The Battalion
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1942
NUMBER
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Number One
Uniform Reg
At Kay Dance
Sophomores and Fish
May Attend in No 2
With Wool Slacks
Uniform for the corps dance to
night will be number one with
white shirt and black tie for juniors
and seniors, and number two with
wool slacks for freshmen and
sophomores, according to Bobby
Stephens, social secretary of the
senior class. These regulations will
be enforced.
Featuring the music of Herbie
Kay and his world-famous band,
the dance will be held from 9 un
til 12 in the main dining room of
Sbisa hall, and will be preceded
by an hour of entertainment ad
mission to which will be the pur
chase of a 25c war stamp at the
door.
freshmen who have not done sophomore seat an d hands class, j Kay’s organization made quite a
Seniors May
Secure Copy
Of Cadence
Fish-Frogs Can Get
Copies If They Have
Not Secured Them
Seniors, as well as those fish
and frogs who have not done so
should go by the corps headquar
ters office in Ross hall Monday
afternoon and get their copy of
the Cadence, new freshmen hand
book.
Copies are free, but each man
must bring his yellow registration
receipt so it may be stamped.
Fifty-five hundred copies of the
compact little guide to the customs
and traditions of Aggieland have
been printed, and juniors and so
phomores will be issued them in
turn.
“It is very, very important that
so get their copy Monday after
noon, because this will be the last
chance they will have at them un
til after the upperclassmen get
them,” said Brooks Gofer, Batta
lion editor.
EE Graduates May
Apply for Training
In Signal Corps
Graduate electrical engineers,
and electronic physicists with de
grees from acredited colleges may
apply immediately .jfor appoint
ment in the Army of the United
States and assignment to the Ele-
troncis Training group of the Sig
nal Corps, states the chief signal
officer, United States Army.
Candidates accepted are ordered
to immediate active duty and are
given necessary specialized train
ing to allow them to qualify for
future assignments in the Air
craft Warning service.
Students whose major study is
chemical engineering, mechanical
enigneering, or a field other than
electrical engineering or electronic
physics, may be considered for the
Enlisted Reserve Corps with as
signment to the Electronics Train
ing group if they are scheduled
to take a concentration of courses
in the field of electronics.
Any one desiring further infor
mation or application blanks should
contact H. C. Dillingham, profes
sor of electrical engineering.
Former Student Here
Now Stationed In Cal
Harvey A. “Dusty” Franz, Jr.,
age 20, former Texas A. & M. stu
dent is now stationed at the Unit
ed States Marine Base at San
Diego, California. Franz spent two
years here at A. & M. in company
A Chemical Warfare Service, and
left school last year in the fall of
1941.
With his knowledge of the basic
training the army uses gained
while here at A. & M., Franz was
made a squad leader, and has since
won a medal in bayonet drill. H.
A. Franz, father of “Dusty” Franz
said, “In a letter home, Dusty says
he hopes to earn more medals and
serve the country to the best of
his ability. Also he gives all the
credit to Texas A. & M. for the
basic training upon which his fu
ture lies.”
Annual Horse Show
Takes Place Today
Starting at 2:30
Riding, Jumping, Novelty
Events Featured This Year;
EachTroop Has Equal Entry
Beginning this afternoon at 2:30
is the annual Cavalry horseshow,
which will be held in the regular
horseshow arena north of the cam
pus in the north side of the Field
Artillery drill field.
The horseshow this year will
feature riding, jumping, and novel
ty events, stated Lt. W. G. North,
cavalry instructor and will be an
all-military affair, with no civil
ians being allowed to participate.
In a system worked out by the
Cavalry Military Department each
troop will enter the same num
ber of students for the meet and
receive credit accordingly. It is
planned to use the outcome of the
competitive events between troops
as one of the deciding factors on
which troop gets the colors.
The eight events in the show this
year include the freshman and the
an event judged by the way the
entrants handle the reins and sit
on the horse; the hunt team, an
exciting event in which three stu
dents go on a cross-country jump
course; junior and senior jumping
classes open to the juniors and
seniors of the Field Artillery two
entries per troop are allowed to
enter. Each man and his opponent
start simultaneously, mounting
bareback on a horse and riding
across the arena, where they dis
mount and drink a bottle of pop
handed them by their assistants.
When finished, they jump back on
their horses and dash across the
arena. The rider doing all this in the
quickest time wins the event.
The last event will be the musi
cal chair event, which always prov
es a great thrill. In this event a
number of entrants ride around in
arena on horses to the accompan
iment of string music. Inside the
arena have been placed a number
of chairs—one less than the num
ber of entrants. When the music
stops, each entrant stops his horse,
jumps off, and heads for the near
est chair. Each time one rider is
eliminated fromYhe event, and the
last one to still have a chair de
termines the winner.
The horseshow will be judged
by Major J. A. Mann, stationed at
San Antonio; managers of the
show will be Capt. A. P. Utter-
back and Lt. W. G. North, both in
structors in the Cavalry.
hit at the Cavalry Ball last night,
(See CORPS DANCE, Page 2)
There will be an important
meeting of The Battalion news
paper staff in Dr. Mayo’s class
room in the basement of the
library Monday night at 8. It
is compulsory that all mem
bers of the editorial staff be
there and any other men in the
corps who are interested in do
ing newspaper work are urged
to attend asserted the editor,
Brooks Gofer. Only those mem
bers present will be eligible for
Press Club keys.
Kay’s Orchestra
Will Play Concert
Preceding Dance
Program a Strictly Patriotic
Gesture Sponsored by Cav,
Battalion and Town Hall
Herbie Kay, whose orchestra
played for the Cavalry Ball, will
present a one hour concert tonight
jn Sbisa hall, to all those who will
purchase a twenty-five cent war
stamp as the price of admission.
Strictly a patriotic gesture, the
program will be jointly sponsored
by the Cavalry Regiment, The Bat
talion, Town Hall, and Kay’s or
chestra, and will be of same type
of program as a regular Town Hall
swing band feature.
Herbie Kay is known in the or
chestra world as a “firstologist”,
because of the many really out
standing dance band records he has
made, and proved highly popular
with the Cavalry last night.
Featured in the vocal spotlight
will be Loraine Daly, Ben Purnell,
the' Kay Kwire and the Kay Kwar-
tette. Following the program will,
be the corps dance with Kay play
ing.
Half of Famous Aggie
Kimbrough Team Is
Member of M S Staff
Kimbrough is back! Yessir, he is
here again! Not John, but Jack,
half of the Aggie famous football
brothers. Recently transferred here
as an instructor, Lt. Kimbrough
was a two-year letterman and gra
duated in 1941. He will replace
Major E. L. Hunter of the Infan
try staff.
Jack Rawlins Sees Visiting TSCW
Co-eds As They Arrive for Week End
October Battalion
Magazine Issued In
Ad Building Mon
The October issue of the Batta
lion Magazine will be issued from
the basement of the Administra
tion building Monday night, ac
cording to John Holman, magazine
editor.
Forty pages of varied humor,
fiction, and truth are contained in
this issue.
Featured ie a four color cover
drawing by Phil Bible, A Infantry
senior, and is considered by those
who have seen it the best cover
ever used on the Battalion.
Also in this issue will be articles
by Bobby Stephens, social secretary
of the senior class, John Lawrence,
Town Hall manager, and A1 Ram
irez, junior editor of the magazine.
Fiction to the tune of a love story
by Clyde C. Franklin, a mystery
story by John Holman, and a fish
story by Nelson Karbach, Jr., com
plete the issue.
Next month, the magazine’s
theme will be war—war with the
University of Texas—and featured
will be an exclusive Battalion arti
cle, with pictures, of Miss Anne
Gwynne, feminine lead of the Wal
ter Wanger-Aggie film. The issue
will be dedicated to Miss Gwynne,
and will be the first time in the
forty-year history of the magazines
publication that it has been de
dicated to any individual.
Typical Scene From Previous Horse Show
Library Continues
Film Series Tonight
Tonight the library is offering
the second of a series of educa
tional films which are being pre
sented without cost to the student
body. The program is under the
direction of Dr. T. F. Mayo, li
brarian. Last week an over capac
ity crowd was present to witness
the first of the war films and ex
tra accomodations are to be pro
vided that all the students who
wish may receive the informa
tion contained in the films in com
fort states the librarian. This is
not to be interpreted as a free
film as shown else where on the
campus but a film of distinctly
educational character. This weeks
film will feature conditions in Po
land as told by a Polish flier.
Maintenance Men
Needed by Bryan
Recruiting Station
Due to the increase in planes,
tanks, trucks and guns, coming off
the production lines of America at
a faster rate than ever before, the
supply of maintainance men has
greatly fallen behind, and at the
present time there are not enough
framed men to keep this equip
ment in good condition, according
to word received from Sergeant
Carl E. Janney, in charge of the
U. S. Army Recruiting Station, at
Bryan.
There are openings now avail
able for men qualified to fill these
Army jobs, many experienced civil
ian technicians can step directly
into specialists jobs without going
to training schools. Many others,
without the technical experience,
but with mechanical ability, that
may come from merely the prac
tising of a hobby, can be trained
quickly and proficiently for one of
these Army Jobs.
Janney wishes to point out that
this is the last month enlistments
can be made for the Air Corps
Specialists with assignment to El
lington Field. Those men who wish
to avail themselves of the oppor
tunity to become Aircraft Mechan
ics, Aircraft Metal Workers, Air
craft Armorers, Aircraft Radio Me
chanics, Aircraft Radio Operators,
Aircraft Welders, and be assigned
to Ellington Field, must do so now,
as these vacancies are rapidly be
ing filled. For further information
as to Specialists ratings in the Air
Corps, Signal Corps, or the Or
dnance Department, get in touch
with Sergeant Carl E. Janney or
Pvt. Erwin W. Kandeler, at the
Recruiting Station Room 7, Post
Office Building, Bryan.
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A typical scene from the annual Aggie Horse Show is depicted to give the cadets an idea of what
they may expect to see at the event to be held in the Horse Show Arena in the vicinity of the
radio tower this afternoon.
“Diary of a Polish Airman”Is
Library’s Weekly Film Feature
War movies in the Asbury
Browsing Room of the Library
last Saturday night brought such
an enthusiastic attendance from
Aggies, faculty members, and sail
ors that some of the over two hun
dred who were present found them
selves perched on reading tables
built up by dictionaries and ency
clopedias. Tonight the movies will
be shown at 8:30 in the Reference
Room on the second floor of the
Library, with the assurance that
four hundred will be comfortably
seated. Much of the success of the
showing of the films is due to the
cooperation of Dr. Charles La
Motte and the Biology department
and to Dr. D. W. Williams and the
Animal Husbandry department in
lending both their assistance and
their projector and screen.
Poland, Hitler’s first victim, will
be the subject of two of the films
tonight. That Warsaw still fights,
that Poles did not respond like
sheep to the placard, “Poles! Come
to us. We will not hurt you. We
will give you bread”, which was
can-ied in by Hitler’s “puppies” as
they entered Warsaw has been
eloquently set forth in the Diary
of A Polish Airman. A young avi
ator, after watching the merciless
attacks on the people of Warsaw,
after seeing them pushed out of
their homes without clothing or
food, and with the picture of his
bombarded city in his mind, made
his way to Hungary and then to
France, and as the Nazi machine
followed him, finally to England,
where, with others of his country
men, he joined the R.A.F. and con
tinued to fight for a free Poland.
He was killed in action, but his in-
domitability has been taken up by
the enslaved civilians of Poland
who whisper among themselves,
“Tomorrow they are going to col
lect all the washtubs in the Zoli-
borz section. Yes, they are prepar
ing to invade England”; and by
Polish soldiers who make a chal
lenge at the end of this film. “We
will finish this diary.”
The longer but not less dramatic
This is Poland shows us by the
a most vivid picture the ruthless
ness and the extent of Nazi dom
ination. This is done by contrast.
First we see Poland as it was built
by such ardent patriots as Padere
wski; historic Krakow with its
famous trumpeter; interiors of
farm houses; religious processions;
the modem harbor of Gdynia; the
fine buildings which were pai’t of
the new Poland bom after 1918;
and running through the scenes the
life of the Polish people, their
colorful dancing and singing and,
above all, their national pride. In
September, 1939, in the short space
of two weeks, lyarsaw capitulated;
the German troops moved in, and
the life of Poland came to an end.
It is difficult for Americans to
imagine the unspeakable misery of
the Poles. These hollow-eyed, starv
ing people are confronted at every
turn with the efficient Nazifica-
tion of their country. Stephen
Benet recently made this state
ment: “Let us imagine, if we can”,
he says, “ a ghetto in New York
City with an eight-foot wall around
it. Let us imagine the closing of
every college in the country, the
deliberate destruction of Mt. Ver
non and the Statue of Liberty, the
closing of St. Patrick’s Cathedral
and the shooting of boys who whis
tled—‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
Let us imagine starvation, typhus
and death. We shall then get a
very faint and feeble idea of what
the New Order has meant to Poland
and her people.”
Shown at the same time will be
a film tracing the downfall of
Democratic Czechoslovakia. It de
picts occupation by German armor
ed forces and the precectius Fifth
Column Activities by German
agents.
Completing the program will be
the Motion Picture Academy of
Arts and Sciences’ Safeguarding
Military Information which has
been used as a training film for
the U. S. Army and a Twentieth
Century production in sepia called
American Sea Power, for which Lo
well Thomas is commentator.
Admission is free and all of
those who believe that an informed
people is a vital prerequisite for
winning the war are urged to come.
Typical Girl-Date Reactions and Clothes
For Wardrobe Dept Noticed by Director
TSCW girls arriving on the Sunbeam last night were
unaware they were met at the station by their dates and!
Jack Rawlins, who will direct the Wanger-Aggie film.
Rawlins wanted to see just how they acted and how they
were dressed as they detrained.
It had been thought that special buses would bring the
girls down for the Cavalry’s week-end, but verification of
this proved it untrue. However, typical reactions took place
and Rawlins got a big kick out of the whole show.
Vitally interest in making thev
film as true to A. & M. as possible,
Rawlins and his assistants have
been on the campus several days
now gathering information and ab
sorbing Aggie spirit.
According to Musical Director
Ken Darby, the Singing Cadets
and the King’s Men, famed
quartet, will make a scene in the
old new area showing the Sing
ing Cadets riding around in a col
lege truck singing Christmas
Carols. This promises to be one of
the most beautiful scenes in the
film. The Singing Cadets will be
under the direction of Richard Jen
kins.
Bernard Brown, master of the
sound track, says that all of the
yells, mass singing and band num
bers will be recorded, replayed
with the corps going through the
yells with the sound film, and
then all put on one track. This is
but typical of the millions of com
plicated processes necessary to the
production of top-notch motion pic
tures.
Anne Gwynne and Robert Cum
min,s stars of the film, will ar
rive on the campus with the com
plete production staff about No
vember 1, said Brown.
Chinese Refuge
Student Addresses
Campus Group Sun
Homer Chin-Chen Loh, who has
had much experience as a Chinese
war refugee student and who is
admirably fitted in the cause of
student war relief will visit the
campus today and tomorrow under
the auspices of the YMCA. He is
well versed on the situation of
Chinese students to their fellow
students in this country—and has
a possessing knowledge of the
needs of student war relief in
other parts of the world as well.
Loh will speak on his work Sun
day morning at 11:00 in the regu
lar morning worship of the Metho
dist Church. He will speak again
tomorrow night before the Pres
byterian League at 7:00 and at
8:15 in the Baptist church.
Loh holds an LL.B. degree from
Soochow university. Since coming
to America in 1939, he has been
a student at Crozer Theological
seminary, and with a Crozer Fel
lowship he algo studied at the
University of Pennsylvania. In
1941 he received his M.A. degree
in the field of Sociology. He holds
an Oriental Certificate from Crozer
Seminary. During the past year he
has done a substantial part of the
study necessary for a doctorate.
During his college years Loh
was chairman of the YMCA in
Soochow university, and he has
been president of the Chinese Stu
dent’s club of Philadelphia. His
inter-collegiate experience is
very broad, as he was a student
delegate to the Christian Stu
dent Conference in Japan in 1930,
and has attented many inter-col
legiate gatherings in this country.
He has been a leader in conference
and assemblies, and has served as
a camp counselor in Pittsfield,
Massachusettes.
Charter Received By
Automotive Engineers
The A. & M. Society of Auto
motive Engineers has been grant
ed a charter by the National Coun
cil of the SAE. This makes the
student SAE chapter here the only
student chapter in Texas and one
of the two in the Southwest.
Formal presentation of the char
ter will be made Tuesday night,
October 13 by W. G. Fuller of
Globe Aircraft corporation, secre
tary of the Texas Section of the
SAE.
Agronomy Society
Issues Program Of
Semester Meetings
At the regular meeting of the
Agronomy society Thursday night,
a general business meeting was
held. A round table discussion was
held on several of the many prob
lems of agriculture.
A program schedule for the rest
of the semester was passed around
to each member of the Agronomy
society and the faculty. Programs
for the remainder of the current
semester include a talk by Colonel
John K. Bolds, senior instructor in
the Field Artillery. Colonel Boles
will speak on his world travels and
big game hunting.
Dean E. J. Kyle will give a talk
on November 5, which will include
a panorama of his South Ameri
can tour. The meeting on Novem
ber 19 will be taken up with the
initiation of hew members.
Interupting the business side of
the term, December 3 brings a bit
of the social season in the form of
a dance. Every member is request
ed to bring a date. Also on the
light side is a play, to be put on by
the Agronomy department staff
members.
The meeting of January 7th will
be taken up for the election of hew
student officers for the club. Two
weeks later, the last meeting of the
current semester, the new elected
officers take over their duties.
Three Ex-Aggies Are
Graduated to Upper
Class Flying Students
Three former students of Texas
A. & M., Aviation Cadets John
(Mike) Speer, Frank McGlasson,
and John Swaim, graduated this
week to the upper class of fly
ing students at the Greenville
Basic Flying school.
Speer was enrolled at A. & M.
from 1939 to mid-term in 1942,
and was a junior editor of The Bat
talion newspaper. McGlasson was
enrolled in the college from 1940
to 1942; he enlisted in the Army
Air Forces early last spring, re
ceiving his primary training at
Jones Field, Bonham, Texas. Swahrr
joined the Army Air Force last
summer; he was majoring in ani
mal husbandry, and was a member
of the Saddle and Sirloin Club
during his 1940-42 enrollment.
Speer is from Alba, McGlasson
from Plainview and Swaim hails
from Temple. All are members of
the first class of flying cadets to
enter training at Texas’ newest
basic flying school.
Six Aggies Selected
For Aviation Cadets
Six Aggies have been selected
for training as Naval Aviation ca
dets, and will be ordered to report
to active duty shortly.
The Aggies who joined the Naval
Aviation include Richard Ellis
Jackson, Orange; Roy Herber Mc
Donald, Jacksonville; Eugene
Swanson Kane, Jr., Palestine; Wil
liam Leslie Carper, Cleburne; John
Jerome Hosek, Jr., Victoria; Billy ; )
Charles Holdemess, Carlsbad, New.
Mexico. ...j..
When ordered to active duty,,
they will report to the U. S. Navy
Pre-Flight School, at the Univer
sity of Georgia, Athen, Georgia,
for three months of physical con?-'
ditioning, instruction in naval es
sentials, military drill and ground
school subjects.
After completing this course, they
will be sent to one of the Navy’s
numerous reserve bases for pri
mary flight training.
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