RUSS THROW LEGIONS AT MANCHURIA JAPS
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Chi Phis to present watermelon dig tonight
Students southern California Air land
advances reported
to shuffle in streets
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Laughter, the munching of atermelons, squeals of de-ght. and the shuffling of eet in the street to trans-ribed music by the Muzak orporation will be the sounds j •ifting down the row tonight hen the Chi Phis stage their ird annual all-university I street dance in honor of navy'
tudents and veterans.
According to Benbow Thompson, | charge of entertainment, the ;
onsors are striding to create a
ummery atmosphere to help Tro-celebrate their finished or irtly-finished summer studying. “This affair can be termed either tag or drag," announced Chi Phi rexy Don Jackson. The street ancing and watermelon guzzling re scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m., ntinuing until 10.
Informal attire will be what the rell-dressed student will wear as
e plays cards in the street, guz-es watermelon which is now bask-in 3000 pounds of crushed ice, nces the samba and the rhumba, samples the cakes of Miss Susie :annan. Chi Phi housemother. In 8/Ct. according to Bob Showalter _id Dave Reed, in charge of serv-ng. one of the outstanding attrac-ions of the dig will be Miss Bran-i’s “Famous Flas" cake which is baked for every melon mixer.
To assure Trojans that their fun (Continued on Pape Two)
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Vol. XXXVI
72
Los Angeles, Friday, Aug. 10, 1945
Night PhoiKj RI. 1472
No. 176
Truman promises Japs new terror
Atom energy discussion set
In order to provide a background for an understanding of recent developments involving atomic energy. Dr. Charles S. Copeland, associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. G. L. Weissler, assistant prolessor of physics, will present a discussion on atomic energy today at 12:15 p.m. in 305 Administration.
This lecture is being given due to the many requests of faculty members and students, Dr. Weissler stated.
“Special attention will be paid to the published accounts of the splitting of the uranium nucleus and the tremendous energies involved in this process,” Dr. Copeland declared.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.—(U.E)—
President Truman revealed tonight that new “military secrets” are in store for the Japanese in addition to the atomic bomb and Russia’s participation in the Pacific conflict.
The chief executive told the nation in his report on the Big Three’s Potsdam conference that Russia’s action was only one of the important military decisions reached at Potsdam.
Delving deeply into the Yalta agreements, he disclosed that Russia agreed to fight the Japs before she had been informed of our “new weapon,” the atomic bomb.
He conceded that compromise on all sides was required before the Big Three reached the political and territorial decisions proclaimed to the world last week.
He said the three great powers are now “more closely than ever bound together in determination to achieve ... A just and lasting peace.”
“From Teheran, and the Crimea, and San Francisco, and Berlin, we shall continue to march together to our objective,” he said.
He reemphasized that there were no secret agreements or commitments reached at Potsdam “apart from current military arrangements” formulated by the Big Three.
The president singled out ,the Potsdam agreement to establish a Big Five council of foreign ministers as one of its significant results.
“The council,” he said, “is going to be the continuous meeting ground of the five principal governments, on which to reach common understanding regarding the peace settlements.”
The president made clear that the Big Five are not going to “try to
Nine SC faculty members to retire when term ends
Many years of service to the university will be terminated this term for a group of nine faculty members whose retirement, according to the new plan, is announced by President Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
Owl club to meet
Visions of sizzling steaks, roast-weinies, and frying chicken will ke precedence over other matters night when the members of the r\ club meet in 418 Student Union 6:30 to plan a weekend barbecue the home of Mrs. R. Kotter.
“At present our • activities are ited to the social aspect of cam-life,” stated Latimer “Gabby” arrett, president of the group. “As e club progresses, however, we tend to fulfill other aims which are working on now.”
“It is not a restricted organiza-on.” he added. “In fact, the only sic requirement is that the mem-rs attend SC.”
Members admitted recently include Wallace B. Lindelien, Joe urton. Gerald Crane, and Harold . Shaklee.
Longest in years of affiliation with SC is Professor Horatio Cogswell, who began instruction in voice ! in 1910.
Dr. Herbert D. Austin, professor in Italian, in second with 25 years of service to his credit. Dr. Howard de Forest, botany, and Professor Robert M. Fox, have been at SC 23 years with Dr. Frank H. Garver, history, claiming 19 years.
Dr. O. P. Cockerill has been a professor of law for 18 years, and , to Dr. G. B. Mangold, sociology and social work, and Professor Eugene L. Roberts, physical education, go honors for 17 years each.
Nine new faculty members are announced by the president for the fall term in eight departments. To the English department will be added Howard E. Briggs and W. B. Templeman.
Other new affiliates and their divisions are Dr. Lucius C. Wheeler, botany; Dr. Richard W. Van Al-styne, history; Paul E. Hadley, international relations; Dr. Harvey J. Seifert, religion; John G. Bachus, physics; Dr. Ernst Snapper, mathematics, and Dr. H. J. Locke, so-j ciology.
dictate to, or dominate, other nations,” But, he added, the work
of the foreign ministers’ council will lay groundwork for future peace settlements just as Dumbarton Oaks prepared for the United Nations world security machinery.
Mayor's trolley Blood donors
to apply at hut (or sixth drive
Graduate study to require test
Following an example set by leading graduate schools throughout the country, the SC Graduate School, by action of the council on graduate study and research, will require the graduate record examination of students enrolling in the Graduate School after Oct. 15, according to Dr. John D. Cooke, chairman of the university committee considering the advisability of adopting the examination.
The university’s Graduate Schools of Library Science, Religion, and Social Work will also require the examination in their respective fields.
In making the announcement, Dr. Cooke declared that the examination would be required as a factor in determining the level of admission for students whose credentials are in some way irregular and as a requirement for “admission to candidacy” for a master’s degree.
The graduate record examination was initiated in 1937 under the sponsorship of the graduate schools of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia universities in collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Its use has spread rapidly, especially in the east, until now it is required in more than 75 of the (Continued on Page Two)
Yank planes strike at heart of Japan
GUAM. Aug. 10.—(U.P)—Superfortresses joined 1200 Allied carrier planes today in a double-pronged smash at the heart of Japan, fulfilling anew the promised “rain of ruin” descending in ever greater torrents on the isolated enemy homeland.
The flattops of Adm. William F. Halsey's third fleet unleashed again their mighty armada of dive bombers, torpedo planes and fighters against Honshu in a calculated campaign to strike at “everything that moves” and wipe out the Japanese air force to the last camouflaged aircraft.
Polyzoides to talk
Interpreting the Potsdam conference, Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, lecturer in international relations and correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, will lead the discussion in another of the Trovets series to be presented Monday noon in 206 Administration.
Trovet president Frank Soares extended an invitation to all members of the student body and the faculty to attend this meeting.
causes peace furor in city
by United Press
Peace-jittery Los Angeles today mistook blasts of an 80-year-old whistle on the “Tokyo Express,” Civil war railroad engine “drafted” to recruit railroad workers, for an armistice celebration.
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The train was creeping toward Pershing square with “Fireman” Mayor Fletcher Bowron and “Conductor” Frances Langford in control and blowing its whistle in a shower of ticker tape.
Rumors of imminent peace had persisted all day, and downtown office workers and shoppers mistook the excitement for a celebration.
They flooded newspaper switchboards with calls to see “if it is true.”
Russians ask for war aid
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“No finer contribution to the cause of lasting peace can be made than to aid in the rehabilitation of war-tom Russia by the donation of serviceable clothing,” stated a spokesman for Russian War Relief, Inc., under whose auspices a clothing barrel has been placed on the SC campus.
Doyle Confer, War Board chairman. who it directing the collection at SC, stated that two clothing barrels have been conspicuously placed on campus. One is located in. the foyer of the Student Union and the other in the YWCA"building at 854 West 36th street.
Applications to fill the SC quota of 400 donors in the sixth bloodbank drive will be taken next week at the Victory Hut, according to Arline Couse, chairman. The Hut is open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The following requirements govern prospective donors:
1.	Applicants must weigh a minimum of 110 pounds.
2.	Applicants must be more than 18. Anyone under-age must obtain cast his parents’ consent.
3.	Applicants must not have given a donation since ten weeks previous.
4.	Anyone taking sulfa drugs must wait two weeks after treatment has stopped.
5.	Anyone vaccinated for smallpox must wait three weeks after vaccination; other vaccinations, 48 hours.
6.	No one who has or has had tuberculosis may donate blood.
7.	No one with diabetes may donate blood.
8.	No one who has had malaria during the past 15 years may donate blood.
9.	No one with jaundice during the past six months may donate blood.
10.	No one with an acute cold, other infectious diseases, organic heart disease, or undulant fever may donate blood.
Arrival of the bank on the campus is slated for Aug. 20. Miss Couse, whose assistants are Dick Thorpe and Bill Turbeck, is in charge of signups.
Veterans join Legion as latest drive ends
In a program devoted solely to signing up veterans of World war II, the statewide California American Legion membership week will end officially Sunday, according to the commander of the California department of the American Legion.
California is the first state to undertake such a program for singing up returning veterans. Although the drive,, having started Aug. 5, ends Sunday, the 140,000 veterans of California are reminded that memberships will be accepted after that date.
Posts throughout the state have already claimed 22,000 of these veterans as members.
The membership announcement is of special interest to the 800 Trojan men who are veterans .of this war, because all of the members of the Capt. Charles W. Paddock post in Los Angeles are World war II veterans and up to now all of its members have been composed of veterans who attended SC. The university administration has given cooperation and encouragement though the post is not affiliated with the university.
All men eligible to join are invited to fill out application blanks which may be obtained from the cashier in the bookstore. These blanks may be left with the cashier and all applicants will be giv-
en notice of the next meeting, the annual election session, through the mail.
Art Peters, adjutant and SC representative of the Paddock post, stated, “It is to the best interest of every discharged veteran to be active in the national organization which is best able to help him with the problems he will face as a civilian.”
One of the few posts in the United States that have been given a. charter, officers of the Paddock post, which is dedicated to Charles W. Paddock, alumnus, will be interviewed on the air Sunday.
The post meets twice a month at Patriotic hall, Washington and Figueroa; however, plans are being made for the establishment of regular clubrooms where meetings will be held.
Various types of entertainment are presented at every meeting along with other activities of interest to everyone. The past has set up a counseling service which tries to answer all questions concerning pensions and schools.
LONDON, Aug. 9.—(U.P.)— Russia’s far eastern army legions, engaging the vaunted Japanese Kwangtung army at last in all-out battle, struck across the Manchurian border on a broad front in the early hours of this morning and slashed through enemy defenses for gains up to 13^2
miles.
The historic breakthrough was reported in Russia's communique No. 1 of the Pacific war, broadcast by radio Moscow and recorded here.
Striking at three main points on a 1225-mile front, the Russians smashed through a heavily fortified Japanese defense line in the Vladivostok area, crossed the Amur and Ussuri rivers in the Khabarovsk area to the north and captured the important frontier station of Manchouli in the west.
Their bombing planes blasted key railroad junctions in Manchuria and Korea, disrupting movement of enemy supplies and troops to the
front.
The troops were from two special Red Banner far eastern armies, which for years had faced the Kwantung army—Japan’s No. 1 fighting force—along the 2000-mile border and whipped lt soundly in two major frontier clashes.
Communique No. 1 reported:
1—In the Vladivostok area, on the Sea of Japan, the Russians against fierce resistance broke through a line of reinforced concrete defenses and advanced 9-1/3 miles.
2—In the area of Khabarovsk. 400 miles north-northeast of Vladivostok, the Red Banner armies with the aid of their powerful Amur river fleet forced crossings of the Amur and TJsstiri rivers, capturing Fuyuan, 39 miles southwest of Khabarovsk, and several villages.
3—In the Chita sector 825 miles to the west, the Russians overcame stubborn resistance, took by storm a strong Japanese defense line— based on the ancient wall which Genghis Kahn constructed—and captured the important railroad towns of Manchouli and Chalainor,
Lutherans set social, dinner
The Lutheran Student association of SC, UCLA, Los Angeles City college, and Pasadena Junior college will meet for dinner today at 5:30 p.m. at the Y house. The Pasadena students will take charge and act as hosts.
Emmer Engberg, pastor of the Pasadena Messiah Lutheran church, will give an entertaining and educational “chalk talk.” Pastor Engberg is well known for his “chalk talks” in the Pasadena area.
President's office notice
If war ceases with Japan and if the announcement is received during the daytime, classes will adjourn immediately and all students will assemble in front of the Administration building.
However, is the announcement comes before 8 a.m., a full-day holiday is in order, and students will be able to join with their community celebrants in local activities.
Rufus B. von KleinSmid,
President