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OFFICIAL NOTICES
Wanted to buy—A good used standard
pewriter if in A-l condition. Prefer
Royal. Call Bill Thomas at
typewriter
Underwood
Underwood or Royal. Call Bill Thomas at
2-1477. Residence, 806 E. 28th St., Bryan,
Texas. P. O. Box 894.
The Newcomers Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. A. E. Salis, 221 James
Parkway, College Hills, on Wednesday at
2:30 p. m. The afternoon will be spent
at bridge and sewing.
All freshmen, 1st term and 2nd term,
report as early as possible to Personnel
Office, Room 101, Academic Building. Mr.
G. B. Wilcox.
Edgerton Shoes are
ON THE MARCH
Other Stylet
$6.75 to $7.95
FOR MIN
A big favorite with of
ficers and enlisted men,
this Edgerton plain toe
buckler is marching to
great heights in popular
ity.
Ration Stamp Number
17 expires Tuesday, June
15th—get your shoes
today.
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“Two Convenient Stores”
College Station ireijg
The
Wednesd:
WTA
; A. & M. Radio Club will mee
lesday night at 7 o’clock in th
W Studio, third floor of the Admin
.S 7', ;ij* A” ~ I ~ 3 J 5 7 ,
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for students to make C.
itudio, third floor of the Admin
istration Building. All students interested
in taking part in radio programs
vited. The meeting will be over
programs are in-
in time
Q.
5T—In Bryan Saturday evening. War
unendorsed allotment check to Iris
e Rice. Finder call 2-1269. Reward.
LOST—In Bryan Saturdai
Dept.
Jeanne Rice. Finder call 2-1269. Kewai
A/S Frank Rice, Sqd. 2, Flight B, Pfeuffer
Hall.
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES—Any
student who normally expects to complete
all the requirements for a degree by the
end of the current semester should call by
the Registrar’s Office NOW and make
formal application for a degree.—R. G.
Perryman, Assistant Registrar.
for 1st Head-
GENERAL ORDER NO. 6:
So much of GENERAL ORDER NO. 1,
Paragraph No. 1, Current Series, is cor
rected to read as follows:
I. ASSIGNMENTS:
. 1. Dormitory No. 16:
1st floor, 1st Headquarters Co.
2nd floor, Company “A”
3rd floor. Company “B”
4th floor. Band.
Office and Headquarters
quarters Co. and Companies A. B, and
Band—Room 232, Dormitory No. 16. Tel
ephone 4-8114 Tactical Officer, Lt. Ross
F. Snider.
2. Dormitory No. 16:
1st floor, 2nd Headquarters Co.
2nd floor, Company “C”
3rd floor. Company “D”
loor. Company “E”
e and Headquarters for 2nd Head
quarters Co. and Companies C, D, and E,
Room 213, Dormitory No. 15. Telephone
4-9834. Tactical Officer, Lt. A. J. Gi
fola.
3. Dormitory No. 17:
1st floor, 3rd Headquarters Co.
2nd floor, Company “F”
4th fl
Office
uarter
AMERICAN HEROES
BY LEFF
Hyman Epstein knew that after wounding a man the Japs around Sanananda
were withholding their fire, using the injured soldier for bait until unarmed
medical aides like himself came into range. Yet again and again he crept out
under sniper fire to rescue wounded comrades until at last the Japs got him.
“That kid was the best,” his commander said of determined little Hymie
Epstein. Are you buying War Bonds as determinedly?
V. S. Treasury Department.
3rd floor, Company “G”
'•th floor, Company “H”
— and Headquarters
Co. and Companies F, G, and
Room 201, Dormitory No. 17. Telepho
4
Office and Headquarte:
quarters Co.
ito:
for 3rd Head-
d H,
Room 201, Dormitory No. 17. Telephone
4-1167. Tactical Officer, Lt. M. H. Beams.
4. Dormitory No. 14:
1st floor, 4th Headquarters Co.
2nd floor, Company “I”
Office and Headquaretrs for 4th Head
quarters Co. and Co. I, Room 132, Dor
mitory No. 14. Telephone 4-4074. Tactical
Officer, Maj. G. P. Lemer.
5. Walton Hall:
Ramps A, B, & C, 1st Company.
Ramps D, E, F, and G, 2nd Company.
Office and Headquarters for 1st and
2nd Companies, Room A-l, Walton Hall,
Telephone 4-4579. Tactical Officer, Maj.
J. E. Breland.
Flood Control To
Be Discussed At
St. Louis Meeting
The flood control conference
called by the Mississippi Valley
Association to consider both im
mediate and long range flood con
trol plans for this year’s flood
striken areas will be held at
Hotel Statler in St. Louis on
June 28, it is announced by Lach
lan Macleay, president of the as
sociation.
Two nationally known speakers
who will address the conference
will be Congrassman Will M.
Whittington, of Mississippi, chair
man of the House Committee on
Flood Control and one of the
outstanding authorities of the na
tion on flood control, and Major-
General Eugene Reybold, Chief of
the United States Army Engi
neers. Following their formal ad
dresses the conference will be
opened to discussion from the
KEEP COOL--
.
WITH
CASEY’S
DELICIOUS DRINKS THESE
HOT DAYS
AT THE “Y”
TO BE MILITARY
Be Neat in Appearance
get your
UNIFORMS CLEANED
and PRESSED
Frequently by the
CAMPUS CLEANERS
Medical Science Finds New Use For
Hundred-Million Volt Ray Machine
Electrons, or cathode rays, fired
from a new hundred-million-volt
machine now nearing completion
in the General Electric Research
Laboratory at Schenectady, N. Y.,
may prove superior to x-rays for
treatment of deep tumors, accord
ing to Dr. William D. Coolidge,
G-E vice president in charge of
research.
“When the X-ray work of our
laboratory started about thirty
years ago,” he said, “it was diffi
cult to produce X-rays of much
more than a hundred thousand
volts. We now have over forty one-
million-volt outfits in use in war
industries and are preparing to
built a two-million-volt outfit of
floor.
Invitations to attend the con
ference are being' sent to mem
bers of Congress in the flood
area, the governors of the flood
states, county and municipal of
ficials in the flood territory and
two representatives of civic, bus
iness and agricultural organiza
tions. The area for which flood
control measures will be consid
ered includes the Missouri Basin,
the Illinois Basin, the Lower
Ohio Basin, the Upper Mississippi
Basin, the Arkansas Basin and the
Wabash Basin.
Macleay pointed out that the
Mississippi Valley Association
called a similar conference in
March, 1937, following the dis
astrous flood in the Ohio Valley
that year. The Conference helped
obtain the authorization by Con
gress of an $800,000,000 flood
control program for the Ohio
Basin, of which a large portion
has been completed.
The United States Army Engi
neers will have ready before the
conference meets a plan for im
mediate flood control projects in
the Lower Missouri Valley. Other
projects for immediate clood con
trol measures will be ready for
consideration. In addition, Mac
leay emphasized, the conference
will consider a long range pro
gram for the unified control of
flood waters and their economic
use instead of waste for the Mis
sissippi Valley.
The floods this year in the eight
states affected—South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Hli-
nois, Indiana, Arkansas and Ok
lahoma—inundated more than
3,000,000 acres of valuable farm
land, caused property damage
amounting to millions of dollars
and rendered nearly 200,000 per
sons homeless.
The Mississippi Valley Associa
tion has consistently worked for
a unified program of flood con
trol on a national scale, Macleay
said. The association’s 1943 plat
form recognized that the war
emergency program must come
first, but urged that “all flood
control projects that have been
authorized by Congress should be
completed and put into operation
at the earliest possible time.”
Education and psychology de
partments at Colgate University
have started a special study in the
field of occupations to determine
how the university _ can give in
creased service i!o industry.
Curriculum requirements his
tory majors at Hunter college have
been revised to provide greater
flexibility in choice of courses as
well as to give training in inde
pendent research.
the same type.
“Furthermore, we recently built,
with the help of Dr. Donald Kerst
of the University of Illinois, an
induction electron accelerator for
twenty million volts, and have now
almost finished a larger one de
signed to operate at voltages up
to a hundred million. This last de
vice used as a source of X-rays,
should enable us to determine what
radiographic and other useful re
sults can be accomplished by such
high-voltage radiation.
“This same device will also ren
der available for physical, chemi
cal and medical experimentation
cathode rays corresponding to
these same enormous voltages. In
the medical field these cathode
rays may have a good deal of ther
apeutic interest in the treatment
of deep-seated tumors, since they
will have sufficient penetration and
since, unlike X-rays and gamma
rays from radium, their effect will
be a maximum near the end of
their range -— properties which
should facilitate the destruction of
a tumor without damage to the
overlying tissues.”
Dr. Coolidge predicted far-
reaching effects from present war
time radio research.
“In radio,” he declared, “tre
mendous advances are taking place
which are not only vital in the
war effort but will he of inesti
mable peacetime value, permitting
us to see distant objects in the
dark or through a fog and so
enabling us to avoid collisions at
sea and enter harbors under poor
conditions of visibility, to avoid
collisions in the air and to make
safe blind landings.”
“Much of our wartime work in
radio will contribute to making
television in peacetime a wide
spread educational and entertain
ing feature in the home. I don’t
think that we realize at all what
they will mean to us. It should
even result in better government.
It will give us much stronger feel
ings about the candidates for
whom we vote. We get a great
deal from the content of a speech
and from the sound of a voice,
but it will be helpful for us to see
the speaker.”
Post-war aviation, he predicted,
“will take us as far from the auto
mobile as the automobile took us
from the horse-and-buggy age. It
is hard to realize today the ex
tent to which this is true—the
speed, the increase in safety, the
ability to travel in all weathers,
the possibilities of the new heli
copter in taking us from our own
dooryards to our camps or to com
mercial airplane fields.”
Members of the G-E laboratory
staff, he stated, “and, for that
matter, the majority of the scien
tists of the country, are devoting
their entire energy at high pres
sure to war work, and we see sci
ence playing so vital a role that
it may win or lose the Struggle.”
“While this war, which has
forced the diversion of so much
scientific effort from the construc
tive aims of peace to the destruc
tive aims of combat, represents in
magnitude the greatest tragedy
which civilization has ever encoun
tered, much of the war work will
have lasting value, and in many
important lines research is being
prosecuted at a rate which would
be quite out of the question in
peacetime. This is especially true
in the fields of physics and chem
istry. Most of this work is of so
confidential a nature that it can
not be publicly discussed at this
time.”
LISTEN TO
WTAW
1150
Tuesday, June 16
11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front.
11:30 a.m. Economics Department
—Mr. Nutter.
11:45 a.m.—Chats to Texas Home
makers—Barbara Hopkins.
11:55 a.m. News—Interviews.
12:00 a.m.—Sign-off.
Wednesday, June 16
6:02 a.m. Texas Farm and Home
Program — TQN. Poultry —
D. H. Reid; Triple-A, Howard
Stewart.
11:25 a.m. Today’s Summary on
the Home Front.
11:45 a.m. Treasury Star Parade.
11:45 a.m. Extension Program—L.
C. Eakin of Caldwell County.
12:00 a.m. Sign-off.
REHABILITATION
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Tripolitania, Hoehler dispatched
two teams of field men with truck
convoys provided by the army into
areas where military action had
made it essential that local sup
plies of food and clothing be sup
plemented by relief material as a
matter of military and political
necessity.
Initial reports to Herbert H.
Lehman, Director of Foreign Re
lief and Rehabilitation Operations,
from Hoehler show that small
stockpiles of essential food and
clothing assembled by OFRRO in
cooperation with the military in or
near Tunisia were utilized for pri
mary civilian needs. This stock
pile, which by the time of the ma
jor military offensive approximat
ed 10 thousand tons, was com
prised of cotton cloth, condensed
and powdered milk, flour, sugar
and clothing.
HoeMer’s reports, based on his
own surveys and those of Herbert
W. Parisius of Elroy, Wisconsin,
Chief Agricultural expert on the
OFRRO North African staff, in
dicate that prospects for supply of
civilians in Tunisia are much bet
ter than had been anticipated prior
to the Allied victory over the Axis
forces.
Trek Thru Dense
Jungle Brings Four
Fliers To Safety
PARAMARIBO, Dutch Guiana.
—The forced landing of an Amer
ican transport plane in the Dutch
Guiana jungle three weeks ago was
disclosed Thursday with the ar
rival here of four of the plane’s
crew of four men.
The men made a two weeks’ trek
through the dense jungle and, aid
ed by friendly Indians, reached
here in good condition. They have
already left for an undisclosed
destination.
(This dispatch as passed by the
censor in Paramaribo did not indi
cate whether the grounded plane
was a military or commercial
transport, and it did not name the
crew members.)
The plane was forced down in a
remote part of the jungle. The
crew members, employing what
their superiors termed exceptional
judgment, made no immediate at
tempt to leave their craft.
Instead, carefully rationing their
foodstuffs, they set up a camp and
for several days rested while they
treated their minor injuries and
recovered from shock. Then they
set out to find an inhabited place.
They waded through swamps
waist-deep in water, for several
days until they reached a small
river, and there they constructed
a primitive raft. Drifting down
stream, they were sighted by an
Indian who took word of his find
to his village. The villagers then
helped the four to get to this city.
Authority On Rent
Control May Be
Exercises Here'
W. H. Roberts, manager of the
Rent Control office in Bryan, re
ports that a number of Brazos
county landlords have failed to re
duce their rents to the March 1942
level. This should be done at once,
Mr. Roberts states, to avoid pen
alties which may be assessed
against those house owners failing
to comply.
Landlords who have not regis
tered their propetty are urged to
do so before June 15, in order that
inconveniences m* y be avoided.
- NEW SIGHTING -
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it can be adapted to sight other
types of rifles.
Tests showed that the last four
inches of the bore at the muzzle
of the Garand rifle substantially
determine the trajectory of a bul
let fired from it, and the develop
ment of the sighting device was
conducted with that established
fact as the starting point. What
the gage actually does is to trans
fer the sight setting from a “mas
ter” rifle, correctly sighted by fir
ing, to rifles substantially sighted
in the equipment. The gage is set
for accurate use by placing the
master rifle in it, and adjusting
the equipment to conform to the
bore direction and sight positions
of the master rifle. When other
rifles placed in the gage are
aligned with the target optical
system, and their lights moved to
the proper relation as designated
by the sight projectors, they are
given the line-of-sight to line-of-
bore relationship established by
the master rifle.
The gage fixture holds a rifle
at two points, by a 3-jaw chuck
near the front of the muzzle, and
by a clamp which grips the gun’s
receiver just ahead of the trigger
mechanism. Positioning the rifle is
accompanied by two handwheels
which move the clamp arrange
ment holding the rear of the gun
vertically and horizontally. Rota
tion takes place about a point at
the center of the bore of the rifle
at the muzzle where it is gripped
by the chuck. The chuck is sup
ported on a small gimbel to pre
vent any strain being placed on
the barrel.
The target optical system con
sists of a light source and condens
ing lens, a cross-shaped aperture,
a concave mirror mounted on the
end of a 4-inch bore plug, an ad
justable mirror mounted above the
light source, and a mirror and
ground glass screen on the main
fixture. The light bulb, lens, aper
ture, and adjustable mirror are
contained in the separate target
unit which is mounted approxi
mately six feet in front of the main
fixture and facing it.
The concave mirror is mounted
on a bore plug. The plug is in
serted in the muzzle of the rifle
for each sighting, its mirror fac
ing the separate target unit.
Light leaves the bulb in the tar
get unit, passes through the lens
and the aperture, and is focussed
on the concave mirror on the plug
-TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 15, 1943
in the shape of the bulb filament.
It reflects to the adjustable mir
ror mounted above the bulb in the
target unit, and then back to the
mirror on the main fixture which
throws the cross image on the
viewing screen. Focal length of
the concave mirror on the plug is
such that it focuses the image of
the cross aperture on the screen.
The two sight projectors are
opticals ystems designed to magni
fy the images of the sights approx
imately 25 times and focus them
on viewing screens. They are
mounted on separate arms so that
they may be lifted to permit in
serting and removing the rifle.
The two arms rotate about a
common shaft, and are raised by
a handle attached to the shaft.
The arms and projectors are held
in the up position by an automatic
latch. Each projector has a dash
pot which prevents it from being
jarred when dropped into position,
and individual stops to limit the
downward position.
The electrical system consists
of a single-phase, 110 to 6 volts,
200 v a transformer which sup
plies power to the three No. 1183
Mazda auto headlamp bulbs.
The $18,300,000,000 subscribed
in the second War Loan was about
half a billion dollars short of equal
ling the total amount—$18,800,-
000,000—subscribed in the first
four war loans of the last war.
After July 1, luggage will be
made in 7 basic types and will be
drastically limited in size and de
sign.
VICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
WAR
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
DR. N. B. McNUTT
DENTIST
Office in Parker Building
Over Canady’s Pharmacy
Phone 2-1457 Bryan, Texas
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