K' / ‘V / iV B K TURKEY GEfS SliT$S| 'ROM U. S. JVAVY l. Washington,! Jan. Jnited States- .is titojn urkey four flieet-ty ii un3 Navy crev^s wil . a port; of thus Eajst|eii ^■anean nation.J The,. subinar|nes ^r(e navy vessels offvario n i he navy anno|mced' ng transferrejl 000,000 Turkisll Aid »y thej last seafeion The ; annoumifenienjti ejlinn |ime thait 1,0|0 mj(ti!in|s i oute to J strenlrthen jointe(|l{ to ttie f Medical Exajinineii: Beaufordj H. Jester. | Dr. Stiles’ appoint Homeopathist facan Presi lei ( State of the jUnioii ind^sag ‘'‘quite favorable.” I ■. Ij Press Isecrelary €l ar|js told newstnenj that) ' ehlijr messages “se|‘medj to 'ij! five to one iavorid le;fi i they slill are comim: .jfj j* j “STALIN DEAD” i UlA l(|r|e0 SEEMSj JUS'f THiVT ‘ ’* BERN, SwiTZEjlRUAifD. jJau| —(yPi—Two B um iAm,’S|) ijp ?rjs si uluted; yesten ay tp; t, Timp V I XS-1 h:)s floilKm fijislter! t rgn speed/of jsound in tjeitslijt Air Basel Caliifornii. | 1 The story whs sigredllk Rol||| t McLtirrein, a iiormer " f t le National Advigoty f 3r adronauticl. I ( | j WAAfsENDslFOOil)! ;! O-DNDTAN TRIBES f , .J|in. 9 Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE MTFMESTOFA CHEATER A &IU COLLEGE; || j| j | | COLLEGE STATION (Areieland), TEXAS, FI i# AY, JANUARY 9, 1948 Executive Session of Directors Begins Toni nothing)to thdl rumjoH. In Moscow^ Dp. . Swedish cancer spjcialjtt,’ said h\ had no| comment or tjjije case /jit* came tj> Moscow would have mine. I ned to return! hoir A report <>|f Stiilfo came this wet|t fro tel Brahdao. Swho Novemljer after ?ei Lilian Ambaskudoi Union. He said Stalin’!?i|igjht | was pitralyzejl. Ho< who reported (seeing cow Iasi montih saijd after a vacation in t Russia, | and health.! .5 jappeku i tajie '?‘■■’ji sl jhi or y 0Ut - at A&M 1 , Loveless wits 41 , | eijitor .of The Longhorn'. In at ;'“Ray Sipith has' been with the c<|)mpitny for [six years and hip ijine ’ record with |the company irj |t!hiS; . afea has qualified him for hip ifessor Claude Fk ZuBell of the' Ikjripps Institute of [Oceanography, U|ni-> versity of California. Professor jZoBell wilP sp ?ak ion •“The Science of the Sea j ml Its jiRelation to Man,” Graduate Club i [President Charles F. Saiiderson ■said yesterday. Considered aln qut- jstarnling authority on the ' micro- jorganisms, of the Sea, he hits just I recently completed a book entitled, “Marine Microbiology.” Dr. ZoBell is serving as [consul-j jtant in connection with the research program now being cdnduetcjd at A. & M. on the causejs of/[oyster mortality. He recently- retdriied from a summer tour of Eijfhpv where he visited the inarlhq re search centers of different | One of Dr; ZoBell’s 1 interests is the possible relationship of; micro organisms to the formation! of oil, Sanderson stated. Dean of the Graduate School Paul B. Pearson announced yester day that tentative arrangements had been made fdf Dr. L.i C. Norris, of Cornell University to lecture before the Sigma Xi G|ub bn Jan uary 297 By IVAN YANTIS Battalion Roving Correspondent I 1 ."'j i , ' 1 ' : ' • j| The slickest trade Of ! the millenium has behn puljled off! That Dutch deal for Man hattan was penny ante Atuff ;in comparison to a little trade I worked in jiome over the Christmas holidays. It all stems from the fact that e'veryr where I go 1 keep my eiyes open for some; thing which might improve A&M. Anikin Rome I ran smack-dab into the openierfd out stretched arms of opportunity. Whin 1 really ran into was a street lafnp.^bnt it can pass for opportunity. L/. The l)ig news is this— I have found a building to serve as a Student Center! And it cost only ) n e carton ) f cigar- i't t e s ! St.r ^ 1 ’ I Peter’s C a - t h e d r al is what the na tives call the place, but it j can be re- c h r i stened ! e a s i 1 y p n o u g h . Someth i n g simple per haps, like S t u d e |n t Center. The little Roman who sold me St. Peter’s (1 consider him the nobl est Roman of them all) didn’t look lihe the type [that would own a big place like^tjiat. When we completed the deal he mumbled something about gettingj even for that brijdge 15)1 he bought when he Was in Brooklyn in ISHI. I didn’t understand, but it can’t bj ant. Well, I have procureWdhe building- someone else can arrange t^o get it moved. Rome remirids^rtfe a great deal'of A. & M. Everywhererm the city 1 discovered re in i n d e r s of College S t a - Hon. One build ing in Rome is a dead ringer for a building in Aggieland— the 1 Temple of Jupiter and the Biology Building, both antedating the birth of Christ, havfe a lot in common. I tried to buy the tem ple also, but didn’t think I should go over two packs, and the owner insisted on three. I Because Rome has been in its present location for as long as anyone can remember, it is called the "Eternal City’’, This is not because the Romans are more patriotic than Texans—they are merely optimistic. The city was built on seven hills and at the [foot of every one of them was a swamp. The early citizens, not having any John Brinkleys to guide them, assumed that their malaria came from the swamp air. Conse quently, they named the disease “malaria/’ I thjnk that \vas awfully clever of them even if they were all wrong. The ancient Romans had a big time in the Mediterranean world, conquering, civilizing, and taxing. Their tax collectors were ex tremely thorough, giving rise to Cicero’s classic statement: No ninevitabilis sqd taxes et niortis est (Nothing in inevitable, except taxes and death). $o, you see, other against it too. $8.20 TotaL Second Semester, $3.70 1 ^Jstfng'horn 2.40 ^4 Athletic 2.30 Battalion .60 s-' Intramurals , Total The $0-cent fee for The Long horn charged during the first se mester covers only administrative coats in getting the Lc.ighorn planned and started, John explains with the bulk of the cost to be covered by the second semester payment. The 30-cent .icrease fo? The Battalion during the spring se mester is to coVer increased costs of paper, Recording to Roland Bing, manager of student publica tions. A JAMES B. JONES fjtudents in the School of Agri culture were afforded ah oppor tunity *o get acquainted with mem bers of the Texas Extension Serv ice staff and to learn more of the possibilities of employment wi(h that organization after-grad- Tk Erigineer Librarv Changes Hours Tjie Texas Enginecij's’ Li brary will be open beginning Monday, January 12, (from S lU.pii to 9 p.m. Monday tjjhrough Friday and from 8 a.m. to noop on Saturdays, )|D. W. Shannon, librarian, unijjaunced yesterday. The old schedule was frotrj 8 am.- to 5ip»m. Monday thru Friqayj^arlfirom 8 a.rn. to ia Saturdays, The inf rcasea time during which tlu »ry will be open Also in cluijies the noon hour Ojn Monf- dayf through Fridajt, w* said. Aggie Players Try Out for Parts In I Ij i ! j * A Next Production By JOHN LAUFEMIERCi ! j ; Thej Aggie Players ihel 1 tby-d| I for Henrick Ibsen’s classical[dra|l “Hedqa Gablei;” Wedjnes lay! ev itig iq the Music Hall’. . Before the meeting, Geotgje J. Dillavou em|phf those Who tried out shou < ing to put forth a lo( effort fmee this was difficult; production that gie Placers had ever Djii’ectU sized thi be Wj of hg tKe m i.vcl t ~ \rr t. .4.C. .j people have been up T "h I ./jiSa \ »'i J: ■ Goiilter Field Air Show to Be Sunday A free air show sponsored by merchants of Bryan will he held Slipday afternoon at Cpulter Field htjginnihg at j p. m., it w | as an nounced yesteiXlay. jContests will be held in ribbon cutting in flight, spot landihg, and Ixjnib dropping, while non-competi- tiye acrobat flying and parachute jumping will conclude the after noon’s show. -■ } j-ii 1 Coulter Field is located op High way 21, three miles ‘northeast of Bfyan.. WILL PROBr, GRADING OF MORGENTHAU WASHINGTON, .*nn. 9 — A Seriate Committee investigatmg grain speculation is going to look intd trading activities of Henry Morganthau, Jr., former Secretary of Treasury, Senator Fergukon (R- Mich.) said yesterday RELIGIOUS SPEAKER—Dr. DAVID JACOBSON, rabbi of Temple Bejth-El in San Antonio, will be one of the principal speak ers during Religious Emphasis Week next! month. 11 Radio Show Offers Prizes for Scripts The seventh annual competi tion for the Dr. Christian Award— offering a $2000 prize for the best script) for the only show in radio written by its audience—opened Janualy 7 and Will! close February 29. i | | The competition, which is open to all writers, amateur or profes sional, offers in addition to the first prize of $2000 other awards of $500 and the opportunity to sell the script for up to $350. Jean Hersholt, who plays Dr. Christian on the show, has this advice for hopeful yyriterst [ > “If you are. a new writer and wish to try for the award we urge you to write about things and people that you kndw.” Details of the competition’* rules may be obtained by iwrRi% to Dr. Christian Award of 1948, 50 Rocke feller Plaea, New York hOj Ni Yi uajion at a meeting Tuesday night j.bers, [Misses Betty Jo lOook a < in the AI Lecture Room. j Sarah) Watts of Bryan. Three oti I J. D. Peewit, vice-director of j nCw rjiembers joined the! organik t th/Extension Service, and Bean of j tion at the meeting. They wi i Agiiculture Charles N. Shepard- Mrs. M‘‘lha Wieting. Te[ addition, twelve district exten- sioin agents, spoke .briefly, to the group. Prewit-discussed the large turn- ov'lr of Extension Service person- lujj, and later he introduced each of 'the district agents, who told the group of the problems of their re spective districts. pean Shepardson requested that each student keep in contact with the college employment agency, as job calls Were being received daily. Also, Dan Shepardson urged that evjfiy student decide what he want ed: to do after graduation, get a jo| in that field, and stick with it! His pointed out that employers were! dubious about employing men wiljose records show that they have he d many jobs within a short pe iod of time. The meeting was sponsored by thq- Extepsion Service Methods Cliss. R. M. Knox, a student in thi 1 class, acted as master of cere-j monies. and Steve Billy. j z John W. Laufenberg jprese.httjd a report on the advance jpuhlki for the production of. “H ixllda Gi ler”, [and President Milt Freni; announced that the Student Acii vities office was sponsor n|g a Bi becuej for the group on. Sundlf February 22 in Hensel Park. V c ■ ,i ; II ii • ’ !• i ft • ! i i.'iiti M ]• : :i 1 .( i License Plates In LI States Invalid The 1947 license plates issued in Hi: rteen states are no longer valid. Cl ief of Campus Security Eml L. Hickman was. advised yeaterjlay by Texas Highway patrolmen. The. states included are: Alaba- mi i, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota,..Mississ- ip >i, Missouri, Nevada, North Da kota, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wishingtoh. Since the licenses are no longer va lid in the states where they were issued, Hickman said that the plates are void in Texas. Jr mWlM—M—Hlf—I W^.-^l nMWWlHH Zone Eradication Of Foot and Mouth Disease Endorsed Declaring the prevalence of f«oar be used for studies of new ihsec- iiuldgs. I fi' ! I , ': of $2,000 frpm Interna)- I I] A gran fiqmal Ml lera'ls and Chemical Cdr[ jxiiration to support inveatigation jpjSsoil fd -tility. i qhd issijie on military! property a ’itairie [view from $20j00<) to ok [BecorqmondatLon tojinckeas kilrie th* c the Vievr iuiiisistertce qdsts at Ifraij frpm. $26 to $28. | jAward! scholarships; amoujnthu! to $50 at John TarletOn. j Consider the recomnponjlatipn t«S hit up necessary mach|nery \ th omply with [the Workmen’s Cign- psation Insurance Liiw at A&M. The board will hold jtfl opefe sesj- beginning at 9 a.ni., Satujr ticn Elected entator Heat Paul Cretiqn, 20-yealr old junior Dalr act- tato* yesterday afternoon Hiy memberp (iif. the Arts and Sclerices Council. Cretien. » membe^pf the Qasa of ’49,' will fill the vacated posi- tioi of jA. D. Brucej .Jr., who iiq Tfeduatibg af mid-terin. He is at- a(|hed lb Cobipany A.^ Engineer*. '•I: bf 1 Cqllege Employees Dinner 14b wiljl inotl hold its regular ! Janl ,uary meeting. It Was) pointed at the last meeting that there wil! be fivei conigeutive Bbisa |Hal| aartiea hext week whigh marly coli ege employees will attend, j. 1 ^ jj Notice* of [the February meeting pt the club vfill be *«tft later en, a jmc m" tiibg aj i to Comp inner Club Meeting Dr Month Cancelled ! mammiMUMliirnm