:A- limitz r-.~ - -- . • The ap ointme nt of Spaatz will not affect the o er air co mands in the Pacific. General ~eorge [enne1 remains as commanding general of the Far Eastern Air - Forces under General Vouglas MacArthur, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces. The Seventh Air Force will still be under Lieutenant General Barney Gil a, w h o ~ alsoAbe deputy commander to Spaatz. CHINA ------ T o n i ht the Ja p ane lifeline o n th e A iatic min and is not o secure. Thr ee b ig columns of Lhinese troo p s a ,marching on the city of PaochingJ a y city protecting the essential railroad fro ■ Canton to Hankow. The Chinese are now only five ailes away. If the Japs have to give up Paoching, their communications between Hongkong and Shanghai will be in jeopard7. And the A l l i e s ~ be in a good spot a~c:t. ~~~ drive east t~Heng7ang) ~ where the Americans haf an airbase that the enemy captured ast fall. The Mikado's forces in China are also virtually cut off fro ■ any co ■ munication with south China, over land. The Chinese assault on he frontier of Indo-China seems to be doing pretty well. h e u ns l th e 1 s n - o ur C r e h e M a n ga ai s l ' i r t een i e n o th e a o f a ik p p an . T he a ri. .o n • i h d rew into the I l ls 0 h e n o rth e as t f 18 i L anet b e r- ~at t l ee Bu* 8ome Japa n eee . _ t i n ue t;e,--, ael tl 0 12 t i• Ba::W.kpapan iteel:f, :l,.e :l:-d ing the •.egion aPead:, trft e Pa a e. a rs a r i o i 1: Pe f i Be Pf • .. ! he A as tr ai. 1 lh a at ta e Ir i-. t..e e ee remnants ef t»he garrison, broke t.ltt-euga aa4. s ~ ized ceatPel of additional eil eraekiag pl1at1. 'P-AePe will probaely be aaoth e P teYgh battle aheaa. oft.he Auet,r a liaae ia the a.ill& De12theest or B•litpapeL Ma cA rt h u r has anoth e r _ iece of news for us tonight. con ue st of the Philippines has released the air f o rce s th e re f or direct use a g ainst Ja p an it s e l f . ~ µ - They 11:A- 1 ~ a r e a dy o p e r a t. ,1 1 ne f r es e s on PA IFIC - ---- - - -- o h ~ isl a nd s . an bombe r s been in ac tion over the est e rn coast of Kyushu. - - dam ed a hundred a nd sixty-four housand, eight hundred tons o f Ja pa nes e shi p ing in he month of June. I P OLAND _ _ olt'. _ _ _ _ Th e t op n ews • reat Britain h:tts r eco - ~ ~ ni z eJ t h e n e w Pol is h go ve r n m ent, j. call~ Na ti~ al Un i t ~ - An da story from W a s h i n g ton sa y s i t is on l y a ma t ter o f ho u r s before P resi d ent Truman fol l ows s ui t. 411.. fac~ our new ~- - - - Ambnssador to Pol a nd is a l r e a dy on h i s way ..(. He left W ash i n g ton this morning by pl a ne for Warsaw. a.. - ~ So ends a dispute that ha ~ ~ !nke~ t..he .e elat :t-o ;a: between the S111'■■ Big Thre~po ■ urs; Uncle Sam, Great Britain and Soviet Russia. *• 10• tl1"2 ue63 ~:rt even threatened for a while to break up the World Security Conference at San Francisco. The U.S.A. would have recognized the new Poliah regime befor e this, if the Government of Rational Unity bad given a guarantee of free electio~s based on secret · ... allot an d universal suffrage. That promise was · a long time c o ming, but now th a t it bas been made, everything OL ------- - i iven o Ha ry Hopkins. ) official act presidenti a l a d vi ' or, 11 his last Pri e ini r C h ur h · 1 i o n h i. ay o southern Fr nc, not on bus·ness bu or a r t. It c nn o t be a on , since he i due to be in Ber in for the conference of th Bi Thr ee a bout the Fifteenth of July. As his countrymen s y, the ar Premier could do with a bit of relaxation. The election -- a good deal out of h i , visitors of any sort, from any country, while he is resting. So say his friends. Probably he will r ceive some inkling how he has come out in the election returns before we d o . a . ~ --~ ~~- The world at largeit;'ill have to wait three weeks The ..I.A British do not have our organization and facilities for speedy tabulation of ta returns, are far less complicated than ours. When you vote for a British Prime Minister, you a i■ raft of candidates for other office,. You just vote C .................... ----~ i ·ct; OU re u 8 er, for tla e h o ort C urchill. s· le, com ared to 0 r sy e ere e h 0 0 e for not onl the re i e and vice-pr i ent, bu ih SOiie states also for go ernor, con r ss en, len tors; an well. But ins i e of the si licity of the English ystem, it ta es the ■ len y of t i e to count up the otes. -n 22 districts, the voters will not ballot until the Twelfth, and in one district not until July Nineteenth. lo Prime Minister has ever orked harder for reelection than Winston 6hurchill. He has ■ ade numerous radio speeches, toured the country from end to end, and for the last three days of t.be campaignA.spoke in every quarter of Greater London. Seer tar, will preside over Cabinet meetings. And from ashin ton e hear that there will be no reporters at the Conference of the Big Three in Berlin. CHO - CHIL - .... --------~ ............ In f ct, i loo s a , o h n wep · m n A 1 - d in he vi c in· The announ ement comes from he h" Beus . · res S e r t ry Charlie oss used these ords: •The pr swill not be allo ed at the forthcoming Big Three Conferenc in the Berlin area.• And he added: •All · hat ill be issued will be such official communi ues a may be decided from time to ime." h. MB _ E THA O _ B e n Y Mo g e nthau i a out a s S ecretary of the r a ury - as any lad prophesied. He resigned in a visit t o the bite Bou e, and President Truman s coe pted the resignation. Bo . ever. orgenthau will continue to run th e T re asury until President Tuman return s from the Big Three Conference, a few weeks hence. There is a ru or that Henry Moregenthau may beco m e the American member of tke Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund, when eongress paaaea the Bretton Woods Plan. Newspapermen naturally asked the President who would succeed lorgenthau. Mr. Truman replied that tie will not be ready to announce this until he returns from Europe. The President also announces that Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts has resigned. To retire at the end of this m onth, after fifteen years of service. All of whi c h g ives Barry Truman another most important a p oint 1 nt to m k e . An ho bout H old Ickes ? Well, it looks a s t ho t h e ur u g e o n -- s h e c alls hi m self, will stay on a s ec re ta r y of the Interior, Petroleum A inist r ator and B a rd Fuel Ad m inistrator. President Tru an announced today that he is seoo iig Ickes to renegotiate London to ••••1 ■ :ttaa:tx the agreement with the British government concerning the oilf . elds in the Middle Ea . t. Furthermor, the President told newspaperaen that he did not contemplate accepting the resignation of I c kes. Altho Harold Ickes has been bombarded with •zt criticism, and railed at, during his long stay in las~ington as a Cabinet member, he also has been highly p r aised by man, who have worked nth him. ror all his saturnine mein aoi vitriolic pen, he seems to be an indefati able • ■ rk ■ za worker, and a man of parts. After a few days, traveling io going to be exceedingly tough for civilians. Director Johnson of Defense Transportation broke the news today that the goTernment is requisitioning a great number of Pullaan cars and day coaches to handle the movement of troop• - - S - : ~ ~ ~ across the countr7. Johnson said, •the pinch is on, ,A and ciTilians are goibg to feel it.• The reason is that soldi4ra are returning . fro ■ Europe at a far faster rate than the goTernaent expecte4. Director Johnson said that fifty thousand aore returaei in June than t h e y ~ In July, there will be a /-- ' . ~ hundred thousand aore tha~..r;::;,.~pected. 61 • ...... =;;::- t!>J ••n++;;wz~ two thousand aore Pullaans and aaa7 ■ore day coaches will be a s s i g n e d ~ : t , 'tJi,"'t'"J ~ - ► I ~ u ~ atlSAssp ~ ~ I ~~- Here is the first considered estiaa~e of postwar air transportation in America, ita luxuries and speed. The Air Transport Association of A ■ eric9' prophesies that there will be something like a thousand airliners, ranging froa tourtee~aaaeqer plan• to six...aotored c r aft, carr7iag up tot•~ hundred-and-lour. Pan A ■ ericaa announced clipper• to carr7 two hundred. Some of tllese planes will apee4 aero•• t~• countr1 at tllree-hundred ~nd foui,..hundred • ~ l•• per il■ zx hour. Some of them will be fitted oat wi\k atateroo ■a and berths, all of thea with recliai . . chairs, lounges and rest rooms: aoae with pr••••rise4 cabins -- and all will haye air conditioain1, an4 telephone serYice. Before the war we had a total of three- hundred - and-fift7-nine passenger transport plan•• in this oountr7. Poatwar, coast-to - coast flights, will start off on a nine to ten hour basis - - breakfast in lew York, dinner in San Francisco. But that time will be out some in a year or two. But, here is the big news: Three major airline• will compete for tlle tran■ -Atl&ntic bu•in•aa. The CiTil Aeronautics Board today authorized Pan American, American lxport and Transcontinental and Weste111Air to handle the Trans-Atlantic end. At the sa ■• ti ■e tbe announceaent came that the Board · bas per ■ itte4 A~rioaa Airlin• to buy out American Export. And President Truman ~as approTed all this. It e officially known - - James M. Mead of Rew York ~ r u n next November as Deaocratic candidate for Governor of the Eapire State. The news ca ■ e to light through a apeech ■ ade by lead'• colleague, Senator Bob Wagner of le York. lhile inaugurating the new Chairman of the Labor Relatioaa Board, Wagner aentioned Mead as the next Governor of le• York. Then••• i1 aot ■ uch of a surprise. In fact, it had been asauud that the le■ocrat1 woald 4ratt lea4 to run againat GoTernor .._. Dewey. Toda7'1 re, lati~a ~~ b7 Senator lagner~/'-•ake1 it official. Good1ear e rub er " n c: ut ru er un er la 1 c kr , Ob'o are n • turning rol, b o er of Pre i nt Truaan. Th a ens II es ri e, be wal out that has proYoked the bitterist criticisa of the Union b1 Ar■J aat lav1 officers, aleo the lar Labor Board. Onion official.a protes ed that the seizure of the plant was totally \ unneceasar1. The !ray and the la 1 said that it \~e strike continued, it would cripple the war effor;- (A,lread1 auch ground has been loat. 0 One of the ■ oat curious of all strikes occsrred a\ Dunkirk, I w Tork. There the aen walked out becaue Uae anageaent r fused to fire one of the workers. ,:I-AL~...._._ That worke)\_was a hard veteran naaed Cornelius Yerton. Be was auch annoyed~• because they gave hi ■ a woman a sistant. The woaan complained to the Union, said that be cursed her and made her do ost of the heavy lifting. Then he told her ' LABOR - 2 ------- th at if she didn't like it, she could run along. She ~ complained th at he had ~ words~ftot. f-itt for the ea.pa,. 11f bl!e Ualu•. The Un ion t•le. • lie ohg I wllich AorHU:111 f!efnsed Lo al.+.end; !ta,( suspended him from membership for a month a n d ~ ~ the Company to take him off the /\ \~ payroll.fie that ti ■..._ The manage ' ment ef llie Co ■p ■ o,-. ; ~ said Cornelius was ■ uch too go9d a aan to be firedJeTea if he did ■wear. Tbe7 refused to f i r ~ e n t 7 - t h r e e I\ hundred men went out on strike. Rational Board. l LTP.1945.07.05i.pdf LTP.1945.07.05ii.pdf