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CIRCULATION 5,500 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1940 Z725 NO. 84 Parents’ Day, Engineers’ Day This Weekend Each Dept. Engineering Offers Show Exhibits Will Open At Nine in Each Building On Saturday, May 11, the Stu dent Engineers’ Council will open their eleventh annual Engineers’ Day at 9:00 a. m. Engineers’ Day is sponsored by student chapters of: the Architec tural Society, the American Insti tute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engi neers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Petroleum Engineers Club. Exhibits will be opened by all departments at nine a. m. and will remain open until nine o’clock in the evening. Immediately follow ing will be a corps dance in Sbisa Hall arrangements for which have been turned over to the Engineers. All arrangements and decorations for this dance are being made by the Student Engineers Council. Special inviations are being mailed out by this council to leading Texas engineers, many of whom are graduates of A. & M. The goal of the engineers of this year is to make this day the larg- (Continued on page 6) PORTRAIT OF WALTON TO BE UNVEILED SOON Will Be Exhibited In Duncan and Sbisa Halls The portrait of Dr. Walton, re cently painted by Seymore Stone, of New York, will be presented to the college at a joint luncheon of the faculty and the Former Stu dents’ Association at noon on June 1. The presentation will be made by Marion S. Church, ’05, of Dal las. The picture will be accepted by F. M. Law, chairman of the Board of Directors. The luncheon is an annual commencement-day affair, and it was deemed as the most appropriate occasion at which this much-discussed painting might be presented. Thereafter the por trait will be hung in the Cushing Memorial Library. The portrait is life-size, and its painter is one of the better-known artists of this type. Mr. Stone was called from New York for the job on which he spent nearly two weeks. The painting was done com pletely in the office of Dr. Walton. The movement for this picture was originated by a group of for mer students of Fort Worth. Funds to meet the expense of this por trait were amassed by voluntary subscriptions coming from a wide variety of sources. In order that the student body may have an opportunity to see this painting before the end of the school term, The Former Students’ Association is considering placing this portrait on display at some point accessable to the entire stu dent body. It is possible that it will (Continued on page 6) AGRICULTURAL MULE BARN RAZED BY FIRE MAY 4 Fire starting shortly after 7 o’clock last Saturday morning com pletely destroyed the agricultural mule barn at Texas A. & M., caus ing a loss of approximately $2,500, according to Chas. N. Shepardson, head of the Dairy Husbandry De partment. The building destroyed was a two-story frame and sheet iron structure with the second floor used as a hay mow and the ground floor as stables for mules used on the college farms. All of the ani mals were out of the building and were being harnessed at the time the fire was discovered. All equip ment was saved, but about 10 tons of hay and some other feed stored in the loft were destroyed. Spontaneous combustion was said to be the probable cause. Plans For Ring Dance Now Ready Money Must Be In By 5 P. M. Today Plans for the 1940 Senior Ring Dance and Banquet are approaching completion, class president Max McCullar announced yesterday. Company commanders will, by Wednesday night, have a detailed memorandum concerning the ban quet and ring ceremonies for the benefit of other seniors in the or ganization. All money for the dance must be in by 5 p. m. this afternoon, ac cording to McCullar. The cost is $3.50 and includes the banquet, dance, favor and an invitation to the dance. As has been the custom in the past, seniors will wear number one uniform to the banquet, which lasts from 7 until 9 p. m., but may don other apparel for the dance. C. W. Varner, local jeweler, has announced that he will be in Sbisa Hall from 8 o’clock on, to engrave initials on the backs of the favors which are to be presented by the seniors to their dates during the banquet. He will engrave 6 let ters for 20 cents. The Ring Dance will begin at 10 o’clock, or as soon thereafter as possible, depending on the length of the Ring Ceremony. Russ Mor gan and his celebrated orchestra will play until 2 a. m. Morgan will also play for the Corps Dance Saturday night, 9 until 12, at the regular price of $1, senior social secretary Charlie Hamner has announced. Second Platoon, TOWS, Winner Of Baker Trophy The second Platoon of Company “C”, C.W.S. Battalion, made the best score in the competition for the Baker Trophy held here during the past week. Six platoons were entered in the tests which involve precision and accuracy in the ex ecution of prescribed drills for both garrison and field training. B. C. Barnes of Dallas is com mander of the winning platoon. C. H. Colgin of Brownsville and R. L. Sweeney, of Hagerman are his immediate non-commissioned as sistants. Company “C” is under the command of D. R. McChesney of Del Rio. The Baker Trophy for the best drilled chemical platoon in the A. & M. College of Texas Chemical Warfare R. O. T. C. unit is a plaque presented by Major-General Walter C. Baker, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, United States Army, awarded annually to the best drilled platoon in chemical mortar drills and exercises. Each winning platoon will have the num ber and name of the organization, together with the name and rank of the platoon leader, engraved up on a suitable plate which will be affixed to the plaque each year. General Baker will personally present the trophy at an appro priate ceremony to be held at a later date, probably May 17, at which time he will be a guest on | the campus. WILLIAMS ATTENDS HOUSTON MEET OF GAS ASSOCIATION E. L. Williams of the Industrial Education Department left yester day morning for Houston, where he will attend a meeting of the American Gas Association. The meeting will last through Thurs day, and 2500 delegates are expect ed to attend. Monday afternoon, Mr. Williams presented a talk on “Adaptability of the Conference in Employee Training”. The Class of ’40 Will Dance to Music By This Orchestra Outstanding Lecturers Speak To Veterinary Students; Darby Today Dr. R. P. Marstellar, dean of the- School of Veterinary Medicine, has announced that Dr. Howard L. Darby of Fort Worth who is in spector in charge of the Texas Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. D. A., is a visitor on the campus today. Doctor Darby adminis ters federal activities in tick, Bang’s disease and tubei’culosis eradication, hog cholera control, sheep and cattle scab field inspec tion. He is today conferring with senior veterinary students, some of whom will accept appointments in the B. A. I., and veterinarians on the teaching staff of the School of Veterinary Medicine here. During the past week Doctor J. E. Shillinger, veterinarian in AGGIE M. E. STUDENT WINS FIRST PLACE AT CONVENTION J. W. Wood, an M. E. senior from Milford, won first place at the A. S. M. E. Convention which was held at the Texas Technolo- j gical College at Lubbock. Wood’s ; paper on “Forced Draft Cooling Towers” was given first place out j of the sixteen papers that were en- j tered. George W. Wheeler 'won j tenth place with his paper on “Re-1 pairing Casting by New Methods”, j Nine schools were represented at this convention. V. M. Fares and J. S. Hopper of the mechanical engineering faculty accompanied the students to the convention. ►charge of disease control, Divi sion of Wild Life Research, Bu reau of Biological Survey, and De partment of Interior, gave an illu strated lecture on diseases of wild life to the senior veterinary stu dents. He also conferred with Dr. H. L. Van Volkenberg, Head of the Department of Veterinary Parasitology, about a survey of dis eases of wild life in Texas which Doctor Van Volkenberg is conduct ing. Dr. Henry H. Dudes, Head of the Department of Veterinary Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, on sabbatical leave, visited the School of Veterinary Medicine last week end. He conferred with Dr. Patton W. Burns, Head of the Depart ment of Physiology and Pharma cology and other veterinarians here on the campus. From April 8th to April 22nd inclusive, Dr. M. G. Fincher lectur ed on diseases of dairy cattle. SENIOR CALLING CARDS MAY BE ORDERED NOW Those seniors who failed to get their engraved calling cards to go with the invita tions last Thursday and Fri day may get them any time this week from Arch Greig in room 51 of Legett Hall. Above is shown the celebrated orchestra of Russ Morgan—with a total of 19 members including the girl singer and the leader, who is himself one of the country’s best trombonists. Famed from appear ances on the stage, the screen, in the nation’s exclusive ballrooms, and over the nationwide networks, this is the band whose familiar “Music in the Morgan Manner” will entertain the class of ’40 at its annual Senior Banquet and Ring Dance in Sbisa Hall Friday night. And at the left is lovely Carolyn Clarke, featured vocalist with Morgan. ‘Music in Morgan Manner” To Be Feature of Ring Dance, Banquet The crowning social occasion of their college years for the 700 se niors of Aggieland will take place Friday night in Sbisa Hall, when the long-awaited Senior Ring Dance and Banquet take place. Presiding over the festivities will be the old maestro with the slide trombone, Russ Morgan, and his group of entertainers who please listeners with “music in the Mor gan manner”. Unquestionably one of the finest musical groups ever to visit the campus, Morgan and his 18-piece band will come here from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they have a short engagement. They re cently played for the annual Se nior Formal at T. S. C. W., and earlier were located at the Blue Room of the Roosevelt in New Or leans. Russ Morgan has had one of the most outstanding careers of any orchestra leader in America. At the age of 18 he joined Paul Specht, then a popular band leader. Two years later, he was arranger for the immortal John Philip Sousa and for Victor Herbert, two of the country’s greatest musicians. -f-cal director of radio station WXYZ with nine simultaneous commer cials. In between, he found time to arrange for the Detroit Symphony of one hundred pieces. He came to New York, where he arranged the musical scores for George White’s Scandals and Mu sical Comedies, also the Cotton Club show and some of the musical work for Mendoza at the Capitol. Russ also styled Freddie Martin’s band, heading that popular leader towai’d success. Upon overtures from NBC, Russ soon organized his own band, and one month later started an en gagement at the Biltmore Hotel, New York. He was on the Colum bia network for Rinso for 39 weeks, securing the engagement without an audition. He appeared for two years on the Philip Morris pro gram. An extremely talented musical personality, Russ plays expertly the trombone, piano, vibraphone, saxophone, guitar, celeste and ma rimba, and is now studying the or gan and harp. He was soon called to Detroit, where he organized the Goldkette Orchestra, which included such re cently-recognized radio stars as Tommy . and Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Chauncey Morehouse, Bill Rank, Steve Brown, Howdy Quicksell and Fuzzy Far rar. While in Detroit he was for two years musical director of the State Theatre, and was also musi- Russell Named Head Of Texas Welfare Ass’n. Dr. Daniel Russell, head of the Rural Sociology Department, was elected president of the Texas Wel fare Association at its annual con vention, held this year a t Galves ton from April 30 to 3Vt a y 3. The convention was tjmde up of members from all the Welfare de partments in Texas, in C ] U ding the Red Cross, Community Chest, Child Welfare and several others. The theme of the convention ^ras “Wel fare for Texas People”, Eight rural sociology sen iors at tended the meeting and were giv en jobs while attending The Association voto^j to meet in Dallas in 1941. Publisher of Oil Weekly Will Visit Here on Thursday Mr. Ray L. Dudley, president of the Gulf Publishing Company and publisher of the Oil Weekly, will address the Petroleum Engineering Club, Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Dudley has just recently returned from a trip through South America in which he visited all of the more important oil fields and in his talk he will discuss some of the interesting features and high lights of his trip. Mr. Dudley is universally known in the petroleum industry, having been associated with the industry in various capacities for many years. It is through Mr. Dudley’s influence and cooperation that the cash prizes awarded annually for the best papers in Petroleum Engi neering 405 have been perpetuated. In addition to his address, Mr. Dudley will personally award the prizes for the winning papers for this year. Mr. Warren L. Baker, editor of Oil Weekly, will accompany Mr. Dudley on his visit to College Sta tion. Mothers, Dads Will Be Guests Entertaining Week- End Is on Schedule For Visiting Parents A weekend of royal entertain ment has been planned for the hun dreds of mothers and dads who will visit their sons here Saturday and Sunday, May 11 and 12, for the Mothers’ and Dads’ Day Program. An annual event, the program is the tribute of the members of the cadet corps to their parents, and everything possible is done to make the visitors feel that their pres ence is a delight to the entire stu dent body. The entertainment will begin Saturday morning at 9 a. m., when the Engineers’ Day will be begun in the various departments of the Engineering School. It will con tinue until 9 p. m. Saturday night. A show of real Engineering magic is promised. A tea honoring the visiting par ents will be held in the lobby of the Y. M. C. A. Building, from 2 until 5 p. m. Saturday afternoon. Also beginning at 2 o’clock will be a baseball game between A. & M. and Baylor University on Kyle Field. At 6:45 and 8:45 p. m., there will be a picture show in the Assembly Hall. A reception for the parents will be held in President and Mrs. T. O. Walton’s home at 7. For those who wish to dance, there will be a corps dance in Sbisa Hall from 9 until 12, with Russ Morgan and his orchestra. The traditional flower-pinning ceremony, at which a representa tive of the organization command er, usually his mother or sweet heart, pins a flower on the breast of each cadet, will begin the Sun day morning program at 8:30. Fol lowing this will be a review of the entire cadet corps at 10 o’clock. (Continued on page 6) Rice Institute Prexy To Speak To Local A.A.U.P. Crowd Of 200 Is Expected To Attend A large crowd is expected to hear President O. E. Lovett of Rice Institute address the local chapter of the American Associa tion of University Professors on Thursday evening. The banquet is open to the public and the ad ministrative officials of the college are cooperating in welcoming Pres ident Lovett to the A. & M. cam pus. President Lovett, who served as math professor and astronomer at Princeton University before com ing to Houston to accept the pres idency of Rice, will use as his subject “Student Interest in In tellectual Standards.” Dr. Lovett has attended several foreign and American universities and has been President of Rice Institute since 1908. He is a mem ber of the Phi Beta Kappa fra ternity. A crowd of two hundred is ex pected for the banquet, which is to be held in Sbisa Hall. Members of the San Marcos College and Bay lor University A. A. U. P. will be here to attend the banquet. Dr. Joseph Morgan will entertain the audience with an organ solo before Dr. Walton introduces the speaker of the evening. Dr. Ide Trotter will preside as the local president of the American Association of University Professors. Professor Crawford is the Vice President and Charles La Motte is secretary. Tickets for the banquet may be obtanied from Professors Gofer, Zisman, Lyle, Samuelson, La Moote, Quisenberry, Trotter, Faires, Schoepfle, Campbell, Schlesselman, and Steen, and from Mrs. F. E. Turner, and at the desk in the Y. M. C. A. <