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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 22, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 24.
Summer Holidays Begin Tomorrow, Last Until Monday
Aggies Make Final Plans
As The Hours Slowly Pass
WT AW To Go On Fnil Daytime Operation
No Official Notice Has Been Received
By Director, But It Is Expected Soon
Communications Commission Authorizes Station To
Operate on 1150 Kilocycles, KTBC Will Move to 590 Kilo
An Associated Press dispatch released yesterday from
Washington announced that the Federal Communications
Commission had authorized full daytime operation of station
WTAW at College Station, the official radio service of the
Texas A. & M. College.
The station has been operating +
on specified hours and dividing
the time with station KTBC of
Austin, using the same frequency
of 1150 kilocycles.
At the same time that the ex
tension of daily operation hours
were announced, the dispatch re
vealed that the station KTBC
would operate on a frequency as
signment of 590 kilocycles.
J. J. Wolket, director of the
station, announced today that he
had received no official notifica
tion of the change from the Fed
eral. Communication Commission
in Washington. He stated that ap
plication for such a change had
been made some time ago and it
was expected to come through.
Batt Will Not Be
Published During
Holiday Period
Due to the fact that the corps
will be on holiday for the week
end, the Battalion will not be pub
lished for Saturday or Tuesday.
The next publication of this news
paper will be on next Thursday.
This issue of the Battalion will
be the last for this week and an
other issue will appear a week
from today.
Hitler, Duce
Meet in Italy,
Remain Mum
LONDON.—Adof Hitler flew in
to Italy Monday for a conference
with Premier Benito Mussolini, the
Axis announced Tuesday night,
indicating the Nazis are gravely
concerned over the fate of their
junior partner.
London sources said the confer
ence, held at an unnamed town in
northern Italy, apparently was a
last-minute attempt to whip up the
flagging spirits of Italy, whose em
pire has been lost, its European
soil invaded and its capital bomb
ed.
Choice of Monday as the meet
ing day was a curious one for Mus
solini. While the dictators were dis
cussing military questions, Rome
was being pounded by more than
500 bombers In the biggest raid co
come II Duce’s way.
The meeting was the first since
the dictators conferred at Salzburg
April 7-10 while the position of
Tunisia was becoming serious.
The fact that Hitler went into
Italy was interpreted by some as
an indication that Mussolini is
holding the whip hand at the mom
ent—and the only whip Mussolini
could hold over Hitler would be a
threat to make a separate peace.
Sergeant In Pacific
Enters 1944 Rodeo
SNYDER, July 20—Sgt. Elmo
Favor, now in the south Pacific,
evidently figures the war will be
over by the time the 1944 Snyder
rodeo is held.
The 1943 rodeo was just starting
when there came a telegram from
Sergeant Favor, who competed in
1941. It read:
“Entering me for wild cow milk
ing contest in 1944.
D. W. Williams
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Williams To Judge
Stillwater Quarter
Horse Show in Aug.
D. W. Williams, head of the
Animal Husbandry Department at
the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas, will judge en
tries at the first Oklahoma Quar
ter Horse Show to be held at Still
water, Okla., August 20-21.
There will be no admission char
ges, stall rent or entry fees, it
was announced by show officials.
All who enter or show horses must
be members of the Oklahoma
Quarter Horse Exhibitors Associa
tion.
Aggie-ex Is Promoted
To Rank of Captain
First Lieutenant Walter J. Cle-
mans, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
N. Clemans of Boyd, Texas, has
been promoted to the rank of cap
tain it was recently announced.
Formerly a student at Texas A. &
M. where he graduated in the year
1940, Captain Clemans is now a
flight instructor at the Pecos Army
Air Field where he is stationed.
North Texas Is
Notified of CAA
Discontinuance
Training Program
Was Instituted in ’40
And Lasted Until ’42
President W. J. McConnell .re
ceived a letter from the Civil Aero
nautics Authority Monday morning
stating that the CAA War Train
ing Service is being discontinued
on the campus.
The original CPT program was
instituted here in the fall of 1940,
and in July 1942, the college re
ceived its first contingent of 15
Naval flying trainees. At one time
as many as 65 Navy cadets in
staggered classes were stationed
at the college, until the reduction
in the number of training schools
in May took the Navy training
programs from hundreds of col
leges throughout the nation, in
cluding North Texas State.
After the Navy unit was discon
tinued, a group of 20 trainees in
.flying instruction was stationed
in orchestra hall, arriving May 20.
This group scheduled to complete
work in near future, will be the
last class under the CAA program.
The college will continue to
house the liaison flyers at Chilton
Hall and the new unit of the Army
Specialized Training Program at
the cooperative housese on Ave A.
Cooter, ACTD Editor,
Finishes Course and
Leaves for Assignment
A/S Alvin B. Cooter, who has
been editor of the ACTD News De
partment of the Battalion is leav
ing this week for another assign
ment with the Army Air Corps.
During his stay on the campus
A/S Cooter has proven himself an
excellent student and a very capa
ble newspaper man, having ad
ministrated the affairs of his po
sition with the ACTD News in
excellent style.
The Battalion staff wishes him
success and good fortune in his
new assignment.
IT’S THE POTATOES
The Navy gets sleepy after
Lunch, so now they must make out
on stud and bullneck—no more
spuds.
Special Magical Program
To Be Given Service Men
Scheetz and Co. Show Will Be on Guion
Hall Stage Over Week-end for Those Here
Special feature for this week-end
in the entertainment field on the
campus will be the Guion Hall thea
tre stage presentation, Sheetz and
Company, magical show. Plans an-'
nounced by Tom Puddy, manager
of the theatre, indicate that the
stage show will be presented eight
times during its Saturday and Sun
day engagement here, twice for
each matinee and twice each eve
ning on both days.
Inasmuch as this attraction will
be on the Guion stage and since the
corps will leave the campus to the
servicemen because of the mid
semester holiday beginning to
morrow and lasting through the
week-end, the Kampus Kapers
show at the Assembly Hall, will
give way to the Ssheetz and Com
pany presentation on Guion Hall
Ability is a poor man’s wealth, stage.
This novel presentation of ma
gic by Scheetz and Company en
joys a nation-wide reputation as
being tops of its kind. Many new
illusions and feats of magic are
included in the act, it is pointed
out, and the personnel includes
three trained and capable magi
cians, who will be assisted by volun
teers from the audience.
According to announcement
there will be no advance in ad
mission price at Guion Hall for
the week-end and that the stage
show will be presented in connec
tion with the regular cinema at
tractions announced for those dates
elsewhere in an advertising ap
pearing in the columns of the Bat
talion.
Servicemen are urged to see this
unusual, informative and enter
taining magic act.
No Kampus Kapers
Due to the mid-semester holi
days the Agiies get from noon
Friday to midnight Monday,
there will be no Kampus Kapers
in Assembly this Saturday
night. For entertainment over
the week-end for servicemen and
others on the campus, Sheetz
and Co., will put on outstanding
performances featured with the
regular shows at Guion Hall.
Seventy-Five AAA
Employees To Be
Released Soon
Reduction in Expense
Appropriations and
Lack of Work Reasons
Approximately seventy-five em
ployees in the State Agricultural
Adjustment Administrat ion
(AAA), located on the Campus of
A. & M. College, will be released
within the next 30 or 40 days, ac
cording to announcement made by
B. F. Vance, administrative offi
cer in charge. The release of the
employees, it was stated, will in
clude both those in the office and
in the field personnel.
Reduction in the administrative
expense appropriations and the
amount of work to be done were
given by Vance as the reason in
the reduction of the personnel. He
stated that the civil service rules
on seniority would govern the
procedure in releasing employees
from the AAA service.
The reduction of the working
staff, it was stated, would not im
pair the efficiency of the state
office. The discontiuing of certain
functions in the AAA office and
closing of certain department was
responsible for the reduction in
staff inpart, it was stated.
Airman Tells
Guard Infantry
Will Win War
CAMP BULLIS, Texas.—“High
altitude precision bombing will un
questionably be an important fac
tor in victory, but the man with
a rifle and two sore feet will win
this war and every other war.”
That, from an airman who has
sighted bombs over Europe, was
sweet music to foot soldiers of the
Texas State Guard, in training at
the Eighth Service Command’s
guard school here this week.
The airman was Oapt. Vincent
B. Evans, bombardier on the famed
Flying Fortress Memphis Belle,
just back from operations in the
European theater.
He visited the school at the re
quest of Major Edgar Bull, com
mandant, and met nineteen fellow
townsmen from Henderson. He
urged the guardsmen not to tire
of the routine of drilling, saying
he based the advice on his obser
vation of the British Home Guard.
When the Memphis Belle was
being prepared for its flight back
to the United States, the crew
members asked their comrades re
maining in England what message
they had for the folks back home.
With tears in his eyes, Captain
Evans told of the one request that
invariably came, ‘Tell them to
keep our country just like it was
when we left.”
“That’s one of the biggest jobs
you fellows have to do,” he told
the guardsmen.
When you are “sitting on
of the world”—watch out
earthquakes.
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Censorship Rules on
Addresses in Print
For Overseas Men
Military Security Is
Reason for Leaving
Out Part of Addresses
The office of Censorship has
found it necessary to deny author
ization to publish full addresses
of men overseas or about to go
overseas for reasons of military
security.
The complete mailing address
includes the man’s name, his rank
or rating, and the ship, station, or
unit (in some cases represented
by a number) to which attached,
and requires that the communica
tion be marked care of the Fleet
Post Office, New York, or San
Francisco, as the case (Atlantic
or Pacific Fleet) might be.
It is necessary to eliminate ships
or units from addresses which are
carried in print. This elimination
makes an incomplete address, as
letters which do not carry the ship
or station cannot be delivered, and
all individuals writing to their
friends or members of their fam
ilies in the Service are urged at
all times to make sure that such
information in included in the ad
dress. Private knowledge if a man’s
ship or station is one thing, but
public disemination of such infor
mation in published form is quite
another, and consideration of the
military security involved must
come first.
Brazos County
Cuts Tax Rate
BRYAN.—The Brazos county
commissioners court has cut the
county tax rate 4 cents for the fis
cal year 1944, bringing it down
from 99 cents for the current year
to 95 cents. In 1942 the rate was
$1.05.
Uncle Sam Orders
Turkey Aplenty
CHICAGO.—Uncle Sam wants
to make sure that his fighting men
abroad get plenty of turkey on
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Year’s day.
The war food administration
asked the poultry industry Tues
day to provide 10,000,000 pounds of
turkey meat in the late summer
and early fall for shipments over
seas.
Simultaneously, it requested pro
cessors, packers, hotel and restau
rant operators and consumers to
refrain from selling, serving or eat
ing turkey for a few weeks in Au
gust and September until the re
quirements for the military forces
on the war fronts are met.
Executive Committee Announces Purpose
Of the Holidays is to Let Students Relax
Mid-semester holidays begin tomorrow at noon and last
until Monday at mid-night. These holidays were announced
by the Executive Committee to offer the students a short
period to relax during the long hot summer months. That
■fthe students might have as much
time to rest as possible, the Exe
cutive Committee decided it best to
begin the holidays on Friday and
extend through Monday rather
than terminate them Sunday
night; thus enabling the boys to
havh all Sunday at home.
With this in mind, a desire was
also expressed by the Committee
that students remain and meet
their last classes Friday morning.
This is the first attempt to have
time off in the middle of a semes
ter, and whether or not holidays
are offered in succeeding semes
ters depends on the attitude taken
by the students.
The faculty, College personnel,
and clerical workers will also have
these days off, except where there
is a conflict of those professors
who have classes of military per
sonnel. These classes will meet as
usual.
Library Announces
Holiday Schedule
The following hours have been
announced by the library for the
days between the semester:
Friday, July 23, 8 to 5; Satur
day, July 24, 8 to 4; Sunday, Ju
ly 25, 2 to 5; Monday, July 26,
8 to 5. These times will prevail
during the holidays only, ac
cording to Dr. Thomas F. Mayo,
Librarian.
Army to Free
4,500 Men For
Metal Mines
WASHINGTON.—Release of 4,-
500 men from the Army to accept
jobs in copper, zinc and molybden
um mines was authorized Tuesday.
A statement by Robert P. Pat
terson, acting Secretary of War,
said efforts to recruit additional
miners from civilian sources had
failed to obtain the required num
bers, and the success of the mili
tary programs for 1943-44 is jeop
ardized by a growing shortage of
these vital metals.
The step was taken at the direc
tion of the Office of War Mobiliza
tion, Patterson said, and the men
will be released only for work in
mines of highest productivity lo
cated in areas of critical labor
shortage.
50 Frenchmen
Die for Death
Of One Nazi
AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER,
—Fifty French citizens were exe
cuted in Uaris last week in retal
iation for the shooting of a German
lieutenant, trustworthy informa
tion reaching this Swiss area from
the former French capital disclos
ed Tuesday.
One of the fifty escaped while
marching to the shooting ground.
He immediately was replaced by a
man picked from the crowd of
spectators, it was reported.
Hostage executions were said to
have been carried out at regular
intervals in an effort to offset sab
otage, but since the Axis occupa
tion of the entire country they
rarely are announced.
Order Issued On
Wearing Neckties
An order has been issued from
the office of the Commandant of
the college concerning the wearing
of neckties in relations to uni
forms. The order from the office
of commandant read:
“20 July, 1943
“Memorandum to Military Per
sonnel, this station.
“1. In compliance with War De
partment Memorandum No. 8600-
18-43, dated 11 July 1943, person
nel at this station will be allowed
to wear the O. D. wool or khaki
shirt without necktie during sched
uled training periods.
“By Order of Col. Welty:
“A. J. Bennett,
“Lt. Colonel, CAC
“Executive.”
Juke-Box Prom to be Held
At Grove Saturday, 8:30
Dance Slab Will be Taken Over by Service
Men Due to Mid-Semester Holidays for Ags
The Juke-box prom will be held
as usual on this coming Saturday
night, but the dancers will be made
up of service men on the campus,
their wives or dates, and the few
Aggies that will be forced to stay
here for various reasons. The prom
will begin at 8:30 as usual at the
Grove which is the scene of all
the Saturday night dances in clear
weather; the dances are automa
tically switched to Sbisa in
case of bad weather.
There will be special dances at
the prom where there will be no
tagging to give the man who takes
a date a chance to have several
dances all to himself. This will be
an incentive to get dates for the
occasion and make the dance more
fun for everyone.
Due to the mid-semester holidays,
there will be very few Aggies
here so the service men will have
the Grove all to themselves. Serv
ice men who are stationed here
are especially invited to attend the
dance for a little relaxation and to
bring either the wives or dates to
the dance. The dance will be an
all-service dance with no moles
tation on the part of the Aggies.
Aeros Will Meet On *
Wednesday, July 28
The Institute of Aeronautical
Sciences will hold their meeting on
Wednesday, July 28, at 7 p. m.
The meeting will be held in the
Chemistry Lecture room at the
appointed hour wher a film on the
manufacture of the North Ameri
can AT-64 “Texan” will be shown.
All Aeronautical Engineers are
invited and urged to be present
when the educational film will be
shown. It will be well worth your
while to be present to see what
this instructional film can do for
you in your course.
Malaria Virtually
Gone Along
Texas Border
EDINBURG, July 21.—Malaria,
once the scourge of such semi-
tropical areas as the Rio Grande
Valley, has been virtually wiped
out along the lower Texas border.
Dr. Joe V. May, Hidalgo county
health officer, made public Tues
day the findings of a recent fed
eral-state malaria survey in the
McAllen, Mission and Edinburg
areas, all near Moore field, the
army’s air base. Of 2150 school
children tested in the three areas,
only one positive case of malaria
was discovered. That was at Mis
sion. One other case outside the
area, at Relampago near Mercedes,
was included in the findings. About
one out of every three school chil
dren in the three communities was
tested. Doctor May said there has
been little malaria in this area
since the hurricane of 1933.