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. ’OLLEGI STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1941
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NO. 71
Spade’s a Spade, But Prexy’s Out of Practice
Work officially began on the much-sought-after improvements at Easterwood Airport just west of
the college campus when President T. O. Walton broke the first ground Saturday morning.
Those shown in the picture are (left to right): H. W. Barlow, head of the areonautical engineer
ing department; Capt. C. A. Miller, manager of the Kadett Aviation company; T. R. Spence, vice
director of the Engineering Experiment Station; C. K. Leighton, research assistant at the Engineer
ing Experiment Station; Gibb Gilchrist, dean of engineering; and J. T. L. McNew, head of the civil
engineering department. Next, of course, is President Walton. Those in the background are members
of the 100-man crew that began work immediately following the ceremonies.
Just a Buncha Wise-Guys:
337 Make Distinguished List
Senior Yell
Lea der Will be
Elected by Ballot
Will Make Addresses
To Cadet Corps Tonight
At Special Yell Practice
J. 0. Alexander and Bill Davis,
•andidates for senior yell lead
er, will appear at a yell practice
to be held tonight, Cadet Colonel
Bill Becker announced today. The
two candidates will be given this
opportunity to perform in front of
the corps before the election.
Votes in the election of the
candidates will be cast in the
rotunda of the Academic Buliding
from Friday afternoon. Ballot box
es will be placed there from 12:30
to 6 p.m. Juniors and seniors may
vote by presenting their mid-term
registration receipt at the polls.
“It is desirable that we elect
Bill Beck’s successor at this time
so that he may obtain valuable
experience in serving during the
remainder of the baseball season,”
Becker stated. The cadet elected
will assist Skeen Staley in direct
ing the activities of the Twelfth
Man next year.
Architect Grads
Needed for Duty
With Civil Service
Architects are needed now for
work in the national defense pro
gram. The United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announced an
examination for architect positions
paying from $2,000 to $4,600 a
year. Persons may qualify in de
sign, specifications, or estimating,
the duties of the positions being
based upon these divisions of work.
Architects appointed in design
will survey work under construct
ion, and do research in the factors
affecting architectural design. Per
sons working in specifications, will
write architectural specification re
quiring knowledge of all classes
of craftsmanship and materials.
The duties of persons appointed
for estimating work will ke to
estimate from sketches the costs
involved in all phases of building.
To qualify as junior architect at
$2,000 a year, applicants must have
completed a 4-year architectural
college curriculum in either archi
tecture or architectural engineer
ing. For the other positions, com
pletion of a 1-year college course
in architecture or engineering is
required, as well as appropriate
professional architectural exper
ience in the optional subject. Addi
tional architectural or engineer
ing experience may be substituted
for the college study.
Applications must be filed at the
Commission’s Washington office
not later than May 7, 1941. Further
information and application forms
may be obtained at any first or
second-class post office, or from
the U. S. Civil Service Commission.
An official report from the reg
istrar’s office yesterday afternoon
showed that 337 students had dis
tinguished in scholastic standing
for the previous semester, not
having a grade below “C” nor a
grade point average below 2.25
per credit hour.
This is an increase, of 23 stu
dents over the number who dis
tinguished the first semester of
the scholastic year 1939-40, which
was 314. The percentage of stu
dents actively enrolled in the first
semester of last year was 5.25%
as compared with 5.9% of the to
tal amount of actively enrolled stu
dents for this year.
Eighteen students had a grade
point ratio of 3.00, or a straight
“A” record this year, an increase of
four students over last years 14,
who had an equal grade point rat
io. However, these students who
have a grade point average of
3.00 do not necessarily have a
straight “A” record for in some
instances an extra grade point will
be made on completion of Fresh
man P. E. work.
Those students who distinguish
ed the first semester of this year
with a grade point average of 3.00
were: Banks, William Frank,
freshman in Liberal Arts; Sever,
William, sophomore in Chemical
Engineering; Boi'ders, Coy Wil
liam, junior in Civil Engineering;
Denny, J. C., sophomore in Civil
Engineering; Galloway, William
J., sophomore in Mechanical Eng
ineering; Gillis, Thomas Stratton,
junior in Liberal Arts; Goatley,
James Howard Jr., freshman in
Petroleum Engineering; Hardie,
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Jonah Saves 1500
Pennies Toward the
Education of Roosevelt
Fifteen hundred pennies, and
they have been gathered one, two
and three at a time during the
past seven months. That’s the
record of Roosevelt Walker, six
year old adopted son of Jonah
Robertson.
Jonah, the colored delivery boy
for one of the local drug stores
adopted young Roosevelt a year
ago and at the time mentioned
it to the employees in the Ad
ministration Building where he de
livers every afternoon. They be
gan giving him the change from
their cigarette money or other
odd pennies for Roosevelt’s edu
cation.
Last week Jonah started his
son’s second bank and claimed that
he would continue to save the
money until Roosevelt graduated
from high school.
King at A. & M.
Today and Tomorrow
Herbert King, Associate Nation
al Secretary of the Student Y.M.
C.A. Council, will be at A. & M.
today and tomorrow, Preston
Bolton, president of the Y.M.C.
A. cabinet, announced yesterday.
King will give a talk at a sup
per to be held by the cabinet mem
bers at the Y.M.C.A. cabin at
5:30 Thursday evening.
Cavalry Newsreel
Fourth in Series
Of Aggietone News
The fourth of the series of Ag
gietone News productions, featur
ing A. & M.’s Cavalry regiment,
begins a three-day showing today
at the Campus Theater.
The Aggietone News is present
ing a series of seven productions
this year, one devoted to each of
the branches of the R.O.T.C. at
A. & M.
Cooperating with the Aggietone
News staff in the production of
the Cavalry show were Cadet Ma
jor Robert W. Alexander, Paris;
Cadet Captain Robert G. Tonkin,
San Antonio; and Lieut. Utter-
bach,' instructor in Cavalry Mili
tary Science.
Vastly improved over former*
Aggietone News productions, the
Cavalry show was filmed by F. W.
Allen, McKinney, and Frank Rusk,
Wichita Falls, director and assist
ant director, respectively, of pho
tography of the Aggietone News
staff.
Charles Tigner, assistant man
ager of the theater who was for
merly in radio work in Texas and
Louisiana is the narrator.
Appearing in the show are Cadet
Captain George Taylor, Lampasas,
Cadet Lieut, Thomas C. Waddell,
Kermit, platoon leaders, and Cadet
Captain Graham B. Purcell, Ar
cher City, commanding the ma
chine gun section.
The Cavalry production has a
running time of ten minutes and
will be shown four times each day
of the commercial showing.
Singing Cadets Will Divide Town Hall Appearance
Into Three Divisions: Military, Speciality and Formal
Hour and Half Program
Monday Night To Present
Fifteeen Musical Numbers
The Town Hall program to be
presented by the Singing Cadets
of Aggieland Monday night at
7:30 is to be given in three parts,
J. J. Woolket, director of the sing
ers, stated. The hour and a half
program will include fifteen num
bers divided into three appropri
ate sections.
The first group of songs are
spirited, military aires of an ins
pirational quality. “Away Down
South” will be the opening num
ber of the program, followed by
“Fair Land of Freedom,” the stir
ring “Stout Hearted Men,” “The
Drum,” and the clubs arrange
ment of “The Marines’ Hymn.”
“Dance, My Comrades,” the drink
ing song of the Imperial Russian
Army, will end the first group of
selections.
For the second group of songs
and specialty numbers by the mem
bers, the cadets will remove their
coats to create and emphasize
By Tom Gillis
an informal atmosphere. The songs
are humorous and include some
specialty numbers of Latin Amer
ican music, sung by four foreign
students and a Houston cadet: Xa
vier Fernandez of Peru, Miguel
Soto of Puerto Rico, Gustave Carl-
sen of Peru, Gabino Fajardo of
Peru, and C. J. Erlund of Hous
ton. They will sing the lilting Bra-
zillian tune “Mama Yo Quiero,”
the Chilean song, “Corazones Par-
tidos,” “Perfidia,” and the Mexi
can “Jalisco.”
The club’s arrangements of “Cie-
lito Lindo,” “La Cucaracha,” and
“Shortnin’ Bread” will be part of
this informal section. Pat Patter
son will present two accordian
solos, “In the Mood,’ ’and “Liebes-
traum.” A barbershop octet of
Barney Martin, Gib Michalk, Hen-
ry Maas, J. O. Bartlett, L. C.
Salm, G. A. Adams, Lloyd Bail
ey, and Reynolds Smith will an
nounce their own numbers.
“God Bless America,” “The Spir
it of Aggieland,” and the sing-
To Emphasize Informality
Of Second Series of Songs
ing of Woolket’s words and ar
rangement of “Taps” will end
up the formal section o fthe pro
gram. The cadets will don their
coats again for these songs.
This appearance of the Singing
Cadets on a Town Hall program
will be the first full length pres
entation given here by a singing
group, and it will be the first
time that any campus organiz
ation has been presented on a
Town Hall program. The program
will start promptly at 7:30 in
Guion Hall, Paul Haines, Town
Hall student manager, stated.
Under the direction of Woolket,
professor of Modern Languages,
the Singing Cadets have grown in
number from 18 to the present
110. Woolket has directed thef
singers for the past four years.
The Singing Cadets are known
over the state because of their
statewide tours. They have given
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A calendar of future Aggietone
News regimental pictures include
the Infantry Regiment, April 23,
24, and 25; the Coast Artillery
Corps, May 6, 7, and 8; and Chem
ical Warfare Service, May 13, 14,
and 15. •
New Terrace Opened
Franklin^ Friday
Frank Simon, owner of Frank
lin’s, local night club on the air
port road, announced yesterday af
ternoon the opening of a new open
air dancing terrace Friday night.
About 700 square feet in area,
the dance surface is madeup of a
circular concrete slab. Simon stat
ed that the seating capacity on the
open air terrace was approximately
80 couples.
Completed yesterday afternoon
at a cost of $2000, Simon pointed
out that the terrace would be open
throughout the remainder of the
social season, the weather permit
ting.
Wilcox, Orr and Lipscomb Win Election
As Councilmen; Loveless Still Secretary
Deadine for r
Jr Yell-Leader
Candidates Today
249 College Station Citizens Trek
To Polls Tuesday for Ballot Casting
G. B. Wilcox, J. A. Orr, and S. A. Lipscomb were re-elected city
councilmen of College Station and Sid Loveless was retained as city
secretary in the biennial city officer election held here Tuesday, Wilcox,
councilman in charge of publicity unofficially announced yesterday.
Must Present Petition
Signed With 100 Names
To Publications Office
Candidates for junior yell lead
er will have until 5 p.m. this af
ternoon to file notice of their
candidacy for the position at the
Student Activities Office, Cadet
Colonel Bill Becker, chairman of
the Student Election Committee,
announced.
Candidates for the office must
pay a fee of fifty cents at the
time of filing. They must also
present at that time a petition of
candidacy signed by at least 100
sophomores, juniors, or seniors.
The qualifications of the cand
idates will be checked by the Stu
dent Election Committee- They
must be in attendance at A. & M.
for their fourth consecutive sem
ester with a grade point average
of at least 1.00 and have passed at
least three-fifths of the normal
course during the proceeding sem
ester.
Only the sophomore class will
vote in the primary election for
the position of junior yell leader.
At their meeting Tuesday April
8 the class will narrow the field
of candidates to the six who receive
the largest number of votes. These
six will then be presented to a joint
meeting of the sophomore and
junior classes for the final elec
tion of the two yell leaders.
In the event that fewer than
six candidates seek the position,
the junior and sophomore classes
will meet on April 8 and vote on
their choice. The two who re
ceive the greatest number of votes
will be declared elected.
Rainey and
Walton Free With
Praises for Cashion
Tribute was lavishly heaped up
on the head of Y.M.C.A. Secretary
M. L. Cashion at the banquet held
Monday night in his honor.
Cashion was Y secretary and
athletic director of Austin College
when Dr. Rainey went to the
Sherman school as a student. High
lights of the speeches which could
not be published Tuesday are fur
nished herewith.
“Cash was the best fungo hit
ter in the world,” Dr. Rainey re
counted. “I credit what physical
development I attained to chas
ing flies knocked out to us by
this man.
“Cash was a living example of
Christianity to us, and he gave
us the opportunity of getting a
first-hand knowledge of active,
working Christianity. He helped
the students with their every prob
lem. He beat the tar out of us
with an old warped tennis racquet
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Horse Show Will
Climax Weekend of
Cavalry Activities
Events Will Begin
Saturday Morning;
To Continue All Day
Held as a climax to the caval
ry week end the 18th Annual
Horse Show, sponsored by thet
Military Department of A. & M.,
will thrill an expected record crowd
at the arena on highway 6 Sat
urday.
Invitations have been extended
to some of the best horsemen in
Texas and some of the best horses
in the country, including entries
from the Bit and Spur Club of
the University of Texas will be
entered, Major John F. Stevens de
clared. Events are being filled rap
idly. The attendance this year is
expected to top all previous rec
ords.
On the horse show committee
are: Col. Ike Ashburn; Col. James
A. Watson, Commandant; Dr.
Marstellar; D. W. Williams; and
Major Stevens, manager. On the
student committee are Tom Rich
ey, Graham Purcell, William Eh-
man, J. H. Crouch Jr. and J. M.
Jones.
The events will start at 9:30
Saturday morning and continue all
day. Twenty-three classes of events
have been listed for the show
which include: polo pony model
class, model colt class, model draft
class, model stock horse class, and
R. O. T. C. jumping class elim
ination. The preceding events take
place in the morning while the
following take place in the after
noon: R.O.T.C. jumping finals,
three gaited saddle class, three
and five gaited, fine harness class,
R.O.T.C. charger class, ladies three
gaited seat and hands class, jump
ing class open, five gaited saddle
class, children’s three gaited
class, and plantation class. Out
side the arena the rescue race,
hunt team, cow horse, polo pony
raining class, stick and ball race,
and polo pony bending race.
Harvester Company
Gives ASAE Program
There will be a meeting of the
American Society of Agricultural
Engineers at 7:30 tonight in the
lecture room of the agricultural
engineering building.
The program is an annual one
put on by the International Har
vester Company’s branch at Hous
ton. Manager L. M. McWhirter,
Assistant Manager O. V. Wesley
and heads of various departments
of the Houston branch will discuss
problems concerning the distrib
ution and servicing of farm mach
inery.
Cavalry Picks Mother-of-Pearl
Favors for Friday Sweethearts
By E. M. Rosenthal
The favors for the Cavalry Reg
imental Ball, held tomorrow night
from 9 until 1 at Sbisa Hall, will
be unusual as compared to those
of other organizations.
Each favor will be a copy of
the seal of the college superimpos
ed on a heart-shaped mother of
pearl background. This mother of
pearl heart will be suspended on
gold chains from crossed sabers
that act as a pin for the favor.
Ramps F, G, H, I, and J of Hart
Hall will be vacated for the visit
ing girls attending the ball and
the corps dance Saturday night.
These ramps are to be vacated by
one o’clock Friday afternoon and
the girls will be admitted at
three. At eight a.m. Thursday ca-
-fdets may start making room res
ervations.
Eddie Fitzpatrick and his or
chestra, who play for the ball
and corps dance, have already
played in Texas this year, having
had engagements at the Rice
Hotel and Plantation Night Club
in Dallas. The orchestra special
izes in novelty arrangements and
skits, and features both soft,
sweet music with its string sec
tion and fast “hot” pieces with
its brass section.
Evelyn Lynn who is now with
the Club Matinee program over
N.B.C. formerly sang with Fitz
patrick’s orchestra, and at that
time was known as Lynn Hunn-
icutt. At the present Fitzpatrick
features a male singer.
• Two hundred and forty-nine
votes were cast in the election
but returns are yet incomplete.
The official result and the number
of votes for each candidate will
be announced after the city coun
cil canvasses the ballots at its
meeting tonight.
Luke Patronella, grocery store
owner, and R. L. Meyers, lumber
yard owner, were also candidates
for the position of city council
man. W. B. Langford sought the
office of city secretary.
Wilcox is professor of educa
tion at the college; Orr is associate
professor of civil engineering, and
Lipscomb is the owner of a drug
store, Loveless is a ’38 graduate
of A. & M.
These men were elected at the
first regular biennial election of
city council officers since the in
corporation of the city two years
ago. At that time they were elect
ed to fill the positions and were
all re-elected. In a special re-el
ection last April to fill a vacancy
in the office of Mayor, Frank G.
Anderson was elected. The vacan
cy was caused by the resignation
of J. H. Binney. T. A. Munsen and
Ernest Langford were chosen al
dermen at that time and are now
incumbent.
40 to Receive
Advanced Degrees
Forty candidates for advanced
degrees will receive diplomas of
their advanced standing in June,
T. D. Brooks, dean of the graduate
school and liberal arts school, an
nounced yesterday. This will be the
largest number of graduates ever
to receive advanced degrees here
at any one time. Thirty-five grad
uate degrees were branded out
last June.
In order to obtain a degree grad
uates must have completed their
required course work, passed an
oral examination and must have
completed their thesis on some
subject in their field of work.
Dean Brooks stated that the
graduates’ theses are due complete
with the approval of the head of
their department, by May 2. The
uncertainity of the correct num
ber of graduates who will receive
advanced degrees this June is
attributed to the fact that all
theses have not been received by
Dean Brooks.
Dallas A. & M. Club
Has Barnyard Frolic
Ed Daniels and his orchestra will
play for the Dallas A. & M. club’s
barnyard frolic, April 11, from nine
till twelve at the roof of the Jef
ferson Hotel during spring holi
days.
“The members of the club and
all outsiders are invited to attend
our barnyard frolic,” Jack Bailey,
chairman of general dance ar
rangements said.
The chairman of the different
committees which have been help
ing Bailey are Charles Haggard,
orchestra committee, E. B. Junge,
program committee, Ed Bale, dec
orations committee, and Phil Gol-
man, publicity.
Around 400 Aggies and their
friends from Dallas County and
other nearby cities and counties
are expected to attend this affair.
Petroleum Senior
WedsTSCW Graduate
Gordon Carruth, senior petro
leum engineering student from
Denton, was married to Miss Beth
Paschall of Denton, March 15.
The bride is a graduate of Den
ton High School and T.S.C.W.
Carruth attended North Texas
Teachers College before coming to
A. & M.