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TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1943- HART THROBS Squadron V I am opening my line tonight with a request which follows im mediately. WANTED — Enough arsenic to kill a horse for the ex termination of two roommates who have absolutely no scruples about stealing away one’s one and only. Signed Lee (Jilted Again) Patton. It seems that Mr. Patton has two roommates whom are cads— well, one of them is a sterling character, but at any rate, these fiends treat Lee like a dog, and especially when it comes to Lee’s women. If “Terrible Two” (it says here( was so doggone good in the review before last, why didn’t their guideon bear the ribbons of “mil- itaire par excellence” at last Sat urday’s review ? The answer is sim ple, boys—we did it again. Let’s keep it up. But, I’ll tell you guys something, the sections have been looking rather sloppy of late, so let’s remedy that, but quick. What I want to know is: where did Mr. James Parker’s art collec tion which used to grace the walls of his cubicle disappear to? The Art lovers (?) in “C” ramp have missed the works of Varga, Hur- rell, Petty, and the other great masters. A/S Warren Bennett is wanted for assault and battery. He tried to scald a fellow student in the swimming pool shower room last Saturday. After the war is over, he plans to open a turkish bath, and let me assure you, he knows is business. The fiend. I hear that some of the boys tried to shorten the road run the other day by cutting across the com fidld. A very corny (get it— ouch) trick—they all got ours. One bright lad turned to the fol low in back of him to tell him to keep his head do#n, and lo and behold it was one of' the P. E. instructors. Look, you guys, you can’t get away with it, is doesn’t help you a bit, and you might get bitten by a snake doing it, so why not just run the whole dis tance and forget about it. Maneuvers are coming up Sat urday, and -we will do or don’t on the field of “battle”. I can’t very well say “do or die,” but what we -THE BATTALION- ACTD NEWS RUDDER DUST by A/S Jack E. Shaw BEAT the HEAT in COOL SUMMER FURNISHINGS It’s easy to keep com fortable in the correct type of Cool Summer clothes. Choose your summer wardrobe from our large selection of cool furnishings. SHEER WEIGHT SPORT SUITS MESH SHIRTS COOL SLACKS MESH PAJAMAS MESH UNDERWEAR LIGHT COOL SOCKS SUMMER WASH ROBES MESH STRAW HATS CANTNER SWIM TRUNKS g3pgr VS/7v-J CLOCMXRS CoII*x« *md Bryan Now that everybody has become fairly accustomed to the army routine after their last week-end, let us turn our heads once more to the higher things in life. Ahem! Yes, the review last Saturday was a smashing success and each squadron hopes that the other’s success was smashed! A certain baby squadron is betting their collective pants that they at least came in second. Let’s have the favorite on next week’s engage ment if these tips are really the “McCoy.” That happy little fellow that received the poem, “Dear Sweet heart” last week, has dreamed up a sonnet that seems to express the thoughts floating around in the typical aviation student’s mind. Dearest, I received your letter just the other day, You always seem to know just what to say. As I read it—’tis but a tiny thing— But I thought of a song that we used to sing. Yes, my darling, you are my guide. All through the day and in dreams, by my side. Your thoughts are incentive, your words are good cheer— And the things that I do, are your credit my dear! I start my day with the bugler’s shrill blast, Out to formation, then on to class. You see my dear, that airmen today Don’t get in their planes and just fly away. They run a course—much more than a mile And it’s plenty tough but they’re back with a smile! They study and work until the day’s end. Their minds and bodies—our land to defend. The score must be perfect, no lower will do And darling we’ll win—for our side and you! Keep the flowers blooming and the smile that I love, ’Cause soon I’ll be back from the skies up above. Your letters, your thoughts and the mem’ries we share Are the thngs that I nedd for my job in the air. For ever yours— do and the way that we do it Sat urday will come in handy some day, so let’s take it as seriously as we would if it were the real thing. When those planes come over to strafe us, act as if they had swastikas on them. When you see the “enemy” make believe it’s a Panzer division and act accord ingly. Put everything into it, boys, it’s one investment that will pay off. Well, that’s about all the dirt for this time, fellows, so I’ll blow. Re member: Keep your eyes mov ing. (You might spot a blonde.) U. of V. Publishes Leaflets on Peace Free or inexpensive leaflets dealing with varying aspects of the much discussed peace are list ed in a booklet “Everybody and the Peace,” published by the Uni versity of Virginia Extension Di vision. In the 235 pamphlets listed are publications of such organizations as the American Council on Public Affairs, National Planning Asso ciation, and the World Peace Foun dation. A few representative titles: “Towards a United States of Eu rope,” “Reports of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace,” “European Agreements for Post-War Reconstruction.” In making the booklet generally available, the University of Vir ginia hopes it will prove of value to persons preparing programs on the subject of the peace to come and the shape of the post-war world, as well as to all who are concerned to follow the trend of thought in recent authoritative statements on the subject. Copies of “Everybody and the Peace” may be obtained free of charge from the Extension Division of the Univer sity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMANDING OFFICER Squadron 3 has been very dili gent in their activities. Every man seems to be cooperating to the fullest of their extent. As a whole the detachment is doing very good, but there are a few exceptions. The sections have improved in their marching, but there is still a tendency to be lax the moment they are on the outer parts of the campus. I am very pleased with the show ing that Squadron 3 made in the parade last Saturday. Squadron 3 will prove to be competition for the other squadrons. Service Record A/S George A. Martin The purpose of these articles is to better acquaint you with some of the unusual backgrounds of a few men of Squadron HI. I be lieve we can truthfully promise you some very interesting stories.) It is only fitting that we start with our highest ranking non commissioned Officer. We would like to introduce A/S Frederic J. Rick, former first Sergeant of an anti-tank company of the 89th Di vision stationed at Canip Carson, Colorado. Mister Rick is a five foot eleven inch soldier, weighing 185 pounds, has brown hair, blue eyes, and ruddy complexion. He has a very noticeable military bearing and an easy going manner. Mister Rick is 26 years of age and was born in Rock Falls, Illinois where he attended school. While there he participated in several inter-mu ral sports activities, earning two ribbons in swimming and a medal in basketball. He also played High School football., being on an un defeated team three years in run ning and personally making all conference two successive years. Mister Rick entered the Hlinois National Guard on September 26, 1938 where he served until March 5th, 1941 when his unit was fed eralized. At this time he went to Camp Forest, Tennessee, in the grade of Corporal.. While there, he became proficient in the use of small arms and machine guns. In April, 1942, he was transfer red to Fort Leonard Wood, Mis souri, as a S-Sergeant and en tered a Cadre School. Mister Rick helped to organize the new 89th Infantry Division and was appointed first Sergeant of an anti-tank company when the Di vision was stationed at Camp Car- son, Colorado, a short time later. The old 89th, of the last war had a very colorful record, seeing much action in France. While at Camp Carson, which incidentally is in the shadow of Pike’s Peak, Mister Rick became well versed in the art of moun- tanious warfare and the usese of Modem Infantry equipment. In April, 1943, he began to realize a life long ambition, that of be coming a pilot. Applying for Cadet training he was sent to Sheppard Field, Texas. After spending three weeks awaiting ap pointment, he was assigned to this station. Mister Rick has been appoint ed acting Adjutant of Squadron III. "When questioned as to likes or dislikes, he informed us that his favorite food is Air Corps chow, he thinks Texas is great, but much too hot. His ambition is to make the Army a career. We wish him all success and remain confident of his ability. DUTY, HONOR, AND COUNTRY By A/S Alvin B. Cooler Proposes Via Radio And Gets the Gal CAMP GRANT, HI.—Radio lis teners who heard a soldier’s pro posal of marriage broadcast from coast to coast may be interested to know that Helen Bams, 20, of Milltown, N. J., answered yes. A radio performer on a visit to this camp asked soldiers to sub mit messages to their loved ones. Pvt. Joseph W. Moscar, 20, turned in this: “Helen, darling, I love you. Will you marry me?” Helen heard the broadcast. The wedding will be during Joe’s next furlough. Today, then what? What does tomorrow hold in store for us ? Those are two questions that carry weight in the controlling of our future. Wc# may look at tomorrow as a fatalist and say let happen what may. If we were to look at it as an optimist every thing will be white. There is also the pessimistic view point with the thought that all will be black. If we are either of those, no good will come of it. We must possess a bit of each. It is true that what will happen tomorrow will hap pen, and there is nothing that can be done about it, but we can govern the results. We do not know if tomorrow will be black or white, so to be on the safe side we must prepare for the worst. With this in mind we must still hold the optimistic point and not think of the black side too much. We can govern the future by planning the attack today. We must always view the possibili ties and make the necessary ar rangements if they are to occur. What we are doing here is plan ning the attack, and making the necessary arrangements. All we do here must and will be done well. What does not just concern us alone, but the nation as a whole. Your best friend; your family may be effected indirect ly or directly by the way we gov ern ourselves now. We must be good. The job that is to be ac complished is a difficult one. It is going to be a hard task, the question of tomorrow, but it must be faced. There is good in all things, but it may have to be uncovered. The bad will be weed ed out in time. With a job in front of us, a determined mind, and a will to win, tomorrow can be con quered in the proper fashion. University of Wisconsin radio station WHA is aiding in collection of old radio sets for the army air force training school at Madi son. Colgate university has introduc ed a compulsory pre-induction program of military drill and phy sical conditioning requested by a vote of the students. Circling the Field Squadron III We have been introduced to our officers, both commissioned and student officers. Under their com mand Squadron 3 is going to be the crack squadron on this post. What more proof is needed other than the fact that at our first parade we almost won the ribbons. We think we can safely predict that we will win them in the re view Saturday. The reason Howard W. Roberts is running around in a daze is that Mrs. Roberts (his wife) has arriv ed. A very lucky man, yes, a very lucky man, Howard. We hope she will enjoy being here as much as we do. Good luck. Among the first new phrases we’ve picked up are “open post” and “release from quarters.” We had our first release from quar ters the other day. The first thing everyone did was to run like he— for the north gate. The only thing about the north gate area that disappointed us was the apparent lack of young unaccompanied wom en. When, are we going to get a detachment of WAACs here? Talk ing about women, will you fel lows who have been here for a while, kindly tell us where we can get 200 dates for the dance Saturday night? Does it pay to run an ad in the Houston paper, or have you tried it? If ever, any of you men should be walking along and suddenly find yourself in the 5th or 6th demension, don’t be afraid, the world has not come to an end. It is just our master magicians Wil liam L. Rowles and Herbert Ros kind. They have both been on the stage for some time and they are so good that they can take your socks off without taking off your shoes. Just in case it is of any inter est to you, your reporters for Squadron 3 are George A. Martin, Martin E. Ismert, Jr., and John V. Micles. Let us in in on any in formation you might have and we’ll write it up. With all the talent we have here in Squadron 3 we should be able to drum up a nice show. We have pianists, clarinet players, harmoni ca players, etc. Two of the boys who are famed for blowing the Brass Reeds (Harmonicas) are Kerwood M. Jackson and Peter J. Giglieta. The latter is also a Lialect artist. Let’s all get togeth er some time and put on a show. The Nazi “Gauleiter” for the Baltic States has ordered the re moval of all church bells as a total mobilization measure. Page 3 Gen. Patton Writes To Ten-Year-Old Boy Who Wanted to Get Into Army PROPWASH Squadron II Telegram honors of the week goes to Vincent “Guriy” Mefford. “Darling am leaving Wednesday” Love, Margaret. Wouldn’t I like a Western Union! Two new nicknames have been coined. William “Snuffy” Rice and George “Tailgunner” Wright are the tagged gentlemen. Its all in fun and they seem to enjoy it. The ants played a minor role in Saturday’s Review. Clyde B. Payne found himself astride a hill of the pesky insects at Parade Rest. He was beseiged and up they climbed. Well—what could you have done? Henry “Hank” Davies set a mark to shoot at one the 1.6 mile road run. He ran the track in a fast 8:31. Hot competition is being given by Willard H. Sellers who lacked one second of equalling Hank’s feat. That looks like run ning from here. A model of the Lockheed “Hud son” Reconnaissance Bomber is be ing built by Charles W. Stricher. He’s doing a neat job on this solid miniature and a little more time will see it completed. Despite the strains of a week-end pass in Bryan George S. Walling ford and Grant W. Terrell came tearing around thp comer for Sun day evening chow. What were the “smirky” expressions for, gentle men? TURRET TIPS Squadron I Have you heard? No, this cor respondent is not starting a rum or, but he came across this note of news recently. A few of the boys in flight C, namely, Chuck Walters, Jim Whitson, Johnnie Weller, and Owen Ward, got the brilliant idea that this campus would be a good place to have a Coca-Cola Spotlight Band program. Having such a large number of service men stationed here, this campus would seem to be an ideal spot for such an event. Corres pondence is now taking place to see what possibility there is of ar ranging to have one of the pro grams come to Texas A. & M. And then there is Sid Smith of Flight 11 who stayed after geo graphy class. But he wasn’t talk ing to the teacher. No, he was just sitting there, head back, mouth open, eyes closed, sleeping sound ly. But some boor went back and woke him from his reverie. Too bad. Latest suot for discovering mus ical talent of a vocal nature is in the shower rooms. With the water running, the men’s ears plugged up, with those resonant accoustics, the tones are great. Still needed are a first tenor and a baritone who can harmonize or, at least, carry a tone. When the select group is worked into shape, they will prob ably fill ‘in with a number while the band is changing music at one of the detachment assemblies. Holding the Sqadron 1 spotlight of the week is A/S Raymond Waski. Before becoming one of the chosen lot fo young gentlemen, Mr. Waski was a civil service air plane inspector working for the government checkin planes. His work entailed his flying numerous and sundry ships such as the AT -6, AT-11, AT-18, B-25, and the B-17. His flying time numbers in the neighborhood of 1400 hours. That is a lot of flying experience, eh, what, men? It is going to happen on the 18 th of June. And we’re not talking about the Wing Ball. What .’t is, we don’t know; sort of mysterious isn’t it ? Apparently Squadron 1 is the sole, unchallenged holder of the detachment basketball title. Squad ron 3 intimates, however, that they have a group of athletes over there in BizelL Perhaps there is still competition to be had. If not, the group was planning to arrange a game with some of the marines. (Is this official, or is it just the opinion of Squadron 1? Ed. Newest innovation of the Squad ron, the S. I. O. Club, has been growing rather rapidly. With Doug McDonald being one of the group’s founding fathers, it’s popularity has spread throughout the Squad ron, and so the morning P. E. class is clamoring for a chapter. For some reason or another the club is most popular on those days that the men run the long road run, and is least popular in those days that the men are to play volley ball or basketball. Big business has been thriving in room 37, the Flight canteen. Stock ing a line of candy bars including a box of Hershey’s, Mounds, and Oh Henrys, the turnover of goods has been quite startling. Mr. Quick, Squadron Command er, had this to say about last Saturday’s parade. “From my point of view, you looked good, men; but we won’t know the re sults until the review coming up this weekend.” School Mate of M. Chiang in Waves OXFORD, Ohio.—Lieut. Bernice D. Lill, executive officer for the WAVES at the naval training sta tion at Miami University here, once was a fellow student of Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Chi nese Generalissimo, at Wellesley College. For the past fourteen years Lieutenant Lill has been registrar at Sweet Briar College. BOXES ARE PLACED FOR HOSIERY COLLECTION Women of College Station are asked to bring silk or Nylon hos iery contributions to the war ef fort to the Red Cross production rooms where two boxes have been placed or to Luke’s Grocery, where one box is maintained, according to Mrs. Manning Smith, hosiery collection chairman. The boxes were made by Girl Scouts of Troops 2 and 6. EL PASO, Texas.—Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., wrote a 10-year-old El Paso boy who wants to be an Army mascot that “you can be sure that during your lifetime there will be more wars, and I feel convinced that being a boy from Texas you will give a good ac count of yourself when the time comes.” The lad, Bill Patton, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Patton of this city, had written the colorful Unit ed States armored force command er, recently in action in North Af rica, offering his services as a mascot and recalling that his par ents’ ancestors came from Lon donderry, Ireland, had asked if they were any relation. “Please answer this letter,” Bill wrote, “so I can brag to the kids in school.” Thursday, two months later, this answer was received from General Patton: “My Dear Bill: “Thank you very much for your letter, but while I have the great est admiration for the Irish, I can not say I have any ancestors from Londonderry, although my grand father, Gen. O. S. Patton, did fight in the Civil War on the Confeder ate side. I believe that he was the youngest General in the Confeder ate Army. He was killed when he was 26. Unfortunately, I cannot claim to be the youngest General in our Army by a great many years. “I certainly hope that by the time you grow up that we will be in a period of peacetime, but you can be sure that during your life time there will be more wars, and I feel convinced that being a boy from Texas, you will give a good account of yourself when the time comes. “Thanking you for your letter, I am most sincerely, “G. S. PATTON, JR., “Lieutenant General, United States Army, Commander.” JAP INTERNEES SAID TO HAVE PLENTY OF MEAT LO SANGELES.—While Cali fornians recently were experienc ing a critical meat shortage, Jap anese evacuees at a Pot§on, Arjz., relocation center were enjoying ample meat rations at least three times a week, a Dies congression al sub-committee investigating Japanese-American loyalty was told Tuesday. 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