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NEWS IN BRIEF UT ENROLLMENT RECORD PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A &M COLLEGE AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 25 (AP)— University of Texas enrollment yesterday was still short of the 18,000 expected for the fall semes ter. As of Tuesday night, 17,285 had signed up as students. This is an all-time high in enrollment. MITCHELL HEADS BOARD AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 25 (AP)— A. F. Mitchell of Corsicana (Ag- gie-ex) is the new chairman of the state board of registration for professional engineers. PHONE RATES MAY JUMP DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 25 (AP)— A study of earnings in each of 248 Exchanges in Texas will de termine where the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company will seek rate increases, W. L. Prehn, gen eral manager for the state, has announced. SOLDIERS RESENTENCED SENDAI, Japan, Sept. 25 (AP) Two American soldiers who were given a retrial have been sentenc ed to life imprisonment on charges of rape. They are Sgt. Archie L. Tack-' ett, Corsicana, Texas, and Pvt. James Barber, New Marshfield, Ohio. LONDON STYLES vs PARIS LONDON, Sept. 25 (AP)—Brit ish dress designers, warning upon Paris’ long dresses, came up today with a “spiral design.” STRIKE IN TRIESTE TRIESTE, Free Territory, Sept. 25 (AP)—Civil police broke up last night an attempt of 400 Com munists to march from a Slovene section to the heart of Trieste in a demonstration incident to a gen eral strike called by the Commu nist-dominated Sindicati Unici Union. COLLEGE AT WARD ISLAND? WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (AP) Plans to use the Ward Island build ings of the Corpus Christi, Texas, naval air base for a college were discussed here yesterday by Joe Dawson, Corpus Christi city commissioner. With Rep. Lyle (D-Tex) Daw son took up with naval officials the proposed lease of the build ings to the Arts and Technological College of Texas, a new Baptist school. MRS. ROOSEVELT INVOLVED WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (AP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote Sum ner Welles, then Undersecretary of State, in 1939 interceding in be half of Hans Eisler, self-admitted former Communist who wanted to enter the United States, a House committee disclosed yesterday. GANDHI’s BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY CALCUTTA, Sept. 25 (AP)— The provincial government of West Bengal announced today that Mohandas K. Ghan^lhi’s birthday would be observed as a public hol iday. PEACE TREATY VIOLATED? LONDON, Sept. 25—(API- Authoritative Whitehall inform ant said yesterday Britain would seek to establish that Bulgaria violated her peace treaty by the execution of opposition leader Ni kola Petkov, thus making herself liable to Allied action through the Council of Ambassadors. Warn Yugoslavia On Ultimatums WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—(AP) —The United States government has called upon Yugoslavia to stop the “exceedingly dangerous” prac tice of issuing ultimatums to Brit ish and American troops in the Trieste area because it is “likely to precipitate incidents leading to most serious consequences.” Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett told a news conference to day that American Ambassador Cavendish Cannon had expressed this view in a protest presented in Belgrade on Monday. The American note referred to recent “Irresponsible Yugoslav ac tions” when Marshall Tito’s troops demanded “alterations” in the pro visional boundary between the British-United States zone of the free territory of Trieste and Yugo slavia. Baytown Students To Organize Club All students from Baytown and vicinity are invited to attend the organizational meeting of the Bay- town Club to be held in Room 106 of the Academic Building Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m. This club will take the place of the old Tri-Cities Club. Del Rioans Meet Tonight The Del Rio A. & M. Club will meet tonight after yell practice in the Reading Room of the YMCA. Christmas activities will be planned at the meetingi Volume 47 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1947 Number 33 Founder of AsbUry Browsing Room . . . . DR. S. E. ASBURY Retired Chemist Turned History Hunter Packs House With Books, Pictures, Lore The interior decoration of 3r. S. E. Asbury’s home is .musual to say the least. Most people like to see their wall oaper, but not so with Dr. As- oury. The walls and ceilings of wery room in the place are cov- n-ed with reproductions of the Old Masters and prints of Renaissance architecture. Dr. Asbury agreed some twenty- :ive years ago to sell works of irt to the ladies of College Station. Vhen the deal fell through, and he liscovered the art wholesalers re- 'used to buy 1 the pictures back, he ook them all to his home where hey now cover every available quare inch of wall and ceiling •pace. Seventy-five year old Dr. As- Dury, who recently retired after 43 /ears as state chemist is an expert on Texas history whose collection Poole to Head ?t. Arthur Club of lore was considered so valuable to A.&M. President Bizzell that he built Asbury a house rather than let him move to Bryan. In ex change, Asbury willed his collec tion to the school. He has two hundred research projects on Texas history not yet completed and keeps at least six unsolved historical mysteries on hand at all times. A hunter of bistory rather than a writer, he solves many problems for the auth ors of history books through his tremendous collection of data on the subject. He is currently en gaged in research On the Recon struction period in Texas following the War Between the States. , Short, bald Dr. Asbury, who came to Texas in 1904, demon strates the lengths to which a mu sic lover will go in the appreciation of the classics. Though he does n’t play the piano himself,, he has four of them in his tightly packed living room. When he can round up fopr accomplished pianists, he has a night of it. He turns up the phonograph to a thunderous frequency able to dominate the four pianos going full blast and weaves around the room to the rhythm of the selection. In addition to appreciating mu sic, Dr. Asbury, who graduated with the first class from North Carolina A.&M., has tried his hand at creating some. For the past thirty years he has worked inter mittently on his five operas which make up a series based on early Texas history and the early set tlers. None of the operas has been completed, but Dr. Asbury thinks he has plenty of time for them. His family is known for its long evity. Both his parents lived into their nineties, and one aunt died at ninety-eight by purely accidental means—she slipped in the bath tub! The dances, so common today, were unheard of a few decades ago, Dr. Asbury relates. Parties, square dances, and “pop-callings” were the major social activities. On Sunday afternoons groups of two to five students and instructors went “pop-calling” on the Bryan belles, stopping no longer than fif teen minutes at each nome. A good way to get acquainted, he ob served. So unwieldy did Dr. Asbury’s collection of books, music, and his- troical data grow that he donated many of his books to the college libary. Around this nucleus has grown the Asbury Browsing Room. Concerning the current styles in ladies’ dresses, Dr. Asbury is in clined to be optimistic. Judging from the past, he says, if the hem line drops, the neckline is sure to follow. Mexican Reporter Visits Latin Americans On A, - M. Campus Seek Mandamus In Taylor Case John T. Poole, senior student in industrial education, was elected president of the Port Arthur A. & M. Club Wednesday night. Elected to serve with Poole were P. H. Landry, sophomore business and accounting student, vice-presi dent; Gene Mullins, sophomore business and acco.unting student, secretary; and B. A. Neuman, sophomore engineering student. These officers will serve for the 1947-48 school year. The club will meet again Oct ober 1, at 7 in Room 103 of the Academic Building. Plans for a club party the week-end of the football game with S. M. U. will be discussed. . Membership cards will be avail able at that time for all students living in the Port Arthur area. Membership in the club costs one dollar. Boyd Named Prexy Of Spanish Club The Spanish Club held its first meeting Tuesday evening. Officers were elected and plans for the current school year were discuss ed. * Claude C. Boyd, veteran student from Kent, was elected president, and Pedro J. Munoz, of Mexico City, was elected vice-president. The new secretary is M. G. Boehl. H. A. Holgrim assumed the duties of treasurer and R. E. Scruggs was elected to the post of Parlia mentarian. In the discussion following the election, it was decided to resume publication of “El Glarin’’, the Spanish Club newspaper. E. T. Guerrera was named editor. It was decided to meet on the second Tuesday of each month. Jovial J. H. (Senor Mas)'Moore is the faculty advisor of the or ganization. Jose E. Chapa, staff writer and publicity agent for the lodo, a weekly magazine of Mexico, visited on the A. & M. campus Wednesday. Chapa stated that the purpose of his visit to Texas is to secure a story on the student life-f of Latin-Americans in some of the colleges in the United States. The story will appear in a fall edition of Todo. Todo, Chapa explained, is a news and feature magazine similar to the Saturday Evening Post. Eisler Admits Communist Past Chapa said he chose A.&M. as a source.of background material be cause it is one of the leading col leges offering Latin-American stu dents additional facilities in order to complete their studies. Chapa also stated that some of the best technicians and Agriculture experts in Mexico have attended school at A.&M. While on the campus Chapa con tacted many Latin-American stu dents in the office of J. J. Wool- ket, head of the modern language department. In speaking to them Chapa emphasized the necessity of each student conducting himself in a manner that would reflect cred it on Latin-American countries. Every student should act as a private ambassador, so as to in terest the U. S. in Latin-American nations, and to destroy some of the erroneous impressions some people have about some Latin countries. Before leaving the campus to re turn to Houston, Chapa met with President Gibb Gilchrist. Austin Club Meet The Austin Club will meet to night immediately following yell practice in Room 108, Academic Building. All men from Austin and Travis County are urged to attend this first meeting of the semester in order to get the club organized as soon as possible. WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—(AP) —Hanns Eisler, 54-year Hollywood composer,- acknowledged to a House committee yesterday that he once applied for Communist patry membership but declared he was never active in party work and “dropped out.” Eisler was the first witness as activities opened an inquiry into the question whether alien com munists have been permitted to stay in this country illegally. Before the hearings began, chairman, J. Parnell Thomas (R- NJ) told reporters the House group has evidence that top rung government officials have winked at Communist sojourns in the Un ited States. Eisler, German-born, came to the United States in 1935 and has never become a citizen. He told the committee under questioning by chief investigator Robert E. Stripling that he applied for membership in the Communist party in Germany in 1926. “Pm not now a Communist,” he asserted, adding that he “dropped out” after discovering that “I couldn’t combine artistic activities with political demands.” Laredoans Meet Tonight The Laredo A. & M. Club will meet in Room 226, Academic Build ing, tonight at 7:30. Committees ior the Christmas dance will be appointed. CORSICANA, TEX., Sept. 25— (AP)—An answer was filed in district court here yesterday by Fagan Dickson, first assistant at torney general of Texas, for Gov. Beauford H. Jester, defendant in a mandamus suit brought recently by Robert Y. Yarber of Corsicana. Yarber is seeking to force the Governor to call a special session of the Texas Legislature to bring impeachment proceedings against State Senator James E. Taylor of Kerens, public relations director of the Texas Manufacturers Associa tion. Taylor declined to resign from the Senate. The case is set for Oct. 6. Dickson’s answer cited six reas ons for dismissal of the suit against Jester. He said that under Section 3, Article 5 of the Constitution, the court was without jurisdiction, and that Article 1733 of Vernon’s Civ il Statutes prohibited a mandamus against the Governor. Under the Constitution also the right of the Governor to call an extraordinary session is discretion ary, and each house is the sole judge of qualifications of its mem bers, Dickson said. His answer asserted that the plaintiff has no justifiable interest in the controversy; that he fails to show that Senator Taylor vio lated any provision of the Consti tution or statutes which would sub ject him to punishment or remov al from office. Jurisdiction of the court is at tacked also under Section 2, Ar ticle 3 of the Constitution, ,that each House has exclusive power to punish members for disorderly conduct. San Angelo Club Meets The San Angelo Club will meet tonight at 7:15 in the Agricul ture Building. Directors to Convene in San Antonio Friday, Saturday Non-Military Men F-H on Photo List For ’48 Longhorn Non - military students whose last names begin with C, D, and E are scheduled to have their pictures made at the A&M Photo Shop for the 1948 Longhorn before Saturday, Sep tember 27, announced Tommy John, co-editor for the 1948 Long horn. The remainder of the schedule for non-military students is as follows: September 29-October G, and H October 2-4 i, J, and K October 6-8 L and M October 9-11 N, O, P, and Q October 13-15 R and S October 16-18 T, U, and V October 20-22 W, X, Y, and Z Clubs and societies must reserve space in the annual before Octo ber 17, Hometown clubs will be granted only one-third of a page at a cost of $8.50. Societies and other course-of-study clubs may re serve space up to one page, which will cost $25. Reservations will be taken in the Longhorn Office, Room 204, Goodwin Hall between 3 and 5 p. m. Monday through Friday. By Friday, December 5, alpha betical lists of club, society, and military unit members are due in the Longhorn Office. At present, the 1948 Longhorn is scheduled for delivery on July 19. It will include all spring so cial and sports events, which were the causes of delay in this year’s annual. ‘Y’ Assembly Room Being Remodeled « M. L. Cashion, secretary of the YMCA, announced that the As sembly Room will be completely refinished in several weeks. A brown Azrock floor with red modeling was laid Tuesday. The college gave the YMCA a hun dred and ten opera seats which will be installed within the next week. The overstuffed chairs which were in the room have been given to the college to be refinished and placed in the new area dormitory lounges. With the removal of the over stuffed chairs the seating capacity has been almost doubled. The room will seat a hundred and fifty people by the addition of forty folding chairs. Cashion stated that the Cabinet Room would be furnished in a sim ilar manner at a later date. Kimball County Project on Agenda; Committee Will Represent Students Directors of A. & M. will meet at the Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, Friday and Saturday, previous to the Aggie-Texas Tech football game, according to R. Henderson Shuffler, iirector of college information and publications. Five cadets representing the Senior Class will jneet with ♦•the board, as a means lishing a feeling of goodwilUbe^*-' tween the school officials and the student body. ‘Daily Texan’ Regrets Loss Of J. Frank Dobie AUSTIN, TEX., Sept. 25—(AP) -The Daily Texan, University student newspaper editorially de clared the University of Texas was the loser in the dismissal of Dobie. “Regardless of who is ‘right’ or who is ‘wrong’, the faculty, stu dents and the entire University are the losers,” the editorial stated. “No other man can supply the original and authentic character of Mr. Dobie’s personality. Few auth ors can approach his prestige as an authority on the peculiarly Tex- ian way of life which is his un disputed field.” “Perhaps the technicality of Pancho Dobie’s dismissal leaves the administration with a clear re cord of enforcing a board of re gents rule, which is a commendable feat.. But was the rule worth what it cost us: we now have a rule but no Dobie,” the Texan observ ed. They are Elmo Livingston, president of the Senior Class; Wil liam L. Brown, cadet colonel; Asa Holleman, head yell leader; Louie M. Hardy, Battery D commander; and James K. B. Nelson, Battalion co-editor. Building program plans will be reviewed by the board in light of recent developments in the College Building Amendment situation. Appropriations for additions to the present athletic plant and a pro posal for increasing the seating capacity of Kyle Field will be con sidered. Junction citizens have requestgcl a hearing for a committee from that city to discuss plans for a college project in Kimball County. Acknowledgement of gifts and grants, acceptance of scholarships and fellowships, budget matters for branch colleges, and confirma tion of appointments and promo tions are expected to be major items for consideration. The meeting of the board in San Antonio is an annual affair, scheduled for the week-end of the A&M-Tech football game. UT Students Parade In Farewell to Dobie AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 25—(AP)—Two hundred or more University of Texas students last night staged a mile-long march bearing flaming torches and banners to the home of Professor-Folklorist J. Frank Dobie to thank him for 33 years jf service to the University from which he was dissmissed * ♦ Tuesday. San Antonio Dana Set for Rose Roor The San Antonio Club will hold its annual dance in the Gunter Hotel Rose Room in San Antonio Saturday night imme diately following the Texas Aggie-Texas Tech football game, Joe Wolpman, club president, announced. Music for the dance vdll be furnished by Bobby Geisler and his orchestra; script is $2 with or without a date. Student-leader of the demonstra tion William Darden of Holliday told the ex-professor of English that the group came not as a pro test against the University ad ministration but with one purpose —“to pay our respects to a belov- tion for your 33 years of service ed Texan and express apprecia te the University of Texas.” Dobie, who was dismissed by the administration because he failed to return to duty this semester after his request for leave was refused, stood on the back steps of his home and listened to the student tribute. His wife sat on the steps nearby. State Defends Validity of Building Ammendmen Vote AUSTIN, Tex. Sept. 25 — (AP).—The state today de fended validity of the college building constitutional amend ment on grounds that in reality it contained only one subject, but that there is no specific legal pro hibition against submission of more than one subject to the electorate. This was the gist of the state’s answer to an injunction suit brought in 126th District Court by a group of taxpayers to prevent Attorney General Price Daniel from approving any bonds that might be issued under the amend ment adopted by a narrow vote in the Aug. 23 special election. It was contained in a brief sub mitted today to District Judge Roy C. Archer by Assistant Attorney General Joe R. Greenhill. A group of property owners, most of them from Lubbock, asked the court for injunctive relief on grounds that the proposal submit ted five issues in one proposition, violating Article 17 of the State Constitution. The petition asking the injunc tion contended that “such purport ed amendments to the constitu tion are irregular and void, and any bonds issued pursuant to the provisions thereof, would likewise be illegal, void and unenforceable.” It argued that Article 17 requires that “each purported amendment be submitted as a separate issue, containing only one issue.” The state’s answer came back with this argument: “1. The Texas Constitution does not limit the legislature or the peo ple to one subject in any consti tutional amendment. Not being so limited, an amendment may contain more than one subject. “2. Not waiving the above, it is submitted in alternative. * AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 25 (AP)— A suit contesting the college build ing amendment election in six Tex as counties was filed in 126th Dis trict Court here today. The suit alleged that in Bexar, Galveston, El Paso, Hill, Moore and Taylor counties the proposed amendment was not published once each week for four weeks, com mencing at least three months be fore the election. It was the second court attack on the amendment adopted at the Aug. 23 special election by a nar row vote. The suit was styled C. W. White- side and others versus Paul Brown. Secertary of State. It contended that the official poll of the votes cast included “votes which were illegal and void because of irregu larities in the election” in the counties named. It said not only were the prop ositions to be voted on not pub lished once each week in one week ly newspaper, but that they were not published in any newspaper. Stone Elected To Head Camera Club Claude Stone, a physics major, was re-elected president of the A. & M. Camera Club at its first meeting of the semester. S. J. Eng land, an EE student, was named secretary-treasurer and also acting vice-president. Next meeting of the club will be Monday, September 29, at 7:30 in the Physics Build ing. “Button-pushers” as well as ad- icts are welcome to join the club, Stone says, explaining that by “button-pushers” he means those photographers who push the but ton and let the drug store do the rest, when it comes to taking pic tures. Club membership is open to all students, employees of the college, and their families, accord ing to Stone. “I don’t know hardly how to express my appreciation and Mrs. Dobie’s appreciation for this expression of your heart and—I say without flattery — your intellect,” Dobie told his visitors. “I assure you that seeing you and hearing you makes our minds. feel large. There is nothing need ed in the world these days more than a certain largeness, a certain magnanimity of spirit.” While the students sang “Auld Lang Syne” Dobie glanced up at the University of Texas tower ris ing above the trees of his garden and tears welled in his eyes. Dobie had refused to teach dur ing the fall semester for reasons of wanting to finish a book he is writing and of suffering severely from hay fever during the winter months. University of Texas pres ident T. S. Painter refused to grant him a leave under a board of re gents new ruling limiting faculty leaves to one year except under very unusual circumstances.” As the studetns left Dobie’s home last night, a co-ed told Do bie she was sorry he was leaving. “Oh don’t preach my funeral yet,” the 59-year-old ex-professor of English bantered and wished her good night. Quarterback Club Will Meet Tonight The Aggie Quarterback Club will meet promptly at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening in the Assem bly Hall. Coach Homer Norton will give a short talk and assis tant Botchy Koch will discuss some of the finer points of next week’s opponent, the Texas Tech team, which he scouted last Satur day. Following these talks, a film will be shown of the A&M-South- western game played last week on Kyle Field. Assistant coaches will be on hand to explain various highlights of the game during the showing.