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, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 16, 1941
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NUMBER 17
Bull Text Checks
. Arrive; Issued By
Chance tor Junior Menses ms office Today
Friday Noon Marks Last
Seniors, Juniors
Alloted Definite
Seats at Stadium
35 to 35 Reserved
For Boot Men; Juniors
Flank Both Sides To 15
Sections for each class have
been designated for the A. & M.-
T. C. U. football game Saturday.
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis a
nonuced today that the corps will
occupy the entire east side of the
staduim. Sections V and W will be
reserved for the seniors and sec
tions U and X will be reserved
for the juniors.
The senior section will extend
on both sides of the 50 yard line
to approximately the 35 yard
line. The junior sections on either
side of the senior section ex
tend to near the 15 yard line.
Sophomores and freshmen will oc
cupy the remaining seats. The
senior section will be maintained
throughout the game but after
the first quarter sophomores and
freshmen may move in the junior
section if it is not already filled.
Student tickets to the game are
$1.10 with the coupon book. Date
tickets cost $2.50. These tickets
are on sale at the desk in the lobby
of the YMCA.
Consolidated School
Construction Will Be
Completed in 6 Weeks
The new combination gymnas
ium, cafeteria, and auditorium of
the A. & M. Consolidated School
will be opened for use in about
six weeks if weather conditions
permit construction crews to con •
tinue work. The building is of the
same general structure as the other
buildings and will be a valuable
addition to the equipment of the
schools.
The gymnasium will be complete •
ly equipped with dressing rooms,
showers, and equipment rooms. The
building also contains all equip
ment necessary for a cafeteria, in
cluding a modern kitchen.
The stage is situated to the side
of the gym floor and will be fur
nished with the latest stage props
in the near future. On the other
side of the gym floor are bleach
ers with a seating capacity of 500.
If necessary, temporary seats may
be placed upon the gym floor to
raise the number of available seats
to 1,000.
The new building will be dedi
cated with a large amateur carni
val. The funds raised by this
show will be used to buy stage
furniture.
Other Important
Decisions Reached
At Jr Class Meet
Junoris wanting authorized ab
sences for Friday afternoon may
get them until noon Friday if they
want to attend the dance to be
given for them by the junior class
of TSCW. These and other issues
were discussed at a meeting of
the class in the Assembly Hall
Monday night. It was voted at
the meeting to wear the number
two uniform with serge shirts at
the dance.
Before the dance the juniors will
be given a steak fry in Lowry
Woods near the campus. Captain
W. S. McCulley will be detailed as
the officer in charge for the dance
to be given the juniors.
The Dean of Women of TSCW
has stated that she would have
places for 188 boys in the dormi
tory to be vacated and that any
one who did not get one of these
rooms will have to stay somewhere
else.
Juniors wanting blind dates for
the dance were told to leave their
name and a description of them
selves at desks which were set up
at both the new and old Y’s until
6 p. m. Tuesday. Those wanting
to stay in the dormitory which is
to be vacated for the class were
told to sign at these desks also.
Last year it was necessary for
those attending the dance to have
their passes signed by the officer
in charge of the dance, but this
will not be necessary this year.
At the class meeting it was de
cided to let the president of the
class, Jack Miller, appoint a com
mittee of three to ask the cadet
colonel and other members of the
regimental staff for permission
to establish a junior section in
Guion Hall. Although the juniors
have never had such a section be
fore it is thought that permission
will be given because of the
moving of the showplace.
Bill Callaway was named as
chairman of the committee and
working with him will be Grover
Carathers and Johnnie Crosby.
Jarrin’ Jawn Signs
Away Shoulder Pads,
Dons Chaps and Spurs
Students Receive Pay
From Senior Instructors
$19.25 Is Average Payment
Seniors enrolled In the advanced
R.O.T.C. can now get their subsis
tence checks from their senior mil
itary science instructors. These
checks were received yesterday and
totalled $10,347.75. Some few of
the checks were issued yesterday.
The checks were’ given to the sen
ior instructors of each organization
by Captain A. J. Bennett, adjutant.
The checks were for around
$19.25 each and varied with the
time which each student had serv
ed. The amount which each org
anization received was as follows:
Infantry, $2,829.75; Field Artillery,
$2,695; Chemical Warfare Service,
$518.50; Coast Artillexjy Corps,j
81609.50; Cavalry, $1,135.75; Sig
nal Corps, $462; and Engineers,
$1,097.25.
Receipt of the checks was speed
ed in order that they would be in
the hands of the advanced students
in time for the Fort Worth corps
trip Saturday. Lieutenant Colonel
O. C. McIntyre contacted Lieuten
ant Colonel Charles Lewis, finance
officer of the Eighth Corps Area,
Tuesday. The checks were received
by the adjutant Wednesday and
were classified and distributed as
soon as possible.
Dance Applications
Must be in by First
November 1 is the deadline for
making application for dates for
organization dances. These appli
cations must be in so that the so
cial calender for the year may be
arranged. Permit cards can be
secured in the Student Activities
office in Room 126 of the Ad
ministration Building.
Organization dances will start
with the Freshman Dance shortly
after mid-term. This dance will be
followed by the Sophomore dance
the next week-end.
John Kimbrough, Aggie All-
American backfield star, signed a
five-year contract with Twentieth
Century Fox Studios in Hollywood
yesterday, according to news re
ceived here.
The salary that he will receive
for his services were not disclosed,
but increases are to be made each
year. Kimbrough will continue to
play cowboy roles until he is a
more polished actor.
Kimbrough will not play profes
sional football after this season,
according to the contract.
Cadets Move Out Before
Dawn Saturday Morning
Band to Hold Spelling Session
Between Halves at TCU Game
Don't Worry, Fish
Colonel Gillis Knows
Way Around Hometown
All of those who will be new
to Fort Worth can set their wor
ries aside with the knowledge that
they will be led by one of the home
town boys. There will be no need
to ask the chief of police or any of
the city lads the way to anything.
Adding to the honor of being
able to lead the cadet 'Corps on its
first official corps trip of the year
will be the glory of leading a 6,888
man student body of his alma mater
through his own home town. This
will be the glory which is to bo
Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis’ next
Saturday morning.
So far as is known this is the
first time in the history of the
corps that the cadet colonel has
led his corps through his own
home town.
Special Corps
Trip Trains Leave
Friday, Saturday
A special train will be run to
Fort Worth to carry the corps
there Saturday for the corps trip.
The train will leave College Sta
tion early Saturday morning and
arrive in Fort Worth in time for
the parade. A train will also be
run Friday afternoon for all the
juniors wanting to go to Denton
for the dance to be given for them
at T.S.C.W. Friday night. The
juniors will have to go from Fort
Worth to Denton on buses.
A round trip ticket to Fort
Worth will cost $2.68 which in
eludes the tax. For the juniors
who want to go on to Denton the
bus fare will be 91 cents. The
total cost of a round trip ticket
to Denton will be $3.59.
Students riding the train can
come back late Saturday night or
on one of the regular trains Sun
day. The time each train will
leave can be obtained at the local
Missouri Pacific Railway station.
By Tommy Vannoy
For the first conference game of
the season the Aggie Band will
put on special ceremonies during
the half-period at Fort Worth Sta-
urday.
With a 216-piece organization
divided into the Infantry and
Field Artillery Bands, they will
march onto the field and form the
letters T.C.U. in tribute to the Fort
Worth team. Then the letters A.
M.C. will be formed facing the
opposite side of the stadium.
After reforming, the band will
form A.M.C., and T.S.C.W. While
the band is still in this forma
tion, Miss Anna Ruth Ashe, Aggie
sweetheart from T.S.C.W., will be
escorted on the field to the strains
of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”
by Bob Russell, cadet major of the
band. As Russell presents Miss
Ashe a bouquet of flowers, the
band will play the Alma Mater <'f
T.S.C.W.
The band will break up the let
ters and form into two bands once
more before leaving the field.
For the parade in downtown
Fort Worth Saturday morning, the
Infantry Band will lead the corps
to the Texas Hotel, remaining
there until the Field Artillery regi
ment has passed the reviewing
stand. The Field Artillery band
will follow the Chemical Warfare
Battalion to the Texas Hotel and
stop at the reviewing stand and
play while the rest of the cadet
corps marches by. The Field Ar
tillery band will follow the Coast
Artillery regiment to the end of the
parade.
Ag Engineers On
KGKO at 6:45 Today
The agricultural engineering sen
iors will be featured on a broad
cast from the State Fair at noon
today over station KGKO while
they are in Dallas on their annual
fall inspection trip. At 6:45 a.m.
Friday they again go on the the
air as guests of station WFAA.
Pearce Pleases Public;
Corps Takes Own Music to Cow
City; Aggieland Plays at Hotel
Conversational
Spanish Course Open
To College Employees
An opportunity for college em
ployees and their families to study
conversational Spanish under na
tive instructors two nights a week
is being offered by the department
of modern languages for the first
time this year.
The language department, feeling
the need for such a course on the
campus, employed Xavier Fernan
dez, a native of Peru, and O. A. Lo
pez from Puerto Rico to teach the
classes. Both instructors are stu
dents at A. & M. and have taken
several courses in Spanish here
as well as in their native countries.
They are helping pay their way
through school by teaching the
courses.
Room 124 Academic building,
has been reserved for the classes
on Monday and Wednesday at 7:15
p. m. taught by Lopez, and on
Tuesday and Thursday for the
classes taught by Fernandez.
Both sections have room for
more pupils. Employees of the col
lege and their families who are in
terested in this course are urged
to see C. B. Campbell of the depart
ment of modern languages before
it is too late to enter the classes.
Jenkins Office
To Open Monday
The Assembly Hall will again
bloom this coming Monday morn
ing. Richard Jenkins, head of the
Singing Cadets, will move his of
fice into the Assembly Hall. Be
sides his office, there will be a
club room for use by all students
most of the time. The club room
will be used for discussions on any
topic interesting to the students.
The auditorium will be available
to groups wishing to rehearse plays
or activities of any type. Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday nights are
reserved for the Singing Cadets.
Jenkins urges that the student body
attend these rehearsals. Wednes
day nights are reserved for class
meetings.
Saturday Batts
Delivered on Train
The Saturday issue of The Bat
talion will be distributed among
the corps on the train while en
route to Fort Worth. Approxi
mately 1,000 copies will be taken
to Denton to be distributed in the
T.S.C.W. dormitories. Other copies
will be placed about the lobbies
of the Blackstone, Texas, and
Worth Hotels in Fort Worth.
The paper will be given to the
students who do not go to Fort
Worth in each of the post offices.
For the convenience of all the
persons who will attend the A. &
M.-T. C. U. football game, a com
plete roster of both teams will be
featured in the issue.
By Bob Nisbet
When those fighting Aggies
from A. & M. embark on a corps
trip, their primary objective is to
win a football game, but they go
prepared also to do the ultimate
in the way of making merry and
having a good time. In this re
spect half of their preparation
consists in taking along Toppy
Pearce’s Aggieland Orchestra to
insure their having good dance
music.
Fort Worth, being no exception
to the rule, will find the Aggieland
playing their “Music As You Like
It!” for the official Aggie after-
the-game dance at the Texas hotel
beginning at 9:00 p. m. and lasting
until 1:00 p. m. The dance is un
der the sponsorship of the Fort
Worth A. & M. Former Students
Association.
Their first performance since
their phenomenally successful ’41-
’42 debut two weekends ago, the
Aggieland, Norma Jean et al, be
gin their observance of student de
sires by making use of infoma-
tion secured through a trial edi
tion of the Aggie Hit Parade at
their first dance. Promised by
Toppy Pearce, the Hit Parade will
probably be started functioning in
final form at Fort Worth dance
and results published.
But no Hit Parade is necessary
to know that the orchestra’s vocal
ist, the little blonde cutie with the
tinkle in her voice and the twinkle
in her eyes, is a huge success as
far as the Aggies are concerned.
Already Toppy Pearce is on the
lookout for more good members for
her to sing with the band. And
Norma Jean will be on the band
stand when Toppy downbeats the
first time at the Texas Hotel in
Fort Worth.
Toppy Pearce’s Aggieland Brass Section
Collegiate F F A
Chooses Delegates
At a special business meeting
Tuesday night, the Collegiate FFA
elected delegates to the National
Convention and American Royal
Livestock show to be held in Kan
sas City October 20-23 inclusive.
J. M. Carpenter, Buddy White,
Bill Cook and John Shipley were
selected as delegates to the conven •
tion. Cecil Ballow was elected as
iirst alternate. The delegation
leaves Sunday, October 19; they
will return Thursday to Fort Worth
and the club will pay all expenses.
Picture Deadline
Extended for Seniors
Deadline for Senior Class pic
tures in the 1942 Longhorn has
been extended until October 22 for
those seniors who failed to have
their pictures made at the v desig
nated time, according to Editor
Rusty Heitkamp.
Any senior who desires to have
his picture in the class section
should attend to this matter at
once, for Junior Class section pic
tures will start the week of Octo
ber 23-28, the period scheduled
for Field Artillex-y juniors.
Williamson County
Club Elects Officers
Don Carlson is the president
of the Williamson County A. & M.
Club for the coming year. He was
elected at the meeting of the club
Tuesday night.
Other officers elected were Hey-
wood Clemmons, vice president;
George Dorrou, seerptarytreas
urer; Social Chairman Warren Per
cy; and Leo Pickhoff, reporter.
Plans for Thanksgiving and
Christmas dances were discussed
by the 20 members present at
the meeting.
Round Table Club
Plans Monday Meet
The first meeting for the org
anization of the Round Table Club
will be held immediately after yell
practice Monday night. Business to
be taken into consideration will in
elude a group discussion of a cur
rent question, election of officers
and decision on whether or not
there should be a separate round
table for freshmen. All interested
students, including freshmen, are
invited to attend.
Library Music Room
Now Open to Students
The music room is again open
for students who wish to take ad
vantage of the collection of class
ical records on the third floor of
the library, announced T. F. Mayo,
librarian.
As a result of national defense
priorities claims, the school has
been unable to obtain the parts
necessary to repair the phonograph
which has been out of order over a
month.
Hours which the music room is
open are the same as those of the
library. From Monday through Fri
day it is open between 8 a. m. and
10 p. m.; on Saturdays, from 8
until 12 noon; and on Sundays
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m. After 7
p. m. students must reserve the
room in advance.
Parade Starts
Promptly After
Arrival of Trains
Long before dawn Saturday mor
ning, six thousand Aggies will be
stirring about in preparation for
the first official corps trip of the
year to Fort Worth. Breakfast will
be served at 3:10 a.m. and immed
iately afterwards all organizations
will begin to form at their respec
tive assembly points.
At 4:00 troops will march to the
vicinity of the Missouri Pacific
station. The train will be run in
two sections and at 4:10 and 4:25
respectively the two sections of
the corps will bid farewell to Col
lege Station and will set out on
a two-day manifestation of Aggie
spirit so that the people of Texas
may know that A. & M. is not juat
another school, but also an insti
tution prepared to play a large part
in national defense.
The first section will arrive in
Fort Worth at 9:35 a.m.; the sec
ond at 9:50. Each unit will move
immediately to the circus lot east
of the Main street underpass which
has been designated as the as
sembly point. From the circus lot
the corps will move up Main street
to 5th Street; left on 5th Street
to Houston Street; right on Hous
ton street to Weatherford Street;
right on Weatherford Street to
the dismissal area of the various
units.
Colonel E. A. Keyes, Cavalry,
Civilian Components Officer, 8th
Corps Area, will receive the re
view. Keyes is the head of all R.O.
I.C. work in the Eighth Corps
Area.
The official uniform for the par
ade and football game will be No.
1. At all other times on the trip,
the No. 2 uniform may be worn.
Students who do not have a blouse
may wear civilian clothes, but
should bring their yellow receipts
to get through the gate into the
Aggie section.
Freshman W L White
Killed in Plane Crash
W. L. White, freshman at A. &
M. College was killed Sunday morn
ing in an airplane accident. White
was a native of Iraan, Pecos coun
ty. The funeral took place Monday
morning.
White was flying with a friend,
E. G. Alexander, Sunday morning
over Iraan when the plane Alex
ander was flying suddenly devel
oped motor trouble and crashed to
the ground. White was killed out
right, and Alexander was seriously
injured; he had been staying in
Dormitory 12, and had been play
ing football on the freshman team.
Municipal, Sanitary
Experts Meet in Dec
The second annual conference for
municipal and sanitary engineers
will be held at A. & M. December
3-4, according to an anonuncement
made by E. L. Angell, assistant to
the president of the college.
Professor S. R. Wright of the
college department of municipal
and sanitary engineering will be in
charge of the two-day meeting but
will be aided by other members of
the college staff and leading mun
icipal engineers in handling the ins
trumental work. A large portion
of the meeting will be devoted to
general discussion of problems
brought on by the present emerg
ency.
Annual Agronomy
Trip Movies Shown
Motion pictures taken in tech-
color on the tenth annual Cotton
Fellowship tour were presented
for the first time in public last
week at the regular meeting of
the Agronomy Society.
Those making the tour last sum
mer were Johnnie Robinson, E. R.
Butler, and Ralph Hartgreaves,
with the faculty representative,,
Louis Thompson acting as camera
man. The tour was sponsored in-
connection with the annual Coc-
ton Ball and pageant.
The party left College Station
last May 31 for Stoneville, Miss-
At the Delta Experiment Station,
near Stoneville, the boys studied
the work being done in the various
agronomic phases of southern ag
riculture with special emphasis oil
cotton.
From Stoneville the party went
on to New Orleans where they ob
served practices and customs of the
farmers in the Mississippi valley.
Exes and Fort Worth City Fathers
Extend Aggies Written Invitations
The cadet corps has been ex-1 gang, because it may take a few
tended a most cordial welcome from more than us old timers here to
the city of Fort Worth to attend
the T.C.U. football game and par
ticipate in the corps parade in
down town Fort Worth Saturday
morning.
The Fort Worth A. & M. Former
Students Club extended the follow
ing letter, signed by J. G. Allen,
’27, president:
“All of Fort Worth joins us in
urging you to be here on October
18th for the A. & M.-T.C.U. game.
Of course, all of Fort Worth won’t
be for us during the game, but
except for that period of time, they
are for you tooth and toenail. Those
of you who have been here before
for the same occasion know that
old “Cow Town” can really open
the gates.
“Now, please don’t let us down,
handle that jinx that is due to be
buried this time so deep that he can
never rise again.
“How about it now? Can we
count on every one of you?”
From I. N. McCrary, mayor of
the city, the following letter was
received:
“As mayor of the City of Fort
Worth, it gives me a great deal
of pleasure to extend to you a
hearty invitation to visit our city
on October 18. The occasion, I
presume, you are acquainted with.
If not, we—T. C. U.—hope 1 ..o
beat the Aggies.
“The City of Fort Worth will be
glad to help you in any way we
can when you stage your annual
parade here, and we will be happy
(See INVITATIONS, page 4)