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, APRIL 26, 1941
NUMBER 78
Federal
Inspection
Begins Soon
Colonel Keyes
To Be in Charge;
Thompson Is Guest
Colonel E. A. Keyes, officer in
charge of R.O.T.C. training for the
eighth corps area from San An
tonio, will head a group of army
officers who will conduct the an
nual Federal Inspection here April
30 and May 1 according to an an
nouncement by Lieut. Col. James
A. Watson, commandant.
Colonel Ernest 0. Thompson,
chairman of the Texas Railroad
Commission and now on active duty
with the United States Army will
be a guest of Col. Watson and will
receive the review of the cadet
corps Thursday afternoon, May 1.
Federal Inspection activities will
begin Wednesday morning when
army officers assigned to inspect
the various regiments will inspect
theory classes in the Military De
partment. During the afternoon
the officers will inspect all units
which drill on Wednesday.
Senior Instructors of the R. 0.
T. C. here will introduce the in
specting officers to A. & M. when
they will take the inspectors to
breakfast in Sbisa Hall Wednes
day morning at 7:15. After the in
spection activities of the morning
the inspecting party will adjourn
to the new area mess hall for a
luncheon. The inspecting officers
will be the guests of the senior ca
det officer of each regiment at this
luncheon. Colonel Keys will be the
guest of the Cadet Colonel W. A.
Becker.
Following the inspections of the
various units during the regular
drill period Wednesday, the inspect
ing officers will visit President T.
0. Walton. A dinner for the in
specting officers at 7:00 p. m. will
conclude Wednesday’s program.
Inspection of the college’s mil
itary ability will continue Thurs
day morning. Senior instructors
will again escort the visiting offic
ers to Sbisa Hall where a luncheon
will be held with officials of the
college in attendance.
The corps of cadets will con
clude Federal Inspection when it
reviews before all officers at 1:25
Thursday afternoon. This review
will also be received by Col. Thomp
son, who will be at A. & M. to see
the corps in action.
Assisting Col. Keyes in the in
spection are Col. T. K. Spencer,
Infantry from Fort Sam Houston;
Col. John Perkins, C.A.C., San An
tonio, Texas; Lieut. Col. James B.
Taylor, Cavalry, San Antonio, Tex
as; Lieut. Col. Thomas A. Austin,
Infantry, who will inspect the En
gineer Regiment; Lieut. Col. Sam
uel White, Field Artillery, Fort
Sam Houston, Major Richard A.
Eads, C.W.S., Fort Sam Houston:
and 1st Lieut. Robert L. Suggs,
Signal Corps, Fort Sam Houston.
S. €. Evans to
Crown King Cotton
Sterling C. Evans, president of
the Federal Land Bank at Hous
ton, and an A. & M. College grad
uate of 1921, has accepted the Stu
dent Agronomy Society’s invita
tion to crown King Cotton at the
opening of the tenth annual Cot
ton Style Show Pageant on May
2 at 8:00 p. m. in the DeWare Me
morial Gymnasium.
Evans has been closely allied with
the cotton activity of the A. & M.
College for a number of years.
He originated the idea of travel
ing fellowship for A. & M. stu
dents to study cotton over the
world and gave much help to the
movement during the time he was
connected with the College Ex
tension Service.
During the past several years
Evans was president of the Fed
eral Bank of Cooperatives and in
this capacity assisted in develop
ment of the cooperative gin move
ment in Texas.
He is f|miliar with all phase^^f
the cotto J industry and during 1939
spent coisiderable time in several
South American Republics studying
in detail their cotton program.
Aggieland’s Famed Singing Organization
Pictured above is A. & M.’s famous Singing Cadets, who will leave early Monday morning on their second state tour of the current
school year. They will appear in Jacksonville, Tyler, and Palestine and return to College Station Tuesday. Several weeks ago they visited
south Texas.
Singing Cadets Leave Monday on Second Concert Tour
Agriculture Students Rapidly Completing Plans for Ag
Day; Exhibits Being Assembled With All Possible Speed
Plans for A. & M.’s first “Ag”-
day to be held May 1-3 are being
rushed to completion as that event
filled week-end approfeches. All
agriculture students are rapidly
completing plans for “Ag” day,
and exhibits are being assembled
with all possible speed.
A. & M. has long been noted for
Engineers Day and this year ag
riculture students felt that they
too had done work which was well
worth exhibiting. Under the lead
ership of Dean E. J. Kyle of the
School of Agriculture, a series of
events to be known as “Ag” day
was planned.
For three days from May 1 to 3,
students will show visitors from
all of Texas the agricultural ex
hibits of this state. The three day
program will be officially opened
when the corps of cadets, 6500
strong, will review Thursday after
noon, May 1.
That evening a program will
be presented in Guion Hall in which
Sterling C. Evans, a former stu
dent, will speak on farm credit.
Evans is president of the Federal
Land Bank of Houston. A concert
of the 85-voice Singing Cadets
will follow Evans’ talk and will
conclude Thursday’s program.
Friday afternoon will be filled
with sporting events, and Aggie
teams will take the field in track,
baseball, and golf. A golf match
with T. C. U. is scheduled for 10:
00 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Bryan
Country Club. Also highlighting
the sporting events of the day will
be “The Little Conference” track
meet at Kyle Field at 1:00 p.m.
Both varsity and freshmen teams
will compete in this meet which
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Maybe Some
Of the Boys Wish
It Was a Real Trial
Dr. Ide P. Trotter alias Ide P.
Lespedeza was found guilty of un
lawful administration of English
in the Agronomy department in a
mock trial presented by the faculty
of the Agronomy department at the
Agronmy Society meeting Thurs
day night.
The case was tried before Judge
J. S. Mogford with Dr. L. G. Jones
as prosecuting attorney and T. E.
McAfee and L. C. Chapman as at
torneys for the defence. Baliff W.
■R. Cowley kept order in the court
and Dr. R. L. Donahue, R. C. Potts,
J. H. Valentin, Tildon Easley, and
L. M. Thompson acted as witnesses
in the case.
This was the first program of
its kind ever to be presented by
the faculty of the Agronomy de
partment.
Hitchhikers to Hold
Meeting Tuesday Nite
A meeting of the National Col
lege University Travel Club will
be held after supper Tuesday in
the Y Chapel, Keyes Carson an
nounced Friday.
Hitchiking information regarding
bus schedules, counties where li
cense numbers are registered, and
various other information will be
given to all attending the meet
ing.
Duchesses and
Escorts In Cotton
Show Announced
The first official list of the
maids of honor and duchesses and
their escorts for the Tenth Annual
Cotton Pageant, which will be held
next Friday evening at 7:30 in
DeWare Field House, was releas
ed yesterday by J. W. Pinson, so
cial secretary of the Cotton Pag
eant and Ball.
Miss Connie Lindley, queen of
the ball who will have King Cot
ton as her escort, will have seven
maids of honor in her court. These
girls and their escorts are Mar
garet Trulock and Paul Haines,
Laura Gainer and James Spann,
Sara Gillet and Jimmy Gallagher,
Dava Robinson and M. H. Turn
er, Edith Ellison and Ralph Hart-,
graves, Ruth Tilley and Tom B.
Richey, and Betty Bowman and
Johnny Robinson.
The duchesses, their escorts and
the organizations which they rep
resent are as follows:
Betty Blanche Womack and Gene
Wilmeth, Texas Department of
Agriculture; Pauline Butler and
Phillip Young, Huntsville A. & M.
Club, Helen Nemir and Harold
Cobb, Grimes County C. of C.;
Mary Jo Bass and Frank Harvey,
Tyler Junior College; Ruth Curtin
Arbuckle and Charles Thankhei-
ser, Houston A. & M. Club; Sylvia
Rosenthal and E. M. Rosenthal,
The Battalion; Princes sMarie Sul-
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Group Will
Visit East And
North Texas Cities
Aggieland’s renowned choral or
ganization, the Singing Cadets,
will leave via chartered busses
Monday morning for a concert tour
to several East and North Texas
cities, their second trip of the year.
The itinerary of the trip will in
clude Palestine, Jacksonville, and
Tyler. President T. O. Walton will
accompany the Singing Cadets to
Tyler if official business will per
mit.
After breakfast at 6:30 Monday
morning in Sbisa Hall, 90 mem
bers in three busses will leave for
Palestine to present a program
for the high school. A stop for
lunch will be made in Jacksonville
after singing for the senior high
school there at 11:45 o’clock.
Continuing on to Tyler, the ca
dets will sing at the Citizens’ Na
tional Bank for Gus F. Taylor, an
official of the Tyler Rose Festival
Association, and a number of his
friends. At 2:30 o’clock, the Singing
Cadets will present a program at
the Tyler High School. For the re
mainder of the afternoon Monday,
they will be allowed to use the
Tyler Country club where they will
enjoy golf, swimming, tennis, and
other i*ecreational devices.
A barbecue supper will be given
for the members of the Tyler A.
& M. Club and the Singing Cadets
at the country club Monday even
ing. An hour and a half concert
will be given in the City Auditor
ium in Tyler Monday night at 8
o’clock. After the concert, the Sing
ing Cadets will be furnished dates
to entertain them for the remainder
of the evening. Lodging for the
night will be provided in the Tyler
homes.
The cadets will return to College
Station Tuesday morning.
War Dept Announces
Partial List of Deferments
23 Students Have Been Deferred At
Present Time; Lists Are Not Complete Yet
A partial list of senior R. O. T. C. members who filed question
naires with the Eighth Corps Area Headquarters recently requesting
deferment from active military duty has been received by the office
of the commandant. According to their respective reasons for defer
ment, certain A. & M. seniors have been granted a tentative defer
ment of one year until July 1, 1942, as follows: C. W. Brown, Jr.,
Joseph R. Nalley, Jr., Thomas G. Hall, James P. Giles, Jr., John W.
Bailey, John E. Cottle, Wellington C. Cornell, George F. Bentinck,
Howard W. Shea, Eldred B. Wheeler, and A. P. Bolding, Jr.
The following named students
Babcock Wins
Over Bryant
In Junior Election
Election
Closes Current
Political Season
Charles Babcock, A Field Ar
tillery sophomore from Beaumont,
was elected to the office of Jun
ior Representative on the Student
Publications Board over Billy Bry
ant, G Infantry sophomore from
Stamford, by a vote of 289 to 213
in the run off election held Thurs
day.
Babcock and Bryant were for
ced into the runoff when one of
them failed to gain a majority in
Tuesday’s general election. H. E.
Norton, sophomore from Grand
Prairie, and Tom Vannoy, sopho
more from McAllen, were also can
didates for this election, but were
eliminated in the primary elec
tion.
Thursday’s election brought to
a close the political season at A.
& M. Results of the other elections
held this spring include the victory
of Tom Gillis, Fort Worth jun
ior of B Coast Artillery, over D.
C. Thurman, Menard, and E M.
Rosenthal, Fort Worth, in the
campaign for editor of The Bat
talion. R. L. Heitkamp, New Braun
fels, who was chosen by the junior
class to be editor of the 1941-42
Longhorn over Bennie Hancock,
Corpus Christi.
Fred Smitham, B CWS from Dal
las, was elected as Town Hall Man
ager for next year. Alden Cathey,
G Infantry from Fort Worth, was
elected Social Secretary of the
Senior Class.
In a special election for sen
iors only, Jeff Montgomery, H In
fantry from Mason, was selected
as class validictorian.
were refused deferment upon grad
uation in June: J. D. Poage, H.
G. Talbot, J. C. Bloodworth, J. H.
Dixon, G. H. Reynolds, Alfred Hol-
brecht, R. M. Magee, G. H. San
ders, Jr., R. G. Hill, P. M. Bolton,
W. J. Montgomery, K. W. Dahl,
L. L. Cox, L. F. Jaggi, J. W. Mc
Crary, H. A. Hernandez, E. F.
Shiels, T. E. Duce, F. R. Lewis,
E. E. Byrd, L. L. Appelt, L. E.
Watkins, C. A. Lilly, Jr., E. E.
Schott, C. B. Christian, W. C. Heit
kamp, E. W. Cowling, G. P. Trot
ter, Jr., R. W. Alexander, J. A.
Pridmore, T. A. Arnold, J. E. Giss-
ler, A. J. Bischoff, R. L. Sweeney,
Jr., J. H. Wellborn, R. M. Davis,
Jr., H. O. Johnson, Jr., E. R. Kee
ton, and E. H. Reagan.
Earlier in the year the follow
ing named seniors were granted
absolute deferment for one year
as requested by their individual
letters: Jack Holt, T. S. Williams,
J. D. Ragland, R. W. Parker, J.
R. Lane, Jr., B. S. Hutchins, E. R.
Pace, O. D. Hatcher, J. J. Walker,
W. R. Benson, J. B. Link, and F.
A. Loving.
Those who asked for deferment
from military service were given
permission of one year’s absence
from active duty by the Eighth
Corps^ Area Commander, for he
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And She Really Loves Texas
Genuine Royalty to Grace Cotton Pageant
Genuine royalty will grace the^-that the state of Texas ever had.-f
court of King J. T. Anderson and
his queen, Connie Lindley, at the
annual Cotton Pageant and Ball
next Friday night when Marie Glo
ria, the Princess Sulkowski of the
royal house of old Austria, will be
a duchess in the Cotton Pageant.
Princess Marie Gloria will be one
of the representatives of the Ag
ronomy Society and will be escorted
by Clyde Raley of Machine Gun
Troop Cavalry.
At the present the Princess
Marie Gloria and her parents,
Princess Stanislas Sulkowski, live
in Mexico City, but she is perhaps
one of the greatest enthusiasts
About a year ago, Marie Gloria
and her mother spent some time in
Texas on a visit to friends in
Tyler. Since then, Marie Gloria
has never tired of talking of Tex
as and when in the mood, she puts
her sentiments regarding Texas
into verse—both in English and in
Spanish.
The vivacious 19 year old prin
cess is a daughter of a scion of
the Austrian House of Hapsburg.
One of her father’s numerous es
tates was Bielitz Castle, near the
city of that name, in the old em
pire. In his youthful days, Prince
Stanislas was a dashing officer-
of the famous Black Dragoons.
The mother of Marie Gloria, Prin
cess Sulkowski, comes of an old
Spanish family that years ago was
granted large land rights by the
Spanish Crown in what are now
the Mexican States of Sinola and
Sonora. She met Prince Stanislas
in California, where her family
lived at that time while the Prince
was on a tour of the new world.
Prince Stanislas, an artist whose
j conections of the old days are now
disrupted by the changing times,
| follows his art in Mexico City,
i Princess Maria Gloria loves mu
sic and painting also, her favorite
medium with the brush being wa
ter colors. But most of all she loves
poetry and writes with equal fa
cility in Spanish and English. She
is widely traveled and is an able
linguist, speaking English, Spanish,
French, German and,Italian.
Marie Gloria was born at Bie
litz Castle in Austria where she
spent her young girlhood. Her ed
ucation has been mostly in the
hands of private tutors.
When asked about Texas, Marie
Gloria said, “The lovely state is
so big, so attractive, and the
people there are so nice.”
Loving to
Conduct Concert
Monday Evening
Woodwind instruments will be
featured in the regular Monday
night annotated musical concert to
be given in the music room of the
Cushing Memorial Library by
Frank A. Loving, Chemical Engin
eering senior and member of the
Aggie Band.
The program will consist of:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5—
2nd movement by Bach (Flute)
Quartet in F Major—2nd and
3rd movements by Mozart (Oboe)
Quintet in B Minor—3rd move
ment, by Brahm (clarinet)
Orpheus in the Underworld
Overture by Offenbach (clarinet)
William Tell Overture—Andante
by Rossins
Devertimento by Mozart (Trio
with flue, clarinet, and basson)
The concert will begin at 7:30
P. M. All students and faculty
members interested in this music
are cordially invited to attend.
Town Hall Gets
Fitting Climax By
Ellington’s Band
A large, enthusiastic Town Hall
audience witnessed Duke Ellington
and his nationally famous orches
tra last night in Sbisa Hall as a
fitting climax event on the 1940-
41 Town Hall calendar.
Ellington was at his best, featur
ing some unique dance and swing
arrangements, and the crowd of
music lovers responded continually
with spontaneous outbursts of ap
plause.
Later in the evening, the ne
gro orchestra, composed of fif
teen instrumentalists and one vo
calist, played for the annual In
fantry Regimental Ball, the final
organization ball of the spring
season. The dance programs were
of a glistening blue with dazzling
white letters, while the favors
were gold pins consisting of cross
ed rifles between which is sus
pended a polished gold medallion
with A. & M. in the center.
Ellington and his boys will sup
ply the orchestra for the corps
dance tonight in Sbisa Hall from
nine until twelve. Scrip for the
dance will be $1.10. The general
public is extended an invitation to
the affair.
Annual Musical Silver
Tea Set for April 27
The Fourth Annual Musical Sil
ver Tea, sponsored by the Womans
Christian Service Society of the
A. & M. Methodist Church, will be
held in the home Sunday, April 27,
from 3:30 until 7:30 p. m.
The program will be composed
of presentations by the choral club,
a string duet with piano accom
paniment, several piano selections,
a brass trio, a reading, a violin
solo, and several selections. Every
one is cordially invited to attend.
Man Electrocuted by
High Voltage Power
Line Near East Gate
James A. Snow, 26, of Austin,
was electrocuted about 2:30 Thurs
day afternoon while installing a
neon sign at the Black Pharmacy
located on highway 6 near the
main entrance of the campus. Er
nest H. Barnes, also of Austin, was
severely burned while trying to
save Snow.
Snow was engaged in installing
a neon sign at the pharmacy and
came in contact with a high vol
tage REA line. Snow was winding
up an extension ladder as he came
in contact with the 12,000 volt
line. It is believed that he was kill
ed instantly.
In attempting to rescue Snow,
Barnes was seriously burned about
the face and hands. He was immed
iately taken to the Wilkerson
Memorial Clinic in Bryan for treat
ment. Barnes’ condition was not
serious, although his injuries were
severe.