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ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1943 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 71 Aggie-Texas GameTravels ByShortwave Men Overseas Privileged to Hear Texas-A&M Game Texas Aggies all over the world will have the opportunity to hear the broadcast of the Thanksgiving game between T. U. and A. & M. from Kyle Field next Thursday. Arrangements were completed I last week by the Humble Company to have its Texas Quality Network broadcast fed to the Mutual net work. Mutual will make the story of the game available to every serviceman in the United States. And with the cooperation of the armed forces radio service, three powerful short wave stations will transmit the Mutual broadcast to soldiers and sailors in every corner of the globe. WBOS of Boston will send the game to Yanks in England, Italy, Sicily, North Africa, the Near East, and the Middle East. KWID of San Francisco will send the story to Central America, South America, the Carribbean area, the South Pacific, Australia, and China. KROJ of San Francisco will send the game north to Alaska and the Aleutians. The broadcast will start at 1:50 p.m., according to Abe Penny, act ing manager of Humble Company. Kern Tips will give a play-by-play of the major grid classic of the Southwest while Yes Box gives commentations of features of the grandstand and performances at the half. The full broadcast will be carried by Mutual as well as the short wave. KPRC will broadcast the game in Houston and the Aggies’ own radio station, WTAW, will dis tribute the broadcast through the vicinity of College Station. ■™il IfllflllS ijp: ■ if. r^'5* * ■Mas®!! . .* ; , MM™™ 1 m' >' ' mmmMM . n . ■ r * n 1 Dorm 14 Vacated To Accommodate Dates of Aggies Rooms of No. 14 Occupants May Be Reserved Mon.; Others Reserve Tuesday Dormitory 14 will be vacated Wednesday afternoon and part of Thursday for cadet guests, ac cording to an order from the com mandants office issued yesterday. Cadets living in dorm 14 will be required to vacate their dorm by 1:00 p. m. Wednesday but will be readmitted to the Hall at 10:00 a. m. Thursday. Students reserving rooms for their dates will be charged a slight nominal fee of 50tf for maid service, matron, and other incidental expenses. Cadets living in the dorm now will be able to reserve their own room from 8:00 to 5:00 p. m. Monday Novem ber 22. Other students will be able to reserve rooms for their dates beginning at 8:00 the next morn ing of November 23. Guests will be admitted at 4:00 p- m. Wednesday and must be out the dormitory by 10:00 the next morning. Girls staying in the dorm will not be allowed to check in with the matron later than 2:00 a. m. Wednesday night. Escorts will be held strictly accountable for compliance with these instruc tions. Cadets living in Dormitory No. I ii m > - i 4 if- \ ■ I; # pyL - . f * - m . ^ i Pictured above is Miss Marie Haines, well known artist, who is painting Reveille’s portrait in oil for the Corps. Rev is shown at her feet. The painting is nearing completion and should be ready for unveiling Wednesday night after the bonfire in Sbisa Hall. The unveiling ceremony program will be announced later. First Hillel Talk To Be November 21 The first of a series of lectures on present day and pos world prob lems by member of the Faculty, under the auspices of the A. & M. Hillel Club, will open Sunday, No vember 21st, with Dr. John Paul Abbott. Dr. Abbott will discuss the latest book by Walter Lippman called U. S. Foreign Policy. Lipp- man’s knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs and Dr- Abbott’s interpretation should be sufficient to recommend the program to all those interested in our post war foreign policy. The meeting will be held at 7:00 o’clock at the Lounge Room of Sbisa Hall and is open to the pub lic. Christmas Music Is Planned by Church; Practice Sunday A chorus for the singing of a Christmas cantata called “Prepare His Room” is to be organized under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church according to Mrs. Nat Ed monson. The next practice will be at 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. building, and a regular hour of practice will be decided on at this time. This cantata is to be a group of old Christmas songs made into in teresting arrangements. Ever since the first Christmas, carols celebra ting the birth of Christ have al ways been sung throughout the world. Even though there is a present war being fought on dis tant battlefronts Christmas songs (See CHRISTMAS, page 2) Mess Hall Schedule Changed for Thurs. In order that a portion of the guests on the campus on Thanks giving Day may be served dinner, the following schedule will be in effect, it was reported by W. R. Horsley. Regular college students will be served at 11:00 a. m. No guests or visitors will be served at that time. Visitors will be served in the basement and the annex of Sbisa Hall at 12:15 p. m. The charge will be 50c per person. Stu dents who choose to eat with their gusts at this hour will also be charged 60tf. This arrangement is made necessary by the lack of seating capacity to handle more than the normal complement of col lege students and trainees. All (See MESS HALL, Page 2) Commandant Appoints Forty JuniorsFor Cadet Officership in Freshman Battalions Juniors Move to Freshman Dorms Now; Seniors to Command Advanced Battalions Aggie Team Feasts On Six-Point Buck Killed at Mason Deer Shot on Martin Brothers’ Ranch By Former Aggie, Owner Tonight the Aggie football team will feast on a six-point buck, kill ed by Seth Martin, while hunting with Dean E. J. Kyle on the Martin Bros. Ranch at Mason, Texas, this past week. The ranch, which is said to be one of the best game preserves in the state, is owned cooperatively by the Martin Brothers. Four of these brothers are former students and three of their sons have fol lowed in their father’s footsteps by graduating from A. & M. Seth Martin is well-represented on the campus by his son, Homer C. Mar tin, of the economics department. Dean Kyle returned to Aggie- l&nd from the deer-hunt with the venison and instructions “to pre sent the buck to the football squad as a token of appreciation for the wonderful record they have made this year.” Dean Kyle also killed a buck while hunting on the ranch. He commented on the plentiful game in the preserve: “I think I must have seen nearly 100 deer the day I hunted.” Jenkins Gives Last Program as Leader Of Singing Cadets Group Will Appear At Nacogdoches and Tyler, November 20 Richard W. Jenkins will make his last public appearance as lead er of the Singing Cadets this week end, November 20-21, at Tyler and He nderson. This is the fourth trip of the current semester, having gone to Nacogdoches, Tyler, and Houston several weeks past. The Singing Cadets made three appearances at the First Methodist Church and Bering Memorial Church in Houston last Sunday, November 14. The programs con sisted of religious, popular, and servicemen’s songs. Jenkins has been director of the group for the past two years. On November 22, he will leave for North Texas Agricultural College at Arlington, where he will become Associate Professor of Music. The Commandant’s Office has appointed some forty odd classified juniors as cadet officers in the four freshman battalions for the purposes of administering discipline and experience in leadership. Twenty men were appointed cap- tains to be company commanders Former Aggie Line Coach Dies of Heart Attack Wednesday Corsicana Football Coach From 1925-41; Then Entered Navy Lt. John A. Pierce, 44, of the United States Navy, Aggie-ex of the Class of 1920, died of heart attack on Wednesday night, while at Austin on an inspection tour. He was stricken about 6 p. m. and died a few hours later in St. David’s Hospital in Austin. While attending A. & M., Lieut enant Pierce was All-Southwest Conference center finishing his ca reer as a gridster in 1920, on the great team of that year which was unscored upon. He then became head lineman under Coach Dana X. Bible at Texas A. & M. Lieutenant Pierce went to Corsi- sicana in 1925 to become head foot ball coach until 1941, when he en tered the service. His Corsicana team won five district champion ships in a row, advanced to the state semi-finals in 1930 and 1931 and winning the state title in 1932. He is survived by his wife, Mrs- Helen Hardy Pierce of Corsicana; his mother, Mrs. Cora Etta Pierce of San Antonio; a sister, Mrs. Inez Reeves of San Antonio, and by two step-daughters. The body was re turned -to Corsicana for burial. Lieutenant Pierce was the second member of the famous Bible team at A. & M. to die while in naval service. The other was Lt. Roswell Higginbotham, who entered the ser vice from Southern Methodist Uni versity. Amaya Proves To Be Good Trouper Carmen Amaya, feature attrac tion on the Town Hall program in Guion Hall here Thursday night, proved herself to be a real trouper according to a member of the Spa nish speaking group on the campus. In the last number on her program before the grand finale, “Ay, Que Tu,” Miss Amaya was supposed to depict by her dancing the emotions of a rejected sweetheart, telling her lover that she was indifferent to him, yet at the same time begging him to return. The audience failed to catch the spirit on the dance, so instead of (See AMAYA, Page 3) Miss Marie Haines, Well Known College Station Artist, Paints Reveille's Portrait; Will Be Completed On Monday and to serve on the staffs, sixteen lieutenants as seconds-in-com- mand, five majors, and one lieu tenant colonel as regimental com mander. Thursday evening Colonel Welty met with the newly appointed cadet officers and explained the set-up to them. These officers will move into the freshmen dormitories to day and assume their commands immediately, leading the compan ies in all formations. A similiar ar rangement placing seniors in com mand of upperclassmen battalions will be inaugurated in the near future. For the last two semesters in coming freshmen have lived in the four new dormitories under a tactical officer and a sergeant with cadet officers of their own class. The change resembles somewhat the system employed before the war when cadets were in sole charge of the fifty organizations on the campus. Jack Knox will be the lieutenant colonel in command of the regi ment. C. S. Hunter, B. H. Ervin, R. S. Guenther, B. B. Cowser, and Bill Terrell are the five cadet majors serving as battalion com manders and staff members. By Sylvester Boone Miss Marie Haines, well known artist, is now at work and has been for several weeks on Reveille’s portrait which is to become the living remembrance of the mascot of the Aggies after her death. This picture, which will hang in the library, if permission is granted, will be Something for past, present, was a charter member of the Southern States Art League. She has exhibited her paintings at Cincinnati; Taos, New Mexico; Charleston, South Carolina; and Macon, Georgia. What she consid ered her best work, a painting of a Georgia pine forest scene called “Morning Shadows”, is now hang ing in the Cincinnati Art Museum. getting an idea as to just how the various little details should go into the picture she is on at that par ticular time. At the young age of 13, the fam ily of Miss Haines, and she her self, began to get ideas that she was to be an artist. The reason for this was when the family cat came to life on paper with Miss 14 will find sleeping accomodations 1 and future Aggies to look at with A native of Ohio, Miss Haines Haines doing the life-giving. Her only in dormitories 15, 16, and 17 1 P ride because it will be the picture 1 moved around to a number of states family wasn’t to be neglected, how- since these are all freshmen dorms. 1°* the best dog that has ever lived J before she came to College Station ever, because she got them in tow Tlice-Texas Christian Game Over WTAW WTAW will carry the radio broadcast of the Rice-Texas Christian University game this afternoon, it was announced to day by this College’s own station. The broadcast will begin at 2 p.m. and will be over at approx imately 4:15. This service is a special feature of WTAW and presented by Humble Oil & Re finery Company. Upon completion, it will lend ah some 15 years ago to live with little more to the reputation that I her sister, Mrs. F. B. Clark, and Rev has gained by being the mas cot of all the Aggies through the years. The painter is one of no small reputation for she has been to a large number of exhibitions that have been held throughout the country. Such art exhibits as the Delgado Museum in New Orleans, the Highland Park Art Gallery of Dallas, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, have been brother-in-law, Dr. Clark, who is head of the Economics Department, at 209 East Dexter Drive, College Park. It is here that Miss Haines has done most of her best work, especially mural painting. Her and they became her models. Af ter doing the things around the home, she became so interested that she entered the Cincinnati Art Academy immediately after grad uation from high school. An in teresting feature that enters into the life of Miss Haines at this time studio is the little white log cabin is the fact that she had an aunt that can be seen# with a number who was going to send her to an of trees around to lend it an in- advanced art school for study, but spirational air. The cabin where the aunt died without making her she does her painting is located will, and the idea didn’t materia- been at 213 South Dexter, and it is here; lize. Her study completed here, she the most prominent of all that that a person can find her hard ! joined the Philadelphia School of she has attended. Miss Haines] at work either on a painting or j Design and then the Chicago Art Institute and Art Student’s League of New York. Miss Haines consid ers the latter the best art school there is. The Art Students’ League was begun many years ago by a number of art students who wanted to establish a school for them selves. It was at this school that she had one of the best art teachers that anyone could possibly have. It was Dimitri Romanoffsky, a Pole who was in New York at the time. She studied for two years under him and under Frank V. DuMond and several other teach ers at the League for one more year. A number of Miss Haines’ paint ings are placed in a number of places in College Station and Bryan. The Palace Theater contains some murals using old Egyptian designs which have been admired by many visitors of the theater. In the Stephen F. Austin High torical nature using Austin and his colonists as the theme. Dr. R. B. Ehlinger has a number of her paintings in the lobby of his clinic in Bryan also. Miss Haines has done a number of portraits for citizens in Bryan; among these are Misses Ann and Wissie Howell, daughters of Doug las Howell, which were painted in oil. Jack Howell, brother of Doug las, had his three children and their dog, Taffy, painted by Miss Haines this year. A real likeness to the persons in oil were brought out in these three pictures. With the background that Miss Haines has in art circles, it is for tunate that she has been secured to paint Rev’s portrait for every one to remember her by. The picture is nearing completion and it will be ready for the unveiling ceremonies which will be held on the night of the bonfire or the day of the Texas University game. The Carmen Amaya Wins Favor of Town Hall Audience Gypsy Troupe Dancers Enjoyed by Everyone Attending at Guion Carmen Amaya and her troupe of gypsy dancers filled Guion Hall Thursday evening with the largest crowd that has attended Town Hall during this season. Accompanying Carmen were Antonia Amaya, Leonor Amaya, Dorita, Valero, Gloria Belmonte, Luisillo, Paco Amaya, and Jeron imo Villarino. The pianist for the troupe was Raymond Sachse while Sabicas rendered guitar solos. According to the reactions of the audience, Carmen’s unique ar rangement of “Ay! Tu!”, a popular gypsy number in which a jilted gypsy girl sings to her unfaithful lover, was the highlight of the program. Approximately half way through the song “the human Ves uvius”, who was dressed in an over-large sized dress, broke out with ‘^ny mamma done tol’ me.” The applause necessitated an en core. Sabicas, the expert guitarist, was also required to give a number of encores. His own “Malaguenas” and “Jota-Tarrego”, arranged by he and Tarrega were both called back through popular demand. The custumes worn by the troupe were reported to have been “es pecially attractive”. Aggies and servicemen were very compliment ary concerning the entire program. School, carved and painted murals picture, now in its final stages, of Miss Haines’ design and work | will be a real tribute to Rev when have -been put. These are of a his- j she dies. Postwar Agencies Invited to Meeting At Austin by Dean Acting on a suggestion by the members of the Postwar Economic Planning Commission at a recent meeting in Waco, Chairman Gibb Gilchrist, Dean of the School of Engineering, is inviting all agencies and persons engaged in postwar planning or who might propose to inaugurate a program with this common objective to meet at the Driskell Hotel, in Austin, on Tues day, November 23 at 10 a.ra. At that time the Governor of Texas and representatives of the Postwar Planning Commission will have an opportunity to learn the extent of the movements now un der way and those immediately proposed, and those in attendance can become familiar with the ob jectives of the Commission.