On Town Hall Tonight
Max Gene Nohl, noted deep-sea diver and lecturer, will show
a moving picture in technicolor with his lecture when he appears on
the Town Hall Program at 7:30 tonight. He holds the world’s record
for diving, having descended to a depth of 420 feet with 190 pounds
per square inch pressure on his body.
It’s Town Hall Tonight!
Max Gene Nohl, Famous
Diver. To Show Pictures
The mysteries and difficulties of.
exploring undersea territory are
to be explained to the Aggies to
night when Max Gene Nohl, fa
mous submarine explorer, lectures
here under the sponsorship of the
Town Hall program. Mr. Nohl’s
lecture, accompanied by technicolor
motion pictures, will be given in
the Assembly Hall at 7:30 tonight.
The usual prices for admission
will prevail, students $.50 and out
siders $1.00.
Mr. Nohl has had many excit
ing adventures in pursuing his
work of exploring the ocean bot
tom, and his technicolor pictures
will show much of marine life and
characteristics to his audience. Mr.
Nohl now holds the world’s rec
ord for diving, having descended
to a depth of 420 feet. At this
depth the pressure on his body
was 190 lbs. per square inch. This
descent broke the record held for
22 years by a United States Navy
diver.
As an inventor of diving appa
ratus, Mr. Nohl has demonstrated
his ingeniousness and engineering
ability. He has invented and built
a new type diving lung, a 14 lb.
midget diving apparatus for res
cue work and submarine escape, a
self-contained open helmet, and an
►underwater motion picture camera.
Thus by materials of his own in
vention he has been able to fur
ther his explorations and exper
ience. His self-contained helium
and air diving suit is the only ma
jor development in this field since
the first diving apparatus was in
vented in 1837.
Immediately after Mr. Nohl and
his associates published their data
on use of an 80% helium and 20%
oxygen mixture in diving work,
the use of such a mixture was rec
ommended by the United States
Navy for use on its rescue ship
“Falcon.” The men raised in div
ing bells are fed this mixture,
which greatly reduces the danger
of the “bends”, dreaded disease of
divers. Men breathing this mix
ture are able to ascend more rapid
ly and are in better condition than
men breathing the nitrogen and
oxygen air mixture.
Since graduating from M. I. T.,
Mr. Nohl, now only 28, has spent
his life in undersea exploration.
He discovered and explored the
remnants of the ancient civiliza-
ion editor; D. V. Varner and Ernie
mids in Rock Lake. Because of his
wide experience and knowledge,
Mr. Nohl is expected to present
an interesting and educational lec
ture.
Southern Belle Not Impressed By
Aggieland; In Fact She Didn't Like It!
By George Fuermann
She was a Southern belle of the
old school; there was no question
about that. She looked so much
like Hollywood’s Bette Davis that
you might have been fooled un
less you were one to believe that
Bette wouldn’t waste her time on
the A. & M. campus during a
holiday season. She didn’t like
Aggieland, either; but then she
was prejudiced, being a Sophie
Newcomb sophomore; and every
body knows that Sophie Newcomb
is the better half of Tulane.
The first thing she said after
a tour of the campus was, “The
Aggies should take the Sugar
Bowl out of hiding. A person
would think the college was
ashamed that it had won the
trophy.” This, after searching high
and low for the famed bowl to
no avail.
But that wasn’t all. She ex
pected to find uniforms a dime
a dozen at the world’s largest mili
tary college—so she visited the
campus during the spring holi
days, and nary a uniform was in
sight. So her uniform complex
remained unsquelched. She didn’t
think it would ever be squelched at
Tulane; the naval R. O. T. C.
students only wear their uniforms
on Fridays.
It’s no wonder she didn’t enjoy
Aggieland; the trip was jinxed
-4-from the very beginning. In the
first place, when Aggie Clark
Ross invited her to come, she had
no end of difficulty trying to
persuade fond parents that it was
the thing to do, Then she missed
her train; and, finally, the double-
decker combination of no Sugar
Bowl and no uniforms was a call
ed third strike.
Two things were strictly on the
level, though. In the first place,
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Minnesota Engineers
Would Publish List
Of Professors’ Jokes
Engineering students are famous
for their mathematical approach
to all phases of life—and Univer
sity of Minnesota engineers are
no exception.
They’ve started a move to pub
lish a list of all jokes used by their
professors, a list that will classify
and number all wisecracks and fa
vorite stories of the pedagogues.
Chief reason for the project is
that it will be a time saver for all
concerned, for in the future pro
fessors will merely give the num
ber of their jokes when they feel
the moment has arrived to spice
their lectures with a touch of lev
ity.
The BattaHun
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 28, 1940 NO. 67
Nisbet, Fuermann, Robinson File For Editor
Dr. S. Eddy,
Noted Author,
To Visit Here
To Deliver Series
Of Addresses In
Behalf of Y.M.C.A.
Sherwood Eddy, famed author,
lecturer, and world traveler, will
deliver a series of addresses at A.
& M. Sunday and Monday, March
31 and April 1.
Sponsored by the College Y. M.
C. A., Dr. Eddy lectures and speaks
constantly in all sections of the
country and has spoken in several
hundred colleges in all parts of
the United States, Europe, and
Asia.
Sunday night he will deliver an
address in Guion Hall, his sub
ject being, “Can Religion Build
A New World?” Monday night,
also in Guion Hall, his subject will
be, “The Crisis In Europe and
America’s Responsibility.” Both of
these addresses are open to the
cadets, faculty members, and the
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LowdermilktoTalk
Here on Survey Of
Land Use in Europe
The inclusion of fish culture in
a crop rotation was an unusual
method of land use found by Dr.
W. C. Lowdermilk, assistant chief
of the Soil Conservation Service
in his recent survey of land use
in Europe, North Africa, and the
Near East. This survey will be the
basis of his discussion “Soil Ero
sion and Civilization” here on
March 29. The lecture will be giv
en in Guion Hall at 7:30 o’clock
and the public is invited to attend.
The production of fish, as part
of the farm “cropping” system, fits
practically into the land use pat
tern in several sections of France,
particularly in the region of Les
Dombes, between the Eaone and
Rhone Rivers above their junction
and north of Lyons, Dr. Lowder
milk reports.
The industry, which dates back
to the Middle Ages, is now thriv
ing and proving more profitable
than the production of field crops
there, the speaker says. The usual
rotation in Les Dombes region, he
explains, are two years in water
and 1 year in grain, and 2% years
in water and one-half year in
grain. One pond has averaged 164
pounds of fish per acre per year
since 1880.
After the fish are “harvested”
in the spring by draining the pond
and when the area is sufficiently
dried out, the land is plowed and
sown, usually to a crop of oats.
The rotation of field crops is de
sirable to provide conditions for
fish food, and in turn the fish
fertilize the grain crop, Dr. Low
dermilk said.
Vanity Fair Beauties for the 1939-40 Longhorn, who were picked by Kay Kyser of radio and
screen fame, are pictured above as follows: Top row, left to right, Daphne Saloisi, Hallie Beth Willing
ham. Second row, left to right, Catherine Pool, Mary Louise Lewis, Doris Watson. Third row, left to
right, Martha Perrin, Gertrude La Voice, Connie Eversberg.
Vanity Fair Beauties Named
By "Professor” Kay Kyser
Announcement of the eight most-f
beautiful girls selected by Kay Kys
er for the Vanity Fair section of
the 1940 Longhorn was made re
cently by George Smith, Longhorn
editor. The girls were selected
from 46 entries.
Following is the letter that was
received from Kyser:
Mr. George Smith, Editor
1940 Longhorn
Texas A. & M. College
Dear Mr. Smith:
Under separate cover I’m re
turning the pictures submitted to
me.
I appreciate the honor of select
ing the first eight ladies for the
beauty section of the Longhorn.
However, you gave me a tough as
signment because they’re all so
pretty. Also it’s a very ticklish
thing to stick your neck out and
say one gal is prettier than an
other. Nevertheless I have made
a stab at it and I certainly hope
my selection meets with the ap
proval of the student body and
you.
I hope you’ll impress upon every
one concerned the fact that we
have never seen any of these la
dies, and, therefore, the selection
was made entirely on the merit
of the pictures. No doubt the pic
tures flatter some and do not do
justice to others. However, on the
basis of the photographs my choice
is as follows:
Miss Connie Eversberg
Miss Gertrude La Voice
Miss Mary Louise Lewis
Miss Hallie Beth Willingham
Miss Daphne Salois
Miss Catherine Pool
Miss Martha Perrin
Miss Doris Watson
Thanking you again for the hon
or you have bestowed upon me and
hoping that the 1940 Longhorn
will be the best ever, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Kay Kyser.
In the group picked by “Profes
sor” Kyser T.S.C.W., sister college
of A. & M. took the lead with four
of the eight beauties being coeds
there. Max-y Louise Lewis of Waco,
Hallie Beth Willingham of Sabinal,
Daphne Salois of Dallas, and Cath
erine Pool of San Antonio are all
“T.S.C.W.-ites.” Of the remainder
Connie Eversberg of Houston is a
student at the University of Tex
as, Gertrude La Voice lives at San
Domingo, California, Martha Per
rin is from Greenville, and Doris
Watson is a student at Mary Har-
din-Baylor College.
Versatile Bernie Cummins And His Orchestra
To Furnish Music For Composite Regimental Ball
Members of the Composite Regi--
ment will swing out this week at
their annual ball to the music
of Bernie Cummins’ famed swing
band, that is well known to all
radio listeners. Bernie’s orches
tra was started on its way to be
a big name band when it won
an audition of over fifty bands
to select an orchestra to play for
the formal opening of the Hotel
New Yorker in New York. Since
then, Cummins’ orchestra has
played in spots all over the nation
with top billing.
Before starting on his band
career, Bernie Cummins and his
brother Walter, were interested
in boxing and all types of sports.
An injury resulting from his box
ing made him decide to quit active
sports, but his interest is undi
minished. He is highly regarded
•■by sports writers all over the-
country for his ability to recall
spoi’ts statistics, rattle off football
and baseball lineups, and recall
sports events and records. While
not busy with his orchestra, Bernie
is usually in some sports discus
sion or playing golf. He shoots
a mean score in the low seventies
and drops 50 foot putts without
the flicker of an eyelash. He is
a personal friend of Barney Ross,
former welterweight champion.
Connie Barleau, the “Swing
Songstress,” furnishes the vocal
refrains for Bernie’s orchestra,
and his brother Walter sings beau
tiful ballads. Artie Shaw was
started on his way to the top by
Bernie Cummins. In 1938 Bernie
Cummins was selected the best
dressed band leader in the U. S.
Rudy Vallee, another of his per
sonal friends, relinquished half his-f
time on the air so that Cummins
could play over a national hookup.
Making arrangements for the
Composite regiment are: Henry
Heitman, Joe Snow, Ernest
Amundsen, Jack Hines, Eldred
Wheeler, Harry Warnke, Harold
Hausmann, Robert Hoff, and Dan
Wilson. The permanent dance
decorations will be made especially
attractive this week because the
insignia of both the Signal Corps
and the Chemical Warfare Service
will be displayed on the back-
board.
Dormitory 4 is to be vacated
for the dates and guests of the
cadets in the Composite regiment.
Cummins and his orchestra will al
so play for the Corps Dance Sat
urday night.
Connie Barleau . . . sings with
Bernie Cummins and Orchestra.
Bland And
Keeton For
Yell - Leader
Roland Bing, Thomas
Gillis Running For
Jr. Representative
With 5 p. m. Wednesday
the deadline for filing, seven
candidates have announced
their intentions of running
for three important student-
body offices which are to be
filled by the general election
which will be held next Wed
nesday, April 3.
Bob Nisbet, George Fuer
mann, and A. J. Robinson,
junior editors on The Batta
lion newspaper and magazine
staffs, have filed in the order
named, to run for the position
of editor-in-chief of The Bat
talion for 1940-41.
C. J. “Foots” Bland and E.
R. “Buster” Keeton, the two
junior yell-leaders, have filed
for chief yell-leader during
the coming year.
Roland Bing and Thomas
Gillis, sophomores, have filed
for the position of junior re
presentative on the Student
Publications Board.
•
At a meeting of the Student
Publications Board to be held this
afternoon at 3 o’clock in Dean F.
C. Bolton’s office, eligibility of
the various candidates for the
editorship will be passed on.
Members of the Board are Dean
Bolton, chairman; E. L. Angell,
manager of Student Publications;
George Wilcox, Education Depart
ment professor; Colonel Ike Ash-
burn, executive assistant to the
president; George Smith, Long
horn editor; Bill Murray, Battal-
tion of the sunken Azatlan pyra-
Meynard, editors of the Scientific
Review; senior representative
Mick Williams and junior repre
sentative Paul Haines.
Haines will be senior represent
ative next year, the junior mem
ber regularly being elected for a
two-year period.
Every member of the corps will
be eligible to vote in the election
April 3. Presentation of the re
ceipt for the payment of dues
for the second semester is re-
quix-ed.
17th Annual Aggie
Horse Show To Be
Staged April 13
The seventeenth annual horse
show at A. & M. College will be
held on Saturday, April 13, on the
show grounds just north of the
college on highway 6 according to
a recent anouncement. In recent
years the shows have been handled
and managed by Major W. R. Ir
vin with consistent improvement
in the number of classes and in
terest in the show. It is Major Ir
vin’s hope that this year’s show
will be the biggest and best of
all, as this will be the last show
under his management. He has
already received orders which will
transfer him to Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga., later in the year.
Letters are now being sent to
horse breeders and fanciers in
Texas, and it is expected that many
of the better-known stables and
owners will enter horses in the
show. The A. & M. Horse Show
has an outstanding reputation in
the state for being one of the most
colorful and successful of the
state’s smaller shows.
The event for this year has been
tentatively planned to have 24
classes, but others will be arrang
ed provided there is sufficient de
mand. Six entries will be required
to form a new class. Beginning at
10 o’clock, Saturday morning, April
13, seven classes will be shown.
The remaining classes will be
shown in the afternoon, starting at
1:30.