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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1944)
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1944 VOLUME 43—NUMBER 86 Van Buren Smashes L S. U. to Victory Over Aggies Loss of Flanagan Hurts TeaminLosingGame, 14-19 Hometown Clubs Hold Christmas Dances Aggies, Both Present and Past, Attend Festivities Houston Dallas, Laredo, and Galveston Clubs Have Enjoyable Time at Parties A. & M. Clubs throughout the state of Texas enter tained the Aggies and Aggie-exes during the Christmas holidays with a series of dances. The Dallas Club sponsored a dance at the Plantation, Thursday, December 23 from 9:00> o’clock in the evening until 12:15. One hundred and sixty Aggies (both ROTC cadets, activated stu dents, and exes) were present for the ocaceion. The A. & M. Mothers’ Club decorated the ballroom. The Laredo Club held their dance the next night, Christmas Eve, in the Martin High School Gym nasium. A local orchestra played from 9:00 o’clock p.m. until the early hours of the morning in a gym bedecked with maroon and white. Herbie Kaye, prominent orches tra leader, played for a dance sponsored by the Houston A. & M. Club at the Plantation. This dance lated until midnight. The Galves ton chapter was also entertained by a popular dance band, Tommy Leatherberry, when they held their Christmas celebration. Reports come from Abilene, Port Arthur, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and other Texas cities with large Aggie representations, of the ex cellent holiday dances. Servicemen Understand Problems of Civilians; They Have Them Also (Editor's Note: The following article is from the "Progress News,” published by the Gates Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado. It is reprinted here as a re minder to a lot of the civilian population that army life isn’t as wonderful as many seem to think.) I UNDERSTAND (Delayed) “Dear Family: “It is nice to hear from you after such a long period of time, but it is unpleasant to learn of your changed condition of living which I can readily understand from the change of my own con ditions. It is too bad that you are limit ed in the use of your automobile. I know how it is to walk through miles and miles of swamp and jun gle. So I understand. It is too bad to have your choice of food limited. I have experienced this, too, except there is no choice here. So I understand. It is too bad that Willie has to work so many hours a day at the defense plant. I have to work night as well as day at our defense plant. So I understand. It is too bad that Willie has such little time for amusement. I am deprived of amusement, too. So I understand. It is too bad that you have to wait in the rain for transportation. I have to wait in the rain on post and my transportation, too. So I understand. It is too bad that you are being paid so little for working so hard. I only get a fraction of your pay. So I understand. Winning this war is hard on all of us. You work long hours and so do I. So I understand. But during these hours I get shot at. Do you understand ? Your loving son, “BILL.’ n the Daily Texan, 1893 . . . the annual Thanksgiving this year the defeated Ag- neaked over to Texas and i away seven students as es. As reprisal action, Uni students are planning to own A. & M. Crooks To Appear At Guion Hall On January 20 at 8:00 Metropolitan Opera Star To Entertain Audience of Campus Richard Crooks, and outstanding Metropolitan Optra tenor, will ap pear on Guion Hall stage in the current Town Hall series on Jan uary 20, it was announced recently by the Student Activities office and Town Hall committee. Crooks, a typical American, rose to fame from a small New Jersey town to become the leading tenor of his time. He has sung before audineces in all corners of the world. Through his determination and iron will, linked with the op portunity afforded him, Crooks rose to the heights of his field guided by the inspiration he re ceived from two great stars of the operatic galaxy, Enrico Caruso and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. In spite of his success and the acclaim he has received in all parts of the world. Crooks is still a typi cal American—giving to America his golden voice, and to its tradi tion the story of another American boy to achieve honor and fame in the face of adversity—one who is a perfectionist in his art, yet likes to go fishing best. The concert will begin promptly at 8 o’clock in the evening, and those wishing to attend should purchase tickets as soon as possi ble from the Student Activities Office. Regular seats are priced at $.50; reserved seats can be obtained for $1.00. Eleven Aggies Sent To Pre-Flight at Alabama Air Field Aviation Cadets To Begin Nine Weeks of Intensive Training Eleven youths from A. & M. College have reported to the AAF Pre-Flight School for Pilots at Maxwell Field, Alabama, an in stallation of the Army Air Forces Training Command, t o begin another phase of their training as pilots in the U. S. Army Air For ces’ expanding program. These aviation cadets are re ceiving nine weeks of intensive physical, military and academic in struction at Maxwell Field, per- paratory to beginning their actual flight training at one of the many primary flying schools located in the Army Air Forces Eastern Fly ing Training Command. These men are aviation cadets James T. Bergman who attended the College in 1942; Jack. E. Dugas, 1942-43; James G. Dye, 1941-42; Hay H. Forman, Jr., 1941-42; James M. Hennessy, Jr., 1940-43 (B. S. Degree); Henry D. Borger, Jr., 1942-43; Jack W. Howell, 1942- 43; Cecil W. Hudson, 1939-40; Har ry W. Johnson, 1943; Walter S. Lang, Jr., 1942-43; and Philip N. Lowe, 1941-42. Singing Cadets To. Make Two Concerts During Week-end Group To Perform In Corsicana Over KAND And For Tessie-ites Aggiesland’s Singing Cadets will make a short tour beginning Sat urday morning. The thirty-five boys under the direction of Euell Porter will leave the campus at eight o’clock and proceed to T.S.C.W. where they will perform. The concert will be given in the Assembly Hall that night before the regular show. Following their appearance, the cadets will attend a dinner and dance given in their honor by the Modern Choir, the T.S.C.W. choral group. After lunch Sunday the Singing Cadets will leave Denton for Cor sicana. At that city they will ap pear at the First Methodist Church. This performance will be broad cast of the Corsicana radio sta tion KAND from 7 to 8 o’clock. After the broadcast they will be given another dinner and then will return to College Station. Press Club to Hold Special Meet Wed. Charlie Murray, president of the A. & M. Press Club, announced yesterday that a very important special meeting of the organization will be held Wednesday night im mediately after mess. The meeting will be held in the Lounge of Sbisa Mess Hall. Members of the club who represent the various organizations of the armed serv ices on the campus are urged to attend. Because of many other conflict ing sessions of the various home town clubs before the holidays the regular meetings of the Press Club were postponed, it was an nounced by the president. This may be the last meeting of the semes ter; therefore, according to the constitution of the organization, officers must be elected for the succeeding semester. In order that all business transactions may be carried out it is important that all members attend, it was report ed. Victory Hut war stamp sales at the University of Southern Cali fornia have totaled $8564.45. in the first three weeks. . Mess Hall Officials Request Ration Books Ration books which were tak en home by students must be turned in immediately, it was announced by the dining hall officials. A number of books were taken home to help the home rations go further, but they must now be turned back in until the end of the semes ter which is four-weeks away. J. C. Hotard Resigns From Mess Hall Job Supervisor Goes To Dallas Food Company After 15 Years Here J. C. Hotard, successively chef, steward, and supervisor of subsistence at Texas A. & M. College since 1928, has re signed from his present position and will leave February 1, for Dallas where he will join the Wyatt Food Stores, Inc. This cor poration operates 11 cafeterias in connection with its stores, and three cafeterias at the North Amer ican Aviation plant at Grand Prairie where over 35,000 meals are served daily. Hotard has supervised the feed ing of thousands of Texas Aggies since the retirement of the late W. A. Duncan in this capacity. The outbreak of World War II added additional load to his task be cause the Army, Navy, and Ma rine personnel stationed at College Station had to be fed also. Sbisa and Duncan Mess Halls are considered the largest college mess halls in this country. Be tween the two, an average of 21,000 meals have been served each day during the past year. In ad dition, Hotard has had charge of subsistence of Aggieland Inn. This campus hotel is owned by the state of Texas, but operated by the col lege for the benefit of the travel ing public. A native of Houma, La., Hotard as a boy helped his father in the operation of a summer resort hotel at Seabreeze, La. In 1916 he began a two-year apprenticeship as a chef with Kolb’s restaurant in New Orleans. When 19, he was made chef on a passenger liner for the United Fruit Company. The two years prior to coming to Texas Former Instructor At A. &M. to Finish Navy School Course Ensign Reid Graduates From Indocrination School January 12th Ensign Cecil W. Reid, former in structor in Fish and Game Conser vation, will graduate with the Naval Reserve Officers Indoctrina tion School at Tucson, Ariz., with the 14th battalion of this “Battle ship of the Desert,” January 12, after completing 60 days of train ing in seamanship, navigation, ord nance, and communications, the Eleventh Naval District announced today. Designed to acqaint newly ap pointed officers with every possi ble element in Navy life, the school, under the command of Capt. W. E. Cheadle, USN (Ret.), specializes in visual training, teaching stu dent officers naval subjects by actual practice, in addition to studying primary text books. The course is supplemented with a rigorous physical education pro gram designed to give the young officers rugged bodies, fitting them for strenous duties either ashore or afloat. Mrs. Reid, during her husband’s course of instruction, is staying at their home at 2101 17th St., Corpus Christi, Texas. Mother of Local Woman Succumbs Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Patterson of College Hills Estates have re cently returned from Houston, to which they were suddenly called last week on account of the illness and death of Mrs. Georgia Harris Brady, mother of Mrs. Patterson, who died on Wednesday. Funeral services were held on Friday morn ing at 10 o’clock at Forrest Park Cemetery in Houston. Mrs. Blady, 57 years of age, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She is survived by her mother, Mrs M. A. Turner of Dallas, and two daughters, Mrs. Byron o Brown of Gelveston, and Mrs. Patterson of College Station. The Daily Kansan at the Univer sity of Kansas is going to be strict ly feminine as soon as the one man on the staff, Bob Bock, sports edi tor, leaves to join the Marines at the end of the current semester. A. & M., Hotard was chef or stew ard for various hotels in Louisiana and Mississippi. Father of Aggie,, Class of '32, Recalls Son's Days at Aggieland By Ed Katten In the old days back when fresh men lived with the upperclassmen one of the first things that they heard was about how Aggie-Exes all over the country were always doing something for any Aggie they met in their part of the coun try. However, most freshmen swal lowed this with traditional grain of salt and put it aside for later bull sessions when they took off their fish stripes. Like any other Fish I took it as a lot of goings-on, too, but during the recent holidays I found out how true it was. The man who did something for me was one of the truest Aggies I have ever met. However, he never attended A. & M. He was converted by his son who did come to Aggie land back between ’28 and ’32. His name was P. A. Lester and his son’s name was Felix. Felix was killed in action by a Japanese machine-gun' on New Georgia Is land on July 30 of last year. Mr. Lester asked Frank Ilbright and I down to dinner one noon last week to hear about Aggieland, as he hasn’t been here in eleven years. We ate and sat there for quite some time, I don’t know how long. Of course, Mr. Lester told us all about his son. Felix was a captain in the Infantry on New Georgia Island when he was killed. Mr. Lester was grieved by his death, but he said he was glad that he died a quick death in the service of his country and that he was sure that every Aggie would want that kind of death if death was inevita ble. Frank and I had quite a bit to tell Mr. Lester about the school and how it had grow since he had last seen it We talked about the new dorms, the new buildings, the new highways, and of course the men Mr. Lester had known on the campus. We told of the changes that had taken place in the running of the school and many other things of minor importance. But the one thing that impressed us most was Mr. Lester’s loyal de votion to this school. I dare say that he was more Aggie than a lot of Aggies that have attended A. & M. He told us about his son’s days on the campus and then show ed us a number of snapshots taken during those days. He told us that true to the old Aggie tradition Felix had married a T. S. C. W. girl and quite a bit more. This all goes to prove that the | Spirit of Aggieland will never die as long as there are men on this earth as friendy and loyal to A. I & M. as P. A. Lester. Orange Bowl Stadium Filled to Capacity With 28,000 Spectators; Servicemen See Tilt f By Harold Borofsky ASTP Advantages And Qualifications Stated by Command Enrollment at A&M Now Numbers 2500 in Specialized Group » More than 2,500 boys are at tending college—Army-style—at A. & M. in a program which is safeguarding the education of youths of college ability and main taining for the Army a reserve of men with at least a partial back ground of college training from which officers and technical spe cialists will be selected. Going to college “Army-style” is a serious business in which studies are as important as battles and dis cipline is as strict as it is in any Army camp. “Soldiers are being trained at A. & M. because of the establish ment of the Army Specialized Training Program,” said Col Bev erly H. Coiper, chief of the Army Specialized Training Branch, Head quarters, Eighth Service Command, Dallas, “after the Army found among its younger soldiers many men who woulu make good officers and technical specialists if their education in the fields of medicine, engineering, languages, science, mathematics and psychology were allowed to continue. The Army has needed more personnel with at least partial college training for its specialized tasks. “Courses taught at A. & M. are concentrated versions of regular college courses, adapted to Army needs,” according to Col. Coiner. “Military training is not forgotten, because classes are carried on in military fashion and the soldiers have plenty of military drill.” A week of study for an ASTP student in engineering, for exam ple, indicates that he spends 34 hours in the classroom and labora tory and on the drill field. At night he has plenty of studying to do. He is allowed Saturday night and Sun day off for a date, movie or dance, providing his students are up to par and his discipline during the week has been satisfactory. To be eligible for Army Special ized Training, Col, Coiner pointed out, a soldier must have a score of at least 115 in the Army Gen eral Classification Test—which is high—must show evidence that the best interests of the Army would be served by further training. He must also have a high school edu cation if under 22, or at least a year of college with one year of mathe matics at college level if over 22. Nearly 150,000 soldier students are taking ASTP training, the max imum number set by the War De partment for this activity of the Army Service Forces. Some of these students have already been inducted into the Army. Others are civilians a year under the mini mum induction age who are train ing now to be better soldiers when their turn comes at the induction station. Chinese Naval Group In Schools SWARTHMORE, PA.—( A CP ) One of Swarthmort College’s new est group of students came all the way from Chungking. They are a Chinese Naval Unit of about fifty cadets and officers sent to Swarth- more to study English by the Chi nese Government and the United States Navy. After their stay at Swarthmore, they will be assigned to advanced institutions for study of naval construction and tech niques. It was a story of too much Van Buren last Saturday as the Louis iana State Tigers took the Texas Aggies by a score of 19-14 in the Orange Bowl Classic at Miami, Florida. The mighty offensive giant of the Tigers was in top form and the Aggie ace, Marion Flanagan, was out of the game from the start with a knee injury. As the game began the Cadete kicked off to the L.S.U. 21-yard line, where Van Buren took the ball and returned to his own 32. Three line plays were ineffectual, and the Tigers punted, the ball being returned to the Aggie 30- yard stripe. Turner plunged to the 34, but the following plays yielded no gain and Turner punted on the fourth down to the L.S.U. 23 where the ball was taken by Van Buren and returned to his own 41. After one play had been stopped cold Van Buren tossed one to Griffith who, as he was being tackled, lat- eraled to Nagata who carried all the way to the Cadet 32-yard mark er. On the next play Van Buren was stopped for no gain by the Ag forward wall, but he immed iately got his blockers going and on the following play carried to the A. & M. 15. Two plays brought the ball to the Aggie 10, and on the third play the Tigers were thrown for a one-yard loss. With the fourth down coming up L.S.U. called time out to plan ts strategy. Coming back into play Nagata handed to Griffith who handed to Van Buren who went over for the touchdown. As the try for ex tra point was made Burditt broke through and forced Van Buren to run, making the tackle as the con version failed. The score: Aggies 0, L.S.U. 6. The kickoff travelled to the Ag 25 and was returned to the 30. Hallmark gained nine yards on two line plays, but on the third down the needed yard was not made and Turner dropped back to kick Turner’s punt went to the 17 and was returned to the 24. Af ter one play had netted only inch es Van Buren quick-kicked to th^ Cadet 22. Just before the ball was to be declared dead Jess Burditt, the Aggie safety, snatched it up. Burditt was hit by Webb who then amazed 'the fans by plucking the ball away from Burditt. The sands rose to their feet at this apparent foul, but the play was declared legal and L.S.U. took over on the A. & M. 22. Van Buren went through the line for three yards on the first play and was piled up for no gain on the second. Then on the third play Van Buren cocked back his arm and pitched one to Goode who stepped over for the tally. Van Buren’s at tempt at the extra point failed and the score stood Aggies 0, L.S.U. 12. The Tigers then kicked off to the Ag 18, Bob Butchofsky taking the ball and returning it all the way to his own 42. Babe Hallmark immediaely tossed one to Stan (See VAN BUREN. Page 3) Meetiner of Camera Club Wednesday Fve Announcement has been made of the regular meeting of the Cam pus Camera Club Wednesday eve ning in the photograph laboratories of the Engineering Experiment Station Building. All members of the club are urged to be present at this meeting which will begin at 7 o’clock. The program will be given by Mr. Clark, college photographer, and important business will come before the group, it was stated. Plans will be made for the club to have a semester-end social meet ing and plans will be discussed for the club’s photograph contest.