NIPS TO SURRENDER IN MANILA
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Vol. XXXVI
72
Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 16, 1945
Kigrht Pbotui RL. 6472
No. 179
WAR’S FINISH CELEBRATED
Tea, reception fete Dean Hunt on retirement
While the university community celebrated' the arrival of victory, distinguished educators gathered on the Trojan campus yesterday to honor the retiring dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Rockwell Dennis Hunt, at a tea in the Hall of Nations.	•
The tea and reception, sponsored by the council on graduate study and research, was held from 3 to 5 p.m. to pay honor to the retiring dean after 37 years service to the university. It was attended by a large group, including graduate faculty, graduate alumni, the board Of trustees, and personal friends of Dr. Hunt in this vicinity.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, who will succeed Dr. Hunt in the graduate dean post, Dr. Mary Crawford, chairman of arrangements for the tea, and Mr. Val Lehnberg, past student body president of the graduate students, were on the reception line.
"My relations as dean and with the council have been most happy and gratifying to me,” declared Dr. Hunt, who has been commended for his work at the SC Graduate School by educational leaders throughout the nation.
Further expressing his feelings upon his retirement, Dr. Hunt stated, “The council and I together have been able to establish the Graduate School on a firm foundation, and I am happy to see that it has gained recognition.”
Dr. Hunt last January led the 25th anniversary celebration of the commemoration of the founding of the Graduate School. He was chosen its dean in 1920. In addition he assisted in organizing the SC College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1921. He has been director of the School of Research for the past twelve years.
Among those present at Dr. Hunt s reception were Vierling Kersey, superintendent of Los Angeles city schools; C. C. Trillingham, superintendent of Los Angeles county schools; C. K. Edmunds, president emeritus of Claremont college, and H. M. Tiner, president of George pepperdine college. \
Education dean notice
All applicants for the University recommendation or administrative credentials who are completing their credential requirements in the postsession should make application for the credential immediately. Applications may be obtained from the Credential Secretary, 357 Administration. The deadline for filing applications is Aug. 15, 1945.
L. B. Rogers, Dean
School of Education.
Troy ushers in peace Bloodbank van
as classes forgotten sets sixth visit
Campus silent as SC scrams to celebrate
Not since the days when the area around Troy was a celery patch have the acres upon which SC is built been quite as lonely as they were Tuesds^f night and yesterday.
Aside from Tirebiier and a few of his canine friends, who steadfastly kept up the vigil with stalwart Tommy Trojan, the populace of the university took off to places far afield to celebrate Japan’s throwing in the towel.
Even the ever-busy information office was dark and closed; the Student Union locked up and silent as a tomb. The war was over, and, for a few hours at least, there were other things to think about than books and class routine.
“The Problems of Peace” was the topic discussed by Dr. Wilbert Hindman only three hours before “the hour,” but Trojans found no peace problems Tuesday, and navy and civilians alike scattered to the four winds to celebrate.
Sixteen hundred by the clock sent the marines whooping
and cheering across campus, and the D.T. staff immediately ceased editorial activities and joined them in the hubbub.
Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid proclaimed the holiday, and meanwhile, across the city, UCLAns dropped their bluebooks and fled from midterm exams. Trojans jumped into their cars, filled their tanks with gasoline for the first time since November, 1942, and sped off to numerous vacation spots and parties. Tirebiter casually dropped in on one of the more booming parties.
On the row, various and sundry SAEs and Theta Chis highlighted the occasion with a big bonfire on the east end, supplementary to the two premature fires Monday night on the west end. Jovial firemen added the final touch with their hoses, cooling off everybody and leaving 28th street steaming.
Other celebrants headed for the beach to burn or joined the multitudes downtown and Hollywood. Among them many were veterans who had been “over there” and joined in with just a little more enthusiasm than the rest. Servicemen in the crowded areas had to hang on to their hats and ties. Some youngsters, looking at two SC NROs said “What a pretty hat,” but weren’t quite quick enough.
Among other things at the parties was pineapple, now that blue points are past history. Topic of conversation among coeds now is nylons, and hay fever addicts eagerly await their supplies of kneenex.
“Hey, can you still buy war bonds?” Anita Norcop, who has $15 of war stamps, yelled at the beach.
Seven million men to get discharges
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(U.P) — The army said today it hopes to discharge 5.000.000 men in the next 12 months while the navy revealed that it will demobilize 1,500.000 to 2,500.000 men and women within the next 18 months.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that the point score required for discharge from .the army will remain at 85 for the present, but that in the future it will be lowered from time to time in the interests of orderly demobilization.
He also disclosed that the age level making enlisted army personnel eligible for discharge has been lowered from 40 to 38. Effective immediately men over 38 may apply for discharge and become eligible for release within 90 days after application. This will make 300,000 additional enlisted men immediately eligible for discharge because of age.
He also said that army procurement and expenditures would be j curtailed to the utmost degree con-j sistent with future army obligations.
The navy said its demobilization will be carried out under a new point system of its own giving preference to men who have longest at sea or overseas. About 327,-000 navy men and women are eligible for immediate discharge.
The coast guard will be demobilized under the navy system.
The marine corps announced simultaneously that It has adopted a discharge system identical to (Continued on Ptge Four)
As groups of tired and beaten Trojans gather in the various campus hangouts to hold post-mortems on their night and day of Victory celebrations, Arline Couse may be seen dashing from table to table displaying one worried expression.
“I just don’t know,” mumbled Miss Couse, bloodbank chairman, “whether they'll be able to get back in perfect physical condition by
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15—(U.R)— The Red Cross today halted all blood donor programs except at five west coast centers, from which blood will be flown to the Pacific for casualties suffered just before hostilities ceased.
Centers at Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles will remain open until the armed forces advise that all casualties are cared for.
Other centers are closed as of today.
Monday when the mobile bloodbank arrives.”
Staring into all those blank and very fatigued faces is lowering her morale and Miss Couse stated she is beginning to doubt whether or not she will be able to find 400 persons on campus with any active corpusles.
“They’ll, simply have to rest this weekend and get their hemoglobin count up or down or however it should go,” Miss Couse wailed. “After all, now that the war is over it’s more important to put this drive into ‘the 400.’ ”
Signups for the little shindig are being taken at the Victory Hut and eager coeds will avidly take your “X” on a piece of paper.
“With points -of canned goods a thing of the past, the lovely nurses’ aides who lavish loving care on blood-donors will probably be able to serve some delicious chilled juices,” Miss Couse stated, licking her lips appreciatively.
Editorializing
New world coming
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 at 11:30 a.m. PST . . . three years, eight months, seven days, four and one-half hours later, she capitulated to the Allied government in a surrender note which reached the American people at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, 1945. Those three years form a long, hard, difficult period for the people of America, for the men of the armed forces, for the leaders of this nation.
Yesterday and today we stopped to contemplate the historical period which we have seen ... for the first time we of America can take a breather and feel confident that we are not stopping the progress-of the war, or causing another soldier to die. Today ^e can pray, humbly, gratefully for the victory which we have won.
All of us have suffered from this war . . . some in a lesser degree than others, for certainly an American fighting on Okinawa has given more for his country than a man in an office. A soldier on the Norman beachhead has given more for his country than a woman in her home. But, it was that man s right to be in his office, that woman’s right to be in her home, that the American soldier fought and died for, and we cannot evaluate the devotion of any citizen to his duty to his country ... by such simple analysis.
We must, all of us, realize that in giving up food, clothing,
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‘Bataan’ to serve as Jap password, says MacArthur
MANILA, Aug. 15—(U.P.)—Surrender terms for the Japanese will be dictated in Manila, Allied Supreme Commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur told Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese war lords today.
MacArthur instructed the Japanese to cease hostilities immediately and send plenipotentiaries by plane to Manila to receive the Allied terms. For the password through American lines he ordered them to use the bitter American battle cry of the Pacific war—“Bataan.”
The Japanese surrender party was ordered to leave southern Kyushu island between 8 and 11 a.m. Tokyo time on Friday (4 and 7 p.m. PWT Thursday) in a white Japanese plane and fly to le Shima island off Okinawa.
From there they will be flown in an American plane to MacArthur’s headquarters in Manila to hear what they must do to stop all the shooting along the 6000-mile Pacific battle arc from Outer
Mongolia to Rabaul.
GEN DOUGLAS MacARTHUR . . . will receive Japanese plenipotentiaries at Manila with the password "Bataan."
Yank fleet knocks out 45 Nip planes
- Tokyo acknowledged MacArthur’s \ instructions, and declared that | | strenuous efforts were being made to reach all Japanese fighting forces* on land, at sea. and in the air. It warned Allied ships, however, to avoid Japanese home waters until the surrender Is signed.
MacArthur established direct radio contact with Tokyo in the English language as soon as his appointment as Allied supreme commander was announced by President Truman. In two terse messages he told Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese leaders just what they must do.
He ordered that a radio station in the Tokyo area be set aside for transmission of messages between Allied and Japanese headquarters. When this was acknowledged he sent a second message Instructing the Japanese government to send a “competent representative” to Manila, empowered to receive Allied surrender term® in the name of the emperor, the Imperial government, and the Japanese high command.
Army, navy and air force adviser* must accompany the emperor’* representative, MacArthur said. The air force adviser, must be thoroughly familiar with airdrome facilities in the Tokyo area, he stipulated, indicating the Allies may plan to occupy the enemy capital by an airborne landing.
The Japanese were told to take
GUAM, Aug. 16—(IIP) — While a strange type of peace settled over the Pacific fighting fronts, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced today U.S. third fleet carrier aircraft knocked out 45 Japanese planes in a final, pre-surrender attack against the Tokyo area early Wednesday morning.
Thirty-five Japanese planes were shot down over the targets in swirling dogfights shortly before the “cease firing” prder was flashed by radio and the Allied pilots were recalled to their flattops.
During the air offensive launched from Adm. William F. Halsey’s armada, the surrender news was received at sea and “strikes scheduled for the remainder of the day were cancelled,” Nimitz announced in communique 469—possibly his final battle report.
Final reports on the Monday carrier strike against the Tokyo region showed that 208 enemy planes were destroyed and 78 damaged on the ground in addition to those previously reported.
This brought the Sunday-Mon-day toll of Japanese aircraft knocked out to 254. Including 149 (Continued on Page Two)
off in a w’hite plane marked with
green crosses from Sata Misaki airfield on the southern tip of Kyushu. The plane must be an unarmed Zero type 22-LD-3, with the green crosses on each side of the fuselage and on top and bottom of each wing visible at 500 yards. It must carry two-way voice radio for communications in English, MacArthur ordered.
The plane was ordered to set down on an airfield on Ie Shima. the island where war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese snipers. The airfield where the plane will land will be marked by two white crosses in the center of the runway.
The Japanese were ordered to advise Manila six hours in advance of their route, their prospective altitude and their estimated time of arrival.
“In communications regarding this flight the code designation 'Bataan* will be employed,’ MacArthur stipulated.
An escort of P-38 Lighting fighter planes will join the Japanese plane on its way to Ie Shima and will lead it in to a landing.
MacArthur said the Japanese plane will return to Manila by the (Continued on Page Two)