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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, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1941 NUMBER 82 List of Arbitrators Released in Motion Picture Case Today Is Deadline For DanceFavors A1 Donahue To Play Banquet And Ring Dance Friday With today as the deadline for ordering favors for the senior ring dance and final arrangements rounding into shape, intense inter est begins to develop for this weekend’s affair. A1 Donahue and his orchestra, the music makers for the dance, brings his organiza tion to the campus to play for the banquet and for the ball as well as for the corps dance the follow ing night. It has been announced by class president, Tom Richey, that favors for the ring dance may be bought in the rotunda of the Academic building for the last time today from 1 to 5:30 p. m. Tickets may be bought there or from the organ ization commanders. This year in order to accommo date the large class, two rings will be used for the customary ring ceremony. Each senior takes his girl through the ring where she removes his ring, turns it around and then kisses him. Last year the procedure occupied so much time that the dance was delayed. The extra ring has been con structed in order that such an event will not be repeated. Visitors may not attend the ban quet without proper invitation, but (Continued on Page 4) Latin-American Conference Will Convene Next Week The Conference on Latin-Amer ican Relations for the Texas Fed eration of Women’s Clubs will be held at A. & M. on May 12, 13 and 14. The registration and all meet ings, except the evening lectures, will be held in the Reception Room of Sbisa Hall. The evening meet ings will be held in the Chemistry Lecture Room. The conference is to be conducted under the sponsorship of the Fourth District of the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs, with the Cam pus Study Club of College Station as hostess club. The Conference is open, however, to women of the entire state, regardless of club af filiations. On Monday, May 12, the pro gram will consist of talks concern ing the "Racial and Cultural Back ground of Latin-America.” Short talks will be given by J. J. Woolket, professor ->f modern language, and Xavier Fernandez of Peru, student at A. M. In addition to the speakers, colored lantern slides will be shown by Daniel Comijo of Venezuela, A. & M. student, and C. J. Finney, professor of architect ure. Following the slides, Latin- American music will be furnished by Latin-American A. & M. stu- lents Miguel Soto of Porto Rico, Xavier Fernandez of Peru, Gabino Fajardo of Peru and Gustavo Cal- rsen of Peru. The program for Tuesday, May 13, will consist of lectures by Dr. A. B. Nelson, professor of history, V. K. Sugareff, professor of his tory, and Dr. S. R. Gammon, head of the history department. During the evening sessions Dr. Fred H. Arnold, associate professor of ag ricultural economics, and John C. Patterson, Washington, D. C., enter-American relations special ist, will give talks. In the middle of the afternoon a tea will be giv en with music by the “Singing Ca dets.” On Wednesday morning, May 14, T. L. Evans, Houston, manager of the Foreign Trade Department of the Houston Chamber of Com merce, and Hon. Luis L. Duplan, Houston, Consul from Mexico, will deliver lectures. Snapshots of Tenth Cotton Pageant King Cotton, Janies T. Ander son of Garland and Queen Cot ton, Connie Lindley of Fort Worth, left, have taken their seat on the throne after the crowning of the queen during A. & M.’s tenth an nual Cotton Pageant and Style Show which was held in the De- Ware Field House last Friday night. Miss Lindley is a fresh man student at the Texas State College for Women. Miss Charmaigne Smith of Dal- ji las, lower left, one of the models in the style show, is shown as she exhibited one of the many cotton ensembles before the King and Queen's court. | King and Queen Cotton walk | under the saber arch formed by I escorts for the maids of honor. Aggieland Honors Mothers at Celebration Sunday Program Actually Begins Saturday With All-Day Reception of Parents and Guests Six thousand Aggies will show^.spection. From 2:30 until 3:30 the appreciation to 6,000 mothers Sun- Ross Volunteers’ exhibition drill ROA to Hold Annual Reserve Program May 21 The Brazos County Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association in cooperation with the Texas State Department, R. O. A., will hold the annual Reserve Day program on May 21 for the benefit of the senior R. O. T. C. students who will be commissioned second lieutenants in the Reserve Corps upon grad uation. The program this year will be held in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall immediately after supper and will be in the form of a stag smok er. Col. C. L. Mitchell, Chief of Staff, First Military Area, San Antonio, will be the principal speaker and he will be accompanied by members of his staff for each of the .various branches of service. Officers of the Texas State R. O. A. Department and many out of town reserve officers are expected to be present. The purpose of the program this year is to acquaint the senior stu dents with the regular officers of their respective units and to strengthen the fellowship between the regular army officers, reserve officers and the “embryo” officers. It is expected that Col. Mitchell will have on hand the latest infor mation concerning active duty. In- (Continued on Page 4) Fun and Laughter Reign at Engineers’ Musical Comedy Fun and laughter promises to run rampant in Guion Hall next Saturday night when the Student Engineering Council will sponsor its first musical comedy review. The program will be presented for the benefit of the school of engineering and will include a con tribution from each of its seven departments. The chemical engineers are sched uled to hit a new high in spectacu lar phenomenon when they trans form a dog into a cat. The civil engineers wiell offer a skit depict ing a day in the fields wherein the unsuspecting engineer runs into the farmer’s daughter and complica tions set in. Aggieland will get its first taste of a strip-tease when the aeronautical engineers present their share of the show. The Student Engineering Council has promised a full hour and a half of fun and laughter in the review. The climax of the unprecedented show is expected when Dean Gibb Gilchrist of the school of engineer ing drops his text-books and picks up his guitar to entertain. Music by the Aggieland orches tra and a musical interlude by the Singing Cadets at the half intermis sion will round out the program. day, as the nation observes Mo ther’s Day. The A. & M. program actually begins Saturday with an all day reception of parents and guests by the faculty, senior class and student body. Saturday morning at 9 the all day Engineer’s show begins. Then at 10 there is a meeting of the A. & M. Mother’s Clubs in Sbisa Hall. During the afternoon, from 2 till 5 o’clock, the Brazos County A. & M. Mothers’ club is having a tea honoring all visiting parents in the Y.M.C.A. lobby. At 6:30 there will be an Engineers’ Musi cal Show. Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Wal ton together with the senior class will then give the parents an op portunity to meet the deans, direc tors and teaching staff of the col lege at a reception at their home. The final event of the day will be the Engineers’ Day Dance in Sbisa Hall from 9:00 until 12:00. The big day of celebration be gins at 8:30 Sunday morning with the pinning of flowers on the ca dets in preparation for the dis mounted review at 10:00. Follow ing the review there will be a pro gram on Kyle Field honoring the mothers and fathers. At noon there will be a picnic lunch also at Kyle Field. Then at 1:30 all the dormitories, except those va cated for guests, will open for in will be held on the drill field. To finish the day’s program a con cert by the A. & M. Concert Band will be given at 3:30. Dormitory accommodations may be made for the parents through their sons. Three S M A Men Confer Here With Extensioners Three representatives of the Sur plus Marketing Administration who have been designated to help Tex as merchants understand opera tion of the cotton stamp phases of the AAA’s 1941 supplementary cotton program have been on the campus for the past four days for conferences with Extension Service and Triple-A workers. The three, William L. White of Oklahoma City, John C. Stubbs and J. H. Holland of San Francisco, California, plan to travel through the different districts of Texas to assist the district agents in ex plaining the program to the County Land Use Planning Committees. During their stay on the campus the SMA representatives are mak ing their headquarters at the Ex tension Service building. Bryan Theaters Intervene As “Interested Party” One Arbitrator to Be Selected Before May 9; Case Should be Heard in 30 Days Pushing the Campus Theater’s case with the American Arbitra tion Board one step nearer its first hearing, 10 approved arbitrators, all from Dallas, were announced late Monday afternoon. Lockermen From Five States Sign For Short Course Bailey and Murphey To Preside Over A.M. And P.M. Discussions Today By one o’clock yesterday after noon, with still a day and a half to go, 95 persons, representing 47 cities and five states, had regis tered for the first Freezed Locker Operators short course held at A. & M. C. E. Murphy, Assistant Profes sor of Animal Husbandry who planned and is in charge of the course, said that it had proved to be such a success that plans were already being made to make it an annual affair. Mr. Murphy acted as chairman during the session yesterday morning with Roy W. Snyder, specialist in animal industries, at the Extension Service, chairman during the afternoon session and T. G. Kelley, of Kelley’s Refrig erator System, Carrollton, Texas, presided during the evening ses sion. This morning’s session will be presided over by W. W. Bailey, Instructor in Animal Husbandry, with talks being made by L. S. Keen, manager, Keen Frozen Food Locker System, Corsicana, Texas; Roy W. Snyder, C. E. Murphy, and K. F. Warner, Extension Meat Specialist, U.S.D.A., Washington, D. C. This afternoon session today will be presided over by C. E. Murphy with talks by Roy W. Snyder, Grace I. Neeley, Food Preservation Specialists of the Ex tension Service, and J. S. Hopper, Assistant Professor of Mechani cal Engineering. Former Student Enters Priesthood Frank N. Schanzer, former Coast Ai’tillery student from Hitchcock, Texas, was ordained to the Catho lic priesthood last Sunday in St. Mary’s University Chapel, La Porte, by Most Rev. C. E. Byrne, bishop of the Galveston diocese. Father Schanzer was a student at Frank N. Schanzer A. & M. during the school year of 1933- 34 and the first semester of 1934- 35. He took industrial educa tion during the time he was here. When he decided for the priest hood, he enrolled at St. Mary’s Uni versity. On a return visit, May 25, Fath er Schanzer will say Mass in St. Mary’s Chapel. His first Solemn Mass will be in Hitchcock, May 18. - The list includes W. J. Brown, president of the Titche Goettinger Company; Lawrence H. Fleck, S. M. U. professor; Fred F. Florence, president of the Republic Nation al Bank; J. E. Hutchinson, ac countant with Hutchinson, Bonner and Burleson; Dean C. S. Potts of S. M. U.’s school of law; L. W. Klingman, Equitable Life In surance Company; Ted Robinson, general manager of the Borden Company; Robert J. Smith, Braniff Airways attorney; Leslie Waggen- er, vice-president of the Republic National Bank, and C. H. Zachry, vice-president of the Southern Union Gas Company. One to Be Selected From this list of arbitrators, one will be selected to handle the case. The interested parties (the Cam pus Theater, the Jefferson Amuse ment Company and the Bryan Amusement Company) must sub mit their list before May 9 at which time the administrator will choose one from those arbitrators which none of the three interested parties has indicated as undesir able. It is believed that the case will come up for its first hearing within 30 days after the arbitra tor is selected. Bryan Enters Case Most recent development in the case is the intervention of the Bryan Amusement Company. Although the Campus Theater filed the case against the Jeffer son Amusement Company of Beaumont, which firm buys and books motion pictures exhibited by the Bryan Amusement Com pany, the Bryan firm was listed as an "interested party” and, as (Continued on Page 4) Engineer’s Day Plans Being Rushed On To Completion With A. & M.’s twelfth annual Engineers Day less than a week away, all engineering students and departments are rushing final plans for the occasion to comple tion in anticipation of a record at tendance Saturday. As in the past all engineering departments will combine their tal ents to show the many' visitors who will be here a representative picture of the college’s engineering training. Departments which are planning to have exhibits include the fol lowing: architecture, architectural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engi neering, industrial engineering, me chanical engineering, petroleum en gineering, aeronautical engineer ing and various units of the mil itary science department. Already signs of the coming oc casion are evident as the huge sign atop the radio tower on the Elec trical Engineering building has taken shape during the past few days. This sign which is illumi nated at night serves as a distinct ive forecast for Engineer’s Day. The Student Engineer’s Council, which sponsors the event, consists of the Architectural Society, Amer ican Institute of Chemical Engi neers, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers, Pe troleum Engineering Club, Insti tute of Aeronautical Engineers and American Institute of Military En gineers. Benton Elliott of Dallas, senior in petroleum, is president of the council.