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THE BATTALION
From the Alamo to Pearl Harbor—
Galveston News Plans April Centennial
“Remember the Alamo,” and a
burning desire to bolster the tot
tering Texas Republic, Samuel
Bajigs, a roving soldier-printer,
toiled all night on his hand-press,
under sperm candle, in a one-room
shack, and issued on the morning
of April 11, 1842, a puny four-page
folder: Volume 1, No. 1—The Gal
veston News.
Today, spurred by another slo
gan “Remember Pearl Harbor,”
this selfsame publication on its
giant rolls will dedicate on April
11, 1942 its one-hundredth mile
stone of 36,525 days of continuous
service under three flags, across
seven cycles of panic and prosper
ity, and upon the threshold of its
sixth war: Volume 101, No. 1—
The Galveston News.
"blockades, and its issuance of edi
tions during flood and fire, reads
almost like fiction. Its lone sur
vival, when other newspapers dur
ing the era of the Republic col
lapsed, is legend.
Moreover, its record of main
taining correspondents in key
cities, of first installing telegraph
and telephone service in Texas, of
devoting an entire building to the
newspaper business, and of operat
ing two newspapers 315 miles
apart by leasing telegraph and
connecting the offices of The Gal
veston News with that of The
Dallas News, were among the
feats which early placed this pub
lication in the forefront of nation
wide journalistic endeavors.
Plans originally formulated for
celebrating this historic occasion
of a centennial anniversary of Tex
as’ Oldest Newspaper, and only
survivor of the Republic, have been
curtailed. Only a special editiop,
for which “copy” has been in the
making since late summer, will be
issued.
The centennial edition, accord
ing to its publisher, will be char
acterized by that same spirit of
Defense as originally' exemplified
by Bangs and maintained through
out the century—defense of home
and country, of community and na
tion, of individual and state.
The story of The News with its
hairbreadth escapades, its fiery po
litical campaigns, its defiance of
Minnesota U Issues
Warning to Students
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AGP)—
Students not at the University of
Minnesota to better themselves so
that the nation may be bettered
have been invited to pack up and
go elsewhere by President Walter
C. Coffey.
“I regret to make the observa
tion,” the educator declared, “but
I believe it is true that in spite
of the reality of the crisis that
confronts us, and in spite of the
manifold sacrifices it calls for,
large numbers of citizens are actu
ally making sacrifices a matter
of lip service.
Another Aggie General
Brigadier General A. D. Bruce recently has had his name added
to the continually growing list of Ex Aggies who wear stars on
their shoulders. With his promotion came the assignment of com
manding officer of the new Tank Destroyer Tactical and Firing
Center now under construction at Killeen, Texas. Until the camp
is completed General Bruce’s headquarters will be maintained at
Temple.—Photograph courtesy of the Temple Telegram.
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-THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1942
List of Quartermaster Corps Transfers
Completed; Training Now Under Way
The Quartermaster Corps train
ing is now well under way Lieut.
M. E. Speer, temporary tactical
officer for the unit, said yester
day. This afternoon a third group
of men will meet class for the first
time and be told, as were those
men who met class Tuesday and
Wednesday, of the plans for the
branch at A. & M.
The following is a list of those
who were permitted to transfer:
Contract seniors approved for
transfer:
Field Artillery—Bartschmid, Al
bert Henry, Jr.; Craig, Newton
Vincent; Crouch, James W.; Gor-
zycki, George C.; Hefley, John
Martin, Jr.; Hickman, Isaac New
ton; Lamb, John W.; Risinger, Ray
B. ; Rosenthal, Ely Manuel; Stuart,
T. E.; Warren, R. J.
Cavalry—Alexander, J. 0.; Bak
er, Charles E.; Callaway, Leonard
C. ; Cline, Edbert C.; Criswell,
Thomas R.; Fitzstephens, John J.;
Garrett, Curan L.; Hasse, Henry
W.; Homeyer, Fred C.; Shelton,
David S.
Infantry—Anderson, William R.;
Camp, Lelon T.; Cathey, Alden La
nier; Cleveland, Jack; Collard, E.
G.; Dorsey, Woodrow Eugene;
Grote, Gordon H.; Harrison, Guy
F.; Hinson, Billye J.; McBride,
William J.; McCarty, Charles T.;
McGourick, Glenn C.; McWhorter,
Herbert C.; Motley, Zolus Carlton;
Norris, M. J.; Ramsel, Curtis D.;
Scoggin, J. D.; Stengel, Lee Roy.
Coast Artillery Corps—Spivey,
Marshall.
Elective seniors approved for
transfer:
Infantry—Berry, William T.;
Hall, Marvin E.; Hassie, James W.;
Montgomery, James W.; Roddy,
L. R.
Cavalry—Caudill, Geoi’ge T.
Non-military graduating seniors
approved for transfer:
Higgins, Elbert J., (Completed
1st semester 1st year basic, which
was taken electively).
Higgins, Albert B., (Completed
1st semester 1st year basic, which
was taken electively).
Graduating senior, now taking
second semester, 1st year advanced,
electively:
Welch, Raymond J.
The following men now taking
the second semester, 1st year ad
vanced Military Science are ap
proved for transfer to the Quar
termaster Corps Unit:
Cavalry—Gunn, Claude, Jr.; My
ers, James T.; O’Conner, John D.
Field Artillery—Coursey, James
Q. ; Erwin, James Q.; Stevens, John
R. ; Walker, Garland R.
Infantry—Ammons, Harold L.;
Bridges, Louis A., Dennington,
John F.; Dismukes, Isaac B.; El
more, James V.; Harrell, William
T.; Head, Thurman A.; Kidd, Billy
F.; Livingston, Ollie B.; Love, C.
R.; Magers, Carroll A., Jr.; Mog-
ford, Lorenzo M.; Mudd, James E.;
Murtha, Carrol E.; Mutschink, Al
fred 0.; Roming, John A.; Sample,
Reuben A.; Simmons, Jack E.; Up-
ham, Howard Wesley; Wallace,
William B.; Welch, Raymond J.
The following non-military men
are approved for enrollment in the
Junior Quartermaster Corps work:
Field Artillery—Briscoe, Andrew
C.; Burleson, John Travis; But-
trill, W. V.; Donovan, Richard;
Strickland, Douglas E.; Thomas,
Wayne Wright.
Engineers—Ulich, Willie Lee.
Coast Artillery Corps—Wylie,
Arch C., Jr.
Infantry—Craig, Frank Robert;
Green, Thomas A.; Hornback, Jim
Frank; Mills, W, G.; Mitchell, B.
S.; Outterside, Charles E.; Poland,
Joe Welton; Post, C. W.; Ringer,
Stephen Lee; Schults, R. S.; Wade,
James H.; Weems, Jardon N.;
Wise, C. W.; Dalby, Frederick B.
Cavalry — Ferguson, Sam H.;
Fuhrmann, Fred F.; Fuller, Ger
ald R.
Trio of Fightin’ Americans Began
Basic Training at Randolph Field
If tradition means anything, a"
trio of the fightin’est, shootin’est
scrappers west of Smolensk and
east of Rangoon have just arrived
at the famous “West Point of the
Air” to begin their basic flying
training.
Between them, they can list
about seven centuries of military
family background, a battalion or
two of officers, and representa
tives in every American war from
the earliest colonial Indian skir
mishes to tomorrow’s potential
Battle of Tokyo.
The are: Aviation Cadets Dick
H. Mudge, Edwardsville, HI.;
Schuyler K. Van Rensselaer, of
New York City; and, naturally, a
Texan—Thomas A. Reiner, ex-
Aggie, of San Antonio.
Paradoxically, Cadet Mudge,
who wants to be a combat flier as
soon as he finishes his training, is
the great-great-great grandson of
the first American-born Method
ist minister in the United States
—Enoch Mudge, of Salem, Mass.
Yet, the history of the Mudge
family is handily besprinkled with
fighters. Several were officers in
the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812; an uncle fought with
Teddy Roosevelt in the Philip
pines; numerous Mudges served
in France during the last war.
Besides his grandfather, Eliot
W. Mudge, who joined the Con
federate Army at 16, Cadet Mudge
can even claim relatives on both
sides of the Civil War—including
a great-great cousin and a great
uncle, who were both killed at
Gettysburg. Both were named
Redington Mudge, and Cadet
Mudge discovered his relationship
to the former from a memorial
tablet at Harvard University,
where he graduated in 1940. *
The name of Van Rensselaer is
practically synonymous with Am
erican military lore. Related by
marriage to both Alexander Ham
ilton and Gen. Phillip Schuyler of
Revolutionary fame, young Van
Rensselaer can trace his family
history back to 1632 when his
Dutch forebearers first settled in
New York,
Yet, 145 years later, Van Ren-
nsselaer’s were fighting for Gen.
Washington. Foremost among
them was Gen. Soloman Van Ren
sselaer, a great-great uncle, and
Col. Phillip Van Rensselaer, his
great-great-great grandfather,
who also fought in the War of
1812.
Another war, another Van Ren
sselaer—Sgt. G. W., who fought
in the Civil War with the 4th New
Jersey Battery at Gettysburg and
Bull Run. Others distinguished
themselves in World War I.
Cadet Reiner’s military family
tree goes back to Revolutionary
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members of the family who fought
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Washington.
He had several relatives—all of
ficers—in the Civil War, including
Capt. Joseph Zebulon Hearst, his
great grandfather, who rode under
J. E. B. Stuart. Another was Gen
eral Abner Perrin of South Caro
lina, a great-great uncle.
The son of Major Thomas A.
Reiner, retired, of San Antonio,
Cadet Reiner has a personal mili
tary background which is far
from usual. He attended New
Mexico Military Institute at Ros
well, N.M., from 1938-39, where
he was in the Cavalry; he attend
ed C.M.T.C. for two years where
he was in the Infantry; and he
has also attended A. & M., from
1939-41, where he was in the Field
Artillery.
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