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 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1942
2275
NUMBER 7
Laundry
Fee Raised
Next Month
Students Allowed
To Have One More
Shirt and Trousers
The business manager of the
college has announced that the
laundry fee beginning July 6 will
be increased 15 cents a week. This
increase will allow all students to
have one more shirt and a pair of
trousers each week, instead of
having to pay the regular price
for extra pieces of soiled clothing.
The request for an increase in
the number of pieces allowed was
made by the organization com
manders. The matter was referred
to the business manager who fig
ured the actual cost of the two
extra items, and it is at the actual
cost that cadets will pay for this
extra laundry. This prevents the
payment of 25 cents should the
student exceed his alloted number
of 23 pieces per week.
Vacancies Exist In
Field and Infantry
Bands for Freshmen
Freshmen, here is your chance
to get in the groove and really
show the boys what you have on
the ball. All of you who have a
yen to be in a big band (the larg
est school band in the South), and
can play anything from a piccolo to
a bass'liorn, have the chance if you
will take advantage of it.
There are vacancies in both the
Field Artillery and Infantry bands.
It makes no difference what branch
you are in at the present time, that
can be taken care of later. The
main thing is that you want to
play something and there is the
place for you if you want it.
All who are interested in any
way and want more information
of any kind are urged to see W. F.
Bucy in Room 301, Dormitory 11.
Revision Of
CPT Courses s
To Be Made
Claude Nathan In
Flight Training At
Pensacola Air Station
Claude C. Nathan, Jr., son of
Mrs. Nina Bell Campbell of 391
Clarksville Street, Paris, Texas,
was recently appointed a Naval
Aviation Cadet and was trans
ferred to the Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Fla., for flight training,
according to an announcement
made by the public relations office
of that station.
Nathan, who attended the Texas
A. & M. College in College Station,
Texas, was sent to the Naval Re
serve Aviatiorj B?se in Dalfas.
Texas, the middle of February.
There he successfully passed the
elimination training course the
first of April.
Upon completion of the inten
sive seven-month course at The
Annapolis of the Air, Nathan will
receive his designation as a Naval
Aviator with a commission as
Ensign in the Naval Reserve or as
2nd Lieutenant in the Marine
Corps Reserve and wilk go on
active duty.
LONGHORN SCHEDULE
June 15 to 22, Infantry Sen
iors.
June 23 to 29, Engineer Sen
iors.
June 30 to July 6, Cavalry
Seniors.
July 7 to 13, Field Artillery
Seniors.
July 14 to 20, Coast Artillery
Seniors.
July 21 to 27, Composite
Regiment Seniors.
Final Registration
Of Nation’s Men
To Be Made June 30
Anyone Born Between
January 1, 1922 And
June 30, 1924 Must Sign
Plans are under way to register
approximately 220,000 young Tex
ans between the ages of eighteen
and twenty, inclusive, on June 30,
General J. Watt Page, State Se
lective Service Director, announced
today.
All men who were born on or
after January 1, 1922, and on or
before June 30, 1924, must reg
ister between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m.,
■on Tuesday, June 30, General Page
warned, and they must be careful
to give their correct addresses
where official communications will
p.each them without delay. 11% said:
“This fifth registration will com
plete the inventory of the Na
tion’s potential manpower, although
under current policy, men under
twenty are not subject to induc
tion for combat duty.
“Local boards will officially de
signate places of registration in
their particular areas. While any
one who is unavoidably away from
his home on June 30 may register
at the registration place most con
venient on that day, all registrants
are urged to make every effort to
register with their own local boards
to avoid possible confusion in the
future. Any person who must reg
ister away from home is warned
to specify his home address so
that his registration card may be
forwarded promptly to his own
local board.
“A registrant who has more
than one place of residence may
choose which one he wants record
ed as his place of residence, and in
making the choice he designates
the local board which will always
have jurisdiction over him.”
Barlow Confers
With Officials
About Changes
Drastic revision of the courses
offered by the college for Civilian
Pilot Training was forseen by H.
W. Barlow, head of the aeronauti
cal engineering department, on his
return this week from Washing
ton, D.C., where he conferred with
government officials about the
matter.
The Navy has completely en
dorsed the program and is making
arrangements so that all Navy V-5
and V-l men who have been de
ferred to complete their schooling,
or because of lack of training fa
cilities, may take immediate flight
training under C.P.T. facilities.
This has been done as a result of
efforts to make use of any and all
existing training facilities in the
country.
Mr. Barlow would like to meet
with any interested Navy V-5 or
V-l men Thursday evening at 7
o’clock in the petroleum engineer
ing lecture room. Also any other
men who have already turned in
an application for Civilian Pilot
Training of any grade are request
ed to be at this meeting. All eligi
bility requirements will be discuss
ed at that time.
First Corps Dance
Saturday Evening
bisa Dining Hall
Hackney and Aggieland
Made Favorable Impression
On Kapers Appearance
Saturday evening at 9 o’clock
the first official corps dance of
the semester will begin in the main
dining room of Sbisa Hall with
Don Hackney and his new Aggie
land orchestra furnishing the mu
sic for the affair.
The orchestra, as well as their
charming vocalist, Norma Jean
Jahn, of Houston, sweetheart of
the Eighth Corps Area, was in
troduced to the cadet corps last
Saturday night on the Kadet Ka
pers program. Bobby Stephens, so
cial secretary of the senior class,
said that from the great reception
given them by the corps on their
introduction, top-flight music may
be expected for the corps dance.
According to Stephens, this to
be an informal dance, the girls
wearing summer dresses, and
proper dress for cadets being the
number 2 khaki uniform.
Script for the dance will be $1.10
and he urged that everyone bring
a date to the dance.
Town Hall Opens the ’42 - ’43 Series
In Guion Hall Featuring Henry Scott
More Members Needed to Swell
Sections of Singing Cadets
The Singing Cadets of Aggie
land are still in need of new mem
bers. There is still room for any
student with the desire to partici
pate in college group singing.
Try-outs were conducted the lat
ter part of last week, and a little
practice on numbers was started.
Regular practices will be com
menced this week, but it is by no
means too late to get your name
on the roll.
Practice for the Singing Cadets
is held every Monday, Tuesday and
Thursday from 7 to 8 o’clock in the
Assembly Hall. Anyone interested
may join by coming by the Assem-
bfy Hall on these nights, or con
tacting Director Richard Jenkins
at any time.
You needn’t be prospective opera
talent to get into the Singing Ca
dets. The ability to carry a tune
is the only requisite. If in doubt,
come by anyway. There’s a lot of
fun and experience in store.
Civilian Defense
Graduates Near 400
Another 29 men joined the ranks
of the graduates of the War De
partment Civilian Protection
school at Texas A. & M. College
when the eierbth class graduated
Wednesday afternoon, June 10, and
brought to nearly 400 the num
ber who have completed the course.
All students are sent to the
school by the Regional Office of
Civilian Defense for the purpose
of taking an intensive course in
the approved methods of combat
ting air raids, incendiaries and war
gases. All phases of the work
is covered in a ten-day (jourse con
ducted by officers and enlisted
men of the Chemical Warfare
Service of the War Department.
Upon graduation the men re
turn to their home communities
where they in turn serve as in
structors in the same kind of work.
At the present five such schools
are in operation and the one at
Texas A. & M. draws its students
from as far off as Illinois, Wis
consin, North and South Dakota,
Florida, Georgia, and Minnesota,
as well as Texas and adjoining
states.
The class began its work on Mon
day and succeeding classes will fol
low every other Monday thereaf
ter.
College Unable To
Replenish Stocks
Of Vital Materials
B. D. Marburger, superintendent
of the building and college utili
ties department announced Mon
day that due to the low priority
rating obtained by the college it
is impossible to replenish certain
stocks that ere needed by the col
lege warehouse.
These include steel, reinforcing
steel, lumber, copper wire, copper
pipe, aluminum, aluminum paint,
fans, sheet copper, tin, zinc, rub
ber hose, braC* cap screws and
machine screws and, lead.
Marburger stated that if any of
these materials are needed it will
be necessary to get them from
some other source than the ware
house..
Horticulture Club
Hears Hormone Talk;
Summer ShowPlanned
The use of napthaleneacetic acid
as a hormone was the subject of
the talk given by T. J. McLeiach
to the Horticulture Society at its
regular meeting Thursday night.
The acid is us^l to prevent the
dropping of apples at maturity,
thus saving a great number of
them from becoming spoiled be
fore harvesting. It was pointed out
that the acid must be sprayed on
two or three days before the ap
ples mature if it is to most effec
tive.
Also, the Summer Horticulture
Show was discussed and the fea
tured fruit will be peaches, rib
bons being awarded for the three
best bushels.
Bolling Elected
President ASME
For Coming Year
Lantau Vice-President,
Spraggins Program Head;
Senior Curriculum Changed
The A. & M. Student Chapter of
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers elected officers at the
first meeting of the year Thurs
day night when T. J. Bolling was
elected president. The other offi
cers are Martin Lantau, vice-
president, N. F. Spraggins, pro
gram chairman, Bob Haltom, sec
retary, and Paul Kelly, treasurer.
Preceding the election, talks
were made by J. G. H. Thompson
and V. M. Faires of the mechani
cal engineering department in
which special attention was given
to the fact that new students
should participate in club activi
ties as much as possible in order
to make professional contacts la
ter on. Also C. W. Crawford an
nounced certain changes in the
senior curriculum. The A.S.M.E.
would like to have all mechanical
engineering students that are not
already connected with the club
join to participate in the activi
ties.
Methodist Council
Organized Friday
The A. & M. Methodist Student
Council met for the first time dur
ing the summer session last Fri
day night at 7:15. The meeting
was held on the lawn of the parson
age, with a large number of old
and new members present. .
Discussion and appointment of
various committees to carry on the
summer program was accomplished,
and plans were made. The meeting
was presided over by Tom Myers,
president of the council.
Defense Drafting
Courses Offered;
No Tuition Fees
Offers Of Employment
Received Quickly By
Those Completing Course
A hurry-up call for more candi
dates to fill the ranks of a newly-
launched ESMDT course in ad
vanced engineering drawing was
sent out today by W. E. Street,
head of the engineering drawing-
department.
The course, sponsored by federal
Engineering, Science, Manage
ment Defense Training in coopera
tion with Texas A&M College,
equips students in 12 weeks to be
come draftsmen in defense indust
ries, at salaries ranging from $150
to $250 per month.
There is no tuition to pay, Street
said, and living expenses on the
college campus or nearby should
cost no more than $10 per week,
'or $120 for the whole course.
Any person with a high school
education which included drawing
and mathematics, or who has had
equivalent experience, is eligible
to enrdil in the intensive course.
The course consists of 34 hours
per week, half of which is devot
ed to engineering drawing. Shop
practice, descriptive geometry and
shop mathematics fill out the cur
riculum.
The course officially opened
June 10 but registrations will be
taken through today with no pen
alty for tardiness, Street announc
ed. Persons residing far from
the school may indicate they desire
to take the course by wiring Street
before departure for College Sta
tion.
“There are more than 200 re
quests from employers for grad
uates of this course,” Street point
ed out, “and so it is a great op
portunity to learn a well-paid pro
fession.”
It is the fifth such course held
at Texas A&M College, Street said,
and all former graduates now are
employed as draftsmen.
Performer Offers
Variation From
Concert Style
Tonight at 8 o’clock the Sum
mer Town Hall series presents
Henry Scott on the stage of Guion
Hall with his “concert satire” se
lections.
Scott probably carries more
equipment than any of his class
of concert pianists. Not only does
he burn the keys with his world
record speed of 44% notes per
second in playing the Hungarian
Rhapsody, a number on the pro
gram, but he finds use for an
orange, a balloon, a candle, a pair
of heavy wool mittens and a wig
Pianist Scott offers the death
knell to the stuffed shirt concert
pianist with his take-offs of the
masters and his imitations of the
present swing kings. He goes all
the way from “Chopin in the Ctrus
Belt” to imitations of Vincent Lo
pez, Eddie Duchin and Teddy Wil
son.
Humorist Scott plans his pro
grams with the idea that the con
cert hall has just as much room
for comedy as the legitimate stage
and screen. His audiences share
the same opinion after hearing
this wizard of the keys. This past
seasou he gave a highly successful
concert at Town Hall, New York
City, and played a six weeks’ en
gagement in the Rainbow Room,
Radio City, New York, some of
his famous predecessors being
Alec Templeton, Edgar Bergen
and Charlie McCarthy, and Mary
Martin.
To those who prefer the more
serious pieces played by a master,
he offers some of these selections
in his masterful style. The ma
jority of the program, however, is
dotted by concert satire with boo
gie woogie, rhumba, tango, swing
and novelties which he has either
arranged to his taste or has com
posed.
Town Hall Manager John Law
rence suggests that students come
early as 1300 tickets have already
been sold and according to advance
reports a capacity crowd is ex
pected at this initial performance.
For those who have not yet ob
tained tickets the box office opens
at 7:40' p.m. with the curtain go
ing up promptly at 8 o’clock.
Life in Marines Candidates School No Bed of Roses
Every month at Quantico, Vir
ginia, the United States Marin^
Jorps begins another Candidates’
Jlass of young men between 20
ind 30 years of age. These men
ire working toward commissions
is second lieutenants in the Ma
rine Corps Reserve, and for 10
veeks they go through a stiff and
strenuous program.
Graduates of colleges in every
states of the union, married and
unmarried, together with selected
nen from the enlisted ranks or
xained non-commissioned officers
>f the Corps—the battalion of some
500 candidates march into theip
gaining with golden bars as their
reward. About 80 per cent grad
uate.
In the groups that assemble
lere at the Quantico Marine Bar
racks melting post are men from
ill walks of life and most profes
sions. Graduates from former
candidates’ classes are scattered
wherever Marines junior officers
ire serving. Every day at recruit
ing stations throughout the coun
try more men enlist as Privates
First Class.
No college initiation or frater
nity hell week could approach the
pledgeship thus served under sus
tained discipline. A spot on a tie,
a blot on shoes, a wrong step in
drill, inattention at lectures, all
are accompanied by swift and
sudden reprimand and many are
the windows washed, the decks
swept and swabbed (floors are
decks) and the weeds dug from
the lawn out front.
Those veteran non-coms, back
bone of the Corps’ glorious history,
soon whip the rookies in line,
drill them unti Ithey can march,
chill men for shortcomings and
thrill them on off moments when
they unbend to shoot the breeze
with stories of the tropics, the
banana revolutions and France of
yesterday.
The battalion rises abruptly at
5. On the dying notes of the bugle
comes the bellow of the day’s
duty officer—“ off your cots and
into your socks”. A sleepy-head
lingering in bed has his cot jerked
up and down by an irate non-com.
Tumbling into clothes and grab
bing rifles the men fal lout by
5:30. Then comes roll call. The men
push and heave the nine-pound
demons until arms are ready to
drop off and the rifle seems
weighty as a mortar barrel. Those
dawn-light calisthenics are for
hardy souls. All survive and sprint
around an endless block before re
turning to the barracks.
Then to shave, wash, complete
ly dress, sweep and swab the deck
and down to mess formation in
fifteen minutes. After chow, back
to the cleaning detail, tidy bunks,
lock lockers and away for the first
formation of the morning at 7:30.
There are generally four hours of
mixed class work, pratcical in
struction and drill in the morning.
Then chow again at noon and
back to the books or the weapons
for another three hours beginning
at 1:00 and ending at 4:00. Home
for a brief glance at the mail, if
any, and then three quarters of an
hour of supervised athletics. Back
to barracks, wash, dress for even
ing chow and If one hasn’t landed
in any black book during the day,
he is free to do what he chooses
for the evening.
The first few weeks of drill,
drill, drill plus class room work
provide the rudiments of march
ing. There are extra-time “awk
ward” squads for those with two
left feet. Then comes practical
work on bayonet drill and disas
sembling the rifle, 45 caliber pistol,
Browning automatic rifles and lat
er on, the Browning 30 cal. ma
chine gun.
Bayonet work is some what
sickening for the gentler souls who
are taught to bash in a man’s head
with various thrusts, to ram a
bayonet in to the throat and to
counter and parry an opponent’s
weapon. Then comes hours of run
ning the course against straw
dummies lined up for the various
types of thrusts and strokes. At
the end of the allotted tine men
are qualified to drill future enlist
ed. Marines and to understand the
importance of hand to hand fight
ing when it is either you or the
other fellow.
Next comes the rifle. Preliminary
hours of instruction on posture,
range, elevation, windage, trigger
squeeze an dscore cards give way
to actual hours of back straining
practice on position, on proper ad
justment of the rifle sling and
on steady sighting and squeezing.
Then the play is over and real
bullets are fire, first the .22 for
practice and then the sweetheart
of the Marine Corps, the ’03 Model,
known as the Springfield, the piece
that Marines carried in France
and that demoralized the German
final drive when it began to kill
at 600 yards in the hands of sharp
shooters from the immortal Fifth
and Sixth Marine Regiments.
During the days on the range,
men eat out of messkits in the
field and forget the irksome drill
and become acquainted with non-
coms. Gradually the horns and tails
disappear from the instructors and
they too come to have a new ret-
spec for the candidates, born from
their ability to handle the tools
of the Marine’s trade.
Brains are not neglected and
men study mapping, learn now to
travel by compass both by day
and night in woods, become versed
in first aid and interior guard
duty, learn military customs and
courtesies, walk through a gas
chamber and pitch tents.
Candidates actually shoot the
machine gun, practice anti-aircraft
fire on moving targets with rifles,
examine the Garand rifle and fire
the 81 mm. mortar as the instruc
tors race against the deadline to
give pupils a taste of every weap
on used by the Corps.
Then comes graduation and men
leave the Candidates Class with
gold bars on their shoulders. The
first and most lasting impression
of the Candidates Class is that, al
though the collegians land in over
whelming numbers, the Marines
soon have been well in hand.
Dr T O Walton In
Washington, D C
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of
the college will leave tomorrow
for Washington, D.C., to discuss
the part A. & M. has in the pres
ent conflict. He will spend most
of the time in conference discuss
ing the problems confronting A. &
M., and the quota of reserve offi
cers to be trained, and other points
concerning the R.O.T.C. situation.
All Enlistments In
Reserve End Thursday
All recruiting of first advanced
course military science students,
contract and elective, for the en
listed reserve, must be completed
by 5 o’clock Thursday, June 18,
it was announced from the office
of the commandant here yesterday
afternoon. Anyone who has not
yet signed up for a contract or
military science as an elective and
intends to do so, must sign up by
5 p. m. Thursday afternoon.
A supplementary schedule of
enlistments appears in the Official
Notice section of this issue of the
paper.
Officers in charge of Junior
military science classes will be
held responsible for carrying out
this schedule.
Drive to Line Up Aggieland For
Summer Band Wagon Started
In case you were one of the
few Aggies who was not at Kadet
Kapers last Saturday night for
the world premiere of Don Hack
ney’s new Aggieland Orchestra,
the boys have something this year.
The present band is by far the
finest of the Aggielands.
At the close of Saturday night’s
Kapers, Richard Jenkins announc
ed the start of a drive to get the
Aggieland Orchestra on the Fitch
Summer Band Wagon, and prom
ised that the address would appear
in this issue of The Battalion.
The Fitch Summer Band Wagon
features new bands and young
bands, in contrast to the programs
for the rest of the year which
feature well-known names.
Hackney’s band showed itself
Saturday night to be ’way above
par as far as college orchestras go,
and easily the best in this section
of the country. We want to see
the Aggieland go places and get
the recognition which is its due.
This can be accomplished by
letters and more letters to the
sponsor of the Summer Band Wag
on. The address is:
Fitch Band Wagon,
720 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, 111.
Don’t let someone else do it. Sit
right down and write that letter
to the above address. Tell them
that we’ve got an orchestra down
here as well as a football team.
Tell them that Hackney’s boys are
tops around here, and that they
have it sweet and hot.
In other words, Army, show the
Fitch people a little of that Aggie
spirit in black and white. Let’s
boost the Aggieland Orchestra this
year for all we’re worth. They
won’t let the school down when
they get on the Band Wagon.
They’ll show a lot of people how
it’s swung down here “deep in the
heart of Texas.”