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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1933)
FRONT BASEMENT I i,*^ » I f I * . ■. ■ . - lit \ Published Weekly By The Studento of The A. & M. of Texas si r*. XXXII COLLEGE STATION. JANUARY 4, 1933. NUMBER 14 Over Four Hundred “Hu” Cases . And Four Cases of Pneumonia Cared For By College Hospital New Harvard Captain Smile Wcrth $500 £S 1 hick-call patient*. The achie- pnt becomes all the more our During the epidemic that swept 1 usual the campuH preceding the Christ mas holidays four hundred and flee standihg when it is recalled that cases of '‘flu” and four cases of neither doctors nor nurses were ad- pneuraonia were handled by the ded to the staff at any time during ! staff of the college hospital with- the endemic. out the loos of a single patient. At In Addition to two regular sto- oCie stage of the situation there dent employees of the hospital, five were one hundred and sixty-five others were recruited to help Air sick to be cared for along with the inf thr worst stages of the “llu" pi l - wav*. 'According to Mrs. Claghorn. assistant superintendent and head nurse, j Joe Harlan and W. P. Hair bert, regular employees, along with W. R Langston. G. E. Wise. J. |W. I DoUaVta, L. Farber. and 0. A. Montgomery rendered invaluable service by assisting in various ways with the general hospital duties 11 connected with the handling of the Batteries “A" and “E" Field ••nr* number of patients under Artillery’ Win Second and rather {crowded conditions. Third Places. Foun thousand one hundred and fifty-three meals were served d*r- Company “B” Engineers took in * H • nd • Uhou l h "4^ | first place in the intramural small of the P"'**"* cuffering frdm B ENGINEERS WIN INTRAMURAL SMALL BORE COMPETITION John H. Dean, class of '34. full hack wa the Harvard varsity font j ball team, was elected captain of the 10X1 eleven. Dean Is twenty- one years of age, weight 101 pounds and 6 feet 2 Inches tall He pre pared at Exeter. His home Is (‘o basset. Mass. He was a member of his freshman football and hockey teams and won numerals In both sports. bore rtfle competition which was completed December 17. The team is composed of J. W. Mallepell. T.- P. Guerdrum, E. Stuter, J. R. Gill and W. M. Roberts., Second and third places went to Field Artillery Batteries “A” and “E”, respective ly- Five men shooting high score tor the match were E. H. Moore, “D” Field Artillery, with a score of ninety nine out, of a possible 100. J. W. Runyan, “A" Signal Corps, 99. Jack Mailepel, ‘B" En- gineers, 98, C. A. Tosch, ‘H” In- fantry, 98. J. B. Hemen, “E” Field Artillery, 98. Results for the contest are as fallows: Tea— Score “B” Engineers ( .+. 479 “A” Field Artillery 471 “B" Field Artillery _... 470 ‘‘D’’ Field Artillery 469 “A” Signal Corps ...... 468 “CT Field Artillery ...... 467 “A" Engineers 465 “A” Coast Artillery 464 “ly’ Cavalry’ 463 “F” Field Artillery 462 “B" Coast Artillery 459 “D” Infantry : ...... 457 f “C" Engineer* , .... 467 | “A” Infantry 454 “B". Infantry 466 “B" Signal Carps 4M “C” Cavalry .:... 449 “B" Field Artillery 4, 4371 Band .... 414 Other organizations were unable to complete their scores due to the ! | intestinal influenza and were kept on a strictly liquid diet this was no smgll feat as the hospital cook caught the mumps almost at the beginning of the rush period and wav forced to turn his duties over to another. Practically all of the students were able to go to their homes at the beginning of the Christmas Holida; only one being forrpd to remain in the hospital after that Daughier of Former * mandant Buril'd In i tery at Washington. The death of Miss Helen Nelfon daughter of Coldnel Charles J. Nelson, former Commandant of A and M College, occured Christ mas Day in, the Station hospital at Fort Snailing, Mianesota. fol lowing a severe atu ek of pneumo nia. Pneumonia developed from a bad cold of several w*4ks standing. Mias Nelson during her stay at college Station- took t prominent part in practically every social ac tivity on the campue and was re cognized as an excellent home- woman. Funeral services were held . at Fort Snelling. and interment wa$ as Arlington Cemetery,; Waahingion, D. C. Miss Nelson i* survived by her father, 4'olonel Charles Nel son, her mother, and kjaister. j New Members Be To Initisted POOR CADETS TAKE By R.V.’s Sunday MARRIAGE VOW AT HOME DURING XMAS I s; Banquet In Mena Hall Honor ing New Mem here To Fol low Initiation. i the »ret irn of the corps there has been no recurrence of the “flu” and "nditidns are back to normal with only a Iew students confined to the hospital at the present time. TWENTY GET ana TERM ENOS I Initiation of the new Junior and Senior members in the company of Ross Volunteers will be held Sun day afternoon according to an an nouncement yesterday by the com mittee in charge of arrangements. This committee is composed of E. 0. Wurzbach. San Antonio. Hora tio Durst MI, Crockett, and T. B. Craddock, Burnett. A banquet will be given all mem bers in the Mess Hall Annex Sun day night at which time the king of the R. V. court will be selected and the chairmen and members of music, program, and various r committees will be selected the annual R. V. festivities to be held the week-end of April 20 to 22. inclusive. The following is a list of new Dulje of Newark. N. J., merdiy had to smile nnd s check for K.*rfk| .was handed to her. This was tiecags* the judges In the recent nn Ilona] |mlle« (Contest decided that ie was the most heiintlful o» 1 competing. Mary received from the hand of Mr* D. Hoi*aevelt. wife of the t-elect Attack Is To Sod Of iProfessor Synopsis of ■ Athletics b The 1 Conference Shows Southwest Is On Uphill Climb In Football Hy E. L. WILLIAMS Battalion Sparta Editor Although King Football has re tired until next fall in favor of jother sports, there are still sever al things that might be ntentioned in connection with Southwest Con ference Sports. Outstanding is the rise in importance of the South west Conference in the eyes of the Eastern critics. A few years ago even the great Joel Hunt could get no more than .ft : i Dr Rumors of Other Marriages Occurring Durinf Chiit-p* man Hoi.days Cm.Id Not Be mtUcl •Cmfinned P« meeti Despite the fact that business r(ice i charts have hot yet noticeably started their much-Ulked-of and looked-for uptrend, fbpr Aggies Names of Studenta Eligible Seniors to be initiated Sunday: A. for Vlid Tern, (in.du.tion. E Br} *"- J ' L rh * l> - man, Lockhart; A. C. Elliott Pilot joined the ranks of the Benedicts during the recent hcr.uia.v- P.m haps there were more waddings |n which students of this Icollege were involved—and there have been ru mors of others—but the reports could not be Confirmed. W. R. Montague of Beaumont and Miss Ru^h Aatrey of Fort W’orth were mgrried at e(ght-thiriy o'clock Christinas morning in t|e First Methodist Church in Beap- mont. Montagu* is a senior in “H” Company Infahtry and' i« to re ceive his degree in Petrideum Pro duction Engineering in June. Mns. Montague attended Sophie Ne^- Sons Illness Brings From Scientific Con In* Atlantic City. Merwtn Bilsing, 6, son of , W. Bilsing, head of the department of Entomology, died V December 23, following an gf influenza. Dr. Bilaing was jut the time, visiting his while enroute to a science at Atlantic City. When he news of his son's serious be returns to College 8ta il, d not arrive before arrive ly was sent to Ohio, the Dr. Msing's parents, for ie is survived by his par- a brother. candidates for ficatea were days. A total of &8-I women students at the University of California in Los Angeles are either entirely or partially self-supporting, a survey •hows. Eighty-six of the co-eds pay all their own expenses. r trt-m rtlfic yknoi office, lucre is an in the dumber of the degrpe of Bad Point; Donald Elliott, Keller; J. comb College bnd is teaching |n M. Henderson. Calvert; T. H. Ma- lh * Beaumont Public Schools. Jim lone. El Paso; J. C. Moody, Corpus Keith of Beauntont and « graduate it Show To Be Friday Night By are Committee The Student Welfare Committee is sponsoring Jhe picture ‘The Thirteenth Guect”. starring Ginger Rogers It will be shown in the Assembly Hall Friday night at fix thirty with a twenty-five cent admission charge. Proceeds from dr« will be used to finance the Committee'k recently adopted Sunday ^afternoon artivit> prog ram w hich will include athletic con- CHALLENGES FROM ISO UNIVERSITIES Sixty Matches Have Scheduled for Aggie Team. M !Wi honorable mention from the ribes in the East and Middle eat, where football has lived the longest. Other great players did not receive even a mention. L At tha cloae of the 1932 season two players from the Southwest made several of the All-American teams. Vaught of T. C. if. Challenges from 130 colleges and universities have been received and accepted and sixty matche.« have keen arranged for the A and M Rifle Team according to Lieuten ant J. E. Reierson, coach of the team and director of rifle marks manship. The first intercollegiate match is scheduled for the week be ginning January 1A. Sixty-eight members have been tentatively to comprise the tty rifle squad for the period nuary 2 to January IS during ehich time final training and eli mination will take place. Tbe team .fill be cot down to fifty members with the ten men on the “A” and “B” squads representing the col lege in matches. Lieutenant Reierson also stated that there is an excellent oppor tunity far new men to make the team as there were only a few men available from last year’s squad. Aggies Open Quint Season With Tilt f I . - jjSJfr v 1 Against Rice Owls ftienoria. Gym Win Be Scene of Aggies* First CMpfowrt Game Saturday Night. was named on tfcl first Associated Press team, the one choseir by >iajor Ralph Sasse. Army coach, nnd was eliminated by Grantland Rice only at the very last when he pot Suaunerfelt of Army over rim. Had he named a second team Vaught would undoubtedly have been on it. Harrison Stafford of Texas, ac- rlaimed by many as the bes^ block ing ha^kjpe Southwest has ever produced, was rated along witji Ernie P.nrkert of the 1931 national Been Champion Trojans of Southern Cal- Rifle Ifornta, by Mr. Rice. In choosing his back field Mr. Rice eliminated hem down to the last halfback Kisition. Hitchcock, of Alabama Polytechnic wa* chosen over Staf ford “only because of his all- around brilliance.” This Texas boy vas also chosen on the Associated *res8 second team. Other players i Mentioned by moat of ths critics vere Koy of Texas and Boswell of r. c. u. It was in 1927 in the East-West fame whea two stars from the $outhwa*t, Joel Hunt of the Ag- and “Rag*” Mathews of T. C. figured greatly in a Western tqrjr, «nd in this last East-West classic this year the West won ^1-13. Ernie Koy and Harrison Stafford of Texas ran, plunged, and then cleared the way for the three Western touchdowns in the game this yenr.' The Southwest probably will me into its own. Football start- year* ago in the East. Harvard (Continued on page 4) - First ft/ Deadline For Club Section In Annual candidate* fof Bachelor of Scienct and T. W. ef V REVFILLE SPENDS XMAS PLAINTIVELY ON THE CAMPUS While Jhe majority of the students of the college were enjoying the diversions and comforts of home during the Christmas Holidays, Reveille was a lonesome little pup and the deserted campus was a new and queer and almost heartbres|(ing world for her. The students who remained on the catnpus lived in P. G. Hall and Reveille made her headquarters there, but few of the fellows wore their uni forms during the holidays and the khaki that Reveille knows and loves so well was conspicuously absent It has been reported that each time she saw k khaki clad figure she made for it regardless of how far away it might be and just to be near someone in uniform seemed to make her the happiest pup on earth as exemplified by her playful capers and her attitude of a- doration. Now that the stu dents hare returned and khaki is to be seen every where Reveille has reverted to type and is the same high- toned and snooty creature that she was before the holi days! Such is woman. ==? Townsend. Bastrop; Vaughan. Jonesville. this yeaij while the number of thosd Juniors include; J. A. Aston, applying) for the degree of Master Farmersville; B. F. Carter, Shre- of Science is about the same as i# report. La; C. W. Cox, Buta; M. L. student at A end M wgs best mah tests, picture shows, and concerts. With the Baylor Bean, defend- Decembef 24th R. F. Maf- — ■ j ■■ - ing basketball champions of the quez of Yofktown and Sliss Maria Y. M. C. At To Present Southwest, opening against the Luisa Casanova of SaRiAo, Mbxiqo LX ‘ a , strong Texas Longhorn* in Austin, were married in N'ueVa Laredb. Frefj V 00001*1 SltllQfty and the T. C. U. Horned Frogs , taking on the sophomore team of Good ProgreaH Is Being Made On 1933 Yearbook Accord ing To Gottlieb. former awarded gree« a. awarded The ca. irs. Eleven degrees wer* it this time last year. De« certificates are to bd January 28. 1933. i.dates include: Master of Science Bright. Houston; R. W. Clennin. Hereford; G. H. Fairbanks. Dallas; J. P. Flynn, Port Arthur; R. W. Fichtner San Antonio; N. B. Gil- illand, Hereford; Jack Harding. South Bend. Indiana; L. B. Howard, Mexico. Marquez is 4 "enior hi “E" Company Infantry hnd is tfc) graduate m L tiers I Art* at the end of the next term. F. M. Graves and InJlfMeMBI Sprouls were married at the A*- l Imont Sterling Allison. Bryan, Shreveport, La.; C. B. Russey. Ft Afrtoritmi Engineering; Andrew' Worth; T. E. Jarman. Waco; J. H. Forrest Reid. College Station, Ru-i ral Ed Mention. Bachelor of Science Agricu^ura: Herbert Henry Bak- rille; Zach O. Dameron. Imqr Johnson. Ft. Worth; L. M. Land. Vivian. La.; D. M. LsRoe, Pales tine; Homer Lee,, wiebita Falls; C M. Mast. Dallas; R. A. W. Mc Bride. Dallas; J. G. Mailer. Corn- Mark Landrum, Tay- merce; jC. H. Meyer, Ellinger; R. Martin Ragsdale. Me er. Some Del Rio; lor; El Allen. Agricultural Administration: Var non Gljm Davis, Dallas; Harry Carr Schinner. Jr., Houston. Civil Eights—ing: Wilton W. Andrews, Mad.snnville; Raleigh E. Denison, Temple; Ford Egbert, Waco; Hairy Louis Fischer. Hous ton; Graham Me Fie Hatch. Jr„ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Tim othy Charles Kenney, East St. Louis, Illiaoif; Charles Marshall Lago Dallas; Jesse Marcus Me-1) Millan, Sap Antonio. Agricultural Education: Lenert Charles Uoseh, Austin; Leymon Newton Miller, StephenviUe. W. Palm. Bellville; B. B. Ramsey. Marshall; Ross Reed. Ft Worth; L. A. Shoan, El Paso; C. N. Smith. Houston; T. R. Tims. Halletsville; G. H. Weber. Houston; J. H. Wil lard, Giddings; V. G. Young, Refu gio; and L 0. Zapp. Houston. Mr. fed Mrs. Haney Byrd Kline will gl^e a concert of entertainment iM draojla and mbsic at the Assem bly Hajl Sunday afternoon at one <»'< lock^under the auspices of the lington Heights Presbyterian Y'.M.C*.^, . Church in Frfrt Worth on Decern- ; The; ^ogram consists of dra- ber 22. Ben Carter of A and M niatic UMdings; sacred melodies on Served Ms best man. Graves is a the piano, accordion, musical saw, Junior in Battery “A”j Coast An- guita^ piano and vocal tillery and is studying Chemical JleetiMt Engineering Mr*. Graves studied j n ^ fogr.ye.rs these ar- at T. C. U. and both aha and her tikts hirfee traveled more than one husband are natives of Fort Worth. | hindred and twenty five thousand O. E. Teague of Colleg aad Miss Freddie Duniitai Worth were mgrried |a Oklahoma on December iO Teayue is a member of Company M G’ Ini fan try and is majoring in Agricul tural Education. Station miles, of Fort clqureii DurantL ■f The Battalion Announces Its Annual Short Story Contest; Fourth Of March Is Deadline eryone ing in schools and the nation. In they have filled more hundred engagements, been in University of of Industrial Arts, , and Teachers Col- 1 merer, Nacogdoches larcos. rrt will be free and ev- i (Cordially invited. Get Book i j Ir Smith, Rural Morehead, . Cotton Certificat Dallas. Education: Newton R. ition: Arthur Owen Station. ing and Classing Vernon Glynn Davis, The last mule-drawn street car in Mexico City has been retired and tha public conveyances are now all busses. Hegd of; tMHMtb As has been the custom in the of their best efforts along the lin- j book es of literary endeavor. past The Batts I ion will again spon sor a short story contest for the pleasure and remuneration of em bryo authors among the members of the corps. Without • doubt there are many students enrolled in this pollege who possess the imagma- and creative ability necessary successful short story writing it is the hope of The Battalion a large number of the students consider the project worthy roue r. literary endeavor. , Throe prises art to be given for the best stories submitted. These, swards will be |l<i, $10, hnd $5 and will be given to ths best, second b«*rt, and stories, respectively, will be J. P. Abbott, C. and Harper Br sions will be (Continued 4) RONT basement hundred ‘ libmry. ume* ing* t lectad ::;;i property'Of avaflable* to Ernest Langford, Department of Archi- recent purchase of the del Arte Mex- at a coat of two lollars ]s an important ta the architectural li- edition is in three ml- gostains measured draw- colored illustrations eol- ' archeologists who have in Mayan and Aztec 1883. The work is the the department and is students and others Sduthem Methodist that was brilliant last year as a freshman team. Conch John Reid's maple court quintet will make their 1933 dehut when they tangle with the Rife Owl five on the Memorial Gyknnasium court here Saturday night The Owls are appearing far the firtt time under the tutelage af Jimmy Kitts, new Owl mentor who attained national recognition a few years ago when his Athens Hiyh Hornets twice in successiovi «"C the schoolboy champion.«hip of the United States. With seven games already be hind them the Reidmen are an- xiods to start their conference season off with a victory over an apparently weaker Owl five. Still fre4> in their minds though is die defeat handed them last year by the Owls when they gave the Ag gies! a 40-29 drubbing in Houston aftef being dubbed the underdog before the game. Irf the first game of the aaaaen the Aggies lost to the Texaco five from Houston, a team composed of several conference stars of for mer; years, by > the close score of During their Christmas hol iday! tour they lost two games to Paper Comany team ef Southern A. A. U„ . one game to tbe Lum- of the Stephen F. Austin Teacher* College of Nscog- , champions of the Lone last year and who to repeat the feat with yet more / a—pertssKwd All Fr—M** 1 * and Sophbmoites o are contemplating having their cturee appear in the club section the Longhorn must have them de by the first week of Febru ary, according to B. M. Gottlieb. w (Wsicana, editor of the annual. Gjottlieb also announced that Jun iors and Seniors who have had pic- twr— ires made for the class sections add who expect to place them in tHe club section must have the re print.- made before February first. To expedite the work on thw year book all money due for club page* must be paid by the fifteenth of this month. Ike Morris is hand)- F these f inane as and all pay ments are te be made to him at 27 G4odwia. ottiieb stated that all phases of! work now* in progress are up the Hcfiedule and that everything is working out satisfactorily but the peration of the corps cannot ne if the present rate of prog- re$s is to be sustained. (Continued on Page 8) HEAVY; TOLL ON HOSPITAL SUPPLIES EXACTED BY FLU Some particularly edifying »tati-tn - on the recent three- eek influenza epidemic were out today by Mrs. assistantsuperin tendent of the College Hos- l«tal. The hospital usad ap proximately twelve pints of castor oil (ugh!), 6300 eggs, tiDSO oranges, and 625 gal- Ifns of milk in the feeding arid treatment of the 409 fai- f uenza aad pneumonia eases The College Mess Hall eo- operated with the hospital in furnishing and preparing the f*od for tbe patients. t