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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.