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
VOLUME 41
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT 23, 1941
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NUMBER 7
Barbecue
Planned By
Brazos Exes
Nine Committees
And Chairmen Named
To Transact Business
Brazos County A. & M. Club will
have an old-fashioned barbecue
October 6, P. L. Downs, president
of the club, stated this week. Fur
ther details for the barbecue are
being arranged by George A.
Long, chairman of the entertain
ment committee. It is expected
that members and their wives and
sweethearts will attend.
One hundred and seventy Texas
Aggies living in Brazos County,
who either graduated or attended
classes at A. & M. as student,
have joined the association, Presi
dent Downs said. The membership
committee whose chairman is
James E. “Jocko” Roberts, have
the names of 454 eligible member
ship prospects. A goal of 400
members has been set for the
club in the next few months, Chair
man Roberts announced.
At the last meeting of the offi
cers and Board of Directors the
president was instructed to name
the standing committee chairman
and confer with them on member
ship of their respective commit
tees. The executive committee of
the club is composed of the offi
cers of the club who are empower
ed to transact emergency business
of the club, subject to later con
firmation.
The following are the commit
tee chairmen and members: Exe
cutive P. L. Downs, ’06, president;
Martell Dansby, ’37, first vice-
president; W. T. McDonald, ’33,
second vice-president; C. H. Mc
Dowell, ’12, third vice-president;
H. L. Heaton, ’36, secretary-treas
urer; and C. Hohn, ’12, sergeant-
at-arms.
Membership and attendance:
James E. Roberts, ’33, chairman;
Sidney Loveless, ’38; John M.
Lawrence Jr., ’19; Fred Hale ,’22;
and A. M. Waldrop Jr. ’28.
Finance: Noah Dansby, ’19,
chairman; W. C. Mitchell, ’22;
E. N. Holmgreen, ’22; and George
McCullough, ’38.
Entertainment: George A. Long,
T7, chairman; E. E. McQuillen,
’20; T. A. Munson, TO; W. W.
Scott, ’29; and Ivan Langford, ’17.
Legislative: W. R. McCullough,
’25, chairman; W. T. McDonald,
’33; E. H. Astin, ’99; J. Knox, T8;
and H. H. Williamson, Tl.
Athletics: S. A. “Doc” Lipscomb,
’07, chairman; Roland Dansby, ’31;
C. R. Leighton, ’33; Sankey Park,
’21; and Paul G. Haines, ’17.
Program: H. E. Burgess, 29,
chairman; J. W. “Dough” Rollins,
’17; P. C. Elgin, ’29; Lucian Mor
gan, ’35; and Lloyd Halbrook, ’37.
Benevolence: F. W. Hensel, ’07,
chairman; Charles A. Roeber, ’36;
C. Hohn, T2; W. R. Horsley, ’41;
and Elo J. Urbanovsky, ’31.
Public Cooperation: P. Hj.
Walker, ’23, chairman; J. D. Mar
tin, Jr., ’26; Hendricks Conway,
Jr., ’31; C. H. McDowell, T2; and
George M. Garrett, ’24.
Publicity: G. B. Winstead, ’22,
chairman; H. B. McElroy, ’38;
H. C. Dillingham, ’22; Louis J.
Franke, ’27; and Dr. Henry Har
rison, ’20.
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Historian
The officers of the class of ’42 are shown above. Pictured left to
right they are: Dick Hervey, K Infantry, president; Warren Ring-'
gold, G Field Artillery, vice-president; Elmo Buehrig, secretary;
and Jack Wolfe, C Field Artillery, class historian. A picture of
R. D. Brown, A Infantry, treasurer, was not available. These
officers were elected at the first meeting of the Senior Class
held Thursday night. Keynote of the senior meeting was to restore
the prestige and power of the Senior Class.
Yell Practice Changed To
Goodwin; Y Area Too Small
Aeronautical Club
To Hold Elections
Today, Wednesday
Two Day Election
Held in Aero Building;
Nominations Already Made
The student branch of the Insti
tute of Aeronautical Sciences will
hold its annual election of officers
today and tomorrow as the result
of action taken at the first meet
ing of the Society held Tuesday.
The election will be held in the de
partment of engineering in the old
laundry building where a ballot box
and election clerks will be main
tained throughout the two day
period. The following nomina
tions were made at the last meet
ing:
Those nominated for chairman
were Roy Grobe, J. E. Melancon,
Pat Biggs, J. K. Dew, and Rijah
Skidmore.
The nominations for secretary
were as follows: Gene Clark, Jack
Decker, Ross Hardin and Steve
Kaffer.
The treasurer is to be chosen
from Fred Woods and J. W. Pratt.
Each class representative is to
be chosen from the following; sen
ior class, E. C. Badger, W. H. Byrd,
(See AERO CLUB, Page 2)
Science of Decoding is Object Aggies Offered
Of Cryptography Club Meeting
Cryptography, the art and the
science of secret writing in cipher
and code, is the interest of a new
student* club to be formed tonight
after yell practice in Room 310
Academic building.
All students interested in cipher
and code systems and in the solu
tion of ciphers are invited to at
tend the first meeting of the
Cryptography Club which is be
ing organized with K. E. Elmquist,
assistant professor in the Depart
ment of English, as advisor.
Activities of the Cryptography
club, according to present plans,
will include brief talks by mem
bers of the various cryptographic
systems, the devising of original
systems, the practice of secret
communication, and the working of
problems in cryptonalysis, or the
“breaking” of unknown ciphers
and codes without the key. The
art of reading secret writings with
out the key and often even with
out a previous knowledge of what
system has been employed in the
McKinnon to Speak
To Texas Nurserymen
Stewart McKinnon, assistant
professor of agricultural eco
nomics in Marketing and Finance,
has been invited to give an ad
dress on sales and sales manage
ment at a meeting of the Texas
State Nurseryman’s Association to
be held here next month.
McKinnon is a new member of
the department staff. He comple
ted his undergraduate and gradu
ate work at Northwestern Uni
versity and the University of Wis
consin. After completing his work
there he spent several years in
sales and sales promotion work
with large firms dealing with in
dustrial and agricultural commod
ities.
aspect of cryptography which often
excites popular interest.
Besides partaking of an enter
taining activity and learning more
about a subject which has piqued
the sense of mystery of men in
every age, students will be add
ing to the national preparedness
in the present emergency. Im
portant in warfare, diplomacy,
and commerce since as early as
the fourteenth century, modern
cryptography is essential in mili
tary and naval communication in
time of war, when every telephone,
telegraph, and radio message, eas
ily intercepted by the enemy, must
be in secure cipher and code, and
when intercepted enemy communi
cations msut be quickly solved and
read.
Aggie Tickets Do
Not Admit Dates
E. W. Hooker, secretary of the
Athletic Council ,announced yes
terday, that due to contracts and
conference agreements, none but
A. & M. cadets will be admitted
to football games away from Kyle
Field on student tickets.
Last year arrangements were
made at some for Aggies to pur
chase student tickets here for
$1.10 and then presenting the stu
dent ticket and an additional $1.40
at the gate to exchange the tick
et for a regular admission tick
et.
- To save the trouble of going to
the box office at these games it
will be possible for Aggies to buy
the $2.50 ticket here before leaving
for the game.
Since the special arrangement
has been limited to Aggies, this
necessitates the buying of the extra
ticket.
Naval ROTC Units
Expand to Include
Eight More Colleges
Naval R.O.T.C. units are being
established this fall at eight uni
versities and colleges, according
to Rear Admiral John Downes,
commandant of the ninth naval
district.
The units are located at the Un
iversity of Notre Dame, South
Bend, Ind., University of Colorado,
at Boulder, Duke university, Dur
ham, N. C., Holy Cross college,
Worcester, Mass., University of
New Mexico at Albuquerque; Ren-
selaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
N. Y., Rice Institute, Houston, and
Tufts College, Medford, Mass.
Meanwhile the navy announc
ed in Washington, D.C., that ex
pansion of the program of enroll
ing freshmen in naval science and
tactics courses has increased to 27
the number of colleges having
naval R.O.T.C. units.
Ttotal enrollment in the present
academic year is expected to reach
4,600, with a graduating class of
300. Last year’s enrollment was
3,055.
Training Through
C A A Scholarships
Private Pilot’s License
Required In Order To Get
Secondary Training Award
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration has advised the depart
ment of aeronautical engineering
that 40 scholarships for primary
training and 30 scholarships for
secondary training are available
to A. & M. students. These scholar
ships are to be made available to
students who are desirous of mak
ing piloting their career, and who
can meet the requirements estab
lished by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration.
Scholarships for the primary
course consist of about 40 hours
flight training and 72 hours ground
training, and have a value of about
$360. Applicants must have com
pleted one full year of college and
be financially able to spend $31 for
the cost of the CAA medical ex
amination, insurance policy, trans
portation to and from the airport
and a college registration fee. Can
didates must be between the ages
(See CAA, Page 4)
Ford to Discuss
Post-War Housing
At Architects Meet
Calendar of Social And
Business Events For Year
Will Be Arranged At Meet
O’Neil Ford of Dallas and San
Antonio, will speak to members
of the Architectural Society to
night at 7:30 o’clock in the Archi
tecture Library in the Academic
building, according to Gordon Mc-
Cutcheon, president of the society.
Ford is expected to report
the results of conferences held in
Washington this past week of lead
ing architects all over the country
with the United States Housing
Authority and other agents to con
sider post-war problems of hous
ing.
Ford is a member of the
firm of Ford and Swank, who
are members of the group of
architects engaged on the Bryan
Houston Projects.
This is the first program on
post war problems which the Archi
tectural Society will sponsor
throughout the year.
In addition, a calendar for the
social and business activities of
the year will be planned. It is
to include the annual ball and a
number of nationally known speak-
' Platforms and Spot
Lights Provided For
214 Piece Aggie Band
Seniors Take Part
In Robertson Fair
Senior Sections
Designated Today
Five seniors working with Cadet
Colonel Tom Gillis will decide on
the part of the Kyle Field stadium
to be designated as the senior sec
tion for the coming football season
at a meeting to be held this after
noon at four o’clock.
Members of the committee are
Skeen Staley, chairman, J. O. Alex,
ander, R. R. Russell, Moak Rollins
and Jim King.
Members of the committee will
meet in the corps headquarters
offices and will go from there to
Kyle Field where they will consid
er the seats to comprise the sen
ior section.
Fifty-three members of the sen
ior class will participate in the
Robertson County Fair on Thurs
day, October 2. The seniors will
escort duchesses and members of
the court in a coronation ceremony
crowning the queen of the fair.
The seniors will wear boots
and sabers, and the girls will be
dressed in pastel colored evening
gowns. Girls from Hearne, Cal
vert, Franklin and Bremond will
attend the ceremonies.
Aggies who will act as escorts
for the queen’s court are Howard
Brians, Bugs Ttate, Gilbert Glenn,
Gene Wilmeth, Richard Titley, J.
E. Melancon, Henry Rollins, Har
ris Brin, Gus Standish, I. F.
Smither, Joe Gibbs, Gerald King,
Luke Moore, Jack Smither, Har
old Ramsden, Henry Herrington,
C. B. Marsh, Lee Rice, Grady Creel,
Glenn Evans, G. A. Villamil, Frank
King, Hervey Byrd, Warren Ring-
gold, Perry Luth, Doc Whatley,
Robert Sharp, Richard Kaufman,
Howard Turner, G. W. Haltom,
Ross Meredith, Jack McGarr, Ace
SoRelle, Jack Lamberson, J. C.
Romage, Joe Cloud, Jack Taylor,
Earl Green, J. J .Guppies, Dick
Weiner, David Fitch, Chester Roe-
der, Sam Brown, R. A. Robinson,
Guy Johnson, Leland Ellis, Don
Walton, Dick Hervey, Tom Gillis,
Pete Frost, Ed Clark, Elmo Bueh
rig.
Changing of the Aggie yell prac
tice site from the “Y” steps to the
steps of Goodwin Hall was an
nounced yesterday by Skeen Sta
ley, head yell leader, after college
officials had authorized the long
desired change.
The movement was started the
second semester of last year by
Buster Keeton, then head yell lead
er of the corps, when the space sur
rounding the “Y” steps failed to
conveniently facilitate the large
amout of Aggies turning out for
yell practice. Keeton then advoca
ted the change to Goodwin Hall,
but no effective action was taken
on the matter at that time.
The reason for the desired
change to the steps of Goodwin
Hall is a result of the yearly in
creasing Aggie corps and each
year the vicinity in front of the
“Y” steps seems to grow smaller as
a result of the rapidly expanding
enrollment. Too, the trees and
shrubs growing in front and to the
side of the steps hinder the sight
of those standing in the back rows.
So that the band, yell leaders
and entire corps may more conven
iently attend yell practice construe,
tion of more efficient facilities are
now under way and according to
schedule will be completed by to
night.
Two platforms with a seating
capacity of 214 will be constructed
on the flankirig sides of the Good
win Hall steps facing the west wall
of the “Y” so that the entire Ag
gie Band will have seating facili
ties. Drums will be located be
tween the platforms and to the
rear. The director will stand be
tween the platforms and may more
efficiently conduct the band.
The grounds surrounding Good
win Hall steps will be gravelled
so that standing space for the
corps during yell practices will
prevent the forming of mud, wa
ter and slosh that occurs there
during rainy weather.
Three spotlights will furnish am
ple illumination for the band to
more easily read their music notes
that previous to this time has
been a major difficulty.
Position of the lights has not yet
been determined but they will be
so arranged that the glare will not
be facing those attending yell prac
tice.
The standing position of the
corps at the new site of yell prac
tice will remain the same with the
fish in the first rows, sophomores,
in the second, etc.
Aggieland Orchestra Steps Out;
College Symphony
Starts Wednesday
The College Station Community
Symphony Orchestra will start its
second year with a rehearsal to
be held in the music room of the
A. & M. Consolidated school Wed
nesday night at 7 p.m. The orch
estra is conducted by Col. R. J.
Dunn, director of the A. & M. band.
All students, faculty members, and
any other interested persons are
urged to attend. Any Aggies who
have no instruments are especially
invited to attend as instruments
can be loaned them for the prac
tice.
Blonde Vocalist Furnishes "Music as You Like It
Military Engineers
Will Elect Tonight
Officers of the Military Engi
neers organization will be elect-
ed at the first meeting of the
year in room 117 Academic build
ing tonight at seven o’clock.
Joe Gibbs president of the org
anization announced that all jun
ior and senior members of the
corps of Engineers were invited
to become members of the club.
By Bob Nisbet
Dance music hits a new and solid
top in the land of the Fighting
Aggies as the new and improved
Aggieland Orchestra takes the
downbeat on the ’41-’42 season
from leader Toppy Pearce playing
“Music As You Like It!” and fea
turing Houston’s vocal sensation,
pretty Norma Jean Jahn.
Norma Jean, who signed with
the orchestra at the opening of
school, adds to an already smooth
combination of musicians the final
touch that calls for the exclama
tion point after “Music As You
Like It!”
In the music world since the
age of three, Norma Jean has
sung with such orchestras as Phil
Spitalny (Hour of Charm), Peck
Kelly, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Jimmy
Livingston, Terry Shand and
Frankie Littlefield. She sings on
the radio in Houston and with local
Houston orchestras and has turned
down several offers from big name
bands. Norma Jean also dances
and has taught dancing for sev
eral years.
Five feet three, golden blonde,
bewitching blue eyes, a sparkling
smile, and a tempting figure,
Norma Jean is the answer to the
Aggie prayer. She fairly bubbles
over with fun and mischief and
puts that personality into her sing
ing that means the difference be
tween just a good singer and a
top notch vocalist.
Sweet or swing, fast or slow,
hot or cold, “Music As You Like
It!” is the Aggieland’s theme for
the year. Fourteen men and a girl
all with the same idea, to please
the listeners. And, to do just that
Toppy Pearce has ideas of his
own. First, he is patterning his
music after the Aggie’s favorite,
Glenn Miller. Second, he is es
tablishing his own Aggie Hit Pa
rade to determine the relative pop
ularity of the current tunes. Then,
he has decided that the pause
for shuffling sheet music between
numbers takes up valuable time
that might be used for dancing,
he has developed a system
whereby the band’s music library
is so arranged that a full set of
five number can be played without
pause, playing tunes in fives
will give the dancers more music
for their three hours.
The orchestra’s style as now
planned will include swing and
ballads to predominate at corps
dances, soft music for smaller af
fairs, and novelty numbers for
both if such is desired. Arrange
ments are being produced for the
band by the Aggieland’s private
arranger in Kansas City and is
supplemented by the help of sev
eral of the boys in the orchestra.
Fall appearances of the Aggieland
Orchestra will include corps dances
after all the home football games
plus dances in Fort Worth and
Houston for the T. C. U. and Rice
games, respectively.
Leader-manager Toppy Pearce,
has played saxaphone with the
orchestra the past two years and
will divide his time evenly this
year between his baton and his
saxaphone. Besides his duties as
an orchestra leader, Toppy is also
Cadet Lt. Col., second in command
of the corps, and plays in the 214
piece Aggie Band.
The personnel of the orchestra,
13 besides Pearce, is made up en
tirely of students, most of whom
have played professionally through
out Texas. Toppy Pearce claims he
has the best collection of material
in the history of the orchestra.
Sparking the saxaphone section
in first chair is Charles Bickley
from Houston who began his Ag
gieland career last year. He also
does feature work on the clarinet
and helps with orchestra arrange
ments. He directed his own or
chestra in high school.
Don Hackney does the take-off
work on tenor sax and clarinet,
playing both sweet and hot solos.
He, too, is playing his second year
with the orchestra.
Male vocals will come this year,
as last, from versatile Tommy Nel
son who plays as well as sings.
When he is not singing, Nelson
plays both saxaphone and clari
net.
A new man to- the orchestra is
Bill Murphy, orchestra leader for
five years, who has entered school
this year as a freshman in the
Aggie Band. During the past sum
mer he played with the Texas
State Network Orchestra. His
also rounds out the Aggieland
saxaphone section.
Dick Alston, a hillbilly from
Arkansas, plays first trumpet. He
played his first with the Aggie
land last year, but kept in the
groove during the summer play
ing with a college band in Okla
homa. Besides trumpet work, Al
ston helps with arranging.
A natural for a trumpet take
off man is the flight minded fresh
man, Alex McGregor, who has
signed up for Aeronautical Engi
neering. He and his brother, Jack
both played with the Sul Ross
Orchestra in San Angelo this last
summer.
Third trumpet man is Wally
Scott of “C” Field Artillery who
begins his second year with the or
chestra. “Scotty” hails from Port
Arthur.
Jack McGregor is the other
brother, a sophomore, in the or
chestra’s brother combinaton. Jack
McGregor plays first trombone for
the Aggieland—has a standing of
fer from Terry Shand.
The last of the Greenville boys
(See ORCHESTRA, Page 4)
ROTC Payroll To
Be Turned in Soon
Senior military checks begin
ning after summer camp will be
here about the middle of October,
reports from the military science
office stated yesterday. Sergeant
Beck announced the pay roll would
be sent in to Ft. Sam Houston for
approval as soon as the enrollment
in military science could be check
ed for the number of returned ad
vanced R.O.T.C. students register
ed this year.
Further checks in the regular
quarterly payment will be out to
advanced students sometime after
the Christmas holidays, the mili
tary science office announced.
The
Twelfth Man
This is “The Twelfth Man,” the
new fight song which has been
proposed for A. & M. Mention of
this song was made at the Yell
Practice held Thursday night. The
song will be introduced at the
Tuesday night Yell Practice. Know
the song by then.
Texas Aggies—Down in Aggieland
We’ve got Aggie Spirit to a man
Stand united—that’s the Aggie
theme
We’re that twelfth man—on the
team
When we’re down—the going’s
rough and tough
We just grin and yell we’ve—got
the stuff
To fight together for the Aggie
Dream
We’re the twelfth man on that
fightin’ Aggie Team.