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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
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1941
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NO. 63
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Three Honor Graduates to Receive Army Commissions
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Student Committee Names Dates for Campus Elections
A & M Steer
Named Champion
At Fat Stock Show
Thickset Lad 3d
Comes Off With Honors
Thickset Lad 3d, a Hereford
steer fed and exhibited by Texas
A. & M. College, was named grand
champion of the 1941 show Mon
day at the Southwestern Exposi
tion and Fat Stock Show, and Fri
day will go on the auction block
with other grand champions. Ap
proximately 20,000 4-H Club boys
and girls and hundreds of other
visitors thronged the grounds.
In taking highest honors, the
Aggie steer defeated the champion
steer of the Boys Baby Beef Show,
exhibited by Davis Straus, 15, San
Antonio 4-H Club boy, and steers
in various weight classes.
Defiance County, exhibited by
Oklahoma A. & M. College, was
champion Shorthorn steer and the
champion Aberdeen-Angus steer
was exhibited by Fred Brown, FFA
student at Winters. R. T. Davis of
Wheatbridge, Colo., bought the top
Aberdeen-Angus, General 49th of
Lonjac, consigned by the Lonjack
Farm, Lee’s Summit, Mo., for $510.
Champion load of Hereford bulls
was the carload of fifteen junior
bull calves bred and shown by .T.
S. Bridwell of Wichita Falls. The
first prize load of senior bulls was
shown by the Illinois Hereford
Farms of Oregon, 111. John Hayes
of Hutchinson, Kan., showed the
first prize load of yearling bulls.
In observance of his birthday
Tuesday, Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel
and his family will attend the
night show Tuesday night and will
be rodeo guests of John P. Collier,
member of the State Democratic
Executive Committee. Sons Pat
and Mike O’Daniel will ride in the
rodeo grand entry.
Tuesday morning the $45,000
swine building will be dedicated.
The sixty-five-piece Decatur
High School band headed by a dele
gation from that community Mon
day, and the fifty-voice Decatur
Girls Choral Club also was pre
sented. Henrietta boosters fol
lowed their fifty-piece band. The
North Texas Teachers College band
gave concerts throughout the day.
Plans Made to Elect Yell
Leader to Replace Bill Beck
Provisions Made for Selection of Students to
Be in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Dates, plans, and requirements for candidates for elective campu c
positions were decided Thursday at a meeting of the Student Elections
Committee. Provisions were made for the selection of a yell leader to
replace Junior Yell Leader Bill Beck, who left school at midterm, and
rules of procedure were made for conducting the spring elections to;
officps for next year.
Junior Yell Leader Skeen Staley was conceded the position of hear 1
yell leader for next year. Tentative plans for the selection of another
junior to serve with Skeen provide that he shall be elected by the
same two classes who selected Beck. This will be done at a joint meet
ing of the Junior and Senior classes Wednesday, March 26. The tenta
tive plans limit the candidates for the position to the four unsuccessful
members of the junior class who were selected last year to be in the
final race. These men will be the candidates provided they still meet
the requirements for the office and have the desire to run for the
office. These men were Ed Allen, Jim Borden, Billy Davis, and J. O.
Alexander. The election of this other yell leader was set at such an
early date so that the man chosen might have the experience of serving
with Skeen during the baseball season.
Members of the Student Elections t
Committee are Cadet Colonel Bill
Becker, chairman; Senior Presi
dent Tom Richey; Howard Shelton,
vice-president senior class; Tom
Gillis, vice-president junior class;
Jack Miller, vice-president sopho
more class; G. O. Bush, vice-presi
dent Freshman class; E. J. Howell,
registrar; and E. L. Angell, man
ager of student publications.
Who’s Who Selections
The committee made permanent
provisions for the selection of stu
dents from the college who will
have their biographies appear in
Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universi
ties. A committee chairmaned by
the cadet colonel and made up of
the lieutenant colonels of the reg
iments will select more than the
number of students who will re
ceive the honor and submit these
names to the Student Activities
Committee. The cadet colonel will
then sit with the meeting of the
Student Activities Committee and
it makes the final selections by
eliminating those submitted down
to the required number. A sub
committee of Howard Shelton and
Tom Gillis was appointed to draw
up qualities and relative weights
of these qualities to be used in the
future in governing the selections.
Batt Election April 22
The election of the editor of the
Battalion and the junior represent
ative to the student publications
board will be held on Tuesday, Ap
ril 22. The runoff if such is neces
sary to obtain a majority for any
candidates will be held on Thurs
day April 24. The entire student
body votes in the election of these
two offices and qualifications for
voting will be to present the Feb
ruary registration receipt at the
poll. The poll will be in the rotunda
of the Academic building as in for
mer years.
Candidates for this office must
meet the requirements listed be
low and file notice of their cand
idacy with the Student Activities
Office at least one week prior to
the primary election.
The Longhorn Editor, Social Sec
retary of the Senior Class, and
Town Hall manager are elected by
a vote of the junior class only. Can
didates for these offices will ap-
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Agronomy Dept to
Sponsor Picture Show
The agronomy department will
sponsor a sound motion picture at
7:30 Thursday, March 20 in the A.
& I. building. The title of the pic
ture is “Vitamins in Plant Growth,”
and it is in technicolor.
Dr. Le Blanc, chairman of the
Department of Education of the
American Fertilizer Association
and the Chili Nitrate Company,
will accompany the picture and
give a lecture on it.
The picture is purely factual. The
public is invited to attend.
Monday Is the Opening Day For
First A&M Aid Fund Undertaking
The Student Aid Fund will make* ^ motion picture companies have
its first request for additional funds
to be used in extending medical as
sistance to worthy Aggies Monday
when it opens a benefit at the
Campus theater at 4:10 p.m. The
six selected shorts which will make
up the show will be run off only
once each day for the ten days
March 17 to March 26. It will be
run from 4:10 to 5:55 on each of
these, days.
Tickets for the show will be only
10 cents because the entire amount
collected will be put directly into
the fund with no deductions for ex
penses. The Campus theater has
donated its facilities free to the
Student Aid Fund Committee dur
ing the time for the showng. The
White Presents Many New Facts on
European Crisis to Town Hall Audience
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By Don Gabriel
William L. White, noted war
correspondent, presented many new
and interesting facts about the
European war to an A. & M. aud
ience at Town Hall last Wednesday
night.
White, who has made two trips
to war-torn Europe since the com
mencement of hostilities, was able
to give his audience many new ob
servations about the war.
Indicative of the great strain
that modem warfare puts on in
dividual soldiers is the fate of
over 200 British aviators. White
described his visit to a small Eng
lish hospital in which he actually
saw the results of the great ner
vous tension involved in aerial
combat. This hospital contains over
200 of England’s first line combat
pilots who have suffered nervous
breakdowns from the sheer ex
haustion experienced from combat
flying. In describing the men White
said, “The men in the hospital
have blank expressions on their
faces, and seem to have no react
ion when asked whether or not
they wish to return to the RAF.
White did explain that some of
the men returned to the RAF, but
that they were usually used for
observation work. “The morale of
the RAF is exceedingly high, and
they are determined to do their
best,” White added.
White, who is the son of William
Allen White, has been closely con
nected with the present war situa
tion and has received much recogni
tion for the fine reporting that he
has done during the present crisis.
cooperated in helping the committee
raise funds by allowing the films
to be shown without charges for
film rental.
“Anyone who purchases tickets
to this show will be both helping
the Aggies and entertaining him
self,” Dan Russell, executive-sec
retary of the Student Aid Fund
Committee stated. “Every bit of
the money taken in will go to help
Aggies who need medical aid. The
comedies will provide a pleasant
show and it is being run over the
ten day period so that everyone
may see them. The committee hopes
that every student and faculty
member and all connected with or
interested in the college will feel
that they can help the Aggies by
purchasing tickets.”
The short subjects which will
make up the 105 minute program
will have the unusual feature of
being entirely comedies and musi
cals. The six were selected to
give a variety of entertainment.
The shorts which make up the pro
gram are: a Donald Duck comedy
- “The Hockey Champ”; a Merrie
Melody comedy - “Ceiling Hero”;
Warner Brothers 2-reel technicol
or musical - “Swingtime in the
Movies”; the Three Stooges in
“Three Sappy People”; Universal
2-reel musical “Rhumbaland Mus
ic”; and a musical “I Dream of
Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair.”
Skeen Staley, chairman of the
ticket distribution committee, stat
ed that tickets would be available
through the first-sergeants and
project house managers in the mili
tary organizations. Members of the
faculty may obtain tickets for the
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Sullivan’s Brass Choir
Pictured above are the members ol Johnny Sullivan's “Brass
Choir”. Sullivan and his orchestra furnished the music for the ‘T’ Club
Dance last night and will also hold forth tonight at the corps dance.
Next Town Hall Presentation To
Be Houston Symphony Orchestra
The Houston Symphony Orches-'
tra will make its annual appear
ance at A. & M. next Thursday
on the Town Hall program, it was
announced today by Paul Haines,
student Town Hall manager.
Always a favorite at Aggieland
the Houston Symphony Orchestra
comes to A. & M. after having
had one of its most successful
seasons since its organization in
1913. The members of the orches
tra always look forward to their
annual A. & M. visit. This year
as has been the custom in other
years, the musicians will be the
Student Clubs
Present Petition to
Alter Ag Day Date
Plan Calls for
Changing the Event
From May 10 to May 1
A petition signed by represent
atives of 12 student clubs under the
supervision of the School of Agri
culture was presented to Dean E.
J. Kyle this past week for con
sideration in changing the date
and program of the annual Agri
culture Day.
The petition calls for the chang
ing of the event from May 10 to
May 1 and also provides that it
shall extend from noon of May 1
through May 3.
According to the resolution, the
program shall consist of the fol
lowing: Presentation of a prom
inent off-the-campus speaker on
Thursday night; a baseball game
on the afternoon of Friday, May 1
and the Cotton Ball, Pageant, and
Style Show that night; Saturday
is to be the important day, with
each department holding open
house and cooperating in putting
on some kind of program or exhib
it for the visitors.
The petition was signed by stu
dent representatives of all agricul
tural clubs, except the Agricultural
Economics Club, the Accounting
and Statistics Society, and the Ru
ral Sociology Club.
Therefore, Dean Kyle is calling
a general meeting of all faculty
organizations to be held in the lec
ture room of the Agricultural En
gineering Building on March 20
at four o’clock. At that time an ef
fort will be made to reach a sat
isfactory and unanimous decision
in regard to the aforementioned
matters pertaining to Agricultural
Day.
Signers of the petition and the
organizations which they repre
sented are as follows: V. A. Yent-
zen, Kream and Kow Klub; Charles
F. Baird, Kream and Kow Klub;
R. S. Beesley, Poultry Science Club;
E. L. Pewitt, Horticulture Society;
J. T. Anderson, Agronomy Society;
R. B. Uzzell, Fish and Game; G.
B. Purcell, Saddle and Sirloin; W.
L. Mayfield, A. S. A. E.; R. M.
Magee, A. S. A. E.; M. L. Bryant,
Landscape Arts Club; Roland Bing,
A. & M. Chapter of the F. F. A.;
L. J. Pruett, Landscape Art Club;
Fred Rennels, Ag Ed Club; and
John M. Dixon, Cotton Society.
guests of the Aggies in the new
mess hall before the performance.
Ernst Hoffman, who has con
ducted the orchestra since 1935, is
one of those extraordinary young
Americans who has achieved fame
both here and abroad. Since hi*
association with the Houston Sym
phony his fame has spread widelj
through the nation not only for
his brilliant conducting, but also
for his inimitable style and inter
pretations.
For the first time, it will be
possible for the entire orchestra of
77 pieces to make the trip. Al
ways before the stage of Guion
hall has been too small to ac
commodate the entire orchestra,
but an extension which is being
built now makes it possible.
In addition to the full orchestra,
Nancy Swinford, will accompany
the orchestra as its guest artist.
Miss Swinford is very popular at
Aggieland and is returning with
the Houston Symphony at the
special request of many of the Ag
gies and faculty.
On the program, which will be
announced later, Mr. Hoffman has
promised to play some of the piec
es that have been requested most
frequently by members of the
corps. Among these it is believed
that a special arrangement of
Ravels Bolero will be presented by
the orchestra for its first time.
Becker, Shelton, Gillespie
Picked by Board of Officers
Compton
To Address
Juniors, Seniors
Talk to be Made in
Guion Hall at 11 Today
Dr. Arthur H. Compton, national
Protestant co-chairman of the Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews, will speak to the senior
and junior classes in Guion Hall
today at 11 a. m. Classes for se
niors and juniors will be dismissed
so that all these students may at
tend.
Dr. Compton, who will speak on
“Science Religion, and a Stable
Society,” is on a tour of the south
ern states. The A. & M. engineei’-
ing council and the YMCA are
sponsoring the lecture.
A Nobel prize winner and the
Charles H. Swift distinguished pro
fessor of physics at the University
of Chicago, Dr. Compton is con
sidered probably the world’s fore
most experimentalist in the field
of radian energy. His discovery in
1927 that energy is actually mat
ter gained him the Nobel prize.
Pannell Off
Bachelor List;
Marries Frances Jolay
Ernie Pannell, one of the out
standing players of the Aggie foot
ball team last season, took the for
mer Miss Frances Jolay of Dallas
as his bride last Wednesday night,
March 12, at 10:30 in the home
of Rev. W. H. Andrew, pastor of
the Baptist Church in Bryan.
Miss Jolay is the niece of “Mom”
Cleghorn of the local college hos
pital with whom she is staying
at the present. She will return + o
Dallas until school is out this
spring.
A&M Band, Ross Volunteers to Play
Prominent Part in Bluebonnet Festival
The annual Texas Bluebonnet-f-of historical interest, have been
marked for the visitors coming to
Navasota during the festival and
bluebonnet season. Conducted
tours will begin at the LaSalle
Monument, in the center of Nava
sota, and wind through private
fields especially chosen by the
Bluebonnet Association as offer
ing the most beautiful picture.
The A. & M. participants will
leave early on the morning of
March 29, spend the day in Nava
sota, and return later that night
after the termination of the
Queen’s Ball which will be played
for by a nationally famous dance
•rchestra.
Festival for 1941 will be officially
opened at Navasota on Friday,
March 28 with several scheduled
bluebonnet tours, a rodeo, and a
cowboy dance in the evening.
The Texas A. & M. College band
and the Ross Volunteers will again
play a prominent part in the fes
tivities for the week end. Satur
day’s program will consist of
street music, street stunts, a rodeo,
a parade, and the coronation of
the Queen, Miss Audrey Louise
Jones of Houston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tilford Jones and grand
daughter of Jesse H. Jones.
Immediately following the cor
onation of the 1941 Queen, there
will be staged a brilliant and sen
sational pageantry of liberty, de
picting patriotism and friendly
Pan-American relationships. Mar
tial music, an imposing ai’ray of
flags, marching men, colorful cos
tumes, the Queen’s Court of Honor
composed of 45 visiting duchesses,
the Ross Volunteers, the Pan-
American Court, and a spectacular
display of aerial fireworks all
combine to bring to a fitting cli
max the activities for the day.
Each duchess of the court will be
escorted by an RV.
On Sunday there will be an
old-fashion community sing-song,
a festival golf tournament, and a
nationally famous air show. Spec
ial services will be observed at all
churches in Navasota throughout
the day.
Four distinct tours, covering
over , 100 miles, encompassing
lovely bluebonnet fields and points
Harris, Wehner,
McCrary, Grasshoff
Named Alternates
From among 55 applicants from
Texas A. & M., Oklahoma A. & M.,
Colorado State College A. & M. A.,
and the University of Arizona, Bill
Becker, Howard Shelton and Hub
Gillespie were selected as three of
six principals for commissions in
the regular army. These men were
recommended among the honor
graduates of the school sent in by
the Military Department to the
Eighth Corps Area headquarters at
San Antonio, as announced Thurs
day afternoon by Captain R. P.
Lively, adjutant.
These three A. & M. men with
three other men are slated to re
ceive permanent commissions in the
Regular Army of the United States
upon completion of their R.O.T.C.
course of study and upon their sat
isfying the requirements of physi
cal examination and also upon their
acceptance of the commission if
offered.
In case these men fail to qual
ify for any reason there were also
six other men selected from among
the 55 applicants to be listed as
alternates. Of this number Texas
A. & M. had four men listed. They
are Tom Harris, Ernest Wehner,
Joe McCrary and Lynn Grasshoff.
Altogether there were seven men
from Texas A. & M. selected as
possible candidates for permanent
commissions. These men were a-
mong the 30 honor graduates who
applied for said commissions
through the military department.
Others in the list include J. P.
Giles, Paul Haines, Aubrey Hamil
ton, R. S. Hoff, Gabe Anderson,
Howard Shea, Bob Lynch, Keith
Dahl, John Dixon, Tom Hill, George
Taylor, J. P. Puckett, Will Ran
som, Tom Davis, David Angell,
Frank Loving, Ralph Hartgraves,
George Townsend, Ernest Schott,
John Zerr, Andred Downs.
The selections were made by a
board of officers at Eighth Corps
Area Headquarters at Fort Sam
Houston in a closed session March
4. Results of these selections were
received at A. & M. Thursday af
ternoon listed in form. The status
of the men rejected was not dis
closed at the time, but from late re
ports these men have been called
for re-examination. The purpose of
these examinations could not be
ascertained.
Of the entire 55 applicants from
Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New
Mexico and Colorado, 30 were list
ed from Texas A. & M. Of this
number 11 were from the Field
Artillery, 5- from the Infantry, 3
each from the Chemical Warfare,
Cavalry and Coast Artillery, 2
each from the Band and Signal
Corps and 1 from the Engineers.
T’ Club Annual Dance In
Sbisa Hall Is Huge Success
Amid maroon and white colors+tertainment was the admission of
and the lovely melodies of John
Sullivan and his orchestra, the “T”
club presented its annual spring
dance last night in the annex of
Sbisa Hall.
A huge maroon and white T fur
nished the background for Sulli
van’s orchestra, being placed di
rectly behind the bandstand. “T”
blankets, given to the Senior club
members who graduated last year,
were borrowed for the evening and
draped entirely around the annex
room. The favors were little “T”
medals in miniature, exact dupli
cates of the ones presented to vars
ity lettermen each year.
A feature of last evening’s en-
seniors to the dance, regardless of
whether or not they had dates. This
innovation proved quite popular
with all concerned, and it is prob
able that it will be adopted as a
customary practice in the future.
Sullivan, who acquired his mus
ical experience by playing first
trumpet in the Houston Symphony
Orchestra, will also play for a
corps dance tonight in Sbisa Hall
from nine until twelve o’clock.
Sullivan and his orchestra are rap
idly gaining fame in the field of
musical entertainment. His band is
being acclaimed by music critics
and columnists as one of the com
ing name bands in America.