The Battalion
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 22, 1942
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NUMBER 58
Corps Trips Cancelled Because of Transportation
Uniform For
Game Will Be f
Infantry Regiment
Makes Final Plans
or Raeburn Ball
Thirty Four Aggies Win Wings;
Enter Careers as Combat Pilots
Federal Regulations Stop
Special Trains to Games
No Authorized Absences May Be Had By
Those Attending Out Of Town Ball Games
There will be no official corps trips this year, and prob
ably for the duration because of the inability of the rail
companies to provide the college with transportation facilites.
Federal regulations prohibit the running of special trains,
and without adequate transportation, authorized corps trips
will be automatically eliminated, according to F. C. Bolton,
dean of the college.
“Under the new cut system, if a student feels that he
Winter No 1
Serge To Be Worn
By Juniors, Seniors
Uniform for those attending
the Baylor game in Waco Satur
day will be winter number two
states Walter Cardwell, cadet col
onel.
Juniors and Seniors will be re
quired to wear both the serge shirt
and slacks, with the freshmen and
sophomores wearing wool slacks,
Cardwell announced.
A large attendance of Aggies is
expected at the game even though
college officials have stated the
regular rules pertaining to class
cuts will be observed, unexcused
absences being marked down for
all those not present at their Sat
urday morning classes, declares
informed authorities.
Tickets for the game may be pur
chased only up until 12:00 a.m.,
Friday since the remaining ducats
must be sent to Waco for sale at
the game, states E. W. Hooker,
secretary of the Athletic Council.
They may be bought at the front
desk of the YMCA for $1.23 plus
a coupon from the athletic coupon
book.
D Company Infantry
Wins $5 Prize For
Best Sign This Week
Winner of the contest for the
best football sign on the campus
this week sponsored by Loupot’s
Trading Post was announced today
by Walter Cardwell. It is D Com
pany, Infantry. Prize to be awarded
that outfit by Loupot is five
dollars.
All Day Students Urged
To See First Sergeants
“Rythm by Raeburn” wil be on
tap October 30, when the Infantry
Regiment glides across the dance
floor of Sbisa hall, to the accom
paniment of Boyd Raeburn and his
orchestra.
Raeburn’s aggregation was the
band that made such a hit with
the corps the first time he was
here, that he was invited down
again to play for both the Junior
Prom and the Senior Ring Dance
last year.
Final plans are in the making to
make this one of the biggest and
best Infantry balls yet staged, an
nounced John Mullins, general
chairman of arrangements.
Heads of supplemental com
mittees working on the ball have
been announced by Mullins. They
are Clayton D’Avy decorations;
Bud Rideout, finance; and Jack
Martin, invitations.
That weekend will be packed full
of entertainment for the infantry
men and their dates expected from
all over Texas. Saturday afternoon
the last home game of the season
will be played at Kyle field against
the Arkansas Razorbacks. Satur
day night Town Hall presents one
of the feature billings of the sea
son, H. Y. Kaltenborn, world re
nown NBC news commentator, who
will tell an expected overflow aud-'
ience the inside information on the
present world war.
An appeal was issued to the
sophomore and freshmen day stu
dents to contact their first ser
geants as soon as possible with
regard to details of the ball, states
Mullins.
Boyd Raeburn, easily the most
popular young band leader in the
Midwest, recently finished a leng
thy record-breaking stay at the
Chez Paree in Chicago.
New Rules
On Degrees
Made Clear
Those Called
To Active Duty
May Obtain Degrees
Dean F. C. Bolton clarified to
day the requirements for gradua
tion as announced recently by the
Academic Council.
Those students being called to
active duty at the end of the sem
ester, or near enough to the close
of the semester to receive credit
for the smester’s work under the
rules of the Academic Council and
who lacks not more than six credit
hours of meeting the requirements
for the degree at the close of the
semester, may be granted the
Bachelor’s degree at the close of
the semester, provided he meets
certain requirements.
He must have credit for a mini
mum of 136 hours and not be more
than six hours short of the full
requirement. Those six hours can
be either required or elective
courses, with the decision as to
the candidates filling the require
ments left up to the deans. Also
the courses lacking can not be
any course which is certified by
the head of the department in
which he is to receive his degree.
One grade point per hour of the
full major study is also required.
In the general grade points, the
total shall not be less than one
grade point per hour of the stu
dent’s full requirements plus four
grade points for each credit hour
of deficiency.
This rule is applied only to those
who have definite proof that they
will be taken into the armed serv
ices on active duty at the end of
the semester.
“Ready for combat duty” was
the stamp of approval placed on
fledgling flyers at seven advanced
flying schools of the Gulf Coast
Training Center as they won sil
ver wings of the Army Air Forces
on October 9.
Every section of the United
States, Latin America, even
Shantung, 'China, was represented
on the huge class roster (exact
size undisclosed), the ninth group
to graduate since Pearl Harbor.
New pilots from A. & M. in
clude:
Lts. Ren H. Anderson, Ellington;
Edward W. Burbank, Foster; James
. Burns, Brooks; William T.
Doyal, Jr., Foster; Robert F. Fin
ley, Foster; Bryan P. Glass, Moore;
Michael J. Grogan, III, Kelly;
Laurin R. Hardage, Lake Charles;
James C. Holekamp, Foster; Char
les M. Honaker, Lubbock; Jack W.
John, Foster; Guy R. Johnston,
Moore; Monte Kaplan, Foster;
John P. Keelan, Ellington; Ray
mond H. Klutz, Kelly; William W.
Lane, Moore; Newton P. Littleton,
Brooks; Olen F. Love, Foster;
Robert W. Mansfield, Lubbock;
Roy G. Martin, Lubbock; Victor
R. Myers, Kelly; Ross W. Norman,
Lubbock; John W. Odom, Elling
ton; Jarvis S. Pinchback, Kelly;
Erich E. Schleier, Jr, Ellington;
Howard N. Teague, Brooks; Tom-
Geology Head To
Speak in Houston
Professor C. L. Baker, head of
the geology department, will make
a speech at noon today in Houston
before the Houston Geology So
ciety. His topic will be “Geosyn-
clinal Thickness,” or the thickness
of rocks in various mountain
ranges.
The Houston Geology Society is
the largest geology club in the
world; due to the oil in Texas and
the many oil men in Houston. Pro
fessor Baker says there should be
between four and five hundred
members present today.
mie Vaughn, Lubbock; Jerrold M.
Vivian, Ellington; Sidney V. Wad
sworth, Foster; George W. Wallace,
Jr., Brooks; James M. Warner,
Ellington; Frank W. Wells, Lake
Charles; Maurice M. Wilson, Ell
ington; John S. Zimmer, Kelly.
The mechanics role in modern
air warfare was recognized by
this class which established a tradi
tion by electing a crew chief at
each field as an honorary mem
ber of their group.
Absent was the fanfare of air
planes roaring overhead, speeches
and long ceremonies at this war
time graduation. Instead the pilots
marched up, received their silver
wings, saluted smartly and turned
to begin their active flying duty.
All have requested immediate act
ion.
Included in the Foster Field class
of 42-1 is First Lieut. Harold C.
Theus, of Bethany, Okla., an or
dained minister and Army Chap
lain. He put aside his ecclesistical
robes to become a fighter pilot
flying a P-40 or Lightning P-38.
One member of the Moore Field
class who wants a chance to avenge
his home town is Brian P. Glass
of Shantung, China.
Single engine fighter pilots are
graduating today from Foster
Field, Texas; Moore Field, Texas;
and Lake Charles, Louisiana, Army
Flying School. Bomber pilots are
graduating at Ellington Field,
Brooks Field, Kelly Field and Lub
bock Army Flying School, all in
Texas.
Officer’s Guides
Now Available
Officer’s Guides have come in
to the Student Activities office,
All who have paid for a copy may
get one at the office in the base
ment of the administration build
ing.
Another order will be sent in a
few days, and those who want a
book may order one by paying for
it in advance. The price is $2.50.
is up in his work and will miss no"'
quizzes, it is up to him to decide
whether or not he can make the
out of town games,” said Dean
Bolton, “but the question of special
transportation is definitely out,
and so the corps trips are eliminat
ed automatically. What we are now
worried about is getting the boys
home Christmas.”
He went on to say that with
tires, and gasoline being rationed,
buses and trains crowded and un
able to run special cars and trains,
the problem of getting Aggies
home for the Christmas holidays
is indeed a serious one.
Acording to E. L. Angel, execu
tive assistant to the president,
plans at first were thought settled
as far as the Dallas corps trips
is concerned, and even after spec
ial trains were eliminated, plans to
run a second-section on a regular
train were made, contingent on the
government’s not prohibiting that.
Now, however, an order has been
issued which prohibits second-sec
tions, so there is no possible way
for the Aggies to get special trans
portation.
Angel emphasized, however, that
every effort is still being made to
secure transportation facilities,
and that Aggies still might be able
to get to the S.M.U. game in Dal
las because gasoline will not be
rationed until November 22.
Baptist Students
Attend Dallas
Meet October 30
Authorized Absences
May Be Obtained From
Commandant’s Office
Authorized absences will be
granted to students attending the
Baptist student convention in Dal
las October 30 to November- 1,
stated the Reverend R. L. Brown,
pastor of the College Station Bap
tist church. A list will be turned in
to the commandant’s office, so that
attending students can merely
check out.
Speakers from all over the world
will speak at the convention, to
which five hundred or more stu
dents from Texas colleges are ex
pected to attend. The program will
start Friday morning at 9, on Oc
tober 30, and close the following
Sunday. Delegates will be housed
in the Baker Hotel, and speeches
are to be in the Crystal Ballroom
Internationally known writer and
lecturer Jessie B. Eubank will
speak on courtship and marriage.
She was formerly a member of
the editorial staff of the National
Geographic Magazine and is now 1
a faculty member at Stevens Col
lege. Among the other speakers,
will be world travelers Dr. Charles.
E. Maddry, Dr. W. O. Lewis, Mrs.
Eugene Sallee and J. B. Stewart.
Interesting Campus Personalities III
Thrilling Tale of Hair-Raising Adventure in Battle and Against Jungle
Beasts Is Story of Colonel Boles’ Rise to Fame as Soldier, Marksman
By Tom Joumeay
He’s led a battalion of 155 howit
zers in action; he’s been attacked
by a gagantic saladang in the
interior of Borneo; he’s stalked
timarau in the middle of one of
the Philippine Islands; he holds
the world’s championship in the
“running deer” rifle marksmen-
ship contest.
These are just a few of the ac
complishments of Colonel J. K.
Boles, at present senior instructor
of the Field Artillery at A. & M.,
who can give a reporter cold chills
with his descriptions of encounters
with big game in the Philippine
jungles.
Was Formerly a Cavalryman
Born at Fort Smith Arkansas
of a non-soldiering family, Colonel
Boles first entered army routine
when he joined the Arkansas Nat
ional Guard, and later upon moving
to New York, became a part of
the famed old 7th regiment. In
1912 Boles joined the regular army
after taking a competitive exam
ination, and served five years in
the Cavalry stationed both in this
country and in the Philippines.
It was later when stationed in
the Philippines that the officer
underwent one of the most thrill
ing experiences of his life. Big
game hunters classify three bovines
as among the most deadly of all
animals, the African water buff
alo, the saladang of Indo-China,
and Borneo and the Timarau found
only on the Philippine island of
Mindoro. Although these three are
all cousins of the docile water buff
alo of India, they are among the
most dangerous and savage beasts
known to man.
One time while elephant hunt
ing in Borneo, after crawling
through a croeadile path, through
thick jungle swampland getting
into the interior of the island,
Boles came upon tracks of a large
elephant, where the ground was a
little drier. At one becoming in
tent on following the elephant to
get a good shot, the hunter started
trailing the pachyderm through
the jungle, some of which was so
thickly covered with tropical foli
age that it took hours to make any
appreciable headway. Suddenly,
from out of the midst of the black
jungle, sprang some huge creature,
running straight at the colonel.
He whipped up his .405 Winchester
and fired a shot point blank at
the animal.
Animal Lays Trap for Hunter
The jungle was so dark and the
foliage so thick that the animal
was not visable at all, but the
hunter could hear the crashing
progress it made running through
the underbrush. Following the
creature through the dense brush,
the Colonel realized that it must
have been a saladang, one of the
deadliest and most rare specie of
Colonel Boles
Relates Game Hunting
Experiences Tonight
Colonel Boles will talk on his
big game hunting experiences at
the Agronomy Society meeting to
night at 8 in the animal husbandry
lecture room.
Colonel Boles has had a con
siderable amount of big game
hunting in various parts of the
world and is expected to present
an interesting speech.
Those interested in hearing Col
onel Boles ai'e welcome to the
Agronomy meeting.
wild bovines. He succeded in trail-"
ing it by the sound it made crash
ing through the jungle and the
blood traces left on obstacles it
tried to vault over. He got two
more shots at the saladang and
realized that the creature was ab
out gone, yet still in a very danger
ous state. The beast had stopped
somewhere but its labored breath
ing could be heard a short dis
tance away, evidently having been
wounded in the lungs.
While stalking the animal
through the jungle, the colonel
suddenly paused, as if instinctively
forewarned of the saladang’s prox
imity. Carefully scrutinizing the
foliage he observed something
shiny and dark, that turned out
to be the very tip of the bovine’s
horn upon closer examination. The
animal had cunningly doubled back
and laid a trap for the hunter
which could very easily have
brought an end to the career of
Colonel Boles, had he not seen that
horn tip.
From that tip, with nothing more
to go on, the big game hunter ap
proximated the exact spot he had
to aim at the get a brain shot. His
aim had to be even more exact
ing since the frontal bone of the
saladang’s scull made the feat even
more difficult. He fired the shot
went directly to the maik. The last
stood seven feet four inches high
at the shoulders.
Another time the colonel tells
about, is when he and an Air Corps
major stalked a timarau on Min
doro island in the Philippines. The
ferocity of the beast as shown
when one of them suddenly lowered
its head and charged the two off
icers. While going through a clump j
of grass about fifty yards distant, j
the colonel fired a shot at the I
Above is Colonel J. K. Boles, senior instructor of Field Artillery,
who is a soldier of longstanding, sportsman of world renown, and
an expert trick and precision rifle shot. At the time the picture
was made, Boles was a major on a General Staff, hence, the st&r
on his lapel. —Photo Courtesy United States Signal Corps.
■’"'beast, but its form continued on
through the clump of grass head
ing straight for the two men.
Two Birds With One Stone
Quickly reloading, he fired again
at the beast, this time dropping it
when it was nearly on the hunters.
Much to their surprise, it turned
out that there really had been two
beasts almost identical in size.
One of them hiding in the clump.
The body of the other was found,
shot true, in the middle of the
clump. This was probably the only
time that any hunter has killed
two of one of the rarest animals
alive—found only on this one island
in the middle of the Philippines.
Not only has Colonel Boles gain
ed world-wide recognition as a
hunter of big game, .but he also
has been to Europe six times to
enter various international rifle
competitions. In such countries as
Italy, France, Sweden, Switzerland,
Belgium, and Poland, Boles has
fired with a five man team repre
senting the United States, in the
matches. Several of those years he
captained the team.
Enter Olympics
In 1924 at France they entered
the Olympics. The Colonel won
both the single shot and the double
shot competition in the running
deer event, with the contestants
having to hit a deer running in the
open for about thirty meters at a
distance of 100 yards.
Colonel Boles has been stationed
at a number of army posts all over
the country, has served as G-2,
intelligence officer on the Philip
pine staff for two years, at Wash
ington as chief of Field Artillery
for two years, as senior instructor
of . Field Artillery, Texas National
Guard for a year, to name just a
very few of the many different
positions he held.
The Colonel has a son, 26, a
graduate of West Point, who now
commands a battalion of medium
tanks in the Third Armored Divi
sion, and a daughter, Betty, wife
of Major F. K. Mearnes, on the
General Staff of the Third Army
Corps.
Of all places Colonel Boles has
served -abroard and in this country-
of all the experiences he has had
what do you think he’d rather be ?
Well, we’ll tell you. Confidentially
he’d rather be right here on this
campus teaching Field Artillery
tactics to a “bunch of the best men
in the world, Texas Aggies.”
Sound Film To Be
Shown by Architect
Society Tonight in Y
A special sound film, “The Riv
er,” colorful story of the Missis
sippi River Valley, is to be shown
on the second floor of the Y.M.C.A.
tonight after yell practice. To be
sponsored by the Architecture So
ciety, the film is the story of the
effect of ruthless, uncontrolled in
dustry upon the thirty million peo
ple who live in or derive their liv
ing from the region drained by the
world’s greatest river.
According to those who have al
ready seen the film, the photogra
phy is superb and the music and
dialogue make a dramatic accom
paniment to the visual story. The
Architecture Society urges not
only its members, but any inter
ested visitors as well, to attend
the showing of the film.