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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 5, 1942
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NUMBER 41
Plans Are Complete For
A&M’s Largest Enrollment
One Week Required to Set Dormitories
In Order for SchooFs 1,400 New Men
Complete plans for handling a record-breaking student
body for A. & M. were announced today by E. L. Angell, as
sistant to the president.
GM students who have not been in school this semester,
but who plan to return for the Fall semester should reserve
their rooms by mail immediately, and not report to the
college before Sunday, September 27.
Fall Fiscal
Fees Reduced
By 60 Cents
Total Term Payment
Amounts to $149.05
After New Tax Rule
Fiscal lees “for the fall semester
’have been reduced 60 cents from
the amount .previously announced
in the school catalogue and in
Thursday’s Battalion. The reduc
tion was made possible by a recent ,
ruling which makes blanket ath
letic tax fees exempt from taxa-i
tion.
With'this reduction the total fees
Tor mext semester will be $149.03>,
which includes the voluntary stu-
<deitt; activity if ee of $12.40. Of this
amount, $6.00 is the athletic fee,j
enabling coupon book holders ito
:sae mil [games played on the cam
pus, and $6.40 is the activity feei
ifor dhe .19,43 Longhorn, and the
Battalion rnewspaper and magazine
from September, 1942, to June
1943.
According to W. H. Holzmam,
comptroller of the college, the
ifirst iinstallment will be $82.65 for
regular students. Semester fees for
(day fstudents will total $42.90 if
the student activity fee is paid.
■ One week’s time will he required
for college authorities to set dorm
itories in order for the record-
breaking enrollment expected, and
living quarters Will not be avail
able on the campus for any but
the new crop of freshmen students
during the week of September 20-
27, it was announced.
To date approximately 1,400 new
freshman students have been ac
cepted for entrance, and these will
he required to spend the week of
September 21-27 on the campus,
when a special program of oriten-
tation will be 'given them.
The new freshmen may arrive as
early as 1 p.m. Sunday, Septem
ber 20, and 'Obtain dormitory ac
commodations. Parents- who bring
their sons tto school will be ab^e
to interview college officials Sun
day afternoon, September 20,
and return home.
It is 'the purpose of the Fresh
man Wedk program to allow the
new (students sufficient time on
the (canypus tto become familiar
with the daily routine of students
and the ilocation of all of the
buildings prior to actual class-
work.
Those who arrive early enough
Sunday afternoon. September 20,
will be given physical examinations
and assigned to dormitory rooms.
'On Monday they will continue with
physical examinations and will be
issued army uniforms, pay fees
and be welcomed by President T.
©. Walton.
By Wednesday morning every
new student will have discarded
<See MEW TERM, Page 4)
Captain Pelly Dittman Visits Here
After Fighting in China and Australia
Captain Pelly Dittman, I the attack. A Jap came down to
class of ’39, was a visitor on get him ’ fired and missed ’ then
u-. £ , -i did a loop almost on the ground to
the campus for two and one plmt lead fa the back 8 of the
half hours yesterday. On his
way to Topeka, Kansas, Capt.
Dittman has fought in China,
the Phillipines, Java, Austra
lia, and most other South
|Pacific islands.
Awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross for blazing a ^
new bomber trail across the in ne ver do it again, but I stood
American boy’s head.
A “clean” uniform was one that
had been worn but a week or two.
“Australians are really swell
people, just like everybody else.
They run when bombs start falling
(the same as you or I do. Once I
was on top of a building in Manila.
Pacific, he was a star Aggie
half-back on the national
championship team of 1939.
“I saw General Moore the night
before the Japs hit Corregidor,”
he said, “and I don’t think there
is any doubt but what he and Gen.
Wainwright are both prisoners
now. General Moore was really a
swell guy to the Aggies in the
Phillipines. He used to come after
us in his great big Brack, and
ride us around the post. We were
really bigshots to be tiding around
in that great big ear with a gen
eral.”
“About six hours after 1 talked
to Gen. Moore latt Dec. 28, we
rode a barge bark over to Bataan,
and from there a boat took us
off the peninsula.'”
“1 never wanted to take another
boat trip, and I still don’t like
them. Put me on the ground or in
the air, but not on the water. On
our trip fomm Bataan, \we -saw a
four-motored Nip boat swinging
around fixing to let us have it. My
friend and I saw what he was
fixing to do, so we hit for our
cabin. I thought 2 was fast, but
that old boy beat me that day. Our
cabin window was the only one
left unbroken in the boat. One
bomb “neaiUy” hit us, almost tore
the boat up. IRivets were flying
every which way, :and we were
really hugging the floor.”
When (asked if tthe Jap were
good flyers, he Just grinned and
said, “They can see just as good as
anybody.” He etifaed (one case where
the Japs attack ,a field at which
he was stationed. A Curtis P-40
started taking off to break up
there and watched the Nips at
tack the town. They flew in at
about 20,000 feet, (and you asked
about them being good flyers)
they flew over in perfect forma
tion, in a heavy barrage of anti-
(aircraft fire which was falling
aobut a mile behind them and sev-
pn or eigth thousand feet below.
They didn’t waste a bomb. One
bomb, however, did hit about
block away from us, and I thought
the world had come to an end.
Capt. Dittman is a Flying Fort
ress pilot, and has seen much ac
tion during his "tours” in the
douth Pacific.
John Taylor Promoted
At Field Artillery
Replacement Center
John R. Taylor, Jr., sou of Mr.
and Mrs. Taylor, formerly of 2414
Prairie Street, Dallas, was promot
ed this week to the rank of Captain
in the Field Artillery Replace
ment Training center of Fort Sill.
Captain Taylor, who has been on
active duty since Sept. 3, 1941 is a
gradute of A. and M. In the Class
of 1935. Before being called to
active duty he was an engineer
on the staff of the Texas State
Highway department.
Since coming tq active service
Captain Taylor has been stationed
at the Replacement center there
and for several months was Ath
letic and Recreation officer of the
8th Training regiment. The Texas
officer is now Adjutant for the 8th
Training Regiment of the Replce-
ment center.
Who Could Believe a Thing like This?
Breathtaking Are the Experiences Told
By Director of College Publicity Dept
(Note: 05hin is the beginning of
* oeries of news stones about a good
newspaper man. Xhere ia one on the
campna.)
By John Holman
“There’s a man behind that col
umn with a gun?’ The Prohibi
tion Agent (dropped to his knees,
and turned around firing as a
bullet whizzed over has head. When
the taxi-driver-bootlegger saw he
had missed, he threw down his
gun and surrendered.”
No, that isn’t an excerpt from
a ten-cent detective magazine, but
a real life experience of G. Byron
Winstead, director of information
for the college. More about the
bootlegger later, so right now let’s
take a look at this man who has
done everything from snoop on
the F. B. I. to go fishing in his
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes with
no bait and catch a $75,000 narco
tic gang in action.
George Byron Winstead was born
in Houston, September 1, 1901. He
attended Houston Heights High
School, graduating from there in
June of 1918. From there he came
to A. & M., where he was in school
taking engineering during the 1918
-19 school year. Deciding that he
just wasn’t cut out for engineering,
Winstead went to Texas university
because his chosen field, journa
lism, wasn’t taught here. From T.
U. he went to Southwestern uni
versity where he graduated in
1922.
As a cub reporter at $15 a week
qn the Houston Post’s courthouse
run, he disrupted Associated Press’
entire southern wire schedule one
night just to give a Houston court
house employee a“cut by cut” de
scription of his daughter’s apendec-
tomy from a Chicago hospital.
From the Post, he went to the
Houston Cbromidle, then took out
for the wheat fields of Kansas to
work for the Wichita Eagle. He
tells about what he calls the best
job of reporting he has ever seen
while he was a meporter on the
Winstead
Wichita Eagle. The tale goes some
thing like this:
One night four men in an auto
mobile robbed an ice-house in Aug
usta, about 30 miles from Wichita.
While they were making their get
away, a motorcyle cop with another
cop in his sidecar, stopped the men
just out of curiousity. Then bandits
thought they were comcered, and
when the cop from the sidecar
walked around to the driver, one
of the men shot him dead. The
other cop, still on the motorcycle
started shooting too. O&e of the
men, in the back seat, got out and
started running. The cop dropped
him. About that time, the car’s
driver slammed it in gear and took
off, the cop pumping lead after
him. In the outskirts of Wichita,
he hit a telephone pole—dead from
bullet wounds. The car was wreck
ed in front of a vacant lot full of
high weeds. That accounted for two
of the four men. Winstead and his
reporter-partner searched the
whole neighborhool but found no
trace. Winstead went back to the
office, and wrote up the story.
About that time the phone rang,
the police had found a third man
shot through both legs, lying in
a mud hole in the weeds with two
.45s in his hands. The partner
talked to him when they brought
him to. He had said that Winstead
and his partner nearly stepped on
him, and he was just fixing to let
them have it when they went away.
The buddy told the police that a
fourth man had escaped, but they
knew he wasn’t out of Wichita.
About a week later, a 12 year
old grocery boy sold the man some
groceries. He had recognized him
from pictures in the Wichita Eagle.
Following him, he then went to the
police and led them to a vacant
house. The little boy was in the
front seat of the police car when
it pulled up in front of the house.
The bandit had seen the cops post
a man in the rear, so knowing he
was trapped, he came out the front
door with both guns blazing. The
little boy was shot one time thru
both legs, but one shot wass all the.
criminal had time to fire. A detec
tive planted three hunks of lead
in his face the moment he stepped
out the door.
From the Eagle, Winstead went
to work for United Press in New
York, finally coming back to Hous
ton in October, 1930. It was here
that the episode with the bootleg
ger took place.
Bell hops in a leading downtown
hotel were bootlegging liquor in
an unethical manner. A taxi-
driver brought it to the basement
where the bell hops picked it up.
On New Year’s Eve, 1923, the De
partment of Justice raided the
place, and found the head bell
hop in the basement with the liqu
or. He acted so nervous, the of
ficers and Reporter Winstead felt
there was someone else in the room
and as they looked around, Win
stead saw him. It was then he
cried,” There’s a rpan behind that
column with a gun!” The officer
thought G. Byron had saved his
life, and did him many a good turn
after that.
When the wife of the Treasurer
of the Klu Klux Klan ran off
from New Orleans with another
man and the KKK’s funds, they
came to Houston where they were
picked up by the Department of
Justice. They weren’t putting out
information, but because Winstead
had saved the life of the chief
agent, he didn’t give him away
when Winstead hid in a closet
across the hall from D. of J. of
fice. Although he couldn’t tell him
anything, nothing kept him from
having the couple retell their com
plete confession beside the door for
G. Byron’s benefit. Naturally, Win
stead’s paper scooped the town.
Coming to Aggieland as publici
ty director in September, 1938,
Winstead has done a wonderful
job of directing public relations
(See WINSTEAD, Page 4)
Torres-Waters’ Engineering Farmers Hold
Urcnestra i lavs * i/^ii j* m
At Sophomore Bail Annual Celebration Tonight
Organization Features
Kit Reid, Trumpeter;
Albino Torres Pianist
At the last minute the Sopho
more Class engaged Torres-Waters’
orchestra for the Sophomore Ball,
held last night in the shelter of
Sbisa hall. The class first planned
on having Frances Beasley’s or
chestra for the dance but found at
almost the last minute that they
would not be able to secure this
orchestra and immediately started
looking elsewhere. j
Jack Orrick, class president of
the sophomores, stated that the
dance held last night was highly
successful considering the trouble
encountered in signing for music
and the uncertain weather of the
past week.
Bandwagon Bound Aggieland Orchestra
Furnishes Music for Overall Clad Lads
Tonight the annual Barnyard Frolic will be held in The
Grove from 9 until 12 with music by Curley Brient and the
Aggieland orchestra. »
Prizes will be given for the corniest costume at the
dance, and all must have on some sort of a costume (overalls,
coveralls, or what have you) to be admitted to the affair.
Sponsored by the Ag Engineers and put on by the Stu
dent Activities office, the dance is considered by many as
the outstanding entertainment feature of the summer season.
The Grove will be gaily decorat
ed with hay, corn, and farm im
plements, and those attending the
dance are asked by the sponsors
to dress accordingly.
Adeline Koffman, featured fem
inine vocalist with the Aggieland,
will be featured in the vocal spot
light, and Jerry Sullivan will sing
featured ballads. Buck Weirus,
crooner-drummer, will sing novel
ties with Adeline.
Wangerffill
Arrive Here
Next Friday
Torres-Waters is a staff orches
tra playing over KTRH, Houston,
their home city. The two leaders
of the orchestra Albino Torres
and Lou Waters play with the
Houston Symphony Orchestra and
their featured trumpet artist, Kit
Reid lends his talent to that or
ganization.
Torres plays piano for the or
chestra and is a piano teacher in
Houston. Waters is the drummer
in the organization.
Kit Reid has played with several
big name orchestras and has a
standing offer to play with these
when he so desires but prefers to
spend most of his time in Hous
ton. He owns the Texas Music
Company there.
Russel Brient, leader of the Ag-
gieland orchestra (arid better
known around A. & M. as “Cur
ley”), first became interested in
the orchestra business much like
most other band leaders—when he
was just a young kid. He was
asked to play his accordian in a
little school orchestra when he was
twelve years old. The little band
was composed of nine kids, all
about like Russel, and had a huge
library of four tunes. How
ever, those four must have been
good, at least Brient and his friends
thought so, because they never
hesitated to answer “yes” when
asked to play before some civic
meeting or any kind of a party.
The juvenile orchestra had no
rhythm section outside of a piano
and drums, so Curley decided to
drop the accordian in favor of a
The Aggieland will appear on
the Fitch Summer Band Wagon in
Dallas September 13, and a pre
view of their Band Wagon program
will possibly be given the corps
tonight.
“They may be non-reg as a jer
sey cow, but if you haven’t got
any tall yallar shoes with button
tops, ragged overalls with just
one strap . . . then feller, you had
better start hustling, because they
will be uniform of the evening for
those dancing at the Barnyard
Frolic,” said a recent Batt article.
Bobby Stephens also encourages
everyone to get just any old ragg
ed flour sack, and come on out
for a gala evening of fun and
frolicing.
second-handed bass he had made up
his mind to learn to play. He
taught himself to play the bull
fiddle, and so helped the band by
doing so they made him the out
fit’s leader. Russel Brient had an
orchestra, therefore, long before
he ever knew there was such a
thing as shampoo.
Members of a local Port Arthur,
Masonic Temple were planning on
having a dance about that time,
and asked Curley and his band to
play for them. Although they still
knew but four tunes, they accepted
the invitation and after playing
their four tunes through once, they
asked if they could go home. They
had played everything they knew.
The audience wouldn’t listen to
their pleas about bedtime, though,
and four times the four numbers
(See BRIENT, Page 4)
Anne Gwynne Star In
Wanger Production,
“Texas A & M”
Walter Wanger, noted Holly
wood producer, will arrive on the
campus at 7:45, Friday evening,
September 11, according to a tele
gram received late yesterday af
ternoon by G. Bryon Winstead,
publicity director.
Although Wanger wishes to come
to Aggieland without a royal wel
come, a reception similar to that
given Norman Raine is being plan
ned.
He will finish business details,
with the college authorities and
work on the Universal Studio—
Walter Wanger production now tit
led “Texas A. & M.” will begin
immediately.
Anne Gwynne, former Texas;
girl and now a rising young star
on the Universal lot, has been se
lected to play the feminine lead
in the story, with Dick Foran, for
merly of singing-cowboy fame,
playing one of the male leads.
No release has as yet been re
ceived concerning the story itself
but Raine himself assured everyone
during his visit here that there
will be plenty of girls.
WN McClain Selected
As Naval Air Trainee
William Nugent McClain, Jr. of
Groveton, Texas has been selected
for training as a Naval Aviation
cadet and will be ordered to active^
duty shortly.
He attended A. & M. for l 1 /^.
years taking Agricultural adminis
tration and was a member of B
Company Infantry.
Russell Brient Begins Band With But
4 Tunes and Rises to National Spot
Something New Something Different! Come One Come All!
Chorous Girls Hit Here Tonight
When Kadet Kaper Show Starts
By John Holman
Chorus girls at A. & M.? Don't
laugh brother, because that is ex
actly what Kadet Kapers emcee
Richard (alias Pop, Tuffy, or Le
roy) Jenkins has in store for you
tonight about 7:15 in the Assembly
hall.. And don’t get me wrong,
either, these are not dolled up he-
men in grass skirts, but really beau
tiful, (gorgeous in fact), girls from
the big city of Fort Worth. Such
a bevy of imported talent has
never before hit the Aggie cam
pus, and before going to Kadet
Kapers tonight take warning, stay
in your seat, ’cause those winsome
women from Cow Town really put
on a show.
Under the able direction of Miss
Dorothy Brandt, program director
of the Fort Worth City Recrea
tion Program, the gals will give
out with more hulu hulu than
Captain Bligh ever found in Tahi
ti. On top of shaking a wicked
hip to the beat of a savage tom
tom, the chorus also specializes hi
military dances, ahd talk about be
ing non-reg, those girls can make
any general go beneath his dignity.
About two shakes behind the
chorus will be one of the best bo
ogie-woogie bands ever to come in
on a downbeat, and boogie-woogie
means that good old, low down,
eight to the bar kind.
Featured along with the band
will be the hottest trumpet this
side of the Mason-Dixon line since
the outbreak of the Civil War! His
name is an entertainment secret,
but if you really like that old-fash
ioned, hard down, trumpet blues,
then drop around tonight an get
a couple of ears full. Take it from
one who knows, this boy is ready!
Not to be buried beneath such
a galaxy of stars is one of the best
pianos yet heard in these parts.
Miss Thelma Lindsey, who hails
from Eagle Lake, Texas, has con
sented to sit in for Freddie Nelson,
and so she will tickle the ivories
and you to death.
If by then you aren’t rolling in
your seat with jive and joy, then
there’s a mixed quartet on hand to
roll away your blues with such
novelty little ditties as “What to
Do When You Don’t Have Any
thing Else To Do When You Are
Double Dating!” (Whew!) Or must
it be said again?
Special songs have been selected
by Jenkins for the usual pre-pro
gram sing-song and according to
Dick, there will be plenty of fuit
at the expense of your friends when',
he up and surprises everyone with,
a special contest for those in the-,
audience.
Cigars, cigarettes, perhaps a
quarter or two, and more laughs;
than you can imagine will also be:
around about then to give you a
liveable, laughable hour and a half.
So all you guys bring all your
gals, or come with your buddy if
you haven’t got a gal, and put
those old Barnyard Frolic overalls
on a little early and drag it out to
the Assembly hall come 7:15 to
night.