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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, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1941 Z725 NO. 68 Seven File For Tuesday City Election Five Seek Three Council Vacancies; Two After Secretary Seven candidates have filed their names as candidates in the College Statiofn e|Lection which will be held Tuesday in the Missouri Pa cific Station between the hours of 7 to 7, Mrs. L. S. Paine, city elcVtion judgie, announced late Wednesday. The five candidates who have filed for election as councilmen are J. A. Orr, G. B. Wilcox, S. A. Lipscomb, Luke Patronella, and R. L. Meyers. Sidney L. Loveless and W. B. Langford have filed for election as city secretary. Loveless is the retiring city secretary. “Despite late filing for elec tion all names will appear on the ballots,” Wilcox said. The city had originally set a ten-day limit be fore election as the deadline for filing candidacy. However, no ord inance to the effect had been pass ed, so the late petitions were ac cepted. It was previously antici pated by the supporters of certain candidates that it would be neces sary for the voter to write in some candidates. Printing of the ballots was delayed so that the new names could also appear. This is the first regular elec tion of city officers since the or ganization of the city two years ago and the election of the city officials since that incorporation. The three councilmen whose terms of office have expired are J. A. Orr, G. B. Wilcox, and S. A. Lipscomb. Assisting Mrs. Paine with the balloting will be Mrs. Raymond Rogers and Mrs. A. A. Blumberg. Clean-Up, Fire Prevention Week Starts March 30 The Annual Clean-Up and Fire Prevention Week will be held March 30 through April 6, accord ing to Dr. Geo. W. Cox, state health officer. State and city-wide clean-up campaigns are scheduled throughout Texas, the campaigns being designed to facilitate public health protection, lessen fire loss, and promote public safety. The Texas State Department of Health and the Texas Fire In surance Commission will jointly sponsor the work. Clean-Up week is an important week in Texas, important because every dollar invested in property destroyed by fire is a dollar lost forever. “Careless housekeeping” in the home and in business paves the way for tremendous annual fire losses, and all fire loss is, to a large extent, preventable by ex ercising recognized laws of fire pre vention and control. Every citizen should have pride in his home town, its streets, play grounds, parks and buildings. Hom es and buildings freshly painted, with well kept lawns and gardens, increases values and intensify com munity interest. Cleanliness creat es confidence. Preservation of human life is an important undertaking. Any un dertaking which contributes to greater human safety deserves the attention of thinking citizens. Clean-Up Week in Texas is such ah undertaking. Its advantages are obvious: it contributes to a cleaner, safer, happier place in which to live, no matter how large or small the community. Cities and towns of Texas will conduct clean-up programs of far- reaching activity. Scheduled for that week are the cleaning, drain ing and graveling of alleys and streets, the cleaning of city parks and vacant lots and unsightly areas. Malaria control, fire prevention, garbage and trash disposal and re lated activities of spring house cleaning will be encouraged. Clean-Up week, among its other functions, focuses public attention on the dirt and disease problem. Bride and Groom Go for a Ride V. .A''. *3*",i-< 'A'' -A'• Unprecedented in custom at A. & M. was the riding of newlyweds, H. K. Jackson 2nd lieutenant, CWS, and the former Miss Glenn Rose Jameson, on a caisson of the horsedrawn unit in Saturday’s re view. The two were married in Bryan the night before. Cadets in the Above picture are members of Battery A Field Artillery. Cashion Honored With Banquet Monday Rainey of TU Will Attend As Speaker of Evening M. L. Cashion, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at A. & M. will be honored for his fifteen years of service here with a banquet in Sbisa Hall Monday at 6:30 p.m, P. M. Bolton, president of the Y. M.C.A. cabinet announced yester day. Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Texas, and Dr. T. O. Walton will be the prin cipal speakers, and a number of guests from over the state have been invited. Mr. Cashion came to A. & M. with a background of much experience in dealing with young men. He spent two years in France with the army Y. M. C. A. Then he went into Sudan South Africa with the British Army in the conquest of Khartoun. After a year in Afri ca he returned to the United States and became athletic director at Austin College in Sherman where he stayed for five years. He came to A. & M. and he has been here for the last fifteen years. The present Y.M.C.A. cabinet is ending its year on March 31 and this banquet will be the cli max of its year’s activities. Bolton said that both students and faculty members were invited to attend and that tickets could be purchased at the Y. M. C. A. desk. Alexander, Russell And Williams Attend Conference in Austin Three A. & M. college educators are going to Austin for the second Southwest Regional Conference on Adult Education, which opens to day. The conference, whose discussion groups will range from “improv ing recreation standards” to “adult education in public schools” is spon sored by the University of Texas in cooperation with the American Association for Adult Education and the Texas Federated Agencies for Adult Education. E. R. Alexander of A. & M. col lege will lead a panel discussion this afternoon on “Establishing an Effective Community Adult Edu cation Program.” Saturday, he will take part in the final round table of the conference, the subject of which is “The Job That Lies Ahead.” Dr. Dan Russell, professor of rural sociology, will take part in a discussion group Friday morning on the subject, “The Responsibility of Social and Religious Agencies.” E. L. W illiams, professor of in dustrial education, will consider “Discovery and Training of Group Leaders,” in a discussion group Saturday morning. Plays Here Friday Bill Carlsen Engineers to Have Bill Carlsen for Ball Bill Carlsen and his orchestra of midwest fame will play for the annual Engineer’s Regimental Ball, tomorrow night in Sbisa Hall ;rom 9 till 1 o’clock. Carlsen and his band have become prominent as a dance attraction in Chicago and throughout the middlewest. “In Chicago, Carlsen has had repeated engagements at the Ara gon and the Tianon ballrooms and the Edgewater Beach hotel during the past three years,” L. D. House- wright, chairman of the dance committee for the event said. Free Program To Be Given By Town Hall Monday Ira Lee Sullivan, late of the British Royal Air Force, will be presented in a free Town Hall pro gram Monday night in Guion Hall. Sullivan is a native Texan, hav ing been born in Hillsboro, and at tended the Hillsboro High School. In ’34 and ’35 he played on the school’s football team and played one game each of those years against Bryan High School. After receiving a year’s training at Randolph Field, Sullivan went to Canada and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. From there he went to England and became a member of the R. A. F. While on his way to England the boat in which Sullivan was traveling was torpedoed. He and other members of his party set out in an open boat and after what is reported to be a very exciting ad venture finally reached safety. Sullivan had ten months of actual flying service with the R. A. F. and during that time made 32 trips across the English Channel. Ten of these trips were over Germany proper and while making them Sullivan bombed both Berlin and Hamburg. Sullivan retired from active ser vice as a captain after he had been shot down and wounded. The in juries that he received at that time will prevent him from flying an army plane again. RV’s Will Escort Queen’s Court In Navasota Festival Aggie Band Will Lead Parade of 30 Floats in Bluebonnet Festival Sat. The Ross Volunteer Company and the Aggie Band will leave the col lege early Saturday afternoon to participate in the annual Blue bonnet Festival being held in Nav asota. They will take part in the parade, the coronation of the Blue bonnet queen, and a dance before returning to the campus late Sat urday night. The festival is held each year to celebrate the official opening of the bluebonnet season. Approximately 100 members of the band will make the trip. They will leave the college by bus at 1:30 o’clock to be in Navasota in time to lead the Bluebonnet parade. The A. & M. Band will be at the head of the column of thirty floats, fol lowed at intervals by the Sam Houston State Teachers College band and high school bands from neighboring towns. Members of the Ross Volunteers will leave the campus by bus at 3 and will arrive in time to witness the parade. The company and the band will attend a barbecue sup per given by the local authorities. The highlight of the entire fes tival will come Saturday night at the coronation pageant of the Blue bonnet queen. The ceremony will be held in the Navasota football stadium. The queen, her four duch esses and all the members of her court will be escorted by members of the Ross Volunteer company. Audrey Louise Jones, the queen, will be escorted by Henry Beville, D Field Artillery. The guest of honor at the court will be Molly O’Daniel, daughter of Gov. W. Lee O’Daniel. Edna Swanson of Nava sota will be the duchess of Nava sota in the court. The duchess of the House of Representatives is Hildegard Fuchs. Virginia Cotton is the duchess of Texas. Representing A. & M. at the festival is Miss Floylee Hunter of Dallas, a Hockaday senior. Miss Hunter was selected on the basis of her recent election to the Van ity Fair section of the Longhorn. George Mueller, Cavalry senior, will act as her escort during the pro- cedings. A massed band formation of all the bands which participate in the festival will furnish the music for the coronation. Col. R. J. Dunn, A. & M. band director, will lead these massed bands. Following the ceremony, the A. & M. band will return to the campus by bus. The R.V.’s and their duchess and court members dates will at tend the Bluebonnet festival dance in the gymnasium of the Navasota high school after the pageant. At the end of the dance they will be guests at a midnight supper be fore returning to the campus at 3 Yell Leader Election Postponed- No Attendance Plans Underway For Students to Talk to Hi Schools Applications Must Be Turned In By Monday; Banquet Is Set April 30 Students wishing to return to their local high school to speak be fore the graduating seniors about coming to A. & M. college next year should fill out a request card which they may obtain from their first-sergeant, Cadet Colonel Bill Becker announced today. Plans are now being made for the selection of students to make the trip. Students desiring to do so must fill out the information requested and re turn them by noon Monday. As has been the custom for many years, these students who are sel ected to speak to their high schools will be given excused absences for two days to make the trip. They will speak to the seniors in the high school from which they grad uated and tell them about the ad vantages and opportunities of the college to encourage them to en roll here next year. The student who is selected to re turn to his high school will be given excused absences for two days to make the trip and be at the high school during a school day. They may have excused absences for May 2 and 3 or for May 5 and 6. Stu dents visiting high schools more than 250 miles away will be al lowed an extra day for traveling. The selection of students toi visit the various high schools is being handled by the corps staff juniors and the completed cards from each regiment should be turn ed in to them. They are Tom Gillis, W. M. Pena, Warren Ringgold, Lee Rice, George Summerville, Howard Blessington, and Jabus Barker. A banquet for the students who are going to make the trip will be given on the night of Wednesday, April 30. At that time they will be given instructions an infor mation to be used at their high school. 390 Students Due Maintenance Refund The Fiscal Department announ ced yesterday that all students who have paid their maintenance fees in full are due $5.25 as re fund. This reduction is due to the re duced board fees. The board fees for each month until the end of the semester will be $25. Approximately 390 students will receive the $5.25. Boots Go Under Hammer Today at Soph-Jr Meeting 7-Man Committee Draws Up Two Plans To Facilitate Voting The junior and sophomore classes will meet in Guion Hall at 5:00 p.m. again this afternoon to take final action on the question of uniforms for next year. The center of the hall will be reserved for members of the junior class. The sophomores may sit in the side sections or the balcony, but the division of the two classes will be necessary in order to record separate votes. The question about uniforms for next year was brought to the at tention of the two classes by Lieut. Col. James A. Watson, comman dant, who proposed several changes in the official Aggie uniform to a turbulent meeting of the junior and sophomore classes Tuesday afternoon. The most prominent change suggested was that dress boots, heretofore a distinguishing characteristic of Aggie seniors, be eliminated from the uniform. This and other changes were rec ommended in the interests of econ omy and future necessity in view of all ROTC students for the next several years being required to serve active duty immediately up on graduation. A committee of seven juniors, selected as a sub-committee from the regimental representatives met Commanant Watson at 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon to see what plans would be acceptable and oth er conditions which would affect the choice of the classes. The fol lowing plans are acceptable and will be voted upon at the class meeting this afternoon. The junior class is to vote wheth er or not it desires to wear boots or light grey slacks as its senior uniform. The junior class will then be pres ented with the two following plans and given their optional choice: 1. Uniform for Seniors: Cap, coat, breeches, boots, spurs, and slacks as now. Option al in addition one pair of light grey slacks, to be worn optionally with boots and breeches at reviews and drill. Regulation officers round top service hat, those now equipped with flat topped hats to be allowed to wear them until no longer service able. Uniform for juniors: Cap and coat as now; service hat listed for seniors. Two pair light gray slacks. Shirts of color worn by army officers. 2. Allow the entire uniform sit uation to remain as it is at present. The decision as to the adoption of the regulation raincoat, rubber boots, regulation jackets, and ov erseas caps will be voted on by item by a vote of both classes. The jun iors will then have made the de cisions affecting them and may leave the meeting. The sophomores, in accordance with the plan adopted by the jun ior class, will then vote as to the proper uniform that they will pur chase for the next year. It will con form to the decision reached by the juniors and will leave the soph omore class the option of voting at this time next year whether they wish to wear boots for their sen ior year. Following the commandant’s recommendations the members of the classes engaged in violent dis cussions as to the advisability of accepting some of the proposals or Re^ Raincoats, Rubber Boots and Jackets Also Voted Only 50 Show Up At Joint Meeting Of Juniors, Seniors Election of a senior yell leader to fill the position vacated by Bill Beck to have been held last night following the supper for mation was postponed because there were not enough members of the combined junior and senior class present to carry out the business at hand. There were about 50 of a body of 1800 members pres ent in Guion Hall when it was call ed off. Another meeting to be held sometime in the immediate fu ture was announced before adjourn ment of the unsuccessful attempt by Cadet Colonel Bill Becker. “It is imperative that he be selected soon in order that he get some much-needed practice during baseball season so that he can do justice to his position,” Becker said. Candidates eligible for the pos ition are W. C. Davis and J. O. Alexander. Both men were cand idates for junior yell leader last year in the race which Bill Beck and present yell leader Skeen Staley emerged victorious. Beck left A. & M. at midterm to enter the air corps at Ran dolph Field. Two other men were in last year’s race, but they, too, have left school. Staley, upon the withdrawal of Beck, was auto matically made head yell leader for next year. In order to be eligible the yell leader candidates must have a grade-point average of 1.00, be a classified junior, have attended A. & M. for five continuous sem esters, and be now in the sixth semester. Both Alexander and Davis have fulfilled these qualifi cations. Each candidate, will make a short speech before the election to be held soon just as was contemplated for the recent election. One sec ret ballot will be taken to deter mine the winner and the results will be announced in The Battal ion. what changes to make. No definite action was taken until near the close of the meeting when it was decided that the juniors of each regiment should meet immediately following supper and select two of their number to be on a com mittee to draw up definite pro posals and present them to an other class meeting to be held this afternoon. Bill Bryant, president festra of the sophomore class, appointed a committee to consult with the juniors in affecting a solution to the problem. The juniors from each regiment as selected met in Alden Cathey’s room and appointed a sub-ommit- tee of seven men to present alter nate proposals for the uniforms to Lt. Col. Watson and get his opin ion on whether or not they were acceptable and other conditions which would influence the choice. The sub-committee is made up of Alden Cathey, Warren Ringgold, Guy Johnson, Williard Clark, Stan ley Byrd, W. C. Stearman, and Toni Gillis. Hillel Dance And Banquet To Be Held Saturday The Hillel Club will hold its an nual spring ball Saturday night in the banquet room of Sbisa hall with Ed Gerlack and his Houston ians furnishing the music. The members of the club will also hold a banquet at the Aggie- land Inn before the dance. Morris Lichenstein, president of the organization, has been in gen eral charge of the dance plans. The chairmen of the different com mittees which have been helping him are Harold Hausman, banquet committee; E. M. Rosenthal, pub licity committee; Phil Golman, pro grams; Manny Smith, dating com mittee; Buddy Kaufman, bids; Jer ry Rolnic, decorations committee; and Pincus Brounes, housing com mittee. Bids have been sent to friends of the students off. the campus and also to many of the non-members on the campus. It is expected that there will be an attendance of 250 or more people. Duke Ellington Will Play For Infantry Ball Duke Ellington and his orch- have been contracted for the Infantry Ball which will be held on April 25, A. J. Landua. chairman in charge of the Infantry ball, announced yesterday. He will also play for the Corps Dance the following night. Boasting one of the slickest and hottest orchestras in the business today, Duke Ellington will also thrill the dancers with bursts from his hot trumpet. The Infantry Ball will be the last organization dance this season and will leave only the Senior Ring Dance on May 9, and the Jun ior Prom on June 5, to complete one of the most successful social seasons at A. & M. in many years.