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
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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-
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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
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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.