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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1940)
FARLEY CIRCULATION 5,500 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION TO ARRIVE AT 4:30 THIS AFTERNOON The Battalion LISTEN IN . . . ON FRIDAY’S “AGGIE CLAMBAKE”, BATTALION NEWSCAST, 4:30-5:30 VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1940 NO. 70 NISBET, KEETON, GILLIS WIN Election Marked By Light Vote, Close Editor’s Race More Than 1,100 Votes Cast; Keeton And Gillis Win by Large Majorities In an election yesterday marked by a vote of 1,133, considerably lighter than that of last year, but an editor’s race that was neck-and- neck almost to the very finish, R. E. (Bob) Nisbet was elected next year’s Editor-in-chief of The Battalion, Ernest R. “Buster” Keeton became the next chief yell-leader of the “Twelfth Man”, and Tom Gillis became the junior representative on the Student Publications Board. The total vote was as follows: -f For Battalion Editor: Bob Nisbet 590 A. J. Robinson 530 Difference 60 For Chief Yell-Leader: E. R. “Buster” Keeton .... 678 C. J. “Foots” Bland 455 Difference 223 For Junior Representative: Tom Gillis 733 Roland Bing 378 Difference 355 The entire campaign this year was remarkably quiet and free of the excitement that marked the campaigns oik the last two years —that is, up to the time the votes were being counted last evening by the Student Election Commit tee. The count surged back and forth; spectators were gasping nervously and anxious to learn the results of an editor’s race that was so close no one could tell the outcome until the final tabula tion. For the first time, the election was completely under the super vision of the Student Election Com mittee. Editor-elect Robert (Bob) Nisbet has been a junior editor on The Battalion newspaper and magazine. A Bryan boy, he is a junior of the Field Artillery Band, and is a student of chemical engineering. Stated Bob: “I greatly appreciate the support given me. All I have (Continued on page 6) Safety Booklet To Be Given With This Battalion Two thousand, five hundred copies of a new booklet on traffic safety entitled “Smash Hits of 1939” are being distributed free to student subscribers to The Bat talion wdth this issue. The booklet is attractively and vividly illustrated and is furnish ed with a number of graphs and charts strikingly indicative of the present trends in accidents on the streets and highways. The editors of The Battalion obtained 2,500 copies. Though not enough to be sent to all subscrib ers, the majority of the studerit subscribers will receive copies, through the courtesy of The Bat talion and with the hope that this booklet will help to reduce care lessness among Aggie drivers, pedestrians, and hitch - hikers through its presentation of the dangers of carelessness, in a form more vivid than a dozen editorials might be. The circulation staff of The Bat talion is handling the distribution of these booklets, and it is re quested that all the distributors in the halls do their part in seeing that all available booklets are dis tributed to the students. Want To See Col. Ike In Rompers? See P. T. A. Show Monday Night!! Hollywood movies and New York stage show producers have assemb led some notable casts in their time; but it remained for the Par ent-Teacher Association of the College Station Consolidated School to go them one betteri in casting their benefit show “The Old School At Hick’ry Hollow”, sched uled for presentation at the A. & M. Assembly Hall on the evening of Monday, April 8. For just a dime, folks, a tenth- part of a dollar, you can see Col. Ike Ashburn in rompers taking the part of Sammy Fly, the little brother of Firebell Fly, Mrs. Frank Anderson. If that isn’t enough for your money you’ll see the Hickory Hol low Band perform with Dr. E. P. Humbert as Hosea Jimson, drum mer; L. G. Jones as Petero Blow- "hard, tuba; David Thrift as Henson Jackson, cornet; and E. E. Vezey as Capt. Kilgore, leader. The Snow quadruplets—Wille- mena, Philipena, Angelena and Pu- rena—will be played by Mrs. N. E. Boughton, Mrs. Yarnell, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Cashion. The meanest boy in school, Jim Henry Cobb, who sheets through his teeth, will be portrayed by Marty Karow, Aggie baseball coach. Joshua Toothacre, the school master, will be portrayed by C. O. Spriggs. ■ So come early and avoid the rush. Remember! The place: Assembly Hall. The date: April 8. The price: just a thin dime. And it’s all for the new school’s benefit. Don’t miss it, for you’ll never have another chance like this! They’ll Hold Important Jobs Next Term R. E. (Bob) Nisbet, editor-elect Tom Gillis, new junior repre- E. R. “Buster” Keeton, new of The Battalion newspaper and sentative on the Student Publica- chief yell-leader of the “twelfth magazine for 1940-41. tions Board. man”. Shep Fields’’ Orchestra To Take Over Aggie Bandstand NEW DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING ESTABLISHED HERE At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the College, the establishment of a Department of Industrial Engineering in the School of Engineering was author ized. As head of this Department, Mr. Judson Neff was employed, and his connection with the college became effective April 1. Mr. Neff received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from A. & M. in 1928. He received his Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Busi ness Administration in 1936. From 1936 to the time of his acceptance of the position as head of the Department of Industrial Engi neering here, Mr. Neff was con nected with the Edward G. Budd Maunfacturing Company of Phila delphia. The temporary office of the new department is in the Agricultural Experiment Station. Mr. Neff will spend the remainder of the time of this semester and the summer in studying the college curricula and in planning the courses and work of his department. The School of Engineering is pleased to have secured Mr. Neff as head of the new department. A meeting be tween Dean Gilchrist and Mr. Neff, then working in Philadelphia, was arranged in Indianapolis, and at this meeting Mr. Neff consented to head the department. Right, Miss Claire Nunn, beautiful New Orleans songstress, featured with Shep Fields (above) and his “Rippling Rhythm” Or chestra. Others to be featured in clude Hal Derwin, “the whisper ing baritone”; Sol Gioe, pianist; Caesar Mussiolo, accordionist; Dan ny Gay, jitterbug trumpeter; Jer ry Stewart, and a host of other entertainers. ★ Contrary to popular rumor, Shep Fields is not going to create his Rippling Rhythm” on the campus this week-end by blowing through a double chocolate soda. Shep Fields is bringing his band here for three engagements—play ing for Town Hall at 7:00 o’clock and the Annual Infantry Ball at 9:00 o’clock Friday night and for the Corps dance at 9 o’clock Sat urday night. The easily recognized strains of Shep’s “Rippling Rhythm” were not used by his orchestra when he first made his way toward fame. Shep began his musical career by failing to convince the director of the Erasmus High School orches- Military Escort To Meet Postmaster At East Gate Full Military and School Honors To Be Given Postmaster-General Final preparations are being completed this morning to bestow full military and school honors on Postmaster-General James A. Farley during his visit to Aggieland today where he will witness a full- dress, mounted review of the cadet corps this afternoon and will at tend a banquet in his honor in Sbisa Hall tonight. Among the list of notables to be on the campus today are ex governors Pat Neff, president of Postmaster-General U. S. Postmaster-General James A. Farley, who will arrive at Ag gieland for a visit this afternoon. tra that he was good enough. A military band director thought the same thing; so Shep went off to law school. At the death of his father, he was forced to leave school and be the family breadwinner by start ing his own eight-piece band. The size of the orchestra increased, and Shep Fields gained no small de gree of fame, but it was not until Shep was sipping a soda in a drug store while traveling between en gagements that fortune really beamed upon him. “I was in a drug store having a soda when sud denly I became aware of the mu sical sound of liquid sipped through a straw,” relates Shep. “The idea was sudden, but it’s taken lots of work to perfect it.” His degree of perfection of this novel and unique means of producting music is re flected in the ease with which his style of “Rippling Rhythm” is rec ognized. The original soda has been re placed by a plain glass bowl, water, and a glass tube, but the distinct ive sound is the same. The tall, well groomed orchestra leader’s music does not sound the same on the air as it does on the dance floor, and Shep has modified his style some in the last two years to keep his rhythms ‘tops’ with his many fans. Hal Derwin, the male vocalist for the orchestra, started singing (Continued on page 6) Applications For Active Duty Under Thomason Act Due Applications for a year of active duty in the regular army under the Thomason Act for members of this year’s graduating class may now be submitted, Colonel G. F. Moore, P.M.S.T. and Commandant announced this week. Final selections of men to fill the quota allotted to the Eighth Corps Area will be made on May 1 and candidates will be notified as soon thereafter as possible as to their selection. Applications must be submitted to the Corps Area Commander by April 25 in order that this selection can be made. Applicants for duty must not be more than 28 years of age on July 1, 1940 and must be unmarried. Openings are available in all branches of military service repre sented at A. & M. College. Anyone interested in making application should report at room 101, Aca demic Building for further infor mation and instructions. Baylor University, and James E. Ferguson; Wright Morrow, presi dent of the Houston Chamber of Commerce; Bascom Giles, Commis sioner of the General Land Office; Charlie Lockhart, State Treasurer; State Senators Albert Stone and Penrose Metcalfe; State Represen tatives Price Daniel and Edward L. Vint; Ewell Nalle, Burris Jackson, and many other outstanding politi cal and economic leaders. Postmaster-General Farley and the official party will arrive at the East Gate of the college with a Highway Patrol escort at 4:30 this afternoon. They will be met just inside the main entrance by college officials and D Troop Cav alry who will serve as an official escort for the Postmaster-General. At this time Colonel Moore will accompany Mr. Farley on an in spection with the Cavalry escort. A 19-gun salute will be accorded the visiting member of President Roosevelt’s Cabinet as soon as he arrives on the campus. Immedi ately following the inspection the party will proceed to the Review ing Stand on the east side of the drill field. The review will be witnessed from the Reviewing Stand by Post master-General Farley and Colonel Moore and other notables. The regimental staffs of all units will fall out after passing in review and form on the right of the corps staff. After the review is completed, they will be introduced to Mr. Farley and a period of general introduc tions will follow. More than 900 people are ex pected to attend the banquet tomor row night at 7:00 o’clock. The banquet will be held in the main dining room of Sbisa Hall and will start promptly at 7:00 with the processional to the speakers’ table. The main door of the mess hall will be closed and side entrances will be used. All seniors attend ing the banquet will enter the mess hall through the northeast door nes^t to Milner Hall and will take seats in the east end of the main room. All civilian guests at the banquet will enter through the southeast entrance to the main room of the mess hall and will take seats on the west end of the main room. The speakers’ table will be located at the main entrance of the mess hall just opposite the entrance to the kitchen. (Continued on page 5) City Voting Record Set As Anderson, Langford, And Munson Win Offices The results of the election for-f mayor and aldermen of College Station have been officially an nounced, and the new mayor is Col. Frank G. Anderson, former commandant of the college and now a member of the athletic de partment. In this election the re cord number of 485 votes was cast, which is a decided increase over the 104 votes polled last year. In the election for mayor, Col. Anderson polled 461 votes, E. C. (Jeep) Oates 12. Luke Patranella- and N. E. Boughton also received some votes. In the race for aldermen, the successful candidates were Ernest Langford, 393, and T. A. Mun son, 289 votes. Otner candidates who received votes for aldermen were I. G. Adams, J. H. Quisen- berry, C. Orville Spriggs, and A. R. Kemmerer. The election was held Tuesday, April 2, with the Southern Pacific Depot serving as a polling station. FACULTY TENNIS CLUB TO MEET THURSDAY There will be an important meet ing of the Faculty Tennis Club to day at 5 p. m. Old members are needed to de cide important questions. New members are invited to attend the discussion and join the club or sign up for the spring tournament. AXM.E. PRESIDENT TO VISIT STUDENT A. & 11. CHAPTER FRIDAY Warren M. McBryde, Noted San Francisco Consulting Engineer, To Be Honored With A Chapter Luncheon Warren H. McBryde, San Fran--ftion members of the A.S.M.E. will cisco consulting engineer, and pres ident of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, will visit the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Friday, and will be honored at a luncheon of the student branch of the A.S.M.E. at noon, it was announced today. Ern est Hartford of New York, assist ant secretary of the A.S.M.E. also will visit the College Friday. Mr. McBryde will speak at the luncheon on the subject of “What Is Engineering?”. He is on a tour of Texas and Friday evening will speak at Houston at a meeting of the South Texas section of the A.S.M.E. go to Houston Friday evening and two senior students of the A. & M. College will compete for prizes of fered for talks on engineering. Two students from Rice Institute and two from the University of Texas will also compete for the prizes. A. & M. will be represented by J. W. Wood of Milford, who will speak on “The Performance of Cooling Towers”, and G. W. Wheeler of Victoria, who will speak on “Metalock”. The American Society of Me chanical Engineers this year is celebrating the 60th year of its foundation with special meetings and observances, and President McBryde is making an extensive Several carloads of College Sta-1 tour of the various branches.