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-TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1943
The Battalion
8TU0ENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
Texas A. & M. COHiLEGE
■Bhe Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical Golleve of Texas and the City of College Station,
is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday
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Editor-In-Chief
....Staff Photographer
Sports Staff
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Sports Editor
.Junior Editor
...Senior Sports Assistant
Sports Assistant
Sports Writer
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Buck Martib
Hillel*Loan Fund,..
tSi,
In view of the recent articles and editorial
on the Davis Buck Fund, I should like to call
the attention of the Battalion to an article
which appeared some time ago in the paper
which may have been forgotten or overlook
ed by now.
The A. and M. Hillel Club maintains a
loan fund similar in its objectives to the Jack
Davis Fund whereby any student in Aggie-
land may be helped in a personal emergency
with the sum of five dollars or more for a
period of four weeks with privilege of re
newal. The Fund is called the Ernestine
Gaber Hillel Loan Fund started by Mr.
Leo Gaber of Houston in honor of his moth
er, Mrs. Ernestine Gaber. Though function
ing under the auspices of the Hillel Club its
benefits are open to every Aggie on the cam
pus. There is no interest attached to the
loan, no red tape. The money is loaned to the
cadet on his Aggie honor with the only stip
ulation that it be repaid within four weeks.
A faculty reference is required not as a guar
antee, but to enable the club to check up on a
boy if he is delinquent in his payment, which
however so far has not been necessary.
The sum which started originally with
one hundred dollars is now nearly three hun
dred, all of it the gift of Mr. Gaber. It has
circulated within the period of eighteen
months since its existence to the extent of
nine hundred dollars and has helped many a
student over a financial hurdle. The boys who
have borrowed from the fund have been from
all groups and organizations on the campus.
I hope the Davis Fund meets with suc
cess and that there will be many more such
funds on the campus to help boys in their
financial dificulties. In accordance with the
wishes of the honor and the members of the
Hillel Club, I am very happy as President
of the Club to say that the fund is available
to any and every Aggie who has a boni fide
need for it.
Jack Siegel, President.
To The Cadet Corps:
For the information of those who are not
aware of the fact that we have a baseball
field and a darn good team to play on it,
Fd like to remind you of that fact.
The spirit of this school has always
been higher than any other school in the
world. It used to be when the “The Spirit
of Aggieland” was played, cold chills would
run up the spine of every Aggie here. Fm
afraid it isn’t like that at the p ’esent. When
I go down to a baseball game, it makes my
blood boil when I look around and see about
one hundred Aggies there. The majority of
those present are juniors and seniors. There
has never been more than a hand full of fish
and sophomores there. As far as I’m con
cerned, most of the. fish and a lot of the
sophomores aren’t fit to be called Aggies.
They just never did get that ole’ Aggie
spirit. I can remember when I was a fish in
the good old days when there were effec
tive ways of getting -things done, the fish
and sophomores went to all ball games or
else. Those days are gone now but there are
still ways to get that spirit aroused. Let’s
not let the fact that there is a war going
on ruin this school entirely.
Don’t you think for a minute that that
ball club doesn’t miss your presence because
they do. They get out there and work all
week to represent you, and when the time
comes for a game, you can’t find time to
go down and help them out. Don’t say you
can’t find time because I know you can.
Most classes are out at four o’clock and the
games are still going on at that time. Ole’
army, it just isn’t right. It’s a disgrace the
way the corps has been turning out.
I hope that I’d never see the day when
the spirit of Aggieland would die, but the
flame is growing low and is going out if we
don’t do something about it quick.
The baseball season is drawing., to a
close, but it isn’t over until next week-end.
We have a two game series here next Friday
and Saturday with those yellow-bellied-Long-
horns. Those two games will determine the
championship of the Southwest Conference.
Are you going to sit in your room and let
those so-and-so’s come over here and beat
us? Don’t make any plans for next week
end. Forget that girl for awhile and lets all
go down to Kyle Field Friday and Saturday.
All you organization commanders get be
hind your men and make them turn out. The
only possible way you can make up for your
absence in the past is to come down and give
that team all the support within your power.
All you so-called frogs see if you can’t find
your way to the ball park also. (I feel sorry
for those frogs. They just don’t know what’s
going on.) That’s why I didn’t say much
about them. What' do you say army, let’s
all come out and beat the hell out of T. U.
See you at the ball game.
Frank Walker.
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Happy Landings to the flying
men of squadron two. The first U.
S. Army Air Corps students to
complete flight training at Texas
A. & M. College under the College
Training plan. Those ten hours
look mighty big right now.
The Low down on...
Campus Distractions
By Tom Journeay
How do you like this man
CLUCK, CLAUDE ft.? He lands
a plane from any old direction so
the story goes. Shooting landings
the other day he simply spun
around a few feet off the ground
and came in backwards.
“The sailors at the Naval Base gave you this in appreciation
of the doughnuts you sent themT
EACrWASti
OVER MY DEAD BODY show
ing at Guion hall today and tomor
row is a pretty poor try at comedy
and is not a justice-doing picture
to Milton Berle’s ability as a com
edian. He does his best, but re
ceives no snpport from the rest of
the cast.
Mary Beth Hughes looks cute
but adds little to the picture as a
whole. Miss Hughes is cast as the
wife of a mystery story writer, one
who objects to her husband’s choice
Nomination for the number one of a career when he could do some-
section “on the beam” this week thing niore normal. As the show-
goes to section eight. These men goes, Berle writes a mystery hut
are really stepping out. It couldn’t before the thing is published the
be because of the rumor of a events set forth in the story come
new section—section thirty three, to life and he gets mixed up in a
could it? real mystery and has a tough time
explaining an evident suicide that
A nickname has already been was a murder and who committed
pinned on these leftover men from same.
the first shipping list — PPP — The Lowdown—A waste of time.
Permanent Party Privates! m #
Distractions has received several
Who is the young lady that criticisms of the manner in which
stands in the doorway of the 8 a.m. it puts over these movies that come
bus searching the campus for a here. These criticisms are appre-
Mister Rollin A. Etter. How does dated. They go toward making the
he do it ? column and consequently the paper
better in the minds of the reader.
And another question—What’s It is your paper and your column,
happened to those daily special so any of you who have any sug-
delivery letters for Mister Ham- gestions, drop around any time and
one has gotten orders whether they merschmidt ? Not slipping are you give them to your distractions re-
were classified or not. However, all Hammer ? porter.
other ERCers who have not yet REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR
Now that basketball and volley
4obo Mm
Bafotion Editor
Studid...
Sunday afternoon, a group of
Aggies were hitch-hiking back to been called and are classified can wmt v^ncjr i8 brought to the Campus screen
college from Waco. While standing rest a little easier—you probably ball are included in the P. E. class- j uring the j^dcHe of the week
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will be left as you are at least un
til the end of the semester.
on the corner in
Waco, a funeral
procession came
by. aii of the Ag- Loan Funds ...
gies stepped back The Battalion also Had its head
from the high
way to let the
string of cars go
by. One freshman
es the sick call roll has dropped
off. It is a lot of fun to get out
there and play a little ball for a
change. Squadron two is looking
forward to the inter-squadron soft-
Holman
ball league. We’ve got the ball
in the wrong place when building players—does someone have the
up the Davis-Loan-Me-a-Buck fund, time to be beat—that goes for all
The Hillel Club has had such a the squadrons,
in the bunch, see- fund operating for some time and
ing all his bud- has a $300 pot to work from. Open
Squadron two has been challeng-
my chance, for he promptly step- seum when in a spot. No questions ag how we are aviat } on students as a whole the picture is poor fare,
ped out into the street and began asked at either the museum or Mr. are privates it should but it might be interesting to some
starring Don Barry, Republic’s red
headed cowboy who leaves off his
horse for once to play a straight
role.
He’s cast as an irresponsible sol
dier who neglects his duty there
by causing his soldier buddy, May
nard Holmes, to lose his life. Later
of course Red sees the error he
has made and sacrifices his life
by diving a bombing plane into a
Japanese battleship.
The acting is not very good and
Barnard College has introduced a spec
ial program known as the ,f American Her
itage,” designed to present world history
from the American point of view.
Research on spot-welding, to give more
speed to airplane production as well as to
increase the plane’s flight-speed and lighten
the load, is bing conducted at the University
of Southern California.
waving his thumb at the funeral Horsley’s office,
cars. He thumbed at each one, from Incidentally, the Davis-Buck-
hearse to the tail end, despite the Fund has grown but a few dollars
frantic efforts of the upperclass- although the money has been round
men to stop him! and round. It’s a crying shame
. some organization won’t start the
Beneilt Snow . . . ball rolling by kicking in a little
„ ! , , , , , out of the company, battery, or
Most boys around here don t see . . ,
troop fund.
the point in having a “servicemen’s
benefit” and charging 50tf per to SwOGpillg'S
see it. Actually, it is to raise money
to pay for such things as recrea- The noted increase in passes al-
tion facilities, etc. lowed last weekend in the various
Tjvpp service companies is encouraging hard with his snappy crack flight
LirCL/ ... . . . Most of these poor souls still the other afternoon, because he
Somebody seems to have gotten don’t realize they’re in the Army, seemed to have lost his chords.
mixed up about this ERC business, except that they are getting a lot
Seems the army just wanted cer- of money from somewhere. Squadron three now has a new
tain freshmen and unclassified Well, I’m tired of thinking and m &scot, thanks to Roy Childers,
sophomores. Instead nearly every- you’re tired of reading so ’bye. Her name is Rags, and she is a
beautiful Springer Spaniel. You
can see her at any formation ly
ing at Roy’s feet.
be an easy matter. What say men?
GREMLIN GAB
Squadron III
Don’t worry, gentlemen, this
“Free Time Hupping” can’t last
forever, unless the student officers
find some new vocal chords some
where. Daerl Gandy, second-in-
command, must have worked too
just to see the representation of
the famous Pearl Harbor incidents
and the then timely news flashes
covering the bombing.
The Lowdown—A soldier turns
her in an uninteresting way. v .
AIRCREW TRAINING SCHOOL NEWS
Rudder Dust
To the new detachment members.
You’re in for a very enjoyable stay
in AMC which you will discover
to be filled opportunity. You'll
find everyone anxious to help you,
so don’t waste time. Pitch in and
get acquainted. If anyone trys to
pull any “upper-classmen” busi
ness drop a barracks bag over his
head. It doesn’t go.
Letters are still coming from
former buddies now at classifica
tion center lamenting the loss of
AMC College. Jake has decided to
enjoy them while he still has the
chance.
Reminders of base training . .
Lt. Logan H. Bagby Jr., detach
ment finance head, feels no air
man should remain ignorant of
army call letters — not Air Corps,
necessarily.
SNAFU — Situation Normal
All Fouled Up (average day)
SUSFU — Situation Unchanged
Still Fouled Up (no change)
TARFU — Things Are Really
Feuled Up (worse than usual)
Jake is perplexed by a sudden
reportorial interest in this paper.
For reasons unknown aspirants
with long hidden jouralistic exper
ience swarmed to Hart hall Sun
day night. There are now squadron
editors for each issue and a wait
ing list for vacancies. Largely re
sponsible, no doubt, are Sergeant
Crist and Gralla.
Sleeping in dase appears to be
growing more flagrant every day
and is more serious than excessive
talking which was stopped so ef
fectively last week. If we weren’t
forced to sleep a minimum of near
ly eight hours every night an
excuse could be given.
Two airmen by the same name
in an academic section are known
as “Sleepy” and “Not Quite so
Sleepy." Not quite so sleepy, re
ports say, sleeps all the time in
his room and studies in class.
Sleepy sleeps both places.
Lost — Two pairs of reading
glasses last week in the detachment
area. Sgt. E. Gralla, Goodwin hall,
will be responsible for getting them
back to the owners if turned over
to him.
Did You See Those
Pretty Wings? Paris
Is the Guilty Fellow
Attention men of the A.C.T.D!
How many of you know that ly
ing neatly placed aside in the desk
drawer of Sergeant John J. Paris,
tactical non-com of squadron one,
are a bright, shiny pair of those
silver wings we hear so much
about?
New Men Arrive ‘Midst OD Wools,
Canteens, and Sheppard Field Grins
We are all glad to see Julian
Yett back in circulation. He spent
a few days in the hopsital when
he underwent an emergency appen
dectomy, but is now up and is
attending classes. They make these
Air Corps men tough . . . An ap
pendicitis attack, an operation,
and a recovery in eight days. Nice
going.
Greetings from the new pre-ca
dets of squadron one. We passed
the time away while enroute by
trying to guess where we ^ere be
ing shipped. We left Sheppard
Field (with tears in our eyes) at
7 a.m. April 21. Some of the
guesses as to where we were go
ing included Nome, Alaska; Cuba,
and even Arkansas.
Most of us were pleasantly sur
prised when the train pulled into
College Station. Most of the boys
(See GLEANINGS, peg* 4)
The sergeant was crew chief on
B-34 and AT-11 bombers, before
being assigned to AMC. It took a
lot of prying and prodding to wig
gle out information as to why he
wasn’t wearing the wings. His mod
est reason, “It would only cause
the men to ask too many darn fool
questions.”
Once out, the informatior# about
the wings spread rather quickly,
and finally was learned by Lt.
Troy N. Pickens, squadron tactical
officer, who passed the news along
to Major Woodard, commander of
the 308th ACTD. The Major re
quested that Paris wear his wings,
althongh he did not make it com
pulsory. The Sergeant says that
in the future the wings will be on
his chest.
Sergeant Paris received his
wings at the largest bombardier
school in the world, at Midland
Texas, where he also won recogni
tion for outstanding workmanship
on the bomber of which he was
crew chief.
The sergeant has had several
years of experience in the infantry
and is considered an expert on
drilling and handling men. It was
for this reason that he was seat
Duty, Honor,
Country
Greetings sometimes can be
challenges.
And such h the greeting of the
tipper classmm of the 308th ACTD
to you rookie tirmen who last week
joined our ratks.
By now, no doubt, you have re
ceived myriid welcomes from
wingmen alredy here. We hope
you sensed thir challenge.
The challenje is this: The 808th
new-born, carcely two months
old. The men (vho helped conceive
it are trying t( build a lasting tra
dition here. WE want YOU to be
part of that tradition.
We are strivig to make this de
tachment a synbol of soldiering at
its best. That neans we must dis
play creditable nilitary bearing at
all times. We lust be courteous
toward our offibrs and each oth
er—always gen^men. We must
likewise approach our academics
with serious mi«, fully counten
ancing the fact tkt what we learn
today will make te better officers
and finer fliers tdnorrow.
We try our best I be careful and
to patiently awail the day we,
too, are knighted Vith those sil
ver wtngs. For te know that
(See DUTY, HOJOR, Page 4)
here. He’s just “gfcduated”
first class, and not has a new
group of men to knoc the rougher
edges ©ff ef.
By Fred Huston John Porter Waddell received a
Those new faces that you’ve seen mash note from one of hig femin _
i Sbisa and lounging around j ne j as |. week, and he won’t tell her
Mitchell hall belong to those new name> Is he afraid we > u tell Jack .
arrivals from that place known as j e or j s he just modest? Elmer E.
Sheppard Field. They arrived last Barber said that he would be glad
Wednesday evening in the usual to take care of the matter for you,
antique chair cars that ride like p 0 rter. Decent of him, isn’t it?
they have square wheels.
They bounded off the train, com- We heard that — Carl McGinty
Plete with OD uniforms, helmet was there at 6:30 after all. Even
liners, and mess kits. In their hands with this extra drilling there are
they carried everything from tooth still a couple of “Hayfoots.” Late
brushes to suit cases and fatigues. Thursday afternoon George Al-
They had that usual shocked look lesee whipped out with a package
when they were called “mister” of PM’s. Cadet Lt. Hyde has had
for the first time, and were even trouble with his pant legs being
more shocked when they saw the too long,
trees and real grass.
They came from everywhere.
South Dakota, Iowa, Oregon, Wash-
(See NEW MEN, Page 4)
Dial 4-1181
Opens 1 P. M.
Today and Wednesday
REMEMBER
PEARL HARBOR
DONALD M. BARRY
DONALD M. BAR
ALAN CURTIS
FAY MtKENZIl
— also
Merrie Melodies
'Cartoon — “Flop
Goes the Weasel”
“Parachute Atheletes”
— and —
Popluar Science
Short
BRIC-a-BRAC
Squadron IV
Attention Squadron 2
There was a mistake in the
line somewhere last week. It is
we, and not Squadron 4, who are
ready to meet you in sports, and
completion crack flight drill. As
for the other squadrons, we will
take you one by one. Bring on
your boys, James R. Grandstaff,
we'll start with them.
New Group Isued
It sure is nice to receive a
cake from Dallas one weekend
and then get another from Ind
ianapolis the next. Ye Editor’s
roommates’ mothers seem to like . j • ci i. j i
us. I hope they keep up the good ACftaeitllC oClieduleS
work. Naturally one must eat fast- Academic work for last week’s
er than the ants to get his right- replacement group began yesterday
ful share. at 8 a.m. Schedules were released
Saturday and six academic sections
Imagine the expression of pleas- were formed,
ure on the fellow’s faces when they Courses for the group were
found we were NOT going to have mathematics, geography, medical
barbecued short ribs for dinner, aid and one hour of physical edu-
That “creamed beef on toast” re- cation daily. Physics was act in-
(See BRIC-a-BRAC, Page 4) eluded.
Phone 4-1168
TODAY AND WEDNESDAY
MILTON BERLE
MARY BETH HUGHES
— in —
“OVER MY
DEAD BODY”
— also —
NEWS CARTOON
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