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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 69
Traditional Bonfire Will Be Held On November 24th
Carmen Amaya Appears on
Town Hall Stage Thursday
Second Feature of Season Stands as Best
Of All; Individual Performance, 50^
Carmen Amaya is expected to give the Aggies one of the
biggest thrills they will experience while in Aggieland when
she apears with her fiery, impassioned gypsy dances at Guion
Hall next Thursday, November 18.
Accompanying Amaya will be-f"
Antonia Triana, her dancing part
ner, who has no small amount of
fame himself. He is considered the
greatest of all male flamenco
dancers and has, for a number of
years, been recognized as one of
the best Spanish dancers in the
world. The troup is also composed
of Amaya’s dancing sisters, An
tonia and Leonor; guitar-playing
Papa Jose; brother Paco and cous
in Sabicas; pianist Raymond
Sachse; and Lola Montes.
Miss Amaya, imported from
South America by S. Hurok has
enchanted audiences throughout
Spain, Portugal, South America,
Mexico, and the United States.
She appeared in the White House
in the Spring of 1941 to entertain
President and Mrs- Roosevelt and
their guests at the Press Dinner.
Her impression in Buenos Aires
was so great that a theater was
named in her honor.
Part of Carmen’s good show
manship is her terrifying serious
ness. Whenever someone laughs or
smiles during her dance she glares
at him. A photographer once asked
her for a sexy shot. She threatened
to slit his throat. Her opinion of
most gypsy dancing seen in this
country is—“It is weak, diluted
stuff. But I - - I am straight whis
key.”
Perhaps this last remark will
encourage you Aggies and serv
icemen if you have not already
done so, to buy your season ticket
to Town Hall from your dorm
salesman before Thursday for the
regular price of 2.00. Individual
performances may be seen by pay
ing 50tf at the door or obtaining
a ticket in advance from the Stu
dent Activities Office.
Vet Students Meet
Wednesday Evening
The Junior Chapter of the Amer
ican Medical Association will meet
this Wednesday evening at 7:30
o’clock in the auditorium of the
Veterinary Hospital. Featured will
be a three-reel technicolor film on
scarlet fever which no one should
miss.
Doughnuts and coffee will be
served to all who attend. Come
early and bring your roommate.
Aggie Yell Practice
Broadcast Attended
By 1500 Students
WTAW to Carry Ag
Broadcast at 5:30
This afternoon at 5:30 WTAW
■will present a delayed broadcast
by transcription of the Aggie
yell practice which was held in
Houston Saturday morning from
11:30 until 12. The yell practice,
originally broadcast over Sta
tion KTRH, Houston, was held
in front of the Rice Hotel.
This program will be of special
interest to those 1500 Aggies
who were at Houston for the
Rice game-
Annual Turkey Day
Dance To Be Held
Wednesday night, November 24,
there will be the annual Thanks
giving Dance to be held in Sbisa
Dining Hall from 9 until 1. This
dance will be held immediately
after the bonfire which is now
beginning its preparation.
The arrangements for a dance
orchestra have not been completed,
although the Student Activities of
fice is planning to engage a well
known band for the occasion. Those
students who have dates must have
reservations made, because there
are no rooms available for vis
itors.
The Thanksgiving dance is an
annual affair, held every year be
fore the Texas University-A.&M.
football game- In previous years
this dance has always been a high
light of the social calendar.
Rifle Team To Meet
Tomorrow Night at 7
The A. & M. Rifle Team -will
hold its first meeting of this sea
son next Wednesday night, tomor
row, in the Chemistry lecture room
at 7:00 p. m., it was announced
today by Harold Borofsky, acting
team captain. A program has been
planned and a discussion of the
team and its progress will follow.
Members of the team are reminded
that they should report to the
range at every opportunity and
should be present at Wednesday
night’s meeting.
Appearances of
Singing Cadets
Made in Houston
Cadets To Make Last
Appearance Under
Jenkins Nov. 20-21
The Singing Cadets of Aggie
land, under the direction of Rich
ard W. Jenkins, made three ap
pearances at the First Methodist
Church in Houston Sunday and
presented one complete program
at the Bering Memorial Church on
Harold Street.
The first performance was given
at 9:30 in the morning at the First
Methodist Church, where Richard’s
father, Walter Jenkins, is director
of music. Two numbers were sung:
“The Creation” by Richter and
“Prayer of Thanksgiving’’ by
Kremser. After an identical per
formance had been given for the
benefit of the second congregation,
the church served a meal in the
Servicemen’s Lounge to the Ag
gies and servicemen who had come
to the morning services. The meal
was followed by a special program
of more popular music for the
benefit of the sailors, soldiers and
Marines.
The last appearance took place
at the Bering Memorial at 7:00
o’clock in the afternoon. This
church also provided the Aggies
with supper. The Cadets enter
tained for the entire service, clos
ing the program with the “Spirit
of Aggieland” and “Taps.”
The Cadets missed the voices of
Ralph Greenberg and Watson
Keeney who were absent of neces
sity, but ex-Singing Cadets from
the V-12 Unit at Rice' and Houston
reinforced both the tenor and bass
sections.
At present, the Cadets are pre
paring for the trip to Tyler and
Henderson next week end. This
will be the last trip the group will
(See APPEARANCES, Page 4)
Aggies Urged Not
To Invite Visitors
Aggies are requested not to
invite visitors to the campus
for Wednesday and Thursday,
November 24 and 25, unless res
ervations have already been
made for their accommodations.
There will not be a dormitory
vacated for the Thanksgiving
game to accommodate dates.
All vacancies on the campus
have been exhausted, and any
visitor without a reservation will
have a difficult job finding a
place to stay-
Tigers Win District
Championship, 47-0
Thursday afternoon the Consol
idated High School Tigers defeat
ed the Franklin Eagles 47-0 for
the District championship.
The Tigers used every man on
the team in order to keep the score
down as much as possible, but the
second and third string did as well
as the first. The Tigers used their
excellent ground game to a good
advantage. The Tigers threw many
passes, but depended on their
ground offense for the scoring
punch.
The Tigers also boast a strong
defense in allowing the Eagles 3
first downs. Their line has been
improving from game to game and
has at last reached the required
peak in teamwork.
The Tiger touchdowns were made
by Cashion, Carroll, who intercept
ed an Eagle pass and raced 40
yards for a touchdown, Marshall
and Bonnen.
In District 20 Granger, Marble
Falls, and Roundrock are tied for
first place and as soon as the
district committee meets and de
cides the winner the date will be
set for the bi-district play-off.
Conference Cross
Country Meet Being
Held Here Wed.
A&M and Texas Are
The Only Schools To
Enter Full Teams
The Southwest Conference Cross
Country meet will be held here
Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. Runners
from all Conference schools will
be here but A. & M. and Texas
University are the only schools
that will enter full teams and com
pete for the team championship.
Texas has a strong team led by
Jerry Thompson who last spring
was National Collegiate two-mile
champion. He also finished first
in Conference Cross Country last
fall.
The A. & M. team has been se
lected from boys who have devel
oped speed and stamina in the A-
& M. compulsory wartime physical
education program. Not one of
these boys has competed in a track
meet during high school or college.
This team of graduates from the
now famous 1.6 mile Penberthy
“Bunion Derby” is a real twelfth-
man team of which the Aggies are
proud and one that will give the
Longhorns a stiff battle.
The race is three miles and will
start 300 yards west of the gym
nasium and will finish at the cav
alry stables.
Running for A. & M. will be:
F. R. Mason, E. L. Posey, R. C.
Webb, C. D. Brown, J. R- Vaughn,
Clem Dahse, J. Bradford, Danny
Green and W. E, Berry.
Camera Club to Meet
Wednesday at 6:30
A special meeting of the Camera
Club will be held Wednesday night
at 6:30 in the Tower of the Pe
troleum Building, announced Claude
Stone, president. Aggies, members
of the faculty, and servicemen are
urged to attend, as important mat
ters will be discussed.
Will Aggieland Turn Co-Ed? Sweet Scented
Letter (From Girl) Asks Admittance to College
Saturday morning from 11:30 to
12, approximately 1500 Aggies
gathered in front of the Rice Hotel
on Texas Avenue in Houston to
present a typical yell practice to
thousands of radio listeners. The
program was broadcast over Sta
tion KTRH, and Ted Niever an
nounced, introducing Jack Knox,
head yell leader. Art Graf and
Hayes Stripling, assistant yell
leaders, were present to assist in
leading the yells.
The 90-piece Aggie Band fur
nished music for the occasion. The
program began with “Wildcat,”
followed by the Corps giving ten
of the more popular Aggie yells
and singing “The Aggie War
Hymn” and “Twelfth Man.’’ Knox
then gave a speech urging the
team to victory. Niever introduced
each yell as to its origin. The pro
gram was concluded with “The
Spirit of Aggieland.”
About thirty Rice students tried
to out-yell the Aggies and inter
rupt the broadcast, although their
attempts were futile.
Freshman Killed
Boarding Train
Saturday morning at 3 o’clock,
John Richard Carlson, a freshman
of this college, was killed by a
freight train in Navasota. Carlson
was on the way to the football
game in Houston at the time of
his death. Having ridden to Nava
sota on a passenger train, he was
in the act of catching a ride on a
freight when he was hit by a sign
post along the track- This caused
a fatal concussion of the brain.
The bump knocked Carlson be
neath the train, cutting off his
lower appendages at the feet.
Though the accident was fatal, he
lived for several hours afterwards.
John Carlson was bom to Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Carlson on Septem
ber 19, 1926. He attended high
school in Palestine before coming
to A. and M. in the summer of
1943. He was in A Company In
fantry and was taking Chemical
Engineering. He resided in Room
214 of Dormitory 16 with his room
mate, J. B. Crawley.
The Battalion stafcf together
with the remainder of the stu
dents on the campus join in ex
tending their deepest sympathy to
the bereaved parents.
By Charles R. West
“Breathes there an Aggie
With soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath
said,
‘How I wish A&M were co-ed!”’
Last month, a faintly perfumed
letter that closely resembled one
of our “sugar reports,” appeared
addressed to the President of the
Student Body of A. & M. in a vain
attempt to change the present con
dition of Aggieland somewhat.
Naturally enough, in an all-male
military college there doesn’t hap
pen to exist such a president, so
the letter was addressed to “some
body that ain’t”.
From office to office the letter
was transferred. The older gener
ation blushed and hurriedly passed
the sweet-scented epistle to an
other more susceptible office be
fore their wives happened to drop
in. The younger men were inclined
to copy down the neatly typed ad
dress before they reluctantly
passed it on—and on—and on. Un
til finally your snooping reporter
snitched it and, thinking that most
Aggies would deeply appreciate
such an epistle, “Love and Kisses”
(I’m tired of hearing “Yours
truly”) is taking the responsibil
ity and liberty of telling you what
was in that purloined letter.
Oh well, I may as well let you
read it yourself—
“My dear Sir:
“It is with great humility that
I tell you my story. To begin, I
must say, that after many years
of indecision I suddenly arrived, a
couple of years ago (and thanks to
a benign psychosis), to what some
might call a precocious decision
that I had found the thing in life
I desired most to do. To be brief,
I desire to enter the School of Vet
erinary Medicine at your good
college.
“To begin at the beginning, I
have been out of high school two
years' and have spent considerable
time in assisting Dr. Reese Mitch
am, one of the leading veterina
rians in the south. Aside from this
empirical knowledge, my grades
were unusually good. I was a mem-
Patsy Long
★ ★ ★
ber of the National Junior Honor
Society and the National Honor
Society.
“Of course, I understand that
the fact that an individual desires
to enter your school poses no great
problem, but if that individual is
a female, that, of course, is a
problem.
“To reiterate, I desire to attend
a Veterinary College, and because
of the inimitable faculty of A- &
M., I am anxious beyond expres
sion to go there.
“I beseech you, in name of all
the indomitable courage that held
the Alamo, the will that was Hous
ton, and in the name of the chival
ry that is Texas, to fight for this
cause, which I am sure is just.
“Although, from the standpoint
of pure anatomical beauty, I fear
I cannot compete with the girls
who make it difficult for Esquire
to negotiate the mails, I am en
closing a picture in humble evi
dence to the fact I will exert every
effort to live up to the jaunty
standards of raiment of A. & M.
as well as those of honor, disci
pline and behavior.
“I know such a request as this
is shocking, but all I ask is the
right to attend certain classes and
receive a degree. As a precedent
I will cite the case of one Will
Smith, an Arkansas negro, who
asked permission to attend the Uni
versity of Arkansas (which school
I saw you so nobly conquer on the
gridiron last October.) His request
was granted. He lived in a coal
house behind the main building and
was tutored aside from the other
students, receiving his degree about
1898. Although my dates may be
incorrect, I point out to you this
example of the universally altruis
tic reputation of the pedogogical
institutions.
“I beseech you to post this ap
plication for entrance where it will
do the most benefit to my cause.
I am
“Very sincerely yours,
PATSY LONG.”
(Return address: Reserved for
the author’s personal use).
Well, fellows, you see that we
are not the only ones who get the
occasional urge to change present
conditions. Consequently, on sec
ond thought, I guess it wouldn’t
be a bad idea for some of you fel- j
lows to drop the young lady a bitj
of encouragement along with that
old Aggie line to 335 Hall Build
ing, Little Rock, Arkansas. Her
enclosed snapshot proves all the
things I’ve been saying about the
feminine allure in Arkansas.
Plans for Annual Fire and
Yell Practice Being Made
Building and College Utilities Dept, to
Provide Trucks, Freshmen to Gather Wood
Preparations for the annual pre-Thanksgiving Day Bon
fire are now being made by head yell leader, Jack Knox, in
cooperation with B. D. Marburger of the Building and College
Utilities Department.
— — ^ The bonfire will be held on the
Silver Taps Played drill field across from Law and
For Aggie Monday
Silver Taps was observed last
night in memory of John Rich
ard Carlson, a Texas Aggie
freshman, who died early Sat
urday morning in Navasota,
while attempting to catch a
Houston-bound freight for the
Rice game.
The traditional Silver Taps is
played as a final tribute to a
deceased Aggie. Six trumpeters
played Taps three times from
the dome of the Academic Build
ing while the entire Corps stood
at attention.
A. S. M. E. Meets in
M. E. Building at
7:15 Tomorrow Nite
Feature of Meeting
Will Be Welcome of
Engineers to Society
• Help sessions for Engineering
students will be one of the fea
tures of tomorrow night’s meeting
of the student branch of the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engi
neers.
From 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. tomor
row night in Room 303 M.E. Build
ing, there will be a snappy meet
ing full of interest and profit for
all. The A.S.T.P. men are espe
cially invited to join with us for
an enjoyable hour.
After a short period of an
nouncements, the meetting will
break into four smaller groups.
There will be help sessions for
freshman engineers and an inter
esting program on steel for the
more advanced students. For those
who desire neither of the above,
there will be a talk on how to use
a slide rule.
For M.E. 101 students there will
be individual help to prepare them
for their B Quiz- This help session
will be conducted by H. A. Borde
lon, J. E. Gandler, Hal Puckett
and Thomas Sessums.
For M.E. 102 students there will
be a lecture on Free Bodies and
Equilibrium by Professor J. George
H. Thpmpson. This is designed to
help the men with their letter quiz
this week.
Professor Lee Price Thompson,
who has given a number of previ
ous talks on the subject, will give
instruction on how to run a slide
rule. This talk will be designed for
those who have never run a slide
rule or who are just beginning
rather than for advanced students.
Professor Thompson will be avail
able at another meeting for the
more advanced students of the slide
rule.
The technical meeting for the
Junior and Senior Engineering
students will be given on the topic
“Steel—An Engineering Material.
Professor E. G. Berryman will be
available to answer any questions
on research developments and
their applications in war indus
tries- Mr. Max B. Gebauer, re
cently of the American Rolling
Mill Company, will be available to
answer questions concerning the
steel industry and its possibilities
in Texas. A sound motion picture
on “Heat Treating of Steels” will
be shown.
H. D. McMillan and J. T. Tansil
are in charge of meetings for No
vember and December. These men
will be happy to hear of requests
for special features anyone might
desire for the December meeting.]
Puryear Halls as in previous years,
on November 24, the day preced
ing the Texas-A.&M- football clas
sic. It will begin about 7:30 or 8
o’clock in the evening, followed
by the Thanksgiving Dance which
will be held in Sbisa Hall at 9 p.m.
The bonfire is the greatest event
of the football season, with the
exception of the Turkey Day bat
tle itself.
The B&CU Department of the
College will provide trucks for
hauling lumber to be burned. Each
truck will be accompanied by six
freshmen, who will help load the
lumber. Track drivers will desig
nate which lumber will be collect
ed, although the freshmen should
also know where material can be
secured.
Only useless wood can be used
for the bonfire, as the college does
not want to destroy any valuable
property. Such wood may include
dead trees, old telephone poles, or
old lumber from repaired dormi
tories.
Further information will appear
in the next issue of the Battalion.
As yet, the time to begin work
has not been announced, although
everyone can begin looking for
lumber.
Pre-Medical Society
To Meet Wed. Night
The A. & M. Pre-Medical Society
will meet Wednesday night, No
vember 1 7at 7 o’clock in room 30
of the Science Hall. This will be
the second meeting of the semes
ter for the club, and a special ad
dress will be delivered which
should interest all students taking
courses preparatory to medicine.
The club meets on alternate
Wednesday nights, and during the
semester many interesting and
helpful programs, including special
movies, will be presented. All stu
dents interested are invited to be
present tomorrow night and if they
have not done so, to join the chib.
Sammy Owl Returns
To Roost After A
Night in Rice Hotel
Sammy Owl, the Rice Institute
mascot, mysteriously disappeared
I from its hiding place last Friday
| night and was checked at the Rice
Hotel in the name of Alvin Duvall,
Assistant City Editor of the Hous
ton Post.
For hours the rooty-ty-toot boys
from the Institute prowled over
the Aggie-gration and repeated
“Who? - - Who? - - Who?” Nat
urally no one knew. Conditions
were rapidly reversing themselves
for instead of the Owls bearing
their trade mark, the Aggies
spread their feet, crossed their
arms—and looked very, very wise.
However, plans were upset when
hotel managers, fearing a lobby
battle between the Cadets and the
Owls, sent Sammy to its old hole
in an ambulance Saturday morn
ing. During the game Rice offi
cials (wisely enough) kept Sammy
indoors. The custom has it that
the blue and gray bird rest on the
sideline during each Rice game.
(It would have taken more than a
stuffed owl to keep them from be
ing run over by our boys!)
Still the Rice Owls are wonder
ing who? - - who? - - who? and
still the Aggies look very, very
wise I