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STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
VOL. 40
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1941
NUMBER 91
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67 Aggies
Want Flying
Cadet Course
Physical Exams
Given This Week
At College Hospital
Physical exams are being sched
uled for 67 Aggies who have re
quested that their applications be
considered for the Flying Cadets
training unit being organized by
Lt. J. W. Williford ’38, A. C. and
Lt. Lester R. Dudney, M. C. who
are supervising the recruiting cam
paign at A. & M..
The physical exams are being
coordinated with the schedules of
classes turned in by the students
when they requested their names
be placed on the list of applicants.
The examinations are being given
in the college hospital, approxi
mately two hours being required
for each examination.
“The fact that 67 have already
reported is encouraging” Lt." Willi
ford stated and also said he hoped
that several hundred applications
might be turned in so that A. & M.
might have 10 of the 20-man units.
Headquarters for • the recruiting
station is 37 Ross. Recruiting of
ficers may also be found at the
Aggieland Inn and physical exam
inations will be going on at the
college hospital until next Tues
day.
Six Colleges
The campaign is to take place
in six of Texas’ major universities
including Texas University, Austin;
Baylor University, Waco; Southern
methodist University, Dallas;
North Texas State Teachers’ Col
lege, Denton; and Texas Techno
logical College, Lubbock.
As each college or university
student is examined and approved
for Cadet flight training, he will
be issued an “Air Corps Pledge”
pin, a small set of wings for lapel
wear until he enters training.
The Gulf Coast Training Center
officials, who maintain headquar-
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Seventeen Aggies Receive Two Degrees
Stark Taylor
Gives Speech on
Cotton Textiles
At a combined meeting of the
Agronomy, Marketing and Finance
and Cotton Societies held last
Thursday night, Stark Taylor,
manager of M. Hohenberg and
Company, Dallas, addressed the
group on the subject of merchandis
ing of cotton and how textile mer
chants do business; the making of
standards; and the prospects for
business now and after the war.
The text of his speech is as fol
lows:
“After the war is over there is
going to be a great demand for
young men in the cotton trade. The
reason for the small number of
young men entering the cotton bus
iness now is that the present war
scare makes the young man’s out
look in the cotton trade none too
bright.
“After the present generation of
cotton men have passed on there
will be a shortage of younger men
to replace them. It is true that as
long as humanity exists that there
will be a need for cotton in some
form or fashion. In order to carry
on the cotton trade, young men are
going to have to enter it now.
“Although the outlook for cotton
is none to bright, the American
cotton mills are at the present en
joying the best year in their his
tory. This year the mills will con
sume some 10,000,000 bales of cot
ton, with the leading mill centers
being in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
“The reason for the extreme in
crease in mill consumption is that
the United States is exporting fin
ished goods rather than raw cotton.
England, which was formerly the
seat of the cotton mills, can no
longer use our raw cotton so the
United States is manufacturing
this cotton into finished goods and
exporting it to the countries which
are not blockaded.
“Premiums are now being paid
on cotton for the first time in sev-
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A dozen of the 17 graduates at Texas A. & M. College who will receive two degrees at the an
nual commencement exercises at the college Friday, June 6.
Left to right, front row—H. H. Bodine, Colorado City; L. F. Beard, Rosenberg; J. B. Link,
Fort Worth; J. M. Dixon, Frisco; K. H. Chandler, Thomdale; and H. E. Haltom, Crosbyton.
Back row—S. T. Crews, Jr., Crowell; J. A. Rehkamper, Dallas; W. A. Becker, Kaufman; and
J. A. Clay, Jr., Fort Worth.
Inserts left and right—Roy L. Peden, Azle; and James R. Story, Alice, both of whom receive
bachelor and master of science degrees.
Absent when the picture was taken were: C. W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont; L. W. Davis, Jr., Hous
ton; F. D. White, Jr., Fort Worth; W. R. Nathan, College Station; and C. R. Matchett, Portadown,
Ireland.
Lou Breese to Gose A&M Social Season
Band Leader
Lou Breese
Longhorn Staff To
Return Camp Photos
Camp pictures that were turned
in for the Camp Section of the
1941 Longhorn are ready to be re
turned to their owners.
It will not be possible to return
those pictures that were used in
the book. The unused pictures may
be obtained from Cecil Grissom,
Room 201 No. 9.
' By D. C. Thurman
It’ll be breezing along with Lou
Breese.
“Breezing along” is the theme
of Lou Breese who with “Skip”
Morr, vocalist, Barry Warren and
the Breezemakers is to close the
A. & M. social season at the Junior
Prom and the Final Ball, June 5
and 6.
The “Breezy Rhythm” orchestra
has the distinction of having scor
ed the biggest individual success
of any band in the East in the 1940
touring season. They took over
New York in exactly four days.
Breese is not content with merely
waving a baton in front of his
orchestra but is noted for pro
ficiency as a solo instrumentalist.
This goes double, for Lou is equal
ly spectacular as a soloist on two
wholly unrelated instruments, trum
pet and banjo.
Lou Breese and the Breezemak
ers have appeared at the New York
World’s Fair and at Chez Paree in
Chicago. During the fairs, both in
San Francisco and Chicago, Breese
thought it would be timely to make
an arrangement of the old English
folk tune “Come to The Fair.” He
featured it on his NBC broadcasts
and made a Varsity record of it.
The “Breezemakers” were fea
tured by transcription at New
^His Vocalist
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Skip Morr
York’s fair with the tunes “Come
to the Fair,” “How Can I Ever
Be Alone” and “Tennessee Fish
Fry.”
The radio transcription, a fifteen
minute program, was sent by the
Fair to 550 radio stations in North
and South America. A second
transcription was made, featuring
“How Can I Ever Be Alone,” “Bi
cycle Girl,” and “American Jubi
lee.”
Work on Four New Dormitories To
Begin Once More, Board Announces
Banquet Tonight
For Committee on
Student Aid Fund
Chairman’s Report
Closes Year’s Activities
At Last Business Meeting
The annual Student Aid Fund
banquet will be held tonight at
6:15 p. m. at the Aggieland Inn,
Chairman George Fuerman said
Monday.
The fund’s last meeting of the
current college year, a business
meeting will be held following the
banquet at which time all business
of the 1940-41 long session will be
completed and the chairman’s re
port to the Student Activities com
mittee and President T. O. Walton
will be approved.
Guests at the banquet will in
clude President Walton, Dean F.
C. Bolton and E. E. McQuillen, sec
retary of the Former Students’ as
sociation.
The two senior members of the
Student Aid Fund committee, Fuer-
mann and J. H. Focke Jr., will at
tend their last meeting as repre
sentatives of the cadet corps. Oth
er members of the committee who
will attend the banquet include
Secretary Tom Gillis; Skeen Sta
ley; Executive Secretary Dan Rus
sell, head of the rural socioloby
department; George B. Wilcox of
the education department and E.
L. Angell, manager of student pub
lications.
The annual report of the Student
Aid Fund will be published in an
early edition of The Battalion,
Fuermann indicated, and officers
for the forthcoming long session
will be elected at the fund’s first
meeting next September.
Commandant Lists
Additional Awards
For Military Work
Field and Cavalry
Trophies Given Cadets
For Military Proficiency
Additional cadet awards for the
year 1940-41 have recently been
announced by the Commandant’s
office.
The 311th Cavalry Trophy, giv
en for proficiency in horseman
ship, has been presented to Cadet
Captain Robert G. Tonkin of Head
quarters Cavalry.
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Thom
as B. Richey, Cavalry, has been
presented the Regimental Com
mander’s Saber and the Cavalry
Trophy. The Regimental Comman
der’s Saber, given to the most
military senior in the Cavalry, was
presented to Richey by Lieuten
ant Colonel Homer E. Carrico,
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Here's the Statistics-Read 'Em and Weep:
Take Your Pocketbook Along With Your
Commission When You Join The U. S. Army
Bonds of $1,220,000 Sold For Dorms,
Laundry, Power Plant, and Workers > Dorm
Work on the four new dormitories will begin again in 30 days,
it was announced by the college board of directors after $1,220,000 in
bonds were sold to the low bidder at a special session held in Austin
Saturday.
Let at an interest rate of per cent, and $1,220,000 covers the
four new dormitories and the power plant, plus the refunded bonds on
on the laundry and the dormitory- 1
for the mess hall workers.
Low bids on the bonds was
a group of Texas bond houses who
bid jointly. The companies are
Moroney & Co. of Houston, Garret
& Co. of Dallas, and DeWar, Rob
ertson & Pancoast of San Antonio.
The loan calls for a SV^ per cent
rate of interest with a 30-year ma
turity date.
Since printing and signing of
the bonds will take approximately
thirty days, it will be about that
length of time before work on the
new dormitories can be resumed.
No action was taken at the meet
ing on the proposed new office
building to house the AAA head
quarters here.
It was decided by consent of the
board that vice-president Walter
Lacy would sign all diplomas for
this year’s graduates.
The budget for the current sum
mer session received the approval
of the board of directors at the
Saturday meeting.
In connection with the $100,000
building project to include a stable
and rifle range for the military de
partment, the board of directors
voted to expend $37,000 as the col
lege’s part of the finances for the
project.
Dean Gilchrist was authorized
to secure a man to head the newly
founded department of marine en
gineering and naval architecture.
Dean Kyle was authorized to se
cure a man to head a department
of cotton, wool and other fibers.
By Earle A. Shields, Jr.
It looks like you boys who will
receive your commissions soor
who have been called to a
duty in the army are going to
have quite a nice time making
ends meet, especially if you have
a car and are making payments
on it.
This is according to the latest
statistics from the War depart
ment. The Infantry seniors al
ready know about it for Mi
Tom Fox gave the list out to
them so they would have some in
sight on what they were getting
into.
The War department compiled
the information by sending out
questionnaires to second lieutenants
in the regular army who had grad
uated from West Point. When
the questionnaires were returned
by the West Pointers the War de
partment was able to make out a
-ffairly accurate budget by which-*
V5.
Miscellaneous
$6.00f
young officers could go by.
Charity
Naturally, the budget represents
Church
a large cross section of the coun-
Books and magazines
try and, as such, could not be used
Gifts (except Christmas)
exactly at any one location. How-
Barber and toilet articles
ever, a pretty good estimate can
6.
Entertainment
$15.00
be made as to how much one will
Hobbies and sports
spend while on active duty.
Theater and parties
Here’s the list on a monthly
Club
basis. Read it and weep:
7.
Irregular Expenditures
$10.00
1. Housing Operation $8.00
Car insurance
Servant
Christmas gifts
Laundry
Leave
Supplies
Car license
Small articles •
Income tax
2. Food $33.00
8.
Savings
$47.00
3. Clothing $12.00
Life insurance
New clothes
Car payments
Repairs
Etc.
Cleaning and Pressing
4. Transportation $12.00
TOTAL $143.00
Gas and oil
Well, that’s it. Looks
pretty
Repairs
tight don’t it? Probably
won’t
Garage rent
be that bad though, unless you’re
really a rounder.
The first question you will prob
ably ask is why the $143, and the
answer is this. Base pay for a
second lieutenant is $125 with an
additional $40 for room and $18
for board. This comes to $183,
but since most of you will be liv
ing in tents furnished by dear old
Uncle Sam the $40 will be de
ducted, which leaves the $143.
In looking over the budget some
of the items seem a little big and
some a little small. Don’t for
get, though, that the figures rep
resent the average second lieu
tenants’ spendings for a month.
Take the $33 for food, for ex
ample. If you’re a great big wal
loper you may eat way over that,
but if you are just a little fellow
you may be able to save lots of
money.
It can be plainly seen that many
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Naval Air
Corps Eliminates
Math Requirement
Candidates With Two
Years’ Credits Eligible
, Under New Requirements
The mathematical requirements
for candidates for Naval Aviation
Cadets have been completely elim
inated. Commander A. Laverents,
Senior Member of the Naval Avia
tion Cadet Selection Board, stated
in a letter sent to the College re
cently.
Under the new; requirements any
candidates who have two full years
credits, regardless of what sub
jects these credits cover, are qual
ified in education. The old re
quirements covered plane and solid
geometry, plane trigonometry,-
physics and college algebra. All of
these have been eliminated from
the educational requirements. All
other requirements remain the
same.
Commander Laverents states
that enlistments for Naval Avia
tion training are proceeding at a
brisk rate but also states that
due to the large number to be
trained many vacancies exist and
all who qualify will undoubtedly be
sent to duty soon. Full informa
tion can be obtained from any Navy
Recruiting Station, or from the
Naval Aviation Cadet Selection
Board, 523 Allen Building, Dallas,
Texas.
This will undoubtedly be of in
terest to many who in the past
have failed to qualify for this in
teresting branch of service due to
lack of credit for mathematical
subjects in college, Commander
Laverents said.
First Commencement
Scheduled For Friday
Plans for the special graduation
exercise to be held Friday for
members of the Senior class who
are being called to immediate ac
tive duty with the United States-
Army are being rushed to com
pletion, F. C. Bolton, Dean of the
college, said yesterday.
Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the
Genetics Dept., is in charge of
commencement plans and will an
nounce final plans for the cere
monies within the next few days.
810 Diplomas
Will Be Given
At Commencement
This Year’s Class Will
Be Largest In College
History, Registrar Says
The Registrar’s office announc
ed that 810 seniors, the largest
class in the history of A. & M.
will receive diplomas at the com
mencement exercises, Dr. E. P.
Humbert in charge of commence
ment stated that the committee
is completing plans for the exer
cises to be held next week.
Non-military seniors will not
wear caps and gowns for the com
mencement exercises June 6, Dr.
E. P. Humbert, chairman of the
commencement committee, an
nounced yesterday. This is the
first year that non-military gradu
ates have been allowed to wear
a civilian suit to the exercises.
Also this year’s seniors will be
given commissions in the reserve
corps whether or not they receive
a diploma, he added. Previous to
this year, seniors have not been
given their commissions until they
got a degree.
Blaisdell to Speak
Leonard T. Blaisdell, commer
cial vice-president of the General
Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio,
will deliver the commencement ad
dress. Dr. Umphrey Lee, president
of Southern Methodist University
will speak at the baccalaureate
services at 10:30 o’clock Friday
morning, June 6.
Each graduating senior will be
sent two tickets for the baccalau
reate program. Holders of the
tickets will be admitted to the pro
gram in Guion Hall at 9:30 o’clock.
After all who have tickets are
admitted, the general public will
be allowed to enter until all seats
are taken. No tickets will be
necessary for the evening cere
monies in Kyle Field.
In his address, Mr. Blaisdell will
discuss the openings in industry
and business for the college grad
uate. The qualifications for ob-
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Seventeen Grads
Will Receive Two
Degrees This Year
Largest Number Ever
To Receive Two Degrees
For the first time in the his
tory of Texas A. & M. College, the
unheard of number of 17 students
of the 809-man Class of 1941 will
receive two degrees at the com
mencement exercises, Friday, June
6, Registrar E. J. Howell announc
ed. In past years as many as three
or four have achieved this distinc
tion but never has the total ap
proached this year’s record. What
makes the record more remarkable
is that most of the double de
grees have been earned in courses
which are considered difficult. Two
of the select group completed their
work for bachelor of science de
grees and for master of science de
grees in the same year.
Those who accomplished this
feat include: R. L. Peden, Azle;
and J. R. Story, Alice, the two
receiving bachelor and master de
grees; L. F. Beard, Rosenberg;
William A. Becker, Kaufman; Ho
mer F. Bodine, Colorado City; C.
W. Brown, Jr., Beaumont; K. H.
Chandler, Thorndale; J. A. Clay,
Jr., Fort Worth; S. T. Crews, Jr.
Crowell; L. W. Davis, Jr., Hous
ton; J. M. Dixon, Frisco;' H. E.
Haltom, Crosbyton; J. B. Link,
Fort Worth; C. R. Matchett, Port
adown, Ireland; W. R. Nathan,
College Station; J. A. Rehkamper,
Dallas; and F. D. White, Jr., Fort
Worth.