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f BITS IN BRIEF , r ■ PLAN NAVA80TA DAM WACO> Tm., OeA ft (AP)~8lx n*w dam* and rtaanroln ar* "bt- inf conatdarad” by U. 8. (<>rp» of Army «nfbM«n for contrul- of flood* in th« lower watmhod of Bra to* River, Col. Hoary Hatch inf*. Jr., division onfinoor, told director* of Braio* K v, r i or>. r vation and Reclamation Dietrict. One would be on tho N*vas<>t» River, about 18 milea eoutheaat of ! i—I TEXAS STILL" THIRD NEW YORK, Oct ft (AP)-Mi- ehifan has been stamped as (he , No. 1 team of the nation by the »pert*writer* partieiaatinf in the weekly Associated, Press football poll. Notre Dame remained a strong second choice. Ten writer* » thought Teats had the U »t ball club in the land and there were enough who were impressed to give them third place. "COWBOY KINO" K1LLBD ROSWELL. N. M., Oet SI (AP) Bob <'ro»by, who chested 4mth s thousand times on bucking broncs and wild •eved steers, is dand from t Jeep a«ldaat • • •Tbs “Ring of tbs Cowboy." .IlM of head and tbeat injuriee here yeetarday when his key plunged 80 feet into the dry river bed of the Pecos River PHODUciiuTMTIPY WASHINGTON, Oet. It -UP) Hsm Wood, veteran Hollywood WWNsty and direetor, said yeatar* dtp M i tight, dlsslpllnsd group of • ( ummtnlat Party Membsrs and party liners" la Making (a gall con trol of unions and guttda In tbs movie 'ifMfe: Jock L Warner, Hollywood movie predbser, told the cemmltte# that people "with un-American leaning" have Infiltrated Into tke movie Indastry, 1*1 HUSHED IN THE INTEREST Or A \TER ARM COLLEGE Volumn 47 OOLLBOK STATION (AffWkuid), TEXAS, OCTOBER 21,1M7 Number BO Soldier, Statoman, Knightly Gentleman • . . Italian Sculptor, Pompco Coppini, Quits Engineering, Produces ‘Sully 9 Monument By KENNETH BOND ANDfeMON BAYS "MT I KANSAS CITY, Oct SI —(AP) —Secretary of Agriculture A ruler- won said yesterday he was "paying no attention" to reports that he might resign from the Truman cabinet to seek a seat la the Bsnate from his home state af New Mexico. I N DEADLOCKED new York, oet « -cap) The United Nations assembly fail ed today in a new effort to break the throe-week deadlock between India and the Soviet Ukraine in the contest for. the security council neat which Poland wfll vacate De- Lika a beacon in a aUrray sea, the statue of General Sullivan Rom stands at the center of the ARM Campus. For those who ware never able to know Lawrence Sullivan Roes, the statue stands aa a monument to a man who started AAM on ha way to haroming an educational institution. To thooe who attondod AAM in tho oarty days and know Gonoral Ross, tho statue is Hardly neces MB?. As one old tinier put it, "The statue is only a reminder, and those of us who know him coul.i never forget You mo, ho engraved his memory on the hoorta and minds of thooe students who attondod AAM when ho was president." "I have never heard anyone who attended AAM utter aa unkind word about Him," bo added Tbs Ross statue was modelled in Iftl by Pom- pea Coppini, .Italian-bon sculptor wbo still Uvm • II San Antonio Pram his studio thora cams many of Texas' rommemorativ* monuments. To an avorago porsorg to "build* a status, you mavuly taka kamiuar, chtsal, and g piece of raek. and with • ship kars and a slat thaw (aagmantad by a stick or taro of dynamite) you have a full blown sutuo, U la thinking like tbie which make* K possible for an artist to llvo, to mato and build, and dio bofars he la appreciated or aeslalMd, Capplni, an aatlva liUU 7? year «MHallan. like* to *hoot tho brooM ovtr a sup af eaffo# and •ImroMea aa well aa anyaua. Drop around to ana of the IKlte sida *traat aaffba shop* in San Antonio, •nd you! find him drinkng coffee, talking, and Jurt living. < i - tame af the other work* of Healptor Coppini aiu tuck well known pieoo* a* the LittWMd Mem orial Fountain at Teas* Untvsaalty, the Con fade rate Group located in front of the itote Capital at Aus tin, the Baylor Memorial and Burleson Sutuo at MonaaMnL Waco, the Hammeratein Statu* for the Haromearteln Theatre in New York, and the aia brvnie figure* in th* Hail of Teas* Heroes which were aahlhitod at th* Centennial in Dallas in 1M«. Coppini was bon in tho Italian Providence of Moglia. in 1*70. Hi* father, a musician, was th* des cendant of a noble, wMlthy family which was ruined by the Aus trians in th* War of IMd. Cop pini could carry the name of a nobleman, but refused to lot any one know this, m he wanted only those things in life that he could attain himself. ^ After studying in Batt Co-Editor To Attend Minnesota ACP Convention UuhCm Chora, Magician, Acrobat Florence and opened t studio. Upon his arrival in the United SUtes in 1898, he found that the golden “land of opportunity" did not necesMrily exist for sculptor* He spent several months wandering about New York before he finally received a commission to make portrait boats of aeveral New York notables. He went to Omaha where he modeled all tho groups and other sculp ture work for the government building at tho Oma ha Exposition. Ho also prepared many of tho group* for the Pan-American Export Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1899. Upon hia return to New York, he and Arthur Fendtl opened a studio. Though the partnership soon dissolved, Coppini continued the operation of the studio. After a whirlwind courtship, Coppini married the former Miss Elisabeth De Borbieri of New Haven, Conn. She became a real helpmate and hia sonatant aid and inapirstion. They moved to San Antonio in 1910 and built tho now famous- Coppini Homo and studio located at the corner of BraS«way and Arendia Place In Alamo Heights. Though he has an offtro on West 14th Street In New York, be prefer* to spend m murk time aa possible in San Antonio. Coppini rosorves o warm spot In his the (ionerol Nul Russ Statue, which was front of the Academic Building In 1918, honor to do • statue of such a groat man,"! „ Sculptor "1 think that In addition to keeping this statue dean, th* frrohmen should try to model their lives after Rom. He was a groat Indkaa ftoktor, A bora I POMPID COPPINI. particlpallito In 188 Utiles and had flva kofaso sculptor of the Roes MUler Be- ahot under him. As governor, he woe elected twice lowi The Leorooer Seltkaa Rom by a handsome majority and died as president of w / Charlie Murray, co-editor of The Battalion, w|N leave tomorrow morning by plane for Minneapolis to attend a three-day Associated Collegiate Press conference. The convention, to bo held Oc tober 23 through 28 will cover all phases of newspaper, yearbook, and magaxine publishing. Desipied to aid student Journa list* in all fields, the ACP parley will provide a program including such speakers aa: George Preedlcy, drams critic for the New York Moraiog Telegraph; Dr. Ralph D Casey, director of the University cf Minnesota school of Journalism; Gideon Seymour, executive editor of the MinnMpolia Star and Trt- bone; Graham B. Hovey, staff member of the New RepebUc who was on th# "Inside" as th* Mar shall Plan took shapo; and Georg* Grim, foreign correspondent for th* Minnoapolia Triboa*, Just back from a round-the-world tour by air. The Associated Collegiate Press, th* college version of the Associa ted press, is directed by the Uni versity of Minnesota, ft conducts soml-ant usl critical survoys of col- Um JuMWations In lu last sur vey The Battalion reMived sn All- American rating, top honors for s student paper. Murray will return to Coltego Sunday evening. NTSC Variety Show To Appear at Annex, Guion Hall on Nov. 1 AAM College. STILL NO EGGS ^ WASHINGTON, Oet. ft -(AP) —Kgrtou Thursday will continue even If poultry less Thursday is abandoned, citisen* food commit tee official* predicted yesterday They told reporters it is )>rob- would be restored to Tbnrsday menus ar a result of conference* starting today. SBEK FOREST tHSONIW LUFKIN, TEX.. Oet 21 (AP) —41J,. Kurth, asserting there was no doubt that fires had boon wt deliberately In timber laads in Polk County Friday and Saturday, today offered a reward of $2<hi f,,i arrest and conviction of tbe (h-i- or person* who art thorn. Kurth is • president of th* Angelina County Lumber Compauy. JESTER WARNS GOYB. AHItVILLR. N C. Oet It (AP) * —Gov. Boauford H. Jester of Tex- V M ftoterday warned the southern < 'inference of governor* that th* United State* Supreme ( uurt’s re fusal tv reconsider the California ttdelsnd* cose tightened tho ■ -lianirlmtr loop of . t >p*r-fedrrul control at the throats of ‘mere property owners,' the sovereign Rtstee of the unit*." had to offer at that tins, and Rivaka, he grodualad from the Academia de Bell* Arts. He finished the eight year acad emy coarse in thro* yean, win ning highest henon and prise money over students of eight to twelve yean training. Hia parent* ebjeett-d violent ly to his training as an artist aa they hod hopes of his becoming a civil engineer. Though their hopes never completely material ised. he was forced to work aa an engineer oa a dam in northern Italy for a whilo when they re fused to finaeee further art train- X hie attempt to follow his chosen ftoid of work, ho waa fon ts spend several yeon in the Itellnn Army, point signs, clerk in stero, and be a wins salesman From tho money accumulated as a win* merchant, he returned to PUT OUT I YORK. Oct NEW YORK. Oct. tlrordAP) The fir* department wa*'Wiled to put out a mum fog in th* HhMK, A woman apartment Houm deoler, awakened by a neighbor*! cc ing, saw th* fog rolling post her window in smoke-llh# clomri Sh* iu reamed, “Flro!" an alarm was turned h and H was almast dawn before the neighborhood gat back to sloop. WONT LRAV& KOREA WASHINGTON. Oet ft -(AP) —The United Slates has formally rejected Russia's proposal that So viet arm Aasorican occupation troops Withdraw *imultan«-ou«ly from Kona. ' EGYPT CHOLERA BAD CARIH, Oet tl -(AP)- A 21 day old cholera epidemic has cost 2,128 live* In Egypt the public health mtnictrv announced today. M the Egyptian government Rioted new fands and mapped the diaea* Ministry i “W IHTVCKH plana for combating the GET MOBILE HOSPITAL 1 NEW OBI LANS Oct tl (A) > —A mobile operating roam, mount ed in an automobnc trailer and equipped with fadlitios compar- abte to those of largo hospitals, will bo station<»d bp the Navy at th* Naval hospital in (button for disaster relief work, Eight Naval District Headquarters her* nounced. 1 YERUDIMARR1IS LONDON, Oft. tl —(AF)— ! omimi newspapers reported that Yehudi Menuhin, tl, world renewu. sd violinist, and Diana Gould, 14 •CtTOM and ballerina, wars mar ried hero Sunday meraiif. Menuhin divorced hia flrat wife. At the college Rons was I and admired, not ae an ex nor bat because of bis love far the students He loved the college suf ficently to reject a nomination si Railroad Commissioner. In spite of hia outstanding record aa an Indian fighter and general In the! Confederate Army, I think ike is woll depicted m a statesman and 1 coltego president " In regards to the Sul Ross Sta tue, here is a letter dated 26 Oc tober, 1918 from President William B. Biasell to Sculptor Coppini: “Dear Mr. Coppini. I am delighted with the photograph of the Gov ernor Rom Statue, and I shall take plaaaaro in having it framed and placed in a coMatcious place In my reception office. It ia vary gratifying to me that you are tak ing ao much pride in the produc tion of this artistic work. I am sure it will be a credit to you as well as to the greet state which National Students Association Given Seat on UNESCO The newly formed United States National Student Association has been granted membership in th* National Commission for UNESCO (United Nations Economic, Scien tific, and Cultural Organisation). Notification to this effect waa received by the national office of the W8NSA located in Madison, Wisconsin from the State Depart- ment m wr ash i n gt <> n. ^ * William B. Welsh, president of the USNSA. announced that Rob •rt 8. Smith, viea-proaident of the association, would be represents live of the National Student Asso- 4 Ace« of Collegeland Band 1 to Play For Dance in Shiga Following Show . DENTON, Tex., (SPL) Oct 2oXa 32-mewtber variety troupe front North Texas State College win invade Agxie- land Saturday, November 1, to pn-wnt two show* before Akki«* audienctii and play for an A.AM. dance, Director Floyd Graham announced this week. Feattring number* by the 18-piece Acea of Collegeland +bend, a can-can chorua, and stu dent performers, this variety show will be given at 5 p m. for AAM froehawn and at 7;80 p.m. for oth er itvdmts. Tho stag* band will, play for a dance from V till ll Saturday night The SM»*a performance wilt be presented at the gymaaelum, okll# tile campus program *1H be held on th* ntage of (iatea sun Specialty numlwr* on the pro* gram will Include songs by Vlrgb nis < luck of Neptune City, N. J M who wm choeen (he "most lovable girl of the month" this summer In New Jersey; the Dlpsy Dondlers, a group of hllthlllv singers com- poecd of Adrian Median, Reuben Noel, and Jim Bolt Nance of Ama rillo; Gene Pflug of Dallas, dancer featured In the Dallas Starlight Operettas this summer; 1 Betty Stewart of Cleburne, special danc er; L A. Speer Jr. of flenton, ms- igieiaa; and Mary I-ashly of Port ^rtbur, an acrobatic dancer. 4 A&M Students To Judge at Dairy Show in Florida W. R. Kamael, t 0. McWhlrter. J. H, Walker, ami W. C. Magee will represent A, A M at Miami, Fieri da wbon the Colleglsi* Student Inleroatioftal Contest In Judging Dairy Fraduets (mivenea «nt Os- | tober 17. The rontoat Is held aa the fea ture event at the annual meeting of the International Association of Milk Dealers and tha Interna* ttonal Assmlatiurr of Milk Manu* facturers At a kaaaaat fattSwM tbs contest, the high man in the contest will be awarded a scholar- skip for • master's degree at the school of bis choice. The Dairy In duotry Supply Association is s;>on soring the scholarship The A. A M. team has been train ia endeavoring to honor the mem- eiation to the National Commia- ory of Goversor Roe*. Signed B. Bisxell. r ing on samples of creamery but ter from Tavlor, Ice cream samples In th* can-can chorus will be from Amartto, and milk samples Jackie Langham of Dallas, Jean- from Houston, as well as various nine Hawthorne of Mexia, Katie samples from the croamery hero Wisely of Denton, Fran Payae of at eollaga. In this type of contort, 90 per rant of judgment is Thg team has b< who has What’s Cooking? | ARCHITECTURAL IOCI ETY Tuesday, Architectural Lecture AI Chi PICNIC. I p WU Wed- netday, HtnaS Puik- TVanaporto- lion at Pstroloum Buibiing ARTS AND SCIENCES FAC ULTY, 7:80 p. nk, Tuesday. Phy sics Lecture Room. AUSTIN CLUB. 7:80 pju.j Monday, Room 10X Academic. Irifinally October 13.) AGRONOMY SOCIETY, 7:10 m., Wednesday, At Lectors loom. AIEE moots Taeaday, 7:30 p.m., E.E. Lecture Room. AGGIE RODEO. October 24-28. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEER ING SOCIETY, 7:10 p. m., 7W day, Agricultural Engineering Lec tor* Room. BATTALION STAFF, 7 p. Wl, ednosday, Room 261, t,oo<lwm COOKE COUNTY CLUB, 7:80 p. ss., Thursday, Room 807, Aca demic. EPISCOPAL STUDENTS CAN- TEBURY CLUB. 7 p. m.. Wednes day, Pariah Houm. ECONOMICS CLUB, 7:80 w m., issday, Room 807, Academic. ENGLISH STAFF, Annex Eng lish staff to entertain campu* Eng lish faculty, 7:80 p. m., Thursday, Annex Btmirnt Ontvt K REAM AND KOW KLUB. 7:80 p. m, Tuoaday, Oemery Lecture Room Texas Nutrition Conference To Be Held Here October 23-24 Experts In tha field of sninutl nutrition will convene it A. 4 M. October 28-24 to make available to Texana their ac cumulated knowledge on the production of the maximum poundate of meat, poultry, and effn from available feeda. The occasion la the third Texaa Nutrition Conference, sponsored by tho collage far the* ~ Ibaa hion for UNESCO. Smith is chair men of the International Activities Commission of the USNSA, which is located at Harvard Univenity. The twenty-six regional chair men of the National Student As sociation will coordinate their ef fort* with those of the regional UNESCO Committees to imple ment the programs of the Nation al Commiasion for UNESCO. The USNSA is an organiaation baaed upon the student government bodies of rnllogos and universities nil over the Olnited States. Dele gates who attended the Constitut ional Convention at Madison, Wis consin came from SM campuses, and were directly representing 1,- 389,000 American roltoM students. Th* urograms of the USNSA will benefit the individual col log* »tu- dent through hia student govern ing body. Direct student exchange be tween Canadian and th* US uni- varsities la one of tho projects now Mag devrlop*d. Special travel and I study tour* tro bolng formulated | In Europe benefit of Texas ranchmen, pool try men, and food men Application of la tort aciontifk information in tlMl fidkiA of QfliftlAl nutrition and biochemistry to the problems of feeding a hungry world will bo discussed by Dr. R. M. Rothko, in charge of nutritional mve*tigat)ona at Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, and Dr. T. H Jukes, head of the deportmoat of nutrition and physiology rt-March for Lodori* Laboratories of Poor! River. N. Y. Dr. Bothke, expert in the field of poultry nutrition, ia past pram dent of both the American I’oultn Science Association and tha Ameri- caa Society of Animal Production Dr. Jukas waa formerly 'in the staff of the University of Cailfor- aia. Other netritioners who plan to tend the conference are H. R. Guilbert, professor of animal hus bandry at the University of Cali- an- Dr. J. H. Quiranberry to HOUSTON CLUB, 7BO p. Tuesday, YMCA. HEART OF THE HILU CLUB 7:10 p. m., We*ine»day, Room 228, RURAL SOCIOLOGY CLUB. 7:80 p. m., Tuesday, Room 808, Agrkaitural Building. . . SOCIOLOGY CLUB, 7:80 p, m. Room 8M, Agriculture R ilding. 8O0IETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENC1MBBR8, 7:80 p m.. Tuoaday. Ml Loctvro kooaa. Film "Some thing to Shoot For", on Clove land Air Ruml •T" ARSOC^ liOO p.m., Wodnoa- day, Oet It Lecture Room of C.C. Building, VOIXeYBALL CLU», following JOHNSON COUNTY CLUB HA KK8CUE 8 p. m. Friday, Hensi Fark. Contact A R Buckor, 8-L Puryoar. before noon, Thurmduy PRE-LAW •ocorr. 7:80 p.m., Tuomtoy, Room It ftBMluf K | yell praetlco Tuesday, Gymnasium. PREMED-PREDCNTAL SOCIE VITER AN WIVES rU'B, 7:10 TY, 7:10 pto^ Tuesday, Science p. m.. Tur-Uy, YMCA Salad de- Lecture Raom. Election of effleera. monetrotioa by Mtu. J, B. Medfsrd fornia; J. W. Haywani. director of the nutritional research depart ment af Archer-Daniel* Midland company of MtnnoapoHs; and C. F Huffman, rsooarch professor of dairying at Michigan State Col- laco. Papers dealing with problems of securiM maximum rosulte in beef and dairy cattle feeding and poul try feeding with available feed* will fill the two-day conference, followed by a discussion and ques tion period. On Saturday following this pro gram the group will tour the ex perimental farms sad laboratories of the College, and will attend the AAM-Baylor football game. TEXAS COUNCIL MEETING Tha aunaal meeting cf the Tax es State Nutrition Council will b* held in Lubbock, October 28, in th* Agriculture Auditorium of J TUCknologictl College. Miss W Wilmot, Associate Profes sor of Home Economics, University of Tsxas, is Chairman of tho Nu trition Council. Nutrition Education In The School" will be the theme of the mooting. J. C. Leukhardt of the Nutrition Program Offtoo, Wash ington, D. (X, will speak an "Cur rant Work! Fond Problem* What They Mean to Ut." 4 College Station Men Nominated To Regular Army, AF Four men from College Station, including throe members of the staff of AAM, wore nominated last week for racesa appointment* as commissioned officer* in the Reg ular Army and Air Foret, General Thomas f. Handy, Fourth Army commander, announced Saturduy. U Col. Henry F. Murray, mili tary property custodian, waa nom inated for a permanent rank of firat lieutenant in th* Regular Air Korro, subject to confirmation by the Senate when It roeonvenss. U. Col. Gifford M. Slmroang, professor in the mechanical engi-, neering department, was nominated | for American students for a roceaa appointment in the next summer. Tours an being Angular Army, with a permanent plannod for students from foreign rank of captain in the Field Ar- ~ ‘ * tillery. 2nd LL George G. Groenwail waa nominated in th* Regular Air Force for,the permanent rank of second Heetenant. on tent* ing ainee rent semester. A. V. Moore training tho team and will ac company them to Miami, says that the competition will be very keun. It is expected that twenty team* from the U. S. and Canada will participate in the contest. The 1947 contest will be the firat held ufare 1941.'In 1941, the con test waa held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at which A. A M. waa represented. NavasoU, and Pat Purdy of Di boll * 'Kdtog (saham'i variety show begin mg of the C** ^te-wlde recognition through tour* of army hospitals and appearances throughout the region, including performances be fore AAM audiences. During the Grot 18 days of the school year, Graham’s troupe re- • ceived SB request* to appear before various groups througohut th* Mate, i The bond i» booked solid for dances Bie week of the performanoai. according to state. T aamV Graham. RIDING ia Iti* Aggie Rodeo this we*k-oud will be girls from other Texas school*. Inducted ■i* JANE TATUM of Jaactioo. roprutomtiUg fCU, router, left; 80 ur.INHXK of (torpUB tHris- tt, Texas A. A L router right; MUR MURCHIHON of Meaard. from Texaa Tech, lowor loft; •ad ANTOINETTE PARKER «f Harper, from John Tarleteo Agricoltarsl College. Capt Charles A. Lewis to the, .... fiscal office was named for the "v* office permanent rank of firat Iiouten ant in the Regular Army. General Handy pom tod that these four appointment* were among approximately 8,900 ghoMn from 88,000 officers %nd former officers of the Notional Guard, Officers Reserve Corps, and of the United States who for commissions under the Regular Army Integral gram. This latest list brings to 28,000 tbe number of inated for the Regular Air Force under th* two Thera will bo regulars after this increment is confirmed by the Senate. About 728 in the ftMMh; Fourth Army Area raecivod ap pointments, General Handy reveal- od. countrio* to th* United States Ono of the primary purposes of forming tho USNSA was to pro vide a moans by which all Ameri can students, working through their (l< niocrsticallv elected stu dent governing bodies, can help to create a world community besod on better understanding Wtwoon oil the people of the world. Tom Roberts Will Ride in Rodeo By PRBD WRKENHUNT and K-F ORDI DALLAS, Tox^ Oct II (AP A 8800 000 aaid-ia-advanee or ew ww |*Wi*o »#e rose w teees^ va for pig Iron has boon rooti from Kaiser-Frnxor Corporation, R B. Germany, proatdont of tb* L>n<> •tar Stool Ooaa»any, onnouaa Tom Roberta, a husbandr janior animal Donor of Librar> To College Die* Otto H. who gave his M- tetato and engi- to A. A N. in 1S41 died y at Me home ia Dallas. Lang, wha came to Dallas fr Germany in IMS. waa a plow Dallas srohitert, having hel;>«>'l de sign some of tho eity'a boat known husbandry studeat from San An tonio, will be one of the contes tants in the Aggie Rodoo of Oc tober 24-28. Tom ia a veteran rodoo porform- ar having entered hie font rodeo in 1941 at Bandera oa a bareback krone known aa Cedar Snag. Mince then he has competed in numerous rodeos, including the 1940 Inter collegiate Rodoo at Taaam, Ari sons sml RCA shows at Boulder and Grand Lakes, Colorado Ho la a member of tho Rodoo Cowboys Association and has boon a consisteat winner ia tho brone riding events of th* weekly RCA rodoo la Bandera. Tom •tag* tho 1948 entered Jin J year*! •now Thte S Aggie Rodoo aad he bullriding and eronto of thin This year's rodoo promtiw to bo th* oiggoot aad hoot to data. Then winks a |40o added purse the various e verrtc:.