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. 31, 1942
2275
NUMBER 62
Kaltenborn Presented By Town Hall Tonight
Noted Analyst Just Back
From English War Tour
Infantry Ball
Successful
Despite Rain
Raeburn Popular With
Infantrymen; Plays
Corps Dance Tonight
Infantrymen revelled and romp
ed last night from 9 until 1 as
they held sway in Sbisa hall with
the music of Boyd Raeburn and
his “rhythms of Raeburn” orch-
tra, despite the inclement weather.
Last night’s Infantry Ball was
one of the largest and most suc
cessful ever presented, and the
paddlefeet and their escorts danc
ed and made merry in the gaily
decorated mess hall, although
threatening skies tried to lessen
the fun.
Raeburn’s orchestra lived up to
their standing as the most popular
band of the campus, and Louise
Raymond and Tex Travers de
lighted boys and girls alike with
their romantic ballads and crazy
novelty numbers.
A feature of the evening’s en
tertainment was the announcement
that Miss Ruth Tilley of TSCW
will be the Aggie Day Sweetheart
for the Aggie-SMU football game
November 7.
Decorations were the most color
ful yet seen in Sbisa, with the
bandstand and both ends of the
ballroom decorated in true In
fantry style. Behind the bandstand
was a large backdrop showing an
Infantry Aggie chasing Hitler,
Hirohito, and Mussolini. The end
walls featured a charging Infant
ryman and the commando course.
Tonight Raeburn and his or
chestra will play for the Victory
Corps Dance.
Uniform for the corps dance will
be number ones for seniors and
juniors, number two with wool
slacks for freshmen and sopho
mores. Tuxes may be worn if de
sired.
Script will be $1.10.
Aggie Day Sweetheart Nominees and Escorts
mm mm
Wanger Requests
More Essays On
Aggieland’s Spirit
Essays on the real meaning of
“that ol’ Aggie Spirit” are slow to
respond to the call of Walter Wan
ger, noted independent film pro
ducer for the forthcoming picture
to be produced of A. & M. Only a
dozen essays have been turned in
to the publicity office, and all en
tries should be submitted before
November 10, the tentative date
for the return of the movie pro
duction staff.
The best essay on the Spirit of
Aggieland will net its writer a $50
war bond and an introduction to
the leading lady of the picture, as
yet undecided, according to G. By
ron Winstead, college director of
publicity who is assisting the
production staff of the picture.
Winstead urges as many Aggies
as possible to enter the con
test. With so many talking about
the Aggie Spirit and how strong
it is, this is a good chance for
everybody to try out for a $50 war
bond and an introduction to a love
ly lady.
Included with all entries should
be a suggestive title for the coming
picture to be made of Texas A. &
M., since the name “We’ve Never
Been Licked” was selected only
temporarily until a better one could
be found.
Entries in the contest will not
be judged on grammar, but on con
tents of the manuscript. No limit
has been set as to the length of
the essay. Judges in the contest
will be Walter Wanger, producer;
Jack Rawlins, director of the pic
ture; E. E. McQuillen, secretary
of the Former Students Associa
tion; and E. N. Holmgreen, busi
ness manager of the college.
The idea behind the essay is to
make a picture of the Aggie Spirit
—whether by jokes, pictorially, or
in writing.
Shown above are the sixteen TSCWites nominated by their classes
as candidates for Aggie Day Sweetheart and their Aggie escorts
who chose Miss Ruth Tilley as the winner. She will be presented
between the halves at the Aggie-SMU game in Dallas November
7. Girls shown in the photo are Misses Lillian Hutchins and Peggy
Lovelady, Fort Worth; Dava Robinson, Honey Grove; Mary Jane
Trail, Kaufman; all seniors. Juniors: Misses Ruth Bishop and Judy
Stubbs, San Antonio; Mary Helen Wilson, Fort Worth; and Ruth
Tilley, Shamrock; Sophomores are Barbara Cook, Little Rock, Ark.;
Ann Gwin, Houston; Marjorie Ann Monahan, Breckenridge; and
Bobbie Joe Sanford, Dallas. Freshmen nominees are Elaine O’Leary,
Houston; Mary Jane Brown, Fort Worth; Pat Moore, Kemp; and
Peggy Echols, Dallas.
Corps Sings Songs
Before Game Time
This Afternoon
Jenkins Asks Corps To
Memorize Words of Two
Songs by Game Time
This afternoon before the game,
the cadet corps will rise hi the
stands and sing “This Is Worth
Fighting For” and “Marching
Along,” under the direction of
Singing Cadets Maestro Richard
W. Jenkins. In order for the corps
to be at their best, Jenkins urges
all students to know the words to
these songs by this afternoon.
This type of singing by the ca
det corps was visualized by Col.
Ike Ashburn before he left A. & M.
Jenkins stressed the importance
of cooperation between the cadet
corps and the yell leaders in deliv
ering the songs. He stressed that
every member of the cadet corps
learn the words in order to make
an impressive demonstration.
This singing will be in addition
to the regular yells and the be-
tween-halves entertainment. The
traditional “T” will be formed be
tween the halves by freshmen and
sophomores.
For the benefit of those who do
not know the words to “Marshing
Along,”' the words are reprinted
below.
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 every
where.
Marching along with our song
of victory,
Showing again we can win and
soon you’ll see
How right prevails and never
fails
While marching along with our
song of victory.
Arch Society Offers
Art Exhibit Today
The Architectural Society pre
sents an art exhibit of student
work in the lobby of the Main
Library today and tomorrow. The
exhibit has been prepared for the
students and their guests this
week end.
The work includes many differ
ent mediums, including water color,
pastels, charcoal, carbon, ink, oil,
and pencil.
Tanks, Subs, and Paratroops Walton Due Back
Featured In War Film Tonight From Conference
With ROTC Plans
Tonight’s movie program in the
Asbury Browsing Room of the Li
brary at 7:15 and 8:45 will fea
ture four branches of the fighting
fdrces of the U. S. Army and Navy.
Warner Brothers has been unusu
ally active in making movies about
our army, navy, and air corps,
movies which prove interesting
both to fighting men and to those
at home. Not content with straight
information, they dress up their
films with stories and produce
them in technicolor.
In The Tanks Are Coming our
old friend, George Tobias of Ser
geant York and Wings for the
Eagles is just a voluble taxi-driver
from Brooklyn with a cab he calls
Betsy. Knowing all about engines
(well, anyway, all about Betsy’s
engine) he feels sure he will be
an addition to the tank corps, so
he joins up. He takes Betsy with
him. In a riotous comedy George
learns about tanks from the little
Blitz buggies to the huge monsters
that mow down everything includ
ing the landscape. He learns how
to detect by an infinitesimal sound
whether or not all is well with his
tank; he learns how to drive it
over deep ditches filled with water,
up and down hills, through forests
and over plains.
Continuously on the attack the
submarine has greater destructive
potentiality than any of our naval
craft. On the other hand no naval
craft operates under greater haz
ards than the submarine. In an im
portant and thrilling film, Sub
marines at Sea, we are shown
something of the daring of these
sleep, sombre weapons of war. We
see them putting out from our U.
S. bases to disappear for months
in the waters of the Pacific. As
they are almost indistinguishable
from Japanese or German subs,
they are constantly in danger of
being sunk by U. S. destroyers or
of hitting a submerged mine. The
sailors of the submarines are a
cool, poised group of men. They
often remain under sea for as long
as three months at a time, and they
come back to the world with pale
faces, long beards, and the secret
ive manner which their deadly op
erations in the Pacific necessitate.
Another unusual division of our
armed forces, and one which has
played an important role in this
war, is the army of the parachute.
Paratroops we call them, and we bandry.
learn about them in a film called tonio.
Air Army.
Completing the review of the
U. S. Army will be* Army On
Wheels, a film report of full scale
peace time maneuvers of the U. S.
Army at Ft. Benning, Fort Sam
Houston, and the Sabine River
Area of Texas.
Leslie Howard is one of several
actors who has been contributing
his talent to the war effort. To
White Eagle, a movie about Poles
driven out of Poland by the Ge
stapo, he gives an excellent nar
ration. The White Eagle, symbol
of the Polish State, was one of
the first things to be torn down
by the Nazis when they took over
the colonization of Polish lands,
but thousands of Polish refugees
scattered over the world are say
ing, “Poland is not dead so long
as we live.”
Review Honoring
Exes To Be Held
Armistice Day
Tentative plans are being made
for a review to be held Armistice
Day.
Heretofore a military ceremony
was conducted each year to honor
the Aggies killed in action during
World War I. The Cadet Corps
formed and stood at attention while
the names of those Aggies who
were killed were read over the
public address system. The Corps
then saluted while Silver Taps was
played and the Cadet Colonel
placed a wreath on the War Memo
rial at the West Gate.
This year services will be held
to honor those men who are fight
ing and dying in the present war
as well as those who fought in
World War I. An address will be
delivered to the Corps while they
are assembled on the parade
ground, and a service similar to
the old one will be rendered.
Lee Price Promoted
To 1st Lieutenant
Lee Price, ’42, has recently been
promoted to the rank of First
Lieutenant. He is at present an
acting captain.
Lt. Price was in A Troop Cav
alry and majored in Animal Hus-
His home is in San An-
Status of College Students
Under Draft Law Expected
To Be Clarified by Prexy
President T. 0. Walton will ar
rive on the campus Monday return
ing from a meeting of the Asso
ciation of Land Grant Colleges and
Universities being held in Chicago
and is expected to bring with him
definite information concerning the
status of students now in A. & M.
Information available at this
time asserts that students doing
satisfactory work may complete
their college education before be
ing called into military service. The
general plan to be adopted by
Congress and those who will for
mulate the policies to be followed
by schools in the future will be,
in all probability, the plan recom
mended by this group as they are
highly influential in the formula
tion of policies for adoption.
Final information on the pro
gram will not be available until
after Congress acts bn the law ex
tending selective service to those
18 and 19 year olds who are now
registered. This action will come
shortly after Congress acts on it
after November 3. The policy
adopted will probably be the one
outlined by the Association of Land
Grant Colleges and Universities.
Colonel Edward W. Smith, who
is in charge of the ROTC, was in
terested enough in the program un
der consideration by the group to
send a telegram to Dean F. C.
Bolton, dean of the college, Wed
nesday advising all students to
withhold their decisions as to
which branch and service to en
ter until after the final approval
of pending legislation affecting
lowering of the age of selectees,
and the announcement of the War
Department’s policy defining the
status of college students.
Will Give War Views
Gathered From Years
Of News Experience
Tonight at 7 o’clock in Guion
hall H. V. Kaltenborn, noted news
analyst and commentator, will ad
dress the corps on the war. This
is one of the most important Town
Hall presentations of the 1942 sea
sons.
After completing his lecture
here, Kaltenborn will leave im
mediately for Winnipeg, Canada,
where he will talk Monday night.
Negotiations to get Kaltenborn
here began June 4 when L. D.
Boone, manager of student activi
ties, wrote him and asked him to
appear before the Corps. This was
the beginning of a correspondence
that ended Thursday and involved
30 letters and telegrams.
In order to arrive here in time
for his lecture Kaltenborn had
to come as far as Dallas by plane.
He was unable to gain priority on
a plane reservation until Colonel
Welty wrote the commanding of
ficer of the Regional Air Priority
Office at La Guardia Field, New
York, and informed him that he
(Colonel Welty) considered
Kaltenborn’s lecture essential to
the training of the cadets. Colonel
Welty said that one of the require
ments of the War Department to
commissioned officers was that
they be constantly informed on
the world situation.
Kaltenborn’s talk Saturday night
should be especially interesting
since he has just completed a six-
day tour of the British Isles. Dur
ing this time he made five broad
casts to the U. S., a broadcast in
English to the people of occupied
Europe, and a broadcast in German
to the people of the Reich.
John Lawrence, Town Hall man
ager, has announced that there
will be 105 additional reserved
seats on sale for $2. Any student
who does not have a Town Hall
ticket will be admitted for $1. It
is urged that the whole corps at
tend.
Lt. Boemer in Officer
School at Fort Sill
Second Lieutenant Arnold R.
Boemer of College Station is en
tering a Battery Officer Course in
the Field Ai-tillery School at Fort
Sill, Okla.
Lieutenant Boemer is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed W. Boemer, Col
lege Station.
Advanced Electives
Must Join Reserves
To Get Contract
Col. Marshall Stresses
Importance of Reserve
Status for Contracts
Cadets signed up for advanced
military training that have not as
yet received their contracts but
expect to get one, must enlist in
the Enlisted Reserve Corps before
they are eligible to receive their
contract, states Lt. Col. L. W. Mar
shall, in charge of all enlistments
at A. & M.
There are 161 men taking ad
vanced military that expect to get
contracts, although there is only a
total of 124 contracts to be issued
in all branches, states Col. Mar
shall, therefore it would be wise
for all those who have not yet com
pleted their enlistments to do so
at once in order to be eligible for
their contract.
The fact that completing the en
listment in the ERG is a definite
prerequisite for getting a contract
was strongly emphasized by Col.
Marshall.
Ruth Tilley
Chosen Aggie
Sweetheart
Will Receive Flowers
At Aggie-SMU Game
In Dallas Next Week
Ruth Tilley, TSCW junior from
Shamrock, was chosen by a group
of Aggie seniors as the Aggie Day
Sweetheart for the coming corps
trip to Dallas on November 7. She ^
was selected from a group of 16
girls who had been nominated by
their respective classes of Aggie
land’s sister school.
Miss Tilley was presented at the
Infantry Ball last night along with
the other nominees. She will also
be presented at the half of the
Aggie-Mustang game in Dallas,
and will be the official sweetheart
for the corps in its week-end in
Dallas.
The TSCW nominees entertained
the seniors who made the selection
at dinner and dance last Tuesday
when they went to Denton. The
girls will be guests of the Aggies
this week-end for the Arkansas
game, the lecture by H. V. Kalten
born, and the corps dance tonight.
This was the first step in the
planning of the 1942 corps trip.
Eight hundred tickets in the Aggie
section have already been sent to?
Denton, and will go on sale Nov. 3.
The Dallas Retail Merchants As
sociation is working on arrange
ments at the present time for style'
shows and other entertainment for
the students from TSCW.
This is the fifth year that an
Aggie Day Sweetheart has been
selected for the A. & M. game in
either Fort Worth or Dallas. Miss
Anna Ruth Ashe, Fort Worth, was
the 1941 sweetheart for the T.C.U.
game in Fort Worth.
At the half, Miss Tilley will be
escorted on the football field by
the cadet colonel and presented
flowers by the major of the band,
following formation by the band.
Star Parade WTAW
Feature for Today
A novel program for raising
money is outlined on the “Treas
ury Star Parade,” when Charity
Bauer and other members of her
“Maudie’s Diary” cast make a spe
cial appearance on the government-
sponsored series, over Station
WTAW on Saturday, Oct. 31 at
11:30 a. m.
The plan, designed to bring in
revenue for the purchase of War
Bonds, involves the installation of
coin-in-the-slot locks on practically
everything in the house. Maudie’s
idea works all right until her fath
er’s boss, Mr. Fish, comes over for
dinner . . . and then things hap
pen.
Aero Department
Gets First SAE
Student Charter
Another “first” for Texas A.&M.
was entered upon the records this
past week when Dr. Howard Bar-
low, head of the department of
aeronautical engineering at the col
lege, received the charter for the
first Student Chapter of the So
ciety of Automotive Engineers to
be established in Texas. The par
ent society, always referred to as
the SAE, has the largest member
ship among all the technical en
gineering societies.
In the present semester which
started September 26 there are
726 students enrolled in the de
partment of aeronautical engi
neering which gives it first place
in enrollment in the country and
also the largest number of stu
dents ever to enroll for the course
in any college, Dr. Barlow an
nounced. In the first semester,
starting June 1, a total of 525 took
the course.
Forest Film To Be
Shown Monday
“Forests of Freedom,” produced
by S. L. Frost of the Texas Forest
Service, will be shown Monday eve
ning at 8:30 o’clock in room 133
of the Animal Industries building.
This picture, an all-color film,
is based on the many uses of wood
during war times. It also shows
some of A. & M.’s military train
ing.
W. E. White, newly appointed di
rector of the Texas Forest Service,
will be introduced to the club by
Frost.