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Late news bulletins
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—President Tru-an today authorized the war labor board grant limited wage increases during the •conversion period and called on manage-jint and labor to renew their no-strike l#dge and continue voluntary compliance WLB directives.
Announcing a six-point labor policy for 9 ieconversion era, he said he hoped that bor and industry would accept it as a guar-, ntee of continued industrial peace in the tical months ahead.
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—The office of fense transportation today lifted seven artime regulations governing commercial
motor vehicle operations. They included the mileage limitation on taxi-cabs and the prohibition against automobile racing.
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Russia and Poland signed a treaty in Moscow Thursday fixing the new Russo-Polish frontier and determining the sharing of German reparations, the Russian official news agency Tass reported in a broadcast heard by the United Press in New York.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—The civil service commission tonight restricted applicants for federal jobs to veterans, asserting that the government as an employer must set the example in hiring returned servicemen.
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Nipponese announce post-surrender fight; delay trip to Manila
MANILA, Aug. 17.—(U.P.)—Japan informed Gen. Douglas MacArthur today that Japanese warplanes attacked and damaged 12 Allied transports “extremely near” the coast of Shikoku four hours before the emperor’s cease fire order yesterday and asked for further “exact explanations” regarding formal surrender instructions.
Japanese general headquarters, contacting Allied supreme headquarters for the fourth
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acuity pianist o offer recital t SC Monday
Miss Lillian Steuber, a renowned lanist and a member of the School Music faculty, will be presented her first recital at SC under e sponsorship of the Allan Hancock Foundation and the School of Music. The program will be given in Hancock auditorium, Monday evening, at 8:30.
Numbers which will be presented on .the program are Sonata in C Major, Mozart; Capriccio in C Major. Brahms; Intermezzo in E Flat Major. Brahms; Capriccio in G Minor, Brahms; Sonata in B Minor, Chopin; and “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Moussorgsky.
"The Brahms numbers are quite ghort. hut they reveal a great deal of imagination,*’ Miss Steuber stated.
Sonata in B Minor, by Chopin is he third in the series of sonatas by ■hopin and it is made up of four ovements. According to Miss teuber it contains a great variety f mood.
The last part of the program will be devoted to the Moussorgsky number. "Pictures at an Exhibition” was originally written for piano, but it is now heard more as an orchestral arrangement The pictures described in the music were painted by a friend of the composer.
‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ con-’ns 10 separate pieces, beginning th a promenade theme, subse-(Contlnued on Page Two)
Troy asked to sign for bloodbank visit
Though all blood donor centers have closed except in Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles, the Red Cross yesterday stated a need for blood to be flown from these west coast cities to the Pacific for casualties suffered just before hostilities ceased.
Trojan students will contribute
Contest sets peace themes
Roles that college and university students should be prepared to play in solving problems of world unity and maintenance of peace should be the theme of essays submitted in the Phi Eta Sigma essay contest, according to Dick Gilson, president of the organization.
The contest, sponsored by the SC chapter of the men’s national honorary fraternity, is open to all undergraduate students at Troy.
A $25 war bond will be awarded the author of the winning essay. The right to print the essay with full credit to the author is reserved by Phi Eta Sigma.
The following rules govern the contest;
1.	Length of the essays must be from 1000 to 1500 words.
2.	Essays must be typed or written neatly in ink on one side only of standard size, unlined paper.
3.	Manuscripts are to be submitted to the office of Dr. Hancey, dean of men. 225 Student Union, not later than Sept. 14.
to the donations of Los Angeles when they give their blood Monday at Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, scene of the mobile unit’s visit.
Victory should be an even greater incentive for Trojans to donate their blood, according to Arline Couse, bloodbank chairman, who stated that “our fighting men won’t stop needing blood even though the war has ended.” Another incentive mentioned by Miss Couse will be the “lavishly, lov-
ruman names Sunday ay of victory prayer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16—(U.E) — resident Truman today proclaimed junday a day of prayer and asked he people to dedicate it to the lemory of those who gave their ves to make victory possible.
He designated Aug. 19 as a day-f thanksgiving for victory and of -ayer for God's guidance •’into the ays of peace.”
In his first press conference noe Japan’s surrender, he also vealed that soon after congress onvenes Sept. 5 he will recom-nd a program of peacetime ilitary training for youth. He ve no details but cautionsd gainst calling the program icet;me conscription.
Chairman David I. Walsh. D., "ass., of the senate naval affairs mmittee, said later he believed
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Mr. Truman meant to emphasize volunteer military training through such agencies as the national guard, the naval reserve, and reserve officer training corps in high schools and colleges.
Mr. Truman indicated that the day of prayer will be separate and distinct from V-J day, which will be proclaimed officially once Japan has signed the surrender documents. ,
He did not reveal when or where the formal surrender will be completed. but he made it plain that he does not believe V-J day should be a holiday. He ^p.id he felt that Americans will have had their victory holidays Wednesday and today and therefore he does not envisage V-J day itself as a day free from (Continued on Page Four)
Due to present exigencies, further information regarding the bloodbank visit to Troy Monday will be announced in Monday’s issue of the Daily Trojan, stated Arline Couse, chairman.
ing care” administered donors by nurses aides under the direction of Barbara Taft.
Miss Couse advises students to spend a restful weekend to compensate for dissipation indulged in over the past few days so that they will be able to donate their blood when the mobile unit arrives on campus Monday.
Registration for prospective donors has ceased at the Victory Hut but is still going on in the dean of women’s office, 256 Administration. Appointments are not necessary, however, for students may give their blood by reporting directly to the bloodbank caravan Monday.
Persons volunteering to donate blood must meet the following requirements:
1.	Applicants must weigh a minimum of 110 pounds.
2.	Applicants must be more than 18. Anyone under-age must obtain his parents’ consent.
3.	Applicants must not have given a donation since 10 weeks previous.
4.	Anyone taking sulfa drugs must wait two weeks after treatment has stopped.
5.	Anyone vaccinated for small-
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Christian Science
There will be a meeting of the Christian Science students to formulate plans for the organization and further activities of the group at 12:15 p.m. today in 318 Student Union.
The meeting is called by Hal Le Sieur, president
Allied armada prepares entry into Nip waters
GUAM, Aug. 17.—(U.E)—The most powerful armada ever assembled for a single naval operation, at least 133 American and British warships, today stood off the coast of Japan awaiting orders to enter the enemy’s territorial water.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz revealed that the U. S. third fleet and the British carrier task force included nine battleships and 20 aircraft carriers. The combined ^feets totaled more than 1,000.000 tons of war-craft, representing only a fraction of Allied naval strength in the Pacific.
The third fleet’s great carriers, battleships, cruisers, and destroyers were concentrated within visual range for the first time yesterday and steamed west toward Tokyo to have their picture taken. The units moved in tight formation under a brilliant sun as photographic planes soared overhead.
A lone Japanese plane which approached the fleet yesterday was chased away by protective carrier planes. On the previous day five Japanese planes were shot down when . they attacked the warships.
Scores of auxiliary vessels and underseas craft swelled the number of vessels which brought the war to the doofstep of Japan. Nimitz revealed for the first time (Continued on Page Two)
Russian war aid asks for clothing
Under the direction of the War Board, a campaign for clothing for the Russian people is being held on campus now. The campaign, which the Russian War Relief Inc. heads nationally, is seeking to check the advance of suffering, sickness, and death among the people of Russia.
A spokesman for the Russian War Relief recently revealed how lack of essential clothing has in the
past been responsible for much of the suffering of the Russian people. He further stated that the needs of the peoples of the war-torn countries remain as great as ever, and it is vitally important that other countries do their utmost to aid them.
Two clothing barrels, into which all SC students and faculty members are urged to donate all the clothing that they can spare, are located in the foyer of the Student Union and in the YWCA house, 854 West 36th street.
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DR. I. E. HARLEY . . . prexy again.
UNA reelects Harley as head
Dr. John Eugene Harley, professor of political science, has been reelected to a two-year term as president of the United Nations association, southern California branch, formerly known as the League of Nations association, southern California branch.
The association, which for 23 years has been devoted to the furthering of the ideals of the League of Nations, has reorganized due to the recent international developments pertaining to the United Nations charter.
Dr. Harley was first elected to head the group in 1941. Other officers elected in the reorganization are Marshall Stimpson, first vice-president; Harry L. Moller, treasurer; and Mary Workman, secretary.
A member of many groups whose purpose is to further international relations. Dr. Harley received his A.B. degree at SC in 1917. In 1919 he got his A.M. from Harvard university. He earned his J.D. degree at SC in 1932.
Dr. Harley engaged in post graduate work at the Institute de Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva, Switzerland, from 1928 to 1929.
Some of the books of which he is the author are “The League of Nations and the New International Law,” “International Understanding,” “Agencies Educating for a New World,” “Documentary Textbook on International Relations,” “Worldwide Influences of the Cinema,” and “Woodrow Wilson Still Lives. His
World Peace Ideals Triumphant.” _0_
New date planned for Chen speech
Originally scheduled for last Wednesday noon, a discussion of “The Dilemma of China” by Dr. Theodore H. Chen, professor of education and Asiatic studies, has been postponed until later in the term by the Men’s Faculty club, according to Dr. D. Welty Lefever, chairman of the program committee.
Next week’s luncheon meeting at 12 noon in 318 Student Union is planned to feature a timely symposium discussion of atomic energy by professors from the psychology, political science, and chemistry departments, it was announced.
Japanese plenipotentiaries who have been summoned to Manila will not be required to sign the formal surrender.	*
There was no indication that the Japanese emissaries had as yet completed their preparations
to leave for Manila.
Already delayed many hours by the Japanese termed “lack of time” to make “necessary arrangements,’* the plenipotentiaries apparently again were being held in Japan pending a clarifi(?ation of new points of protocol raised by Nippon.
“Please explain exactly what is meant by the ‘surrender requirements for carrying: into effect the terms of surrender.’ In any way, we assume that the signing of the surrender terms is not among the tasks of the Japanese representatives in question,” the Japanese message said.
It inquired whether Gen. Mac-Arthur's instructions had the “same meaning” as President Truman’s message which told Japan through the Swiss government to send emissaries to a place designated by MacArthur to “receive the formal surrender.”
Earlier Japan had advised MacArthur that the emperor had ordered all Japanese forces to cease fire but that it might take 12 days to stop fighting in remote areas.
Today, in message No. 3 to MacArthur, Tokyo disclosed the attack on the Allied transports and again (Continued on Page Two)
WAO sets annual dinner tomorrow
Inauguration of the new scholarship fund of the We Are One society will take place at the annual banquet of the society, tomorrow evening at 7:30, Maurice Gould, president, announced.
Outstanding leaders in the field of inter-racial understanding and cooperation will be feted at the affair, and student speakers will explain the purposes and needs of the group. The dinner will be held at the Arlington Villa, 3115 West Adams boulevard.
Orson Welles, actor, writer, and member of the National Citizens Political Action committee; Helen Gahagan Douglas, congresswoman from California; Mayor Fletcher Bowron, Los Angeles, and Robert Kenny, attorney-general of California, will be among the guests at the dinner, according to Gould.
Tickets may be purchased today from Gould, or members Bet Peck, Howard Russell, Sigfrie'l Hesse, Charles Edwards, Val Carbonetta, and Joann Schwartz, it was announced. Students may also buy tickets from Mrs. Ruth Grant, executive secretary of the YWCA, at the Y house.
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. 17, 1945.
L. B. Rogers, Dean School of Education