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72 . -r- Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1945
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Vets, WAO present
57stZ I Patterson today
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21—(U.E) ■Japanese civilians in the Ameri-lin landing areas of Tokyo bay have ten warned by leaflets from the ipanese military commander to ■main calm and expect no fighting, ie Japanese Domei agency said to-»y.
The leaflets were distributed to isidents of Miura peninsula, be-reen Sa garni and Tokyo bays, on hich is located the Yokosuka naval ise. Yokosuka is scheduled to be if scene of a major American land-lg next Sunday,
‘Since the promulgation of the lperial rescript for peace, there las been unrest and anxiety in rokosuka and the Miura peninsula in general from the fear that the area might become a scene of fcjattle,” said the broadcast as recorded by the FCC.
“Consequently, on Aug. 21, leaf-ete were distributed through the arious local authorities under the rder of the commander of the Yo-suka naval station. Admiral Mi-hitaro Tozuka.”
The leaflets, addressed to residents of Miura peninsula, said: ‘There have been rumors of the possibility of this area becoming a battlefield. Such rumors are frroundless. Rid yourselves of all noubt and anxiety. Have faith in fthe authorities and follow their Instructions. Do not be guided by False reports.”
Other broadcasts heard by PCC nd United Press at San Francisco joted newspaper accounts telling ie Japanese they must face the x>ld facts” of complete defeat.
"We should not forget that we |have been completely defeated,” the Domei agency quoted the 'newspaper Mainichi. “Even If Japan's wishes are overruled, she cannot make a single complaint." The newspaper admitted that ►'since our endeavors to build up a
Iapan based on sheer might met ith complete failure, we must enceforth tread the path of a ?aceful nation.”
An English-language broadcast radio Tokyo, described the re-ilts of the atom bomb attack on lagasaki as having turned the cen-?r of the city “into a vast devastation with nothing left except rubble far as the eyes could see.”
California’s 16th district congressional representative Ellis E. Patterson will be the guest speaker at today’s open meeting sponsored jointly by the Trovets and the We Are One society. Representative Patterson’s topic will be “The Returning Serviceman and the Postwar United States.” The
meeting is scheduled to start at noon in 206 Administration.
After rettirning from a visit to the South Pacific battle areas Patterson put forth his views on the subject he will discuss in a letter to the Trovets, veterans organization on this campus.
“Our former GI men and women should not be led into thinking of themselves as a separate entity, apart from the rest of the nation upon their return. We owe a great debt to those who have served the United States in this war and the best way that we can repay it is to present them with a free, secure America to which to return,” Patterson wrote.
As a member of the Labor committee of Congress, Patterson has some very definite views about the feeling of the servicemen towards labor. In his letter to the Trovets, Patterson said, ‘‘I have noted a dangerous attitude being promoted amongst the service people; that of an enmity between 'themselves and the laboring man. If one speaks out against labor, he does not realize quite often, that he refers to all his family and friends who may be employed by some other person. Logical reasoning, of course, can combat dangerous thought such as this pitting of one group of Americans against another.”
“With his experience in Washington and Sacramento, where he was an assemblyman and then lieutenant governor, combined with his recent trip to the South Pacific, we feel that Congressman Patterson is well qualified to spsak informatively on this extremely vital subject,” averred Frank Soares, Trovet president. Patterson also has been an active supporter of ratification of the (Continued on Page Four)
Congressman E. E. Patterson . . . speaker at forum.
War Board seeks books
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The book drive, which launched last week by the chaplains’ service corps, will continue throughout the remainder of the week. The SC War Board is in charge of the campaign on the campus to recruit books for our servicemen overseas.
Although books on any subject will be accepted, textbooks are especially requested. Even though the war is over, many troops will remain in Europe and the Pacific as occupational forces. These men lack books and reading material, which is a requisite to the chaplains’ corps in carrying out their morale building work.
There is nothing that brings the soldier stationed abroad back to home more than a letter from home or r good book.
Aud stage set for Dinnerman tomorrow eve
Tomorrow evening the curtain will be raised to present one of the more popular plays of current drama, ‘‘The Man Who Came to Dinner.” The cast is filled with many experienced thespians, including many who have had professional experience in stock companies, little theaters, or sung in light opera.
Four of its cast members are graduate students who are working for their M.A. degrees here at SC. Also working in the play are three teachers, Estelle Karchmer, Roger Joseph, and Ruth Phelps.
Miss Karchmer, who is portraying the part of Maggie Cutler, Sheridfm Whiteside’s secretary, taught at UCLA for a year before enrolling at SC to complete her M.A. in speech. Her early acting career started shortly after leaving high school in Texas, which was followed by a position in the theater with a traveling stock company. Radio work, directing, production, and work on production are among her accomplishments.
Portraying the part of Mrs. Stanley, the wife of the man in whose house the action takes place, is Miss Phelps. She has worked at the Pasadena Playhouse and in other professional acting groups, and is currently working on her California teacher’s credential.
Roger Joseph is the third teacher of the group. A graduate of the University of Washington, he was formerly a speech teacher in Reno High school in Nevada. Having experience in little theater work, radio, and stock companies, he was formerly with the Cornish Players, a little theater group which * has traveled throughout the country.
In charge of the production is William C. deMille, professor of drama, while Miss Frieda J. Meblin, instructor in speech, is directing the play.
Props which were used In the film version of the comedy have (Continued on Page Four)
Yanks to take Japan by air
MANILA, Aug. 22—(U.P.)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur intends to start occupying Japan Sunday by landing airborne troops in the Tokyo area and sending two fleets into Sagami bay, which is the entrance to Tokyo bay, a Japanese communique said today.	-
Dr. Eric Tidas to address YW protestant club
[jap fleet drops to 55 from earlier 382
hips
GUAM. Aug. 21—(U.P.)—Only 55 combat ships, most of hem unseaworthy, remain of Japan’s once formidable fleet of 382 warships, and Nippon’s merchant fleet has been reduced to a little more than 1,000,000 tons, it was announced today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz on the basis of official re-
>rts confirmed by Japanese sur-[ender envoys in Manila.
Rear Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, feeputy chief of staff for Nimitz [nd U.S. navy representative at kie Manila conference, said the apanese emissaries confirmed the complete destruction" of their na-y—most of it by U.S. carrier ►lanes in battles spread from the loral sea to Japan's inland sea.
I Here is what Nimitz’ headquar-ers said is left of the Japanese biavy, once the third largest in the world:
The crewless battleship Nagato eavily damaged by U.S. carrier lanes on July 18, but still afloat at okosuka naval base. It is the only anaining battleship of an orig-lal 12.
The aircraft carriers Hayataka kt Sasebo naval base on Kyushu Lnd the Katsuragi at Kure, on ihe Inland sea. Both are crewless iad heavily damaged. They are
the remains of an original nine
heavy carriers.
Two light carriers, both mere hulls and crewless, of an original eight.
No escort carriers of an original five.
Two heavy cruisers heavily damaged and crewless at Singapore of an original 19.
No light cruisers of an original 24.
Twenty-six destroyersf four of them heavily damaged, of an original destroyer fleet of 165.
Twenty-two submarines, including six German U-boats, of an original 140.
U.S. subs rescue flyers
GUAM. Aug. 22.—(U.R)—U. S. submarines rescued 227 allied fliers during the period from May 28 to Aug. 15. an authoritive source revealed today.
Japs surrender
armies to Russians
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LONDON, Aug. 21—(U.P.)—Surrender of the entire Japanese Fifth Kwantung army was announced tonight by Khabarovsk radio which revealed that large units of the Kwantung army were marching into Russian prisoner cages after mutinying and killing their officers.
Khabarovsk reported endless col-
umns of Japanese soldiers marching down dusty Manchurian roads, stripped of firearms, swords and vehicles surrendered to the first Soviet forces they met.
One of the first units to surrender was the seventh Manchuria regiment which had retreated into the moutains to continue resistance. However, regimental emissaries came into the Russian lines to reveal that the troops had mutinied and killed 20 of their officers who had refused to cease resistance.
The fifth Kwantung army capitulated in its entirety, from the commander, Lt. Gen. Simizu Noritsune, “on down,” Khabarovsky said.
The first Manchurian division
Orientation
. . . will meet today at 12:30 p. m. in the AWS office, according to Bobbie Taft, chairman. Requested to attend are Arline Couse, Sheila Connolly, Joyce Greenberg, and June Schwartz.
marched into captivity with its battle colors flying but all weapons cast away.
A Japanese private, identified as Nizhe Kahanogu, told the Russians that unrest among the soldiers had been rampant for some time. He said they had no food, that one bowl of rice a day was their only nourishment. #
Soldiers in the Manchurian armies, he said, were “delighted to hear Japan had surrendered and could hardly wait for the end of of the war.”
Lt. Gen. Noritsune was one of four generals reported captured today. The Soviet communique said three others were part of a prisoner bag of 52,000 enemy officers and men taken yesterday.
The communique, broadcast by radio Moscow tonight, said the Russian advance in Manchuria continued. It made no reference to fighting but it revealed surrender of the Kwantaung army forces no longer
was localized and now had spread to mass surrenders by top generals.
If conditions—presumably weather conditions—are favorable—one of
the fleets will steam direct into Tokyo bay, it was added.
Two days later, next Tuesday, MacArthur plans to land troops from a warship-transport convoy on the Sagami-Tokyo bay coast, the communique said.
Lt. Gen. Torashiro Kawabe, who led the Japanese mission to Manila, was put In charge of all Japanese arrangements for the occupation.
Tokyo announced that all Japanese fighting forces would be withdrawn from the occupation area, which extends from Chiba prefecture on the ast side of Tokyo bay, through Tokyo proper, westward into Kamanashi province and southward to the coast at a point west of Sagami bay.
Strong police forces will be left to maintain order. Civil government officials and their staffs will remain at their posts. Civilian railroad travel will be forbidden because all transports will be needed for withdrawing troops.
Tokyo emphasized that there would be no direct contact between occupation troops and the Japanese public—no fraternization.
Nylon may go on sale soon
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—(U.E)— Nylon and rayon were given back to the women tonight and nylon stockings may be on sale by Thanksgiving.
Both fabrics were freed of all controls except for one technicality blocking the immediate use of nylon for hosiery. War production board officials said this formality will be ironed out promptly and that nylon stockings should reach store shelves by Thanksgiving, or by Christmas at the latest.
Nylon can be used immediately for slips, blouses, shirts and other garments. Rayon can be used for anything.
WPB said it probably will be several months before there is enough nylon to fill .the demand, but when factories get going they are expected to turn out stockings in unprecedented volume. Before the war, about 8.000.000 pounds of nylon were produced annually, principally for hosiery. The total now is three times as high, and almost all of it will go into civilian markets.
“The Unique Contributions of the Individual Denominations to Christianity and the World" will be the topic for discussion at the first in a series of meetings under the sponsorship of various protestant groups at Troy to be held tomorrow evening at 5:30 at the YWCA house.
Dr. Eric L. Tidas, assistant professor of New Testament Literature of the School of Religion, will be the resource leader for the meeting, and has stated that he will bring additional information concerning protestant denominations not covered by the student speakers of the evening.
“There is no need for the protestant denominations to remain apart and aloof from each other,” declared Dr. Tidas. Much can be achieved toward understanding one another through meetings such as these.”
Serving at SC since last November, Dr. Tidas previously was minister at the First Baptist church of Chicago. He graduated and received his Ph.D. at fhe University of Chicago. Last summer he taught at the Divinity school at Chicago university.
The program for tomorrow night’s meeting will begin with community singing, and Eileen De Fazzio will furnish several musical selections after which supper will be served. Dr. Tidas will also present a summary of what has been presented during the meeting. Persons in charge of the first meeting are George Acevedo, Baptist group; Don Gibbs, Episcopalian group; Bob Jones, Presbyterian group; and Skip Premo, YMCA.
Jones urges all students to attend in order to make this first meeting a success, and requests those who plan to come to leave their names with Mrs. Ruth Grant, executive secretary of the YWCA. or phone Richmond 1936. Tickets are 50 cents.
ASSC senate
. . . will meet tomorrow night at seven in the 418 Student Union, according to ASSC President BiU Armbruster. The regular meeting, scheduled for .tonight, has been postponed until then.
Truman puts stopper on lend-lease program
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—(U.P.)—The United States today turned off the valve on the greatest war supply project in history — the multi-billion dollar lend-lease program — but left the way open for the Allies to buy such supplies now en route to them or already stockpiled in their countries.
The Allies were invited to apply try $41,208,000,000 through last
May 31. Reverse lend-lease—aid from the Allies to the United States — totaled $5,500,000,00 through last March 31.
The British empire was the biggest recipient, getting $29,000,000,000 worth of aid. Russia was next with $10,000,000,000; France with $510,-000,000- China $362,000,000; the American republics $336,000,000. and all other countries about one billion.
Of the $5,500,000,000 in reverse lend-lease, the British empire contributed an estimated $5,000,000,000.
There was no announcement regarding how the final bill will be settled up.
to the export-import bank for loans to finance such purchases. The loans would be on an interim basis and would be entirely separate from any long-range credit loans.
President Truman called a halt to lend-lease when he ordered Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley to cancel “all outstanding contracts for lend-lease” except where allied governments are willing to make payments or where it is “in the interests of the United States to complete them.”
United Nations recipients of slch aid already have been notified by mail.
Thus, for all practical purposes, the lend-lease program has passed into history. The gigantic prefect, initiated by the late President Roosevelt in 1941 as a U.S. defense measure, cost this coun-
Trojan Knights
. . . will meet today at 12:30 in 418 Student Union, Bill Camm, president, announced.