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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. - VOLUME 42
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1942
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NUMBER 59
Kyle Addresses Meeting
Of Land Grant Colleges
Juniors May Order
TJieir Senior Rings
Delivered Later
AnneGwynn
Favored As
0 Before Starting
Of Arkansas Game
Corps Will Sing
College Executives Go To
Chicago for Conference
Dean of Agriculture Will Speak Before
Both Sessions on Latin American Policy
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Baptist Missionary
Will Speak Here
Sunday Evening
Dr. Gunter To Address
Young People on Solution
Of Alcoholic Problems
Mr. Eugene Sallee, widely known
Southern Baptist missionary to
China, who returned to the United
States a month and a half ago on
the “Gripsholm” that brought back
a large number of American refu
gees, will speak Sunday evening
at 8 o’clock at the First Baptist
Church at College Station.
Mrs. Sallee, who is a sister of
Mrs. George W. Truett, of Dallas,
and also a sister of Mrs. Gordon
Singleton, wife of the president of
Mary Hardin-Baylor College, was
Mrs Eugene Sallee
interned by the Japanese for sev
eral months before she was allowed
to return to the United' States.
Since her return she has been rest
ing and recuperating from her ex
periences in China; this message
will be among the first since her
return to the states.
Dr. P. G. Gunter of the English
department will speak to the young
people’s department of the First
Baptist Sunday School, College Sta
tion, Sunday morning at 10 o’clock.
He will speak on the International
Sunday School theme for the day,
“Steps Toward the Solution of the
Alcohol Problem.”
Fire Prevention
Poster Contest Is
Being Held Again
The annual statewide fire pre
vention poster contest for Texas
school students was announced to
day by Marvin Hall, State Fire
Insurance Commissioner.
Cash awards, contributed by the
insurance firm of Cravens, Dargan
and Company, Houston, will go to
the winners. Seven awards will be
made in each of the following di
visions: high school, junior high,
intermediate, and primary.
The contest will close next May
1, when entries are submitted to
the Fire Insurance Department for
judging.
Two Aggies Selected
For Naval Training
Two more ex-students of Texas
A.&M. have joined the ranks of the
Naval Air Corps, and will be or
dered to active duty shortly.
David Homer Buck, Houston, and
Wilbur Albert Kasten, Dallas, are
the two Aggies who have been se
lected for Naval Aviation cadet
training.
On receiving their orders, they
will report to Athens, Georgia,
where they will enroll in the United
States Navy Pre-Flight School at
the University of Georgia for three
months of instruction in naval
essentials, physical, military drill,
and ground school subjects.
At the completion of this course,
they will take up primary flight
training at one of the Navy’s
numerous reserve bases.
Dean E. J. Kyle, dean of the
school of agriculture, left last night
for Chicago, Illinois, to attend
meetings of the Association of the
Land Grant Colleges and the Teach
ing Research and Extension Divi
sions. Dean Kyle has been asked
to speak at both sessions.
Kyle will speak before the Assoc
iation of Land Grant Colleges in
a general session on “The Mission
of the Land Grant Colleges in
Promoting Our Good Neighbor
Policies Among the Latin Ameri
can Republics”: his subject for the
joint meeting of the Teaching Re
search and Extension Divisions has
been selected as “Our Relations to
Agricultural Economy of Latin
American Countries and What It
Means to Proper World Stabiliza
tion at he Close of World War II”.
Dr. T. 0. Walton, president of the
College, left Thursday night, and is
expected to be in Chicago today.
At the close of the meetings in
Chicago, Dean Kyle will travel to
Washington, D. C. to confer with
Nelson Rockefeller in regard to
the government increasing the num
ber of scholarships for Ltain Am
erican students in the United
States. These scholarships are for
those students who come to this
country to study agriculture, en
gineering, or veterinary medicine.
During his stay in Washington,
D. C. he will also confer with the
Department of State in aiding
Texas A. & M. in broadening the
educational program with the Latin
American countries.
Dean Kyle feels, that since he
has been asked to make two
speeches both, dealing with the
Latin American countries, before
these two conferences, that they
must have a deep interest in the
problems and relations our country
has with them.
Dean Kyle is expected to return
home in about ten days.
Military Law
Course Begun At
Ohio University
Cincinnati, Ohio—(AGP)—The
college of law, University of Cin
cinnati, has started a new course
on military law and defense legis
lation. Dean M. L. Person points
out that although the college of
law has seen its students and grad
uates go into four earlier wars,
starting with the Mexican war, this
is the first course of its kind in
the college’s history.
“The course will familiarize the
student with military law and as
pects of defense legislation affect
ing the rights, duties, and privi
leges of the individual, all to the
end that he may more efficiently
serve his country during the emer
gency,” Alfred A. Morrison, as
sistant professor of law, explained.
Professor Morrison will give the
course.
The course will cover these six
major topics: Constitutional extent
of military power; organization of
the army, including conscription
laws; military law proper, listing
its sources, military and civil juris
diction, courts martial and their
procedures, and offenses; articles
of war; the selective training and
service act of 1940; and soldiers’
and sailors’ civil rights and the
civil relief act of 1940.
Julius Rosenwald
Fellowships Available
Fellowships are being offered by
the Julius Rosenwald Fund to
southerns who wish to work on
some problems distinctive to the
south and who expect to make their
careers in the south. Students in
terested in receiving one of these
fellowships may make an applica
tion in Dean T. D. Brooks’ office.
Candidates must be eligible for
graduate study and must be be
tween the ages of 24 and 35. The
grants are available not only to
students of the natural and social
sciences and the humanities, but
to those interested in the fine arts,
journalism, education, agriculture,
business, or public service.
Classes Entering School
Before Declaration of
War Will Use Original No
All juniors who were classified
juniors last June, or who will be
classified seniors in January may
order their senior rings now at the
registrar’s office, according to a
statement made yesterday by Sid
Smith, junior class president.
Juniors are reminded that if they
do not classify, they cannot get
their rings in January, although
Ihey will be allowed to order them.
A $3 deposit is required at the
time the ring is ordered, and the
balance must be paid within 60
days from the date of purchase.
This is a government order.
The juniors voted to follow the
suggestion of the ring committee
and let all classes that entered
school before war was declared put
their respective class numbers on
their rings. This means the juniors
wdl have ’44 on theirs, and the
sophomores will have ’45 on their
rings.
It was also decided that they
would try to get a representative
number from their class to make
the annual trip to Denton on No
vember 6. All juniors are urged to
find a ride to Denton as soon as
possible, as rides anywhere are
scarce, and there must be a
representative number to make the
trip.
They are also working to get a
special section in the football sta
dium for the Arkansas game, as
this will be the last home game
before they graduate.
Caphton Transferred
To Fort Sam Houston
Lt. Snyder Promoted
Colonel Carl L. Caphton, senior
instructor in the Infantry, has been
transferred to the Eighth Service
Command in San Antonio effective
October 26, it was announced by the
commandant’s office yesterday.
Colonel Caphton will leave here
Sunday and report for duty on
Monday morning.
Second Lieut. Ross F. Snyder,
instructor in the Signal Corps, has
been promoted to the rank of first
lieutenant, it was announced by
the Military Department yesterday.
Lieut. Snyder’s promotion be
came effective October 19, accord
ing to orders received from Wash
ington, D. C.
Leading Lady
Noah Beery Possible
Selection for Male
Lead in Production
Latest word received here from
G. Byron Winstead, college pub
licity director who is now in Holly
wood states that Anne Gwynne has
not definitely been cast as the lead
ing lady in the forthcoming pic
ture of Aggieland. “The same ap
plies to the leadirig man, but it is
Miss Anne Gwynne
pretty definite that one of the
other male parts will be played by
Noah Beery Jr., and he’s one swell
actor,” states Winstead.
He goes on to say “some of these
Hollywood boys look Aggie in the
uniform, and I’m sure everybody
will be pleased with the final se
lection.”
Starnes Promoted
To Staff Sergeant
Sergeant C. P. Starnes, supply
sergeant and fingerprint man of
the military department, has been
promoted to the rank of staff ser
geant effective October 20, the
military department announced
yesterday.
This is Worth Fighting
For and Marching Along
Sung by Aggie Section
Next Saturday before the Ar
kansas football game the corps will
rise in the stands and sing “This
Is Worth Fighting For,” and
“Marching Along,” under the di
rection of Richard Jenkins, direct
or of The Singing Cadets, and the
yell leaders.
This singing will be in addition
to the regular yells and the be
tween halves entertainment to be
furnished by the band and the T
to be formed by the frogs, fresh
men and sophomore's during the
half.
For the benefit of those who
are not familiar with these two
songs the words are printed be
low so that everyone in the corps
may learn them before the game.
This is Worth Fighting For
I saw a peaceful old valley with
a carpet of corn for a floor
And I heard a voice within me
whisper
THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING
FOR;
I saw a little old cabin
And the river that flowed by the
door
And I heard a voice within me
whisper
THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING
FOR.
Didn’t I build that cabin?
Didn’t I plant that corn ?
Didn’t my folks before me
Fight for this country before I
was born?
I gathered my loved ones around
me
And I gazed at each face I adore
Then I heard that voice within
me thunder
THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING
FOR.
Marching Along
Marching along with our song
of victory
Rolling in tanks, jeeps, and
planes and on the sea;
Once again we do and dare, with
our allies over there,
For this world to have its share
of true freedom everywhere
Marching along with out song
of victory
Showing again we can win and
You’ll see
soon you’ll see
How right prevails and never
fails
While marching along with our
song of victory.
War Movies Back In Library
Depict Rebelious Norse Spirit
The war movies have come back
to the Asbury Browsing Room of
the Library. There will be two
shows tonight ,the first beginning
at 7:15, the second at 8:45.
The War Information Center
feels that by bringing a pictorial
account of the war to those who
will be most interested in it, our
future soldiers and sailors, it is
carrying on a worth while project.
Enthusiasm has been shown by at
tentive audiences and by faculty
members who are contributing their
time and help. The Biology club
continues to lend its excellent pro
jector, and the new equipment
which was bought recently by the
club insures the best possible show
ing of the films.
When John Steinbeck wrote The
Moon is Down he not only started
another literary controversy, but
he brought to the reading public,
WTAW Again Airs
Story of Invaders
“The Invaders”, a dramatic mo
tion picture built around the land
ing of crew members of a German
submarine in Canada, will be re
peated in its radio condensation on
the “Treasury Star Parade” this
morning at 11:30 over Station
WTAW.
Frederick March, screen star,
heads the cast of outstanding radio
actors heard in this story. A1 Good
man has prepared a special musi
cal score to be performed by his
chorus and orchestra. Originally
heard earlier in the “Treasury Star
Parade” series, “The Invaders” is
being repeated by popular request.
to the legitimate stage, and to the
movies the story of the most re
bellious of all Hitler’s enslaved
peoples. That same story of a
proud, vindictive people persecut
ing the invader, whether it be by
flavoring his fish with kerosene,
tearing up his railways, or insid
iously murdering him in the dark
with a pair of scissors, has been
told again with the same forceful
ness in a March of Time release,
Norway in Revolt. The War In
formation Center has made special
arrangements to present this film
in the Library tonight. The actors
are Norwegian boys who escaped
from Nazi dominated Noi-way aft
er a year of underground activity
against the enemy. To them, some
of whom escaped by way of Swe
den, Moscow, the Gobi Desert,
Chunking and the U. S.; others by
the route which leads south of
Russia through Turkey, Iraq, Bom
bay, and Capetown, the events de
picted in Norway in Revolt were
understatements of what they had
been through.
The film tells the story of the
actual escape of young patriots in
a fishing boat for which they had
siphoned gasoline from a German
officer’s automobile. Posing as in
nocent fishermen, they set sail
down the fjord past guards, search
lights, and Nazi coast-patrol boats.
The climax of their story comes in
a moment when they sight a sub
marine breaking water alongside
their boat and have every reason
to believe it to be a German U-boat.
Complementing the March of
Time film will be Norway’s Fate,
a study of Norway before the Ger
man invasion. With the rugged
quality of Norway so evident in
the scenes of her cities and her
country before you and in the high
ly indigenous music which forms a
background for this movie, it is
easy to understand why thousands
of Norwegians, barred from enter
ing Trondheim Cathedral by the
Nazi police, stood defiantly in front
of its closed doors in the bitter cold
and sang. They were aware of a
great truth which the Nazis had
missed. The little mayor of The
Moon is Down expressed it when he
said to Colonel Lanser, the German
invader, “The one impossible job in
the world, the one thing -that can't
be done is to break man’s spirit
permanently.”
The story of another proud peo
ple still fighting after defeat will
be seen in two movies about the
Free French. One of these, Sign of
Victory,’ shows the resistance of
the French people in France. The
other is entitled The Fighting
French Navy.
November Fees May
Be Paid Until Fifth
Maintenance fees totaling $29.95
may be paid any time from now
until November 5, it was announced
yesterday by C. A. Roeber, of the
Fiscal Department, but anyone fail
ing to pay them by that time will
be dropped from the rolls of the
college.
This maintenance fee carries
through December 7, and includes
payment for room rent, board, and
laundry.
Delegates Expect to Receive Information
On Status of Present Military Students
President T. O. Walton will lead"
a delegation from A. & M. this
week end to attend the annual
meeting of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges. Delegates from
every land grant college in the
nation will meet in Chicago next
week to discuss problems of spec
ial interest to R. O. T. C. students.
High ranking officers of the War
Department are expected to give
definite information concerning the
position of students enrolled in
basic military science as well as
those taking advanced military
science and possessing contracts.
Nothing is known at present about
the nature of the decisions to be
made at this important meeting.
This association is one of the
most influential educational or
ganizations in the country and re
commendations coming from their
annual meetings usually have
marked incidence on the policies
followed by the Land Grant Coll
eges.
Those who will represent A. &
M. at the meeting are T. O. Wal
ton, who is chairman of the board,
and Dean T. O. Brooks, Dean E.
J. Kyle, Dean Gibb Gilchrist from
the executive branch of the coll
ege. Others going are T. R.
Spence, engineering experiment
station; J. T. L. McNew, civil en
gineering department; H. H. Will
iamson, George Adams, and Miss
Mildred Horton from the Extension
Service; A. B. Connor, and C. H.
McDowel, from the Experiment
Station:
Colonel Boles
Relates Big Game
Hunting Stories
In the regular meeting of the
Agronomy Society last Thursday
night, Colonel J. K. Boles, senior
instructor in the Field Artillery,
told of his hunting experiences in
Borneo and the Philippines while
he was over there during the last
war in 1917-18 and again in 1927-
28.
Colonel Boles told the members
of the Agronomy Society that dur
ing the time he was over there the
Japanese were even, then taking
soundings, and getting important
military information while posing
as fishermen. Most of his talk was
taken up with telling about stalk
ing the saladang and the timarau,
and other of his most exciting hunt
ing experiences in the Orient.
Business of the meeting includ
ed discussion on the picture for
the Longhorn, and payment and
obtaining Agronomy Society keys.
Nearly all of the members of the
club and many visitors heard the
interesting talk by Colonel Boles.
GI Uniforms Will
Be Issued Nov 1
Winter government issue uni
forms will be checked out to all
freshmen and sophomores taking
basic military science about Nov
ember 1, states R. K. Chatham,
manager of the Exchange Store.
One blouse with blue lapels, two
pair wool slacks, two wool shirts,
and one black necktie will be iss
ued at that time.
Issuance of the GI uniforms is
continent on the completion of the
addition to the Exchange Store and
the moving of necessary equipment
into the addition.
“We probably will be able to
start issuing the uniforms around
the first,” stated Chatham, “how
ever we will issue them as soon as
our extra building is completed.”
GE Leads in Making
Turbine-Generators
For many years General Electric
has been the leader in producing
auxiliary turbine-generators for
the U. S. Navy and Merchant
Marine. These years of leadership
and research have given the com
pany no light responsibility in
helping to win the war on the
water—so important right now.
Freshman Pistol
Team Will Meet
Monday Night at 8
Team Captain Russell Cook
Urges All Interested Frogs
And Freshmen to Attend
According to Russell Cook, cap
tain of the pistol team, all fresh
men and frogs interested in trying
out for the freshman pistol team
are asked to meet in the Chemistry
lecture room Monday evening at
8:00 o’clock.
All firing is done during off pe
riods between 9:00 a. m. and 6:00
p. m. week days except Saturday
when the range is open until 1:00
p. m. Guns, ammunition and tar
gets are furnished free of charge.
New members on the team are
given theory instruction in pistol
marskmanship before actual firing
is done. The team is picked from
the members of the squad who
make the best records when record
shooting is fired. Anybody has a
chance to make the team.
The past year the freshman team
compiled the best record that any
first year squad has done, and it is
hoped that this year’s squad will
be as strong or stronger. Cook
urges all new , students who so de
sire to come to the meeting Mon
day night. He also added, that ad
vantages from firing on the team
are numerous, such as intramural
credit, awards for high season av
erages, and trips to state matches.
Plans Completed
For Training Men
As War Firemen
Marvin Hall, State Fire Insur
ance Commissioner and Fire Serv
ice Coordinator of the National De
fense Committee for Texas, today
announced that plans are being
completed for a statewide training
program for firemen to meet pres
ent war conditions.
The State Board of Vocational
Education, Hall said, is making the
program possible by furnishing the
Office of Civilian Defense with
instructors.
The OCD recently named R. O.
Muenster, Luling Fire Chief, to
direct the program. The State
Board of Vocational Education ex
pects to employ five experienced
firemen who can qualify as in
structors. These men will be sent
to a regional training center for
intensive instruction on what and
how to teach the special wartime
training.
The instructors will then sched
ule a series of training courses in
the twenty-six Fire Service Dis
tricts of the state. At the district
sessions firemen from local depart
ments will be asked to attend. Fol
lowing these sessions, firemen will
return to their home departments
and conduct the special wartime
training for all firemen.
This program, the Fire Service
Coordinator said, is in addition to
the OCD training courses which
have been held for several months
by the government in cooperation
with A. & M. and the Texas Fire
men’s Training School which is
headed by Dr. C. C. Hedges, head
of the Chemistry department.
Instructions in Life
Saving Start Monday
Senior Life Saving instruction
will begin Monday night at the
swimming pool, according to Jim
my Kiel, water safety instructor.
Anyone interested in taking the
senior life saving course should re-,
port to the swimming pool at 9
p. m. Monday night ready to swim.
One requirement to begin the
course is to be able to swim 440
yards. Classes will meet Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday nights
from 9 to 11 o’clock. The course
will last three weeks, and will be
under the direction of Jimmy Kiel,
water safety instructor.