Texas A. & M. College
BATTALION
Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, April 15, 1946 Number 48
Aggie Nine Sweeps SMU Series,
Aims For Sixth Victory Today
4- f —
Plans Completed
For 1946 Muster
Final details are being ironed out this week for a
“welcome home ,, reception to 10,000 Texas A. & M. exes
who are expected to gather on the campus this weekend in
joint observance of the traditional Muster with brother Ag
gies scattered over the entire face of the globe.
Beesley, Shuford
Win One Apiece
Against Mustangs
The Texas Aggie baseball
team scored a clean sweep of
its two-game series with the
S. M. U. Mustangs in Dallas
Friday and Saturday to con-
ue unchecked in its drive for
the Southwest Conference
title.
Earl Beesley pitched ten innings
Friday to edge out an 8-6 victory
in a night game at Ownby Field,
while southpaw Johnny Shuford
went the route Saturday to win
10-6. The Aggies got to Roy Swit
zer for five runs in the third in
ning of the second game to give
Shuford a lead which was never
headed. ‘“Stubby” Matthews hit
for a three-bagger, while “Tex”
Thornton rapped out a double for
the only other Aggie extra base
blow.
Meanwhile, Bobby Layne was
striking out 16 Rice Owls to win
an easy 16-0 triumph for Texas
university at Houston. The Steers
garnered 15 hits, scoring seven
runs in the first inning and five
in the second, while the Owls were
held to three widely spaced singles.
The Aggies now hold a slight ad
vantage in the Conference chase
with a clean record of five wins
while the Longhorns are tied for
the lead with four victories and no
losses.
The Cadet nine will move over
to Fort Worth today for a one-
game stand against the Texas
Christian University Horned Frogs.
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
Texas A. & M 5 0 1.000
Texas University 4 0 1.000
Rice 1 2 .333
Baylor ....1 3 .250
Southern Methodist 0 2 .000
Texas Christian 0 3 .000
Monday—Texas A&M at TCU.
Tuesday—Baylor at Rice.
Friday—Rice at Texas A. & M. ; South
ern Methodist at Baylor; Texas Christian
at Texas.
Saturday—Rice at Texas A&M ; South
ern Methodist at Baylor; Texas Christian
at Texas.
Krueger Will Talk
At J-TAC Memorial
General Walter Krueger of San
Antonio, who commanded tthe
Sixth Army in the Pacific Theater,
will conduct the Memorial Service
on May 5 at John Tarleton College
for the 152 students and three fa
culty members of the school who
lost their lives in the war.
Approximately 7,000 are expec
ted to attend the service and the
barbecue, which form a part of the
two-day Homecoming Celebration
for Tarleton’s ex-students. The
barbecue, one of the biggest held
in West Texas in years, will in
clude 3,000 pounds of dressed beef,
1500 pounds of potatoes for pota
to salad, and 300 pounds of coffee,
and other items in proportion.
A dance in Stephenville’s city
auditorium and a musical program
will provide part of the entertain
ment on May 4, and the next day
will be devoted to ex-student ac
tivities, the barbecue, and memorial
service.
ECO PROF TO ATTEND
LATIN INSTITUTE
A. F. Chalk, assistant professor
of economics at Texas A. & M., will
represent the College at an Insti
tute of Latin-American Studies to
be held in Austin April 12-13, and
will serve as one of the discussion
leaders at the meeting.
Mr. Chalk has recently returned
from the Service and is now serv
ing in a half-time capacity with the
Department of Economics.
Aggie Players to
Present “Junior
Miss” May 14,15
Practices for the Aggie Players’
second major production of the
season, Junior Miss, by Chodorov
and Fields are progressing favor
ably. Production dates are May
fourteenth and fifteenth.
Members of the cast are Harry
Graves, Phillip McIntyre; Joe, Wal
ter Norris; Grace Graves, Will
Beth Stephens; Hilda, Ruth Dan
iels; Lois Graves, Joe Anne John
son; Judy Graves, Gail Crawford;
Curtis, Betty Smith; Willis Rey
nolds, Gregory Salinas; Barlow
Adams, Poole Robertson; Western
Union Boy, Jack Turner; Merrill
Feurback, Donald Waldrip; Ster
ling Brown, Robert Sweeney; Al
bert Kunody, Billy Yowell; Tommy
Arbuckle, John Hammond; Charles,
James Boone; Henry, E. S. Keese;
Haskell Cummings, Lindell James.
A large staff is assisting with
the technical production of the
play. The director is F. L. Hood.
Junior Miss is adapted from the
book by Sally Benson and has only
recently been released for ama
teur production. The action of the
play takes place in the Graves’
New York apartment.
Forest Service
Issues New Book
An opportunity to learn more
about the trees of the state was
given nature lovers today through
a 140 page booklet, “Forest Trees
of Texas,” prepared by the Texas
Forest Service, A. & M. College
and just published by the Texas
Forestry Association.
N. D. Canterbury, association
president, said that the book is de
signed mainly for school use, but
that it would appeal to many tree-
loving citizens as well.
A total of 145 trees common to
Texas are described in the book,
with their use and location also
given. Most of the trees are illus
trated with drawings of the leaves
and twigs. Special sections describe
the value of the forests and how
to study and identify trees. The
book is printed on paper made
from East Texas trees, Canter
bury said.
Compulsory reading for all en
gineering students is the announce
ment of a new scientific develop
ment made by Arthur D. Little,
Inc., engineering firm of Cam
bridge, Mass. In a pamphlet the
concern states:
“Work has been proceeding in
order to bring perfection to the
crudely conceived idea of a ma
chine that would not only supply
inverse reactive current for use in
unilateral phase detractors, but
would also be capable of automat
ically synchronizing cardinal gram-
meters. Such a machine is the
‘Turbo-Encabulator’.
“The original machine had a
base-plate of prefabulated amulite,
surmounted by a malleable loga
rithmic casing in such a way that
the two spurving bearings were in
a direct line with the pentametric
fan . . . The main winding was of
the normal lotus-o-delta type placed
in panendermic semi-boloid slots in
the stator, every seventh conductor
being connected by a non-reversible
tremie pipe to the differential
Maroon Replaces
Orange Tint On
Campus Curbing
Maroon paint has now replaced
the glowing orange that marked
“no-parking” places along the
campus streets earlier this week.
Aggies, who associate orange with
which occupies
another collegiate institution that
occupies Forty Acres in Austin,
were much relieved.
During the days when the
orange was showing on so many
curbs, students often walked cir
culation routes far out of their
normal paths in order to avoid
crossing the hated color.
Faculty Members
To Take Part in
Ft. Worth Meeting
Several members of the Texas
A. & M. College faculty will read
papers and do other assigned work
on the program of the Southwest
ern Social Science Association
meeting to be held in Ft. Worth on
April 19-20, Dr. Wiley D. Rich, of
Stephen F. Austin State College,
has announced.
Individuals included in the above
group with the titles of papers to
be read and work to be done are
as follows: L. P. Gabbard will serve
as Chairman of the Agricultural
Economic Section while W. E. Mor
gan will take part in the discus
sion of papers to be read; W. E.
Paulson, “The Diagrammatic Meth
od in Economics”; with A. C. Magee
on the discussion panel for another
paper in this same section. F. B.
Clark will discuss “Economics and
Full Employment” .... a paper
to be read by Morris M. Blair of
Oklahoma A. & M. College. “The
Southwest and Industrialization” is
the title of L. S. Paine’s paper
while Thomas W. Leland will pre
sent his paper on “Contemporary
Accounting”. G. W. Schlesselman
will read a paper on “The Place of
Geography i n Postwar General
Education” and Daniel Russell will
serve as Chairman of the Sociology
Section for one meeting. W. E.
Morgan, Joe Motheral and C. A.
Bonnen will participate in the dis
cussion of papers read in the Agri
cultural Economics Section.
girdlespring on the ‘up’ end of the
grammeters.
“Forty-one manestically spaced
grouting brushes were arranged to
feed into the rotor slip-stream a
mixture of high S-value phenyl-
hydrobenzamine and 5% remini-
ative tetryliodohexamine. Both of
these liquids have specific perico-
sities given by P=2.5C.n 6 ' 7 where
n is the diathetical evolute of ret
rograde temperature phase dispo
sition and C is Cholmondeley’s an
nular grillage coefficient. Initially,
n was measured with the aid of a
metapolar refractive pilfrometer
. . . but up to the present date
nothing has been found to equal
the transcendental hopper dado-
scope.
“Undoubtedly, the turbo-encab-
ulator has now reached a very high
level of technical development. It
has been successfully used for op
erating nofer trunnions. In addi
tion, whenever a barescent skor
motion is required, it may be em
ployed in conjunction with a drawn
reciprocating dingle arm to reduce
sinusoidal depleneration.”
Easter Holidays
Start On Thursday
Official holidays for the Texas
A. & M. student body and faculty
will last from Thursday, April 18,
through April 21 inclusive, accord
ing to an Official Notice issued by
Dean of the College F. C. Bolton.
Students and staff members
have been invited to remain on the
campus for the 1946 Aggie Muster
if they so desire.
Phonetics Course
Offered in Summer
A new course is being offered in
the Department of Education at
A. & M. College, College Station
during the summer school of 1946.
This course consists of the appli
cation of phonetics to the teaching
of reading, spelling and speech
with emphasis on the science of
speech and the accent used in the
different sections of our country.
This course will be of particular
interest to teachers of the primary
and intermediate grades. However,
anyone who is interested in the
work and wishes to gain extra
credit may enroll in the class. The
course will begin on June 3rd and
with intensive study for a period
of three weeks will count three
hours credit to be applied to either
graduate or undergraduate work.
The course was taught for the
first time, as college work, in the
University of Louisiana, Baton
Rouge, La., last summer by Mrs.
Fred L. Sloop, who has made an
extensive study of the work and
has had years of experience with
the method in the classroom.
Mrs. Sloop will conduct the class
at A. & M. College during the
summer.
Elting to Inspect
Agricultural Exp.
Station Here on 23
E. C. Elting, principal experi
ment station administrator for the
U. S. Office of Experiment Sta
tions, accompanied by B. C. Rey
nolds of the same office, will con
duct the annual federal inspection
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station, April 17-24.
Mr. Elting will be the principal
speaker at the Station’s monthly
staff conference which is to be
held at 1 p. m., April 23.
Tentative schedule calls for the
two federal inspectors to confer
with Acting Director C. H. Mc
Dowell the afternoon of April 17,
then to be with the various func
tional divisions on the following
basis: forenoon, April 18, Agro
nomy; afternoon, April 18, Farm
and Ranch Economics and Agri
cultural Engineering; forenoon,
April 19, Range Animal Husband
ry and Soil Survey; afternoon,
April 19, Horticulture; forenoon,
April 20, Veterinary Science; fore
noon, April 22, Chemistry and En-
mology; afternoon, April 22, Plant-
Pathology and Physiology and Ru
ral Home Research; forenoon, April
23, with Dairy, Poultry and Swine
divisions at F. & B. Station; and
afternoon, April 23 and forenoon
and afternoon, April 24, with the
chief clerk.
Foster Resigns
City Position
O. L. Foster, assistant city se
cretary for the City of College Sta
tion, has resigned his position to
accept an appointment with the
Veterans Loan Administration in
Houston. Foster will report to his
new position between now and the
1st of May.
Mrs. Foster and Miss Katherine
Foster will remain in their apart
ment at Bryan.
A replacement for Foster’s posi
tion with the city has not been
named.
Dedicated to the memory of
over 800 A. & M. officers and men
who gave their lives in World War
I, the 1946 Muster will be climax
ed by an Easter morning service
at Kyle Field which will be broad
cast to Aggies m every corner of
the world. General Dwight Eisen
hower, honored guest at the A.
& M. meeting, will receive the
honorary Doctor of Laws degree
along with 29 Aggies who have
risen to the rank of General in the
United States Army, at a convoca
tion at Guion Hall on Saturday
evening.
Other plans for the weekend in
clude A. & M. parties at Sbisa
Hall on Friday and Saturday even
ings and arrangements for class
reunions, as well as open house
and reunions by all departments of
NO FRIDAY BATT
There will not be a Friday
issue of The Battalion this week,
since most of the Aggie student
body is expected to leave the
campus over the Easter holi
days. An eight-page Special
Muster Edition, in lieu of the
regular Wednesday issue, will
be circulated Thursday morning
to students and exes on the
campus.
The regular tri-weekly sched
ule will be resumed Monday,
April 22.
the College. Friday and Saturday
afternoons will find baseball games
at Kyle Field with the Aggies
meeting Rice.
A flood of reservations have been
received by the Former Students
Association and arrangements
have been made for eating, sleep
ing, and transportation accomoda
tions by various committees. Stu
dents are invited to remain on the
campus and take part in the Mus
ter.
Meanwhile, Muster Chairmen are
working to complete.
for local gatherings in towns and
cities throughout the United
States and many foreign countries,
as Aggies everywhere meet toge
ther to observe the conclusion of a
world conflict which was declared
at A. & M. one day before the rest
of the nation.
Temple Police
Catch Burglar
Of Local Home
A burglary of the F. C. Bean-
blossom apartment at 210 Foster
Street which occured March 30,
was solved last week with the ar
rest of Jesse Edward Webb by
police at Temple.
Webb, who gave his home ad
dress as Lyons, Kansas, was appre
hended by the Temple officers as
he attempted to burglarize a cafe
at Temple, it was stated. Found in
his possession were a suitcase and
other articles taken in the College
Station burglary. Other stolen
items have been located in pawn
shops in Houston and Fort Worth.
Included in the Beanblossom theft
were clothing, luggage, jewelry, and
other personal items.
Science Solves Sen.
Claghorn’s Problem
With E-W Compass
“Senator Claghorn,” that man
who hates the north so much that
he has sworn never to use a com
pass “because it points north,” will
have to swallow his words shortly
when he receives through the mail
from the General Electric Com
pany a new special compass which
points east and west rather than
north and south.
Thre being no such thing as a
legitimate “south” compass, G-E
engineers came up with the next
best thing, an east-west compass,
containing a new magnetic material
called silmanal, which is magnet
ized across its width rather than
along its length.
Nofer Trunions Developed
To Run Turbo-Encabulater