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, MAY 31, 1941
NUMBER 93
Dallas Insurance Man Is
Movie Dispute Arbitrator
Jefferson Amusement Company Will
Defend Clearance Clause Which Gives
Bryan Shows First Run Movie Preference
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L. W. Klingman, Dallas insur
ance man, has been named arbi
trator of the clearance dispute in
volving the Campus Theater of
College Station, the Bryan Amuse
ment Company, and the Jefferson
Booking Company of Beaumont,
Ben Ferguson, manager of the
Campus Theater announced today.
Hearings on the matter will be
gin Monday, June 9. The case as
filed by the Campus Theater con
tends that the Jefferson Amuse
ment Company has a financial in
terest in the Bryan theaters as
booking agent, and further, that
the Palace and the Queen thea
ters in Bryan have 30 to 45 days
clearance over College Station.
This clearance, the complaint
holds, is unreasonable because
College Station and Bryan are
separate municipalities. The re
quest for arbitration asks that
this clearance be eliminated or ad
justed to a reasonable basis.
Members of the student com
mittee who have aided the Campus
Theater in obtaining the arbitra
tion hearing in order to relieve
the present situation were Wil
liam A. Becker, cadet colonel, Ben
ton Elliot, president of the Engi
neering Council, and George Fuer-
mann, associate Battalion editor.
A new committee composed of
this year’s junior class will be
appointed shortly to continue the
work for next year if necessary.
The arbitrator was chosen from
a list of approved arbitrators.
These are W. J. Brown, president
of the Titche-Goettinger Com
pany; Lawrence H. Fleck, S. M. U.
professor; Fred F. Florence, pres
ident of the Republic National
Bank; J. E. Hutchinson, account
ant with Hutchinson, Bonner, and
Burleson; Dean C. S. Potts of
S. M. U. school of law; L. W.
Klingman, Equitable Life Insur
ance company; Ted Robinson, gen
eral manager of the Borden Com
pany; Robert J. Smith, Braniff
Airways attorney; Leslie Waggon
er, vice-president of the Republic
National Bank, and C. H. Zachry,
vice-president of the Southern
Union Gas Company.
The interested parties submit
ted a list for approval of the men
on list who were desirable for
this case.
Junior Engineer
Qualifying Course
Offered in Summer
From the most reliable informa
tion on hand, the Government is
going to need aeronautical engi
neers, marine engineers and naval
architects in the near future Gibb
Gilchrist, Dean of Engineering an
nounced Friday. Students who have
completed the four-year course in
either civil, electrical, mechanical
or petroleum engineering could
qualify for a rating as junior engi
neers by taking a special ten-week
course during the summer in the
subject selected.
“We are taking steps to provide
these courses in case as many as
twenty graduates for each course
offer to enroll. Seniors interested
should get the forms specified in
the official notice, filling it out and
returning it to my office. Should
this ben done only as a means of
expressing interest, those filling
out the forms should strike out
that portion in which they agree
to enroll and substitute some ex
pression of interest,” Gilchrist said.
Manley Awarded
Baker Trophy For
Best-Drilled Platoon
At a special formation of the
Chemical Warfare Battalion yes
terday afternoon, C. H. Manley,
Denison, Texas, was presented
with the Baker Trophy, an annual
award given to the leader of the
best-drilled platoon of the Chem
ical Warfare Service.
Manley, leader of the second
platoon of Company A, by com
manding the best-drilled platoon,
also gained for his company the
position of Honor Company of the
Chemical Warfare Battalion for
the coming year.
AAA Building
Area Clearance
In 30 Days Planned
Key Utility Men
Will Occupy Proposed
College View Enlargement
A clearance of houses from the
area needed for the construction of
the new AAA building will be com
pleted within 30 days, E. M. Holm-
green, business manager, announc
ed Friday evening. Nine houses
have been either moved or demol
ished in the clearance program dur
ing the past 6 months to clear
the grounds for the new building
project.
Seven of the houses on the cam
pus will be moved to College View
to complete a unit of 14 houses
which will house key utility men
from the college and members of
the fire department. The plans
which are now being completed
calls for complete landscaping.
“Thirty years ago the campus
plan was developed which was dis
carded because the planners were
foolish enough to think that the col
lege would some day have 3,300
students. The movement of houses
and re-arranging of areas is merely
the result of the almost unbeliev
able growth of the college,” Holm-
green said.
All houses that will interfere
with the new campus plan will be
either razed or moved before Sep
tember 1, 1941.
Cotton Tour
Gets Early Start
The annual agronomy summer
cotton tour got off to an early
start Thursday when Professor
Louis M. Thompson, agronomy de
partment, Ralph B. Hartgraves, J.
H. Robinson, and E. R. Butler left
for Houston Thursday.
F. G. Collard, junior agronomy
major, was originally scheduled to
make the trip, but because he has
an R. O. T. C. contract, he must
make summer camp. Butler, the al
ternate, replaced Collard, on the
tour who was winner of second
place in the cotton contest.
After arriving in Shreveport late
today the group will remain over
and leave Sunday for Greenville,
Miss. From Greenville they will go
to the experiment station at Leland,
Miss. Baton Rouge, is scheduled
to be the next destination of tour.
From Baton Rouge, the will pro
ceed to New Orleans, where they
will visit the U. S. Government
Laboratories there.
From New Orleans the tour will
go to Montgomery, Alabama and
from there to Tuskegee. On Tues
day, June 10, they will drive to
West Point, Georgia, and will ex
amine the West Point Testing Lab
oratories there. Atlanta, Georgia,
and Clemson college will be the
next destination of the group.
Washington, D. C. will be the
scene of a three day stop beginning
Sunday, June 15. While in the na
tional capital, they will visit the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
and the Department of Agriculture.
The schedule next includes a trip
through the Rayon plant at Wil
mington, Delaware; from there the
tour will leave for New York City.
After New York the trip leads up
through Norwalk, Connecticut to
Montreal, Canada. After a short
stay in Montreal, the group will
head back south and pass through
Detroit and Chicago.
Reception Held For
Graduating Seniors
A reception for members of the
Senior class who participated in
last night’s graduation exercises
was held at the home of President
and Mrs. T. O. Walton.
The reception, which was held
immediately following the gradua
tion exercises in Guion hall, was
in honor of the seniors and their
parents.
Breezy Rhythm Maker
Lou Breese and his band comes to the campus to close the
social season with the Junior Prom and the Final Ball. Selected
because of the popularity of the orchestra in the East, the Junior
Committee promises a new high in band music in a social season
which featured many top-flight bands.
"BreezyRhythm” Brings Final
Respite From
“Breezy Rhythm” will be a wel
comed respite from the trials and
woes of examinations when Lou
Breese and his orchestra make
their A. & M. debut at the Junior
Prom and the Final Ball, June 5
and 6.
“We were extremely fortunate to
secure Lou Breese and his orches
tra to close the social season,” Al-
den Cathey, Junior Class President,
said, “because the band has been
one of the top-ranking bands dur
ing the past season.
Although a comparatively new
band, Lou Breese has been an in
stantaneous success since his lauch-
ed his “Breezy Rhythm” band in
1939.
The “Breezy Rhythm” is a dis
tinctive undercurrent in everyone
of the band’s arrangements, a rhy
thmic pattern that makes the or
chestra immediately recognizable.
To musicians, it’s a variation of
six-eight tempo as contrasted with
the four-four of most bands, or the
two-four of the Dixieland bands
or straight eight-beats to a bar of
the Boogie Woogie style. To non
musicians, it’s simply a tricky rhy-
them that makes the Breese dance
music extra-danceable.
Lou Breese is one of the younger
school of bandleaders, who not
content with merely waving a baton
in front of their orchestras, are
also noted for their proficiency as
solo instrumentalists. Breese is
equally spectacular as a soloist on
two wholly unrelated instruments,
trumpet and banjo.
Instructions For
Room Reservations
Announced for Fall
Instructions for room reserva
tions for the 1941-42 school year
were released Thursday by Lieut.
Col. James A. Watson, Command
ant.
Old students who are classified
will be permitted to submit their
applications for room reservations
on July 1. Applications for room
reservations must be sent to the
registrar.
Unclassified old students will be
permitted to turn in applications
for reservations on August 1. Class
ified students must turn in their
reservations before August 1. After
that date they have no priority ov
er the unclassified students.
Students will be permitted to
cancel their reservations for rooms
as late as September 5 and receive
a full refund. The fee for room
reservations will be $6, which will
include the room key deposit.
Weary Exams
Song Rights To
Texas AMC Given
College by Writer
Copyright Gives Exclusive
Right For Purposes Except
Sale of Copies to The Public
“TEXAS A. M. C.”—this is the
most recent addition to the list of
A- & M.’s songs that so easily
arouse the fighting spirit of the
Aggies.
This song was written by the
late George Epton Perfect of Dal
las on October 28, 1938. He secur
ed a copyright to the composition
as soon as it was written.
The original license to the song
gave radio stations WBAP, KGKO
and WFAA the right to use it
in any broadcasts, but Perfect’s
heirs have given A. & M. exclu
sive right to the song to be used
by A. & M. for all purposes except
for the sale of copies to the gen
eral public.
These radio stations can still
use the song on any of their broad
casts, but A. & M. can cancel this
privilege at any time providing
it gives the stations a 30-day no
tice to the effect that it is can
celling the privilege.
Latin Americans
Plan REA Study
The Department of Agriculture
today announced that a group of
outstanding young Central and
South American engineers will
spend a year studying the meth
ods and techniques of the Rural
Electrification Administration. One
of these engineers, Manuel Lopez-
Jimenez, of Peru, is on his way
by sea to the United States, and
another, Luis Adolfo Cagno Rossi,
of Uruguay, is due to said from
Montevideo on May 30. Both en
gineers are expected to reach
Washington around the middle of
June. About half a dozen others
are expected to leave their re
spective countries within the next
few weeks.
The plan of having a group of
engineers from the other American
republics spend a year as student-
members of the REA staff is a
coopei-ative effort by the various
American Governments concerned,
to facilitate and expand mutual
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Sixty-One Seniors Receive Diplomas
In Unprecedented Graduation Exercises
Col. Ike Ashburn As Speaker Wishes Class
God’s Speed As They Enter Active Duty
Nurses Must Apply
For Civil Service In
National Defense Boom
Even nurses must now apply to
the Civil Service Commission for
jobs in connection with the pre
sent National Defense boom. The
United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced open con
tinuous examinations to secure
nurses, but despite these exami
nations, there is a continuing acute
shortage of nurses for the posi
tions.
From all parts of the country,
floods of inquiries are coming into
Washington from women who ask
how they can serve their country
in the present emergency. The
word to nurses is that the nursing
branch of the service is one that
is vital to the success of the Na
tional Defense Program. The nurse
examinations open the way to an
opportunity to render patriotic ser
vice, and at the same time to serve
in interesting and satisfying work.
There is an opportunity for ad
vancement, and the Government
provides for retirement for super
annuation or disability.
A large staff of nurses is em
ployed regularly in the civil ser
vice — principally in the U. S.
Public Health Service, the Indian
Service, and the Veterans’ Admin
istration. They serve in hospitals
and other medical centers through
out the United States and in the
Panama Canal Zone and Alaska.
Public health nurses carry on field
work of community-health care and
education, giving home care to the
sick, class work in home hygiene,
etc., principally in the Indian Ser
vice and the U. S. Public Health
Service.
In the more remote regions these
nurses render first air, and they
even give emergency medical treat
ment in the absence of a doctor.
There has been an increased de
mand for public health nurses
under the U. S. Public Health Ser
vice in extra-cantonment zones and
where large defense industries are
located, but there still aren’t
enough nurses.
Local Board Mails
All Questionnaires
The local draft board mailed
3600 questionnaires Thursday to
the men who are subject to the
draft. These questionnaires are to
be filled out and returned to the
board within five days.
All the men should be classified
by the end of next week, and each
one will receive his card as soon
as he is classified.
By Allan Madeley
So you think that modern com
munications and modes of trans
portation have made the world a
small place? Well, it took Vincent
J. Neuman two years and nearly
$3000 to get from Czechslovakia
to the United States. Who is Vin
cent J. Neuman ? He is the first
ex-Aggie to return to A. & M. with
an account of his actual experienc
es in war-torn Europe.
A graduate of the class of 1931,
Neuman was back on the campus
Tuesday for the first time in ten
years. He spoke informally to two
groups while here. Tuesday morn
ing in the Architectural Library,
Neuman recounted some of his ex
periences for architectural stu
dents. In the afternoon he spoke
to a Lansdcape Art class about
problems involved in group hous
ing projects which he had encoun
tered in his work as a construction
engineer.
Neuman’s personal history for
the past fifteen years runs some
thing like this:
After finishing school in Czecho
slovakia he had the opportunity to
take college work anywhere in
Europe or in the United States.
Having a brother at Rosenberg,
Texas, Neuman decided to come to
Titley Named
New Petroleum
Geology President
Amis, Kennard,
Elwall, Woodman To
Fill Other Club Offices
The Petroleum-Geology club held
its annual barbecue Thursday ev
ening at 6:30 on the lawn in front
of the Petroleum building.
Approximately fifty students
and faculty members were present,
and after the meeting, they were
shown through the museum by Cur
tis J. Hesse, director.
The barbecue and meeting con
cluded the activities of the club
for the current year.
The following boys were elected
officers of the club for next year:
Richard Titley of Dallas, president;
C. D. Elwall of San Angelo, vice-
president; Bill Amis of Abilene,
treasurer; H. J. Kennard of Gon
zales, secretary; George Woodman
of Fort Worth, social secretary.
Flying Cadets
Training Unit
Men Announced
Lt. J. W. Williford, ’38, A. C.
and Lt. L. R. Dudney, M. C. who
are supervising the recruiting
campaign at A. & M. for the Fly
ing Cadets training unit have an
nounced that Unit No. 1 has been
completed and examinations are
being given to those applicants
who desire to become members of
other units.
Recruiting campaigns are being
conducted in six of Texas’ major
colleges and each college is trying
to enroll as many units as possi
ble. It is thought that A. & M.
will have more units than any oth
er college.
Those Aggies who have suc
cessfully passed their physical ex
aminations are: Phil H. Parker,
Bay City; Hayden P. Ellis, Mert-
zon; T. B. Jennings, Rowlett; J.
H. Stephens, College Station; I.
A. Glassen, Dallas; R. M. Camp
ion, Dallas; K. A. Gray, Groon; J.
K. Boyd, Winsboro; J. S. Griffin,
Blooming Grove; P. S. Cox, La-
mesa; F. D. Downs, Brenham; T.
H. Freeman, San Antonio; M. W.
Lehmann, Houston; J. L. Wilk,
Jr., Houston; R. A. Smith, Gil-
mer; 4 R. S. English, Crockett; E.
A. Womack, Boonsvill; J. V. Gilil-
land, Dallas; J. R. Mullins, Gal
veston; B. G. Hayes, Houston.
^America. After arriving here and
conferring with his brother and
others, he settled on A. & M. for
his college work. Being interested
in structure and design he chose
Architectural Engineering as a
course of study. When Neuman
landed in America in 1926, he could
n’t speak a word of English. By
September 1927 he had mastered
enough of the language to enter
school. He played in the band while
in school and was an excellent mu
sician.
Upon his graduation in 1931
Neuman returned to Czechoslovakia
and went to w^ork for the Bata
Shoe Company, the largest shoe
manufacturing concern in the
world. His job did not deal with
shoes at all but with construction
work. When the Bata Shoe Co.
built a bactory it built a small
city along with it. Houses were
constructed for the workers, streets
were laid out and paved, and com
plete recreational facilities were
provided for the entire population.
The company even built its own
automobiles for the workers to pur
chase. In other words each factory
was a complete unit in itself. By
1938 Neuman was in charge of the
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With Memorial Day and all its
memories as a background, A. &
M. presented diplomas last night
in Guion Hall to 61 Aggies who
are being graduated early in order
that they might immediately begin
a period of active duty with the
Army. For the first time since
1917, it has become necessary to
graduate a portion of the senior
class in some special manner.
Many members of the class of ’17
graduated while at the Officers
Training Camp at Leon Springs,
Texas.
Members of the Corps of Engi
neers, the Signal Corps, and the
Coast Artillery Corps who have
been called to immediate active
duty were formally graduated from
A. & M. at the exercises.
Colonel Ike Ashburn, executive.
assistant to the president of the
college delivered the commence
ment address. Prior to Col. Ash-
burn’s address an invocation was
given by Dr. Thomas Gordon Watts,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, Bryan. Dr. T. O. Walton,
president of A. & M. spoke a few
words and then Cadet Lieutenant
Colonel Jeff Montgomery delivered
the valedictory address. Imme
diately following the valedictory
Col. Ashburn delivered the com
mencement address.
“This is Memorial Day. Like
wise, a thoughtful faculty has
chosen this day to mark the com
pletion of your undergraduate stay
at the A. & M. college and to pay
tribute to you and wish you God’s
speed as you begin an extraordi
nary service for your country.”
With these words Col. Ashburn
opened his commencement address
to the class of ’41.
Col. Ashburn’s speech told of a
similar situation at A. & M. back
during World War I. and about the
experiences of A. & M. during the
first great war.
In speaking of the responsibili
ties which would soon be thrown
upon the shoulders of this graduat
ing class Col. Ashburn said, “I
urge you to take with you a keen
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Aggie Exes Will
Attend Reunion
Here Next Weekend
Several hundred Aggie Exes will
be on the campus for Commence
ment next week-end and to attend
the annual meeting and class re
unions of the Association of Former
Sstudents, E. E. McQuillen, secre
tary of the Former Students Asso
ciation, announced. The general
theme of the meeting will be “What
Can We do to be of service to A.
& M. men in the armed forces of
the United States.”
Reunions will be held by the
1906, the 1911, the 1916 and the
1926 classes. The 1931 class re
union was postponed because so
many members of the class were
on active duty. Each of the reun
ion classes will hold class parties
Friday afternoon, then attend grad
uation exercises and the Presi
dent’s reception in a body.
At noon Saturday the annual
Faculty-Former Student luncheon
will be held in Sbisa Hall, followed
immediately by the annual bus
iness meeting and election of Di
rectors of the Association of For
mer Students. Routine business of
the meeting will be stream-lined to
permit a full discussion of how the
Association and the College may be
of service to men on military duty.
Presiding will be the President of
the Association, A. G. “Bert” Pfaff,
’25, Tyler.
Nisbet Announces
No Tuesday Battalion
The Battalion will not be issued
Tuesday, Bob Nisbet, editor, an
nounced yesterday.
One more issue of The Battalion
will be published Thursday. Be
cause so many members of the
Battalion staff will have to take
final exams, it was necessary to
limit next week’s work to only one
issue.
World-Traveled Aggie Ex
Relates European Adventures