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.