DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 24, 1942
Z275
NO. 62
1 War Department Begins
■Civilian Defense School
*
H R Brayton
Directs Ten
Day Courses
Classes in the first War Depart
ment Civilian Defense school to be
held here were started Monday-
morning with 47 men from several
states in attendance under the di
rection of Major H. R. Brayton,
C. W. S. The course will last for
10 days and at the end of the
training period, the men will re
turn to their local communities to
serve as leaders in the organization
and training program designed for
protection against air raids.
Five similar schools are being or
ganized throughout the nation. The
first was started at Leland Stan
ford University, California, on Feb
ruary 9. Another will begin at Am
herst, Massachusetts, in the near
future. Other schools will be locat
ed in the southeastern part of the
country, the middle west, and the
north west.
The work being covered by the
course is the same as that taught
at the Chemical Warfare School,
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, since
June, 1941. The quota, as set up by
General W. D. Gasser, war de
partment representative in the of
fice of civilian defense, includes 22
men from Fourth and Eighth corps
areas, and two each from the Fifth,
Sixth, and Seventh corps areas,
for the school.
The topics covered in the course
of instruction include civilian de
fense organization, identification
of war gases, gas mask drill, es
pionage and sabotage, training
methods, aircraft warning, incen
diaries, tactics of aerial bombing
and defense, blackouts, plant and
building protection, and citizens
defense corps.
Assisting Major Brayton in the
instruction of the school are Cap
tain V. E. McGuckin, C.W.S.; First
(See DEFENSE, Page 4)
Cotton Ball
Sponsors Send
Club Invitations
Ex-Student Clubs,
Mother’s Clubs and
Student Chapters Invited
Approximately 170 invitations
went out from the Agronomy So
ciety, sponsors of the annual Cot
ton Ball and Pageant, to various
clubs and organizations inviting
them to send representatives to be
duchesses in the king’s court at
the annual affair to be held this
year on May 1 in Sbisa Hall.
A majority of these invitations
went to ex-students clubs, moth
ers clubs, and other A. & M. stu
dent organizations. These clubs will
elect their duchess and her escort
both of whom will appear in the
pageant.
Rabbi
Rabbi Sanders A. Tofield has
been with Congregation Adath
Yeshurn in Houston since
1934. He was ordained at the
Jewish Theological Seminary
of America in New York City.
He is the former president of
the Kallah of Texas Rabbi and
the Southwest Conference of
Jewish Religious Schools. Rab
bi Tofield has adddressed A.
& M. groups on several prev
ious occasions.
Large Crowd Attends Lecture By
Dr G W Truitt in Guion Monday
Promotion List
Advances Many To
Cadet Officership
Colonel Welty
Releases Complete
New List of Promotions
Under provisions of paragraph
32, A. R. 145-10, the following ap
pointments of cadet officers and
non-commissioned officers were
announced February 20, by order
of Col. Welty, commandant of
the college.
Corps, Field, and Staff
Clark, W. W., Major ,Corps Ad
jutant).
Infantry Band
Criswell, R. M., Second Lieuten
ant.
(See LIST, Page 4)
As Sophomores Make Merry
Flight Instructor
Courses Available
Flight Instructor and Cross
Country courses are available to
students who have completed the
Secondary C. P. T. Flight course
it was announced by Professor H.
W. Barlow, head of the Aeronauti
cal Engineering Department. These
courses will be given by the Kadett
Aviation Company at the College
Airport, starting probably the mid
dle of next week.
Since there is a great shortage
of flight instructors, anyone feel
ing he can qualify for this type of
work is requested to report imme
diately to the Aero Department to
obtain information and application
blanks.
Each of the courses offered lasts
about six weeks and consists of ad
vanced ground and flight training
in cross country flight and flight
instruction. A member of the flight
instruction staff of the Kadett
Aviation Company will meet with
all applicants for this work next
Tuesday, February 24, in the Aero
nautical Engineering building at
8 p. m.
Here we find the Sophomores preparing to make merry at the Sophomore ball held in Sbisa hall
Friday night. At the left is T. P. Callier of 1st C.H.Q. handing a program to Miss Beth Hummel of
Houston. Her escort on her left is G. W. Albritton, Houston, member of C CWS. Second escort in at
tendance to Miss Hummel is H. N. McDowell, also of Houston, in C Chem Warfare.
Off-Campus Student Body of 2900
Enrolled in A&M Defense Training
With. an off-the-campus student body of 2900 authorized by the
U. S. Office of Education, for a total of 65 defense training courses,
A. & M. college has announced immediate organization of aeronautical
engineering classes in Terminology, Aircraft Materials and Processes,
Elementary Airplane Structures and Tool, Jig and Fixture Design in
Dallas.
The courses are a part of the
Engineering Science Management
Defense Training program offered
by the college in cooperation with
the U. S. Office of Education.
You’re Not A Brisbane? So
What? There’s Still A Chance
“We wuz robbed!”
I
First the army called certain R.
O. T. C. officers; the air corps
lured potential pilots; General
Hershey’s boys requested the duty
of some; then the deans wondered
how a few stayed in college as
long as they had with so many cuts
and so few grade points. So, as
must come to all A. & M. men,
leaving Aggieland (by one means
or another) came to a great part
of The Battalion newspaper staff
during the past three weeks.
But their leaving wasn’t all in
vain. No, it left openings for per
haps 20 Aggies, any of whom may
some day be Battalion Editor-in-
Chief.
Of course these men needn’t be
miniature Brisbanes or even one
of those scarce oddities known as
an English “queer”. Any good old
hard pluggin’ boy, junior, sopho
more or fish is a fit man, pro
viding he takes advantage of the
opportunity.
Tomorrow afternoon will be the
first time when these opportunities
will be offered. Those men inter
ested who have time off Wednes
day afternoon should come by The
Battalion as soon after 2 o’clock
as possible.
Texas Cottonseed
Crushers Will Meet
Here on May 25-26
Directors of the Texas Cotton
Seed Crushers Association, at a
meeting yesterday, set May 25
through 26 as probable date for
the Annual Short Course for Oil
Mill Superintedents which will
be held at A. & M. for the four
teenth time this year. F. F. Bis
hop of the college chemical en
gineering department reports. Dr.
J. D. Lindsey and Bishop of that
department will have charge of
the course.
Dallas aeronautical engineering
courses will be under direction of
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, head of the
Aeronautical Engineering depart
ment. The purpose of the courses
will be to upgrade aircraft factory
workers endeavoring to equip
themselves for better positions and
for workmen desirous of obtaining
employment in the rapidly ex
panding aircraft industry in Texas.
Courses will be given two nights
per week, two and one half hours
per night, for twelve weeks, with
the exception of the course in
Aeronautical Engineering Termi
nology which lasts only six weeks.
These courses are free to all stu
dents except cost of textbook.
Teachers will be drawn directly
from the industry and will be men
of extensive practical background
in aviation manufacturing.
Courses are now in progress at
Tyler, Kilgore, Texas City, Corsi
cana, Mineral Wells, Beaumont,
Houston, Freeport and Fort Worth.
At Prairie View all Engineering
Defense Training courses author
ized in Texas for negroes are be
ing given by A. & M. college. Seven
courses are in progress now, seven
teen courses have been completed
and two more have been author
ized to start soon.
A meeting will be held in Fort
Worth, Saturday, February 27th,
to plan expansion of the program
in the Northwest Texas area.
Smokestack Climbs
Twelve Feet a Day;
Duplicates First One
The new smokestack, just west
of the power plant, is still under
construction, going up at the
rate of 12 feet a day, The smoke
stack, started on January 8, is be
ing built at a cost of $8,000, and
like the other stack, will tower to
a height of 202 feet.
As now under construction, the
stack will be almost an exact dup
licate of the first, built in 1917 at
the time the power plant was erec
ted.
Down the side of the stack will
be painted in black the words A.
& M. College. This will add color to
both the structures, since they
stand so close together.
New Dorms
Will Be Done
AtEarlyDate
Four Halls To
Be Completed When
Interior Furnished
Final interior finishing on the
four new dormitories west of the
hospital will be completed in the
next couple of weeks E. N. Holm-
green, business manager of the
college stated. All that is holding
up the completion is the installa
tion of several main wiring cir
cuits in all four halls, and the
balance of the tables and dressers
that have not arrived.
Like all other dormitories, these
facilities have been offered to the
United States Army for housing
certain branches of the forces
that might be stationed here for
training in national defense work.
No definite plans have been made
as to which organizations will be
assigned to these dormitories, since
there is still an uncertainty as to
whether any branches of the arm
ed forces will be moved into them.
All beds and mattresses have
been moved into the halls, and two
carloads of dressers have also been
moved in. One carload of - tables
is waiting to be unloaded at the
present time, but no tables have,
as yet, been put in the new halls.
Landscaping of the new dorms
has already been started and it is
expected to be completed in the
next few months. There are two
walks leading from the dorms east
ward to the old mess hall where
the occupants will take their
meals. These walks will be used
to march to the mess hall. Many
of the lightposts are ready, but
as yet have not been set up.
Meetings Will Continue Throughout
Remainder Religious Emphasis Week
More than 2,000 Aggies and visitors attended the first
service of Religious Emphasis W.eek to be held in Guion
Hall at 12:00 yesterday. Fred Smitham, president of the
Y. M. C. A., presided over the meeting. Cadet Colonel Tom
Gillis and Don Burrus, chairman of the Inter-Church Coun
cil, represented the student body on the platform along with
the council presidents of the various church groups who in
troduced the visiting religious leaders from their respective
denominations. ;
Rev. Eugene Brackney of the
Wesley Foundation led in prayer
and Harvey Hatcher led in the
singing of “My Country ’Tis of
Thee”. Rev. R. L. Brown, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Col
lege Station, introduced Doctor
Truett, the principal speaker for
Religious Emphasis Week, who
Tuesday
7:45 A. M. Leader’s Breakfast
Aggieland Inn.
12:00 A. M. Dr. George W.
Truett, Guion HalL
8:00 p.m. Meetings for this
hour same as those on Monday
night except the Christian
group will meet in the Y. M.
C. A. Parlor.
Wednesday
6:30 A. M. Mass and Holy
Communion, Catholic Chapel.
7:00 and 10:00 A. M. Holy
Communion, Episcopal Chapel.
7:45 A. M. Leader’s Breakfast,
Aggieland Inn.
11:00 A. M. D. George W.
Truett, Guion Hall.
5:00 to 6:00 P. M. Coffee
Hour, Y. M. C. A. Parlor.
8:00 P. M. Same as Monday
night.
brought a forceful message on
prayer, concluding with a prayer
of benediction. Marion Lyles play
ed the organ during the assembl
ing and disbursing of the large
crowd and furnished a soft mus
ical background during the pray
ers.
Churches of College Station be-
(See TRUITT, Page 4)
A&M Federal
Credit Union
Has Good Report
Trotter Announces
Dividend; Directors
Re-elected for Two Years
Loans aggregating $17,530 were
made during 1941 without a single
loss by the A. & M. Federal
Credit Union, and the organiza
tion’s reserve fund for bad loans
has not been touched since the
Union was organized in 1939.
This announcement and the an
nouncement of a four and one-half
percent dividend have been made
by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, President
of the Union. Directors re-elected
for two-year periods at the recent
annual stockholders’ meeting are
H. A. Dulan, G. W. Schlesselman
and Dr. Ide P. Trotter. Carry-over
members who will continue to
serve during 1942 are Dr. L. P.
Gabbard and C. E. Bowles.
Books of the Credit Union were
recently audited by the Farm
Credit Administration. The or
ganization’s 180 members soon will
receive or be credited with an an
nual dividend of four and one-half
percent interest on all fully paid
shares, Dr. Trotter said.
Burly Irishman, ‘Good Old Boy’
World Adventurer, Tells Story
Hensley, Bryce
Air Corps Grads
At Merced, Calif
Among the first class of avia
tion cadets to graduate from the
new Air Corps Basic Flying School
at Merced, Calif., are two former
A. & M. students.
They are Willie L. Bryce and
Harold Hensley, Jr.
At the conclusion of a ten-
week’s training course, beginning
next week at Air Corps Advanced
Flying Schools, they will be com
missioned second lieutenants and
placed on active duty with tacti
cal units or will be assigned to
Army Flying Schools as instruc
tors.
The former students began their
basic training at the Merced Air
Base in December, following pre
liminary flight instruction at Air
Corps civilian elementary schools
in California.
By Ken Bresnen
A big burly Irishman whom the
Aggies would describe as “a good
old boy”—that’s Quentin Reynolds,
world adventurer, news writer, au
thor, lecturer who told the corps
last night of his recent trip to the
battle front of Europe.
Although he has led a life of
adventure and thrills, Reynolds still
insists that the title of his most
recent article in Collier’s express
es his true sentiment, “I Don’t
Like to Travel.” When asked what
was the biggest thrill of his life,
the genial war correspondent ans
wered, “Meeting the President of
the United States and spending
30 minutes alone in comference
with him.”
While on the desert battle fronts
of Libya, he went to the front
lines to gather material for his
latest book, which he finished yes
terday morning at the Aggieland
Inn. News men with the British
forces are given the rank of captain
and wear the uniform habitually.
He traveled to the front in a tank,
carrying a “tommy gun“ in one
hand and a note book in the oth
er. While reporters are supposed
to be neutral, the enemy can’t dis
tinguish them in the heat of the
battle, and so they are provid
ed with weapons to defend them
selves.
“This is truly an amazing place,”
said Reynolds, “I’ve never seen
another college like this before.
One of the things that most im
pressed him was the fact that
World Adventurer
An entertaining conversationalist, a man who has been places
and seen things—that’s Quentin Reynolds, world adventurer who
spoke to the Aggies on the Town Hall program last night.
the Aggies can have all the milk
they want, while in England a
civilian can’t even get a drink of
milk. One of the greatest hard
ships on Americans in the war
zone, according to Reynolds who
calls the colonel of his regiment
a “good guy”, is the difficulty of
securing American made cigarettes.
Most American people have a
misconception o f Communistic
Russia. They try to think of it
in terms of the Trotsky regime
which fell years ago. The famous
writer gained the impression that
communism as it operates today
in the soviet is very efficient and
has definitely improved the eco
nomic and living conditions of the
people. “They have it on a money
making basis,” he stated.
At press conferences, Hitler nev
er answers questions, but instead
makes speeches, according to Rey
nolds. His impression of Goering
is that he is somewhat like A1
Capone, a likeable fellow, but a
“genial murderer.”
As for the situation of the Un
ited States, he has definite ideas.
First of all he feels that General
MacArthur is where he belongs and
should stay in the Far East as
long as possible. Secondly, A. & M.
and College Station should ab
solutely go ahead with their plans
for civilian defense. Said Reynolds,
“It is not at all beyond the realm
of possibility that someday a place
like Houston, which is only two
flying hours from the Pacific,
might be bombed.”
One of the peculiarities of the
situation in the States that struck
him as unusual was the fact that
there is no shortage of tires in
England, although they have been
at war for several years, while in
America, tires are already being
rationed.
Although he has slept in front
(See IRISHMAN, Page 4)