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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 Texas A&M The B College alion ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1943 2275 NUMBER 110 Academic Credit For Those Called Those Lacking Only Seven Hours Receive Degrees When Called Yesterday afternoon the Acad emic council passed a resolution clarifying the status of students called from school by the armed forces, according to F. C. Bolton, dean. By .the accepted proposal, those students who are not candi dates for graduation, who are called before the end of the se mester, receive credit for A and B grades if called after April 17; A, B, and C grades if called after May 1. Candidates for degrees will be given grades if called after April 3. All of these provided they re main in college until approximate ly the date of the call. Students called to active service at the close of this semester, or near enough to the end to receive credit for the semester, and who lacks not more than 7 credit hours of meeting the requirements for the Bachelor’s degree at the close of the curent semester, may be granted that degree provided they meet the following conditions: 1. Must have minimum of 136 hours, and be no more than 7 hours from full requirement, and this deficiency shall include no course considered by his dean as essential to graduation. 2. Student must be registered for this semester, carying normal load, and must complete them. 3. Shortage may not include any course' student fails this se mester or any subject in which he would be allowed to take the spec ial examination in. 4. Must have 1 grade point per hour of the full major require ments, and must have a 1.5 grade point average. 5. Must have met in full legal requirement for American Govern ment. Jenkins Announces Weekly Hymn Sing Richard Jenkins, leader of the newly established Sunday Sing, announced that the weekly sing would be held Sunday from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Assembly Hall. All boys who don’t go to church on. Sunday evenings, but who like to do a little old-fashioned hymn singing are urged by Jenkins to be present. Educational Credit Given Men, Women In Army by Colleges Granting of college credit for educational achievement in the armed forces to men and women will be accomplished because of joint action by eight Middle West ern institutions. Other institutions in the Midwest also are planning to adopt the plan, thus far ap proved by these institutions: Uni versities of Iowa, Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Ohio State, Iowa State College and Michigan State college. Under the arrangement, aca demic credit will be granted on the basis of competence as demonstrat ed by performance on specially pre pared tests. Experimentation in procedures consistent with this pol icy is now in progress. Govern mental agencies are developing technical means of applying basic nifermation and service records which the college will need to make the earned credit plan effective. Class Rings May Be Ordered Until April 1 Seniors and Juniors may order senior class rings any time before April 1, 1943, at the Registrar’s office. A ring clerk will be on duty only in the mornings from 8 to 12. Premier Plans For Wanger Production Nearing Completion Picture Shown in 32 Texas Cities at The Same Time; About April 21 Plans for the world premiere of the Walter Wanger production “We’ve Never Been Licked” in Kyle Field, April 21, are now be ing made by the producers and the Interstate Amusement Company of Dallas. At the same time the pic ture is released here, it will be re leased in 32 other Texas cities and towns, according to G. Byron Win stead, college director of informa tion. Winstead says that this will be the largest block booking of any picture ever made in Texas, and the company’s representatives will be on the campus Monday and Tuesday to measure the Aggie sta dium for the outdoor projection and sound equipment. Release of the film will, of course, depend on just when the picture is finished, but it is be lieved it will be completed by April 21, he said. Longhorn Staff Pictures Deadline Is This Afternoon Snapshot, Senior Favorite Sections Still Need Pictures Blank spaces will be left in the Longhorn in place of the photo graphs of all regimental, battalion, and organization staffs, the com manders, second-in-commands, and first sergeants who do not have their military pictures made for the Longhorn by this afternoon, stated Marvin McMillan, Long horn editor, today. So all you boys who doq’t want to appear in the 1944 Longhorn as a white space had better hurry and get those pictures made today, the editor said. McMillan also said that very few snapshots for the Aggieland section of the annual have been received yet, and the deadline for this is April 1. Monday, March 15, is the deadline for Senior Favorites and Vanity Fair pic tures. 12 Guage Shotguns Wanted by Army Owners of 12-gauge shotguns are asked to sell them to the army. Guns are needed for guarding pur poses, and to train soldiers and sailors in the art of wing shooting. “An airplane is like a duck. You have to lead it to hit it and a great many of our boys are not duck hunters.” Only 12-gauge automatic, pump action repeaters and double barrel shotguns are needed. The govern ment will pay each individual for his gun. Prices range up to $30 for double barrel, and up to $42.50 for a pump or automatic depending on the condition it is in. Parker-Astin Hardware company has been designated as the offi cial receiving station for the guns of Brazos county. The collection drive is from now until Apri 11. It is strictly volun tary.—Bryan News. Library Changes Sunday Afternoon Schedule; Opens At 2 College Library schedules have been changed and the library will now be open Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. The phonograph has been repaired, and the music room and the browsing room are open to sailors, marines, and air corps cadets as well as Aggies, ac cording to Dr. T. F. Mayo, Libra rian. Other hours of the library are: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. until 10 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. un til 4:00 p.m. Featured on Kadet Kapers Mary Jane Reynolds Assembly Hall to Be New Location of Library Movies Over 600 students, sailors, ma rines and air corps cadets were present at the showing of “Target for Tonight” by the War Informa tion Center last Saturday night. This unusually large attendance, together with the fact that the acoustics in the physics lecture room, where the pictures are shown, are not very good, has caused the War Information Center to change the time and place for the showing of the movies to Sunday at 4 p. m. in the Assembly Hall. Sunday’s program opens with the first full length feature film put out by the Office of War In formation. Without endless intro duction the film simply and im pressively announces, “The United States Government presents The World at War”, moving from there into a thrililng pictorial history of the decade at war that led inevit ably to the attack on Pearl Har bor. The significance of that dec ade is dramatically achieved by first showing a burning, devastat ed Pearl Harbor and then flash ing back to 1931 with the incident which led to the Japanese attack on Mukden. Many of the scenes of this historical record we have seen before—perhaps more than once. The value of the film lies in the fact that it has achieved a con tinuous whole. From five hundred thousand feet of American news reels, from other United Nations footage, and from confiscated Ger man, Italian, and Jap propaganda movies, Samuel Spewack and his film editor, Gene Milford, have chosen the best scenes and put them together with skill. The com mentary by Paul Steward is in itself a brilliant piece of report ing, and the musical score, written by Gail Kubik, the twenty-nine- year-old American composer, is stirringly suited to the subject mat ter. The whole i;orry record of our tragic inertia is there as we watch the Japanese in Shanghai, the Ital ians in Ethiopia, the Nazis in Aus tria, in Czechoslovakia, in Poland, in Norway, in Holland, in Belgium, and on, with lightning swiftness, to the time when we see them march ing down the Champs Elysees and dictating a so-called peace in a railway car at Compiegne. The best of the shots and the ones which convey war with the sharply defined precision of a sur geon’s knife in the hands of an expert, are those made by the Ger mans. A Nazi plane bombs a Polish railway junction.. We do not see the plane, but we see the menacing shadow of the plane’s propeller. The Nazis have taken photographs from the air of the skeletons they made of Warsaw and Rotterdam. They have taken shots of cathe dral towers toppling crazily to the ground. Accompanying the scenes of destruction throughout the film are the incessant roar of planes, the pounding of bombs, and the hideous light of burning cities. In all this record of destruction there is nothing of America at war. There are scenes of tardy (See LIBRARY, Page 4) Kadet Kapers,Corps Dance Will Highlight Campus Entertainment for Weekend Second Corps Dance Starts at 8:30; No One, Tuxes, Reg The second Corps Dance of the new semester will be held tonight from 8:30 until 11:30 in Sbisa hall with Jack McGregor’s new Aggie- land Orchestra furnishing the mu sic. Since the last dance, two weeks ago, word has gone around that the new Aggieland is really the stuff, and those that missed out on all the fun last time are anx ious for another chance to hear it. A large crowd of Aggies and their dates are expected to be on hand when sweet music fills Sbisa to night. One new addition to the band is Bobby Foster in the drum section. Pulses were beating high and fast after his rendition of the “Two o’Clock Jump.” Number one uniform or a tux is reg for all underclassmen, while seniors may wear civilian suits if they choose. Scrip for the dance is 1.10. Last Rotary Club SponsoredProgram To be Next Tuesday Dr. Hugh Roberts, noted edu cator, lecturer, and radio commen tator, will be the fourth and last speaker to appear before the In stitute of International Under standing, sponsored by the Bryan Rotary Club, at 3 o’clock Tuesday, March 16, at the Assembly Hall. He will speak in Bryan at the High School at 8 p.m. His sub ject will be “Inter-American Eco nomic Cooperation.” A native of Australia, Roberts received his early education in Australia, New Zealand, and Ox ford University, England, and has made extensive tours of Europe. Through the invitation of the Car negie Endowment for International Peace, he made his first trip to America, where he remained to become a professor at Iowa State University. His special field is in ternational affairs. > WEEK-END SCHEDULE FOR AGGIES AND SERVICEMEN Saturday— Guion Hall box office open from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m. Fea ture—“Whistling in Dixie.” Kadet Kapers — Assembly Hall, 6:30-7:30. Sunday— O. W. I. show in the As sembly Hall at 4 p. m. Free. Sunday Sing in the Assem bly Hall at 7 p. m. Free. Guion Hall Free show—1 to 5 p. m. Guion Hall special show 7 to 9 p. m. Feature—“Whis tling in Dixie.” Y. M. C. A. facilities avail able throughout the weekend to all men. Bowling, billiards, lounging and reading. Psychology Prof Speaks At Meeting Dr. W. A. Varvel, associate pro fessor of psychology, will speak to the A. & M. chapter of the Ameri can Association of University Pro fessors at their regular meeting at 8 p. m., Tuesday, March 16, in the Seminar Room on the second floor of the YMCA. The subject of Dr. Varvel’s talk will be “Teacher-Stu dent Morale in War Time.” Redbud Queen to Be Chosen Tonight at T S C W Festival Queen of the Redbud Festival will be announced tonight at TSCW’s Coronation Ball at Den ton. Students and faculty judges have taken part in selecting the queen from 100 TSCW princesses, who were nominated from the va rious dormitories. Primary nominations were made on the basis of poise, pleasing manner, careful grooming, sincer ity, vivacity, honor, coageniality of interests, conversational ability, sense of humor, dependability, and friendly democratic attitude. Chosen from Stoddard hall were Misses Alice Jane Baird, Derothy Bolin, Betty Buchanan, Peggy Chappell, Lillian Hutchens, Peg gy Lovelady, Mary Paxton, Dava Robinson, Mary Jane Trail, Vir ginia Walker. Brackenridge representatives are Lena Marie Adams, Mary Louise Auld, Marjorie Brewer, Frances Brown, Doris Dowdell, Carolyn Dunn, Carmen Garcia, Louise Johnson, Lanelle Leach, Jean John son, Jean Remington, Ella Mae Smith and Judy Stubbs. Fitzgerald’s Princesses Sarita Alba, Jean Cole, LaVonne Dalby, Claire Easterwood, Marga ret Fox, Eloise Gresham, Irene Hammer, Gloria Ho«ker, Cere- dwyn Jones, and Sammy Porter field are Fitzgerald’s princesses. Houston Hall elected Ernestine Ashe, Mar Gwen Ball, Barbara Cook, Remarize Cooper, Mary Green, Jerry Jenkins, Marjorie Monaghan, Ellecia Murnane, Bob bie Jo Sanford and Peggy Trickey. The following selections come from the freshman dormitories: Austin Hall chose Mary Jean Dur ham, Bobby Jo George, Sue Hen derson, Sally Hill, Muffet Merrell, Ann Moore, Mildred Quarture, Alice Ramsey, Dottie Rutledge, and Jean Wilson; from Sayers are Martha Early, Peggy Echols, Bet- tie Eckert, Mary Elizabeth Hain, Mary Jo Hudson, Mary Helen Ol sen,, Flo Saenger, Jacquelyn Steph ens, lone Tillett, Dottie Wahl- quish; from Lowry are Mina Jean Barnes, Sammie Nancy Farrier, Gloria Holmes, Wan Dee Hawde- shell, Beth Lundy, Elizabeth Mol- loy, Billy Bob Ransom, and Mar tha Lois Schuepbach. 15 Represent Smith-Carroll Fifteen girls chosen from Smith- Carroll include Mary Isabelle Al lison, Drew Armstrong, Betsy Bai ley, Ruth Bishop, Virginia Busby, Nancy Casey, Franoes Eliot, Dixie Irwin, Sue Irwin, Katy Jennings, Anne Key, Pat Moore, Mary Louise Turner, Patricia Waddell and Cleo Wilmeth. Mary Alice Barnes, Sheila Barnes, Carolyn Brown, Doris Brown, Marcia Brown, Edith El lison, Dorothy Headlee, Elizabeth McCullar, Jesse McCullar, Ann McPherson, Carolyn Schmitz, Jan ice Smith, Sue Still, Ramona Timken, and Doris Taliaferro were named from the local students. Next Town Hall Program Features Pianist Jose Iturbi Season Tickets Will Be Stamped at Boor As Call to Quarters Pass Jose Iturbi, world-famous pian ist and symphony orchestra con ductor, will appear on Town Hall Wednesday March 17, at 8 p.m. Compositions by Handel, Mo zart, Schumann, Chopin, Gershwin, Granados, and DeFalla make up his well balanced program. Ag gies who heard Iturbi on Gracie Allen’s radio program this week especially enjoyed his sense of humor and his marvelous ability to play the piano. Iturbi had his first job as a pianist when he was seven years old in a Valencian motion picture house from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. Later he studied in Paris and played in cafes at night. It was hard life, but he was graduated with highest honors. In order to comply with C. Q. regulations, Aggies who have sea son tickets to Town Hall, will have them stamped at the door and show the stamped 'ticket to the Officer in Charge of his dorm. Tickets will be on sale at the door for those desiring to attend the program who have no season tick et, and the stub of the ticket turn ed in to the CQ in charge of the dorm on his return after the prog ram. ^ Kapers Renewed As Part of Saturday Night Fun for Corps This evening from 6:30 to 7:30 in the Assembly Hall, Kadet Kap ers of 1943 will be presented for the first time this year. Richard Jenkins, director and originator of Kadet Kapers, promises a good show for all those who come and join in the fun. Feature of the evening is a quar tet of girls brought from Houston by Mary Jane Reynolds, promin/it dancing teacher. The girls are: Jeannene Code, Patti Sue Moeller- ing, Juanita Graham, and Mary Jane Reynolds. Besides this, Ag- gieland’s Men of Note, four voices from the Singing Cadets whose songs are both sweet and swingy, wijl be on the program. Members of this quartet are: Burl Ervin, Bob Shytles, Tony Sorenson, and Jenkins. A contest will be held to find out which of the services on the campus, Aggies, Sailors, Marines, or the Air Corps, is the fastest “shifter.” As always in the past perfor mances of Kadet Kapers, the com munity sing will be on the prog ram for the fun and enjoyment of all. Both old and new popular songs are included in the sing. Jenkins still has the problem of getting talent for the show from bashful Aggies or service men. Anyone who believes that he can entertain is asked to see Jen kins in Student Activities Of fice or at the Assembly, hall. The program for tonight is as follows: 1. Four Houston dancers and singers. 2. Aggieland’s Men of Note. 3. Contest—fastest “shifter”— prizes. 4. Community sing. Reapers should l)ast abjout 45 minutes or an hour and as usual is free to all. Oil Companies Start Women’s Field Course A concentrated 12-month course in petroleum geology designed to fit women for field work in dis covery programs of American oil companies is underway at the Uni versity of Michigan. The program, set up at the re quest of a number of leading pe troleum concerns, will provide as much academic work in geology as students preparing for the profes sion of petroleum geologist ordi narily obtain in four and a half years, according to Prof. Kenneth K. Landes, chairman of the univer sity’s department of geology. The program is not intended to provide an “education,” Landes ex plains, but rather to give essential technical training in a field in which a serious personnel shortage exists because of the war. Brazos River Bridge At Old Washington Reopened for Traffic The bridge over the Brazos river at Washington-on-the-Brazos was opened to traffic last Friday. Several months ago there was an accident and it was thought at the time the bridge could not be re paired. A negro drove a truck through the side of the bridge; it caused his death by drowning. Work has begun on the road from Lyons through Snook to High way 21. This will be a gravel road 1 with tarvia top. This road follows; the original Highway 230 from about two miles west of Brazos River in Burleson county through to Lyons joining Highway 36. Old Sulphur Spring road will be completed in another week, run ning from College Road to High way 6 past the north gate at Tex as A. & M. college. Naval Officer Sends Congratulations On Last LonghornEdition Congratulations on the 1943 Longhorn were received from the Navy Department by John B. Long- ley, Longhorn editor last year, in a letter early this week. R. W. Berry, Deputy Director of the Naval Office of Public Rela tions, enthusiastically praised last year’s annual, ending his letter with “Congratulations on an excellent piece pf work!” LONGHORN NOTICES Senior Favorite* Cost: $1.50, 5x7 glossy print (elos« *»). March 15. Deadline: Vanity Fair Cost: $3.00. 5x7 glossy print (close up). 8x10 glos sy print (full length with evening dress.) Deadline: March 15. Military Staff Pictures—Deadline, March 13. Chib Pictures—Deadline, March 20. Organization Snapshots—Deadline, March 20. Notes Aggieland can make no 5x7 copies of portraits due to film shortage.