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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
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 12, 1942
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NUMBER 57
College Blackout to Come Without Warning
Distinguished Students Eligible For
Scholarship Honor Society Are Announced
Registrants Feb. 16
Must Answer ‘Nine
Simple Questions’
No Questionaires Will
Be Used; Hershey Wants
Speed, To Be the Keynote
Only nine simple questions will
be asked those men who register
on February 16 for possible mili
tary service under the provisions
of the Selective Service Act, Gen
eral J. Watt Page, State Selective
Service Director, emphasized to
day.
Registration of the individual
should require a comparatively
short time. General Page said,
pointing out that the registrant
will not be asked to fill out a
questionnaire, but only to answer
interrogations about his identity,
his place of residence and his mail
ing address. Also, he will be re
quired to list his telephone num
ber if any, his age in years and
date of birth, place of birth, the
name and address of the person
who will always know his address
and his employers name and ad
dress.
While it is important that reg
istration be conducted as speedily
as possible, General Page said
that every registrant will be giv
en ample time to respond properly
to the questions on the registra
tion card, which on this occasion
wil be green. White and melon
colored cards, respectively, were
used on the first and second Selec
tive Service registrations.
No questionnaires will be given
registrants when they register
February 16, nor will they be re
quired to undergo any physical
examination, General Page em
phasized.
Questionnaires are given to reg
istrants after their order numbers
have been determined and reached
by their local boards. Physical ex
aminations are given only after
the boards have passed on the gen
eral qualifications of registrants
and have determined that they
should not be deferred for reasons
of interest to the Nation.
Clambake Features
Colored Collegians
Friday’s Clambake over WTAW
will feature one of the really solid
little jiving bands of Texas—the
Prairie View Collegians under the
direction of William Henry Ben
nett, a student at the negro school.
The Collegians will take their
30-minute turn at the “mike” af
ter the regular Aggie Pickin’s pro
gram which leaves the air at 5 p.m.
This is the first appearance on the
campus this scholastic year for the
swingy band of colored lads. How
ever, they proved to be a favorite
in the opinion of Aggies who heard
them last spring when they play
ed over WTAW.
Friday’s program of jam and
jive will include the following sel
ections: “Pay That No Mind,” “I
May Be Wrong,” “Chattanooga
Choo Choo,” “I Can’t Get Started,”
“Big Fat Mama,” “Star Dust,” and
“One O’Clock Jump.”
Nat’l Affiliation
To Be Discussed At
Meet Friday Night
Distinguished students who are
eligible for membership in the
Scholarship Honor Society were
announced yesterday by Jack Tay
lor, president of the organization.
All juniors in the upper four per
cent of that class in their school,
and all seniors in the upper eight
percent of their school may become
members.
An important meeting will be
held tomorrow night in the C. E.
lecture room for the purpose of
discussing proposed national af
filiations. Members who do not pay
their annual dues of $1.60 at or
before this meeting will be dropped
from the roll, it was announced.
These dues may be paid to A. J.
Landua, Room 218, Dormitory 7.
Membership of the society is as
follows:
JUNIORS
Agriculture
P. L. Bell, P. M. Bennett, A.
Brown, W. B. Caraway, W. W.
Cardwell, D. M. Davis, J. S. Dur-
ell, H. O. Kinkel, J. H. McAllister,
J. B. Miller, W. D. Parker and
J. T. Pesek.
Engineers
W. M. Adkisson, S. R. Bean, J.
A. Baird, R. K. Bernard, K. Bever,
R. L. Chatham, J. C. Denny, W.
J. Gallaway, J. C. Goppert, E. C.
Hartman, Guy Johnson, S. C. Kaf-
fer, A. H. Lynch, O. A. Nance,
A. J. Specia and G. R. Thenn.
Arts and Sciences ’
K. C. Bresnen, D. B. Gofer, R.
T. Green and E. E. McChesney.
Veterinary Medicine
T. E. DeVolin and J. B. Young.
SENIORS
Agriculture
J. W. Autry, Shibley Azar, T.
Berry, Roland Bing, A. R. Boemer,
L. C. Caloway, J. M. Carpenter,
W. K. Clark, S. J. Copeland, M. F.
Evans, J. E. Gable, J. W. Gibson,
J. F. Golden, J. M. Hefley, 0. M.
Holt, R. F. Keller, W. J. Lawler,
T. W. Leonard, J. Robinson, E. M.
Rosenthal, R. L. Stevenson, Jack
Taylor, D. C. Thurman, R. M.
Warren, J. C. Wallace, E. D. Wil-
meth, A. C. Yezak, M. R. Yezak,
G. C. Young.
Engineers
T. Ando, J. Baker, H. T. Chang,
E. H. Copeland, R. A. Cook, E. G.
Daughty, D. D. Echols, L. W.
Fisher, D. S. Hammons, B. Hardie,
M. D. Havlik, J. M. Holliday, R.
D. Kenny, G. R. King, J. L. Lam-
berson, L. L. Manchester, Jr., M.
A. Miller, G. Nassauer, E. H. Nel
son, H. C. Owen, R. B. Pearce, A.
W. Sissom, F. A. Smitham, C. C.
Sprinkle, M. ' H. Stevens, G. G.
Sumner, W. C. Swaip, R. H. Swan
son, J. L. Wilson, Paul Wolfe, Jr.,
and R. E. Woodham, Jr.
Arts and Sciences
R. S. Crawford, A. B. Crimmins,
T. S. Gillis and A. J. Landua.
Veterinary Medicine
W. G. Aldridlge, Simon Born-
stein, T. H. Coffey, Alex Gross-
man, V. C. Isaac, E. L. Lepon, R.
F. Lapham, R. D. Macy, M. D.
Ommert, H. Shanzers and C. R.
Tubbs.
Architects Hold Annual Ball
Tomorrow Night in Sbisa Hall
Members and friends of the Ar
chitectural Society will dance to
the music of the Prairie View Col
legians, the 15-piece negro dance
band from Prairie View State Col
lege, Friday night at 10 o’clock in
Sbisa hall.
This is the oldest annual dance
on the campus, having initiated
the organization balls with its
first Beaux Arts Ball. Last year’s
dance was held on Valentine’s Day.
Hundreds of members of the facul
ty and society danced to the mus
ic of Ed Gerlach’s orchestra in the
Sbisa hall banquet room which
was decorated as the patio of a
South American residence at fiesta
time.
Costumes for this year’s ball will
protray the dancers’ ideas of
“Things to Come.” The ball room
will be decorated by the junior class
in architectural design. Glaring
lights will be placed at the entrance
for a transition into the future.
Inside the lighting from all ceiling
fixtures will be projected upward
into clouds of balloons. Concealed
lighting will carry along the walls
behind shrubbery. Bandstand back
ground will consist of scenes of the
world of today contrasted with the
world ef tomorrow.
Coast Guard Film
Shown at 5 Today
In Assembly Hall
Short Talk By Lieut.
Commander Await Will
Be Given With Picture
Sound pictures of the Coast
Guard academy at New London,
Conn., will be shown at the Assem
bly Hall this afternoon at 5 o’clock
by Lieutenant Commander T. Y.
Await, U. S. Coast Guard. The pro
gram will consist of a short talk
illustrated by a new sound motion
picture showing the activities of
cadets at the academy. Films of
the coast guardsmen at work will
also be shown.
Awalt’s purpose in appearing
here is to interest students in en
tering the Coast Guard academy
for officer training. Unlike the
army school at West Point or the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, ad
mission to the coast guard school
is obtained through competitive
examinations; there are no ap
pointments. Advantages of attend
ing this academy will be pointed
out.
Mess Management
Gets Big Response;
75 Sign for Courses
Size of Class Forces
Change in Meeting Place;
Will Be In AI Lect. Room
The newly instituted course in
Officers Mess Management and
Training, which meets this after
noon for the first time, brought
forth such a great response from
the cadet corps that it has been
necessary to change its meeting
place to accommodate those men
who signed up for the course. The
new room assignment is the Ani
mal Industries Lecture room in
stead of Room 132 A. I. building
as originally announced.
With figures still incomplete
yesterday evening, the Registrars
office announced that almost 76
were entered in the course. This
is many more than were original
ly anticipated by those who plan
ned the course.
The class will meet at 6 p. m.,
Central War Time, and last for
one hour each week. Dr. P. B.
Pearson has been placed in charge
of the course but the majority of
the meetings will be conducted by
guest speakers on various phases
of nutrition and mess management.
The course has been officially
listed as Animal Husbandry 434
and was submitted to the course
committee by Professor D. W.
Williams of the animal husbandry
department.
Mysterious Howard Appears,
Disappears in Program Series
Best Take Heed
Of North Gate Signs
Reading ‘Parking Fine’
Read this and save $1 to $5—
Parking of automobiles on the west
side of Bell Street at the North
Gate across the street from the
U. S. Post Office is now banned
and anyone caught parking there
will draw one of those invitations
to Mayor Frank Anderson’s office.
For the first few days after the
“No Parking” signs went up the
officers merely warned the offend
ers but the “free ride” period is
over and the ticket business is do
ing pretty good, reports say.
By Ken Bresnen
“The Mysterious Howard” will
appear on the Saturday night en
tertainment program in the As
sembly Hall at 7:15. Traveling
from Houston to thrill you and
chill you, the mysterious one says,
“I am not the best magician in the
world—only the greatest.”
What’s in store for those who
attend is highly speculative. He
might pull a rabbit from your hat,
or he may not. Then there is al
ways the possibility of sawing the
Battalion editor in two. Richard
Jenkins has urged everyone to try
to be there for a grand evening of
fun. Song sheets will be provided
for everyone so that all may join
in the singing of the rollicking, ro
mantic and patriotic songs and
ballads which have been one of the
keynotes of the success of these
programs.
Names are being pondered at
the moment. Saturday’s Battalion
will carry the name of the winner
of the naming contest, and the title
that has been selected for the pro
grams.
Last Saturday night before the
corps dance, 2,000 cadets and dates
packed the hall to hear the sweet
Three More On
Nominee List For
Army Commissions
Three names have been added to
the list of candidates for commis
sions in the regular army published
in The Battalion last Tuesday.
They are John Bannister, III,
Charles Bode and Howard Brians.
These men have been selected
for outstanding scholastic and mil
itary proficiency, and qualities of
leadership and character. From this
list the 8th Corps Area examin
ing board will select a number of
men who will be given regular com
missions and placed at the foot of
the West Point class.
Last year six regular commiss
ions were granted from the ROTC
schools in the 8th Corps Area. A.
& M. received three of these.
Those who have been selected
as candidates this year are Shibley
Azar, Jr., John Bannister, III, How
ard H. Brians, Charles W. Rode,
John B. Hancock, Jack B. Holiday,
Gerald R. King, T. W. Leonard,
C. B. Marsh, Jr., M. A. Miller, Ru
fus B. Pearce, Jack B. Taylor, and
Ben T. Yeager.
and swing played by the TSCW
serenaders. Featured on the pro
gram were a girl’s vocal trio and a
violin trio.
Little Sally Maxwell, ten year old
mascot of the group, won the hearts
of the cadets with her rendition of
“Elmer’s Tune.” Incidentally, she
proved so popular with the corps
that she was even provided with an
Aggie escort. Typifiying Aggie hos
pitality, a cavalry freshman was
seen squiring her about the cam
pus and pointing out things which
he thought might be interesting to
her. Sally seemed quite proud of
her uniformed beau.
First Orders For
Officers Guides
To Be Made Friday
The first order for Officers’
Guides will be mailed Friday, the
Cadet Colonel’s office has announ
ced, and all seniors desiring a copy
of the book within the next two
weeks should make their deposits
by tomorrow.
There is a possibility that a sec
ond order will be placed later on
dending on the number of men
ordering now. The books will be
delivered ten) days after the order
is placed. ,
When asked his opinion of the
publication, Colonel Maurice D.
Welty made the following state
ment:
“The present type of Officers’
Guide is a very convenient compil
ation of War Department infor
mation that can prove of value to
an officer entering the service. Its
convenience makes it worth while
to any young officer.”
Hillel s Observe
IFnai Brith Holiday
B’nai Brith Day, which is a part
of National Brotherhood Week, will
be observed by the Hillel Club in
.conjunction with the Bryan B’nai
Brith Lodge at a joint meeting to
be held Sunday evening, Feb. 15 at
7:30 p.m. in the lounge room of
Sbisa hall. The speaker of the eve
ning will be Dr. I Manhoff of San
Antonio, who is the state president
of B’nai Brith. Dr. Manhoff will
speak on “The Problems of Youth
in the Present Day Crisis.” The
meeting is open to the public.
Easter Is Set As
Date for Mothers,
Dads Day Program
Engineers Day Moved
To April 4; National
Defense Will Be Theme
Parents Day instead of Moth
er’s Day will be observed on Eas
ter April 5 this year. Engineer’s
Day will be on April 4 as this was
the logical date for it due to the
change in parent’s day, according
to college authorities.
The theme of the thirteenth an
nual engineer’s day will again be
national defense, a subject with
which the college is even more
closely connected now than it was
at this period last year. Many of
last year’s engineering students are
now in national! defense industries
and many more are now in the
fighting forces either as officers
or enlisted men.
At 11 a.m. April 4 the State As
sociation of A. & M. Mothers Clubs
will hold its annual meeting in the
lounge of Sbisa hall. A tea hon
oring all visiting parents will be
held in the lobby of the YMCA un
til 6 p.m. and will be sponsored
by the Brazos county A. & M. Mo
thers’ Club.
That night at nine Dr. T. O. Wal
ton will be at home to visiting par
ents when he and Mrs. Walton hon
or them with an informal recept
ion.
The program for Sunday will be
gin with the traditional flower
pinning of red and white flowers
upon cadets in formation in front
of their respective dormitories.
Each organization commander will
designate a girl to pin flowers on
the men in his outfit. This cere
mony will begin at 9 a.m. and last
approximately an hour.
At 10 the cadets from each regi
ment will march from their res
pective area to the old parade
grounds where they will stand in
ranks for nearly 30 minutes. Dur
ing this time honors will be pres
ented to the highest military and
scholastic students in school.
Localized
Tests Held
At Intervals
Printed Rules
For Precautions
Prepared by City
“When the College Station
total blackout occurs, it will
come without warning,” an
executive of the local air raid
committee said yesterday.
“Citizens will not know the ex
act hour the trial is to be
held. In this way, the com
mittee will be able to ascer
tain the efficiency of its
plans, and to determine how
long it would actually take to
put protective measures into
effect in case of an unexpect
ed attack.”
Acting in accordance with the
F.B.I. recommendations for con
ducting a successful blackout, the
College Station office of Police and
Air Raid Warden Committee has
issued printed instructions for air
raid precautions to every house
hold in the city and on adjacent
property.
In most cities a blackout is sim
ply announced for a certain time
on a specified day, and at that
time all the lights are turned out.
This, however, is not a true repre
sentation of the efficiency with
which a blackout would be per
formed under war conditions,
authorities said.
Striving to make the proposed
civilian defense test as authentic
as possible, test blackouts will be
held in various sections and neigh
borhoods of College Station in the
near future under the supervision
of air raid wardens. These tests
will be held from time to time in
order to afford practice in black
out behavior to local families and
residents.
'Angel in Back Seat' Makes
Forced Landing of Lost Plane
“Air Raid!”
“The Japs are here!”
These were only a few of the
Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned;
Tomorrow Is Friday Thirteenth
By Charlie Babcock
Black cats, witches, broken mir
rors, ladders and even the Texas
Memorial stadium jinx bow out of
the picture tomorrow for 24 hours.
The reason? Date line of tomor
rows newspapers will be Friday,
February 13.
Adding suspicion to superstition,
Friday will begin an hour earlier,
(thanks to War Time) than is the
usual case. Last jinx day on the
calendar was that thirteenth day
of June, 1941.
However, such “black” days
won’t be so unusual this year, for
there is one scheduled in March
and another in November. Wheth
er this will be to the advantages
of Hitler’s gang or the Allies is yet
to be determined.
But about this dreary day com
ing up tomorrow—all weather re
ports indicate rain and bad weath
er — profs are scheduling their
hardest exams of the year—and to
top it all the Aggie basketball
squad, winners of one out of five
conference games, must face the
league-leading Arkansas Razor-
backs.
But don’t be disheartened. This
Friday business, when tied up
with that number 13, means bad
luck and plent yof it. However, it
ca nwork both ways.
There may be a shortage of tin,
rubber, aluminum, and zinc, but we
are going to have plenty of Friday
the thirteenth this year, even if
they are rather non essential to
national defense.
“Me, superstitious? Of course
not,” These were the sentiments
of Sam Semo last week, and to
prove it, he walked under a lad
der while he was breaking a mir
ror while a black cat crossed his
path. He said he would do it a-
gain tomorrow on Friday the 13th
to doubly show he wasn’t afraid
of any jinx, but if he does he
will be doing it with the army
as he received a notice from the
draft board the day after this
was taken. —Photo by Stenzel
many speculations which were cast
Wednesday night as the moaning
roar of a plane’s motor was inter
mittently heard. ;
But there were more than sounds
to verify the fears. The airplane
could be seen nearing the ground
and then zooming up again every
few minutes.
Finally, shortly before midnight,,
the pilot came near the ground
once again, but this time it was
te land. In fact all of the other
times he was trying to do the same
thing.
It later proved that the pilot
was attempting to land on the
highway and that each time ap
proaching cars forced him back in
the air.
The landing, which was finally
made in an extremely small fenced-
in spot in front of the Adminis
tration building, became necessary
when the cadet flying the ship
found he was running out of gas.
His mission was a cross country
night flight from Kelly Field to
Austin and points north and then
a return to his base. However, on
the return part of the flight the
cadet lost his direction and ended
up over the college.
He circled College Station look
ing for a place to land for more
than 30 minutes. Soon he reached
the conclusion that the highway
afforded the best possibilities.
The cars preventing his landing
on the highway, the cadet became
aware his gas gauge registered
“empty” and realized that he must
do something immediately so he
flashed on his landing lights and
headed for the spot where he end
ed his flight.
A big crowd had gathered and
all breathed a sigh of relief when
he made what was hailed a “spec
tacular landing.”
Tuesday afternoon two officers
fi*om Kelly Field came to investi
gate the situation. The officer in
charge said, “An angel in the back
seat landed that plane.” The other
officer, a lieutenant, took the
ship up.