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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. 17, 1942 2275 NUMBER 56 Aggies Battle TCU In Conference Opener Comp Reg Ball Changed To Nov 20 Dance Jumped to Beat Gas Rationing Effect On Getting Girls Here Members of the Composite and Signal Regiments will hold their annual ball on November 20 in stead of December 11 as previous ly scheduled. The change was made in order to hold the dance before gas rationing comes into effect in Texas on November 22. In order to hold the dance on the new date, the same date that the Engineers ball is scheduled for, arrangements have been made to hold the dance in Duncan Hall. According to the Student Activ ities office, arrangements for dance bands will be made so that two dif ferent orchestras will be on the campus on Friday the 20th for the two regimental balls and the fol lowing night a gigantic Corps Dance—the last before gas ration ing—will be held in Sbisa. One of the orchestras playing for the Fri day night dances wil-l be contracted for the Corps Dance. Tentative committees have been selected for the dance and a band will be selected in the near future. This year’s dance will be the lar gest ever held by the Composite Regiment. It will include the new ly-formed Signal Regiment, the Chemical Warfare and the Ord nance. Members of the Quarter master Corps elected to attend the dance of each member’s old organ ization instead of that of the Com posite Regiment. Tip Hall Awarded Key For Outstanding Job At a meeting of the student branch of the American Society of Agricultural Engineez’s Thursday, W. T. (Tip) Hall, a senior in I Bat tery, Field Artillery, from Denton was presented a gold key for out standing work in the student branch of the American Society of Agri cultural Engineers. This award is made to any stu dent who can accumulate the re quired number of points given for certain outstanding branch activi ties. The point system, which was set up by the local Branch, has very rigid requirements to quali fy for the award. The gold key was designed by the students and is symbolic of agriculture and en gineering since both fields are of direct interest to the Agricultural Engineer. Up to this time, Hall is the fourth man to receive this special recognition. AMERICA CANDIDATES. HIS RUNNING IS A THING THAT WOULD DELIGHT ANY COACH 'S HIGHEST DREAMS "1F=T=P^CT-P. Nit u HERE IS. A PLAYER .WHO CAM PASS,KICK, RUM, AMD WHO IS CAPABLE OF CALLING 'EM . WHAT MORE COULD ONE ASK \i?( College to Sponsor Tool Design Course For Bryan-College An evening course in Machine Detail and Tool Design is to be given under the sponsorship of Texas A&M in either Bryan or College Station. It is to meet three evenings each week for a period of 16 weeks, or a total of 144 ac tual class hours. The course is an integral part of the National Pro gram of Engineering, Science and Management War Training de signed to train men and women for employment in war industries and to improve those already so employed. Prerequisites for the course in clude 2 years of high school math ematics and one half year of me chanical drawing or the equiva lent obtained from practical ex perience, or the completion of a previous offered ESMWT drawing course. (See TOOL DESIGN, Page 4) Loan Uncle Sam One Of Your Quarters And Hear Jan Garber It’s Stamp Session time again, ole’ Army! Slick up your best bib and tucker, fellers, ’cause old Gar ber is giving out with that solid stuff tonite at 8 sharp! Just before the Field Artillery Ball, Jan Garber, the idol of the airlanes, and his world-famous or chestra will play for the second War Stamp Swing Session. Admis sion is but the loan of a two-bit piece—just buy a 25tf war stamp at the door and enjoy about $300 worth of good jazz. ^ Boyd Knetsar Killed In Recent Plane Crash Boyd Knetsar, '39, was killed in an airplane crash at Alberquerque, New Mexico, October 14. No de tails of the accident are yet known. Funeral for Knetsar will be in Houston, his home town. His broth er is a sophomore in A. & M. WTAW Inaugurates Sunday Morning Musical Broadcast “Music on a Sabbath,” the first in a new series of radio broad casts from the stage of Guion Hall will be presented tomorrow morn ing over WTAW at 9:00 o’clock, states John Rosser, program direc tor. The program will fill a long- felt need for a Sunday morning musical broadcast on WTAW, since heretofore most of the Sunday program schedule has featured classical music. The program is being produced under the auspices of the Inter- Church Council, and tomorrow norning will feature violin and vocal solos, and organ music. John Mauser, well known violinist of this vicinity will present Schubert’s Serenade, accompanied on the or gan by Dr. G. T. Edds. D. T. Kil- lough will be featured as vocalist, also accompanied by Dr. Edds. It Will Never Happen Here Again! Visiting Beauties Show Batt Staff How By Writing and Editing This Mornings Issue By John Holman Great bells of jumping jehosa- phat! Girls putting out the Bat talion? Fantastic! Unbelievable! But nevertheless, true! It was a sight for the sorest of eyes yesterday afternoon to cast thy peepers around the Batt of fice and actually see more girls than boys! Like a dream come true, they were there. Big ones, little ones; blondes, brunettes, and what have you—sitting around pecking at a dozen typewriters, and all just so you could read your Batt this morning. From Baylor, TSCW, Texas, T. C. U.—delegates to the Journalism Congress now in session on the campus, these delightful bits of lovely ladyness wracked brain aft er brain thinking up the bull that graces these pages today. It sure was wonderful, just to sit there and look around you. Pokie, Mary Alice, Dolores, Ruth Anne, and Ruth—not to mention brother Bill of Baylor. And the unbelievable part of it is that they actually knew what the score was about this newspaper business. Features, newsstories, and columns flowed from our delapidated writ ing machines like so many peas in the pod—and not a one had to be rewritten. If you think the stories today are unusually good, thank us not, for ’twas not our doings. Ask Dean Kyle what he thinks about our female reporters. One of them, Ruth Anne King of T. C. U. was told jokingly to get a story from our Agriculture Dean. Well, we forgot about it for about ten minutes, and admittedly we blushed when Ruth Anne came roaring back downstairs with everything Dean Kyle had -to say—and she didn’t do a bit badly. The Travelling Dean took the young and beautiful Miss into his office, gave her the story, a very liberal supply of pamphlets and a saucy bit of advice about how to handle Aggies! (We’ve nev er had such luck!) Ruth Riding, T. C. U., decorated the chair usually filled by Sports Editor Haikin in as fair a manner as is possible, and beat out the feature on page three about just what THEY think about the game. Backwashing around today is Dolores Ison, another but-beautiful from T. C. U.—all Hood could do was just stand around and gape at the gals. If you don’t like the way Campus Distractions is constructed today, don’t blame Jack Keith, because who in this place could have done any better with three gorgeous TSCWites, Mary Alice Brown, Pokie Platzer, and Norma Mosley, decked out on three sides of him. He’s lost ten pounds and most of his hair just because of the strain he wrote his column under yester day afternoon. About the middle of the after noon, just about the time we were sort of getting used to the girlies, Chuck Chalmers and Gofer came in, took one look around, threw up their hands, and cried, “This isn’t the Batt office—it couldn’t be!” • But it wasn’t all work! From every corner of the room, the jab bering of ten thousand voices filled the air with the foulest of foul pandamnadies, and the strains of “That Good Old Baylor Line,” “Al ma Mater” from TSCWites, and the Horned Frogs’ “Alma Mater” from the T. C. U. girls. All in all, ’twas a harrowing ex perience, the likes of which will never, never again be seen on this or any other campus. You know how girls .are, so just imagine what all went on in the Batt of fice yesterday afternoon. P. T. Barnum was right! Daniels-Nix Duel Expected i To Highlight Big Tilt Today c Kickoff Is Set for 2:30; Anticipated Crowd of 15,000 People Due to See Fray oumalism dngressEnd After Dance By Mike Haikin Battalion Sports Editor Historic Kyle Field again becomes the blistering scene of what many sport observers regard as the championship battle when the twice-beaten Aggies of Texas A&.M College battle the undefeated and untied TCU Horned Frogs in the Southwest Conference’s top football attraction of the young season. For the Aggies it will be a fight to regain the comeback trail and again retain its place among the Southwest Con ference powers. Beset on its heels by two of the three non conference foes, the Cadets will attempt to salvage some of their lost prestige Saturday after-'"' noon, and there’ll be glory aplenty for Coach Homer Norton’s victory hungry charges if they can upset the apple-cart and overthrow the Frogs. Uphold National Record For the Horned Toads, it’ll be a battle to uphold the conference’s standing in the national poll and also add another notch to TCU’s bid for a spot among the nation’s top elevens. They are the only un beaten crew in the Southwest Con ference and hold the only prob lematical chance of raising this year’s edition of Texas football into the national spotlight. Naturally, TCU will rule slight favorites over the Aggies largely due to their past record. However, past records and statistics are thrown into the paste basket when these two teams collide for neither follows form when playing the other. Big Crowd Expected An anticipated 15,000 football enthusiasts from all parts of the country are expected to crowd the horse-shoe stadium of Kyle Field to witness an expected pitching duel between A&M’s Lightnin’ Leo Daniels and the Frogs’ offensive spearhead, Icewater Emery Nix. Daniels has been the mainspring of a deflated Aggie attack, and even in losing games has proven to be the most dangerous man on the field. Cullen Rogers, at his wingback post, has been barking out the signals in veteran fashion, besides proving to be the top pass receiver on the team as well as tied for that lead in the nation. The Rogers-Daniels’ combination has clicked for two touchdowns :his season, and will be the main Aggie offensive weapon this aft ernoon. (See FOOTBALL, Page 4) Corps to Attend Victory Dance In Sbisa Tonight at 9 No. 1, Khaki Shirt and Tie, Reg for Juniors, Seniors; No. 2 Wool, Fish and Sophs The corps dance tonight will fea ture Jan Garber, Idol of the Air- lanes, and his orchestra in their second appeai'ance on the campus this weekend. Beginning at 9 p. m., the dance will end at midnight and is to be in Sbisa Hall. Civilian suits and No. 1 uniforms will be regulations for seniors. Juniors should wear No. 1 uniforms, and sophomores and freshmen should wear No. 2 uniforms. Garber, one of the first of the showman - leaders of top - flight bands, has been leading his own orchestra for 20 years. The orches tra has been heard on NBC, CBS, and Mutual networks, and has ap peared with Burns and Allen, and for such commercial sponsors as Yeastfoam. They record for U. S. Record and have appeared in several movie shorts for Paramount and Warner Brothers. Their hotel and night club appearances include engage ments at the Hotel New Yorker, New York; the Mark Hopkins Ho tel, San .Francisco; the Casino, Cat alina Island; and the Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles. Opening- Banquet on Thursday; Closes After Corps Dance Following two days of banquet ing and discussions, the Southwest Journalism congress and the Southwestern Students Press club will conclude its program and ad journ following the corps dance tonight. The sixteenth annual session of these journalism organizations opened Thursday night with a ban quet at Sbisa hall, the keynote ad dress of which was made by Major James E. Crown, editor of the New Orleans States. Major Crown stressed th© im portance of this country’s news papers in the war effort, pointing out that they have contributed untold amounts in advertising space besides the play-up given in their news columns. He em phasized the fact that the journal ism schools of the nation now must assume the burden of maintaining a free and independent press. Every college and university in the nation should have a school of journalism—not just teaching the principles of newspaper work, but giving a complete and comprehen sive course in civics, history and language. Under the direction of Richard W. Jenkins, the Singing Cadets gave several renditions of stirring military airs, concluding with the Spirit of Aggieland, during which all Aggies in the room joined in on the second course. Yesterday morning, the 175 dele gates from thirteen Southwestern colleges and universities split up into different groups according to the special interest shown by each individual. Newswriters met in Guion hall for a short lecture and discussion of the problems confronting the young journalist under Tom Whitehead, editor of the Brenham Banner-Press. Magazine writers met with Arthur Coleman, editor of Holland’s Magazine, while year book editors discussed the college annual in the Administration build ing. Yesterday afternoon, Harold Halsell, of the Erwin Wasey Ad- (See JOURNALISM, Page 4) Meet Col Washington Another Ag Who Made Good in US A rmy By John Holman Again Aggieland has scored a bullseye! This time it happens to be in the person of Colonel Wil liam C. Washington, commanding officer of the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Training Center at Fort Eustis, Virginia. Col. Washington is an Ex-Aggie of the old school, graduating from A. & M. in 1912 with a degree in electrical engineering. When his name was added to the official rec ords in Washington, D. C., beside it was place the notation, “military honor graduate of a distinguished institution.” Since that day in May, 1912, Col. Washington has truly lived up to every word in that citation. He has held the banner of Aggieland heads and shoulders above the clamoring crowds, and has added glory and honor to our name and his. He was bom near Austin in Sep tember, 1888. After attending rural public schools he had two years in Austin High School. From there he came to Aggieland, where he grad uated with a Bachelor of Science degree. As colorful as his private life as a typical farm-boy-makes-good is his life as a man of war. He began in 1907, a year before he came to school here, when he enlisted as a private in the Infantry branch of the Texas National Guard. He later served in the grades of corporal, sergeant, battalion sergeant major, and 2nd lieutenant, resigning in November, 1912, to take his com mission in the Coast Artillery which he earned while in school here. Because he was top man from a military standpoint, L r ,. Washington was given a commis sion in the regular army, and since that day when he first donned gold bars he has been promoted as fol lows: 1st lieutenant, July 1, 1916; Laundry Returns to Old Schedule Mon Beginning October 19, the col lege laundry is going back to its old standard. This is a maximum of 23 pieces without extra charge and a maximum of four shirts and two pairs of pants. During the summer months to convenience the student body, a maximum of 25 pieces was allowed with five shirts and three pants. In a comparison of rates here and at other colleges it was found that compared to the 50<J a week charged here, the prices ranged from a low of $1.28 at Gulfport, Mississippi, to a high of $1.76 at a prominent Dallas college. captain, May 19, 1917; major (tem porary), October 11, 1918; major, July 1, 1920; Lt. Colonel, August 1, 1935; and colonel, July 1, 1942. In 1931, while a major, Col. Washington was assigned to the military staff of Texas A. & M., and he is the man responsible for the organization of the Coast Ar tillery regiment here. During his stay here, he found ed, staffed, and organized the Coast regiment with recruits from other branches, and he himself worked out the training schedules which the Coast followed until war time. But Col. Washington isn’t just an arm-chair general, or a white- collar boy, for on his list of sta tions are Fort Crockett, Texas, ten months of which were spent patrolling the Mexican border; France, 1917-18, five months of which were on the front, serving three and one half months of the time on a defensive sector and engaging in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. Other posts have been in Hawaii; the General Staff Command School in 1929, graduating in 1931 and being placed on the General Staff Eligi ble List. Colonel William C. Washington is an Aggie son of -which we can all be proud, and he is just as proud of his old school, as we are of him.