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THE BATTALION
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1943
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station, is published three times weekly, and issued
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College Station, Texas,
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Subscription rate $3 per school year. Advertising rates upon request.
Represented nationally by National Advertising Service, Inc., at New York City,
Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Office, Room 5, Administration Building. Telephone 4-5444.
1942 Member 1943
Pbsocioied Collegiate Press
ANDY MATULA, Editor-in-Chief
THURSDAY’S STAFF
SYLVESTER BOONE, Managing Editor BEN FORTSON, Editorial Assistant
John H. Kelly Business Manager
Conrad B. Cone Business Manager
LeValle Wolf Reporter
Robert Orrick Reporter
Claude Stone Reporter
Jacob R. Morgan Reporter
Fred Manget, Jr Reporter
Jack E. Turner Reporter
Archie Broodo - Columnist
Bryan A. Ross Columnist
Harold Borofsky Columnist
Ed Katten Columnist
David M. Seligman Columnist
Charles E. Murray Columnist
W. H. Baker Circulation Manager
D. W. May Editorial Advisor
The following staff members use names
other than their own when writing their
columns:
Sylvester Boone Daniel
Harold Borofsky Blotto
D. M. Seligman Mat
C. E. Murray Charlie
ARMY ENGINEERS STAFF
Editor-in-Chief :...Pat Bradley
Managing Editor : Len Sutton
Press Club Representative Marvin Kaff
1st Co. Editor John Cornell
2nd Co. Editor Joe Bennison
5th Co. Editor Len Sutton
Walton Whispers
By Mat & Charlie
Stop! or proceed at your own
risk of being humiliated by finding
your name in an embarrassing sit
uation . . . Another song has been
composed by “Blotto’’ Borofsky,
but he is up a tree as to what to
name it . . . “Get your candy in
room J-l before C.Q.,” says Billy
Dinerstein. This commercial will
only cost you two-bits, so your
authors will be around to collect
it in trade.
The busiest man in Walton is
the light man ... he is rushed to
death both day and night (espe
cially night), putting bulbs in
empty sockets and pennies behind
the fuses . . . His name is C. A.
“Reddykilowatt” Clark and his of
fice is 1-6. Frank Sinatra, the
women’s idol, has nothing on “En
sign” Ed Bonn ... he carries two
clubs with him when he goes out
walking to beat off the women. He
makes this plea to his buddies:
“Please stop locking me in the
shower because I have claustro
phobia.” ... If you’re wondering
about that fog the other morning,
don’t blame the weather man; it
all originated in Johnny Cornish’s
room in H-ramp. Those home-
rolled “El Ropos” really generate
the smoke.
Ever since the rumor about
three-weeks’ vacation started, we
have been hearing reports from
various sources of what, how, and
where the Aggies are going to
spend it. Sam Mikulinsky plans to
visit “Cajun’’ Houtz in Alexandria,
La., and then both of them will
go to New Orleans for several
days. From there Sam hopes to
detour up around Canada and end
up at Monterrey, Mexico . . . Ed
gar Morton and his ole lady Wil
lie Johnston plan to go to Califor
nia and visit at Johnston’s home
in Denver . . . Then there is in
dustrious H. K. Holland who wants
to make money in the East Texas
oil fields . . . Harrison Whitney
will spend his three weeks looking
for odd leaves and berries, and
then design himself a colonial
home . . . B. G. “Gringo” Owens
will continue his course of study
at Ennis—he is going to catch up
on his grade points in H. E.
Congrats to the freshmen who
are really whipping out . . . how
about coming to football practice?
The attendance at the football
practices hasn’t improved. Let’s
get down and learn who’s playing
what position, so when the season
starts we can “talk shop” about
our team to anybody who wants to
shoot some bull about the “fight
ing Aggie Team.”
The question of the week is: Do
we or don’t we get three weeks
between semesters? This winds up
another Walton Journal . . . re
member our war-cry: BEAT THE
HELL OUT OF TEXAS U.!
IT MAY COME TO THIS!
UNLESS YOU HAVE YOUR
PRESENT TIRES
RE-CAPPED
As the war progresses the
shortage of rubber has become
more and more acute. Unless
you want to either be walk
ing or using the above pic
tured mode of transportation
—get your present tires re
capped before they are worn
too far for such service.
It’s patriotic to have your
tires* recapper — keep your
car in service to further the
war effort. Come in today
and let us recap your tires!
DON’T
DELAY
DO
IT
NOW!
Harry L. Dishman, Owner
Champion Tire & Auto Supply Co.
Bryan, Texas
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The Milner Merry-Go-Round
By Archie Broodo
Here we are now two days near
er to winning the conference and
licking the Axis than Thursday and
time for some more about the men
in Milner. As one girl put it, the
Milner Morons. Don’t laugh, you
guys in Leggett or Walton, be
cause she agreed on the lunacy
charge against Leejay and said
that the Walton wags should be
graduated to Walton Wolves. I
suppose she thinks you’re big boys
now. Guess it will be best to start
off with some apologies. My hum
blest ones go to the men on the
bottom floor for accusing them of
being inactive lately. It’s a swell
story, but it just can’t be printed
about what the “gang” on the
lowest floor did last Saturday
night. Ask Johnson or Shapiro
about it; they both seemed happy
after it was all over. Ritter was
the only one who ended up with a
raw deal or perhaps the lack of
one.
Milner lost one of the biggest
heck raisers and best fellows when
Brian Duke left for the army.
We’re surely going to miss the
“daddy-rabbit” around here. Seems
that the tall man with the high
hat pops up in the best of families
though nowadays. The first mail
Dave Brooks got in several days
was the other day when he got
both draft questionnaires at the
same time. Seems funny how help
ful everybody is in helping Dave
fill them out. I’ll help too, Dave,
if you need any more. Regardless
of what’s been started on the
campus, we’ll have to stop calling
Johnny Veien “Romeo” because
according to the same girl that
called mere wags wolves, Art Graf
is more the romeo type. It was
kinda hard to get her to admit it,
but she finally did. So Art Graf
is the romeo type; wonder why?
Oh yeah, another apology. This
one to J. J. Hrncirik who objected
vigorously to being called a ladies’
man and allying him with another
now well known beau brummel.
Don’t know -which he disliked
worse. Terrell received a picture
of his drummer girl who addresses
letters to “My Boy Terrell.’’ She
sure hit some solid licks at the
soph ball. Too bad a person can’t
dance to a drum solo because local
music critics say she’s 0. K. Jack
Knox unites with several men on
the team to say to the corps to
come on out to practice and boost
your team. Myers, Granzin, Tur
ner, Dollens, and a couple others
from Milner are scraping their
faces in the dirt each day at prac
tice for the sake of the school and
they seem to thrive on it. All are
eager to do their very best in
hopes of becoming regulars on the
team. With fellows trying that
hard, we just can’t lose to anyone
if the corps backs them up.
Even the fellows who have been
teasing me about a girl going to
the extreme of an operation to
avoid a date, unite with me to
wish Cakkie Foster a speedy re
covery. My apologies to the La-
menter for not whipping out Sun
day. In other words, we’ve how-
died, but we still haven’t shook.
Some cluck volunteers that if I’d
have known Ross, I would have
met him. We’ve missed Murphy
and Don Howard around lately.
They claim to have been sick but
it sure is a temptation to goldbrick
in hot weather. Don’t forget to
start saluting General Reveille.
Yes sir, our pal Rev beat us all
to a commission. Details in anoth
er part of today’s paper. Read ’em.
Another juke-box prom tonight;
let’s make it good, £oo. Roy Kin-
slow says that the Dallas boys are
Marine Mad-Caps
Note of interest to all Powerites:
Saturday the 14th of August in the
year of our Lord, 1943, Corporal
Roy C. Powers was married in
Houston, Texas. Yes, girls, the
great glamour-puss is now out of
circulation—but definitely. You
see, Love called and The Idol an
swered. We do, however, at this
time wish the happy couple the
best of luck in the many years of
happiness and strife ahead of
them.
About a week ago we issued a
memorandum concerning boxing
among the students and requested
all those interested to sign in at
the duty office. Frankly men, I
thought the Marines were a fight
ing unit and they would eat this
sort of stuff up. But to my sur-
price, I learned the following fact:
Fourteen men, yes, I said fourteen
men, was the complete list of
fighting Marines to volunteer.
Frankly men it doesn’t speak well
for the Corps. Let’s get hot on
this detail and show some spirit.
Here’s all you have to do: First
drag yourself into the duty office
and sign your name in the record;
second, print plainly your height
and weight. This will enable us to
stabilize weights and heights, and
therefore a better match is fought.
This constitutes all you have to do.
So come on men, don’t be bashful.
Sign your handle in the Record and
get a chance to knock someone’s
head off. Grudge fights can also
be handled very amicably. Con
testants and winners will be print
ed in this column each time we
have an issue. So snap out of your
stuff, fellas and fall out for box
ing. Who knows, the Army and
Navy may follow suit and sorta
wrangle a boxing team of their
own; just think of the possible
sport your signing your name in
the Record may bring about.
A few days ago we of the ad
ministrative personnel were as
tounded at a bit of news we re
ceived from school. The news was
as follows: Company 26B has just
broken the code record. You can
imagine our surprise. You see,
when Co. 26B first came here they
were unruly and hard to make co
operate. They stayed this way for
quite some time, but finally de
veloped into a pretty good com
pany. We thought they would be
the worst company that ever hit
here, but soon found they were
the direct opposite. This all goes
to show that no matter how chick
en or unruly a man can be, he
does have a change of attitude
when he joins the Marine Corps.
Thursday evening, the 19th of
August, the Marines had another
in a series of ball games with the
White Star Unit of the 8th Serv
ice Command at Kyle Field. Ma
rines won their first but not their
last game with a final score of
8 to 5. Game started off with a
bang in the first of the second in
ning when both teams were tied at
one all. Marines then got two runs
making the score 3 to 1. Star Unit
rallied and tied score again. The
game was running nip and tuck
until the first of the 5th inning
when the Marines had a gala rally
and score zoomed to 8-5. This was
the final score of a very interest
ing ball game. Mr. Peden and his
wife were present at game. I think
this factor made the team play
just a little harder. The Marines
here turned out in large numbers
and all who came did not leave
disappointed. Lt. Earl and his wife
were also present. A large crowd
of Army also came to cheer, hiss,
and enjoy the game.
The lineup for the Marines was
as follows:
Sgt. Boles, catcher. A major
league catcher, but rather weak
at the bat; a few more games,
Sgt., and you will lose your nick
name, “Swivel Chair Boles”—swell
game, Boles.
Pvt. Price was on the mound and
his control very good. Nicely pitch
ed game, Price. Price is a member
of 26B.
Pvt. Wehmeier of Company 28A
proved to be a seasoned ball play'
er on first, a fair batter, and a
good sport.
Pvt. Walsh—Irish—covered sec
ond base like a professional; he
is one of 28A’s boys also.
Pvt. Eiser, 28B’s representative
played short stop like a major,
made few errors and batted a good
average.
Sgt. Murphy, student instructor
at school, played a good game on
the whole, but made a few errors
on third. He did get his share of
hits, however.
Pvt. Shea, another member of
28A, played a superb left field and
used some very smooth tactics
while on base. He was responsible
for two plays being incomplete.
Once on second he sort of blocked
the second baseman from making
a double play to first by being in
his way. What about this, Shea?
Staff Sgt. “Rocky” Davis played
center field and was manager of
the team. Rockjr drove in a num
ber of runs, but never seemed to
get on base. That was a beautiful
sacrifice you made in the 4th inn
ing, Sgt.
Pvt. Young, another member of
(the senior company, 26B, played
a beautiful right field. If he takes
code like he plays ball he’s a cinch
for Corporal.
Mattesich and Noll, both pri
vates at the present time, played
short center like major leaguers.
Game in the writer’s opinion
was a piperoo and was glad to see
the Marines still have that spirit.
Nice turnout men, and nice game,
team. Let's keep up the good work.
Fish Tales
By Fish Ross
The boys around Dorm. No. 14
are finally beginning to prepare
for the Fish Ball. There has been
much conversation lately about it,
and almost everyone'wants to have
it in the grpve. We don’t know the
exact statistics, but from the looks
of things now, the Fish are really
gonna have the girls down here.
It has been asked numerous
times if we’re gonna invite upper
classmen. At the present time, the
committee is busy over decorations,
orchestra, etc., and they will prob
ably announce it in the Battalion
in the near future.
Fish Manget finally got sworn
in the Air Corps. He had a little
trouble down in Houston the other
day. He says that the recruiting
officer was gone, but we have a
different idea this time, Fish Man
get. Those little girls aren’t down
there for nothing.
Recently seen in the hall were
a few of our football friends who
were down here last semester—
Goebel Bryant and Monty Mon-
crief.
The biggest worry concerning
the boys around Dorm. No. 14 is
what to do around the campus on
week-ends, as most of us are eith
er ram-campussed or deficient.
Some just sit around and listen
to the radio, while others just do
some horizontal engineering. Then
there’s always the one-half of one-
percenters who are lucky enough
to get girls in Bryan.
Guess who just walked in ? ? ?
Fish Suit. He says he has been
home the last few days with pto
maine poisoning. It might be worth
the sickness and rams to stay at
home a few days . . . how about
it, boys ?
Somebody could paper a wall
with the rams that were passed
out last Thursday. Yes, the pink
slips were flying fast and furious
this week. Many Fish really built
up their supply of ’em, and some
of ’em were put on that straight
and narrow line between the Dean
and home.
The latest rumor (maybe it’s a
fact now) is that we’re gonna
have four semesters next year.
Maybe they will cut down on
hours, and maybe they won’t, but
nevertheless, we know it’ll be
rough.
Fish Clark got an unknown' tel
ephone call the other day. At least
we thought it was unknown until
he started to sing to her over the
phone. I am told that he sang
‘‘Pistol Packin’ Mama” and called
her Ethel. This is strictly on the
sly, and it will please us all if
you won’t tell him what we say.
Question of the week: “What
brought about the change in the
Air Corps uniforms? It has been
rumored lately that Fishes Ever
ett and Corless are on the “ENG
LISH” team. If you don’t under
stand this, just step around to Mr.
Gunter’s room any morning and
see.
We’ve got a new bunch of com
pany officers now. It’s gonna be
a pretty tough job for our bat
talion and company commanders
to keep things going right the
rest of the semester, so let’s all
get in there and help ’em as much
as possible, fellows.
Taking a glance at the mess
hall; we couldn’t believe our eyes
when we saw that SOUTHERN
FRIED CHICKEN the other day.
One Fish remarked that we would
live on bread and water the rest
of the semester, but I don’t be
lieve it will be quite that bad.
If you really want to know
something about the fairer sex,
just go up and see Fish Kelty.
He’s a learned man on the subject
of women, and is thinking about
writing a book on “WOMEN?
WHY?
Well, I see a murder going on
down the hall; guess I’ll go down
and claim the body. Say, it might
be a good idea if we’d move over
to the hospital. We wouldn’t have
to drag each other over there after
our big tussles every night.
going to put on a real yell practice
in Dallas tonight. If you are any
where near, go to it. With the co
operation of the theater, it should
go off well. The picture is being
held over in Dallas for its second
big week now. Good omen. Brough
was surprised to find he had been
dropped from the rolls. He’s a stu
dent again, though. Bobby Foster
seems to have gotten up a band j
lately. Details later. It’s bound to
be good. Shades of the last Aggie-
land. Enough of this for now. Re
member to keep the spirit up and
watch the team because Bryan
Field gets the first dose of the
new Nortonmen September 25 and
then watch out, conference, here
comes the Fighting Texas Aggies.
J2ovjcioojn on
Campus distractions
By Ben Fortson
Showing at Guion Hall today
only is a double feature, THE
LIGHT THAT FAILED and DIXIE
DUGAN.
THE LIGHT THAT FAILED,
starring Ronald Colman and Ida
Lupino, is a picture a little old in
years but not at all so in story.
It concerns a soldier-painter (Col
man) and a girl of the streets,
(Miss Lupino). Colman is a soldier
in the British Army in Africa and
is wounded so that he is told he
will go blind. In real life he is a
painter and is in love with Miss
Lupino. He paints a masterpiece
of her, but she tears it up in a
rage of anger.
The Lowdown: This is a show
worth your while.
Sunday and Monday is FOOT-
LIGHT SERENADE, which stars
lovely Betty Grable, John Payne,
Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, and
other favorites.
This is a filmusical that is un
doubtedly one of the brightest on
the year. The story concerns a su
per-conceited heavyweight cham
pion (Mature) who is cast in a
musical show and falls for Betty
Grable. Payne and Grable are se
cretly married so complications
quickly arise. Funnyman Phil SiL
vers has a chance to give out with
the funny stuff that should please
all. The production is a good one
in all respects.
The Lowdown: Grable’s gams
. . what more do you want?
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Fonda and Dana Andrews.
This might be called a psycho
logical western, a preachment
against lynching, and the regret
that can pursue mobsters when
they have discovered they have
hung an innocent man. The show
is well done and suspense is at
tained that should keep all on the
edge of their seats. Nothing excit
ing happens though . . . nothing
more than the death of three men
by hanging! This is an unusual
show that should appeal to most
in a marked way. It ends with a
group lolling disconsolately over a
bar while Fonda and Dana An
drews leave in search of a widow
and her two children. The two
women in it appear only briefly.
The Lowdown: Not class “A”
but good.
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