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 20, 1941
NUMBER 88
Steers Extra Inning Run Wins 3-2; Conference Tied
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Juniors to Continue Current Motion Picture Fight in ’41
Senior Committee
Will Name Junior
Group in 15 Days
Col. Ash burn Named
“Observer” to Look
On for Institution
With the fast-nearing end of the
1940-41 long session in sight, the
long-festered motion picture show
situation still remains unsolved.
Completing the work of the past
nine months, the Senior Class Mo
tion Picture Show Committee, com
posed of Cadet Colonel W. A. Beck
er, Battalion Associate Editor
George Fuermann and Engineer
ing Council President Benton H.
Elliott, will name its successors
from the ranks of the coming long
session’s seniors.
“A parallel committee to carry
on the work next year will be ap
pointed within two weeks,” Becker
said yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, as committeemen
were pushing activities as far as
possible before June 1, the A. &
M. board of directors appointed
Col. Ike Ashburn, executive assist
ant to President T. O. Walton, as
observer for the college in the
proceedings.
“I’m sort of minister without
portfolio,” Col. Ashburn said yes
terday, “and my only job and in
terest in the matter is to look-on
in the interest of the institution.”
Arbitrator Still Unnamed
Still unnamed is the arbitrator
in the case.
From a list of ten men of the
American Arbitration Association
in Dallas (the list was published
in The Battalion on May 6), one is
to be selected from those not listed
as objectionable by the interested
parties.
The interested parties (the Cam
pus Theater of College Station, the
Bryan Amusement Company and
the Bryan’s booking agent, the
Jefferson Amusement Company of
Beaumont) submitted their respect
ive approved lists May 9 and the
arbitrator is expected to be named
at an early date.
Senior class committeemen point
ed out that their work was nearly
done and that within the next 15
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ROA Smoker Will
Be Tomorrow Night
Graduating seniors who will re
ceive commissions in the United
States Army Reserve will be guests
at a smoker to be given tomorrow
in the Banquet room of Sbisa Hall.
This smoker is being sponsored
by the Brazos County Chapter of
the Reserve Officers Association
in cooperation with the Texas
State Department of the R.O.A.
The program of the annual re
serve day smoker will begin in
the banquet room immediately af
ter supper. Col. C. L. Mitchell,
Chief of Staff, First Military Area,
San Antonio, will be the main
speaker, and he will be accom
panied by members of his staff
from each of the various branches
of the service.
Every year at this smoker an
award is made to the outstanding
senior cadet at A. & M. This year
the award will be a brief case.
The cadet who will receive the
award will not be announced un
til tomorrow night at the smoker.
The purpose of the program
this year is to acquaint the grad
uating seniors with regular of-
icers of their respective units and
to strengthen the fellowship be
tween the regular army officers,
reserve officers and the “em
bryo” officers. Col. Mitchell is
expected to have on hand the
latest information concerning ac
tive duty for the newly commis
sioned officers.
Officers of the Texas State R.
O. A. Department and many out
of town reserve officers are ex
pected to be present.
Their Work Is Done
Above, left is Cadet Colonel
W. A. Becker and, right, Bat
talion Associate Editor George
Fuermann. To the immediate
left is Engineering Council
President Benton H. Elliott.
These men have made-up the
Senior Class Motion Picture
Committee for the current long
session and will soon name a
committee of juniors to carry on
the work during the forth-com
ing long session. The commit
tee’s work has pushed the pos
sibility of securing first-run,
day-and-date motion pictures
with five-mile-distant Bryan
the nearest to a possible success
that it has been in the history of
the movement.
Press Club Banquet and Election
To Be Held in Sbisa Hall Tonight
Board Tells
Motion Picture
Policy to Ashburn
Following the appointment of
Colonel Ike Ashburn as an ob
server at the arbitration of the
picture show question, the board
of directors at their meeting in
Austin last Wednesday furnished
him with an outline of its policy.
The board advised Colonel Ash
burn that it wished the picture show
matter be settled before the be
ginning of the next regular term
of school. If it appears that it
is not going to reach a satisfac
tory settlement through the ef
forts of the picture show interests
themselves, the board will then
intervene and make application for
first-run bookings for the col
lege.
The outline pointed to the fact
that the board did not believe in
interfering with private interests
but that it earnestly desired to see
the motion picture question settled
“in a manner so that the boys will
have economic access to top
flight, first-rate picture shows.”
To Present Awards
To Staff Members
The A. & M. Press Club will
have its annual banquet tonight
at 6 in the banquet room of Sbisa
Hall. This banquet which is spon
sored by the Student Publication’s
Board is given for all students who
participate in student publications.
Staffs of The Battalion, the Agri
culturist, the Engineer, and the
Longhorn will be guests at the
meeting and will receive medals
in recognition of the work done
this year on Aggie publications.
Eleven gold watches will be giv
en to senior members of the various
publications staffs for exceptional
work done during the past year.
Other awards to be given include
42 bronze keys for one year’s ser
vice; 21 silver keys for two year’s
service; and 13 gold keys for three
year’s service on student publica
tions.
Jeff Montgomery, president of
the Press Club, will serve as toast
master at the banquet. Presenta
tion of the award will be made by
F. C. Bolton, dean of the college.
Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive as
sistant to the president, will be
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Results Of
Board Meet
Made Public
Constructian of
Classroom Building,
Auditorium to Begin
Revealing the handling of 26
items of official business, of the
A. & M. board of directors’ meet
ing in Austin, May 14, were re
leased yesterday afternoon by the
president’s office.
The board signed a contract with
A. C. Finn of Houston for the
construction of the proposed audi
torium and classroom building,
and appointed Colonel Ike Ash
burn as the college’s official ob
server in the picture show arbi
tration question. The board also
voted to ask the Free Conference
Committee of the Legislature,
which is supposed to meet this
week, to appropriate $80,000 for
the discussion of a wind tunnel at
Easterwood Airport in connection
with the College’s aeronautical en
gineering program.
The names of four persons,
George McCormich, W. L. Clay
ton, R. J. Kleberg, Jr., and Edwin
J. Keist, were passed on to re
ceive honorary degrees at com
mencement. McCormich is to be
awarded the degree of doctor of
engineering, Clayton and Keist will
receive doctor of law degrees, and
a doctor of agriculture degree
shall be given to Kleberg.
The plans for the additions to
the power plant that were decid
ed earlier in the year were given
a further b#ost toward realization
at the meeting when the board
decided to advertise for bids for
the equipment necessary in the
plant expansion.
Lieut. Colonel James A. Watson
made an appearance before the di
rectors and asked them for their
backing in his efforts to do away
with the use of the “board” by
the students and enforce other
rules of the college in regard to
discipline. The directors agreed
that they would back the com
mandant in these efforts.
Lieut. Colonel Watson also told
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ROTC PAYMENTS
On May 30 and 31 a total
of $16,754.25 in the form
of military science checks
will be paid to students tak
ing advanced training.
Each junior taking advanc
ed military science will re
ceive $17.00 which will pay
them up through June 7. The
seniors will each receive
$15.00 to pay them through
May 30.
The checks for the seniors
will be given out May 30 and
those for the juniors on May
31.
Dates Umph Girl
Darrel Brady Reiterates His Round-the-World
Experiences to Junior, Senior Classes Monday
By Mac Sterling
“Ann Sheridan is interesting.
More to look at than to talk to,”
was the statement of Darrel L.
Brady in his lecture to the juniors
and seniors Monday morning in
Guion hall. Dean Bolton introduced
the speaker as a young man who
wanted to tell an adventure story
of a round the world adventure.
Brady upon graduation from the
University of Minnesota pushed
across a few newspaper scoops to
become a world correspondent and
to make quite a bit of money. This
►newly acquired money brought on-
a paz’ty which brought on a bet
which in turn brought on a pub
licity story. The story was that
Brady with a friend and $10 each
was to travel to Java, across the
Mountains of the Moon, interview
the sultan, and photograph his
herem. The sultan was guarded by
head hunters.
With $10 to make the tround-the-
world trip they started at Minnea
polis and went to Hollywood part
ly by freight and partly by thumb.
In Hollywood through fast talking
he got a date with Ann Sheridan,
took her to Giro’s, then got her
studio to pay the bill. He also
had dates with the Lane sisters
and Laraine Day.
They worked in San Francisco
and looked for a job on a freighter
to the Orient. No luck until a
British dynamite ship got ready to
sail. They signed on but later a
friend gave them first class tickets
on a liner to the Orient.
The first stop was the Philippine
Islands. Here they visited the back j
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Scoggins and Layden Lead
Batting Throughout Game
Aggies Capitalize on Texas Error In
Fourth Inning; Game Is Tied In Sixth
Mary-Hardin Girls
Drafted For Supper
They’re in the army now! At
least, a draft by the members of
D Field Artillery will catch up with
55 Mary Hardin Baylor seniors
tomorrow when the girls arrive
here for a short visit.
As a result of advance infor
mation on the trip one of the ca
dets in D Battery was able to
make arrangement for his organi
zation to escort the girls en masse
to supper in the new mess hall
tomorrow evening.
The Mary Hardin Baylor seniors
are making a special stop here in
order to see the campus on their
return to Belton from a visit to a
number of historical spots in south
east Texas.
Corps Will Honor
Easterwood With
Review Thursday
Cotton Uniforms And
Sam Browne Belts Are
Required For Occasion
In observance of the dedication
of Easterwood airport, the cadet
corps, 6,500 strong, will hold a re
view Thursday ► afternoon, Lieut.
Col. James A. Watson, command
ant, announced yesterday.
Immediately following the re
view, Company B Infantry, Jesse
L. Easterwood’s old company, will
move to the airport to take part
in the dedication ceremonies. The
Aggie band will also take part in
the dedication. Cadet Captain R.
T. Foster will command Company
B at the ceremonies.
The airport has been named in
honor of Jesse L. Easterwood, Ag
gie-ex, who was killed in an air
plane accident May 19, 1919, at
Coco Sola, Panama, Canal Zone.
Easterwood saw service in three
foreign nations and made 16 suc
cessful raids across enemy lines.
He was awarded the Navy Cross
for bravery following his death.
Easterwood is recognized as one
of the outstanding men of this col
lege in the last war.
Classes will be suspended from
1 to 5 p. m. Thursday. Cotton O.
D. uniforms with Sam Browne
belts will be worn at this review.
First call for the review will be
at 12:50 p. m.
Agronomy Group
Visits Temple
A group of approximately 100
students visited the Blackland Ex
periment Station and the Elm
Creek watershed area at Temple,
Texas, Saturday and Sunday, May
17 and 18 for an observation of
the experiments and soil conserva
tion practices that are being car
ried on.
The group visited the Experi
ment Station Saturday morning
and were conducted on a tour over
the farm by Mr. H. O. Hill.
Saturday afternoon a tour con
ducted by the Soil Conservation
Service at Temple carried the group
through a portion of the Conserva
tion District not included in the
Elm creek watershed. During the
afternoon the group was given the
opportunity to walk over a 200
acre farm that was not employing
any conservation practices. Each
student was given a map of the
farm and asked to make a plan of
the farm for conservation practices.
On Sunday morning the group
was carried through the entire
Elm creek watershed for the pur
pose of viewing the work that has
been earned out by the farmers
in this area.
Dr. L. G. Jones, and L. M.
Thompson, were in charge of the
group on the trip.
Pitcher Melvin Deutsch and out-f
fielder Pete Layden got together
against the Aggies, on Clark Field
in Austin yesterday and their co
operation beat A. & M. 3 to 2
in ten innings. It was a pitchers
battle all the way with the ex
ception of Layden for the Steers
and Scoggins for the Aggies.
Deutsch held the cadets at bay
while Bumpers did equally as well
until the extra inning when Lay-
den’s home run put the game on
ice for Texas.
It was a scoreless contest up
to the fourth inning when the Ag
gies started out with one run
made after an error by Longhorn
first baseman Koschak. Scoggins
singled to bring in the tally for
A. & M.
In the fifth inning Texas got
two men on base with none out
when Koschak singled and Deutsch
doubled to begin the batting for
the Steers. Smith popped out
and Hatton grounded out, but Lay
den smashed a double base blow
that scored both runners and Tex
as was ahead 2 to 1. Stone then
was out to end the rally for the
University.
Never whipped, the Aggies came
back in the first half of the sixth
inning when Scoggin, A. & M.
powerhouse, slapped the ball into
deep left center field where it hit
the top of the fence before going
over for a home run. This feat
made the score even up at two
runs for each team.
From the sixth until the tenth
inning Bumpers and Deutsch
matched curve for curve and fast
ball for fast ball, but in the tenth
Layden caught a pitch down the
center of the plate and he knocked
his home run that beat A. & M.
3 to 2. It was a heart-breaker
for Bumpers who pitched one of
the best games of his career, but
it was not his day, and Deutsch,
beaten by Bumpers Friday in Ag-
gieland, came through to nose past
for a victory.
Both Layden of Texas and Scog
gins of A. & M. carried heavy
sticks for the afternoon with Lay
den batting in all three runs for
the Longhorns and Scoggins bat
ting in all A. & M. tallies. It
was Peter John Layden, however,
the boy who muddled up the Ag
gies bid for a second national
football championship last fall,
who took matters in his own hands
and kept Texas in the running
for a conference flag.
Texas plays T. C. U. today
while A. & M. encounter the Bay-
Poultry Contest
Winners Announced
The winners in the second annual
Freshman-Sophomore judging con
test held Saturday, May 17, on the
college poultry farm were Jack W.
Martin, freshman from Waco, first
with 878 points out of a possible
1000 points, A. W. Woods second
with 863 points, and John Lowe
and Walter Holden tied for third
with 848 points each.
Of the ten classes of poultry
judged, four were production and
six exhibition classes. Martin plac
ed first in production with 390
points out of a possible 400, and
Schendel placed second with 388
points. In exhibition judging Mar
tin again placed first with 488
points out of a possible 600 points
while holden was second with 483.
Gold keys will be given the win
ners of the contest by the Woodson
Lumber Company, Parkes Lumber
Company, and Howell Lumber
Company, all of Bryan.
lor Bears in a rescheduled tilt
this evening. Both teams must win
in order to have any designs on
the pennant for 1941.
Scoring:
A. & M 000 101 000-0-2
Texas 000 020 000-1-3
Distribution of
Senior Yearbooks
Will Be Wednesday
September Receipts
Must Be Presented In
Administration Basement
Distribution of the 1940-41 Long
horn will begin Wednesday after
noon from 1 to 6 p. m. for seniors
only in the mailing room in the
basement of the Administration
building, O. G. Allen, circulation
manager announced yesterday.
Only seniors will be able to ob
tain the year books on Wednesday,
and all other students are request
ed not to attempt to get their
books on that day in order to
avoid congestion.
The September maintainence re
ceipt, showing payment of the stu
dent activities fee, must be pre
sented in order to obtain the Long
horn. Duplicate receipts will not
be honored in the issuing of Long
horns. All students who have lost
their receipts should come by the
Student Publications office and
have their name checked off so
that their copy will not be given to
some other person.
If the receipt has been lost the
student’s copy of The Longhorn
will not be issued to him until
Monday afternoon at which time
he will sign for his copy. Students
who have lost their receipts are
urged not to purchase duplicate
receipts as they will not be valid.
Juniors may receive their copies
of the Longhorns on Thursday
from 1 to 6 p. m. in the mailing
room. Longhorns will be issued to
Sophomores and Freshman on Fri
day and Saturday afternoon re
spectively.
Barlow Elected
Head of Civilian
Pilot Training
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, head of
the department of aeronautical en
gineering, was elected Director of
the Civil Pilot Training Coordina
tors’ Organization for the Fourth
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Region, which includes the states
of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and New Mexico, at a
meeting in Fort Worth, Saturday.
The coordinators met to discuss
their common problems. Over sixty
institutions in the states connected
with administering the govern
ment’s Civilian Pilot Training Pro
gram were represented and took
part in the formation of the or
ganization. Similar meetings have
been held in New York and in
Wichita, Kansas. The afternoon
meeting, attended by the operators
who are giving the flight training,
was addressed by Lieutenant W.
H. Keighley of the U. S. Naval
Reserve and Captain D. E. Hooks,
Commander of Hicks Field near
Fort Worth, who presented the
viewpoints of the military services
with respect to the Civilian Pilot
Training Program.
Grove Webster, Acting Director
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