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Texas AaM The B Coflep alion Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, April 8, 1946 Number 45 Godbey and Hickman Are Elected School Trustees Eisenhower Will Speak at Easter Muster Services MORE THAN 15,000 VISITORS EXPECTED FOR VICTORY MUSTER The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, which declared war on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a day ahead of the nation at large, will officially declare World War II ended at the Victory Home coming on the campus April 19-21. When registration begins o n April 19 at the nation’s largest military college, thousands of Tex as Aggies will be on hand to re present the 20,000 who served in the conflict. Headlining the many honor guests will be Army Chief of Staff ^Dwight D. Eisenhower under whose command so many Aggies fought in the European campaigns. He and all the former students of the College who achieved the general’s "'rank will be awarded honorary degrees at a convocation on Satur day evening, April 20. The homecoming will be climaxed by an observance of the traditional Aggie San Jacinto Day Muster to be held at Kyle Field on Easter morning at 8:30 a. m., with Gen eral Eisenhower speaking to the 15,000 or more people expected to be present. The services will honor the 800 A. & M. men killed in World Wars I and II. Thousands of other A. & M. men throughout the world will be ob serving the muster tradition at the same time. Highlighting that »world-wide observance will be musters in Berlin and Tokyo and in all the far-flung spots where American troops still are stationed. Philadelphia Aggies and Texans will muster at historic Valley Forge. In Washington they will gather at the Arlington Cemetery and later place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. San Antonians will hold services at the Alamo. Most significant muster of the day will be -held by Texas A. & M. men in Manila and the Philip pines when they gather at Corre- gidor. It was there that twenty- .five Aggies observed their muster date on April 21, 1942, under Japa nese fire, shortly before the fall ^of that fortress. The report to the War Department on that occasion was one of the last general re ports to come from “The Rock” be fore its tragic fall. * Since its birth in 1903 the tradi tion of Texas A. & M. men meeting together in annual muster on the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto has had a unique and in teresting history. The year after the famous 1942 Muster on Corre- gidor found another band of Texas Aggies meeting between fighting on Guadalcanal. In 1944 the outstanding muster was huddled together and under fire on the Anzio beachhead. In 1945 the Aggie meeting was held on the Elbe in Germany, and in the Philippines, with fighting still se vere, but the end near. This year the annual Aggie Mus ter meets in peace once more, and in tribute and memory of nearly eight hundred former students of the college who died in military service in World Wars I and II. Pre-Med and Dent List Posted, Needs All Names There is a list now posted on the Pre-Med bulletin board on the first floor of Science Hall of eighty-four students taking pre- med and pre-dent work. This list is incomplete. Dr. G. E. Potter, pre-med advisor, would like for all men whose names are not on the list to come by his office and give him their names so that the list may be completed. EMILIO OSTA, California-born pianist with the blood of old Spain in his veins, will appear in the final Town Hall attraction of the year Thursday night with his danc ing sister, Teresita. Hailed as a virtuoso in his own right, Emilio received his formal training as a pianist at the hands of such inter nationally revered masters as Jo sef Lhevinne, Leopold Godowsky, Gyula Ormay and Albert Jonas. His love of Hispanic music has led him to years of travel and study in other American republics, where he collected many little-known ex amples of Indian and Spanish- American folk music. Loan Funds Only Grow by Donations Of Grateful Aggies The two student loan funds, of which W. R. Horsley is the keep er of the checkbook, are growing dangerously low. In a statement today, Mr. Horsley said that the only way the loan funds grows is to have unsolicited donations put into the pot as a token of appreciation when a loan is repaid. He also re quested that all loans be repaid promptly, as there is always another man who needs the money a little bit more than you do. Houston Mothers And Aggies Send Duchess to Pageant Miss Patricia Rudloff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Rudloff and student at Gulf Park College, will represent the Houston A. & M. Mothers Club and the Houston Ex- Aggie Association as duchess at the Twelfth Annual Cotton Pageant and Ball. Miss Rudloff’s father is an ex- Aggie of the Class of 1911, and her brother Charles is a returned veteran of the Class of 1944. Escorting her in the pageant will be Bob Drago of the A. & M. Band. Jean Ann Ramming Is E-Tex Duchess Representing the East Texas Club at the Cotton Pageant here on April 12 will be Miss Jean Ann Ramming. Miss Ramming is a junior at T.S.C.W., taking interior decorating. She has had offers from RKO pictures in Hollywood, and from a French movie concern. Miss Ramming, who is from Wichita Falls, will be escorted at the Cotton Pageant by Jere Jean Lewis, from Overton, Texas. MARGARET JENKINS SPANISH CLUB DUCHESS Miss Margaret Jenkins, of Hous ton, has been selected to be the Duchess representing the Spanish Club at the Cotton Ball and Pa geant on April 12. Miss Jenkins is a student at John Reagan High School, in Houston. Her escort will be Henry Pate. Dr. Potts Elected President of A&M Chapter of AAUP Profs Elect E. J. Smith And J. J. Sjferry to Offices, Plan 1946 Banquet Dr. W. M. Potts of the Chem istry department, was elected president of the Texas A. & M. College chapter, American Asso ciation of University Professors at the meeting held Thursday evening in the College YMCA. Plans for the annual banquet meeting in May were discussed and reports were heard from two of the group’s important study committees. Dr. E. J. Smith of the Physics department was elected vice-pres ident and program director, and Dr. J. J. Sperry of the Biology de partment is the new secretary- treasurer of the A. & M. chapter. Dr. C. B. Campbell of the Mod ern Languages department pre sented a report for his group which had been studying the subject of honor scholarship societies and fraernities. It was recommended that honor fraternities be encour aged for the college. Dr. W. A. Varvel of the Educa- tioi* and Psychology department, gave a report on a statistical study of college salaries. He gave com parisons of salaries in colleges and in other vocations. Another basis of comparison of Texas A. & M. College salaries was with those of fifty or more land grant colleges in the country. Another study made by Dr. Varvel was a comparison of the salaries paid by Texas A. & M. College, the University of Tex as and Texas Technological Col lege. Arkansas Traveler Hits Nail on Hand The Arkansas Traveler, student publication of the University of Arkansas, hit some kind of nail on the head in its Friday, April 5 issue. Everyone at the Batt office agreed that it was a typical col lege * occurrence. On page two of the Traveler ap peared a cartoon. The picture was a drawing of a professor with his hands folded, and speaking to his class. The caption on this master piece was extremely to the point: “Assuming that this is the only course any of you are taking, I shall assign your lessons accord ingly.” How about that? Oil Weekly Thanks Pet. E. Dept. For Short Course Oil Weekly, in its April 1 issue, extends the industry’s thanks to the petroleum engineering depart ment at Texas A. & M. College for a course in well-logging methods held here last month. The trade magazine says that the short course was a valuable refresher to those in the petroleum industry and a “godsend to return ed servicemen seeking to get back in stride after a long layoff.” Always seeking to be of aid to the industry, the petroleum en gineering department will hold another short course April 22-26, on “Reservoir Engineering,” with Park J. Jones, Houston consultant, leading the conference. SENIORS All graduating seniors will meet in the YMCA chapel at 7:00 p. m. Tuesday, April 9 to discuss spring graduation plans, commencement invitations, and other pertinent business. Chauncey B. Godbey and Ray Hickman were elected to the Board of Trustees of the A. & M. Con solidated School Saturday as a total of 286 voters cast their bal lots at College Station. Twenty-one votes were counted .at Rock Prai rie, and incomplete returns indi cated a ballot of 25 at the Well born election box. Godbey carried the College Sta tion box by any overwhelming mar- Texas Wildlife Project Expanding The wildlife restoration program in Texas will likely expand this year, according to Caleb Glazener, Director of Wildlife Restoration, Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Com mission, who discussed wildlife problems in Texas with a group of graduate students at Texas A. & M. College Thursday. The present budget will be greatly augmented in July from reserves that have piled up during the war years, thereby permitting the employment of additional personnel trained in game management and the inaugu ration of a better service to the people of the state. Mr. Glazener, who did graduate work in the Department of Fish and Game at Texas A. & M. Col lege, pointed out that of seventeen technically trained men under his supervision more than half of them also were trained at Texas A. & M. College. Mr. Glazener and Dr. Walter P. Taylor, leader of the Texas Cooper ative Wildlife Research Unit, both emphasized the fact that the imme diate demand for trained wildlife technicians is most urgent in the fisheries field. Persons contem plating entering the wildlife field would do well to investigate possi bilities in that direction. by Paul Martin I hesitate to reopen the highly controversial issue about the rela tive merits of the B-17 and B-24 but here are a number of statistics and opinions for the benefit of those who think a B-24 is equal to a B-17, some of whom have even gone so far as to predict that the B-24 will replace the airplane. A B-17 man myself, I may be slightly biased, but I wish to give a few statistics recently released by the War Department and accu mulated at various places. Being unable to express myself with the eloquence deserving of so vital a topic, I quote the “Im mortal Bard”, who wrote: Of the B-24, they all make fun, They say it was patented in 1901. This is something I can’t deny, For it looks like a boxcar in the sky, The tail is too short and the wings are too long They must have put it together wrong. Maybe they did but this I’ll bet, They’ll find a use for the darn thing yet. True to this prophesy, an inter- prising businessman in Milwaukee has at last found a way to utilize this “answer to the Luftwaffe’s prayer”. He purchased several sur plus fuselages and converted them into lunch rooms, patterned after gin of 194 to 92, while Rock Prai rie cast a solid 21 votes for Bre land and Wellborn divided its bal lot with 18 for Breland and seven for Godbey. Totals of all three boxes gave Godbey 201 votes to 131 for Breland. Major Breland, who is a major in the United States Army at tached to the Department of Mili tary Science at A. & M., has served three terms on the Board as trust ee from the College Hills district, taking office in 1940. He was mak ing the race this year as a candi date for trustee-at-large, since his residence has been moved from College Hills. Godbey is a profes sor of genetics at the college. Hickman carried a majority of 165 to 117 in the College Station ballot for trustee from College Hills. Rock Prairie again voted sol idly in this race, casting its 21 votes for Hampton. Results from Wellborn on this position had not ’ been received as The Battalion went to press, but it was pointed out that even a solid vote for Hampton would narrowly miss cat ching Hickman’s lead in the Col lege Station box. Godbey and Hickman will assume their places on the Board at the first meeting in May, it was stat ed. Other members of the .Board are E. E. Brown, C. A. Bonnen, Charles Allenj J. E. Moseley, and J. T. Carroll. Aggie Players Try Out for New Show Tryouts for their second major play will be held by the Aggie Players at a meeting scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, at the Assembly Hall. Title of the new production is “Junior Miss”. Included on Tuesday evening’s schedule is a short business meet ing and a recorded program of “MacBeth” featuring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. those made of antiquated trolley cars. According to a statement made by Consolidated Aircraft, the B~ 24 originated in England when some ambitious Americans evolved a means of saving shipping space. Before the United Sattes acquired and developed the bases in' the Atlantic for ferrying bombers across, it was necessary to crate the B-17’b and ship them to Eng land. Upon arrival, they were taken out of the crates, assembled, and were ready for combat. Then the crates were assembled and thus the B-24 (flying boxcar) was born. I will, however, reluctantly ad mit that the B-24 more closely re sembles a bird than other air craft. It even has a tendency to flap its wings. (This article is an excerpt from a book compiled and edited by Frank Koska of Houston and Paul Martin who is now a student at A. & M. and a reporter on the Batt. The book is a collection of car toons, combat sketches and poems composed in a German prison camp. The poems, most of them anonymous, were writted by Amer ican P.O.W.’s and though they lack finesse, they portray the sentiment of the men. The book has been accepted by the Anson-Jones press in Houston and is to be published shortly.—Ed. Note.) “Looks Like a Boxcar in the Sky”- Reporter Reopens B-17 vs. B-24 Feud