The Battalion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 14, 1942 2275 NUMBER 68 Thanksgiving Holiday Is Extended Over Week End Wanger Production Unit Arrives 9:54 Train Brings First Shipment Of Film Stars for Forthcoming Production Seniors Are Urged To Contact Senior Instructors Soon > Cadets taking second year ad vanced military science are asked to report to their Senior Instruc tor to give him certain informa tion which must be filed and sent to the 8th Service Command so that orders sending them to the proper training camp can be dis patched, according to Staff Ser geant Malcolm Thomas, sergeant major. A request was sent out Thursday for them to report to the student records office, but that office will not be able to handle the volume stated Thomas. Student Directories Go On Sale Monday Beginning Monday the Student Directory for the current semester 1942-43 will be on sale. You may obtain your copy from the sales man in your hall or from the local news stand. Featured for the first time will be a list of dormitory and project house telephone numbers, which is found in the new classified section of Bryan and College Station busi ness firms along with a complete directory of departments on the campus. All listed telephone numbers are the new numbers which are to be effective in the near future. This information was supplied by the telephone company. Lieutenant Dismukes Makes Campus Visit Second Lieutenant Barton Dis mukes, class of September ’42, was on the campus yesterday en route to the Carolina Quartermaster De pot. Dismukes, office assistant in the Quartermaster military depart ment while a senior, has been sta tioned since graduation at the quar termaster training camp at Camp Lee, Virginia. ■ The first production unit for the Walter Wanger-Aggie film, “We’ve Never Been Licked” will arrive on the campus this morning at 9:54, according to a telegram received late yesterday by the college pub licity office. Accompanying the group will be G. Byron Wihstead, director of the college’s publicity office, who has been acting as representative for the college collaborating with the producers in making arrangements for the film’s production. Others in the group to arrive today are Di rector John Rawlins, Art Director Alexander Golitzen, Musical Direc tor Kan Darby, and the two male leading stars, Richard Quine and Noah Beery, Jr. Either tonight or tomorrow night, the remaining contingents of the film staff will arrive on the campus, and in those units will be the female stars, Misses Anne Gwynne and Martha O’Driscoll, along with twenty-two supporting and bit players. Although the first contingent was supposed to arrive last night, train connections caused their be ing re-routed through Houston, and this factor also makes the arrival time of the other units indefinite. Actual shooting- of the picture, according to Wanger’s production plans, will start Monday, and will continue for about six weeks. Be cause of dim-out and set construc tion restrictions on the West coast due to the war, Wanger expects to film about 90 percent of the $1,250,000 production here on the campus. The Animal Husbandry pavilion will be converted into a sound stage if necessary. Those characters in the film por traying Aggies call for Richard Quine to play the male lead, and Noah Beery, Jr. the second male lead. Misses Gwynne and O’Dris coll will probably play TSCWites, as the producer has indicated that TSCW girls will play a large role in the film. Before the picture’s completion, Wanger will have employed the entire 6,500 man cadet corps as well as about 200 students from TSCW. Miss Anne Gwynne Miss Anne Gwynne, shown above, will arrive on the campus Sun- day night to begin work Monday on the Walter Wanger picture depicting the glories that are Aggieland and titled, “We’ve Never Been Licked.” Miss Gwynne, a native Texan who was reared in San Antonio, will play the female lead in the motion picture. Of her, Walter Wanger said she is the most promising young actress in Hollywood. Five Blasts Sounded Through Cold Clear Skies Killing Lights From high atop the Academic building a small group of observ ers watched life going on in Col- War Movies In Library Feature “Ceremonies in Ball 9 Tonight War movies presented by the War Information Center tonight in the Asbury Browsing Room of the Library will combine the pictur esque qualities of the Netherlands East Indies with their fabulous economic assets. With the wealth of their natural resources spread before us it is not difficult to esti mate their importance to Japan. The program will begin well with an interesting film entitled Ceremonies in Bali. The cremation of the dead is to the Balinese an occasion for the greatest spending of money and the most elaborate festivity. Because they believe that the soul is all important, and the body without life nothing, the Bal inese expend no grief or respect in the disposing of it. To have a great send-off in the form of a rich cremation is the ambition of every native of the island. He and his family will go to extreme sacrifices with the hope of enjoying after death the full rights of cremation. A proper ceremony sometimes i costs as much as twenty-five thou sand dollars. This custom of cele brating the death of the body has been in existence for over three hundred years. The procession to the cremation grounds is the high point in the festivity, but before it begins handsome feasts are pro vided for the guests by the rela tives of the dead. In the procession the relatives dress in the finest clothes obtainable, in brocades, gold flowers, and jewelry. The corpses are carried to the cremation ground in high towers which are built of wood and bamboo and covered with colored paper ornaments, tinsel, and small mirrors. They are shaped like the temple and sun altars. Each corpse is burned in a hol lowed tree trunk shaped in the form of an animal and covered on the outside with felt decorated in gold. Only the most poverty strick en would have anything but a Brahmin priest to perform the cer emony of cremation. In Ceremonies in Bali we are permitted to see a Brahmin performing the sacred ritual to the accompaniment of strange Balinese music. Java is the subject of High Stakes in the East, a richly color- j ful film made by cameramen of the Netherlands East Indies Press j Service. Since the film was made j before Pearl Harbor, it has been j re-edited this year with a new | script in the light of later events. In addition to presenting the at tractive customs and peoples of the island, the film gives a picture of the vital importance of Java’s oil, quinine, hemp, rubber, tea, and cof fee to the war time and peace time economy of the United Nations. This Changing World, a twenty minute film, shows how the East Indies prepared for the Japanese invasion. Its army, navy, and air force are treated more fully in a March of Time release. Spoils of Conquest. That the Netherlands East Indies was not strong enough to withstand a sustained Japanese attack is explained, as well as the fact that, although successful, the invasion was costly to the Jap anese. An Empire in Exile is the appro priate title for a film which de scribes the war effort after the fall of Holland of gallant Dutch men in every part of the globe. Field Artillery Now Has New Instructor Capt. William O. Reeves, new instructor of Field Artillery Mili- j tary Science, arrived here Thurs- , day noon from the 1st Cavalry Di- j vision at Fort Bliss, states Staff . Sergeant Malcolm Thomas, ser geant major. Reeves graduated from A. & M. in 1937. lege Station sprawling below them. At precisely 8:30 p.m. a portable telephone rang. The message was from the blackout control room in Ross hall—-“the, yellow is on,” a grim voice stated firmly. Thus be gan the first trial blackout in this compact community where 6,500 cadets are in training for duty as officers with the armed formed of the United States. The yellow alarm signifies in time of an air raid that the en emy planes have been sighted fly ing in the direction of the com munity a distance of some 150 miles away. Amidst the ringing of the phone, the wheezy static of a radio,*and the hubbub of anxious voices could be heard the drone of an airplane flying far overhead. Not an enemy plane this time, however, but an observation ship which had gone aloft to check the effectiveness of the blackout and to report any lights which could be seen. The watches crept toward 8:36, and as the second hand reached a vertical position, the whistle at the power plant sounded off with five long blasts and lights began to go out, for the “red” was now on and the imaginary enemy was 50 miles away. * Now the telephone had ceased to ring, for a steady conversation was being maintained between the observer who was spotting lights which were slow to go out and the man in the office who in turn called the proper zone warden with instructions to extinguish the lights. At the same time the aerial observer was reporting by radio lights which were not visible from See BLACKOUT, Page 4 It Takes Cop to Keep Aggies off Flag Pole So Chief Can Shine! It finally took a fireman (the fire chief at that) to get the In- stitoot’s owlish banner from atop the flagpole in front of the Ad ministration building. The fact was finally accomplished about 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon with the aid of several ladders and a long spindly pole with hook attached. A police sergeant had to be dis patched to the scene to keep the Aggies down from the pole. Some of them might have gotten hurt climbing that tall pole, was the statement issued by “authoritative sources” explaining the action. Army Commissions Available for Class III-A Registrants General J. Watt Page, State Se lective Service Director, today urged III-A registrants, desiring to train for commissions in the U. S. Army, to contact their local boards immediately for instructions and proper application forms. State Selective Headquarters has been notified, General Page said, that there are vacancies for registrants now classified in.III-A for training for commissions in the following branches of the service: Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Coast Ar tillery, Cavalry^ Chemical Warfare Service, Engineer, Infantry, Fielu Artillery, Ordnance, Signal Corps, Military Police, Tank Destroyer and Armored Force. Such registrants volunteering to try for a commission, General Page emphasized, must be American citi zens with at least four years high school education. Volunteers under twenty-one years of age must ob tain the written consent of their parents or guardians, he stated. General Page pointed out that colored registrants who can meet the requirements will be given the same opportunity to make applica tion for this training. Classes Must Be Made Up On 3 Saturday Afternoons Makeup Classes Will Consist Mainly of Written Work and Quizzes Says Council Thanksgiving- holidays have been extended by the aca demic council to include the period from 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 25, to 6 p.m., Sunday, November 29. The council decided to extend the holidays because of the postponement of the effective date for gasoline rationing until December 1. This will enable the corps £o spend a few days at home before transportation is cut off. Time missed by taking these days H off will be made up on the three following Saturday afternoons. The schedule will be as follows: Novem ber 21, Friday morning classes; December 5, Friday afternoon schedule; and December 12, Sat urday morning classes. The council specified that the time made up by these classes will consist primarily of written tests and quizzes. Classes scheduled for 9 a. m. or. Friday and Saturday are to meet i at 2 p. m. on the respective after- ' noons and those for 10 a. m. on those days will meet at 3 p. m. continuing on in this manner until the time has been expended. Meat Campaign To Thrive in Rural U S Communities Governor Coke Stevenson, chair man of the National Defense Com mittee for Texas has requested the A. and M. College Extension Ser vice to use the “human chain sys tem of communication” in inform ing the state’s rural families about the government’s Share-the-meat campaign, according to Extension Service director H. H. Willamson. In this movement the Extension Service and the community and neighborhood Victory leaders will cooperate with the OCD and State and county nutrition committees, Williamson said. Briefly, the Share-the-Meat pro gram is a campaign for voluntarily dividing fairly the pork, beef, veal, lamb, and mutton which is avail able for civilians after the needs of the armed services and lend- lease commitments have been met. The “sharing allowance” of two and one-half pounds per adult per week includes only the muscle meats, not fish poultry and the “variety meats” such as hearts, kidneys, livers, sweetbreads, and the Pike. Giddens and Merfeld To Be Naval Airmen Bernice Leroy Giddens of Lean- der and Charles Theodore Merfeld of Brownwood have been selected for training as Naval Aviation Ca dets and expect to be ordered to active duty soon. Both men attended Texas A. & M. Giddens was a member of L In fantry of the class of ’43 and was a member of the Williamson Coun ty club. Scarcity of Gas And Ammunition Threaten Hunting Along with its pleasures, hunting this year will have more problems than usual, according to R. E. Cal lender, game management special ist for the A. & M. College Exten sion Eervice. One is the gasoline rationing and another is the scar city of ammunition. Combined, they represent a break for wildlife. With less gasoline, sportsmen are likely to confine hunting to short periods, and shortage of ammunition means fewer shots and a more plentiful supply of seed stock for next year’s production. He predicts a good crop of deer and quail, and wild turkey about as good as last sea son. Assuming that hunters will con sider the food value of their bags more seriously than in previous years, Callender points out that with some definite exceptions, there is no limit to the time game birds and animals may be kept in stor age, provided storage occurs with in three days after the end of the season. The exceptions are mirga- tory birds and waterfowl which may be possessed for only 30 days after the close of the season. Deer must be removed from storage be fore June 5, except that deer sau sage, jerk or deer meat which is cut and wrapped, or such meat stored in any privately owned or leased locker in a cold storage plant, may be kept there indefi nitely. To prevent spoilage of deer meat by careless handling, Callender suggests placing the bled and dressed carcass in a long sack made of heavy canvas or unbleached sheeting and tying it securely to pi event contact by insects. Keep the carcass dry and not skinned until frozen in storage. Callender says that if the weath er is cool the deer can be kept in camp. If notj it should go to stor age wrthout delay. If storage is not i y accessible, the carcass can . y n £T out each night and wrap- shadl" ? nk6ts and placed in the £ , J dunng thc da y- ah should be kept later use. Half of Former Student Fund Has Been Received Funds On Hand Turned Into War Bonds for Remainder Of Duration for Safety About half of the Former Stu dents Association’s Development Fund goal has been received, and invested in war bonds for the dura tion. The Fund, set at $50,000, is to be used in building a student activities center for A. & M. after the war. E. E. McQuillen, director of the association, said that their plans were moving on and donations are- still being taken. The aim of the drive is to build for the Aggie cam pus a complete center for student activities, and would contain a physical education building (to contain from one to two dozen bowling alleys, about 40 pool tables, ping pong tables, card tables, gym equipment, and lounge rooms), a motion picture theater, a 100-125 room hotel, and a chapel. McQuil len estimated the cost of the com pleted project at over $1,000,000', with an additional $40,000 for the construction of an 18-hole golf course/'on the campus. To be located on the block just west of Guipn hall and in front of Kyle Field, the center would be housed in several buildings, the hotel being “about like the largest hotel in Bryan.” The golf course would be built on the area just south and east of the Administra tion building between the old area and the highway. Plans for the center are being drawn up as a project by architec tural students. “Of course,” said McQuillen, "all of these plans are but dreams now, but with time and money we hope to see them fulfilled.” November Magazines To Be Issued Monday Covers for the November issue of the Battalion magazine came in late Thursday afternoon, and the magazines will be distributed to the corps Monday night after sup per. Featured in the issue are several fluff-off stories and articles heck ling Texas university. Also in this issue is a photogravure section featuring the beauties of the 1943 Longhorn’s Vanity Fair, and a two- page cartoon by James Mims, Bat talion art editor, depicting Aggie land in the movies. and hides tanned for Lieut E