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DIAL 4-5444 r If 'IT 4 4 W • DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 15, 1940 Z725 NO. 13 Aggietone News World Premiere And Festivities Tonight Draft Registration Date Is Wednesday! Registration Hours Will Be From 7 a. m. Till 9 p. m. Students Will Register For Draft In Registrar’s Office 900 Faculty And Precinct Residents To Register Wed. Students who are above 21 years of age and are not reserve officers or do not have a contract to take advanced R. 0. T. C. training must report to the Registrar’s Office to day between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. to register in accordance with re cent selective service legislation, as announced by E. J. Howell, Reg istrar. This will be the only day on which students may register unless they are confined to an asylum or unless they are too ill to register at the hospital. The local group in charge will provide a method whereby all students in the hospital will be able to register if the se riousness of their illness does not prevent it. It is estimated that there will be approximately 1500 students to register here. A staff of fifty will assist Howell throughout the day in filling out the forms. Of this group forty will be students who have volunteered their services. It will not be necessary for the registrants to have any certifica tion of information which they will be asked. The blank forms will in clude space for: 1. Full name 2. Complete home address 3. Name of person(s) who will always know the registrants where abouts 4. Place of birth 5. Date of birth 6. Country in which registrant is citizen 7. Height, weight and race (white,' Oriental, Indian, or Philip pine) 8. Color of eyes, hair and com plexion. If there is any doubt in the stu dent’s mind as to.whether he should register or not it is advised that he should as there is a fine of $10,000 or an imprisonment of not more than five years or both which may be assessed persons who fail to register. All faculty members of A. & M. College and other residents of this precinct who are eligible for se lective service registration and are not students of the college will be required to register at the A. & M. Consolidated High School building Wednesday from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. J. L. Stasney of College Station will be in charge of registration of the high school, and the high school faculty. High school will be dis missed on Wednesday in order that the faculty will be able to assist in the registration process. According to an estimate from the county clerk’s office in Bryan there will be approximately 900 non-student males who will reg ister Wednesday. College students will be required to register in the Registrar’s Of fice under the supervision of E. J. Howell and other members of that branch. If it is impossible to register through illness, quarantine, or some type of confinement such as being in a hospital the local Selective Service Board and the county clerk will make arrangements for later registering. A fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years or both may be assessed persons who fail to reg ister on the set date unless they provide a legitimate excuse. The same penalty will be applied to any persons who assists another in evading registration. Victorious Aggies Will Be Welcomed Home By Entire Cadet Corps In Formation Team Will Arrive At 9:53 This Morning 1 The biggest welcome ever staged for a victorious football team will take place this morning as the A. & M. cadet corps brings out their full military organization to wel come the boys back home. The corps couldn’t go to California en masse, and after winning Satur day’s game over U.C.L.A. by a score of 7-0, the victory march had to be postponed until this morn ing, but it will be nonetheless a march of victory or a true wel come to the conquering heroes. Accompanied by the cheers of the corp and the strains of the Ag gie War Hymn, the football team that relentlessly pounded the U.C.L.A. line will ride in army SENIOR VOLUNTEERS Those seniors who are go ing to assist in the selective service registration Wednes.- day please meet in the reg istrar’s office at 5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. It is necessary that all men be present. Former Aggie Will Bring His Orchestra To Campus For Dance Aggies who are looking for somewhere to go after the corps dance Saturday night will find an ideal solution at the country club. Ed Gerlach, a former student, is bringing his band back to play at the club from 10:30 until 2:30 Under Gerlach’s direction, the band has been playing together all summer and has developed its own style and a large musical library. Five saxes, five brass instruments and four rhythm make up the or ganization whose music leans to ward the swing side. The group played this summer at the new Medicine Park Hotel at Medicine Park, Oklahoma. The dance is sponsored by a charity organization in Bryan and will furnish an excellent place to dance until the small hours of the morning. Henry Fulgham of Bryan is playing the drums in the band. By Tom Gillis • trucks past the corps in full mili tary formation. Classes will be dismissed at 9:40 for this purpose by permission of the Commandant’s office, and mili tary units will form in their usual place in serge slacks. Organiza tions in the old area will then march down and form themselves in platoon front along the sides of the boulevard leading from the bugle stand to the railroad sta tion. Units from the new area will likewise line both sides of the street as it turns to the right at the bugle stand, passing in front of Bizzell Hall and turning left again in front of Guion as far as is necessary so that all organizations may form in platoon front on the curb. The band will be marched to the station. The train bearing the mighty Aggie football team is scheduled to arrive at 9:53 a. m. and then the big parade will begin. Then the Sheep And Goat Raisers To Hold Meeting October 17-19 The quarterly meeting of the'fwith the corps of cadets in both directors of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association will be held here on the campus during the three days including October 17- 19, acording to announcement by Stanley Davis, wool and mohair specialist connected with the Agri cultural Experiment Station. The directors will spend the time in business meetings and in visiting points of interest on the campus. E. S. Mayer, prominent sheep, goat and cattle man in the Sonora country, is president of the asso ciation and A. K. Mackey, former ly of the animal husbandry depart ment, is the secretary. Both men will be present and wil speak to the group. Approximately two hundred di rectors, their wives and friends are expected for the meeting. They will arrive Thursday and will reg ister that afternoon in the animal husbandry library. The meeting will officially open at a banquet at 7:00 that night in Sbisa Hall. Members of the college staff and agriculture professors in related fields will also be present. Friday morning the directors will hold a business session in the Animal Industries Building. E. J. Kyle, Dean of Agriculture, and R. P. Marsteller, Dean of Veterinary Medicine, will talk briefly to the assembled directors, as will D. W. Williams, professor of ani mal husbandry, and A. B. Conner, Director of the Agricultural Exper iment Station. After adjournment at 11:45 the directors will eat lunch in groups of threes and fours mess halls. They will be accom panied by cadets of the animal hus bandry department. The afternoon will be spent in inspecting the campus, the wool scouring plant, wool laboratory, museum, meats laboratories, ex perimental grass plots, the feeding and breeding station, and other points of interest. Friday night the group will attend the Aggie rodeo in a body. Executive conferences and com mittee meetings will occupy Sat urday morning, but in the after noon the group will see the A. & M. -T. C. U. football game. Already 175 tickets to this game have been reserved for the Association and more are expected. Dean Kyle has charge of the pro gram for the meeting and he is be ing assisted by D. W. Williams, J. M. Jones, S. P. Davis, Norman Schuessler, Roy Snyder and others. The Ladies Auxilliary Associ ation wil hold their meetings on the same days. Part of their time will be spent visiting Old Washington and Independence. The Sheep and Wool Raisers Association has a membership of 10,000 within the state and it sponsors its own publication, the Southwestern Sheep and Goat Raiser. This publication is edited at the Association headquarters in San Angelo by Hiram Phillips. A special Aggie edition was put out recently which contained articles on the new wool scouring plant, the experiment station, and (Continued on Page 3) Sonora Mothers Contribute $50 To Library Fund The Sonora A. & M. Mothers Club has taken the initial step toward, library contributions this year with a check for fifty dollars. This donation has made possible the pur chase of subscriptions to “Fortune” and “Esquire”, which have proven to be the most popular magazines in the library. This contribution has boosted the total for the past two years to $763.40, all of which has gone to purchase books and phonograph records for the library. The books are purchased from student re quests upon approval of the stu dent library committee, which is composed of one member from each class, a member of the Battalion staff, and a librarian. Any student may request a book by leaving the full name of the au thor and title of the book, and his full name and address in the box on the first floor of the library. 300 Bleacher Seats Left For Thanksgiving Game All tickets to the A. & M.-Texas game in Austin November 28, ex cept for 300 end-zone bleacher seats and student tickets, have been sold, according to information received from the athletic office yesterday. The bleacher-seat tickets are on sale at the University of Texas in Austin at $2 each. All A. & M. students will enter the game through Gate 1 at the north entrance to the field. Stu dents dates will not be allowed to enter on a ticket purchased with an activities coupon book, it was announced. Horticultural Show To Be Held On November 25-26 Plans are in progress for the annual Horticultural Show to be held on November 25 and 26. The show this year will feature citrus and winter vegetables from the Rio Grande Valley area and pecan exhibits from the entire pecan pro ducing areas of the state. The location for the displays has not been definitely decided upon. The Agricultural building has been used in the past, but it is hoped that a more suitable place can be arranged for this year. The show is sponsored by the student members of the Horticul tural Society, and the exhibits are furnished by commercial houses, experiment stations and individual growers. The object of the pro gram is to give students an op portunity to become acquainted with as many horticultural pro ducts as possible, especially those in Texas. Aside from the commercial dis plays will be a display of rare and novel specimens from the experi ment sub-stations at Weslaco and Winterhaven. There will be a variety of col lections of pecans put on by the State Department of Agriculture at Austin, and also a propagation exhibit sponsored by the same de partment. The horticultural department plans to operate machines to crack and shell pecans to sell for the benefit of the student society. Arrangements are being made to have a fruit and vegetable pro ducts display consisting of pre served figs and other fruits from the Alvin area. As a novelty attraction there will be a variety collection of ap ples from schools in all the apple growing regions and a quantity of apple cider which will be on sale. -►Six Army Trucks Carry Team’s Luggage corp will have its chance to show that the Aggie spirit was not dim med even though the team’s vic tory was won 2000 miles away. The team and their baggage will be loaded into six open army trucks and will begin their slow ride through the lines of their cheering comrades. The band will follow the procession of the trucks. Thus we of the cadet corps can show the team that a victory march is never too late and this will be one of the first victory marches that the team itself has ever been in. Always before they have taken to the showers while the Twelfth Man yelled and cele brated after their victory. Now they too will be able to take part in the triumphant procession and won’t have to march at that. After the band has passed by a unit, it may break ranks and join in the parade as the men see fit. Classes which are supposed to meet at 10:00 will not meet until 10:15. By that time the famed Aggie football team will have participated in its first victory march and the corps will have shown them that the Twelfth Man has done his part even if he couldn’t follow the team all the way. Credit for this idea and these plans goes to yell leaders Bill Beck and Skeen Staley, and they have established a precedent to be fol lowed after future games. Six New Tactical Officers Have Been Employed By The College Six officers have been added to the military department here to assist in instructing military science and tactics. They have not been called to active service by the government at present, but have been employed by the college. The new officers include the following: Second Lieutenant J. B. Allen, Infantry; Captain W. J. Faulk, Field Artillery; Second Lieutenant L. F. Lefkofsky, Coast Artillery; Second Lieutenant Wil liam G. North, Cavalry; Second Lieutenant P. C. Schoenfield, En gineers; and Second Lieutenant H. K. Jackson, Chemical Warfare Service. At 6:30 This Evening Staley And Beck To Hold Yell Practice On Outside; Bland And Keeton On Inside The long awaited world premiere of Aggietone News becomes a fact tonight at the Campus Theater amid all the fabled color and spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. Box office will open at 6:30 p. m. and there will be no advance in prices and, in order to prepare for the premiere, the Campus Theatre will remain closed all this afternoon. Following the premiere of Aggie tone News, which is scheduled to Economics Club To Present Noted Houston Attorney The first meeting of the Eco nomics Club for this session will bring Arthur J. Mandell, Houston attorney, to speak to the club on “The Qualification of Labor Lead ers.” He will speak in the physics lecture room at 7:30 Thursday ev ening. Mandell will be introduced by Paul Lowry, president of the Economics Club. Students who attended the last club meeting last year will recall Mandell’s talk at that time on “Government by Injunction” in which he explained how injunctions affected the labor situation. Mandell was born in Barlad, Ru mania, in 1903. He received most of his education in that country except for some time spent in America at Johns Hopkins Uni versity at Baltimore and Cumber land University at Lebannon, Tenn. He was granted his LL.D. degree for his work at Cumberland. He began his law price in Hous ton in 1930 and the majority of his practice has been in the field of labor laws and the employer-em ployee relationship. He has had extensive experience in this field before all types of courts and boards. He is the local representa tive of branches of various labor unions within both the American Federation of Labor and the Com mittee for Industrial Organization. The directors of the Economics Club for this year are Paul Lowry, president; Gib Michalk, vice-pres ident; Jordan Wolfe, secretary- treasurer; Tom Gillis, social and publicity secretary; Mayo Thomp son, Paul Haines, David Angell and James Rominger, R. L. Elkins, assistant professor of Economics is the faculty member and sponsor of the club. Bailey Employed By Animal Husbandry Dept. A new instructor, W. W. Bailey, ’36, has recently been employed to help assist professor C. E. Mur- phey with the meats work. Mr. Bailey comes to the college from the State Prison Ssystem where he has had charge of the prison abbatoir and canning plant. United Science Clubs Newest Of Campus Societies The United Science Clubs of A. & M.is the name of the newest or ganization on the campus. It was founded by Dr. C. C. Dak, head of the Biology Department, The club is intended not only for the pres ent members of the Biology Club, Pre-Med Club, and Entomology Club, but also for the Agronomy Society, Kream and Kow, Econom ics, Junior F. F. A., Fish and Game, Art, Poultry Science, Rural Soc iology, and Junior Chapter of A. V. M. A. clubs. Two regular meetings of the new organization are to be held during the year, one each sem ester. The meeting of the fall semester is to be held during the week of November 1. The meeting of the spring semester will be held during the last week in April prior to the regional meeting of the Tex as Academy of Science. This first meeting in the fall is expected to accomplish three things: determine the number of delegates to be sent to the annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, to transact such business as seems necessary and to hear speaker on some of the broader aspects of science. At the spring meeting, those members who have submitted out standing papers during the year will be selected and sent as del egates at large to the annual meet ing with paid membership and given a preferred place on the pro gram at the next regular meeting of the collegiate division of the Tex as Academy of Science. The membership of the United Science Clubs will consist of the to tal active membership of the cons tituent club named. get under way at 7:45, the original ly scheduled feature, “Gangs of Chicago”, will be shown. Follow ing this will be a second showing of Aggietone News and the fea ture picture. Popularly known as “The Ag gie’s Own Story on Celluloid”, the neewsreel will be produced every two weeks. Similar in structure to the major newsreels which are in ternational in content, Aggietone News concerns Aggie activities on and off the campus. Produced and directed by Bat talion Associate Editor George Fuermann, the staff includes as sociate producers Ira F. Lewis, Mineral Wells; George Mueller, Alton, Illinois; and Graham Purcell, Archer City. Assistant director of the Aggietone News is Head Yell Leader E. R. (Buster) Keeton, Houston. Directing photography is W. Ro land Laney, Denton, who is assist ed by M. K. Soderquist, Hot Springs, Arkansas and F. W. Allen, Crockett. Pete H. Tumlinson, Bry an, Battalion art editor, is art di rector of the Aggietone News. Tumlinson is assisted by Sid C. Lord, San Antonio and Lavere Brooks, Somerville. Sports director is H. O. (Hub) Johnson, Houston, who is also sports editor of The Battalion. As sistant sports directors of Aggie tone News are R. V. (Bob) Meyers, Harlingen, and Jack C. Holliman, Houston. Howard Berry, official A. & M. photographer, is technical advisor to the Aggietone News staff. Ben S. Ferguson, Dallas and Col lege Station theater man who is financing Aggietone News, has an nounced that following the com mercial showing of each newsreel it will be given to the college. Al though no official statement has come from officials as yet, state ments from two of the college’s (Continued on Page 3) Texas Plant Propagators Will Attend Short Course Plant propagators from all parts-f- of Texas will be in College Station for the Nurserymen’s Short Course on October 31 and November 1. The show is headed by Dr. Guy W. Adriance, head of the department of horticulture, who will be as sisted by other members of the various branches who work in con nection with plant propagation work. Thursday morning will be devo ted to registration of the nursery men in the Animal Industries build ing lobby at 9 o’clock, and a wel coming address by Dean E. J. Kyle at 10 o’clock. Following this will be a series of discussions on soil and fertilizer problems. The afternoon will be taken up by discussions of soil reaction and its effect on plants, and soil dis eases and their control. Methods of pest control, the pests of ornamentals, and plant propogation will be the subjects to be taken up on Friday. At 7 p. m. Friday there will be a banquet in Sbisa Hall with Col. Ike Ashbum as toastmaster and Dr. L. M. Hutchins as guest speak er. On Saturday morning there will be a program on the use of orna mental materials and their sale, a Battalion Magazine Distributed Tomorrow At last the Battalion covers are here and the magazine is on its way out. There had to be three runs of the magazine after the covers got here so there was an added de lay. A. J. Robinson, Battalion Mag azine editor, said, “The magazine will be out the first week of every month from now on.” Tomorrow night after supper the magazines will be issued from the basement of the administration building. Hallowe’en is the theme of this month’s issue. Plenty of stories, beautiful girls and cartoons will carry out the theme. Commandant Assigns Officers To Assist In Registration Of Students The following officers have been assigned by the Commandant to assist students who have difficulty with their registration blanks: Lieutenant Colonel F. V. M. Dyer, Infantry; Captain Walter J. Faulk, Field Artillery Reserve; Lieutenant H. K. Jackson, C. W. S. Reserve; tour of the campus and a discus- I Lieutenant Preston Utterback, sion of the short course for next Cavalr y Reserve; and Lieutenant year j Elbert Sale, Field Artillery Re- Saturday afternoon the visiting serve, nurserymen will be taken to the ] Students who have trouble with football game between A. & M. their registration blanks are urged and Arkansas, which will be played to see the officer of their respective on Kyle Field. | organization at Ross Hall.