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DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1942
2275
NUMBER 21
Lee Housewright Files For
Senior Yell Leader Post
Filing Deadline
Set for Today at 1;
Election Date Later
Deadline for the filing of peti
tions for Senior Assistant Yell
Leader is set for 1 p.m. today, by
the Student Elections Committee,
annunced Walter Cardwell, chair
man of the committee, after the
committee met last Friday to in
vestigate the eligibility of those
who had already filed their peti
tions.
Of the two petitions submitted,
only that of Ed T. Rafferty, sen
ior in D Cavalry from Gruver, was
accepted, since the other one, be
longing to James O’Conner, senior
in D Coast Artillery from Dallas,
was not accepted because of the
failure to meet the 1.25 grade
point average that is necessary for
eligibility to the yell leader posi
tion. Yesterday morning Lee D.
Housewright, senior in F Engin
eers, from Fort Worth, filed his
petition for the position of senior
assistant yell leader.
This is one of the most import
ant posts of leadership on the
campus, as the person elected will
represent the corps on many occa
sions, and will be called upon to
lead the corps often, especially in
the coming semester with the foot
ball season, Cardwell pointed out.
Members of the Student Elec
tions Committee include L. D.
Boone, student activities manager;
H. L. Heaton, registrar; Walter
Cardwell, cadet colonel; Dan R.
Sutherland, president of the senior
class; Bill Andrews, vice-president
of the junior class; G. B. Wyrick,
vice-president of the sophomore
class; C. E. Williams, vice-presi
dent of the freshman class; and
Gus Link, vice-president of the
senior class, who is also chairman
of the committee.
Petitions for position of senior
assistant yell leader must be filed
in the Student Activities Office,
room 126 Administration Building,
before 1 p.m. today.
Overseas Caps
Being Issued To
Basic Students
Overseas caps will be issued
through Friday to all freshmen
and sophomores who are enrolled
in the basic ROTC courses.
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These students will report to the
Exchange Store during their va
cant periods in the following al
phabetical order on the dates in
dicated. Those whose names begin
with A through E were issued
their caps yesterday, and if they
were not obtained then it will be
possible to gejt them on Friday.
The remaining schedule is:
Tuesday, July 21 F to J
Wednesday, July 22 K to O
Thursday, July 23 P to T
Friday, July 24 U to Z
and all others not able to re
port at the scheduled time.
A yard of black piping will be
issued with the cap which is to be
put on the cap as soon as possible.
The black band is the regulation
ROTC cord.
Civilian Protection
Film Will Be Shown
Film on Civilian Protection
Training will be shown in the
Chemistry lecture room next Fri
day night, July 24, the co-ordina
tor of civilian defense for College
Station states.
These films are under the charge
of W. E. Naylor, a Texas Ranger,
and will cover several phases of
civilian war work that will interest
especially civilian, war workers. All
students and residents of College
Station and Bryan are cordially
invited to attend this one showing.
The films will last about one hour
and a half.
Cotton Loans Have
Been Extended For w
Indefinite Time
All 1941 cotton loans have been
extended for an indefinite period.
Maturity date previously was July
31, 1942.
The new plan, under which Com
modity Credit Corporation will
continue to carry the loans, per
mits producers to repay their loans
and obtain possession of the pledg
ed cotton or sell their equity after
July 31, 1942, in the same manner
as prior to the maturity date of
the notes.
Lending agencies holding Cer
tificates of Interest in 1941 cotton
producers’ loans will be permitted
to carry certificates after July 31,
1942, under terms of agreement
with CCC. The certificates will
bear interest at 1 percent per an
num.
Cooperative marketing associa
tions also will be permitted to con
tinue loans held for their mem
bers under 1941 CCC cotton Form
G. after July 31, and the rate of
interest to the associations on ad
vances made to members will be
the same as for lending agencies,
according to P. C. Colgin, state
AAA commodity loan specialist.
The new agreement for lending
agencies and amended cqtton Form
G will be forwarded to lending
agencies and cooperative market
ing associations by Commodity
Credit Corporation, Colgin said.
Southwest football players who have finished their football careers and are eligible fol’ the All-
Star game in Chicago, Aug. 28, include:
ENDS—Sterling (Texas A. & M.); Cowley (Texas A. & M.); Goss (SMU); Tunney (SMU);
Pitts (Arkansas); Adams (Arkansas); Kutner (Texas); Sweeney (Texas).
TACKLES—Ruby (Texas A. & M.); Motley (Texas A. & M.; Wesson (Texas A. & M.); Bostick
(SMU); Pugh (TCU); Bynum (Arkansas); Cohenour (Texas); Garrett (Texas); Pasqua (SMU);
Fawcett (SMU); Booth (SMU).
GUARDS—Roy Bucek (Texas A. & M.; Richardson (Texas A. & M.); Self (Baylor); Griffin
(Baylor); Goforth (Rice); Ramsey (SMU); Moss (TCU); Daniel (Texas); Jungmichel (Texas);
Clark (Ark.).
CENTERS—M. Williams (Texas A. & M.;) Sloan (Rice); Cato (Arkansas); Harkins (Texas);
Clarkson (A. & I.).
BACKS—Moser (Texas A. & M.); Spivey (Texas A. & M.); Porter (Texas A. & M.); Smith
(Texas A. & M.); Gillespie (TCU); Sparks (TCU); Wilson (Baylor); Bigony (Baylor); Crain (Tex
as); Layden (Texas); Martin (Texas); Doss (Texas); R. L. Harkins (Texas); Sanders (Texas);
Barker (Arkansas); Johnston (SMU); Brumley (Rice); Jacobs (Oklahoma); Mathews (Oklahoma);
Dick Miller (SMU); Neal (Arkansas); Hagerman (SMU); Young (SMU).
Add any other names you know of who have finished playing college football.
ALL-STAR FOOTBALL SQUAD BALLOT
ENDS AND
TACKLES AND
GUARDS , AND
CENTER :
BACKS AND
AND
Signed :
(Your name)
(P. 0. Address)
Mail this ballot in to Mike Haikin, care Battalion, College Station, by the Faculty Exchange (No
Postage Required) in the Academic Building or drop in special ballot box marked “College All-Star
Ballot” located on the first floor of Academic Building.
avy Forms Two
V-l Classes For
Freshmen, Sophs
Recently transferred from Re
cruiting to Naval Officer Procure
ment, the Navy’s V-l Accredited
College Program is functioning so
as to speed up the enrollment of
college freshmen and sophomores
in the courses of training leading
to an ensign’s commission in the
United States Naval Reserve.
Offices of Naval Officer Procure
ment in New Orleans, Houston,
Dallas, Oklahoma City, Nashville,
Birmingham, and Atlanta are now
accepting enlistments under the
V-l program. Enlistments may
also be made at any Navy recruit
ing station or substation.
In contrast to the former single
classification open for college
freshmen and sophomores, there
are now two classes in V-l de
pending on physical qualifications:
Class V-l (G) and Class V-l (S).
The difference between the two
classes is the admission to Class
V-l (S) of certain of those stu
dents unable to meet the vision
requirements for the program
qualifying applicants for a com
mission in the general classifica
tion. In the special class the offi
cer will do specialized work that
(See NAVY, Page 4)
Town Hall to Present Jackson Jubilee Singers
As Third Feature of Season in Guion Monday
Rhythm, pathos, beauty, harm
ony and humor—those are the
qualities emphasized by the pro
gram to be presented by the Jack-
son Jubilee Singers at Guion Hall
next Monday night.
This famous company which has
been touring for many seasons un
der the direction of V. S. Brown,
pianist, and second tenor, main
tains all the harmony and abandon
that is charcteristic of the Negro
race. For the most part “white
folks songs” are avoided, as the
group feels that others can pre
sent such music as well or better
than them, but in their own field
of strictly Negro music they aim
to remain supreme.
An enviable record has been
made by the baritone of the group,
John Garth, III. He first toured
with the company in Canada. Then
he was selected for the principal
part, that of the undertaker, in
“Porgy ’n Bess,” a Broadway hit.
Garth is a singing-actor of rare
ability. His sonorous baritone voice
is beautiful in solo, and with the
ensemble to which he has always
added much inspiration and bril
liancy.
In the concert here V. S. Brown
will be heard in one or more piano
solos, representative of his race,
such as “Juba Dance,” or “Bar
carolle” or perhaps Percy Graing
er’s concert arrangement of “Tur
key in the Straw.”
There are roughly these three
types of Negro music, the jubilee,
the plantation song or shout, and
the spiritual. One notices the repe
tition of wording in the songs be
cause the uneducated slave did not
have the necessary vocabulary to
apply words to his melody. The
first two forms are similar, jubil
ant in spirit, the plantation song
of a happy negro. The spiritual
is quite different, giving in terms
of song the prayer and hope of the
Negroes expectation of happiness.
Songs of the modern arrange
ment will be included also like
those of the beloved Stephen Fos
ter, “My Old Kentucky Home,”
“Swanee River,” “Carry Me Back
to 01’ Virginny” and “Song of the
Bayou.” Some humorous diversions
such as “Song of the States,” a
burlesque of the “Quartet from
Rigolleto,” “Stormy Weather” and
“Dinah,” sung with the abandon
of which the Negro only is capa
ble, are also ini the repertoire, to
gether with numbers by modem
Negro composers like William
Dawson’s “Lullaby” and popular
hits based on Negro themes, such
as “St. Louis Blues” and some of
Gershwin’s works.
The Jackson Jubilee singers are
the third in a series of five at
tractions to appear on the summer
Town Hall program. The attrac
tions are contracted to give the
Town Hall audience a wide variety
of entertainment with the best of
touring artists represented.
This particular attraction orig
inated with the late professor R.
G. Jackson, a man of high ideals,
rare musical talents, and capacity
for leadership exerted an indelible
impression on all with whom he
came in contact. Professor Jack-
son attained a fine academic and
musical education, and early be
came Director of Music at Western
University, Kansas City, Kansas.
This school for Negros has long
maintained an outstanding depart
ment of music. Among its grad
uates who has attaine drecogni-
tion are Eva Jessye, Clyde Berry
and Etta Moten. On the campus
of Western University is the only
statue of John Brown. Here Pro
fessor Jackson labored six days a
week, training, encouraging, en
thusing young Negros, and on
Sundays he directed the largest
Negro church choir in Kansas City.
Later he toured with several of
his companies. Where accommoda
tions were a problem for his group
because of their race, they pitched
tents and lived in them.
Aggies Have Chance to Place
Menon All-Star TeambyVoting
Football is still not out of the
picture, Aggies, as balloting for
the selection of players to be in
the all-star game in Chicago on
August 28 is just beginning. This
annual game this year will find
the college all-stars playing the
World’s Champion Chicago Bears
in Soldiers Field in the Windy City.
Battalion Sports Editor Mike
Haikin is working with Tommy
O’Brien, sportscaster of radio sta
tion KRIC, Beaumont, in picking
outstanding last year’s seniors to
play in the game. All selections
are based on the number of ballots
which a player will receive, and
unless players get nominated they
will be left off the squad, so get
your pencils ready and vote for
your favorite star.
Above in the ballot there is a
list of the players who are eligible
for the classic from this part of
the nation. Many of you have seen
some of these men in action, and
a number of them tyou remember
as Aggies who played on the great
championship teams of the past
three seasons.
Last year Jim Thomason, Chip
Routt, Ernie Pannell and Dookie
Pugh all played in the game and
Pannell made the starting team by
getting the largest number of
votes for a tackle post.
Fill in the above ballot and turn
it in to your first sergeant, who
in turn will deliver them to The
Battalion office in the administra
tion building. Ballots will be taken
by Haikin and a box will be placed
in the Academic building for the
ballots also.
Gas Model Builders Get Chance
To Win Prizes at Tyler Sunday
Aggies! This week-end is your
chance to add money to your wal
let’s emptiness rather than sub
tract from it. Sounds unbelieve-
able for an Aggie to do, but all
you aero engineers, model air
plane builders, pilots-to-be, and
other airminded Aggies have been
invited to attend the Third Annual
Tyler Gas Meet which will be held
at Boulter Farm, seven miles north
of Tyler on the Mineola highway
this week-end, July 26. The meet
will be held Sunday from- 8 a.m.
until 4 p.m. Prizes include a total
of $250 in cash, and trophies for
other winners.
The meet will be sponsored by
the Tyler Exchange Club and the
Tyler Junior Chamber of Com
merce, and will be sanctioned by
the Academy of Model Aeronau
tics, a division of the National
Aeronautical Association. AMA
and SWGMA rules will be observed
at the meet. Registration of the
models will be held from 8 a.m. to
10 a.m., and a fee of 25 cents will
be charged all those entering the
meet.
First on the program after the
registration will be an ap
pearance contest for the best look
ing model at the meet. An official
flight must be made within 15 min
utes after the winners are an
nounced. Next to take place will
be a surprise event which is, as
yet, unknown to everyone except
the officials of the meet, so be
prepared for anything and every
thing to happen at that time.
Thjrd in the meet will be an en
durance contest, which will last
most of the time during the re
mainder of the meet. A first prize
of $30 will be offered, followed by
a second and third prize of $20
and $10 respectively. Along with
the $30 goes the Pratt Jewelry
Co. Trophy and some merchandise.
This event will be divided into
three classes in order to facilitate
all types of models.
First prize for the Class B event
is $25, followed by a second and
third prize of $10 and $7.50. Prizes
for Class A event will be $15, $10
and $5 respectively.
The You-Win-If-You-Lose Event
will follow the endurance contest.
In this event the Harrison Book
Store awards an “Ohllson 23” air
plane gas motor to the owner of
the first plane that is lost on
thermal during official flight. Fol
lowing this event, there will be a
stunt event that is open to all
classes—anything goes, no restric
tions, and no holds barred. The
flight can be made anytime during
the day, but the contestant has to
“call his shots” before the flight
takes place.
Heaven leaves $10 to the owner
of the worst crack-up that takes
place during official flight. To the
crowd’s choice of the day will be
given a box of merchandise—with
no promises as to the contents of
the box' Last in the meet comes a
cross-country race, open to all
classes. Prizes will be awarded to
the winners of the race.
frTo the high point club in the
contest, the Pratt Jewelry Com
pany will present a trophy. All
prizes, awards and trophies will
be given out at 5 p.m. Regardless
of the weather conditions all events
will be held on this date. Rain,
sleet, snow(?), hail, or otherwise
should not keep good flyers out of
the meet. Don’t be a fair weather
flyer.
War Center to Dispense
Accurate War Information
Mothers Club Gives
Community Dance
In School Gym
Function Held to Raise
Funds for Sidewalks At
School; Cadets Invited
Opening a series of community
wide recreational functions, a
dance will be held Friday night in
the gymnasium of the A. & M.
Consolidated school under the
sponsorship of the school Mother’s
club, announces Mrs. G. Byron
Winstead, club president.
Cadets, sailors and marines with
wives or dates are urged to attend
the dance which is being sponsored
to raise funds for building side
walks around the Consolidated
school. For those who prefer not
to dance, bridge and other games
will be in progress in the music
room of the school under the direc
tion of a committee of mothers
headed by Mrs. C. B. Godbey.
Admission to the party will be
fifty cents per couple. This fee
will admit couples to the dance or
other activities which are being
planned. Arrangements for the
dance are being handled by Mrs.
R. B. Hickerson and a committee
of club members.
Members of the club state that
all are cordially invited to attend
the first of this series of commu
nity parties so that cadets, faculty
and other local residents may be
come more closely acquainted.
Agronomy Society To
Hold Picnic Thursday
At the initial social gathering of
the Agronomy Society for the cur
rent semester, members of the so
ciety voted to have a barbecue
picnic Thursday, July 23, at 6 p.m.
The picnic will be held in the
ravine just west of the drill field.
Plans for the picnic were dis
cussed, and committees were ap
pointed at the last meeting on
July 16. Dates will be furnished,
but those majoring in agronomy
desiring to bring their own dates,
may do so.
Each agronomy student planning
to attend the picnic is requested
to register with Mrs. Estelle John
son, secretary in the agronomy de
partment, before 5 p.m. today.
Freshmen and sophomore agron
omy students are especially urged
to attend.
WTAW FeaturesRudy
Vallee in Program
“Blues in the Night,” one of
the season’s most popular tunes, is
highlighted by Rudy Vallee, his
orchestra and The Sportsmen, in
a second “Treasury Star Parade”
broadcast, which airs on July 21,
at 11:30 over Station WTAW.
Also featured is The Sportsmen’s
special arrangement of “Sippin’
Cider.” The program also includes
a war medley, and the tunes “This
Love of Mine” and “Save the
American Way.”
* A&M One of Six
Official Posts
Throughout State
A. & M. acts as one of the six
official War Information Centers
of Texas affording accurate and
up-to-date information on War II
to those people of Texas who de
sire such news for patriotic speech
es or preparedness talks or just to
know what is going on. It is a cog
in the machine the Federal Govern
ment has set up to “keep Amer
ica informed” during this war.
' Dr. T. F. Mayo, librarian, is a
member of the committee which is
in charge of keeping and dispens
ing this information in this area.
Mayo directs the sub-committee
which handles the information re
ceived at the library. Others on
this sub-committee are Don Hen-
nessee, circulation department;
Miss Margaret Pierce, reference
department; Miss Clara Mae Mc-
Francis, catalogue department;
and Miss Hazel Adams, circulation
department.
The library maintains a com
plete information service in the
main entrance hall of Cushing
Library. This War Information
Center remains open 56 hours each
week with students, faculty and
librarians giving their time freely
to keep it in order.
This consists of actually setting
up and servicing of the books and
phamplets which come from sev
eral sources. These sources include
many agencies of our Federal Gov
ernment, agencies of foreign gov
ernments, publishing companies
and various patriotic societies in
America.
Anyone in Texas may write in
to this center for information on
any phase of the war. On the
shelves and walls in the center one
can find up to date information
on our war production, how to
blackout effectively, how to camou
flage expertly, etc. Posters show
ing organization of the foreign
countries armies are posted ' on
bulletin boards.
Two large maps which give one,
at a glance, a visual picture of the
war. One shows the war in Europe
while the other shows how' the
Japs are faring in the Pacific.
Both are kept up to date with hew
defeats and engagements listed on
the borders of the bulletin board.
Pamphlets include such items as
how business will be affected by
the war. Or one can find booklets
with titles such as “Toward a Dy
namic Democracy” or a handbook
for air raid wardens.
From the posters one can gather
such information as it now takes
18 men in industry to keep one
m»n in the army while in 1918 it
took only five to keep one soldier
going. Another poster shows the
complete organization of a German
squad (grouppe) which consists of
a leader and nine men with fouif
of these squads to a platoon.
This center began at the request
from the government about five
months ago. Only now has enough,
information arrived for it to really
be of service to all Aggies and citi
zens of Texas who really want to
be accurately informed about
World War II.
Juke Box Proms Grow Steadily
In Attendance and Sidelights
With all local-yokels present
and a number of out-of-town prod
ucts, Aggieland’s 5,000 cadets en
joyed another Juke Box Pnom
Saturday night. General comment
is that the dance was the best yet,
but any way this dance accommo
dated more dancers via the hound
type.
Held in the main mess hall
where there was plenty of room
for the rug stompers, last Satur
day’s prom had something, more
than the Bryan “400” for Aggies
to birddog. Included in the list of
out-of-town guests a certain, little
number dressed in a black midriff
dress who had a large number if
not most of the hounding Aggies
running in circles. “Lulu Belle”
really had a big time as she gave
all Aggieland a treat, especially
with her solo performances.
Probably the outstanding per
formance of the night was the one
which a senior in the Coast put
on. We won’t mention any names,
but feeling pretty good with about
one sheet already in the wind, this
Aggie started something when he
asked the lieutenant’s wife if she
would like to dance.
Major CE Hutson On
Duty as Instructor
Major Clarence E. Hutson ar
rived on the campus last Saturday
in the capacity of instructor in the
Coast Artillery. Major Hutson
came from Atlanta, Ga., where he
was assistant director of the Civil
ian Conservation orps. His home
is in New Orleans.
LONGHORN SCHEDULE
July 21 to 27, Composite
Regiment Seniors.