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Texas A&M C~x The B College alion OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1943 2275 NUMBER 104 Corps Dance Tonight; New Aggieland to Make Debut Hop Lasts From 8 Until 11:30 in Sbisa; Number One, Tux Reg; Civies for Seniors Sbisa Hall will be the scene of the first Corps Dance in the new Aggie streamlined social program tonight at 8 p.m. with Jack McGregor and the new Aggieland orchestra giving out with the jive. Rodney Brauchle, social secretary of the senior class, said that the dance would end at 11:30 in order to conform with C.Q. regulations and that uniform for the dance would be number one or tux for fish, sopho mores, and juniors, while civies will be “reg” for seniors. Due to gas rationing, the war* Aggies Tackle Pace-Setting Owls Tonight In DeWare Field House; Tilt Starts at 7 Win for Rice Cinches Tie For SW Conference Crown Jessica Dragonette Refuses To Make Town Hall Appearance effort, and the army, there will be no vacant dorm for the girls to stay in this week-end, according to Major J. E. Davis, assistant com mandant. This corps dance is the first in the social program, with more coming in March, and the various regimental balls, the Junior Prom and the Senior Ring Dance for April, so that the boys just one jump ahead of the army will get in their last fling at Aggie life. McGregor, elected leader of the Aggieland Orchestra last week, has announced a new plan for arrang ing the musical numbers played during the dances this year. This new plan will allow the Aggies to plan their dances ahead, knowing just about what sort of piece is coming up next. Our “set” will consist of playing three or four pieces straight then having a little break to arrange the next of two slow pieces, then a fast one, then a break; two slow ones, one fast one, and the break; and so on,” said McGregor. Bobbie Foster, Infantry band freshman, has taken over the skin section of the band, and Dick Lan dry, Marine corps, will hack at the ivory. Bill Boren has been added to the sa xsection, which will be much sweeter than the sax section has been in past years. “All you boys that have P.E. on Saturdays will probably enjoy the new Aggieland, while the hep-cats won’t have to suffer from a lack of solid stuff. We have a really solid rhythm section, an improved brass section and a sweeter reed section, and hope we can give you the kind of dance music you want.” Air Cadets to Get Drill, Physical Training Before Entering Classroom First two weeks of training for the new air corps arrivals will be devoted to intensive military and physical fitness programs, it was announced by General Carter, and actual class work will not begin until March 1. All academic work will be given by the regular col lege teaching staff, and flight in struction at Easterwood Field will be under the direction of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. The contingent of Air Corps ca dets, that recently arrived on the campus, will begin their classwork heer about March first. The group that is here are training for com missions as flying bombardiers and navigators. Arrival of the Air Corps con tingent will bring to fruition a pre diction made by General Brant when he dedicated Texas A. & M.’s new airport, Easterwood Field, May 22, 1941 that in case of war the aeronautical facilities of this institution would be utilized by the government to train flight officers. Dr. Walton recalled in announcing details of the training program which will in no way curtail or in terfere with the regular academic and military program pursued in the past at A. & M. To date, 6382 army commissions have been issued here as a result of ROTC training, and it is estimated that more than 8000 former Aggies are now ser ving as commissioned officers in the armed forces. "Eyes of the Navy 9 Featured In Library Movies at 7:30 Tonight Free movies will be shown to night at 7:30 in the Physics Lec ture Room on the second floor of the Physics building. Of the three twenty-minute movies shown, the one calculated to be of most interest to the audi ence is an MGM production called Eyes o fthe. Navy. Beginning with a dramatic introduction of a farm boy who wants to fly for the Navy, the short proceeds with heightened action to show scenes of naval training at Pensacola, San Diego, and the specialized, precarious training off an aircraft carrier. Navy flying has a technique all Marine Reserve Open Until May 15 — Bolton According to Dean F. C. Bolton, the Marine Corps Reserve is open to 17-year-old students until May 15. This enlistment would be for the purpose of qualifying for the candidates class for commission. “Those interested should see me at my office,” said Dean Bolton. its own and differs in several re spects from army or civilian flying. Each cadet gets a year of training, costing the Navy up to twenty- seven thousand dollars. He gets three hundred flying hours before he joints the fleet. Some of the special flying known only to a naval aviator includes catapulting off a cruiser or a battleship; cir cling in for a carrier deck and landing on a space just sixty feet wide; and bringing a seaplane down in a precision landing. The most thrilling sequences of Eyes of the Navy deal with taking off and landing on the flat-tops. It is comparatively easy for an experienced flyer to take off from a carrier, but to find a floating carrier upon return from a sea fight or bombing raid requires ex perience, thorough navigation training, and a steady nerve; for setting a plane down on this wav ing, teakwood surface has often been compared to setting it down on a dime. A privilege granted a navy flyer (See LIBRARY, page 4) The air corps trainees will be housed in the older dormitories on the campus, vacant this semester following graduation of the Class of 1943 in January, and calls to active duty of all Air Corps .re serves here. When the air corps training pro gram gets fully under way it is planned, to have a graduating class moving out to basic training fields every month, and another new class moving into Texas A. & M. for the preflight training pro gram. Facilities of the college were found adequate to handle this ad ditional teaching load without in terfering in the least with the reg ular academic schedule of the school. Dr. Walton emphasized that the college would continue to offer regular courses on the year- round speed-up schedule which co vers a normal four-year college course in two years and eight months. Six Aggies Pick TSCWite Tonight For TU Round-Up “Sweetheart of A.&M.” will be the title given to some lucky girl at TSCW Saturday night, when the committee of six Aggies who will make the selection, announces its selection at a formal dance to be given in their honor. The TSCWites selected will represent A.&M. College at the annual Texas University Roundup, March 27. Those Aggies who made the trip, according to F. C. Bolton, dean of the college, are John Mullins, cadet colonel; Helmut, It. col. sig nal corps; Albert Lacy, It. col. com posite regiment; Jack Barton, It. col. infantry regiment; Arthur Lacy, captain, quartermaster corps; and Jack Keith, corps ex ecutive. LONGHORN NOTICES Field Artillery and Cavalry Seniors. Deadline: Mon day, March 1. Fish, Sophomores and Junior Class Pictures—(Old Pictures) Deadline: March 8. Senior Favorites Cost: $1.50, 5x7 glossy print (close up). Deadline: March 15. Vanity Fair Cost: $3.00. 5x7 glossy print (close up). 8x10 glos sy print (full length with evening dress.) Deadline: March 15. Organizations Cost: $15.00 per half page. Each club limited to half page. Deadline for club reservation: March 6. Notes Aggieland can make no 5x7 copies of portraits due to film shortage. Rollin Elkins Made Major In Cavalry in Ireland Rollin L. (Batch) Elkins, a for mer instructor in the Economics department, has been promoted to the rank of major. Elkin left A.&M. in September 1941, taking his commission in the Cavalry as a first lieutenant. Shortly after reporting, he was promoted to a captain and was in the first con tingent of Americans to land in Ireland. Elkin was graduated from A.&M. in 1933 with a bachelor of arts degree in liberal arts, major ing in economics. While a student he played in the Aggieland Or chestra, was a member of the band, and was an intramural manager. Rollin was awarded his master of science degree “with honor” in May, 1935, his thesis being on the subject, “A Study of the Develop ment and Present Status of Work man’s Compensation Insurance in the United States.” Soprano Gives No Explanation For Cancellation Jessica Dragonette, sched uled to appear in Town Hall March 2 has absolutely re fused to appear at College Station and will give no ex planation of the matter, said John Lindsey, Town Hall manager late yesterday. Albert Morini, agent for Miss Dragonette, has stated in a letter to L. D. Boone, student activities manager, that Miss Dragonette has absolute ly refused to fulfill her date in College Station. He further stated that Miss Dragonette gave no ex planation about the matter, and that he had entered a suit against her for breach of contract in the New York Court. Both the Columbia and National Broadcasting systems, said Morini in his letter, managed Miss Drag onette previously. Each company reported that it had suffered the greatest difficulty in working with her and her sister, Mrs. Loftus, who handles Miss Dragonette s affairs. Morini quotes from one of his man agers: “Mrs. Loftus is absolutely impossible and causes trouble at the slightest provocation.” Though no program will be pre sented Tuesday night, every effort is being made by Lindsey to present a suitable alternate. The date for this substitution has not been set but it will probably be about the middle of March, stated Lindsey. Paddlefeet Tagged So Instructors Can Keep Identity Clear Navy, Marines to Get Weekly News Column In Saturday Battalion Beginning a week from today, the Battalion will carry a column especially for the marines and navymen. News of interest about men who have left, letters from friends, personal items about men in the companies, and odd and in teresting experiences will make up the column. At last the paddlefeet have got ten themselves straightened out. Unlike other outfits the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen have all been wearing coveralls to drill. This, of course, led to a lot of con fusion and the only person who was pretty sure he wouldn’t be floated out was a senior. Finally this state of confusion was solved and for the past two weeks the juniors have been wear ing white name plates over their left upper pocket on their coveralls. But the solution doesn’t stop there. The juniors aren’t going to be selfish and have this “privilege” all to themselves. Beginning next week the sophomores and freshmen are going to be tagged. The sopho mores will wear yellow name plates (there will probably be some bleeds from the Cavalry about this) and the fish will wear pink ones (these will go good with a case of pinkus tuckus or a pair of pink pajamas). This should just about clear up the situation that existed in the New Area. Nazi Propaganda Runs Backwards Say Norweigans Norwegian patriots in a Trond heim (Norway) theater were aston ished to see a prdpaganda film showing the German forces giving food to the Norwegian population. For a few minutes ttey were too amazed to speak. Then one of them stood up and cried, “Stop! You’re running the film backwards I” SENIORS t The Registrar’s office an nounced Friday that Seniors will be notified over the mess hall loud speaker system when the Senior rings arrive. Attention Bluejackets and Marines We’re off on a new course and are looking forward to a successful cruise. Beginning next week a column of items of interest to naval personnel will appear in this paper. Its title—“SPARKS and SCOPES.” Contributions are helpful, welcome and necessary. Many bluejackets and marines have had journalistic experience. Many others feel they can write. All these are needed and more too. We want men to act as cor respondents for each individual company. We want men who can editorialize, write features, and gossip. There is a wide field of news items open to us—^letters from friends who have left, personal items about men in the company, odd and interesting experiences, short stories, comedy, pathos, intrigue, melodrama. What have ypu to offer? Just jot the items down and leave them in the “SPARKS and SCOPES” box in the Duty Room, No 124, Building 12. Get your pencils sharpened, your thinking caps on, your talents exercised and let’s get going with a flood Of contributions to make this column a huge suc cess. Reporters, columnists, correspondents- uscripts in Duty Room. Aggies Prohibited From Visiting Navy, Air Corps Dormitories Effective immediately, Aggies are prohibited from entering any of the dormitories that are oc- cupide by the Air Corps, Navy, or Marines since the trainees of these units have a heavy academic load to carry, according to an or der from the Commandant’s of fice. Cadets are also ordered to re frain from inviting the trainees into their dormitories since their units have forbidden them to do this, the order continued. Aggies Must Pay Fees for Longhorn Pictures by March 8 Marvin McMillan, editor of the Longhorn, announced that Fish, Sophomores, and Juniors must go by the Aggieland Studio and pay the $1 fee if they want their pic tures in the 1944 Longhorn. Due to the shortage of film the Junior class will have to use their sopho more picture. No class pictures will be made after the completion of the Seniors. All of these pictures have to be in to the editor of the Longhorn before March 8th. Deadline for the Cavalry and the Field Artillery senior pictures is Monday, March 1, and all of these men are warned to have their pic tures made before this date. Begin ning next Tuesday the Coast Ar tillery, Engineers, and Sigjial Corps Seniors will begin the taking of their pictures. Deadline on all of the senior pictures will be March 6. McMillan stated also that all clubs who wanted their pictures in 1944 Longhorn must make reser vations at the Student Activities Office before Saturday, March 6. Pictures of clubs will be limited to one-half of a page as more space is not available. This half of the page will have the picture of the club and the club roster. The cost of these half pages is $15.00 and all these pictures have to be in before March 20. Dawson and Huffman on Aggie Casualty List; Both Expected to See Some Action Conference pace-setting Rice Owls will be trying for their tenth consecutive victory against the Aggie Gagers in DeWare Field House at 7 o’clock tonight. It will be just another basketball game for the Texas Aggies but to the Rice Owls it will be one of those chips-on-the-line affairs which can assure them of a tie for the 1943 championship if they win, or a second place if Texas Longhorns win their •remaining two games. So far the astounding Aggies have thrown a sprag into the wheels or other top rated teams and gave the Owls a scare in Hous ton. Last week they virtually knocked Arkansas out of the race by upsetting them to make it four losses for the Porkers. Then at the start of the season they swamped the championship-rated T.C.U. Horned Frogs so anything can happen and probably will in the DeWare Field House tonight. Fans are urged to arrive early as a capacity crowd is expected. Discouraging to Aggie hopes of a victory was the announcement that Lee Huffman, high scoring guard, suffered a hand injury in a chemistry laboratory Wednesday but that report was helped some when Coach Smith said he thought the ace would be able to play. On top of that Center Jamie Dawson, another scoring threat, has been confined to the college hospital with intestinal flue for two days, but again there is hope, for Smith said he expects the tall boy to be discharged Friday evening. At any rate neither can be expected to be in top shape for so vital a game as the Rice affair. Dawson’s assignment will be to keep Bill Tom Gloss, the great Owl center from Hearne, from breaking the all-time Southwest Conference scoring record set by Dwight Parks, of Baylor, last year. Gloss needs but 31 more points to shatter the mark and he can be expected to be shooting for a rec ord. If Dawson can’t go the route the task will fall on the shoulders of Pete Watkins or Tom Sample. This will be the final home game for the five Iron Men as all are seniors this year. They wind up their careers by meeting the Long horns in Austin next week and although they did not threaten to win the championship they have been responsible for throwing. -leave man- Sunday Sing to Be Held in Assembly Hall Sunday Night An old-fashioned Sunday .even ing get-together will be held again in the Assembly Hall at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, February 28. Richard Jen kins invites everyone who does not attend church to coma and join in the singing. “Everyone”, says Jenkins, “in cludes Aggies, townspeople, sail ors, soldiers, airforce, and marines. Bring your girl, wife, buddy, or anyone else that you think would like to come.” “You needn’t be dressed-up to come to these meetings, everything is informal. Everybody sings and everyone has a good time because he can pick out his own favorites. If you don’t attend church services anywhere, be sure and come to the Sunday Sing. You’ll enjoy it!” W ayneAlexanderGets Marine Commission Wayne Dewitt Alexander, Col lege Station, has been commis sioned a second lieutenant and as signed to, active duty with the Marine Air Force, it was announc ed today. Lt. Alexander, the son of Wil lard Clay Alexander, attended Texas A.&M. He enlisted in the Marine Corps as an aviation cadet in August. Army Minds Seem to Dwell On Finding Manual Labor for Ex Those “bleed” letters still come back from the Aggies who said the regulations at A.&M. were too tough and left for the army. This one came in from a “five-year” Aggie who stepped into OD at the end of January semester. “Well, it’s been God-help-you- Private . . . for a full week today, and it seems to me that I’ve done every little piece of manual la bor the best brains at Dodd Field could dream up. “Several Aggies who couldn’t stand the new order up there are in my barracks—or were. Among them are Coolidge, Troop D; Moses of Infantry; and a fellow named McNeis, who disappeared last night (a poor spot to take a one way corps trip). Saw Shorty Booth last night in his new GI haircut (I should talk already). “New Aggies as rookies came in Saturday wearing pinks and colar ornaments. 2nd embarrassed by sloppy salutes. You know re sults. “Did KP Friday from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. without sitting down. The very thought of another turn at that makes good discipline. “Tell Ransdell that descript course he hammered into my head stood me in good stead on the army’s mechaniqal aptitude test, one-third of which is devoted to developments of solids. “Oh, well! The uniforms fit ‘pretty’ well; the food is abundant and fatigue duty more so; and a silent tongue tumeth away wrath. So I’ll get along in the army and one of these days I’ll be a cpl. You watch!” Love and Kisses, Ex-B, SC