OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
DIAL 4-5444
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 3, 1942
2275
NUMBED 50
Aggies Open Home Season Against Texas Tech
Enrollment Hits High For
All Time With 6,422 Men c
Fifteen Aggie-Exes
Stationed at First
avalry Fort Bliss
Housing Constantly Growing Student Body
Is Major Problem Confronting Authorities
By 6 p.m. Thursday 6,422 students had enrolled at the
Registrar’s office of the sixty seventh session which started
Monday. This is the largest enrollment in the history of
the school and is greater than was expected earlier.
Housing the cadets has proved to he the major worry of
the officials. All dormitories are fully, in some cases there
are as many as four students to a room—and those who
were unfortunate enough to be unable to get a room in the
dorm are being housed in private homes in Bryan and the
-f-immediate vicinity of the college.
It was found by a survey made
by a Battalion reporter that all
rooms within walking distance of
the college are full, and most of
the rooms available in Bryan have
been taken up.
The housing shortage is made
more acute by the presence of the
sailors and marines who occupy
six of the largest dormitories.
Word received from the presi
dent’s office calculated that the
total head count now reaches 7,000,
the largest number of students ever'
enrolled in the college up until
this time.
Scrap Metal
Drive Starts
Here Tuesday
County Schools Will
Turn Out at Noon So
That Pupils May Help
Tuesday, October 6, has been set
aside as scrap metal collection day
by Brazos county, declared Judge
A. S. Ware of Bryan. On this day
all the schools throughout the
county, including those in Bryan
and College Station, will be closed
at noon, and the rest of the day
will be devoted to the collection
scrap metal.
It has been requested by the
leaders of the drive that as far
as possible all parents of the
schools use their cars to see that
the metal is carried to the various
designated points. A. & M. Con
solidated school grounds is the col
lecting spot for this area.
Business houses throughout the
country have been asked to close
during the hours from 12 a. m.
to 4 p. m. in order that all the
metal in the stores may be collect
ed.
It is urged that those people
who do not wish to donate their
metal to the schools sell it to their
junk man. There is a drastic short
age of steel and all available junk
must be had.
Fifteen Lieutenants of the class
of ’42 are assigned to the First
Cavalry Division Artillery at Fort
Bliss. They are Claude Stewart,
drum major and captain, Field
Artillery band ’41-’42, Jack Her
ring of Waco, Charles Straueh of
Beeville, Jim Sterling, who was
chosen to play on the Eastern
Army team but hurt his leg, and
Leslie Newman of San Antonio.
Also, Robin Rominger of Bracken-
ridge, Redfern Dougherty of. Dal
las, George T. Cooper of Tahoka.
Paul W. Knapp of Houston, Joe
Stokes of Port Arthur, T. C. Lam
bert of Roymondville, Lee Rogers
of Bishop, Battalion magazine edi
tor last year, T. F. Steenson, and
Hugh Reich.
Among other Aggie-Exes serv
ing in the First Cavalry Division
Artillery are William A. Becker,
Cadet Colonel ,41, Jim Davis, ’40,
Peter Comnas, ’39, and R. E.
Sparks, ’40. Captains Chester
Schaefer, ’32, Bill Leeves, ’37, G.
L. DeArmond, ’37, and editor of
the Batalion for the year.
Chester Moudy Now
Flight Instructor
Lieutenant Chester E. Moudy, Jr.
Route 5, Dallas, has begun his new
duties as Flight Instructor at Pe
cos Army Flying School, Pecos,
Texas, where the first class of Fly
ing Cadets are ready to complete
their basic training course. Lt.
Moudy, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Moudy, Route 5, Dallas, was
one of the first instructors assign
ed to Pecos Army Flying School,
which promises to be one of the
largest flying schools in the coun
try.
Leo Daniel Expected To
Spark Cadet Comeback
J R Callahan Is Spearhead of Red Raider
Attack; Game Time is Set for 2:30 O’Clock
By Mike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
With vengeance in their hearts and a gleam of determ
ination in their eyes, Coach Homer Norton’s Texas Aggies
step out on Kyle Field this afternoon to prove to the 10,000
fans expected to be present that they are still a Southwest
Conference powerhouse and that last week’s exhibition
against L.S.U. was just one of those things.
The Aggies pry open their home schedule against the
tough and hard-fighting Texas Tech Raiders, a team that is.
Aggies Keyed Up
Never before has an Aggie team been so keyed up for
a non-conference game. Never has-f —
CORRECTION
Contrary to the Announce
ment in Thursday’s Battalion,
Town Hall featuring Anson
Weeks and his orchestra will
be held in Sbisa hall, Satur
day, October 3, 1942, at 8
o’clock.
Campus Stores Close
During Home Games
In keeping with their usual Ag
gie spirit, the following campus
shops will be closed for the three
home football games: W.S.D.
Clothiers, Jones Barber Shop, Ag
gie Cleaners, Zubik & Sons, Uni
form Tailor Shop, Holick Boot
Shop, Holick’s Cleaners and J. P.
Dobyne.
Also, Lipscomb’s, Aggie Barber
Shop, A.&M. Waldrop, A. L. Kel
ley’s Grill, C. W.. Varner, Student
Co-op, Aggieland Pharmacy, Zu-
bick’s Aggie Clothiers, The Variety
Store, Loupot’s and Lauterstein’s.
Dames Club Holds
Meeting in Y Lounge
The A.&M. Dames club met in
the parlor of the Y.M.C.A. Wednes
day evening, it was announced by
Mrs. Mary Case, club reporter.
“Army Etiquette” was the topic
of the speaker, Mrs. Elwood, who
was well received by the unusual
ly large attendance.
We Know Ag Taps are at 9:30 But We Dcn't Know About This
Startling Stuff Discovered On
What Our Ag Students Do Here
By John Holman
If you just must have the low-
down on the boys in Dean Kyle’s
School of Agriculture, then the
place to go is to the office of H.
A. Dulan or to any session of his
class studying the use of Interna
tional Business Corporation tab
ulating machines in acounting and
statistics. And speaking. of statis
tics, here are a few I slipped off
of Mr. Dulan’s desk while his
back was turned.
Sit down, brother, and prepare
yourself, for here corns the straight
stuff about the farmer boys. But
before we get going here, let me
warn you—don’t laugh big boy,
they are all proven facts and have
been checked and double-checked to
make a fool out of the likes of you.
First, the per cent by classes of
the boys on whom the survey was
made. Freshmen made up 32.33%;
sophomores 16.79%; juniors 27.-
10%; and seniors 23.28%. A cross
section of 19% of all the boys in
the Ag school was made, and con
sidering the fact that it is a fact
when but 10% are tested, these
answers must be the ones that
win on the $64 question.
At the top of the list is tobadco.
What brand of cigarettes do they
smoke? Well, according to the sur
vey 47.2% of them do not smoke
at all! On the other hand, 29.2%
of them smoke the Hit Parade’s
golden, milder leaf—Lucky Strike.
Then in order follows Camel’s,
12.4%; Chesterfield, 3.7%; Old
Gold, 3.4%; Bull Durham, 2.2%;
Sir Walter Raleigh, 1.2; and
Prince Albert, the national joy
smoke, 0.7%. The surprising fact
gathered from these figures is that
only a little over half of all Ag
students smoke, but we won’t put
up money on the boys with the
mouth full of Day’s Work.
High schools from which the
Aggies graduated seem to be most
ly in the small towns, because
50.57% of the Ag boys came
from high schools in town of less
than 2500 persons poulation.
Another 10% hit here in the 0-
5000 persons bracket, and jump
ing a couple of little figures
17.98% come from cities of over
50,000 persons, not including the
dogs.
All of the boys who claim Ag
taps is observed around 9:30 may
be surprised to know that a ratio
of about 3 to 1 exist between out
side work—commonly called study
ing—and extra—curricular activ
ities. That means that the farmers
study about three times as much
as they galavant around doing
such stuff as working on the Bat
talion, YMCA work, or the Swing
ing Kadets. Which all proves noth
ing at all.
This is supposed to be a suberb
statistical report, but because the
boys who made it up forgot that
some poor fool newspaperman
would have to write the story, I’m
going to have to do some original
interpretation here: According to
the figures, the majority of the
students working on some form
of student labor work about 20
hours per week on the average.
However, more do not work than
do. (Magnificent deduction, no?)
The average number of extra
curricular hours per student is
from two to four hours.
Now for you buggy-buzzards who
go scooting around the Southwest
every week-end just for the ’ell
of it, here are the facts about who
leaves and when. Statistics show
that each student in the Ag school
leaves on the average 18.25 times
per year, or an average of 1.5
per week.
Student taking Agricultural Ad-
minstration left the campus an
average of 19.55 week-ends per
year, or about 1.30 above the aver
age, while the small group of cot
ton Marketing student leave only
on an average of 3 week-ends per
year.
Then some bright but sweet
child popped up with the question:
Have you decided to leave college
fewer weekends ? According to
the percentages calculated from
the returns on the questionnaires,
78.3% have decided that they will
go just as much as they ever did,
with the trailing 21.7% staying
here because of the war.
The study revealed that the
average hours carried per student
per semester was 18.9% that Agri-
culture students were the only
group above the average with 19.4
hours per student with all other
groups carying hours slightly be
low the average.
Most of you will be surprised to
know that the Ag school apparent-
(See STATISTICS, Page 4)
there been such determination to
win a football game. But the
Aggies are on the spot. Their ex
hibition last week against L.S.U.
lost the gridsters much prestige
and this afternoon they will be
out to show the fans what they
really have.
And it won’t be a “breather”
for the Ags either for the Red
Raiders of Texas Tech are re
ported to have one of their best
teams in years. Sparked by the
triple-threat ace, James Ross Cal
lahan, Coach Dell Morgan’s light
but hard-hitting eleven uses an
offense very similar to that of
Rice—with fast spin plays domi
nating most of their offensive
thrusts.
Plenty of Speed
They possess plenty of speed in
the backfield and a forward wall
that is blessed with hard-charging
linemen. Besides the crafty Calla
han, there is Don Austin, elusive
161 lb. speed merchant who runs
similary to the Aggies’ Bobby
Williams, Co-Captain Ken Robbins,
185 quarterback who calls the
signals and Pete Blande, the block
ing back and place-kick specialist.
The Tech forward wall is headed
by Co-Captain Will Allbright, and
Don Carraway, phenomenal
guards. The tackle posts are cap
ably manned by 210 pounder Buck
Gillenwater and Clyde Hall, a 200
pounder. Billy Hale is at center
while Vernon Ray, who is regard
ed as one of the best past receiv
ers in the Border Conference, and
Harold Crossen handle the flank
berths.
Offense Around Daniels
Again, as was the case last
week, the biggest part of the Ag
gie offensive is centered around
Lightin’ Leo Daniels, triple threat-
er and swivel-hipped artist. Leo
found the going a bit rough last
week, primarily because of insuf
ficient blocking. He handles most
of the Aggie passing and it was
his 41 yard aerial to Cullen Rog
ers that accounted for the lone
Cadet talley. So again today
Coach Homer Norton depends on
the lightning speed and the accu
rate arm of Leo Daniels to carry
the Aggies on to victory.
Cullen Rogers, pass receiver de
luxe, will be at his customary
wingback post calling signals,
while Jake Webster and Willie Zap-
alac will be at their respective full
back and blocking back slots. Web
ster has been out for the most
part of the week with a sore
shoulder but is expected to be
ready to start. Should the Ags
kick-off, Ed Dusek, sophomore
blocking back, will start instead
of Zapalac. Bobby Wiliams and
Vernon Belville are other backs
to see a considerable amount of ser
vice.
Simmons Unable to Start
Boots Simmons, the veteran Ag
gie end, is very unlikely to start
the game, so Floyd Hand, sopho
more wingman will handle the flank
along with Bill Henderson. Felix
Bucek, who was one of the defen
sive stars again L.S.U. last week,
and Wayne Cure, who played tack
le previously, will man the guard
berths. Bill Sibley will be at center
while Lonard Joeris, 240 lb. grid-
ster and Ben Stout, sophomore
who’s shown much promise in
practice will start at tackles.
Weldon Maples, now playing
guard, Ray Mulhollan, another
guard, Truman Cox, end, are other
lineman that will see plenty of ser
vice in today’s tilt. Maples, who
alternated at the starting guard
post last year, has been out with
(See TEXAS TECH, Page 2)
Victory Corps Dance Held
Tonight Features A Weeks
Number Two Khaki May Be Worn Although
Dance Will Be Formal With Tuxes Worn
Tonight in Sbisa hall, Anson Weeks, noted maestro of
“dancin’ with Anson” will play for the first Victory Corps
Dance of the fall social season. Beginning promptly at 9
o’clock, the dance will hold forth until midnight.
Although the dance will be formal, the number two khaki
uniform will be worn. Tuxes may be worn if so desired.
Weeks and his versatile band, who delighted members
of the Coast Artillery regiment and their dates with his
syncopated rythms, is known"
Officer
Procurement
OntlinedOctS
Students Addressed
By Representatives
Of Armed Services
Five officers representing the
various branches of the armed ser-
October 8 concerning the College
vices will address the Cadet corps
Officer Procurement program. Two
of the men are Aggfxe-exes. Lt.
John A. Pierce, USNR, represent
ing Naval Aviation, and Lt. Jim
P. Prowell, USMC, representing
the Marine Corps. Lt. Pierce play
ed Aggie football and basketball
in the early ’20’s, and was recently
coach at Corsicana High School.
Lt. Prowell was graduated from
A.. & M. in ’41 at which time he
went directly into the Marine
Corps.
Other members of the board are
Capt. C. T. Linthicum, USA, Lt.
Maurice Angly, USNR, of the
USNR, of the Navy and Coast
Guard and Lt. Mason Harrell,
USA, who represents the Army
Air Corps. This presentation board
is well informed on the role of the
college man in the war and is dis
cussing this topic at the various
colleges.
not only as a band leader, but also
as a showman, composer, and
“father” of younger, budding mus
icians.
Featured in the vocal spotlight
is Virginia Mathews.
Decorations put up for the Coast
Ball are the most original yet seen
in Sbisa Hall, being made up with
the song, T Got A Gal In Kala
mazoo”, as its theme. This is work-,
ed out with the first letters of the
alphabet spread out over the North
wall of the ball room. The color
scheme is maroon, white and blue.
In charge of decorations and the
dance arrangements for the ball
last night was Gus Boesch.
Anson Weeks has played en
gagements at some of the biggest
night spots in the country, his
most famous ones being the Mark
Hopkins, San Francisco; Waldorf
Astoria, New York, the Trianon
and Aragon Ballrooms in Chicago
and the St. Regis and Roosevelt
Hotels in New York.
His now-famous slogan, “danc
in’ with Anson” was one of the
first such phrases coined and is
so strongly identified with the
Weeks band that Anson couldn’t
even drop it if he wanted to.
For his tombstone, Anson sole
mnly swears this epitaph will be
cut: “Here Lies Friend Anson—
But You Keep on Dancin’!”
In the meantime, the main din
ing room of Sbisa Hall is certain
ly no cemetary. Tonight as last
night, they’ll be crowding in there
until the walls ache, so come on out
to the corps Victory Dance. Script
is $1.10.
No Effort to be Spared Trying
To Capture Real Spirit on Film
By Tom Journeay
“I’ve been here an hour and I
already feel like an old timer
around here.” That was the opinion
offered by Jack Lieghter, of the
Motion Picture Society for the
Americas, who is among the group
from movie-town visiting here on
the campus gathering last min
ute background material for the
movie about the Aggies, “We’ve
Never Been Licked.”
The bevy of officials arrived about
12:30 p.m. yesterday and spent
the afternoon roaming around the
campus absorbing a full measure
of the soon-to-be-worldrenown Ag
gie spirit.
Jack Rawlins, director of the
Walter Wanger production, head
ed the group that was made up
of an art director, Alex Golitzen,
Universal studio business mana
ger, Frank, and Lieghter.
Rawlins’ first impression of the
school and its many traditions
was that it’s just to big to fully
comprehend at first glance. The
noted Universal directer, after
walking over much of the campus,
enthusiastically made the state
ment that, “We are definitely go
ing to do our best to capture the
fullest extent every one of the
many traditions of the school on
film.”
After strolling around the cam
pus the early part of the after
noon, the filmland representatives
paid calls on Cadet Colonel Walter
Cardwell and the Commandant,
to meet the military personnel of
the nations’ largest all military
school.
In Sbisa hall last night a mock
air raid replete with airplane
spotters, search lights, range find
ers, and ack-acks was staged for
the sole benefit of the visitors,
with Aggieland’s newest recruits,
the frogs, acting as all the props.
It’s all these little things that go
into the making up oi Aggieland
and that will go into the final
shooting script for the show.
Definitely, stated director Raw
lins, several Aggies will be used
in minor parts of the movie, so
now is the time, Old Army, to get
out that make up kit and turn
into Gables and Barrimores. You’ll
be able to lend a helping hand to
making “We’ve Never Been Lick
ed” a bigger success—to say noth
ing of palling around with vivac
ious, new young Ann Gwynne,
brunette sensation at the film
capitol that in Walter Wanger’s
words is one of the most promis
ing young actresses in Hollywood.
The Hollywood aggregation
wound up their first day here on
the campus by attending a yell
practice with the rest of the corps.
Rawlins states that he and the
rest of the group intend to be here
at least ten days working on the
pre-filming details.
The world premiere of “We’ve
Nevr Been Licked” will be held in
Kyle Field with the aid of search
lights borrowed from nearby fly
ing fields, augmented by a prob
able nation wide broadcast featur
ing Bill Stern, who wil do the nar
ration for the show.
E E Department
Intensifies Course
On Military Advice
Intensification of training in
the field of communication has
been started this semester by the
electrical engineering department,
according to M. C. Hughes, head of
the department. The addition of
several courses pertaining to tele
phone and radio communication and
the dropping of courses in “power”
engineering was put into effect
after conferences with representa
tives of the Signal Corps and the
Navy Bureau of Ships.
Under the new program, stu
dents in the school of electrical
engineering are required to take
seven hours of courses which are
acceptable to the Signal Corps as
credits for a commission in that
branch of the army. This makes it
necessary for students who are not
in the Signal Corps to take these
seven hours in addition to the mili
tary science in their own branch.
According to Captain G. P. Lerner,
senior instructor, present indica
tions are that all electrical engi
neers, regardless of the branch in.
which they have been trained, will
be given Signal Corps commissions
upon graduation. Transfers to the
Signal Corps from other units-
should be made before the second
half of the sophomore year, Ler
ner stated.
Army authorities requested that
all schools throughout the nation
change their electrical engineering
courses so that emphasis would be
placed upon communication rather
than the other phases of the sub
ject. A. & M. has made the change
with little trouble, because the
army-approved courses have been
offered in the past as technical
electives.
Howard Barlow, head of the aero- •
nautical engineering department,
emphasizes the fact that all those
interested in air transport work
and in any field aviation will find
Signal Corps communication work
of benefit. According to Barlow,
seniors in the Aero department are
urged to take /communications
courses as technical electives. Civil
ian Pilot Training students on the
campus are being taught how to
send and receive the Morse code
in conjunction with their regular
course of study.
LONGHORN DEADLINES
Oct. 15—Club reservations and
rosters.
Nov. 1—Military staff pictures
Pictures of the various or
ganizations will be made dur
ing the first two weeks of No
vember. Turn these in at the
Student Actiivties office next
door to The Battalion office.
Artentino Banfi
Arrives on Campus
Strengthing Relations
Another link in A. & M.’s “better
inter-American relations” chain
has been forged with the arrival on
the campus of Argentine Banfi,
agronomy engineer of the Argen
tine’s Ministry of Agriculture,
whor has been awarded the Beeado
Scholarship by the Nation-Cotton
Board of the Argentine Republic.
Banfi met Dean E. J. Kyle,
American delegate, at the second
Inter-American Agriculture Con
ference in Mexico City last July,
while he was acting as delegate for
the Argentine government.
It is a dream come true for me
to be here—a dream I have had all
of my life—the desire to study in
an American college. I have been
in the United States about one
month and since coming to A. &
M. two days ago have been very
impressed by the hospitality shown
me by the faculty and students,”
said Senor Banfi.