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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICTAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION IS2 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1942 2275 NUMBER 87 Johnson Pays Tribute To Aggies on Corregidor Isle « Xmuai'reed General Moore, Major King, Captain Vick And Alumni Club Celebrate San Jacinto From The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON, April 21. — Representative Luther Johnson of Corsicana, in whose congressional district Texas A. & M. College is situated, took the floor in the House to pay tribute to this school, the largest institution of its kind in the world and the greatest source of reserve officers for the United States Army in the entire country. The present student body, Johnson told the House, is in excess of 7,000, “all young men- who are husky, patriotic, red- blooded Americans, affectionately referred to as the Aggies.” “At this time there are two Major Generals and five Brigadier Generals in the Army who received their first military training at Texas A. & M. College. They are Major Gen. George F. Moore, who so brilliantly commanded coast ar tillery defenses at Corregidor Is land, the Philippines, and Major G'en. Ralph Hudson Wooten, Air Corps. The Brigadier Generals now in service include Douglas B. Netherwood, Air Corps; Howard S. Davidson, Air Corps; John A. Warden, Quartermaster Corps; Harry H. Johnson, Air Corps, and Andrew D. Bruce, tank destroyer command. “Three sons of Texas A. & M. have received high-valor awards in this war: Capt. James T. Con- nally, cousin of Senator Tom Con- nally, received the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a bornb- er squadron from Java to Minda nao in the Philippines, sinking a Japanese tanker and rescuing twenty-three stranded American pilots on the island. “First Lieut. Henry C. Dittman, former Aggie football star, re ceived the Distinguished Service Cross for leading a squadron over uncharted air route to the Philip pines via India. Major Louis Hobbs was cited for valor for leading an air mission ip the Philippfyies. First Lieut. Jonathan Wainwright, new commander of the Philippines, replacing Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur. “General Moore, before leaving A. & M. to take command at Cor regidor fortress, selected thirty- five graduating Aggies out of the 1940 class to precede him to the Philippines while he was serving as commandant at Texas A. & M. All of these Aggies were line of ficers at Corregidor during the re cent conflict there.” Johnson also placed in the Con gressional Record an article writ ten by G. Byron Winsted, director of information at Texas A. & M. College, and published in the mag azine Digest, entitled Those Fight- in’ Texas Aggies. Completion Nears On YMCA Work Work on the new lounge in the YMCA is nearing completion, and by the first of next semester, A. & M. will have a completely mod ernized lounge and recreation cen ter. The project is the result of the work of a committee which con ceived the plan early this year. The men responsible in a large measure for the improvements are Preston Bolton, chairman of the committee, Terry Thrift, R. B. Pearce, Fred Smitham and Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis. These men went before the board of directors with their plan and the board arranged for a $14,- 000 loan to remodel and add to the building. To this amount an addi tional $3,000 was contributed by the YMCA. . As the work progressed, the committee found itself in need of advice as to interior decoration. The TSCW Fine Arts, Interior Decoration class came to their aid and made a two day trip to College Station. They submitted several plans to the committee, who in turn worked out minor details re garding durability, because of the unusual amount of wear the fur nishings in a boys school receive. The ping pong tables which were formerly in the Y lobby, will be placed in the new basement of the old Y when it is completed and in the new Y building. Three tables will be in each place. San Jacinto Day Celebrated by Exes On Corregidor Isle While Officers Sang Aggie WarHymn Subordinates Let Shells Drop on Japanese The heavy Japanese attacts on the fortress of Corregidor did not stop the Aggie defenders of the rock from celebrating San Jacinto Day. During heavy Japanese ar tillery action, the officers who re ceived their training at A. & M. gathered about their commander, Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, for mer commandant and also an ex- Aggie, to sing the famous Aggie War Hymn and numerous other Texas songs. This information was sent by the Corregidor wireless to the war department and was then passed on to Senator Tom Connally. In Washington, D. C. Dr. T. O. Walton President A&M College War Department today re ceived radiogram advising Texas soldiers at Corregidor celebrating San Jacinto Day. Corregidor chapter of Alumni Texas A&M of which Major Tom Dooley president is par ticipating. Among those pres ent General Moore, Major John King, and Captain Roy Vick last two of Bryan, Texas. Please notify their relatives and friends. Luther A. Johnson MC addition to General Moore, the of ficers in the fort who are ex-Ag- gies number thirty-five. In a statement delivered on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senator Connally paid this tribute to the Aggies of the “beleaguered island fortress”: “The war department has just, advised me of receipt of a cable from General Wainwright in com mand of Corregidor fortress in the Philippines advising that Texas boys from Corregidor celebrated San Jacinto day with appropriate exercises and Texas songs. “The group included General George F. Moore, chief of artil lery. The cable also informed us there is a Corregidor chapter of the alumni association of Texas A. & M. “It must stir every Texan’s (See SAN JACINTO, Page 6) Dr Walton Gives Address at Press Eight Seniors Receive Watches as Awards For Functions on Publications With President T. O. Walton bringing the principal address, the members of the Press Club held their annual banquet last night in the annex of Sbisa Hall. Awards were given to those members of the club who have served on the staffs of the student publications for the past year. Dean F. C. Bol ton presented the awards, and Ralph Criswell, president of the club, was the toastmaster. Eight seniors received watches for their work on the publications. R. L. Heitkamp, E. M. Rosenthal, Mike Haikin, Ralph Criswell, Jack Grantham, Billy Davis, Roland Bing, and Harvey Lynn were the seniors who received these watch es. Also fourteen seniors were giv en gold keys for three years serv ice. Silver keys were awarded to all members of the publications staff who worked for two years, and bronze keys were given to those who had been on the staff for one year. Guests for the banquet were the columnists who contributed to the Battalion. Also members of the Student Activities Committee, Dean and Mrs. Bolton, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Angell, and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Williams attended the club’s banquet. After the banquet an election of officers was held for the coming year. A A U P Climaxes Activities Tuesday With Annual Meal Special Tribute Paid By Dr Abbott to Dean Jones For Scientific Endeavors Climaxing the activities of the A. & M. Chapter of the American Association of University Profes sors was the annual banquet held Tuesday evening and featuring the address of Dean E. N. Jones of Baylor on “What’s in a Curricul um.” Special tribute was paid to Dean Jones by Dr. John Paul Abbott, president of the chapter, and by Dean F. C. Bolton congratulating him on his outstanding achieve ments in scientific and administra tive endeavors at Baylor Univer sity and honoring him as presi dent-elect of the College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville. Other highlights of the banquet besides Dean Jones’ address were musical recordings of Southern folksongs by Professor Owens of the English department and violin numbers of Mrs. C. H. Groneman. A representation of nine or more professors were present from Bay lor University. Infantrymen Dance Tomorrow To Strains by Aggieland Orchestra Aggieland Orchestra Pictured above is Toppy Pierce’s Aggieland Band who will play for the Infantry Ball tomorrow night when the regiment swings out in their annual dance. Color Variation Is Theme Of Architecture Student Lounge The wall is red! Brick-red, at that. And the ceil ing is pearl-grey. Another wall is yellow—maybe canary-yellow/ The finishing touch is that pea-green wall and the red columns—yes, brick-red, too. That’s the story of the colors in the lounge the stu dents in the Architecture depart ment are finishing. Colors aren’t all that it takes to tell the story of this lounge—the only one of its kind on this or any other campus. After having talked about it for several years, the students and profs decided to Tank Destroyer Unit Stages Small Review for Aggies Displaying more of the power of the United States Army, a com pany from the newly organized tank destroyer battalion which is located at Temple performed for the cadet corps Tuesday afternoon after the review. The company was inspected by all Aggies as well as visitors who wanted to learn more about the newest unit, of the armed forces. A tank destroyer company is composed of two platoons with each one containing four 75 mm guns mounted on trucks. Also in the company there is a platoon 37 mm guns. All guns are mobile in order to meet the opposition of the tank. The other part of the company is made up of headquar ters and maintenance sections. Boyd Raeburn Returns to A&M, Plays Two Straight in Calendar By Ken Bresnen Boyd Raeburn scores a double this year when he comes to the campus two weeks in a row to play for the Junior Prom and the Sen ior Ring Dance and Final Ball. On May 8, Raeburn and his band of troubadors will arrive at A. & M. for the second engagement in as many years to furnish the sweet and swing for the Juniors as they feast and dance. Then after a short hop to the big city, the band will return the following Thursday to help the Senior class make merry at their annual Ring Turning Ceremonies and dance. The graduating future lieutenants will step through the giant ring to be kissed by their dates to the rythms of Raeburn’s orchestra. Climaxing the school year and his stay at A. & M., the orchestra leader will play for the most crowded dance of the year, the night fish become upperclassmen and juniors enter their last year, the Final Ball. While on the campus for the Composite ball last year, Raeburn commented that the Aggies are the finest group of men he has Picnic Held Today For Ag Engineers Officers of the Agricultural En gineers Society urged all Agri cultural Engineers to be present for their annual picnic this after noon at 5 o’clock. Transportation will be provided for all from the Agricultural Engineering Building to the picnic grounds. Besides a lot of bats and baseballs for base ball and bootball, there will be plenty of good food for everybody. Later in the afternoon awards will be given to the outstanding Agri cultural Engineers of this year. Underclassmen are especially urged to be present to see the awards and to realize that the So ciety has to offer. ever seen. At the time he said that he would come back to A. & M. some day, because he liked the people here. When he was asked to play the Final Ball and Senior Ring Dance this year, he accepted at once even though it meant the cancelling of two previous engage ments to do sor. “Rythms by Raeburn” featuring Boyd and his 14 madcaps of swing and sway are currently featured over Mutual and other leading networks. He has just completed a long engagement at the Chez Paree in Chicago, and his appear ances at Aggieland will be part of a swing through the south during which Raeburn has contracted dances and proms at several lead ing universities. Town Hall will also feature Rae burn in a one-hour swing concert on May 15. This program will be given in Sbisa Hall prior to the Final Ball and will be available to Town Hall patrons on this sea son’s ticket. have delicately drawn the fine lines of art of the past, present and future grabbed hammers, nails, sewing - needles, paint brush es and saws. And— As the lounge stands today, it is solely for the leisure and pleas ure of the students and faculty of the Architecture department. The furniture consists of couches, over stuffed and under-stuffed chairs, and tables—card tables, serving tables and just plain tables. Most of the furniture is of original de sign, but some of it is reupholster ed furniture. In the corner that houses the circular stairway lead ing to the lounge is a mural of student life as an architectural student. And a red wall. 5th Annual Flower Show Sponsored By Gardeners Friday The fifth annual flower show sponsored by the A. & M. Garden club will be held in the rotunda of the Administration building Fri day afternoon from 2 to 7 p.m. The show is expected to give a representative picture of the flow ers which are grown around Bryan and College Station. Local gardens have always contributed to the growing of flowers for the inter ested plant lovers of the club. Friends of the club and all mem bers of the club are asked to dis play any flowers which they may have. Members desiring to enter ar rangements or plants should con sult the April 18 edition of the Battalion for the classification list and rules. Freshman Corps Contest Is May 27 Monday, May 27, the annual Freshman Crops Judging Contest will take place in the basement of the Agriculture Building. The contest, sponsored by the Agronomy Society, is open to all freshmen in the school of agricul ture and is divided into two divis ions: the judging of farm crops and the identification of crop va rieties and weeds found in field crops. Sophs Seeking Q M C Contracts Interviewed Today Those men who have made ap plication for advanced contracts in the Quartermaster Corps and who are also finishing their basic mili tary science this semester have been requested by Captain Lester Hanks to report to the QMC of fice at 36 Ross Hall today. Cap tain Hanks will interview these men from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and after 5 p.m. Culberson, Chapman/* Brown, Pesek and Taylor on Committee Infantrymen will take the dance floor with their dates tomorrow night at ten o’clock as Toppy Pearce and his Ag gieland Orchestra open th6 annual Infantry Ball to the strains of the music which gate returns indicate to be most popular with the Aggies. Arrangements for the dance are being made by a committee of juniors under the chairmanship of J. H. McAllister, H Infantry. The finance committee consists of Mc Allister, J. R. Fritsch, M Com pany, K. N. Parker, F Company, C. G. Henderson, A Company and J. P. Alford, D Company. O. L. Culberson, J. T. Chapman, H. D. Brown, J. T. Pesek and J. L. Taylor have been in charge of orchestra arrangements for the dance, while E. A. (Flash) Gor don, J. B. Longley, E. E. Jones, J. R. Adams and R. W. Mulhollan have been in charge of procure ment of programs, favors and in vitations. Decorations for Sbisa Hall have been planned and carried out under the supervision of R. L. Hanby, C. R. Barth, A. J. MacNab and J. L. Standefer. President T. O. Walton and the deans of the several schools have been invited to the ball as repre sentatives of the faculty and also to act as the official chaperones. Col. M. D. Welty, commandant, and other members of the military department have also' been extend ed invitations, as ( have various members of the executive staff and the sports department. Pearce has added to the person nel of his orchestra and will greet the Infantry regiment with new arrangements of the latest hit tunes. The Aggieland is one of the few orchestras to appear at A. & M. dances this season successfully. Alexander Assigned To Instruct Ordnance Major Donald D. Alexander, Ordnance, has been assigned to A. & M. as the instructor for the newly formed ordnance branch of the ROTC. Major Alexander is ex pected to arrive within a few days from Abderdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Graduation Exercises For ’42 Published Tom Gillis To Deliver Valedictory Speech At Guion Hall Assembly The program of the Commence ment Exercises for the class of 41- 42 has beer} issued, and the plans promise three full days of activ ity, beginning with the final con cert of the A. & M. College Band, Thursday, May 14, and ending with the Final Review Saturday, May 16. Following the band concert on Thursday, the Senior Ring Dance and included ceremonies will be held in Sbisa Hall for the Seniors and their dates. Friday morning. May 15, the day’s activities will begin with the Baccalaureate Ser mon, rendered this year by Rt. Rev. Clinton S. Quinn, D. D., Epis copal Bishop of the Diocese of Texas, of Houston. Friday after noon all departments will be open for inspection. Beginning with the Commence ment Processional, the Commence ment Exercises will be held in Guion Hall, Friday night, May 15. For the commencement address, the arrangement committees have been fortunate in obtaining Hon. Sam Rayburn of Texas, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Following the commencement address, Cadet Col onel Tom Gillis will deliver the Valedictory address, and the con- feering of degrees will be carried out by President T. O. Walton. After the commencement exer cises, President and Mrs. Walton will be at home informally to members of the graduating class and their guests, former students and their families, and members of the faculty and their families. The Final Ball will be held in Sbisa Hall beginning at 10 o’clock. Saturday morning, immediately following the formal presentation of reserve commissions by Brig, Gen. Andrew W. Bruce from the Tank Destroyer Center, Temple, Texas. r BUT Owens Speaks on Folklore Before Hillel Group Sunday “Folk Music of the Southwest” will be the subject of a talk by Dr. W. A. (“Bill”) Owens of the English Department Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to hear the talk, which is sponsored by the Hillel club at its regular meeting in the lounge of Sbisa Hall. In addition to telling “tall tales,” Dr. Owens will play phonograph recordings from a selection of numerous records he has collected throughout the Southwest. They will consist of folk ballads and the songs of cowboys, Mexicans, Lou isiana Cajuns, and negroes, many of which are known only to spe cialists. Typical of these are “El Chino,” a comic song in which a Mexican imitates the mispronun ciation of Spanish by a Chinaman; “Cinq Sous,” a French Cajun song from Pont Breaux, Louisiana; and “De Hitler Blues,” which was com posed by Grey Ghost, a young ne gro from Navasota, and recorded by Dr. Owens in June, 1940. In February of this year it was broadcast by the British Broad casting Company from London to illustrate what is happening to American music in time of war. The words of the song are as fol lows: De Hitler Blues You talk about Ribbentrop. You ought to seen him in No- Man’s-Land. He got de wuss ole Hitlerism Of any man in de land. He say his air fleet is so pow erful, Ain’t no army can hold de ground. But I say when the good ole U. S. comes in, There won’t be no Hitlerism nowheres around. » Don’t worry, people. After po’ ole Hitler’s gone. You can just say to yo’self, “One more overrated matt done dead and gone.” After he’s dead and gone, There’ll be peace in every land. But I want to say to you, Mussolini; You ought to do de best you can. For the past five years Owens has specialized in the collecting and recording of Southwestern folk music. At the University of Iowa he studied under Dr. Edwin Ford Piper, a specialist in folk lore. He has lectured before Texas Folklore Society (for three; consecutive years), the Times'ClulS of Iowa City, and various college groups. On April 16 he spoke be fore members of the Kentucky Educational Association at Louis ville and the next day before the combined faculty and student body? of the University of Kansas, his subject on both occasions being “The Southwest Sings.” His con viction is that the folklore and culture of the Southwest deserves to be better known to his fellow Texans.