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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1939)
I VOL. 88 IONE8 . j TION The Weather Fair and ( ool nt Semi-Weekly Newspaper of Texas A. & M. College CIRCULATION' y COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS/TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL IsT ^ i • ■■ ■ ■■ NO. 63 CRUZ D HURRA RUNOFF; O’Da Festivities I King Cotton Mi mdidates 'Sweat’ Before Yell Practice Models, Dancers, Musicians and Court Featured at Pageant Bj BOB NOUV. Friday night A. A M * Agrono my Society will yr«?»ent the eighth annual Cotton Pageant, Style Show and Ball, with Governor W. Led O’Daniel on hand tc place die crown on the head of the king of the pageant The fWatiritie* will get under way at 8 p. m. with the coronation of Beal Hargrove of Troy, and Ruth Gordon of Bryan, aa king and queen of the ahew. Immediately following the coronation the queen'a court will be preeented, the court consists of 100 gh*ls aa duchesaet and maids of honp. The style show will be the pro* sentation of Ft)ley Brothers of Houston. A grout! of profession*! mannequins will model the exclu sive creations of 1939. press for formal and informal occasions as well as for recreation will be fea tured during the show. A wedding party, whose members will wear all cotton d re sees, Will climax the style show. ~ j -3 * , As a special feature the festi vities for this year will include « floor show by the Pennington Dance School of Houston. The pro gram will include the Savage Sere nade, a group number combining savage rhythm with modem sophis ticated rhythm. Other numbers will feature Maxine Manor in a routino aa modem aa tonesrr*w, a smooth graceful number entitled The Walts, a modernistic “shim-shim' Sue Webb in a Hula, dance, and d Jitterbug jamboree. In order to have time for the pageant, the time for the ball hat been set at 10 o'clock, and * last until 2. Tommy Littlejohn the Aggteland Orchestra will tuti nigh music for the entire occasion. Admission to the ball will be $1.60. Children’s tickets to the pageant will be 2&C while adults will be charged 60k. Reserve seats may bo obtained for 76k. -»—r Contestants in Monday's election ere shown above jest preceding talks made by the candidate*. Two Most Outstanding Saddle iorses of College Sold Saturday SIIGiUtEFF. STEEN ATTEND MEMORIAL ceremonies! V. K. Sugareff. having been named by Dr. Charles Grove Haines to represent the American Political Science Association, will attend the ceremonies to be bold at the San Jacinto Memorial and in Houston on Thutetoy and Friday as a gional delegate of the Association. R. W. Steen, alao »f the history de partment, baa been invited to at tend aa an authority on Texas History. • The ceremonies will both inaugu rate and dedicate the activities of the San Jadnto Mo arum of History in the varied field of historical re- search. Ail the state historical as- ■oqiationa will be represented and many national and international societies will amid delegates. The Houston Post has estimated that a crowd of 20,000 will witness the ceremonies. The programs indudes * speech by Eugene T. Barker of the Univer sity of Tegas, “Three Type* of Historical Interpretation", and a speech by Governor O'Daniel, "Thu History Museum as an Agent of! International Friendship". Dr Barker will speak or. Thursday and the governor will speak on Friday. Two of the moat outstanding sad-f 1 le horses of the college stables, liberty's Fox and Hellin Texas, ' fere sold by the Animal Huaban* 1 ry department laat Saturday morning in One of the biggest l sited horse sales of the year 1 ccording 1 to an announcement 1 isde yesterday by Q. W. Williams, 1 e*d of the department Liberty's Fox, a ten month old ilt by JUberty Loan, sold for 11,060 to Campbell Sewall, Houv tin, who baa purchased two bn> t aers a*d sisters of the colt in the I set Liberty's Fox. though only * c >lt was selected as the Champiot addle Stallion in his class during he reosnt Fort Worth Fat Stock ihow, the only show of merit at 1 rhicb he has appeared. Sewall is < ne of the most outstanding ex- ibitors of saddle horses In bp <ni thw«st and is the owner of V’illiam the Conquer, the ouU 1 tending fine harness and show I one of the past two yean. Ht llin Tcxhs, mother of Liberty’s ox, w*s the other show animal Id ; btiig j purchased for $1,100 R. W. Mormon, owner of Anar ho Ranch of Spofford, Texa*. ellin Texm, the most outsUnd- brood mare that the college ever owned was purchased by orriaon aa a mate to Edna Mae’s ing, the renown stallion which purchased by the Anacaho for $40,000 in order to main- it’s record aa the most widely wn saddle horse breeding ea- ishment in the United States is 17 yean old. Plaisted Begins Water Safety Course R. C. Plaisted .member of the national Rad Cross staff, arrived at college Monday afternoon to begin his annual classes in aquatk instruction. The course, known aa the Water Safety Instruction Course, began Monday night and coatiaues each night through next Friday. The NINE STUDENTS ATTEND m 1 ENGINEER MEET f l^FI • * Nine chril engineering students left Monday morning to attend the Spring Meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The meeting will be held in Chatta nooga, Teaneeaee. Wednesday thru Saturday. The students making the trip are B. B. Cloud, J. D. Hancock, A. E. Koch, W. W. Potter, W. H. Oswalt, A. P. Rollins, D. H. Rose, E. J. Wentworth snd J. R. West Rainey Guest of A. & M. Professors Wednesday Night ! New University of Texas Head Will Address Profs During Annual Banquet Dr. Homer vP. Rainey, newly elected president of the University of Tega*t will be the guc.-t of honor and principal speaker at the Second annual banquet of the A. A M. chapter of the American Associa tion of University Professors to be held in .Sbisa Hall Wednesday ev ening. I'n ii.h nt Walton and other ad ministrative officers of the college, and a large number of the mem bers of the staff, will join with the Association in honoring Dr. Ram. y. and in welcoming him back to Tex as. Tie Science Seminar and the Social Science c-minar, which have held a joint lunqu-t with the As- Fsociation in the past, will join them again this year in honoring Dr. Rainey. (Continued on Page 4) VARNER, BUSTER WIN DANFORTH FELLOWSHIP' D. B. Varner, Infantry junior, and W. B. Buster, ala^ an Infantry Junior, were selected Friday aa the winners of the Danforth scholarship given each year by Purina Mills. The scholarship, giten by Will iam H. Danforth, president of Purina Mills, will entitle the two cadets to a month’s ptady In St. Louis, Mhs., and in Shelby, Mich. They will leave for |t. Louis on July 81 where they wil spend two weeks oa the payroll of the Purina Mills studfying in all departments of the mill aa well as an the Purina Experiment farm at Gfrey Summit, Miss., where all feeds ’used by the company are tested. On August 12 they will Idavc for Shelby, Mich., where they Will spend two weekk in classwork and recreation at the Amwxan Youth Foundation Camp bn |he shore of Lake Michigan. WINS Publications Positions in Runoff Vote Cokinos-WiHiamaj Shields-Haines, Are Others in Finals Bodie Pierce, infantry junior, was elected Chief Yel Leader, and three publications poaitions will be decided in a runoff election next Monday a* results of yesterday's general election. . '.T jV James ‘ Hymie" Critx, Field Ar- ller)i Jenior, and Bill Murray, instruction begins at 7:30 each The students ere being accotnpan- night and lasts three hours, which I W by two professors of the civil makes the course fifteen hours I long. Before this year the course has been principally devoted to life sav ing, but it now covers all phases of aquatic work, and for the first time text books are being used. According to W. ,L Penberthy, director of intramural athletics, between 20 and 26 men will take, the course which will be the larg est clam in the four years that Plaisted has beet conducting the classes. engineering departmen, J- T. Me New and J. A. Orr. If possible, the men making the trip will atop off on their return to A. A M. nt Vicksburg, Vn., to inspect the Federal Experimental Hydraulic Laboratory located there Warfare Gets Colors . .i-f ! * - . • races AN ESTIMATED CROWD OF thr»Mi hundred peeple attended the annual Hillel Oub.dance Inst Sat urday night. The dance was held in the banquet room of Sbiaa Hall and featured Tommie Littlejohn and his Aggieland Orchestra. Many A. A. M. ex-students were in at- 1 Students Speaking b High Schools ill Get Banquet Wednesday night the annual given the students wh* selected to visit their home high aeLM will be held ia the mesa hall The annual visit* introduced in 1933 by Jo* 1 cHaney, the cadet colonel at th* time, and each year thereafter the of the boys has been car on by the cadet colonel and regimental commanders. Ap* teiy 300 boy* will make the year. Dm speakers for the banquet h follow*: Dr. Walton; Cot Ash burn; Dean Bolton; Dr. Russel; J* Hovel; David Thrift, toast- ster- These speakers will give information relative for the coming year. Aldrich Elected Head of Y. M. C. A. C abinet Here Earle W. Aldrich, lafantry jun ior from San Antonio, was elected President of the senior Y. M. C. A. Cabinet at the regular meeting at the cabinet last night. '•Other offi.vi- elected include James F. Pouts, Coast Artillery junior from El Peso, Vice P ■- dent; Preston Bolton, Field Artil lery sophomore from College Sta tion, Secretary; and Tom Richey, Cavalry sophomore from San An tonio. Treasurer. . tiller Band Junior, both managing edi- t< rs on Thi Battalion, will be in the runoff for Battalion Editor in-Chief. Mick Williams, CavfiipJ yunior. and Jimmy Cokinos, Field Artillery junior, will be in the run "ff far Senior Representatives on :nt SUniont Pub ications Board, and Earle Shields, Field Artillery sophomore, and Paul Haines, Qs*-, airy soph*more, will be hi the runoff fos Junior Representative. Total votes in the four follow: For Battalimi 'MHor-in-CMaf: Bill Murray 721 James. “Hymie" Crita 491 C. M. Wilkinson 131 L. E. Thompson 101 For Chief Yel! Leader: Bodie Ptetee 761 Bert Bunta 671 For Senior Representative: i Jimmy Cokinos KH Mick Williams 441 Ray TYeadwell 421 . hor Junior Representative: Pmm! RaMw r $2: Earle Shields Bob Nisbtt Gdorge Fuermann C. F. DpVabias II Monday afternoon a mounted re-4 view of the Corps of Cadets was held with all classes suspended at 2:60 p. m. to permit all students to participate in the review in honor, at the Chemical Warfare Battalion of the Composite Regi ment and the Smith-Hughes boys. The new National and Chemical Warfare Service Colors were pre sented to the Chemical Warfare Battalion at the beginning of the review when the Battalion marched Thirteen Gun Salute and All the Trimmings DueaGovemor to Be Observed When Governor O'Daniel Visits Campus BOARD VOICES 1 DISAPPROVAL OF CHANGING SCHOOLS The Board of Directors of A. A M. voiced disapproval to the legis lative proposal to convert the jun ior colleges at StephenviUt and Arlington into senior institutions in s lette* to Senator Albert Stone nt Brenham. These schools have bo. n to the reviewing stand aid the Bat under ihe W P enrisk,n the A. A talion Commander reirr-* *»J * Board of Director, and ad*M- Colort. This sqpviee, wh|£h last branch of military training to Governor W. Lee O’Daniel has accepted the invitation to visit A. A M. daring the Cotton Pageant I Ball this weekend aacording to an announcement by th* gover- r during hit weekly radio talk laat Sunday. The announcemnet has been confirmed by President Wal ton who spoke to the governor by telephone Monday. According to arrangements, a 13 gun salute will greet the gover nor ae he enters the east gate. He will be accompanied by hit family, and they will be met nt the east by a cavalry escort, and President Walton and Cel. George F. Moore. The party will immediately proceed to the patade grounds in order to review the cadet aarpa in mounted review. It la expected that the re view will begin around 6 o'clock. Governor O’Daniel and hia family were invited to attend the Cotton GOVERNOR O’DANIEL AND PAT Pageant and Ball by the Cotton Ball Committee. Molly O’Daniel, the governor's daughter, will be a duchess in the Cotton Pageant Alas expected to attend the re view is the Speaker ef the Texas House of R*-presentotivea. Emmet Morse and faaaRy, whose daughter ia to net ae duchess ef the House oi iftfirfii*mauve*. Governor O'Daniel will crown the King of the Cotton Ball and Pag- •ant at the ceremonies Friday night The governor nod bin family will come to A. A M. from the dedi- | cation of the San Jacinto Memorial Museum located at the bottom ef the new 867 foot Houston The O'Duniels are expected to re- main at A. A M. over at which tone they will return to Austin. ; be established at A. A If., was or- gaaised here four year* ago with only one company and;has since been enjoyed by eaough students to make two compaaics T}ir Chemi cal Warfare SerVM.eatfuwio] chemical enginers and Chemistry majors, is composed, only of chemi cal engineers, and ontalhs moat of the chemical engidec s on the eam- P u». During the re vie' h«' presenta tion of a medal to e k D of the Ehiels brothers of Deli a, both electrical engineers in D Battery, Field Artil lery, was made. .Present T. 0. Walton made both pi open tat ions to the brothers. R- T. Shieis. Jr., wnalpiunqnted the United StaU s Field ArtHery Association medal which is award ed each year to the -<tudtrt ia the first advanced field'artflery R-O. T.c. who best exemptt$ies char acteristics of the Army. lugsos F. Shieis was presented ihe medal for the beet timed fire Aeore In * three team meet L tw.yn the A. A M. pistol team. Department of Public Safety pistol team, end the Bayon Rifle Cleb of Hauston i m. Board of Directors and admJbi- ^ stored as a part of the A. A M. system for many years. The jBciard declared that there was no justification for raising the rank of these institutions at this time and that because there are not sufficient funds for the exist ing senior colleges, there shou I not be any more senior colleges established until the present ones are better financed. Disagreement between the Sen ate and the House of R. pr, . n u tries has caused delay in the pass age of the bill, and further eon- THE DAUG*npBj)P THE American Revolution have given a $110 lean fund to University of Akrea students who *.4“ 100 per -ideration April 24. '-vn postponed until Professors Annual Texas Meeting A. took A M. profs a prominent pert in the annual meeting of th* Texas Academy of Srience which wa* held to Hous ton last Friday and Saturday. Dr. Wlnkjer, head of the Psychology Departin' nt, *as chair man of the Saturday meetfa* of the social sciences section. The Saturday session was opened a r Dr. R. Steen ef the A. A M. history department delivered an ad dreaa oa the •Industrial Develop ment of Texas since lyoo." The meeting wUa 'held hi L*Mt,«gh School and ended Saturday night J . I