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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1933)
BASEME' *r • n N XXXII PqbMahed Wetkly By The COLLEGE STATION, A. k M/Tollegf of Texaa APRIL %t&<r NC1HBER 29. -I rt—l r-r-^ jf "! "-■*t Final Plans Announced For | * | 1 4* . Ross Volunteer Activities • v y, ! L I it j v ^ Festivities Program And Names B()||[j[] ||DK(|[l[jS ;« Members In Are Announced By ■4 J r [' of R. V.’s Storms tlude Four Dances, and An Exhibi try Cfcrf Burnett of San An- Texa* and member of tonio, juaiod student at the Uni- vert-ity of Kaypa Kappa Gamma Sorority, will reign a# queen of the annual Ropa Volunteer festivities at A and U CoUafe, April 20, 21, and 22. Mias Burnett was selected as queen by Louis W„ Storms, Jr., San An tonio, king #f the feativitiea. Sponsored; by the Ross Volun teers, honor I military organisation at A and M, the festivities are held each year during the spring recess. Coronation of the king and queen, followed by the queen's ball, will feature the opening Thursday nigfct of th4 three-day festival whfch will 4iclude four dances, a banquet, anl an exhibition drill. The coronation ball and other danres oa the calendar will be held in Sbisa HalL the college mess haP, which will V transformed into a colorful Japanese garden scene. Hie royal j court will consist of a bevy of ^dies-i»-waiting upon j 0,111^^4. the queen h- d their escorts, guards, and other c<jurt attendants. Music for the nightly dances and the tea dansant Saturday afternoon at the Brpan Couaary Club will be by Ligon Smith 1? orchestra from Foit Worth. An exhibition drill Satur day afternecm at dusk will be held on the college parade ground. The royal court will consist of 1,239 Attend 16tli Annual ! tn< Judging Meet" id “ Addition To Power Plant and New Incinerator Author ized. Contracts far the furthering of the present building program were awarded by the Board of Directors A and M college at a meeting that body last Sunday. These contracts include an addition*to the power plant and the erection of a new incinerator for the cob lege. Walsh-Burney and Company, i agriculture students^ San Antonio, received the contract and representing 154 > for building the addition to the scndajA held their sivi; power plant, their bid being |15,- 150 High Schools Are Repre sented In Smith-Hughes Judging Contest. 0 Heart Fatal on Page 3) ttack Is To Wife of J. Soloman Voeati totaling 1 state bigl teenth annual SmtU)-Hughes judg ing content here Mort^ay., All sev- en contend were Completed in one day and j the winners w*re an- nounced Ut a meeting of contest ants Monday night in the col assembly nail j , j Winners of JM'paater vocation, al agriculture pupil contest awards for 1931-^2 in the nine vocational districts of the state were as fob lows: Raymond Higginbotham, Herbert Mills, Ster ling City;: J. D. Heatherly, Rich* land Springs; Put OaouL ’.Will* Poiflt; Charles Blalock. Mt. Pleas* ant; Troy ^Wakefield, Madisonville; Bill Shipnjan, Walnut Springs; Pnt South, Stdckdale; and Roy Penny. cuick.V Crystal City. Thera were 363 teams composed of thret then each, in the various contests, lb addition there were 150 alternates ! tnd 70 members of the Future Farmer band, making a to, tal of 1309, boys. These high school students ajere accompanied by 183 teachers and superintendents bring ing the grand attendance total to 1,495. ’l'■| I>■ ROSS VOLUNTEER K IG AND QUEEN Freshmen and Sophomores To Be Given Government Issue Uniforms In Lieu of Cash Compensation Mary Carr Biuraett and Loais W. Stsrms. Jr., both of San Antonio, who will reign as king and queen of the Raas Volunteers feativities April M. 21. aad 22. Mias Buruett is a Junior student st thy (Jaivensity of Texas aad a aieaiber of Kappa Kappa Gamais sorotity. Storms io a< senior stadeat in petroleum production engineering and a captain oa the Composite Regiment staff. 714. Mechanical equipment for this building will be furnished by the Hill Brothers Company, of Waco, who contractod to furnish the quipment for $16,230. The Eugene Ash Electric Company, Ft. Worth, as awarded the contract for elec- 1 equipment. This bid was Aggies Tri $4,4r The nW incineiator, which will be placed west of the railroad tracks, arill be constructed by the Panhandle Consfhgction Company of Lubbock at a cOet of $6,670. The Panhandle Construction Com pany is at present pavSog the i streets of the college SERENADES WILL PLAK LAST CORPS DANCE ON HAY 6 Serenaders Win Right To Play Final Corps Dance As Re sult of War Dance Victory. Joe Dillon and his Campus Sere naders, by virtue of their victory over the Aggieland orchestra in the War Dance held in the Mess Former Peggy lio [DU teside Elliott of Sgn Dies At Campus Mrs. Harrr J. Soloman, former ly Peggy EHott, ninetaen-year old bride of Hayry Soloman, a senior agriculture student and member of “C" Compand Infantry, died as the result of a peart attack Monday afternoon at: the home of Mr. and Mm Albert j Haneman where she ind lived. daughter of Lieu- and Mrs. Howard G. Fifth Cavalry, San Soloman had been living at Bry^n and College Station MikT Nosreaner, 1932. H, A- Fitx^ugh and Solomon ac companied tile body to San Anto nio iwhere itj was placed in a re- - ceiving vtult) in the Mission Bur ial Park. Sie is survived by her parents, . her husband, one brother. Way- land Elliott sf San Antonio, and one sister, 1 Irs. J. O. Bender of Fort Sam Houston. and her kt She was tenent-Colc Elliptt of Antpnio. Mr Man Wanting Parrot nr*ll n t-v_ i i rriL. w * r L*«nce neio in xne aiess WIII Pay Double The Hall Annex, Saturday night. April Cost If Bird Swears i 8, arill play for the final corps | ■ j 1 - ' I | dance of the year to be held in the New Yqrk—(IPJ—In the New Mess Hall Annex May 6,—the night York Timep’ Public Notices column after the Cattlemen’s Ball, last week appeared this ad: ( According to Don Elliott, social TALKING PARROT; will pay' secretary of the senior class, the double if man, Ton; Broadway. J* swears- Don Dicker- Sarg’s Bohemia, 1,684 Circle 7-6776. j two orchestras played for the lar gest crowd to attend a corps dance I this year. SiM.U. 13-9 and 13-0 in ~ ^Saturday A , By defeating the S K U Mus tangs 13-9 and 1P-0 in a double- header Saturday $n the Kyle field diamond, the Texas Aggie base ball team took a stronger hold on the 1933 conference rate. Bob Schter, bjg Agm rigfit- Jwnder, held the Ponies to 9 hits in\the fimt garSe, while Aggie sluggers were collecting 15. In the fifth fi^ne the Aggies capitalized on 4 Mustapr errors and 6 hits to score 7 runs> N aft^ r two outs had been made. The Visitors rallied in the sixth and sev^ujLh innings but failed to overcome the lead built' up by the Fanners in the 4ariy stag es of the game. v “Bugga” Moon, Aggia' wfang- hander, was in fop form in lift • • i : ' i Larsje Crowd Is | Present For Fofmal Opening of New Pool; Ashburn Makes Presentation FRESHMAN TRACK The Texas Aggie freshmen track team were set back by the John Tarleton Piowboys in their first meet 64-50, Saturday, on Kyle field. The Piowboys took 9 of tie 16 first places to defeat tie freshmen. Senior Class Ac-4introduced the speaker tb the at- In Behalf of Stll- tendants. \ |_ j T. C. “Ike” Morris, president of the senior class of A and M, ac cepted the pool on behalf of the student body of the college and expressed the appreciation of the members of the classes for the very useful and long needed addi tion to the athletic plant of the college. Morris pledged the coop eration of the students in protect ing and maintaining the pool in a condition of good repair. Following the presentation and acceptance of the pool, the Aggie swimming team gave an exhibition of diving and swimming that prov ed very entertaining to the audi ence. The aquatic events featured the swimming and diving of Jane Wilkins and Jesse Austin, talent ed mermaids from Houston. President ceplg dent Before dj crowd of ex-students, students, ipui visitors that filled the hataon; r of the pool to tha ex tent that (landing room was at a premium, Colonel Dee Auburn, for mer commiindant of A and M Col lege and Houston business man, delivered the presentation speech at the fonial opening of the new Aggie swimming pool on the even ing of Saturday, April 15. F. M. Law, Houston banker and presi dent at tftk board of directors of the college] v as scheduled to make the presentation of the pool to the students, bjut he was unable to be on the campuk at the time and Col onel Ashburn acted in his stead. Dean E J. Kyle of the agriculture department of A'lmd M College rackmen Win Tjiaogular Meet In Waco T.C.U. Offer Lit- ( om petit ion To Aggie JM- stnuigth *of the A and M and field team and the com parative weakness of the Baylor and T. C. U. teams was well brought out fii Waco last Wed- wbsn Coach Anderson’s haters defeated both teams meet. The Aggies col- 102 points to 50 for the and 16 for the Bears lie Caspei of T. C. U. was |>oint man of the meet with Points to hi" credit. He took bee in the high and low and brogd jump, and was a member of the winning 440-yard dash reby team. Irwin of A and M ws» second h 10 ponts and dkot put Date Goddard of Baylor took their ^only first place by winning second game and allowed the Mus- Hhe ribitury. He was also second in the 2|0-yard dash. Summgty: lOOs-yard da>h Goddard, Baylor; Cbrlg T. C. 0.1 Kohler. A A M., Stnnffellow, A 4 M.; Time, 10.1. ‘ yard dash—Cbrk, T. C. U.; Baylor; Kohler, A A M., ’ellow, A. A M.; time, 22:5. yard low’ hurdles—Chsper, Random, A. A M.; Herr- Plaa Is Adopted By Board of Directors To Effect Saving In Student Expense. Government issue uniforms will be worn by freshman and sopho more student* m the college next year, according to notice received from the board of directors autho rizing the college to accept gov ernment issue uniforms for these students. . Heretofore the college has had Announces t j, € privilege of accepting issued Staff for uniform* or eash compensation for the uniform* and has always ac cepted the money until now. Tha reason for t|us was that the uni forms formerly Usued were of too poor a quality, but now that the quality of the/uniform b such that it will present a satisfactory appearance, the college authorities AS ASSISTANT Yell (Complete Yell Year 1933-34. J. ( F. “Cousin” Rollins of China will be senior assistant yell leader on the 1933-*34 yell staff accord ing to an announcement today by chief yell leader-elect “Pete” Con nor of Houston. Rollins, who is now a junior civil engineering stu-,. .. .. .. .. . j . . __ have decided to adopt the uniform dent, is a member of Troop “C* . . .i . . Cavalry Junior members of the new yell staff as announced by Connor to-, day include W. E. ‘ Willie” Fita- gerald, Shreveport, Louisiana, so- i phomore student in mechanical en gineering and a member of Bat tery “E" Field Artilbry, and Tom Dooley of McKinney, also a sopho more mechanical Engineering stu dent and a member of Troop “B” Cavglry. Connor said today that these new members of the yelling staff for *cxt year will be introduced to the student body at a yell practice in the near future. AGCIE SPEAKERS ARE CHOSEN FOR FLOWERSCONTEST Tisinger and .Coleman Will Enter Contest Against Uni versity of Texas Speakers. tangs only one hit behind error less fielding. The Cadet* connect ed with 12 hits. 6 bf which came in the fourth inning along with fo*r errors scoring 8 runs. Bob Connelly, .third baseman, and Bill Sodd, left-fielder, led the hitting for the Aggies in the dou ble-header. Connelly hit safe 6 tim es in 9 trips to the plate. Sodd collected 5 safe blows in 8 times at bat. II \ I - - IF j D.! L. Tisinger, Garland, and point man with Ch * rlM Coleman. Alpine, will rep- the discus re,,ent A * nd M * n th * Battle of Flower* speech contest which will be held in San Antonio, April 20, under the direction of the Battle of Flowers Association, according to an announcement by C. O. Spriggs, professor of public speak ing at the college These men will compete with two ftudents from the University of Texas. Coleman will speak on “Sam Houston” and Tisinger will deliv er an address on “The Works of Henry Smith, First Provisional Governor of Texas.” , -Three prizes amounting te fifty, twenty-five, and fifteen dollars will be awarded. inued- on Page 3) More Than 150 Enter Intramural Race For Tennis - Over 150 players entered the competition in intramural tennis Urhen the first round of p!*> beg .n last week. Twenty matches were played. After all of the first rwand win ners have been selected the play in the second round will start and the procedure will be repeated un til on team is victorious is the fi nals. Each organization was permit ted to eater as many teams as it desired and the 162 men competing represent 78 teams from the var ious companies, troops, and bat teries. Twenty-five teams are srhedul ed to start play in the intramural golf tournament Immediately aft, r the Spring receaa. The first com- petition will be in team play and after the team winner has bee* decided the individual compete for the si ship of the College. »' ’ l ”1 • * |l [■ Speaker of House Compliments A & M College Building Program i i In Address To Former Students Speaker Offer* En-tp»rt ( To Coltegg Of- CuU. of Junction, of the house of represen- the state legislature. A *nd M college on program and urged an their present enthusiasm because of the saving effected by the students. Although these uniforms are not complete and will necessitate that the student still bay some articlas of his uniform, they will entail quite a saving for these students. The articles furnished by the gov ernment include a serge blouse, a pair of elastique trousers, two wool shirtiv a black tie, and R.OT.C. patches. The government will pro bably permit the purchase of cer tain additional articles of uniform from governmental stock sad at governmental price*. The Blouae and trouser* come in approximately 38 different size* so that it will be possible to lit almost every stu dent. Pneumonia Attack Fatal To Laurine Marburger Youngs Ten-Day Illness I* Fatal To Daughter of Building and Grounds Superintendent. this has come about through misunderstanding, a mis understanding we might be able to rectify a bit after our visit here and after we have seen the plant and Oork of this great institution.” Commenting on the present state of affairs, Mr. Stevenson said: "Government has reached the stage | where H is time to make repairs student* of the College to .Some retrenchment is in order and must be made, and expenditure* about Ncurrsfit developments in an must be brought down for the next BASEMENT I 1 to the Former Students tion and member* of the biennium. They must be kept with in prospective revenues for that at • luncheon given at noon period. In making our retrench ment, if dead timber gets into oar prop k in their honor, ready has been mentioned,” 4 that this college has re nder drastic cut in ap- tion* as flsr as the bouse will hot damage is conlterned I think ourselves.” •Is i state institutions, or if any* moss get* into them, we’U use our prun ing knife to eliminate it, but wc the institution Hil THE MESS HALL Previous losses due to in sufficient income during the summer hkfwj caused the X of ^rectors of the to order the closing of the college mess hall dur ing the summer session. During the last summer the losses .suffered by the mem hall totalled approxi mately $7000. 1 — jjf Funeral services were held for Mrs. Laurine Marburger Youngs, daugHter of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Marburger of Coll4ge Station, Fri day rtmming at 19 o'clock at the St Andrews Episcopal Church in Bryan with Reverend L. A Wilson offkigting. Interment was made at the Hyan city cemetery. Whjle visiting with friends fn San Antonio, Mrs. Youpgs con tracted double pneumonia which ten days later resulted 'in her death, Her husband and Mrs. Mar- burgsg, her mother, were with her at Satta Rosa hospital throughout her ilbiess. Mr£ Young*, who was born May 28, 1909, attended C. I. A. at Den-' ton, and graduated as a trained nurse from the .Memorial hospital in Hoaston in 1931. A few months after her graduation she married Gilbert A Youngs, a graduate of • A and M. Surviving Mrs. Young* are her parents, her husband, and two sis ters, Miss Beanie Rea Marburger, • student, at Sam Houston State Tearh*rs Callege at Huntsville, and Min Billie May Marburger of College Station.