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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.
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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.
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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,
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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