i. The HAIL RUINB COTTON LIVKLUND, T««., Oct • (AP) W®n field* in the LrrtU&nd are* •C Weet Texaa lay in ▼irtaal mlaiMMa faault of a devuteUnf 4 i mme mrnTA wits a WO DR JANRIRO, Oet, » (AP) ’ Svnora Carmeia Dutra. wife of the I C Nldent of Iraail, died ahortly fore midnleht laat night of com- nliratlon* following an operation i for appendlcitla. cio qinnoNs rai ' BOSTON, Oet I (AP)—The CIO executive board ealled on the Jua tke Department yeaterday to re pudiate report* that FBI men are Making "sleuthing gum ahoe, de tective” inveatlgationa of CIO Ilttral expendlturea. Volume 47 Veterans’ Election KslEnds Today at 6 ith nuil - ¥ Non-CampuN Ballots Due in Academic Building by 5; Dorm Votes Due at 6 Thli afternoon at 6 p.m. the raco for praaidont and vice- president of th« Veteran Student* Aaaociatlon will draw to a done. Dormitory veteran* ahould turn In ballot* to thetr reapectlve houaemaater or firat aerteant before 6 p. m. thli evening, with non-eampua veter-T po- W V VIIIMH, w * we* Ifwi-%.eei«e^**v> ; WWW* “ ana' belloU due in the Aeademic Building before 6 p. m. Three cendidatea a«e in the run ning for the V8A pretideao. They art: I. C. Buntyn of Temple, John O. Hancock of Corona, Now Mexi co, and C. V. Slagle of Taylor. In tho raco for vke-pn-sHi^m y are four candidate#: William Otu- neieen of Della*; Charle* D. Kirk- ham Jr, of Ckburno, Go* W. Lamp* of LaGrange, and John W. JESTER BACKS TRUMAN AUSTIN, Tox., Oct 9 Lau,en "* r t °‘ Arthur, are willing to eavt food to help feed hungry peitona in Europe. Ho charaetarixod the proposal* of President Truman a* “specific, definite and realistic." I HOUSTON WOMEN ACT HOUSTON, TEX., Oct 9 (AP) —A group of Houston housewives, fed up with the high coot of liv ing, have laid plan* to do some thing about tie situation. The womei formed the "com mittee againit the high coet of living” and announced plan* to appear before the city council for permiaaion to place booth* on downtown stmts to they can ob- EiSKS rfrr -ailAttend National price* back to the June, 1946, level and reinstate the 0. P. A. .Three candidate* are running alone for the aecreUry, treasurer, and parliamentarian position* Lauren D. Hobba of Pecos is eoie secretarial candidate; E. 0. Cour- tade of Waco is unopposed in the treasurer's slot; and T. C Bn n nan is running without opposition for parliamentarian. There is no candidate for ser geant-at-arms. ; ReaulU of the election will be announced tn tomorrow's issue of The Battalion. US Robot Plane Hits 1700 Mph; Beats Sound By ROBRRT S. BALL (Staff Correspondent of The Detroit Newt) (Copyright. 1947. by The Detroit News) 3 Faculty Members ASME Conference FREIGHT RATES UP 19% WASHINGTON, Oct 9—(AP) -A 10 per cent emergency freight | »nompaon, vut-c rate irtfreeae amounting to f?w),-1 nfian of the South TSRSS 0. H. Tbompaon, vice Noyaa, Jr.. President of the Ameri can Chemical Society He aaid it would not be used "unlees the user nation ta back up against a wait." * OREGON NIXES SALES TAX PORTLAND, ORE, Oct 9 (AP» —Oregon voters for the fifth time in 14 yean rejected a sale* tax and aleo turned down a 2-cent-a- pack cigaret tax bv decisive mar gins in a special aMCtion. JOHN MEYER ARRESTED NEW YORK. Oct P-(AP)- John W. Meyer, press agent for Howard Hughes, was anuated in Ei Morocco night dub yesterday on a warrant iaeuod in a paternity ^ action, and waa rdteaaod a short time later under tMO bail. head of the mechunical department, and B it rue tor of mechanical engineering, the 1947 National Cpafer- the American Society of ■9lhMMP llftaMn tn Houston, Oetobor 1-1. Tho conference waa held la die sum new material*, refining pro- fee*, and tranaportation of oil and go* over the United State*. Craw ford stated that many active mem bar* of the American Society o( Mechanical Engineers were A. 4 M. graduates. Although ronducted primarily for the benefit of oil and gas com panies of Text* and Oklahoma, many companies from South and Central America wore represented hiring the 4-day period. The conference wo* concluded with a banquet in the Rice Hotel. Mwvemor Beauford H. Jester wo* he speaker for the banquet, his subject being "State Ownership of CLEVELAND, Oct 9 (AP)- American robot rocket planes have crashed the sonic barrier at biie tering speeds in the neighborhood of 1,700 miles an hour, a high gov ernment official revealed today. The night* have been carried on for months from a off the Vi: National A Aeronautics experiment station. This. disclosure of American progress in the field of supersonic flight, which is flight faster than the spaed of sound—was prompted by pubBeation Wednesday of counts from England of the 900- mile-an-hour flight of pilotless rocket craft As in the English experiments the American rocket ships *r» launched at high altitude from faat-flying bomber. Their controls are pre-aot to send thorn diving Into tho sea after a flight ofiT to 90 miles. PUBLISHED m THE IffTlREST OF A CHEATER A AM COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Affttud), TEXAS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER «. 1947 Commies ExpeHdf From Chile For Plot Against US i SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 9 (AP) Two Yugoslav diplomats, accused by the Chilean government of fo menting, on onion from home, a Communiet campaign agalnri the United Htatoe and hemisphere sol idarlty, were expelled from Chile last night. An official statement said the two men—Andrej Cunia, Yugoslav Charge d*Affaires, and Dallbor Ja- case, secretary of the Yugoelav egation In Buenos Aires, a visitor in Santiago- were acting fur the new communist international head quarters In Belgrade and had re ceived Instruction* to: "A. Intensify and coordinate a campaign against the United States of America In order to in duce the greater Democratic ele ments to join Soviet strategy against the Western Dcmocrade*. "B. Attack the policy of conti- nental defense “C. Develop a production, ei slowing work or causing strikes and conflict* in industries pro ducing raw materials." Cunja and Jakaaa were token by automobile to Mendoxa, Argentina, just across the border. It was announced officially just before midnight that President Ga briel Gonsales Videla had notified President Juan D. Peron of Ar gentina of his action to “counter balance the energetically revolu tionary plan of the Communist party" and that Peron had inform ed Gonzales Videla that he would take the necessary steps to “de fend Argentine sovereignty." Officials aaid Foreign Miniater Vergara Donoao told the Yugo slavs they had "seriously infring ed the hospitality of our country and acted against its independence with subvandve alms." Number 43 Telemetering device# installed the robot automatically transmit pertinent data to obaarveiu aloft and on the grqjund Radar alao D uaed to track the racket plane throughout Ha brief but im tional flight. "It will not bo many months lie fore wo have a piloted ahwatt break through the sonic barrier (710 mile* an hour at 90.000 feet), although he will be flying a turbo jet plan* with a rocket booat." the government spokesman said. p a plan of sabotage i, either by means of Orchestra, Cadets To Play in Stage Show At Guion Hall Nov. 1 Bookings Taken in Music Hall For; Aggiclandcrs on (JirinlniUM Jaunt Tha Singing Csdata slid AfgUUtnd Orcheatra will begin *4748 am ‘ifif ■(■ the '47>'4l aaa*on bn November 1 with a *Uge *how at (iuion Hall BUI Turner, director, announced yenterdiy. The Singing Cadet*, beginning the year with it* record enrellmest of 69 members, meet every afternoon from 6 to 6 ■ I 4'» I i*4lfi the Muelc Hall across from George’s Confectionary. The ch JUNIOR CLAMS OFFICERS—Offlrem of this year's Junior Claaa are, left to right: JOHN E. ORE of Bryan, preaktrat; JACK 8CX)TT of Borger, secretary-treaeurer; and DON RAM- FAR of Hhrtaer. vice-president What’s Cooking? Batin in Ramp F. C Walton, Hart Hall* Utility Companies 21 Praise Calculator it current network itina board located In Hoi- according to L. M. Haupt, Islxira lory director and profoaaor of eloc trieal engineering The latent Innovation In tho elect rieal engineering department ha* been In constant use since June, 1947 and has a foil schedule up to January, 1941, Haupt stated. Utility companies have been using the device In studying electric power distribution end transmis sion. Letters have been received re cently from Texas Electric Rer- i. 7 p. m,. AcademU vice Company and Community „ Public Service Company, both of Battalion* "'ll be ln ] Fort Worth, exprtasing pleasure y, .y*? ton H *l! **** tn J*amp over result* obtained and aasia- C. Hart HaU, accord.ng to Roland t.nee and service rendered. Biiu;. manager of student publi H» g p t u dirwrtl , pK.-, ^ f “ ,,on, • the calculator, assisted by R. D. , , _ . Battalions will continue te be Cbenoweth. operator, and gradu- Landa and Reeoarces Underlying placed in Ramp* 1, Law and Pur-1 ate atudents W. J. Kolb and C. W the Marginal Sea." .. I year Hell. Wendlandt. Chemist, Born in Old Gathrite Makes First Visit Since 1911 By VICK L1NDLEY 1 names from the cornerstone of the The 4*11, grey-haired man bent old chapel, now imbedded in the over to read the inscription on the wall of Hart. PRINTERS LASH BACK SAN FRANCISCO, Oet. 9 (APj- Woodruff Randolph, president of the AFL International Typogiui phtcal Union, aaid today the Ameri can Newapaper Publishers elation overstepped its authority when it filed chargee of Taft- Hartley AeV. violations against his . NEW DALLAS PAPl l< Austin, tex.. ocv 9 -(AP) —Welcoming the Wall Street Journal to Texas, Gov. Beauford H. Jester aaid "tho south west could receive no finer roeofnition than. wo Wall Itrert IWIMre ^MMS 1» eotsbliehlng | eoulh- wv*tern odllton ^ Jeetor imM ho was mfofaMi m JaumaL Nalianal buolnoe# noWa- paper, I* eotobllahlng • edathweaG ern eiltlon In Dallas, with tho fiHt a lthm to ha pHstod an nr ahaut nrah I. FARMERS g»vh pi rdob ' WASIUNOTON, Oft. 9 -(A9)- Uadore af 'three majar ft C nleatloM hava pledged Pres!- m Truman "IIO per eant eaeaer Ittnn" In the drive to mva t^M at ham* to cn4#,to feed hungry iueufeaha. 1 The pledge of tooperaUaa waa extended to Mf. Tmmai' bp Albert ' 8. Goes, master of the national grange; Bdward A. OVeal pre«i dent af the American Farm Bureae Federation, and Quentin T t president of the National of Farmer Cooprfativet stone: "Site of Gathrite Hall, First College Building." “This is where I was born ” he said softly. It's the truth. Dr. William T. sad. chemist in the research and velopment section of the general staff, 1). S. Army, was bom on the campus of A. A M. College in old ^Gathrite Hall while that building was being used aa a home for fac ulty and staff. The year was 1R84. The college consisted of few build ings, for even Austin and Pfeiffer had not yet been built Today they are tha oldest buildings on the campus, Gathrite having been tom down some years ago. Dr. Bead's father, Dr. Jaeeph D. Read, was the flret college phy sieian here. A Civil War Confed erate veteran, he waa a strict dis- ripllnarian, One* ho a mated cadet* by taking hold of a rifle and Mall* N hits aut of a possible 97, "I A. A M. waa aa military as a fort in those days. Read remarked. Bugle calls sounded all day long, including the beginning and end ing of each claaa hour. Cadets _ driilod every day. atood sentry duty ^ he Uught "ch^miatry at Yak at night Clad in grey uniform*. WM head of the chemistry they marched to daaaes and to the at Texas Tech, then department at Texaa Tech, then for thirteen years made many additional visit* to AAM up until 1911, when he at tended a Til football game here Then, having graduated from Aus tin and done advance work at Tex as, he left the aouthsreat for Har vard. After receiving his doctor's do ing 94 bits out of • possible 1*7. "I had four yoare' iiraotoei, Ml te 14" he explained Dr. Read's ha. pltei, 9 ono-ltery woaden build- inf, was located not far from the praoont Infinaarp, A forgotten bit af •1**1, then la aaa, waa "glm- rider, for • altekal who pro* loaded te W III. The word wa* If ted from Vlrclala MIIHary IneUlute, where the roltego doe- ter had a horoo aamod QlaWi aa which •todenta loo IN te walk ^ m m m 1 a — m h- ^^d m I WWFw »BrriWfi 441 Ira# Dr. Road visited the campus this week for the first time since 1911. He recalled that the college then had a ehaplaht, who preached in the old chapel. The cadet corps old mess hail Austin and Foster Halls and tha old Chapel were constructed while Dr. Read was a child on the cam- E a. The only other permanent ildii (now ing) the meas hall and the shop. The aider Dr. Reed bad the ealy telephone at the railage, aa Ihat he could reach Bryan la ease af amergearjr. There was a* stfh eommaallr aa C*lt*i» tilatiea-jaat Ike railraad station. In thaae day* the annual Corps Trip waa not te footlnill famo*. out to Dallaa for the Texaa State Fair The whole battalion would go. One* • cadet folgncd siekneea, then sud denly realised that la * few hours the carpi would Inara for Dallaa. coos la ted of on* commandant eras Li Guy Carto- of Hart Hall to iflkaj old familiar dean of the chemistry school Rutgers University. Four of his X wr. fUthrlL. (ILI M.in Pap,,, nOW hM t-mu mm in N#w * wvmeMPi w Greet hae eung com* 40 different. rtiU* rate* in 400 appearances te ineltdN a tour of Europe he LIU symphony aa eolotet after her graduation. Hor music I'mtructor al LRV was the famous MetrolHillton baritone Faequate Eyas and Sammertiase. She hat starred in tha Memphis Open Air Theater, singing leads in such op erettas as Tha New Muon, Roberta, Naughty Marietta, and Rio Rita. Her wide range of talent account* for her frequent appearance on radio network shows—more than a thousand to data. This ia Frances Greer’s third transcontinental tour. She is an old trouper when It comes to trav eling performances. With tha Charles L. Wegner travelling bp- era company eho appeared thirty- ran times in La Bokeme aad jht Canadian appearances In Taranto and Montreal. In the latter city, Miss Greer's In iUalaerfu nu ance* aa CharubiM In The Mar riage af Fliara were made with Sir Thomas Beeeham, who selected hor to appear in tho I94A Montreal Festival i