Texas A«M
All-Service Dance Saturday Night in Grove
25 Army Safety Directors Eighteen Chosen to Appear In
Here for 2 Weeks Saturday National and A&M Who's Who
E L Williams to Direct Course
Given by Engineering Department
Twenty-five industrial safety directors and foremen
from army installations in the Eighth Service Command,
began a two weeks period of intense training here yester
day.
The safety course is under direction of Ed L. Williams
of the department of industrial education, School of Engi-
enering. The course is being given under the Engineering,
Science, Management War Training program and the Na
tional Committee for the Conservation of Manpower in
War Industry.
The superintendents and safety
consultants were welcomed by Dean
Gibb Gilchrist of the School of En
gineering, and the course of in
struction was explained by Richard
O. Farmer, chief safety consultant,
civilian personnel branch, Eighth
Service Command, of Dallas. The
broader safety movement was de
tailed by Charles A. Miller, region
al representative of Region 7, Na
tional Committee for The Conser
vation of Manpower in War Indus
try, Division of Labor Standards,
U. S. Department of Labor, and
safety and personnel officer of the
Texas Company, Houston.
Those in attendance are John
Kraus, Port of Embarkation, New
Orleans; O. E. Dawson, Camp Rob
ertson, Little Rock; H. M. Landry,
Port of Embarkation, New Or
leans; Robert D. Cornell, 83d Sub
Depot, Army Air Base, New Or
leans; A. B. Mevers , New Or
leans; Roy A. Bailey, Harding
Field, Baton Rouge; Ed L. Beas
ley, Army and Navy General Hos
pital, Hot Springs, Ark.;
Yancey L. Culp, Camp Howze,
Gainesville, Texas; Victor C. Kul-
nick, Camp Livingston, Pineville,
La.; Richard O. Farmer, 8th Serv
ice Command, Dallas; Milton V.
Peterson, Camp Hulen, Texas; Wil
liam E. Speir, Camp Maxey, Paris,
Texas; Robt. W. Snipes, Fort
Crockett, Galveston; William E.
McKee, Camp Ponchartrain, New
Orleans;
James A. Jones, Staging Area,
New Orleans; Ed. G. Ford, La-
Garde General Hospital, New Or
leans; Charlie B. Schultz, Camp
Howze, Gainesville; Royse L. Chap
man, Camp Livingston, Alexandria,
La.; Hewitt Hail Wheelis, Camp
Beauregard, Alexandria, La.; Le-
Roy Cobb, Camp Claiborne, Marks-
ville, La. Ira L. Robison, Camp
Beauregard; Charles H. Watters,
Camp Wallace, Texas and Alfred
D. Goff, 'Camp Wallace.
In order to produce the proper
brass coloring in the Houston Sym
phony orchestra, Conductor Ernst
Hoffman has provided his trumpet
players with the large bore instru
ment used by the major symphony
orchestras of America and Europe.
The quality of tone produced blends
with the other choirs of the orches
tra.
Not wishing to burden new play
ers with the expense of buying
these expensive trumpets, Mr. Hoff
man provides them at his expense.
The trumpet held by Mr. Cinque-
mani, center man of the picture,
is a genuine Schmitt which Mr.
Hoffman brought to this country
when he returned to America. Re
cently this instrument was lost or
stolen while the orehestra was on
tour playing free concerts in army
camps. Under present conditions,
the instrument could not be re
placed at any price. It was recov
ered much to Conductor Hoffman’s
relief.
The trumpet is the oldest of the
brass instruments. Biblical stories
tell about this instrument; it is
mentioned over and over.
Until the advent of Richard Wag
ner, the trumpet was a so-called
natural instrument, that is, an in
strument without any means of
playing any notes excepting those
Marine Reserves
Must Give Angell
Neededlnformation
Marine reservists are requested
to report to E. L. Angel, execu
tive assistant to the president, at
their first vacant periods this week
to supply important personel in
formation concerning each reserv
ist, according to F. C. Bolton, dean
of the college.
Information concerning Marine
reservists now in college has been
received by Dean Bolton’s office
from the Navy Department. Ac
cording to this information, those
students who will receive their de
grees this semester will be called
to active service on or before Au
gust 30, 1943, and assigned to an
officer candidate’s class.
Those who are now juniors and
seniors will be called to active
duty and assigned to further col
lege training in an institution se
lected for Marine Corps College
Training Units about July 1, 1943.
Students lacking one semester or
less of completing the requrie-
ments for a degree may remain
on inactive duty an additional se
mester here if they wish.
Freshmen and sophomores (all
who have completed less than four
semesters of their courses), will
take the qualifying test on April
20. Successful candidates will be
placed on active duty as privates
in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
about July 1, 1943, and assigned
to a college giving Marine Corps
training.
Bolton further stated that those
Marine Corps Reserves who do not
qualify in this examination will
thereby be eliminated from the
College Training Program.
of the “natural” scale. To play
in various keys, different slides
were used. The expression, trumpet
in D, or in E flat, meant that a
slide permitting the playing of the
natural scale based on E flat or D,
as the case might be. Older scores,
especially those of Beethoven, show
many measures in which trumpets
are silent even though the entire
orchestra is playing. This was due
Local Merchants
Get Egg Grading
Training at A & M
Meetings Sponsored By
Poultry Husbandry Dept;
E D Parnell in Charge
Training in grading market eggs
is being provided for retail mer
chants of the College Station and
Bryan area by a series of Tuesday
evening meetings sponsored by the
Texas A. & M. College Poultry
Husbandry Department, with E. D.
Parnell, associate professor, in
charge.
Grade standards being taught
are based on the new U.S.D.A. re
quirements and include four quali
ties known to the trade as AA, A,
B and C. In addition size and clean
liness grades are included. The se
ries of meetings will continue for
several weeks, according to Prof.
D. H. Reid, department head. All
egg handlers are welcome to attend
and receive the free instruction. It
is hoped state-wide interest can be
aroused in egg grading.
The new grades are revisions of
formerly accepted U.S.D.A. grades
but have been expanded to include
extra large and jumbo classes.
Selling on the basis of regional
price ceilings has stimulated in-
(See BUILDING, Page 4)
A&M Trainees
To Get Building
At Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie, Texas, will be the
sight of a building for the training
of aviation war workers to be built
under the sponsorship of A. & M.
College, according to a telegram
received from Hatton W. Sumners,
Dallas congressman, by Gibb Gil
christ, dean of engineering.
Sumners said that land for the
building has been donated by the
citizens of Grand Prairie and
$104,000 for the construction of
the plant will be furnished by the
United States government.
to the fact that the instruments of
the time could play nothing that
was a part of the harmony in those
spots.
With the invention of valves, the
shackles were removed from the
soprano voice of the brass section.
American dance orchestras may
justly claim that the style devel
oped in modern dance arrange-
(See SYMPHONY, Page 4)
Eighteen Aggies, all now
privates in the Army, were
picked last week to represent
A. & M. in the next issue of
“Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities”
and the who’s who section of
the 1944 Longhorn by the
Student Activities committee.
Selections were made on the
basis of their leadership, ac
tivity, popularity, and schol
arship.
Those chosen were: Gus
Boesch, president of the
senior class; Rodney Brau-
chle, social secretary of the
senior class; Douglas Brous
sard, lieut. col. Coast regiment;
Deland Griffith, It. col. En
gineers regiment; John Holman,
editor of The Battalion; Jack
Kieth, It. col. corps staff; Albert
Lacy, It. col. Composite regiment;
Bobby Latimer, editor of The En
gineer; J. H. Lindley, advertising
manager of The Battalion; Joe
Dan Longley, president of the jun
ior class; Marvin McMillan, Jr.,
editor of the 1944 Longhorn; John
M. Mullins, cadet colonel; Jack
Orrick, sergeant major of the
corps; Travis Parker, It. col. corps
staff; Helmut Summer, It. col. Sig
nal regiment; Sid Smith, secretary
of the senior class; Jack Tynes, It.
col. Field regiment; Bobby Wib
Hams, 2-year letterman in football.
About thirty men were nominat
ed for the list, and of these, eigh
teen, were chosen on the points
listed above. A grade point ratio
of 1.5 was required unless the can
didate was so outstanding in the
other three points as to merit a
waiver.
Corregidor’s
A&M Club
To Be Honored
Founders of the Corregidor
Island A. & M. Club, many of
whom have now been killed or are
prisoners of the Japs, will be me
morialized on April 21, one year
after the ill-fated organization was
founded on the besieged island, ac
cording to the Dallas Morning
News.
A special program honoring the
gallant men will be held at the
Hotel Adolphus on the evening of
April 21, San Jacinto Day, by
members of the Dallas A. & M.
Club.
While the Japs closed in on
them, the former Texas A. & M.
students in the armed forces there
held a special program last April
21 and formed the Corregidor A. &
M. Club, an organization short
lived, as the island fell shortly
after.
Dean Kyle to Address
Baptist Church Group
Wednesday evening at 7:00 Dean
E. J. Kyle will show pictures of,
and talk on his present trip to
South America at the Education
Building of the First Baptist
Church.
Fifteen dollars in prizes will be
awarded next Wednesday to Ag
gies, or servicemen on the campus,
who turn in the best snapshots in
a new contest sponsored by the
1944 Longhorn opening this morn
ing and running until 5 p.m. next
Monday, Marvin McMillan, editor
of the yearbook, announced late
yesterday.
A first prize of $5 will be given
for the very best picture of Ag-
gieland or Aggie life, with a sec
ond prize of $4, third prize of $3,
fourth prize of $2, and fifth prize
of $1.
Those snapshots already turned
in will authomatically be entered
Inactive ERC Men
Must Take Exam
For A-12 April 2
Qualifying Test Blanks
Available in Dean’s Office
All students in the ERC and
not under contract are required to
take the A-12 qualifying examina
tion scheduled for 9 a.m., Friday,
April 2, either for the Army or
the Navy, stated Lieutenant Col
onel A. J. Bennett, adjutant, in a
notice to the Battalion yesterday.
A-12 and V-12 application blanks
are now available both to the En
listed Reserves and to any other
student who may desire to take
the examination. All such students
should call at Dean F. C. Bolton’s
office at their first vacant period
and make application for permis
sion to take the examination.
Qualifying Exams
For Naval V-Iers
To be Held April 20
Qualifying examinations for all
men enlisted in the Naval Reserve,
Class V-l, who will have completed
four or more semesters in college
by the end of this semester, will
be held Tuesday, April 20, in the
Assembly Hall, according to F. C.
Bolton, Dean of the College.
G. B. Wilcox, head of the de
partment of Education will be in
charge of the examination, which
is expected to last all day. Students
will be given authorized absences
from classes while actually taking
the examination.
V-l students who pass the quali
fying examination will be placed
on active duty about July 1, 1943
and assigned to colleges designated
for Naval Training. Those who, by
the close of this semester, have
completed six or seven semesters
will receive one additional semester
of college; those with four or five
semesters completed will receive
two additional semesters; those
with two or three semesters com
pleted will receive three additional,
and those who will have completed
one semester’s work will receive
four additional semesters. Engi
neer Reservists with satisfactory
grades may be allowed to complete
a total of eight semesters.
Bolton also stated that V-7 stu
dents who lack more than one se
mester of completing their require-
quirement 'for a degree, will be
placed on active duty and assigned
to a college giving Naval Training
about July 1, 1943. Those who lack
one semester or less of completing
their courses here, may remain on
inactive duty here for an addition
al semester, or they may request
permission to be called to active
duty and assigned to another insti
tution to complete their training.
in the contest and the winner, if
among that group, will be allowed
to claim his prize.
Everyone in snapshots this week
for the contest should write their
names and addresses lightly on
the back of the pictures and turn
them in at the Student Activities
office. All entries become the prop
erty of the Longhorn and the de
cision of the judges will be final.
The Aggieland Studio will devel
op film rolls and packs this week
giving one day service. This one
day service will be for this week
only, and all Aggies and service
men on' the campus are urged to
get their snapshots in, said Mc
Millan.
Trumpets Three
Houston Symphony's Trumpets
Rare, Big Bore Instruments
Longhorn Offers $15 For Best
Snapshots Turned In This Week
Sailors, Marines, Aggies
Welcome Says Brauchle
Uniform No. 1; Aggieland May Play
Sbisa Hall If Weather Turns Bad
Saturday night, Aggieland will see its first all-service
dance, when the Aggies, the Aggie-privates, the Engineers,
the Sailors, Marines, and Air Corps flying-privates, gather
beneath the cedars of the Grove for a real old-fashioned jam
session. Music will be furnished either by the Aggieland,
or by a juke box if the Aggieland is not secured, according
to Rodney Brauchle, social secretary of the senior class.
24 Miles in 5 Hours!
That’s Three Aggies’
Hitch-Hiking Record
Speaking of hitch-hiking—here's
one for the books:
“Three of us left for Hearne (28
miles from College Station) last
Saturday afternoon about 1 o’clock.
After a wait of about 4 hours, we
caught a ride in a super-charged
Cord. We sailed along fine—until
the ‘thing’ stopped about 9 miles
out of Hearne. After a bit of un
successful repairing, we hitched a
pick-up into Hearne. We got there
at 6 o’clock!”
W E Street Co-Author
Of New Drawing Book
Drafting Problem Layouts, Series
B, for courses in Engineering
Drawing has been published this
year. This is a companion book to
Series A by the same title pub
lished in 1936 which has proved so
popular in the United States that
the authors were asked to write
Series B and continue series A.
W. E. Street, Head of the Engi
neering Drawing Department, is
co-author of these books and Prac
tical Descriptive Geometry Prob
lems for Engineers.
Apnl 16, the Corps Ball will be
held concentrating the fun-festivit
ies of all the regimental balls into
this one big, dance. A big-name
band will be brought in for the
occasion, and arrangements with
the Music Corporation of Ameri
ca, the country’s largest booker of
big-name dance bands, for the
presentation of some big orchestra.
The Corps Ball, which falls on
Friday night, will be followed by
another all-service dance with the
same band that plays Friday night.
“Reasonably
Unfrequent”—
Week-End Passes
Further orders concerning re
turning privates, according to Col.
M. D. Welty, are that “reasonably
unfrequent” week-end passes may
be obtained through their respec
tive commanding officer, that re
turning privates may still live with
non-contract Aggies, that “Rea
sonably respective” clothes may be
worn, if desired instead of fatigue
suits, when ingaged in athletics and
work, including laboratory hours.
Col. Welty further stated that
non-contract Aggies, Sophomores,
and Freshmen are not required to
have G. I. hair cuts, in spite of
action taken by several military
organizations.
Ex-Aggie General Given'Credit
ForSmashingRommeVs Forces
Credit for developing the weap
on which smashed Rommel tanks
in Africa, and made possible the
British advance through Libya,
has been given by Lt. Gen. Lesley
J. McNair, commander of the
U. S. Army Ground Forces, to
Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce, now
commander at Camp Hood, Tex.,
according to a Washington dis
patch to the St. Louist Post-Dis
patch.
Maj. Gen. Bruce, bom in St.
Louis in 1894, is the son of John
L. Bruce, attorney of Mercedes;
is a graduate of Texas A. & M.
College and his legal residence is
in Texas.
From a family of lawyers,
Maj. Gen. Bruce chose the Army
as his profession when in 1917,
he was commissioned a second
lieutenant at Texas A. & M. In
World War I he rose to the tem
porary rank of Lt. Col. and then
reverted to first lieutenant at the
war’s end. It took 20 years of
peacetime service, daring which
he attended practically all of the
Army’s service schools, the War
College at Washington and the
Naval War College at Newport,
for him to regain the rank of lieu
tenant colonel this time perma
nently, and his subsequent promo
tions have been on temporaary sta
tus. He was commissioned major
general Sept. 9, 1942, and took
command of Camp Hood, Feb. 14,
1942.
Smashes Nazis
Maj. Gen. Bruce’s weapon which
made tanks vulnerable is called
a “priest” by British Tommies,
because it is a pulpit-like mount
ing for a 175mm. Howitzer on
the chassis of a medium tank. Be
cause of its mobility the weapon
can be maneuvered as rapidly as
the enemy’s tanks, and its su
perior fire-power was demonstrat
ed in the first day General Mont
gomery of the British army start
ed his drive at El Alamein.
A regiment of “priests” behind
a ridge, smashed an assembly of
German tanks and, before enemy
batteries could fire in return, had
sped away to a new position.
Maj. Gen. Bruce’s theory of tank
warfare is summarized as calling
for guns of heavy calibre mount
ed on a self-propelling platform,
able to surpass the enemy tank in
speed and mobility, specializing
| only in attacking tanks and oper
ating, when possible, from an am-
bushcade.
Lt. Gen. McNair’s tribute to
Maj. Gen. Bruce was given this
year at graduating exercises for
officers at Camp Hood. He said:
“I am sure that the Army at
large appreciates General Bruce’s
accomplishment. Seldom does one
man have the privilege to con
ceive a project and carry it
through to full bloom. Fort Knox
bad its Chaffee, but fate de
creed that he was not to live
to see the full complexion of his
work. Camp Hood had and still
has its Bruce. Even though his
future efforts may extend be
yond Camp Hood I know what he
has built here will live and con
tribute a mighty bit to our ulti
mate victory.”
LONGHORN NOTICES
Note—The corps is urged to meet these deadlines
before reporting to reception centers.
Aggieland Snapshots—Deadline, April 1.
Longhorn Sales—Deadline, April 1.
Company Rosters are due NOW.
Organization Snapshots—Deadline April 1. Aggie
land snapshots. Deadline April 5.