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42nd YEAR
LAWRENCE, KANSAS,TUESDAY,MAY 8.1945
NUMBER 148
V-E...JAPS NEXT TRUMAN SAYS
'Big Five' In Accord But Latin American Nations Indignant
San Francisco—(INS)—The "Big Five" were in complete accord today in a charter for world security but only after appeasing Russia at the price of provoking a major revolt among Latin American nations.
As peace came to the western world on Europe's battlefronts, open warfare broke out in the United Nations conference.
Latin American spokesmen openly charged the United States with double-dealing and with abandoning the Monroe doctrine after selling it to the nations be-
The magnitude of Russia's victory in the "Big Five" agreement on amendments to the Dumbarton Oakes formula for world security was only beginning to sink in on startled delegations. The Brazilian, Pervidian, Uraguayian, Mexican, Bolivian and Cuban leaders held indignation meetings protesting the American decision on subordinating the Chapultepec regional agreements to the new world security order.
Walter Martie and his orchestra, with vocalist Dolores Morgan, will play for the semi-formal dance which will be from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
Their spokesmen threatened a fight in the conference itself to overthrow this "Big Five" decision.
The Russians, after days of secret negotiation with the United States and Britain, with China and France tagging along, disclosed their g reat victory at a news conference held by V. M. Molotov, the Soviet foreign commissar.
I.S.A. Sweetheart To Be Crowned Saturday Night
The candidates are Giselle Roy and Willa Wolfe, Corbin; Pat Dodge, Tipperary; Ruth Brown, Locksley; Gracie Piros; Miller; Lula Hughes, Watkins; Betty Young, Jolliffe; Mary K. Booth, Foster; Mary Olive Marshall, College senior, and Eleanor Albright, College senior, representatives of unorganized independents.
An I.S.A. "Sweetheart" will be crowned at the dance in the lounge of the Union building Saturday night, Jack Nichols, I.S.A. president, has announced.
A queen and two attendants will be chosen from ten candidates nominated by organized houses and from representatives selected by the unorganized independent students.
Senior Class Meeting To Be Held Friday
Reports of the various other committees also will be made.
Malott Explains Responsibilities Of Peacetime
Firm action and perennial watchfullness are the responsibilities of each individual for the establishment of a lasting peace, stated Chancellor Deane W. Malott at the special V-E Day convocation this morning in Hoch auditorium.
"We must avoid the errors of yesterday, in order to establish a peace which will endure," Mr. Malott said. Accurate and disinterested information is the first responsibility of the individual. "Above all else, the information which we receive and to which we give credence must be disseminated from disinterested sources, free from the grasp of a seeking propaganda."
Clear Thinking Necessary
The second responsibility for individual aid in winning the peace is clear thought and understanding. We face the most difficult problem in history, a great challenge to those who have faith in democracy, Mr Malott said.
A report of the gift committee's work will be presented for the approval of the class of '45 at the class meeting to be held in the third floor auditorium of Frank Strong hall, 10:30, Friday, according to Donald Alderson, class president.
Seniors will be excused from their 10:30 classes to attend the meeting, he announced.
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News Of Victory Taken Calmly As Students Look To Pacific War
All over the campus this morning there was a serious undertone as students went on their regular rounds of classes. Students were happy and thankful that the European war was finished but they said
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The voice of President Harry S. Truman was coming from the radio as millions of Americans listened this morning to the official announcement of the victory news that had been rumored for more than a week.
The crowd quietly dispersed at the end of the president's speech only to re-group a moment later at the announcement of a transcription of Prime Minister Churchill's address.
A few eyes met but no smiles were exchanged. There was no sign of joviality or celebration as the President of the United States reminded the people of the big job yet to be done in the Pacific.
In the lounge of the University's Memorial Union building a crowd of V-12's, DuPont engineers, and a scattering of civilian students going to the cafeteria for breakfast grouped around the radio and listened to the words telling of Germany's unconditional surrender with a solemn intentness.
The K.U. alumna financed her way through college by campus employment and found time to take part in many campus activities. A booklet written by her and published by the Alumni Association is entitled "It Ain't So Hard to Keep Going If a Feller Can See He's Going Somewhere." It was an idea expressed by a Kansas farm hand.
Jay Janes Founder Dies in New Jersey
Mrs. James, a member of the class of 1925, married Wallace James, engineering '25. Of their three children, Dorothy, the eldest has been in communication with Mary Olive Marshall in making plans to come to the University next year.
She had many acquaintances on the campus and in Lawrence.
Mrs. Dorothy Macivor James, founder and first president of Jay Janes, died Saturday evening at her home in West Caldwell, N.J., following an extended illness, according to word received by Fred Ellsworth, alumni secretary.
Fight Ends 4 p.m.; Sunday Set Aside As Day of Prayer
(International News Service)
While proclamations of Germany's unconditional surrender were simultaneously broadcast from London and Washington today, the Moscow radio made no mention of the surrender and there was no indication that the Russians were celebrating V-E day.
Informed circles in London believe the Soviets will celebrate tomorrow. In an eagerly awaited broadcast, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that the surrender agreements will be ratified and confirmed in Berlin today.
Previously, German Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz had broadcast the announcement from Flensburg that the "cease fire" order to all German forces would become effective at 4 p.m. C.W.T. bringing Europe's five and one-half year war to its official end at that hour.
The German surrender, Churchill said, was signed at 2:41 a.m. yesterday at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters. Hostilities will cease, he said, at one minute after midnight Wednesday morning.
In China, Chiang Kai-Shek hailed the allied victory in Europe today and declared that "the whole stupendous weight of humanity will now come down upon Japan."
The President set aside Sunday, May 13, as a day of national prayer.
day of prayer should also be Mother's Day.
As Mr. Truman proclaimed the unconditional surrender of Germany and the final cessation of hostilities in all of Europe, he directed this challenging warning to the last Axis partner Japan:
"The Japanese people have felt the weight of our land, air, and naval attacks. So long as their leaders and the armed forces continue the war the striking power and intensity of our blows will steadily increase and will bring the utter destruction to Japan's industrial war production, to its shipping, and to everything that supports its military activity.
"The longer the war lasts, the greater will be the suffering and hardship which the people of Japan will undergo—all in vain. Our blows will not cease until the Japanese military and naval forces lay down their arms in unconditional surrender."
Then the President gave his formula of what unconditional surrender means in precise terms to Japan.
"Just what does the unconditional surrender of the armed forces mean for the Japanese people?
"It means the end of the war."
In his V-E day proclamation, officially notifying the nation of the end of the war in Europe, the President said:
"The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of freeborn men.
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