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, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1942
2275
NUMBER 17
Drops First Bombs on Japs
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Pictured above is Lieutenant Colonel John A. “Jack” Hilger, ’32,
left above and his brother, Navy Lieutenant Ted Adair Hilger, ’34,
who was lost off the Java coast before his brother promoted the
attack on Tokio. Colonel Hilger received the Distinguished Service
Cross for the maneuver.
Classes Dismissed at 10 am to Honor Exes
Lt Col John A Hilger Leader of Tokyo
Bombing and Ensign George H Gay Will
Address Cadet Corps, Sailors, Marines
Classes will be dismissed from 10 a.m. to 12 noon today
to enable the corps to hear Lt. Colonel John Hilger, ’32,
second-in-command on Doolittle’s Tokio bombing mission
and Ensign George H. Gay, ’40, who sank a Japanese air
craft carrier, speak at Kyle Field at 10:50 a.m.
Snapshots Being
Called In for ’43
Longhorn Selection
Anyone having a snapshot that
has any kind of interest is asked
to turn it in for this week’s Long
horn snapshot contest. Deadline
for the weekly contest is 12 noon
Saturday, Editor John Longley
states, and because of the few that
have been turned in for this week
there is an excellent chance for
everybody.
All photos submitted have an
equal chance to appear in the
Longhorn and any one of them
may win the dollar weekly prize
for the contributor. Anything
concerning Aggie life, activities,
classes, intramural contests, dates,
and “bull sessions” will do.
Boxes have been placed in the
lobbies of both the old and new
“Y” for the purpose of entering
the pictures. They also may be
turned in at the Student Activi
ties office in the Administration
Building.
Longle requests to turn in their
Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite
pictures at the Student Activities
office. The deadline for. these is
September 15.
Floyd Helm Promoted
To Rank of Captain
First Lieut. Floyd H. Helm, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Helm,
3122 Wabash Street, Fort Worth,
has been promoted at Camp Wel
ters to the rank of captain.
Captain Helm has been station
ed there at this infantry replace
ment center since Dec. 2, 1941,
and is now the Assistant Camp
Inspector.
He has been on active duty since
Aug. 1, 1941, having been commis
sioned here in 1935 when he was in
the R.O.T.C.
For six years following his grad
uation from A. & M. Captain Helm
has been with the cotton division,
U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, in
Dallas.
Lt. Col. John A. Hilger, one of
the first to get the much sought
after revenge on the Mikado in
a raid over Tokyo in May, speaks
to the corps this morning at Kyle
Field. Col. Hilger graduated from
A. & M. in 1932 with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Mechanical
Engineering.
While in A. & M. Hilger was in
B Infantry, an outfit that had the
distinction of supplying many fa
mous men to the fighting services.
During Hilger’s college career,
he was a member of the A.S.M.E.,
Second Juke Box
Prom Takes Place
In Sbisa Tonight
Continuing the summer social
season, Social Secretary Bobby
Stephens has announced the sec
ond Juke Box Prom which will
take place tonight at 9 p.m. The
dance will be held in half of the
main dining room of Sbisa Hall
instead of the annex as in the
past. It has also been announced
that freshmen and sophomores will
not be admitted without dates.
Seniors who desire to attend the
dance in civilian clothes must wear
a coat and tie.
The admission will be 35 cents
which will cover the cost of space
and the rent of sound equipment.
The dance will last until midnight.
Vacancies Exist
With Civil Service
Multigraph operators will be ap
pointed to Government war jobs in
Washington, D. C., and throughout
the United States, it was an
nounced by the United States Civ
il Service Commission today. Both
men and women may apply under
the new announcement. Pay is $1,-
440 a year, although some vacan
cies at $1,260 will be filled by qual
ified persons willing to accept the
lower salary.
Within the past five years, ap
plicants must have had at least
six full months of paid experience
operating a power-driven multi
graph machine, of which three
months must have been in setting
and distributing type and in the
composition of complex forms. In
filing application, they must clear
ly show that they can operate the
machine without further instruc
tion. Appointees in Government
jobs will be required to set and
distribute type for and to operate
a multigraph machine in the print
ing of circulars, letters, and forms,
and to read proof and make cor
rections.
the Toonerville Reviewers, the
Veterans Club and the Glee Club.
In 1929 the best drilled cadet’s
medal was presented to Col. Hil
ger from B Infantry.
He was not in school for the
1929-30 term, but came back in
1931 to finish with a degree, after
that going to Randolph Field from
where he received his wings in
1934.
Among some of the men who
were in B Infantry are H. C. “Fel
ly” Dittman, who flew bombers to
the Philippines and received the
Distinguished Service Cross; Jesse
L. Easterwood, the second man to
Dedication
Of Church
To BeSunday
Dr Melton Will Be
Principal Speaker At
Dedication Services
Dedication services for the new
First Baptist Church Building in
College Station are to be held Sun
day, July 12, beginning with the
Sunday School services at 9:45
a.m. Dr. W. W. Melton, executive
secretary of the Baptist Board, will
be the principal speaker at the
morning services following Sunday
School.
Afternoon and evening services
will be held at 2:30 and 7 p.m.
respectively. Albert Wiggins of
Houston will be the organist for
the day. Wiggins, who has studied
in France, will present an organ
recital, at 2:30 p.m. from the con
sole of the church’s new Hammond
organ.
R. A. Springer, who is the State
Baptist Treasurer, and A. D. Fore
man, Sr., who is president of the
Baptist General Convention of
Texas will be speakers at the serv
ices during the day. Foreman is
also Chairman of the State Bap
tist Building Committee which
made the new $50,000 church
building possible.
Rev. J. W. (Bill) Marshall, State
Baptist Student Secretary, will be
one of the principal speakers at
the evening services. Rev. Marshall
plans to show colored moving pic
tures of activities at the Baptist
Student Retreat at Ridgecrest, N.
C., which is held each June.
The evening services will fea
ture student work, Rev. R. L.
Brown, pastor of the church, point
ed out. Oran Jones, who is the
B.S.U. president, will preside. John
Mouser will be in charge of the
church orchestra and will play a
violin solo for the offertory.
Students, ex-students and friends
of the church are sponsoring the
purchase of the new electric or
gan. This organ will be the last to
be shipped from the Houston dis
trict until after the war, church of
ficials pointed out.
Dr. F. M. Law, president of the
Board of Director of A. & M., and
Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the
college, will speak at the afternoon
services at 2:30. Dr. John A. Held,
who was the pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Bryan when
l£ev. and Mrs. Brown came to the
campus to start Baptist work 22
years ago, will also speak at the
afternoon services.
The evening service will consist
of a short Training Union pro
gram followed by a regular church
service. Most of the campus church
es will dismiss their congregations
so that they may attend the dedi
cation services that evening. Rev.
Norman Anderson, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at College
Station, will speak in behalf of
the campus ministers and religious
leaders at the evening program.
Rev. and Mrs. Brown started
Baptist work on the A. & M. cam
pus over 22 years -ago with a
B.Y.P.U. and short preaching serv
ice held each Sunday night in
Guion Hall. Later the meetings
(See CHURCH, Page 4)
become a Naval Air Pilot and aft
er whom Easterwood field here at
the college is named, General
George F. Moore, of recent fame,
in the Philippines; J. J. Warden,
of the Quartermaster Corps, and
Gen. D. B. Netherwood, of the
army air corps.
Col. Hilger’s home is in Hous
ton. In helping Gen. Doolittle raid
Japan, Col. Hilger probably set
tled a personal score as • well as
one for his country, as his younger
brother was one of the ill-fated
seamen that went down with the
cruiser USS Houston in the battle
of Java.
Civilian Pilot
Training Program
Begins on Campus
Thirty Applicants Have
Reported for Mental Exam
Training Js for Army Navy
Thirty applicants reported for
the Civil Aeronautics Authority
mental examination Thursday and
flight training will start during
the latter part of next week How
ard W. Barlow, head of the Aero
nautical Engineering department,
announced Friday. Training will
be at the college airport.
Training under the new program
is divided into two groups, Army
and Navy, with primary and sec
ondary courses for each group. The
training is to cover a period of
eight weeks and is designed to
equip pilots with sufficient train
ing for them to be used as liaison
or utility pilots for the Army and
for Naval Aviation Cadet training.
The college’s quota of trainees
is fifty-five, composed of ten pri
mary and secondary trainees each
for the Naval group, and fifteen
primary and twenty secondary
trainees- for the Army group.
Applicants were given a pre
liminary examination yesterday at
the college hospital. Those who
have passed the mental examina
tion will take the commercial
flight physical examination of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority in
Bryan Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day.
The training of the Army group
is designed to train men who are
capable of performing liaison and
utility duties and for target tow
ing work and basic instruction.
Graduates of the Naval program
will go in Naval Cadet training
when they are called or when their
deferment expires.
Campus Club List
Made Available By
Student Activities
Some of the campus club offi
cers which have been turned in
to the Student Activities office
are printed below. Others will be
published later.
As other clubs elect officers,
their names will be published.
These names should be turned in
to the Student Activities office.
A. S. A. E.
President: W. T. Hall
Vice-Pres: Y. E. McAdams, Jr.
Treasurer: L. H. Hodges
Agronomy Society
President: D. W. James
Vice-Pres: D. D. Morrison
Treasurer: Jack H. Barton
A. I. Qi. E.
President: Jasper H. Barrett
Vice-Pres: George M. Wonder-
lick
Treasurer: Paul W. Brandon
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences
President: Steve Kaffer
Vice-Pres: Gene Clark
Treasurer: Gene Kipp
Secretary: Clifton Adcock
A. I. M. E.
President: W. H. Doran
Vice-Pres: W. W. Walton
A. S. C. E.
President: J. C. Denny
Vice-Pres: Joe Bauml
Treasurer: C. A. Riggs, Jr.
Secretary: Robert Haltham
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
President: T. J. Bolling
Vice-Pres: Martin Lantau
Treasurer: V. P. Kally
Secretary: Robert Haltham
Biology Club
President: Harold Holdeman
Vice-Pres: Harry Trodlier
Treasurer: Ed Maddox
Secretary: Jack Barnes
Entomology Club
President: S. K. Kirk
Vice-Pres: W. B. Morehouse
Treasurer and Secretary: W. B.
Morehouse
Fencing Team
President: R. Shaw
Treasurer: J. H. Blakeloek
Secretary: D. Stillinger
Grayson County A. & M. Club
President: John T. Lynch
Vice-Pres: Billy G. Earnheart
Treasurer: Billy R. Brogdon
Secretary: Perry M. Barker
Lecturer
To Address
Student Body
Stanley W Foran
Speaks to Students
In Chapel Wed
Stanley W. Foran of Dallas,
famed throughout Texas and be
yond for his lectures on American
ism, will speak Wednesday, July
15, before meetings of the A. & M.
students. Foran will address mem
bers of the junior and senior class
at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning,
and at 8 p.m. will talk before the
freshman and sophomore classes.
Title of his speech will be “My
Country ’Tis of Thee—and Me!”
For the last four years—since
June, 1938—Foran has conducted
what he calls a “one*-man crusade”
to awaken Americans to the value
of the American Way of Life.
During that period he has received
more than 1,600 invitations to de
liver his now famous lecture on
Americanism. He has actually ad
dressed more than 800 audiences,
located from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf and from the Atlantic to
the Rockies. His visible audiences
have totaled approximately 400,-
000 persons. In addition, he has
made more than 250 radio broad
casts, and versions of his speech
have been printed in millions of
copies of newspapers, magazines,
house, organs and other publica
tions.
The Dallas man served in the
First World War as a pursuit pi
lot. He held a lieutenancy at the
end of the war.
Foran was instrumental in or
ganizing the Dallas unit of the
Texas Defense Guard some 18
months ago. HA is at present sen
ior captain in command of the 19th
Battalion of the Defense Guard.
For the last 25 years, Foran has
devoted all of his time, except the
period spent in the army, to his
work as a public relations and ad
vertising counsel. Since 1935 he
has headed his own advertising
agency in Dallas.
This is the themA that Stanley
W. Foran has presented in person
before close to half a million lis
teners :
“Let’s keep Americans the rich
est, happiest, freest and most self-
reliant people on earth collective
ly by re-selling ourselves individ
ually on the principles and prac
tices that have made us great. To
do that let’s re-sell ourselves on
the cooperative individualism
which has enriched us materially,
culturally and spiritually beyond
the dreams of less blessed people—
and by our unified, vitalized and
outspoken zeal for effectively fun
ctioning democracy, let’s regener
ate belief in freedom in all lands
where coercive collectivism is de
stroying personal liberty, equal
rights, freedom of speech and the
dignity of man.”
San Antonio Students
Elect 1943 Officers
In an election held Thursday,
the San Antonio club elected John
Garrity president, Louis “Buster”
White vice-president, George Tas
sos, secretary-treasurer ad Clifton
Power historian.
Work Has Begun
On Bandstand And
Dance Floor Job
Construction Will Be
Completed In Time For
Initial Dance August 1
Work on the new dance pavilion
was begun Thursday and it is
hoped that the slab will be finish
ed by the first of August.
Plans are now being formulated
to have a Corps dance the week
end immediately following the
completion of the slab and band
stand with the Aggieland Orches
tra producing the sound effects.
The work done thus far has been
the clearing of the plot of cedars
and of sod to a depth of nine in
ches. Located just east of the rail
road station, the pavilion will be
surrounded by the cedars which
now cover the area.
Space occupied by the slab will
be slightly more than 10,006 square
feet and will offer more dancing
space than is afforded by the old
mess hall.
The proposed bandstand will be
located on the west side of the
dance floor next to the old high
way and will be built in three tiers
and storage space in back so that
the space underneath can be used
for storage of chairs, public ad
dress equipment and roller skating
equipment.
Funds for the construction of
the slab are being furnished by the
Exchange store.
Aggie Rifle Team
To Fire Matches At
Kilgore Sun July 12
The Texas Aggie Varsity Rifle
team will leave Aggieland at noon
today for Kilgore, where they will
participate in the East Texas Small
Bore Championship matches. These
matches will be fired Sunday.
Russell Cook is the team cap
tain and J. H. Crossland is sec
retary-treasurer. The team is
coached by Lieut. C. A. Williams,
Corps of Engineers.
The men who will probably make
the trip today are R. T. Cook, cap
tain, J. H. Crossland, Edward Fry,
A. J. G’etz, Nick Mees, Jr. and J.
E. Wesp. These men are expecting
to make a good account for them
selves in the Kilgore matches,
states Captain Cook.
Student Directories
Will Be Distributed
Today and Next Week
The Student Publications Office
announced Friday that the Student
Directory would be distributed to
day and the first part of next
week. The Battalion magazine will
be issued sometime during the
latter part of the week because of
the need to get the Student Di
rectory published.
Forming of the Corps
The Infantry headed by Com
pany “B” will form with the head
of the column at the front of
Colonel Welty’s house. The other
organizations will fall in behind
“A” Battery Coast Artillery with
the head of the column at the end
of the street which runs directly
into Kyle Field. The Infantry and
the Coast Artillery regiments will
begin to move at 10:30 preceded
by the Infantry and the Field Ar
tillery bands respectively. The In
fantry column will pass into the
athletic grounds through the gate
just east of the athletic offices
while the other organizations pass
through the main gate near the
gym. The two bands will form
together as the complete Aggie
band and will play just inside the
grounds until all the organiza
tions are seated.
Both Col. Hilger and Ensign
Gay who will arrive on the cam
pus at 10 a.m. will witness the
movement of the corps to Kyle
Field at the entrance to the ath
letic grounds. “A” Battery Coast
and “B” Company Infantry will
be seated in the middle and well
forward in the curve of the stad
ium in the place of honor.
Dinner Delayed
To allow an ample amount of
time for the addresses of the two
men, dinner will be postponed un
til 12:30. The two men will eat in
the mess halls with the members
of their old organizations each of
which will fall in at the head of
the dinner formation and form an
honor guard around each of the
two men as the corps moves to the
mess halls.
During the afternoon the men
in their old organizations will es
cort them about the campus. They
will leave sometime during the
afternoon.
Makes Payments
In Advance To Two
Texas Cooperatives
The Lamb County Electric Co
operative of Littlefield, and the
Cooke County Electric Cooperative
Association of Muenster, repaid a
total of $3,468 in advance of due
dates during April, according to
information to the Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service from
Washington.
Payments were on construction
loans made by the government
through the Rural Electrification
Administration of the Department
of Agriculture.
The two systems were among
35 in 14 states which made advance
payments totaling $135,112.67 dur
ing the 30-day period and brought
advance payments made by rural
electric cooperatives to date to
$4,336,235.58, Harry Slattery, Ru
ral Electrification administrator,
pointed out. Of the 785 energized
REA systems now serving 929,673
connected consumers, 317 systems
have taken up notes before due
date, as compared to only 59 which
are delinquent.
“Every advance payment is a
guarantee that when victory has
been won, these same systems will
be in an excellent financial posi
tion to continue theft program of
bringing power to the four million
farms in America which still are
without electricity,” Slattery said.
LONGHORN SCHEDULE
July 7 to 13, Field Artillery
Seniors.
July 14 to 20, Coast Artil
lery Seniors.
July 21 to 27, Composite
Regiment Seniors.
Baptist Church Plant
Lieutenant Colonel John Hilger
One of First to Taste Revenge