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front baseme 7 ! 1 M •• « I XXXII Published Weekly By The Students of The A. & M. Colleffe of Texh« COLLEGE STATION. TEKAS, FEBRUARY H? 19:1.1. L ' y ' Cv N ‘ .9* VOLUME NUMBER 21 -i— Ma” Ferguson to tH Campus '‘Sleuths’ Successfully Use Detective Magazine Methods To Retrieve Stolen Radio Set Recent Burglar Mystery Is*.' Solw d By Student* In Truei Sherlock Holmes Style. Sensation of Turf Hardly in sn-ord with the calu mniation* of English professors directed toward detective story magasines. t' same magasii eflt derived by applying prehend a crin tion. Oscar H; M Hawkshaw” now called valiant stodei cessfully traih tale. Lewis Jon< *CT Battery, ticed 4 the first sad year during treat last weel returned from suppef. the U discovered, stranger ware members of tl in particular i tails af the sti Later that m Gens burg wei Bryan on the 1 disciples of these showed some ben- >m these journals rir methods to sp inal at College Sta le, recently named Aaron Genaburg. itson”, are th^ two sleuths who sue- the villian of this cadet captain of i'ield Artillery, no- rr loitering around >nd ramps of Pur- formation for re- 'When the students le Mess Hall after of a radio was criptions of the iroadcast among the battery and Hyde i emembered the de- inger’s appearance, me night Hyde and lie returning from ^us when Hyde was accosted by a civilian who asked him at what tine taps was blown at college. Hyde was struck by the resettibiancr of this civilian to the description given by Jones, and when the bus .arrived at college, both Hyde and Gensbnrg followed him. When the trail lead to the supposed scenerof the crime, these student sleuths.' apprised the mem ber# ojr the student battery of their information, ghe battery arose in force hnd comdelled the suspect to enter the dormitory where they proceeded to give him a “third de- -.f- 4— -'f —1 (Continual on Page 4). Monte Parke, of the famous tsm- lly of jockefa. Is the new riding sensation of American tracks and Is pitching Ihe family name to an:even higher level of skill than did IVirley and Iran I’arke years ago. Monts has made a fcood start toward win ning the Aaiet’lran Jockey champion ship for umi EIES READY R MUSTANG 10 PROG TILTS Reilmen To Make Last Ap- On Home Court TIH With Schmidt’s Frogs. ilant over their two consecu- v let ones over the University rkansa* Razorbacks, a feat that i speaks well for the new pow er oil the Aggies, Coach John Reid's five will return to Memorial Gyngiasium this week to appear for the last two times before the corps before journeying to Aus tin tt> end their season against the championship-bound Longhorns on Marih 4. The Aggies will meet Fraifcis Schmidt’s Horned Frogs Fridgy night, and on Monday night will (tangle with the Southern Me thodist quintet. Both of these tean^s have already defeated tht Aggies by narrow margins on pre- viouk occasions. Afjter defeating Arkansas, a leant that the Frogs were rather hard pressed to conquer in their own backyard, the Farmers will ranki as even odds to defeat thel boys from Cowtown, although the decorations will be used for the reg- Many Visitors vf Expected For Architect Ball Egyptian Motif Used By Ar chitectural Students For Annual Beaui-Arts Ball. Many visitors ary expected to be on tile campus this Week-end V i 1 " j I I» • when the members (of the Archi- rectursl Club entertain with tneir annual Beaux-Arts Ball’ The Ball vill be formal and attendance will be restricted to the architectural students of the co'lege. their pro fessors. and their fronds. Lawrence Welk and his "Biggest Utile Band In America^ will fdrnish the mu sic for the danee which will be teld from $ until 2- o'clock in the Mess Hall Anneg os Friday even .ng, February 24. Elaborate decorations have been Jestgned for the ^all by T. S. .loots, Marshall, asiisted by C. E. II C0“ED ^° vernor Miriam A. Ferguson Accepts Invitation To Attend omplefe Senior Court An nounced By L. W. Storms, Jr.. Kirtg of 1933 Ross Vol- I unteers Festivities. Miss Mary Carr Burnett of San Antonio, student at the University .f Ti xas^; will reign «a Queen of he Rows- Volunteer festivities this spring, seconding to L. W. Storms, Jr. ( SanfAntonio, King of the emni." Tip Maid of Honor will be Miss Bernice Rihn. San Antonio, wcorted by E. 0. Wurxbach, also xf San Antonio. Duchesses and escorts trill be as follows: tMisw Lyle Seley, Waco, and D. M£ Ekhelberger,' Wsco; Miss Kathering Montgomery, Denton, iivl Horatio Durst, Crockett; Miss Ruth Snftk, Wallis, and W. P. Crmeger, Paris, and! these are now Machemdhl, Bellville; Miss Pauline in the process of installation. Ac- ^ cording to Roots, sn Egyptian mo tif will be followed with much col or blending being used to bring out the desired effeots. Under present plans t)ie same Turns Pro Wrestler AGRONOMY SOCIETY TO OFFER BRIDGE TOURNAMENT SOON are conceded by the various to have the stronger team, especially since the 42-26 drubbing that (they handed the hitherto un defeated Longhorns in Fort Worth on Monday night. The outcome of the Friday night battle will more than likely decide which of the ular corps dance Which . will be held the following night, Saturday. The Aggieland Orchestra will play for this affairj Officers of the Architectural Club are as follow^: J. L. Chap man, Lockhart, president; R. E. O’Connell, Waco, vicr-prasiaetit; W. i-undw for Traveling Fallow- ship for W1 C ontest To Tourney* . Longhorns, who have to win only one more game to. clinch the title. . Tht Fnag-s we now. easting,ia. *sr- • inners of Cotton ’ond place »ith two defeats and six Be Raised By wins, whil# the Farmers have lost | three games and won six to oc- - cupy third place. A victory here A bridge ;tournameat, proceeds rridsy night will not cinch second from which ivill be directed to the place honors for the Aggies, but it Cotton Congest traveling fund, will 4or the Schmidt-men. will be heldtMarck 2 at the Bryan DIBPLAY IN LIBRARY I'tne collection of Japcnevc* arc now on display m the two thams will be runner-up to the S - Blodgett, C ran*, secretary; and ghorm,. who have to win onlv W - Sanders. Bryan, Treasurer. -| Cacret T To C. E. Students cadet •iejd i Country Clufe), under the auspices of the Agrdnomy Society, it was A announced l4st week by Mrs. Cur- print! tis Vinson, tournament chairman. Winners in both contract and auction bridge and “forty-two" librarian's of lice in the library. These may be seen daring any of the library's open hours and are TIE RALE will be awarded prizes offered by (also lor sale at prices ranging iCbminiftee* Plan* for tion* of Yi tamed To nal Social Func Bryan merclgnts. Entrance charg- j es will be One dollar per table, making tweijty-five cents per per son. The toumfcment will begin at Lay 2:30 p. m.. fallowing a luncheon in from Herplding (he approach Spring and Final Week, commit tees fdr the Jurtior Banquet, Junior Prom, and Filial Ball have been named by H. u. Wendler, Boerne, pvoskmat 'of the Junior Class. ConSmitteem<4i for these final social {activities! of the current col lege year are j ns follows: R. N. re jns 1 Reid, Fort w|>rth, T. L. Speed, Midland, and Tj R. Timm, Halletts- ville, committe# in charge of the dnneo^: T. A. Gilmer, C. J. Anderson, Lswn, and D. M La the Mess Hall. The entire after noon will be dwoted to bridge and “forty-two”, t The evening session of will begin af 7:30 p. m., and last until all winters are decided upon. EntertainU|eBt, in the form of various gam<s, will be supplied throughout the entire evening for those who VTeary of bridge. Re freshments aril) , be Served, for which only a nominal sum will be charged. Roe, Palestine, j favors and pro grams; T. S. Roots, Marshall, A. R. Wright, Sait Antonio, and Vir gil Peacock. Mineola, decorations prove the committe#; Jstkt Harding, Dallas, lete of toda W. A Herring, Taylor, and M. L. Bright; Houston, publicity. Scholastic Standing of Aggie Track Men Well Above Average ,1- Latest reports from the Regis trar's office! of this colfm* dis belief that tie ath- goes to school pri marily ;for tie purpose of partici pating in athletics. This is espe cially tpue ot Coach Frank Ander son’s 1933 track team. With a squad of ittvmty-five mqp. includ ing all men Who are opt and eli- Marooned gible for competition, Ihe average — hours passed'jware 174, while the Stafford is ' not Godless, the ■verage couAJf at A and M re Stanford Daily reported this week. W'rtn only if hours a term. Coach after asking leading students the Anderson beliaves this to be a new following quesBon: scholastic regord for any athletic “Wbat two h oks would you take team at A and M. with you if you were to spend the No member of the team was de rest at your Ife on a desert is- dared ineligible due to his scho- land?" (T lastie standing. Salvador Marquez, Mo#t of then replied that they senior from fork town and captain would take the Bible. Shakespear- of the cross-gountry team, led the e’s works was second choice for list of number of hours passed with many of those questioned. 23. 16c to $1.75. -Ji l C. P. Besse, Kngis, o lieutenant. Battery lA Field Artil lery, delivered a talk on t|to “His tory of Bridges” before the meet ing of the Student Chapte^ of the American Society |*f Civil Engi neers in the Civl Engineering Building recently |{ The paper prepared If Bess# delved into the history of (he first bridges ever built, and reviewed the structures throtgh the impor tant bridges of today. Dm vis, Bpypn, and W. 8. Blodgett, Craae; Miss Leila Davis, Bryan, and W. E.' Holke Houston; Miss Alice OliVty Smith, Austin, and E. Ford, Crockett; Miss Emmy Lou King, Ft. Fkorth, and Q. H. Smith, San Anfpiuo; Miss Sarah Orth, College Station, and J. A. Aston, Pannerswe; Miss Adrian Rose, Austin, H. W. Perkins, Dallas; Miss Hagignse Born, Dallas, and A. M. Emery, Dallas; Miss Jane Braxeltott, Waco, and J. R. Mont gomery, The JifAlor escort has not been definite!^ decided upon, but will be annotgKed in the near future. Storms paid today. Misses Joan .Seal and Patricia Caraoll of Col lets* StatjoVi will be trgin-bearers. The Rgss Volunteers held their first dril Tuesday afternoon. At first''* 1 ** definite organization of the copiRgny into a drilling unit wax effected and a drdl schedule walii announce*!. Drills xfrll be held on Mondpy, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings, j Annual Cotton Ball And Pageant ' .VtlUP^ “•Several Legislatore And Em- Governor Jim Ferguson AJso Likely To Be PreMBlx A. K.rgwm has acc present 4* Gig Annual A and M Cotton Ball and Pageant, provid ing it is pit all possible for her to leave Augtin at that time, accord ing to J. ;S. BAogford, professor of Agronomy snri chairman of the Pageant. Ex Gon-mOr Jim Fergu son will probably accompany his wife end a number of the members of the legislature have signified that they will be here for the oe- Mr». Ferguson’s party, ord said today. 'or the Ball, which is to Lpril 7, and which pro- e one of the outstanding the Mar, are practically complete according to Allan E. Bryant, Oorsidena, president of the | Agronomy Society. The students of the Cbllegt of Industrial Arts ere to select the Queen of the Ball and the King will be choaen from the A and M Cadet Cofpa, Bryant stated. I j •' . A-ibaamk mating from 7 to 9 p. m. will precede the ball and will i be followed immediately by the Cotton Pageant in which seventy- five girls will promenade wearing b 1 * cotton dfesses cut in the latest styles. These dresses are to be I A DUD HHIIDUDO AI? furni,,hedi w* 1 ® of tb® lending LAuUll W U IflDljllk) UT mdnufsetarers ot the South. The PsffUint (s to be followed by r ENTRIES RECEIVED giiaoS and keg patiy find it^B- casion Mr. Plans be held mises to events o! J. Hokolls. i-MplHin hI Ihe Unlveritliy of 1‘etin*.r|«unm's toot ball lean: Insl fnll. has uirmil pro fessloiaii wrest; 1 ® 1 ' «n»l will try to earn ns high s rahkint in the mar sport ha he dld< on the gridiron He will not quit (Oliege to follow new I'ruresslnn, IN1ST0RY CONTEST Several Authors Have Al ready Submitted More Than One Story In Battalion Con- >taM. venient to attend, they. togeC with the 'King and Queen of the Ball wilj occupy the reviewring stand during the Pageant. to “Experts”—An Editorial r It appeals to our sardonic sense of humor to realize that the* group- of “experts" who made the survey of i-A and M College snd of the government of the State of Tfxa* came fdom Chicago. As the governmental and educatiotjal system of the City of Chicago is widely known to be in a state of ctiaox. this increases the humor of the situation. The “experts” from Chicago were on the campus ap proximately three and a half days snd during thcir jinvestiRa- tion gave no officer of the college, or member of ,4he Board of Directors, an opportunity to explain any of the threewhUn- dred and eighteen pages of recommendations made by the “ixperts. 1 * Opinions of the "experts" were undoubtedly sub jrirt to bias and prejudice as they .came to College Station wfth one purpose in mind and did not give Presidept Walton, member of the administration, any opportunity to lea thern the workings of the college. t I L ,, may be of interest to the readers of the Battalion to that the chief counselor of these educationalists was at “expert” named Reeves who arms formerly the head of (lie department of education at Elmira College, Elmira. New York. This college is a liberal arts school for girls with an enrollment of 595 in the 1931-82 session. Mr. Reevm’ courses were discontinued because the demand for courses pffered J>y his department was not appreciable. At the timh that he w»s selected chief counselor of the committee he il reported td have been without employment. Another angle of- the reports and decisions of (this cem- rr ittee of “experts” is that this committee said in ‘substance that the people of -th# State of Texas are incapable!of select ing their own officers. Their actual statement as published ii their recommendations is: “Selection by popalaf, alaeflMli ( he method now used to select the state superintendent of public instruction) of officers best qualified personally, 4*** fessionally. and by experience to deal with the problems of education is, of course, an impossibility i lt 1s regrettable that the state legislature should see fit spend money for criticisms of our government by-men with h qualifications as these “experts” had. - Two Games, 25-21 I-R3, In FayttteviBe. By ngniilH two consecutive games fron{ the University of Ark ansas in'Fayetteville last Friday and SattA’dpy nights, tioach John Reid’s Tjbcfs Aggie quintet ac- > omplishfd j a feat that no other hn|kuthai‘loam in the conference can boast $f this year. The Far<- tners trimmed the Porkers in a neat way'Friday night by a score of 25-21 j and then came back v strongar mturday night to again rad up 2$ joints while the Rau>r- backs scarfed only 23. After uwqrcoming s 2-point lead early in (Bg first game, the Aggies lumped ifeto a lead that, was never ibre Students who are planning enter manuscripts in the Battalion Short Rtory Cdntest are reminded that Saturday, March 4. is the last day ot) which stories will be ac- ceptnd. The contest closes promptly at noon on that date. Up to present time a fairly rep resentative number of stories have been received; but more are anti cipated before the dead-line is reached. Several of the authors have contributed more than one manuscript and naturally those writers have a greater chance to win one of the cash prise* to be given for the three best storien J. P. Abbott, C. O. Spriggs, and places on Harper Brown of the English de- Medal partment of the college will se we as judges in the contest and th Hr decisions will be rendered as soon as possible after the close of the contest i ‘ 11J RIFLEMEN WIN THIRTrSEIIE R MEE Having their las have Hog rally brought them within a few points of a tie witfi the Far- nu*i s. ( aptgin Joe Moody of the Aggies turned his angle in the first two uflnutes of play and was out of tbejgame until about the middle of Uie last half. Inability to make thmr free shots was large ly lraagad^$le for Arkansas’ loss. I'h. Aggies made good 7 times out of 11 tri^W at free throws and led at the hatf] 16-6. Absencf-jbf the Raxorback cap tain. Do# Sexton, who 1 broke his wrist las! xjeek in a noniconference game, hfiqpered the Razorbacks << lued on page 4) Annual Meeting for Student Volunteers To Be Held In March match is compete il legiate M( The two def« weeks. ’ ’Notice has been received that the South Texas Union of Student's Volunteer Movement will hold its annual meeting in Austin on March 3, 4, and 6. Fellowship of students interest- seriousty ' threatened until late in lodin Christian missions is the pur- tbe last Yuglf when a determined fpose of the meeting and the gen drmi theme will be “The Task Un finished". The program will include talks by rm-dlbvTB from Africa, South American. China, Korea. Japan, and Mexico, according to Lillian Gorzycki, of College Sta tion. president of the society. Rev erend Norman Anderson, paator of the A and M Presbyterian Church, will "be the devotional leader. FREE SHOW There will be a free picture show sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. next Sanday afternoon at one o’ clock. “The Man Who Played God with George Ariiss. Also a screen song ‘Let Me Call You Sweetheart.' woi) thirty-seven of thjirty-rtie matches. First LR utenint^; E.' Riersorr's Texas Ag| ie RiflorTeam appears to cincl ied one of the three the Eighth Corps Area tch. A place in this esairy to be eligible to tba National Intercol- boa. to team suffered only dunng the past jwp ring this same period the A and M team defeated prac tically all|of the best Intenollegr- ate Rifle Tearrw in the Country High store for this season to date was made by G R. Rhine, San Antonio, who shot 389 out,of a i 1 - I' 400. T. J. Guerdrum. i.lso <>f San Aytonie. made a score of 385 out ofia poasible 400 during the past week, which is the highest score ever made by a freshman in the histor/ of rifle competition at this co'let I* C. J. Andcraon, I#iwn, has showa the greafest. improxe- mem of tbe year during the last three wet Is when h .* tmised his avetsge fism 335 to Kcimeth Tucker, Bprkbumett, and Charley Tosoh. Meiquit*. have shown de eded impdsvement within the past weeks, aid*. Lieutenant Rieraon I The one or Eighth G. R. Rh Samuels, lepell, a San A Dance i Saturday mjr ness men are firing in the n witton* in the Area Medal Match: II. Guerdiium. G. H. Huffaker, Jack MaL L A. McDaritt, all of* ; Captain W. G. Allan, on Page 8) Tl FRONT BASEMEN