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VOL. XI
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MARCH 1, 1939.
NO. 22
WACO LEADS IN
MEETING PLANS
FOR APRIL 21
Getting the jump upon all other
A. & M. Clubs and localities in the
matter of April 21st meetings, the
Waco Club has announced its party
will be held on April 18. That date
was substituted for San Jacinto
Day because of local conflicts. Ad-
ditional details of the affair will
be announced at a later date, but
officers of the Waco Club expect
to make the occasion one of the
outstanding A. & M. meetings ever
held in Central Texas.
The custom of A. & M. men hold-
ing meetings on April 21st, or San
Jacinto Day, has been in vogue
many years. Where local clubs are
organized these meetings are
handled by club officers. Where no
club is organized any group of A.
& M. men, or any individual, is
asked to take the lead in planning
this annual meeting.
The AGGIE will welcome addi-
tional announcements about these
annual meetings, and the office of
the Association will be glad to fur-
nish a roster of the men of any
locality where a meeting is plan-
ned. Most gatherings will be held
on the night of April 21st, al-
though several groups will meet
on other nights of that same week
if these offer more advantageous |!
dates.
Bob Shiels Most
Seriously Hurt
In Auto Wreck
An automobile wreck near Groes-
beck on Feb. 14 seriously injured
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. “Bob” Shiels,
’10, Mrs. Herbert Stellmacher, and
Mrs. Jack Bailey, wife of Jack
Bailey, 14, all of Dallas. Bob
Shiels was the most seriously in-
jured and is still in a serious con-
dition at the St. Paul’s Sanitarium
in Dallas. The party was returning
to Dallas from College Station,
after visiting the sons of each of
those in the car. All of them suf-
fered broken bones. Latest reports
were that an operation would be
performed upon Bob Shiels as soon
as it was definitely known he suf-
fered from no serious internal in-
juries. His hip was badly crush-
ed in the head-on collision that oec-
curred when another car pulled out |
in front of the Shiels car without |
warning and with no chance of
avoiding the accident on the part
of Shiels. An executive of the
General Electric Co., in Dallas, Bob
Shiels is a past president of the
Dallas A. & M. Club, a present Di-
rector of the Association of Form-
er Students and a former member
of the Dallas Park Board.
5. W. LOUISIANA
AGGIES MEET
LAKE CHARLES
The Southwest Louisiana A. & M.
Club held its regular monthly
meeting on Feb. 16 in the Asso-
ciation of Commerce Bldg., Lake
Charles, with a big attendance.
Several cars of men were present
from other cities, some driving
over 50 miles to be on hand. Fea-
ture of the program was a report
by J. Y. Orms, 32, on spring foot-
ball and other campus news. Orms
had just returned from a visit to
the campus. Free beer was served
with the compliments of the Gulf
Brewing Co. of Houston and the
“Jitterbug” of Lake Charles.
The next meeting of the club
will be held at the same place at
7:30 P. M., Thursday, March 16,
with refreshments again served by
the above concerns. All A. & M.
men in that section are cordially
invited to be present. Officers of
the club include Graves Castle, 23,
President; P. L. “Two-Gun” Tracy,
26, and Louis Lenz, ’07, Vice
Presidents; J. Doug Toole, ’36,
Secretary-Treasurer; J. W. Pit-
man, ’34, Sergeant-at-arms; J. A.
Golasinski, ’34, Publicity Director.
Luke Ballard
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Luke L. Ballard, ’05, was recent-
ly transferred from Snyder to Kerr-
ville as county agent for the A. &
M. Extension Service. He succeeded
T. W. Hillin, ’31, who was transfer-
red to Fort Stockton. A past pres-
ident of the Association of Former
Students, Luke Ballard is widely
known among A. & M. men.
ED L. STAPP, ’31, IS WITH THE
Shaw Oil Company, 102 Guardian
Life Building, Dallas. His residence
address is 3632 Southwestern Blvd.,
of that city. Stapp is a regular at-
tendant of the Dallas A. & M. Club
and reports they have been having
very enthusiastic and entertaining
meetings. :
Chinese Graduate Of A. & M. Is One
Of China’s Agricultural Leaders
An internationally famous ex-
Aggie is H. Y. Moh, one of the
leaders in agricultural and indus-
trial circles in China. Following
six years of college work at the
Universities of Wisconsin and Illi-
nois, he received his degree of
Master of Science in agriculture
at Texas A. & M. in 1914.
After Mr. Moh returned to
China,, he used his abilities and
American education to improve the
methods for the production of
Chinese cotton, set up three cot-
ton mills, organized the Chinese
Cotton Mill-Owners Association,
served six consecutive terms as a
director of the Chinese Cotton
Goods Exchange which he helped
to organize, served as vice-minis-
ter in the Ministry of Industry,
Commerce, and Labor of the Re-
public of China, and at present is
chairman of the Committee for the
Promotion of Agricultural Pro-
duction in Chungking, China.
Mr. Moh was born in Shanghai
in 1876. He received his college ed-
ucation very late, not beginning
the study of English till he was
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twenty-one. He had experience as
a cotton firm apprentice, customs
clerk, head of a normal school,
and chief of police of a railroad
company, before coming to the
United States. He entered first
the University of Wisconsin, then
in 1911 the University of Illinois
where he received his Bachelor of
Science degree in 1913.
Since the outbreak of the Sino-
Japanese War Mr. Moh’s activity
has been great. Owing to military
operations in Shanghai, he left
for Chungking in May, 1938, to
receive a well-earned rest. But so
distinguished a business man could
not be overlooked in this national
crisis, and he was appointed to or-
ganize the Committee for the Pro-
motion of Agricultural Economics.
His committee is responsible for
the promotion of the production
of farm crops and hand-machinery
in conjunction with the program
carried on by the agricultural in-
stitutions in each province. His
work has bettered Chinese econo-
mic conditions and has helped to
increase the national resistance to
the Japanese armies.
Norton Pleased With Spring
Football - Passing, Kicking,
Blocking Show Improvement
With spring football practice in
its last week, next fall's Aggie
varsity team is taking shape. “A
fine spirit, better blocking than
we have had since I have been at
A. & M., better passing and bet-
ter kicking”, is Homer Norton's
summary of the practice session to
date. He and the other varsity
coaches, Bill James, Marty Karow,
Manning Smith, Charles DeWare
and Virgil Jones, agree that the
workouts so far have been very
satisfactory, despite an unusually
tough experience with the weather
man.
Climax of the spring session will
be next Saturday, with the staging
of the T Club’s annual Sports Day.
On that afternoon the first team
will be turned against the balance
of the big squad to show what it
can do.
Much time and work this spring
has been devoted to kicking and
passing. Best kickers are senior
Walemon Price, sophomores Derace
Moser and Euel Wesson, junior
Bill Connatser, squad-man Bud
Force and senior Frank Wood. Best
passers are Price, Moser, Marland
Jeffrey and Marion Pugh.
At this stage the only new men
showing likelihood of breaking into
the ranks of the lettermen for
starting positions next fall are
Derace Moser, back, and Bill Rob-
nett, guard, both sophomores. Odel
Hermann, letterman back who was
moved to center, has shown steady
improvement and may beat Tommy
Vaughn out of the starting place
although the aggressive Vaughn
will make a real battle out of the
competition.
Lettermen ends Jo-Jo White,
Herb Smith and Bill Duncan have
the edge at the end positions, with
squadmen Jack Kimbrough and
Bill Miller, freshmen Aubrey Dar-
by, Chester Heimann, J. R. Sterl-
ing, Willard Clark and Harold Cow-
ley next in line. Bill Dawson, let-
terman tackle last fall will report
at end at the completion of basket-
ball.
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Improvement of Chip Routt and
Charley Henke, reserve tackles of
last fall, has been one of the bright
spots of Bill James’s spring work
with the linesmen. They will give
Joe Boyd and Ernie Pannell ample
competition. Boyd has not done
much rough work this spring be-
cause of an injury. Present indica-
tions point to all the tackle play
being done by that quartet next
fall as the work of the sophomores
at this position has not been im-
pressive. Martin Ruby, Kyle Mec-
Phail and Leonard Joeris are the
leading youngsters.
A brother act might fill the
guard spots next fall if Fish Rob-
nett continues to show improve-
ment. His older brother, Marshall
Robnett, should be one of the Con-
ference’s best next fall. Letter-
man Bill Audish, squarmen “Bub-
ba” Reeves and Leon Rahn, and
freshmen Pete Henry, Roy Bucek,
Jude Walker and Zolus Motley
are next in line.
Tommy Vauhn, Henry Hauser
and Odell Hermann are the rank-
ing centers with squadman How-
ard Shelton and freshman Leon-
ard Holder as reserves.
BACKS IMPRESSIVE
Those Aggie backs continue to
look impressive. Letter-men Wale-
man Price, Marland Jeffrey, John
Kimbrough and Jim Thomason,
with freshman Derace Moser, are
running as the number one back-
field. All are fair-sized or larger,
fast enough, and powerful. Run-
ping on the second set are Marion
Pugh, Bill Connatser and Bob Hall,
letter-men, with Marshall Spivey
and Euell Wesson, freshmen. Ad-
ditional fill-ins are Carl Geer, Finis
White and Bud Force from last
fall's squad, “Alabama” Smith,
Pinkie Williams and several other
freshmen.
The spring program will end on
March 8. To date no serious cas-
ualties have been suffred, although
bad colds and minor injuries have
caused some loss of time for sev-
eral men.
Plans Complete For
T Club’s Sports Day
Bruno Schroeder, ’39, President
of the Cadet T Club, announces
that everything is in readiness for
his organization’s Annual Sports
Day program, to be held at Kyle
Field on the afternoon of Saturday,
March 4. A full afternoon, featur-
ing both baseball and football will
furnish entertainment for Aggie
athletic fans. An attendance of
several thousand, with delegations
of visitors from many cities of the
state is expected. The T Club will
make a charge of 50 cents, covering
not only the afternoon program,
but the athletic movies that night.
The program will open at 2 P.
M. with a baseball exhibition and
inter-squad game, under the direc-
tion of varsity baseball coach Mar-
ty Karow. The football part of the
program will open at 3 P. M. and
will include an introduction of play-
ers and coaches, exhibitions and ex-
planations of various kinds and
passing and kicking drills. Climax
of the afternoon will be a scrim-
mage under regular game condi-
tions. The afternoon will offer an
excellent line upon the strength
of both baseball and football for
their coming seasons.
The T Club has invited all A. &
M. men as well as the general
public and the student body to be
present. Proceeds of the day will
aid the club in financing its an-
nual dance, to be held on March 10.
H. L. Wilson,
College Employee,
Succumbs to Illness
H L. Wilson, an employee of the
Animal Husbandry Department of
A. & M., as a livestock caretaker
for the past fifteen years, died
yesterday afternoon of a brain
tumor, following a lingering ill-
ness,
Army Air Corps
Offers Openings
First Lieutenant W. L. “Jerry”
Lee, ’27, United States Army Air
Corps, calls attention to the ex-
cellent opportunities offered by
that branch of the Service to col-
lege men wishing to enter the
aviation field. He is stationed at
Kelly Field, Texas, and returned
last August after several years
duty in the Phillipines.
Men who have completed as
much as two years college work
are eligible to appointment as Fly-
ing Cadets with only a physical
examination. Cadets draw $75 per
month during training and are
furnished uniforms, equipment,
quarters, books and meals. Upon
completion of their course they
are commissioned Second Lieu-
tenants in the Air Corps Reserve
and given three years of active
duty with base pay and allowances
of $205.50 per month. At the con-
clusion of three year’s active duty
they are given a bonus of $500 and
placed in the Air Corps reserve
unless they are successful in ex-
aminations to fill any permanent
openings in the regular officer
personnel of the Air Corps.
Anyone interested should make
application for appointment to the
Adjutant General, Washington,
Pp. GC
Many A. & M. men are serving
in the Army Air Corps, both as
regular officers and on Reserve
status. With Lee at Kelly Field
are also Captain Leroy Hudson,
’27, First Lieutenant Bill Kennedy,
’28, and others. Lee is serving as
Post Field Maintenance and Field
Lighting officer, Post Transporta-
tion Officer, Officer in Charge of
Visiting Ships, and expects to re-
ceive his Captaincy in the near
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To College Men
Aids Governor
William J. “Bill” Lawson, ’22,
executive secretary of the Texas
State Parks Board, Austin, recently
went on an emergency assignment
as secretary to Governor W. Lee
O’Daniel at Austin. He expects his
present position to be only tempo-
rary after which he will return to
his regular work with the Parks
Board. He is vice president of the
Capitol City A. & M. Club.
Lawson’s career since leaving A.
& M. has been an active one. He
was with the Southern Pacific
Railway from 1922 to 1926—then
put in two years as manager of
the Center Chamber of Commerce.
From 1928 to 1930 he was proprie-
tor of a weekly newspaper in Cen-
ter and from 1931 to 1933 was man-
ager of the Mt. Pleasant Chamber
of Commerce. He spent a year in
Austin as private secretary to Sen-
ator J. W. E. H. Beck; then anoth-
er two years as manager of the
Huntsville Chamber of Commerce
before accepting his present posi-
tion with the State Parks Board.
N.T.A.C. and John
Tarleton May Become
Senior Colleges
If the opinion of the Senate of
the Texas Legislature corresponds
with that of the House, next year
North Texas Agricultural College
at Arlington and John Tarleton
Junior College at Stephenvile, both
branches of A. & M., will become
four-year college. A bill making
this possible was approved by the
House after being co-authorized
by Representatives Bose Reader
of Stephenville and H. A. Hull of
Fort Worth.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
won first in negative and tied for
first in affirmative with Baylor
University at the Southwestern In-
vitation Debate Tournament in
Austin this weekend.
Representing A. & M. were Don
Gabriels and John Nichols, affirma-
tive, and R. L. Doss and Mayo
Thompson, negative, on the sales
tax question. The A. & M. teams
did not place. Last year A. & M.
placed second in both divisions.
Brazoria Club
Repeats With
Library Gift
Following their initial step last
year the Brazoria County A. & M.
Club has again issued a challenge
to other Clubs to do something
worth while for the College by
making a second cash donation to
the A. & M. College Library. in
sending the club’s check to Libra-
rian Thomas Mayo, President Joe
S. Welboan, '06, gave the library
full authority to purchase any
books desired. The amount of the
gift was twenty-five dollars.
Composed of the Ex-Students of
Brazoria County and that general
area this club has enjoyed several
highly successful years. Its gift
to the library last year spurred the
Dallas A. & M. Club to assist in the
Directory project, and the club
hopes this year’s gift will point
the way to some other of the larg-
er clubs.
Officers of the organization for
the past year include Joe S. Wel-
boan, ’06, Freeport, President;
Warren Moore, 31, Alvin, and T.
M. Smith, Sr., ’01, East Columbia,
Vice Presidents; L. E. Bumgarner,
33, Secretary-Treasurer. The Club
meets monthly, the meetings alter-
nating between Freeport, Alvin,
Angleton, East Columbia and other
locations.
A. & M. Receives
Goat as Gift from
Governor O0'Daniel
A highly-blooded billy goat which
has been browsing around the
lawns of the Governor’s Mansion
in Austin since the inauguration
was, in Governor W. Lee O’Daniel’s
own words, “sent to college.”
A gift of the governor from
the citizens of Mills County in the
mohair-producing area of Texas,
the animal was turned over to
Texas A. & M. with the specifica-
tion it was to be used for educa-
tional purposes only.
“That goat became quite a mem-
ber of our family,” the governor
said. “We didn’t want to be par-
tial so, since other members of
our family were going to the Uni-
versity of Texas, we offered billy
to A. & M.
“T. O. Walton, president of A.
& M. put it up to the board and
they accepted it. I’m afraid we’ll
miss him.”
Dormitory Erection Progressing;
Features of New Halls Explained
Construction on the new dormi-
tories is progressing according to
schedule, according to Alfred C.
Finn, Jr.,, supervising architect.
Whether or not the dorms will be
finished by the time designated
depends mainly upon weather con-
ditions.
Foundation for the new mess hall
is now being laid. When completed,
it will accommodate 2,800 boys. It
is to be divided into two large
rooms of the same size, one on each
side of the main door, with the
kitchen between. In the basement,
which will be under the center of
the main floor, will be another
room of the same size as the two
above.
The dormitories, when finished,
will be of the same general design,
with a few variations to give a
more pleasing appearance. Each
hall will be divided in the center
by a partition. The side rooms will
be 11 by 14 feet, with an individual
closet for each occupant, one large
aluminum-framed window, a lav-
atory and medicine closet. The cor-
ner rooms will be 12 by 14, with
Jtwo windows. For each side of the
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hall on each floor, there will be a
shower room with six showers. The
rooms will have concrete floors and
ceilings, and plaster walls. In addi-
tion to the regular light sockets in
the walls, each room will be equip-
ped with a plug-in socket to a
built-in radio aerial wnich will be
installed.
The dormitory being erected on
the east side of the mess hall will
be used as a band hall, and will
have, on the top floor, a practice
room large enough for the entire
band.
Dormitory No. 8, west of the
mess hall, will be equipped for the
athletes. It will contain a steam
room, an X-ray room and various
other conveniences for the benefit
of athletes in training.
In Dorm 7, next to Consolidated
School, on the ground floor, will
be a reception room, furnished and
conducted by the Y. M. C. A,
which will occupy the space of
about 8 normal rooms. It will be
furnished for ladies, and may serve
as a waiting room for visitors to
the campus.