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•... . --■ Page 4- -THE BATTALION- Official Notices Found FOUND—A Tarennes watch. Owtier call by room 32 Mitchell. Classified PIANO SALE—1. beautiful Kimball idio, floor model. Special holiday discounts. Terms /if desired. Phone 2-1244. Thos. Groggan & Bro., 609 East 26th St., Bryan, Texas. LOST—A brown, leather billfold in the vicinity of No. 11. Name and papers of John W. Griffin inside. Return wal let and papers to Griffin in 124 No. 11, keep money, no questions asked. Meetings will be held in the Uhemisl Lecture Room at 8:30 P.M., Wednesday, December 16, 1942. The usual informal dinner will be held at the Aggieland Inn at 7:00 p.m. Prof. John H. Yoe of the University of Virginia will speak on the subject “Inorganic Analysis With Organic Re agents.” All interested are invited to attend. A the questions, be opened. THE DAMES CLUB is invited to the npus ., in Campus Study Club Tea, Dec. 16, at 3:00 p.m., in the Y.M.C.A. Chapel. THE DAMES CLUB Christmas da: urd p: Dames Club members and Naval personnel are invited. ,nce will be held Saturday, Dec. 12, at Frank lin’s. Admission paid by the club. All ames •e in Executive Offices the istrar’s ice immediately. All students who U. S. Citizens but liivng in a foreign country should report. The information ceded has been requested by the Co ordinator of Inter-American Affai: Washington, D. C. Students ' speak English should bring an interpreter. Pli who i n inter report at once. H. L. HEATON, Registrar The National Institute of Public Af fairs announces the availability of fifty “internships” for the study of the fed eral government. The appointments, which are open to seniors and graduate- students, contemplate several i study in Washington. The intern, after an orientation period of about one month, is placed in a Fed eral Office on a full-time non-salaried basis to study government operations and ors and graduate- students, eral months of resident See Our Window Display of Catalina Sweaters featuring ANNE GWYNNE in a Catalina Sweater Catalina Sweaters are designed by Hollywood’s leading designers . . . styled to fit, and to give the maximum in wear and good looks. There’s a host of new weaves ... Cable Stitch . • . British Rib ... Baby Shaker ... Kid Llama and Smart Novelty Weaves ... Styl ed as only Catalina can make them. Sleeveless Styles $2.50 to $4 Slipons with Sleeves $4 to $6 Coat Styles - - - $4 to $8 fllaldropafl “Two Convenient Stores” College Station Bryan carry out practical assignments under the supervision of a competent official. The informal study includes round table discussions with administrators, legislat ors, press correspondents, etc. Seminars and courses in economics, government, public administration, and sociology are available to interns after hours at the American and George Washington Uni versities and the Graduate School of the U. S. Department of Agriculture without tuition. Applications will be received until Jan uary 6, 1943, for the periods March 1 to September 30, 1943 and July 1, 1943, to January 31, 1944. Appointments pro vide training without cost, but do not provide personal expenses. The General Education Board provides the Institute funds from which grants-in-aid may be made to internship appointees who are graduates of Southern institutions. Application forms may be had in Dean Brooks’ office. Church Notices AMERICAN LUTHERAN CONGREGATION Y.M.C.A. Chapel, Campus Kurt Hartmann, Pastor Sunday, Dec. 15, Sunday School with Bible Class at 10:15. Divine service at 11:30. This will be the Christmas service for the students. Annual congreational meeting Sunday ight You are welcome. ST. THOMAS CHAPEL (Episcopal) The Rev. J. Hugh R. Farrell, Student Chaplain 9 :30—Holy Communion 10:15—Coffee Club and Sunday School 11:30—Morning Prayer and Sermon FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH College Station R. L. Brown, Pastor 9 :45 a.m.—Sunday School Sunday: 9:45 a. 10 :50 a.m.—Morning Worship 12 :00—B.S.U. Council 7 :00 p.m.—^Training Union 8 :00 p.m.—Evening Preaching Service Rev. O. F. Dingier will bring his closing message for Religious Emphasis Week at the morning service. Cadet James Mabry Short will sing “The Holy City.” The church will have as guests at the evening service the A.&M. Consol idated football team. The program will include appropriate message by the pastor and a short talk by Superintendent W. D. Bunting. Coach Harold Cowley will introduce the mem bers of the team. The monthly Family Night program will be held on Wednesday evening at 7:30 and will include a short Christmas pro gram. A cordial welcome is extended to all who desire to worship with us. BETHEL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 800 S. College Ave., Bryan MISSOURI SYNOD Rev. H. A. Traugott, Pastor 9:45 a.m.—Sunday School and Bible Class. 10 :45 a.m.—Morning service. Wednesday night service, 8:30 p.m. rdially invited to attend. plenty of time All are coi Services will be ovi for all students to return in time tor Tn THE CHURCH OF CHRIST R. B. Sweet, Minister Sunday: 9:45 a.m. the Bible classes 10:45 a.m., the Morning Worship 7 :00 p.m., the group; 8:00 i ship. Wednesday: 8:00 p.m., the Prayer Meet ing. All are invited to attend all these services. You will be most welcome. CHRISTIAN CHURCH BOYS who go to the Bryan Christian Church can meet the free bus at the Y.M.C.A. Bus Sta tion (by the bugle stand) at 9:10 Sun day morning. A.&M. METHODIST CHURCH —j '" T ^sley ”— J - J - 3 — lin, 9 :00 a.m.—Coffee and Wesley Foundatii Carlin, Pastor-Dir m.—Coffee Hour 9 :50 a.m.—Church School 9 :5u a.m.—Uhurch School. 11:00 a.m.-—Morning Service World Service Sunday 7 :30 p.m.—Evening Service 7 :00 p.m.—Wesley Fellowship A.&M. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Norman Anderson, Pastor 9 :45 a.m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a.m.—Morning Worship. Sermon Topic: “Under the Load.” The morning services will be in the Campus Theatre. 7 :15 p.m.—Student League. 8 :15 p.m.—Evening Forum and Fellow ship. The evening services will be in the Y Chapel. A new class will be organized in the Sunday School for adults. Dr. G. W. Adriance will be the teacher. It will meet at 9:45 at the Campus Theatre. Special attention is called to the change in the place of worship. A cordial wel come to all. —AGGIES— (Continued From Page 3) ed his ninth major “T” since en rolling at Texas A.&M. At an impromptu meeting of the football lettermen, the nom inees for the “T” Club officers were elected. Willie Zapalac re ceived Jthe president nomination. Others nominated for different of fices included: Weldon Maples, vice-president; Jake Webster, sec retary and treasurer, and Dub Sibley, sergeant-at-arms. The other major sports—basketball, baseball and track—will meet later in the year to elect their nom inees for the different posts and then a general election will be held. Franklin’s Open To Public Tonight Contrary to previous announce ments, Franklin’s will be open to the public tonight in stead of be ing restricted to guests of the Dames Club as has been erroneous ly announced. ACheS Meet, Dinner To Be Held Wed The twenty-sixth meeting of the Texas A. & M. Section of the American Chemical Society will be held in the Chemistry lecture room at 8:30 p. m., Wednesday, Decem ber 16, 1942. The usual informal dinner will be held at the Aggieland Inn at 7:00 p, m. Prof. John H. Yoe of the Uni versity of Virginia will speak on the shubject “Inorganic Analysis With Organic Reagents.” All inter ested are invited to attend. Brian Donlevy at work in “Glass Key” showing at the Campus Theatre at the Saturday night preview, Sunday and Monday. - ’MURAL SPORTS - (Continued From Page 3) Artillery’s lone tally was scored by H. F. Stripling. F Coast will meet E Infantry in a semi-minal match. Coming from behind the E In fantry squad defeated C Replace ment Center with a 14-8 score in another quarter-final match. The Replacement Center team led by a score of 8-1 at the halfway mark but were held scoreless in the final period by a fighting Infantry team who put the ball through the hoops from all angles. No one player on either team ran up a high score as each man scored his share of the goals. C. R. Perry and R. L. Butch- ofsky accounted for four points each for the winners while L. Can tu scored three points for the Re placement Center team. B Infantry smashed B Field Art illery in an eighth-final game by a score of 19-6. E. W. Genthner, with seven points, and R. S. Hackney, with six, led the Infantry scorers while S. Mikulinsky accounted for all six of the points credited to the Artillery squad. Another eighth-final match saw G Infantry take A Chemical War fare by a score of 18-13. Bill Wake field and C. Brunow led the In fantry scorers with five points each. G. S. Darnell, with four points, and C. O. Burch, with three, led the Chem Warfare team. The quarter-final games slated at the present time are: G Infan try vs. D Field Artillery and B Infantry vs. A Coast Artillery. —SPAHR— (Continued From Page 1) government would have had to spend $8,500. With the shop work ing at full speed, there was still a saving of $3,000 between the amount allotted by the government and the amount actually used for repairs. This work is all the more un usual because Lt. Spahr is not an engineer by trade. He was an as sociate professor of English at Tex as A. & M. college before being called from the reserve corps. He’s always been mechanically inclined, however, he says, and was glad of the chance to do this type of work. Lt. Spahr and Mr. Downey, civilian superintendent, set up the machin ery and laid out the plans for the shop. -SINGING CADETS- (Continued From Page 1) Cadets will appear on the program as guests of Conductor Ernst Hoff man, and will sing several numbers before a capacity crowd. The Texas A. & M. Club of Hous ton is arranging for accommoda tions for the singers, and will en tertain the group at a luncheon in the Rice Hotel. California School TrainsWeathermen For Army Air Corps With the ’teen age draft a real ity, tuition free military service- education for undergraduates ma terializes in the announcement that Pomona College, Claremont, Cali fornia, will train 200 men, 18 to 21, high school graduates, for the Unit ed States Army Air Corps, in a basic 12-months pre-meteorological course beginning February 1. As one .of the ten training cen ters established by the weather service of the air corps, Pomona College will recruit candidates in an area which includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Young men enlisted will be paid $50 per month and the air force will pay all maintenance and tui tion. The students will be housed in dormitories on the campus, and they will be under army super vision. The academic program will be under control of the college fac ulty, and the University Meteor ological Council, located in Chi cago. —FILMS— (Continued From Page 1) and no script. As the movie went along Griffith visualized its scenes. This method resulted in many of the memorable scenes of the pic ture. The crudest sort of technical equipment was used. Billy Blitzer, the cameraman, had to carry a bicycle lamp to keep his camera warm. During the photographing of battle scenes Billy Blitzer and his camera and Griffith were lo cated on a sixty-foot tower to gain a view of the field. Griffith directed through a primitive amp lifier. In one scene of Southern armies marching Griffith direct ed the extras to go past the cam era, run back to the end of the line and march past the camera again. The movie was the occa sion for the inuguration of many techniques which are indispensable to the modern motion picture: the close-up, the moving-camera shot, the fade-out, and the cut-back (originally called “the Griffith last-minute rescue”). The mob scenes and the battle scenes have never been surpassed. The battle scenes are so vivid that it has often been said of them that they seem to be actual photographs of the war. The Birth of a Nation tells the story of the Civil War and the tragedy of reconstruction in the South. The first half of the film is a double love story of a North ern girl and a Southern man and a Southern girl and a Northern man. Lillian Gish, who was nine teen and unknown at the time, is a fragile carpet-bagger heroine. Henry Walthall is “the little Con federate colonel.” Other notable names of the cast are Wallace Reid, Mae Marsh, Donald Crisp (General Grant), and Joseph Hen- aberry (Lincoln). Men who ac tually knew Lincoln checked Jos eph Henaberry’s make-up. For the scenes depicting the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, Griffith en gaged most of the well-known cowboys and rodeo riders in Cal ifornia. Robed in twenty - five thousand yards of white sheeting, raiding over an entire county (which was rented at ten thous and dollars a day for the filming of the Klan’s raids) they did a remarkable job of acting. They were able to rear their horses and plow through multitudes without hurting anyone. Few who have seen the picture forget the bugle call of the Klan, or the dramatic scene of Sherman’s march to the sea, or Mae Marsh’s crooked, bleed ing mouth after she has thrown herself over the cliff. The Birth of a Nation has been, since its first showing, a subject of controversy and discussion. Whatever its faults in technique or in story, it remains a thrilling movie and an important cultural document. Woodrow Wilson, after seeing it at a command perform ance at the White House, said, “It is like writing history with lightning.” Monday Set As Deadline For ERC Enlistments Here Today and tomorrow are the last days for completing Enlisted Re serve Corps, Lieutenant Colonel L. W. Marshall announced yesterday. Anyone obtaining the proper ap plication blanks before December 5, when the government order was issued that no more men could enlist in the army reserve, can still get in the ERC if he finishes his enlistment before Monday. Monday, December 14, is the ab solute deadline for the completion of the ERC enlistment for those who got the application blanks be fore the government deadline, and only very exceptional cases will be processed on Monday, Col. Mar shall said. The recruiting offices will be open all day and tomorrow in or der to facilitate the last minute rush for the ERC enlistments; phy sical examinations and finger printing will be given today, but will be discontinued tomorrow, with only the typists filling out appli cation blanks on that day. Col. Marshall pointed out that there were some boys who came up to the recruiting office and ob tained blanks to fill out, and haven’t as yet returned with the blanks. Others, he explained, brought back their blanks complete ly filled out, and were ordered to report back to the office to be sworn in; these never came back at all. Col. Marshall went on to say that if these boys who have not been back to the offices with their blanks, or to be sworn in do not do'so before Monday, they will not be able to get in the ERC. Quite a number of boys have been enlisted from other schools from all over the state, particular ly from Sam Houston State Teach er’s College in Huntsville. When all the enlistments have been completed on Monday, it is expected that between 1800 and 2000 men will have been registered from Texas A. & M. alone. -SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1942 —REGISTRATION— (Continued From Page 1) to whether or not he should reg ister, he should consult the prop er registration authoxnties and reg ister if they so advise. The President’s proclamation has been given public notice, and all persons required to register un der the provisions of the proclama tion are demeed to have notice of the requirements of the Selective Service Act, according to state headquarters officials. Failure on the part of anyone required to pre sent himself for and submit to registration, they said, is a Fed eral offense and punishable by fine not to exceed $10,000 or five years in the penitentiary, or both such fine and imprisonment. Ohio jury with eight women on it returned a verdict in two min utes. Wonder where the sale was. Texas’ first state park was Moth er Neff Park, 8 miles southwest of McGregor. Limiting Holidays Big Help to War Says Pullman Chief Limiting of the Thanksgiving re cess to 24 hours by the country’s major colleges was a helpful factor in making available rail accom modations last week-end for essen tial civilian travel, George A. Kel ly, vice-president of The Pullman Company, Chicago, reported. Kelly praised the action volun tarily taken by colleges and col lege students, as revealed in a survey by the Association of Amer ican Colleges, as an important con tribution to the war effort and said he looked forward to a con tinuance of similar cooperation and understanding by the public gen erally in the next 60 days. For, despite Army and Navy an nouncements that Christmas leaves will be kept to a minimum, mount ing military demand for Pullman cars for organized troop move ments will make both December and January critical months for civilian travel, Kelly warned. “College authorities are right now making plans for further co operation by staggering Christmas vacation dates so that no two schools in the same area will close or re-open on the same day,” he said .“We think the schools which make up the membership of the Association of American Colleges are setting a splendid example with their help in this difficult situa tion. We are confident that other travelers will be equally coopera tive and we urge them to make reservations as far in advance as possible and to cancel reservations promptly when plans are changed.” War Department Stops Drafting Officer Candidates War Department instructions prohibit induction of applicants for volunteer officer candidate train ing who are over 38 years of age, unless they have already bedn ordered to report for induction, General J. Watt Page, State Se lective Service Director, announc ed today. “Effective immediatley,” Gener al Page said, “applications of reg istrants over 38 for volunteer of ficer training will not be further considered, unless such registrants have already received local board notice to report for induction, in which event they will be processed in the regular manner.” Michell Morgan, appearing in “Joan of Paris,” at Guion Hall Saturday only. Firemen to Train For Defense Fires In Bryan School A wartime training school for firemen in Fire Service District 20 will be held in Bryan during the week beginning December 28. Marvin Hall, State Fire Insur ance Commissioner and Fire Serv ice Coordinator of the National Defense Committee for Texas, says the school is an important part of the statewide training pro gram recently announced for Tex as firemen. The series of training schools for the 26 Texas Fire Service Districts has been arranged through cooperation of the State Board of Vocational Education, the Office of Civilian Defense and the National Defense Committee for Texas. Ruie Akin, assistant fire chief of Beaumont, is instructor for the school. On leave from the Beau mont department, Mr. Akin has been employed by the State Board of Vocational Education as an in structor for the firemen’s teacher training program. District 20 includes the counties of, Milam, Robertson, Leon, Bur leson, Brazos, Madison, Washing ton, Grimes and Walker. Two firemen from each depart ment within the district will at- LISTKN TO WTAW Saturday, December 12 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Treasury Star Parade (U. S. Treasury). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—Exten sion News. 11:55 a.m.—Town Crier — R. E. Gottlieb. 12:00 noon—Sign-off. Sunday, December 13 8:30 a.m.—Classical Music. 9:00 a.m.—Inter-Church Council. 9:15 a.m.—Roans Chapel Singers. 9:30 a.m.—Sign-off. Monday, Dec. 14 11:25 a.m.—Music. 11:30 a.m.—Freedom on the Land Forever (Farm Credit Ad ministration). 11:45 a.m.—Brazos Valley Farm and Home Program—Agatha Murphy. 11:55 a.m.—Town Crier—C. Ber ing. 11:59 a.m.—Sign-off. According to the last U. S. Cen sus, 45.4 per cent of Texas popu lation was urban in 1940. When they start building cars again, why not make ’em with ready-bent fenders so they’ll al ways look like new? tend the Bryan school. Following the week of special training these firemen will return to their re spective departments and hold lo cal training sessions. In addition, the school is open to representa tives from fire departments of in dustrial plants, as well as the armed services within the district. Local arrangements for the school are directed by C. E. Greis- ser, Bryan Fire Chief and assistant district coordinator. Fire Chief E. W. Pflughaupt, Brenham, is dis trict coordinator, and Fred Bob bitt, Huntsville fire chief, is an assistant district coordinator. R. O. Muenster, fire defense ad visor, Eighth Regional Office of Civilian Defense, is directing the training program in Texas, Louis iana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Muenster has been chief of the Luling, Texas, fire depart ment for almost 10 years. NOTICE! FRANKLIN’S WILL BE OPEN AS USUAL TOMORROW NIGHT. Come out and enjoy the evening with your friends. 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