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DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
YOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1941
Z725
NO. 61
Livestock
Team Wins
Senior Meet
Oklahoma A&M
Places Second In
Stock Show Contest
The A. & M. livestock judging
team won the contest for senior
agricultural college students at the
Southwestern Exposition and Fat
Stock Show, it was announced Sun
day at a luncheon given teams,
coaches and judges by the Texas
Cottonseed Crushers Association.
Second award went to Oklahoma
A. & M. Twenty teams from six
teen states competed, the largest
group in the history of the exposi
tion.
Rufus R. Peeples of Tehuacana,
superintendent of all student judg
ing events at the show, presided
at the luncheon. A. L. Ward of
Dallas, educational director of the
association, and John C. Burns,
president of the stock show, spoke.
The Texas Aggies were coached
by R. J. von Roeder. They are
Jack Cleveland, Gordon Grote,
Newton Craig, Victor J. Loeffler
and Tommy E. Stuart.
A banquet will be given Monday
night for members of the junior
agricultural and state teacher col
lege teams at which time the win
ners in these groups will be an
nounced.
Government Needs
Junior Engineers
For Defense Work
Because of the increasing need
for engineers in national defense
work, the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has again an
nounced an examination to fill
junior engineer positions in any
branch of engineering. The salary
is $2,000 a year less a 3% percent
retirement deduction.
Applications will now be rated
as received at the commission’s
Washington office until December
31, 1941. Qualified persons who do
not have eligible ratings under
previous junior engineer examina
tions held by the commission with
in the past year are urged to file
their applications at once.
Appointees will perform profes
sional engineering work including
assisting in experimental research,
design or testing of machinery, and
testing and inspection of engineer
ing materials. Separate employ
ment lists will be established in
each recognized branch of engi
neering.
Competitors must have completed
a 4-year engineering course, ex
cept that senior students will be
admitted under certain conditions.
They will not have to take a writ
ten test, but will be rated on their
education and will be given addi
tional credit for graduate study in
engineering or for engineering ex
perience.
Further information and appli
cation forms may be obtained from
the Secretary of the Board of U.
S. Civil Service Examiners, at any
first or second-class post office, or
from the U. S. Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. C.
Marine Corps
Officer to Hold
Interviews March 12
Lieutenant R. F. Meldrun, U.S.
Marine Corps, will be here Wed
nesday to interview applicants for
the Platoon Leader’s Class of the
Marine Corps Reserve in Room 14,
Ross Hall, the military department
announced yesterday.
Seniors will be given preference
since no authority has been given
to enlist anyone below the Senior
Class, as such men are still eligible
for training in the advanced cours
es of the R.O.T.C. Members of the
advanced course R.O.T.C. are not
eligible.
Applicants will be interviewed
personally by the Marine Corps of
ficers between March 25 and April
10. Those selected will be given a
physical examination between May
5 and May 20, and will enter the
training class about July 1, at
Quantico, Virginia.
Featured by Sullivan
The Three Freshmen, featured vocalists with John Sullivan’s or
chestra (above), sing sweet or hot and amuse the onlookers with their
clever arrangements.
Student Aid
Committee Starts
On Financial Drive
Moving Picture
Program to Be Shown
For Ten Days Straight
A moving picture program will
be given by the Student Aid Fund
Committee starting next Monday
afternoon at the Campus Theater
as its first money raising activity.
The program will be shown each
afternoon for ten days and will
be made up of comedies, musicals
and cartoons. The starting time
each day is 4:10, and the program
will last for an hour and forty-
five minutes.
The price of the tickets are ten
T Club Dance Friday Nite
cents each and can be obtained
from the first sergeants of the
different military organizations
or at the box office of the Campus.
John Sullivan’s
Orchestra to play
From 9 pm Till 1 am
By Mike Speer
Next Friday night the “T” Club,
made up of all major sports let-
termen, will hold their annual “T”
dance in the annex of Sbisa Hall,
Howard Shelton, president of the
club, announced yesterday. The
dance will begin at 9 p.m. and
last until 1 a.m. John Sullivan,
“his trumpet and his orchestra”
will furnish the orchestrations for
the affair.
Sullivan, who acquired his mus
ical experience by playing first
trumpet in the Houston Symphon
ic Orchestra, is a very promising
personality in the musical field.
His band is acclaimed by newspaper
critics and columnists as one of
the coming name bands.
A huge maroon and white T
will furnish the background for
Sullivan’s Orchestra and will be
placed directly behind the band
stand. “T” blankets, given to the
Senior club members who grad
uated last year, will be borrowed
for the dance and draped entirely
around the annex. The favors will
be “T” medals in miniature, exact
duplicates of. the ones given the
“T” men each year.
Whereas before the entire Jun
ior and Senior classes were in
vited to attend the dance, only the
Senior Class has been asked this
year. Too, at all previous dances,
those who attended were required
to bring dates or be refused ad
mittance. This resulted in an alar
ming lack of “stags” so this year
those who attend the affair are
asked to bring dates if possible,
but should they have no date, they
are urged to come without one.
Worthy of mention is the fact
that this year’s “T” dance, as
was all previous “T” dances, is
somewhat of a “final review” for
all the graduating members of the
‘T” Club. This will probably be
the last time they will all be as
sembled together as a sports group
alone.
Tickets for the^ dance may be
had for $1.10 each and can be pur
chased from Howard Shelton, 128.
Dorm 3, Jimmy Parker, 213 Dorm
12 and Tommy Vaughn, 224 Dorm
Baylor Mascot
Causes Excitement
On Midnight Prowl
We caught a bear, but this is
how it happenened.
Little Joe College, the young and
frisky 250-pound animal that Bay
lor University calls her mascot,
discovered one midnight that his
cage was unlocked.
He started sniffing around the
campus and ran smackdab into Jo-
banks Uhler, a student nightwatch-
man. That was at 11:45 p. m.
At 11:47, Uhler was on the fifth
floor of Brooks Hall, men’s dor
mitory, 100 yards away, breath
lessly yelling the tale. He rallied
a dozen students about him, and
they set out to catch the bear.
They searched all about the
campus, and only clues were oc
casional voices from tree tops:
“He was right over there.”
Then they located him, out on a
tree limb just like the frightened
students only he was growling at
his own reflection in the water of
a campus stream.
It was a merry chase. The bear
loped along rather leisurely but no
body was envious to be a lone
captor. It was more like follow the
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Special ticket sales committees will
contact the people of Bryan and
College Station.
The entire proceeds of the sales
are to be given to the Student Aid
Fund, and the box office will be
turned over to the Committee each
day at four o’clock while the pro
gram is running.
The student members of the Stu
dent Aid Fund Committee who
procured the program are Skeen
Staley, J. H. Focke, George Fuer-
mann and Tom Gillis. These mem
bers of the Committee urge every
student to buy a ticket even though
he may be unable to attend the
program.
Johnson-Dunn
Nuptial Rites Were
Held Saturday Eve.
The wedding ceremony uniting
Miss Josephine Dunn, daughter of
Col. Dunn, director of the A. & M.
Band, and Norris Johnson, former
ly of Bryan, was held in Bryan
at the St. Andrews Episcopal
Church Saturday at 6:00 p.m.
After a honeymoon to unknown
parts lasting a week or ten days,
the couple will be at home in
Shreveport, La., where Mr. John
son is employed as a geologist for
the Atlantic Oil and Refining Com
pany.
Pedro, the Voder
12.
Singing Cadets
. Leave For South
Texas, Wednesday
The Singing Cadets will leave
early Wednesday morning in three
chartered busses for Conroe, Port
Arthur, Beaumont and Houston
where they will present ten pro
grams. The 90 eligible members
who are making the trip will be
gone until late Saturday night
when they will return to College
Station.
Each program will be made up of
military, humourous and serious
numbers with specialties by an
octet, quartet and the entire chor
us. There will also be several so
los, an accordian, and a violin
presentation.
The group will be entertained
by the Mothers’ Clubs of Port
Arthur, Beaumont and Houston
with dances and other forms of
entertainment.
Electrical Charlie McCarthy to
Give Personal Appearance Friday
They laughed when Miss Swen-fof
son sat down at the Voder, and
Pedro laughed right back at them.
Pedro, in case you haven’t heard,
is a machine that talks, laughs
and sings like a man—the scien
tist’s version of an electrical Charlie
McCarthy. Miss Anna Mae Swen
son is the operator who puts words
into his mouth by playing upon his
“vocal cords.”
Pedro is not a phonograph, not
a radio, not a motion picture sound
tarck, but a machine that actually
talks when the proper keys, pedals
and controls are operated. He is
coming to College Station for a
personal appearance as part of a
demonstration in Guion Hall next
Friday night at 8 o’clock. The stu
dent branch of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers of
the A. & M. engineering school is
sponsoring the program.
The Voder is being brought to
the campus by Dr. J. O. Perrine
New York, assistant vice-pres
ident of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, and edi
tor of the Bell System Technical
Journal. Dr. Perrine will lecture
on “The Artificial Creation of
Speech,” during which he will tell
all about Pedro, the basic ele
ments of sound, and what makes
Pedro talk. Miss Swenson will il
lustrate with the Voder how the
elements of sound are combined to
make words and sentences.
Miss Swenson is an accomplished
performer—you might call her an
accoustical artist. She made Pedro
talk for two seasons at the New
York and San Francisco world
fairs, where he was part of the Bell
System exhibit. It really takes an
expert to make Pedro say some
thing, or to laugh and sing. Miss
Swenson makes 15 finger move
ments, four wrist movements and
four foot movements to make him
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Board Names Extension
Vice-Director in Meeting
Annual Marlin
District Youth
Rally Here Today
Dr. W. A. Smith,
Dallas Methodist Minister,
To Give Principal Address
The Third Annual Marlin Dis
trict Youth Rally will be held this
evening at 7 o’clock in Guion Hall
at which time 1,500 or 2,000 young
people from the Marlin district
Methodist Church are expected to
attend. Dr. W. Angie Smith, pas
tor of the First Methodist Church
of Dallas, will deliver the principle
address.
There are 28 charges in the 10
East-Central Texas counties com
prising the district. Towns which
will be represented include Mar
lin, Lott, Chilton, Reagan, Bre-
mond, Kosse, Travis, Rosebud, Cal
vert, Cameron, Minerva, Maysfield,
Rockdale, Buckholts, Thorndale,
Milano, Cause, Lexington, Giddings,
Brenham, Bellville, Lyons, Somer
ville, Caldwell, Bryan, Normangee,
Hearne, and Franklin. Ain. R. Reed,
pastor of the Sneed Memorial
Methodist Church of Calvert, is the
district director of youth work.
The outstanding program ar
ranged for this event will be as
follows.
Thirty-minute concert by the
Singing Sadets of A. & M. college
under the direction of Prof. J. J.
Woolket.
Invocation, Rev. James Carlin,
pastor, A. & M. Methodist church.
Congregational singing to be led
by Anthony Bott, cadet song lead
er.
Vice-Director
Adams Directly
Connected with Ag
Work for 20 Years
George E. Adams, who was sel
ected as vice-director and state
agent of the Extension Service
ast Saturday, has been directly
connected with the supervision of
igriculture since he was appoint-
3d county agricultural agent in
Gregg County in 1920. He held that
position until 1926 when he was
promoted to district agent and
moved his office to A. & M. soon
.hereafter.
Adams was again promoted in
1936, this time to the position
G. E. Adams Is
New Vice-Director
And County Agent
Hensel Authorized
To Make Sketches For
Beautifying North Gate
In regular business session Sat
urday, the board of directors ap
pointed G. E. Adams as vice-direc
tor and state agent of the Exten
sion Service. The board at the
same time authorized F. W. Hensel
of the landscape art department
to make sketches for beautifying
that area of the campus around
the north gate.
Assistant state agent for the
Extension Service for seven years,
Adams’ promotion comes as a re
sult of the resignation of Jack
Shelton, former vice-director, to
accept a job in Houston as general
agent for the Farm Credit Admin
istration.
In line with current plans to
clear the block just north of Wal
ton hall, moving or wrecking houses
presently located there, F. W. Hen
sel has been authorized to draw
plans for the beautification of that
area. These sketches will include
park areas and will leave room for
new buildings under consideration
for that area.
The board approved the new 20-
mile-per-hour speed limit imposed
for the city of College Station as
valid also upon the campus proper
and invested the proper power to
enforce the matter in the hands of
Lieut. Col. James A. Watson, com
mandant.
Special musical number, Young
people’s chair of Caldwell.
Youth address, Emerson Connell,
president of Young People’s Divis
ion, Bryan Methodist church.
Announcements, roll call, offer
ing.
Welcome address, President T.
O. Walton, of the A. & M. college.
Double trio of girls’ voices, Rock-
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War Risk Policies
May Be Taken Out
By Seniors in June
Seniors who are planning to
go on active duty in the army after
graduation in June are able to
take out National Service Life In
surance under the provisions of the
act passed by Congress in con
junction with the Selective Ser
vice Act last October.
This policy can be taken out
by officers or enlisted men within
four months after entering the
service to the amount of $10,000.
This insurance lasts for five years,
but at any time during the per
iod if the person leaves the ser
vice, it may be converted to any
of the conventional forms of gov
ernment life insurance, such as
ordinary life, 20 year payment, or
30 year payment.
Premiums are kept at a mini
mum by the fact that there are no
agent’s fees included. They are
based on the American tables of
mortality and each month’s pre
mium is deducted from the pay
check.
Upon arriving at the station to
which they are assigned, seniors
may take out the insurance by fill
ing out the proper forms and turn
ing them in to post headquarters.
Any amount between $1000 and
$10,000 in multiples of $500 may
be taken out. In event of death,
or total disability, payment is
made to the beneficiary on a pre
determined graduated scale for
the rest of the beneficiary’s life.
When the first Selective Service
Act was passed in 1917, Congress
provided a war risk insurance
policy, to cover men who had been
inducted in the service on whom the
commercial life insurance com
panies would not issue a policy due
to excessive risk. This act re
vives this old form of War Risk
insurance to some extent.
of assistant state agent of the Ex
tension Service which he held
until he was appointed to his new
position last Saturday.
Soil and water conservation
and 4-H club work have been
activities that Adams has been
prominently connected with during
his affiliation with the Extension
Servite. He also has been interest
ed in the production of quality cot
ton and has been a staunch advocate
of the cotton improvement plan
through the one-variety movement.
In 1910, after his graduation
from Texas University, where he
majored in economics and govern
ment, Adams taught school and
was superintendent of schools in
Center, Texas before he became
a county agricultural agent. At
present he takes an active interest
in civic and church affairs in Bry
an and is a member of the City
School Board of Bryan.
pendent, who has made two trips
to war torn Europe since the com
mencement of hostilities, will ap
pear on the Town Hall program
on Wednesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.
WILLIAM L. WHITE
m., Paul Haines, student Town
Hall manager, announced yester
day. He is coming to A. & M. direct
from New York City to Town Hall.
Mr. White’s most recent trip to
Europe was made on one of the
50 destroyers that the United
States traded to Great Britain for
naval bases. The story of the jour
ney was told in an article in Life
All houses on the campus now oc
cupied by faculty members are to
be vacated by September 1. At
Saturday’s meeting the board open
ed the sale and removal of these
houses to general bids through
the college business manager, E.
N. Holmgreen. It Is understood that
present occupants of these houses
have first choice in their purch
ase, but if not purchased, they
will be wrecked or used for other
purposes as necessary.
Among other routine matters,
the board also amended its by
laws in order that the Experi
ment Station committee might also
have jurisdiction over the affairs
of the Extension Service. This
committee includes Rawley White,
A. H. Demke, and Joe Utay. For
merly affairs of the Extension
Service necessitated consideration
by the board as a committee of
the whole.
The famous son of a famous fath
er (William Allen White), he first
embarked for Europe in the fall
of 1939 to write for the New York
Post syndicate. He was in the
comparative security of Berlin
when the Columbia Broadcasting
System asked him to cover the then
raging war on the Finish front.
He preceded to Stockholm, board
ed a passenger plane which had a
narrow escape from a fleet of
Russian bombers over Abo, and
finally made his way to Helsinki.
From there he moved his micro
phone right up to the battle lines.
One of the outstanding broad
casts was made by White when
he described Christmas from the
front line trenches. This speech
appeared in the Saturday edition of
The Battalion newspaper.
After the close of the Finish
campaign, Mr. White returned to
this country where he continued
his writing and radio work, as well
as a number of lectures.
However, when the war contin
ued, he felt the foreign correspond
ents urge to be in the thick of
things again and obtained permis
sion to make his unique journey to
England in order to study the
Battle of Britain at first hand.
W. L. White, War Correspondent, Is
Presented by Town Hall, Wednesday
William L. White, war corres--j-and reprinted in the January issue
of the Readers’ Digest.