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
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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<rH^Hi cka Is
Sent to Ft Sill, Okla
First Lt. Edward B. Hrdlicka
rn 0 ^h 8 \ COlleee StaU °"' ent£
the Field Artufer 0 ^^ 1 C ° UrSe 511 A guest speaker has been en-
Sill, Oklahoma ^ C 0 ° ^'° 1 ^ S^Sed for the regular meeting Wed-
Fons^^i: s p r m " i—
Spanish Club Picture
Made Monday at 1:45
Spanish club pictures will be
taken Monday at 1:45 p.m. on the
steps of Guion hall. Uniform for
seniors will be boots with ice
cream breeches and uniforms for
juniors will be serge shirts and
slacks. Freshman and sophomores
will wear woll slacks with cotton
shirts. All members are urged to
be on time.
A guest speaker
nesday night and all students of
are invited to attend the
lecture.