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Bill Bardo
& 14-Piece
Band Playsl
Orchestra Features
Many Novelties; To
Give Series Concert
Bill Bar4o and his internationally
famous orchastra preaenta s bril
liant array of talent when he
, aarinfs for the Infantry Reriment'a
annual hall FYiday niffht in Sbiea
Hall, the EnterUinment Series Fri
day. and for the corps dance Satur
day night.
Bill Bardo is an acconplished mu
sician—hit grandfather was coart
violinist to the late Efipsror Franz
Josef of Austria. Becoming a mas
ter not only on the trombone
trumpet, but also the violin and
piano, Bardo was honored , jby
scholarships at the Institute of
Musical Art fa Now York, at Co-
lumbis University, and slsO by tho
privilege of studying
maeatros as Frans Knelsd, Leo
pold Auer, and Dr. Walter Dam-
roech.
Having baea highly loceeasful as
concert master of George Olsen's
orchestra, he organised his
orchestra in 19M and spent tope
years playing in continental cafes.
From ths romantic atmosphere and
soothing waltaes of the French Ri
viera to the noon-lighted ball rooms
of New York's night spots. Bill
Bardo has mastered the art of
pleasing his dance audiences.
Featured with Bardo are the four
beautiful Ahn Sisters with their
syncopated rhythms, a sistlfag
swing unit known as the Barrel
House Boys, and Johnny Cook, an
trombonist and comedian. Cook has
played with such renowned bag
name bands aa Jan Garber, Tommy
! Dorsey, and Paul Whiteman.
Although Bardo demands supgr*
lative musicians, that alone is not
enough to qualify one as a
her of the orchestra for each man
must be at least six feet tall, have
a trained singing voice, and be an
individual entertainer of out*tank
ing merit-
Ball Tonight A Gala Affair
315 Stephens College'Girls as They Sato Houston’s Sights
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[Stephens Cbii
Students of Stephen* College, Columbia. Mo., were snapped ia
Heaeton Taeaday as they stopped for a brief viait aa their * ooo
mile trip before coming to College Station for the final oodal affair
of their educational tear. Tap loft. Dr. Jamea M. Weoda, president
of the college, io ahown with atadenta. Top right, fear of the student*
poop oat the wiadowa of baoaeo which took them ever Hoaetaa. Below,
the girl* leave the train walking between IfaiSa of Sam Honotoa High
School's Black Battalion for their brief atay in Hoaetaa.
—1’hoto* courtesy Hon*ton Chronicle.
Ml
Former Students Board Initiates
Thanksgiving HomeFolksPlan*\
Aggieland To Play
For Two Dances This
Weekend at the Club
Tommy Littlejohn and him Ag
gie land Swing Orchestra will play
for a Its dance at the Bryan
Country Club from 8:30 to 8:80
Saturday afternoon. Special hon-
oreea will be the Infantrymen with
their dates; but everyone ia fa
vited. Tickets will cost only 7$4-
The Aggieland will swing out
for another dance at the Country
Club Saturday night from 12 «o
8 following the Corps Dance, fieri
for this dance also will be 75*. I
Murray Says He’ll Vie With Critz
For Position of Battalion Editor
Two candidates for editorship otf
The Battalion for next year had an
nounced today after Bill Murray, a
Battalion managing aditor, stated
kis intention to seek the position.
James “Jaime** Grits, the other
managing editor/ announced his
candidacy Tuesday.
Both Murray and Grits are jun
iors, Murray in the Field Artillery
Band and Grits in the Field Artil
lery.
Other offices to be filled in the
annual election, which will be held
Student Group Considers
Resolutions for Library
* yl
A Library Committee reprewm
tative of the student body has been
chosen and is under way. It is com
posed of James Glenn, represenm-
tive of the Senior elass; Bill Mur
ray, Junior; A. S. Downs, Sopho
more; L A. Larrey, Freshman; and
J. S. CriU, Battalion staff; and It
is being counselled by Dr. T. r.
Mayo, college librarian.
Purpose of the committee is io
advise and represent the wishes of
the student body in the expenditure
of the General Reading Fund re
cently collected through the ef
forts of The Battalion, to aid the
library in the purchase of the good
popular books most wanted by the
students. The fund now amount*
to 8166.15, of which |100 was con
tributed by the San Antonio A. A
M. Mothers Club, $60.16 was col
lected by voluntary contributions
of the students, sad 85 was donat
ed by Dean R. P. ManteBscJ ]
Books already request, d by the
students amount to an estimated
$101, according to Dr. Mayo, and
library books carrying the longest
waiting lists amount to about $29
in value, making s total of $180 in
proposed purchase*. Less about
10% discount, the resulting total
is approximately $117, leaving $89
for the use of which no provision
has yet been made.
The following resolution* have
been framed and submitted to the
(Continued on page 6)
April 17, are chief yell leader and
junior arid seaior representative*
on the Publications Board. The
Publications Board has supervis
ion of all atudent publications. No
students have announced candidacy
or board membership
According to traditional rules,
only two stuflents may run for
chief yell leader, Bert Bums and
Bodie Pierce, who were elected jun
ior yell leaders last year. Both
will make the rasa..
E. L Angell, manager of student
publications, has announced that * footUn *»“«• li “ *
institution of the Southwest, at-
The Board of Directors of the
T~i
Former Students Association has
taken the lead on what is known
as the “Thanksgiving Home Folk*”
plan by going on record that all
members of the beard will volun
tarily nqu. st that their football
tickets for the next Thanksgiving
Game at Kyle Field, be located at
the end of the field in what will b<
known as the ‘Thanksgiving Home
Folks” section. The board is ask
ing that'they be joined in this
movement by the Board of Direc
tors of the College, the faculty
and staff of the imtitution, the
student body, and citizens of Bry
an and Brasoa County, and by not
leas than 200 A. A M. ex-students.
It is recognized that the Thanks
giving Game has become more than
Sully Tells Ma and Pa of
Visit of Stephens Girls '
BY WALTER SULLIVAN j
Wensday Mawnin’
Dear Ma and Pk:
Them Stephens gals have come and went, and what I
meai), they shore did leave a swell impreshin on our campus
here. We was awful upset at first on account of they kept us
waitin’ nt the train station from five until around seven-
thirty ... we found out later thet it wasn’t their fault, so
everything was alright; for a while tho, it did kinds look like
there was 815 boys stood up for the dance.
Frum the train station ww nil went up to grab n while
nt the mess hall, bat bein’ aa how the gal* wasn't very hungry,
the dance got started party doggon quick. Tommjr Littlejohnny
played us some of the best dern stomppin’ musie ever I heard,
and I'm tellin’ you, the boys and gals little-footed it nil over
Sbisa Hall... It shore was »ome ball. If only IM • let Sister
teach me that new one-step she learned nt normal school, it
would have been easy fer me and my gal to have been the
beet cuple nt the dance . . . she waa cottonheaded, party, and
She could shore shake her feet. Ma, she looks just like thet
picture you've got at Aunt Hetty in her weddin' drees . . .
gosh, but she waa nice lookin'. The boys had on their unyfonM^I;
and the girls were all dressed op in long night dresses ... and
ma, they all had on shoes, too. It shore was s peachy affair.
Aad to see them gals step around, yon wouldn’t be thinkin’
thet they’d covered dang near 8,000 miles afore they ever
got here ... yep, they waa mighty spry. As I reckollnet, they
all started out from Columbia, Missoury two weeks ago and
went to New York City, and frum there they went on down to
Miamy FI which they aed they liked very much. Frum Miamy
they came on around to Galveston. Texas, where they got on
a train and rode on up to Houston, which is also in Texas.
While they was there they got a good look at the town and had ;
a quick snack of Tittles afore they came on op to A. A M.
And who do you reckon got off thet train Inside them what
waa supposed to be on it? You n probly guessfa’ right ...
it was Andy Rollins and Bob Adams. Thet was surd somethin*
... two boys and 816 gals ... they just about think they’re
the courtinest boys on the campus now, and I reckon they
are, to have had thet many gals.with ’em nt one time.
Well. H gives me the blues to be talkin’ about sll them
sweet gals thet well not be seein’ again fer a long time, and
maybe not ever, and besides thet. I’ve got to go to my Hay
Bsilin 310 class ... so su rivor, parents.
Houston Men
On Job Here
Are Striking
Jurisdictional
Dispute ( ausfs
Serious Delays
Only around 2( workers remain
at their jobs fa the contraction of
12 new dormitories and a mans kail
baaaaaa ef a tfaep ef work
y kg a strike ef the local
branch of the Huotaa Steel Work
ers Union.
Almost 46$ mm had been work
ing on the project before the strike
broaght operatrona on the huge
building project almost to * OOm-
piete halt
• Complete cessation of work may
throw the work, schedule Into, it
was learned.
The tfa-ap was caused directly
by the fact that the steel workers
install, construction steel before
concrete is poured, and a bait ia
their work rinse* an almost im
mediate halt fa the work of other
laborers.
Ths steel worker* struck last
Friday fa protect of a ruling by
the President ef the Building
Trades Depart nan nt of tbs Ameri
can Federation of Labor—to which
both the steel workers and carpen-
b belong to the effect that
windows should be placed fa the
building by (krpenters.
The steel workers contended that
cause the windows warn steal
and their installation is actually
steel work, the job should be theirs.
No immediate settlement is fa
sight, although negotiations are be-
nf; •Hemp
A similar dispute was aired re
cently in Hourton and work there
was interrupted while the issue
was settled.
While the stiel j workers onion
is s Houston local, the other fac
tion in the jurisdictional dispute
is the Bryan Carpenters Looal.
ROOSEVELT QUITS
A. & M. BOARD
Elliott Rook-Vtit, who has been
unable to attend a board meeting
in the last two years, yesterday
resigned from the Board of Direc
tors of A. A M.
Mr. Roosevelt, who has become
an Important figure in Texas poli
tics, gave the press of bnsfasss as
his reason, t
He was appointed three years a-
go by Formar Governor James V.
Allred. Mr. Roosevelt is manager
of KGKO ia Fort Worth qpd ia
president of the Texas State Net-
YMk. •< V :
the last date for filing for office
must be April 6 instead of April
10, as originally announced. Spring
holidays will be in progress April
.10.
Plans for formntion of n perma
nent Student Election Committee,
composed of students, were discuss
ed at the last meeting of the Stu
dent Welfare Committee, with def
inite action expected at the April
12 meeting at that body.
THE A- A M. BOARD OF Di
rectors formally signed the new
water contract with the city of
Bryan, at a recant Board meeting.
The Board reorganised, at the
same meeting, re-electing F. M.
Law of Houston president and Wal
ter 0. Lacy of Waco vice-president.
tended by thousands of Texas citi
zen* who owe allegiance to neither
school, but whose presence at this
game is an honor and a tribute to
both schools. It is the purpose of
this “Thanksgiving Home Folks”
program to demonstrate to these
visitors a very real and warm hos
pitality. Those asked to join the
Association Directors as Thanks
giving Home Folks’* volunteers,
usually enjoy the best football
seats at every other game. It is
hoped the group will make this
sacrifice once each two years as a
fine gesture of hospitality and
friendship.
If the above groups will volun
teer to participate fa this|program,
it ia est;n. tun! that 8,000 seats at
the sides of the field will be avail-
(Continued on page $)
PIPE BEING
LAID RAPIDLY
Your laving son.
Sully
140 BOYS NOW
ILL IN HOSPITAL
Rapid progress is being made in
the laying of the new pipe line
from Bryan to College Station
which will convey to Collage water
under the'.new contract recently
made.
The pipe has already bean laidi
to about a mile from the North
Gate. It is being laid at the rate of
1,600 feet a day.
The pipe ia of a now materials
transite, 86% cement and 16% asw
bestos by weight It is manufac
tured by Johns Manville and Com
pany, and tests 80 pounds to the
square inch.
There are now around 140 hoy?
sick in the hospital Of this num
her s few hsve measles and chick
enpox, a few fcre surgical oases
but all the rest are fin casea.
“The flu epidamk shows no sign
of abating, but there ia no great
danger," stated “Mom" Cleghorn
* “I must compliment the Aggie*
on the way they have, acted white
the hospital has been so crowded
and rushed lattly with flu cases,
“Mom” continued. “They have been
very patient aad have really acted
grand,” she said.
WITH THE ALUMNI
By E K MeQUIl.I.F.N
Secretary ef the Feraur Student*
A Hsoriation
R. M. Bailey, ’38, fa living nt' 1
2010 Wentworth, Houston ... Dick
Powell, ’38, fa studying irrigation
problems of the WlehMa Valley
for the Farm Security Administra
tion and the Texas Agricultural *
Experiment Station and fa maki ^
his headquarters at low* Park 1..
Raymond R. Sartain, ’39, fa with
the State Highway Department at
Sherman, Texaa. . . W. H. Aiken,
’38, is attending school at the In
stitute of Paper CbemfatiT, Apple
ton, Wisconsin, i. T. A. Hfatt, *88,
is s chemist for the Griffin Gro
cery Company, Muskogee, Okla
homa. . , Bryant Holland, T7, is
teaching chemistry at A. A M. . .
8. M. Greenberg, 17, fa fa the
State Chemist’s Qffu College Ste-
tfolL . . Banafal W. [Babb, 17,-fa
ranching at Langtry. I. C. B. Ford,
x’38, is Ass’L Metallurgist, Alma
Syndicate Inc., Dearer, Colo. . .
Fl«yd M. W.lke*, 17, fa with tho
HnrthwtaAnfa (Main Co, Orlando,
IW.... J. 2. LMy, 87, has left tho
G. E. Ob. for a job with the Lone
Star Cement Cq, and Urea at 801
D. SL, South Norfolk, Va.