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Member News Service Nat’l. College Press Association dnrlattalion from Interoollegiate Press Published Weekly by the Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical Coil ege of Texas. VOL. XXVIII BRYAN, TEXAS, MARCH 12, 1930. NO. 25 PLANS FOR NEW ROIC UNIT MADE TAFT ACCORDED Fish Bat Staff MILITARY HONORS Partially Picked Oil Lands Dispute Will go to Courts UNIT IN CHEMICAL WARFARE LIKELY Salutes Fired and Mourning Signify Regret in Loss of Statesman. Axuucltltcit I’lLSti f'lloto Beginning with a salute of thir teen guns in the morning followed by one gun each half hour until Retreat, when a forty-eight-gun salute was fired, respect in accord with his for mer high rank as President of the United States Was shown William Howard Taft at A. & M. Monday, the date after official notice of his death was received at the College. In addition to the salutes through out the day, United States army reg ulations require army officers to wear the official badge of mourning for thirty days and the draping of all regimental colors and standai’ds (a- the same period as well a lowering of the flag to half mast. The system of salutes fired Mon day typifies the great esteem with which Presidents of the United States have been held since the founding of the nation as a union of thirteen colonies and up to its present size of forty-eight states. All but one man who Reported, Members of Field Artillery Unit. J. F. Batjer, Houston, has been se lected editor and C. G. Brundrett, Dallas, business manager of the an nual freshman edition of THE BAT TALION, traditional special edition of the student publication of the College, J. L. Cunningham, presi dent of the freshman class, has an nounced. Though the complete staff has not been selected, D. H. Handley, Tea gue; and G. D. Beauchamp, Port Arthur, have been announced as -sports editor and joke editor 1 , res pectively. With one exception the members of the staff announced are from the same unit of the cadet corps, an undesirable situation. (Continued on Page 2) Validity of Claim of A. and M. to Portion of Lands Recognized. That the long standing dispute be tween the University of Texas and the A. and M. College over the claims of A. and M. to a portion of the oil lands now held by the Univer sity will be taken to court for set tlement was evidenced last week when a joint meeting of the Board of Regents of the University and the Board of Directors of the College re sulted in settlement. A decision was recently reached that acknowledged the validity of the claim by A. and M to a share in the proceeds from the oil lands, but the fact that the College has for a num ber of years been receiving appropri ations from the State is considered by the University supporters as suf ficient to make the claims void. PLANS TAKE FORM ENGINEERING DAY Exhibits Will be Both Unique and Exceedingly Unusual. Even though we find the day of days for the engineers fairly well distant, plans and arrangements for a thorough day of interesting enter tainment for the visitors are a'lready being made. The Electrical Engineering Depart- ment has arranged for a complete apparatus for the reproduction of talking pictures for demonstration to the visitors, there being six trunks full of this equipment to be shipped for the demonstration. The Agricultural Engineering De partment has already made arrange ments to demonstrate a motor’ run by buttermilk, the particulars of the motor, however, are not yet known. And on the other side of the cam pus are the civil engineers planning the production of a minature Pana ma Canal which is to show relative elevations, land characteristics, gates, methods of controlling the water level of the canal, and several other features of the system. EXES WILL MEET HERE APRIL 4-5 Anneal Business Meeting Changed to Fit Commencement Dates. April 4-6 was named as the date of the annual spring business meet ing of the Association of Former students when that problem was considered at the Mid-winter meet ing of the directors of the Associa tion. The meeting was held at the Kyle Hotel in Temple on March 6th, and was one of the best attended winter directors’ meetings in the his tory of the organization. Changes by the College Faculty Committee in charge of Commence ment plans practically forced the an nual business meeting of the Asso ciation to be held at another time than at the end of school. This year commencement activities have been compressed so that school will be over on Saturday afternoon following the final review at 12:30 that day. Since it is deemed best to have the Ex-Student meeting on Sunday and since a meeting at A. and M. with the campus deserted is undesirable, it was necessary to set another date. With several dates to choose from, (Continued on Page 2) Approval of President Secured—Ap plication Now Sent In. Addition of a chemical warfare unit to the R. O. T. C. of the College ap peared in more favorable light this week when it was learned that Pres ident T. O. Walton had announced his approval of the plan. Formal application for the estab lishment of the new branch will be forwarded to proper officials within a few days and plans are being made to overcome difficulties in the way of the change at present. There are only two colleges, Mas- sachusettes Instit’utc of Technology and the University of Illinois, which boast six branches in their cadet corps and the proposed addition to the local corps would bring the total here to six. The only other chemical warfare unit in the United States at prsent is at M. I. T. at Boston. The A. and M. College has been rep resented at the chemical warfare camp at Edgewood Arsenal, Mary land, every year since 1927. In that year and in 1928 the chemical war fare students from A. and M. num bered seven and last year the num ber was fourteen. Eight men have al ready been recommended this year. Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the De partment of Chemistry and Chemi cal Engineering, and Proessor H. R. Brayton, who holds a reserve com mission in the chemical warfare serv ice, are among those furthering the move for the addition of the unit. DERATING TEAM WINS FROM UTAH Representatives From Weber College Beaten by A. & M. Team. The A. and M. debate team, com posed of W. A. Porter and C. C. Alexander, gained the decision over the lady representatives of Weber College, Ogden, Utah, Wednesday, March 5, on the disarmament ques tion. The gilds from Utah are making an extensive tour of the South and had won four decisions in 5 debates before coming to College Station. From here the ladies went to Ste- ENG. DAY EXHIBITS NOW PLANNED