TIJ SWIMMING COACH
TO QUIT FEBRUARY 15
AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 4 (^—Be
cause of a salary disagreement,
Tex Robertson will quit as Univer
sity of Texas swimming coach
Feb. 15.
The coach said he had asked for
a $2,000 contract for his part-time
coaching duties. Athletic Director
Dana X. Bible turned down the re
quest because he considered the
swimming assignment only a “two-
month job,” Robertson said.
AFL DENOUNCES WALLACE.
NAMES WHEELER DIRECTOR
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 4 —(/P)—The
AFL turned thumbs down on Henry
A. Wallace for president today and
picked a one-time isolationist sen
ator to lead its new political cam
paign.
The AFL executive council op
posed Wallace’s third party can
didacy for president on the ground
that he was an “Apologist” for
the Communist Party, and added
the AFL would not be “hoodwink
ed” by Communist claims of liber
alism.
AFL president William Green
announced the selection of Burton
K. Wheeler, former Democratic
senator from Montana, as direc-
v • tor of the AFL’s new political lea
gue in the coming elections.
NEGRO TO BE ADMITTED
TO ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 4
—(A*)—A negro will be admitted
to the University of Arkansas if
he completes enrollment today, but
he will attend classes separate from
those of white students.
The negro, Silas Hunt of Texar
kana, began enrolling for the
spring semester yesterday as a
graduate student in the law school
after his application was accepted.
WEATHER
East Texas: Mostly cloudy, rain
in east and south portions this aft
ernoon, in east portion tonight and
i n extreme northeast portion'
Thursday. Slightly warmer except
in extreme nortwest portion this
afternoon. Somewhat cooler in
northwest portion, little change
elsewhere tonight. Thursday no
important temperature changes.
Moderate to fresh southeasterly
winds on the coast.
West Texas: Partly cloudy, no
important temperature changes
this afternoon and tonight. Thurs
day partly cloudy, occasional snow
and colder in Panhandle and South
Plains,
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST 01 A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
Volume 47
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948
Number 105
FRITZ KUHN ESCAPES
FROM DACHAU PRISON
MUNICH GERMANY, Feb. 4 CP)
The Bavarian denazification min
istry announced that Fritz Kuhn,
former leader of the German-
American Bund in the United
States, escaped from a German in
ternment camp at Dachau this
morning.
Kuhn was jailed in July for
possible trial as a Nazi offender.
He has been held since without
trial.
PALESTINE DEATH TOLL
ABOVE ONE THOUSAND MARK
JERUSALEM, Feb. 4 —(A>)-
The commander of Arab fighters
in Jerusalem says it was his men
who wrecked the newspaper office
of the Palestine Post with a bomb
, Sunday night.
There was tension here today as
Jerusalem awaited an expected re
prisal blow by the Jews.
Nine persons died yesterday in
sparadic communal warfare, boost
ing the unofficial death toll in
Palestine since the United Nation’s
Palestine decision Nov. 29 to 1,027.
BILL BROWN
Cadet Colonel
BILLY VAUGHN
Corps Executive Officer
CORPUS CHRISTI BANK
DAMAGED BY BLAZE
CORPUS CHRISTI, Feb. 4 (A 3 )—
An early morning fire caused dam
age estimated at $100,000 yesterday
to tbe State National Bank here.
The fire, of unknown origin,
broke out shortly after 5 a. m.,
and four hours later firemen were
still fighting a stubborn blaze be
tween the roof and ceiling.
The interior of the bank was
soaked by the large amount of
water poured between the roof
and ceiling.
LOUIE HARDY
Battery “D” Commander
ELMO LIVINGSTON
Senior Class President
U. S. CONSUL AND NATIONALS
EVACUATE CHANGCHUN
PEIPING, Feb. 4 —(A 3 )— The air
evacuation of all American Na
tionals, i n eluding missionaries,
from isolated Changchun was start
ed today by American authorities.
The evacuees, who will be
brought to Peiping, will include
U. S. Consul Allen Siebens, who
closed his consulate Saturday.
F. B. I. PROBING POSSIBLE
CARACAS BOMBING ATTEMPT
WASHINGTON, Fob. 4 —(A 3 )—
The F. B. I. is investigating the
disappearance of two American
planes following Venezuelan com
plaint that its capital, Caracas,
may be the target for a bombing
raid.
In response to a series of inquir
ies, FBI said its agents are looking
into:
The departure of two PBY’s (fly
ing boats capable of landing on sea
or land) from Augusta, Ga., on
January 26.
The subsequent discovery of two
bombsights at Augusta.
The investigation is to determine
if the planes have been illegally
flown out of the United States.
At Caracas, Venezuelan presi
dent Romulo Betancourt protested
►to Nicaragua that two planes had
been flown from the United States
to Puerto Cabeza, Nicaragua, last
week and loaded bombs “with the
presumed objective of bombing”
Caracas.
TODAY, and for the next two days The Battalion will print
pictures of students selected for Who’s Who at A. & M. Above)
are 4 of the 15 Cadet Corps members chosen for the honor.
Milt Frenkel Takes Over job
As WTAW Sports Director
By C. C. MUNKOE
“—And that, sports fans, is all
the sports news up to now.”
Those closing words by Dick
MILT FRENKEL
Gottlieb on his last broadcast for
WTAW were the ones which cat
apulted Milt Frenkel, junior from
Tyler, into the position of sports
director for the college radio sta
tion just two weeks ago.
The 22-year-old sportscaster is
n’t new to the job, however, for
he started announcing over WT
AW in September, 1946, when he
returned to A.&M. from a tour of
duty with the army. At that time
Frenkel started waking - up Aggies
and the other pe’ople within range
of the “Voice of the Texas Aggies”
with his popular record show,
“Tik-Tok-Time.”
Frenkel really became interested
in radio while in the army. There,
between phases of aviation cadet
training, he did work with the
Special Services and became con
nected with an army variety show
that was aired over the Mutual
Broadcasting System every week.
He served as master of ceremonies
for the show, doing not only week
ly broadcasts, but also taking the
show on the road for a tour of
California.
Upon his return to A. & M., he
auditioned at the local college ra
dio station and was hired as an
(See FRENKEL on Page 4)
‘Outright Lie,’ Says Clark Over Board
Of Directors’ Statement About Charges
This Week’s ‘College Speaks’
Gives Math, Sports, Business
By KENNETH Z. BOND
The setting—Studio A, WTAW,
tbe time—5:15 p. m., the character
—varies from day to day and week
to week, the program—“The Col
lege Speaks,” and tbe objective—
education.
“The College Speaks,” a fifteen
minute program sponsored by tbe
School of Arts and Sciences, origi
nated in tbe fall of 1945 under the
supervision of C. O. Spriggs, pro
fessor in tbe English department.
The program came about as a re
sult of a study made by a special
radio committee appointed in 1944
with George B. Wilcox and J. J.
W’oolket as co-chairmen.
This committee set up the pro
gram to be of general information
given in a human interest way to
people who would listen for fifteen
minutes to a speaker who has spent
many hours pouring over books and
searching through magazines. It is
a program of information from
each department of the college to
stimulate adult thinking and inter
est in various subjects.
This afternoon at 5:15 on “The
College Speaks” R. L. Nolen of
the mathematics department will
discuss the “Three famous theor- |
ems of Geometry”. These include
tbe Theorem of Pythagoras, the
Theorem of Desargues. and tbe
Feuerbach Theorem. “This discus
sion should reveal many interesting
things about the theorems and
their application, says Nolen.
Nolen received the B. S. degree
in 1936 and a M. S. Degree in 1941
from the North Texas State Teach
ers College. He taught mathematics
and coached athletics at Highland
Park High School and worked for
Proctor and Gamble Manufactur
ing Company before coming to A.
& M. in 1946.
Thursday afternoon, Carl Landis,
physical training instructor, will
discuss the various points of “bas
ketball officiating” in which the
spectator would be interested. He
will point out the duties of the
officials, rules and regulations, and
other points of interest to the on
looker.
Landis graduated from Abilene
Christian in 1935 with a major in
physical education and took his
M. S. Degree at A&M in 1947 with
education as his major. He played
two years of football and one year
of basketball while at Abilene and
is a member of the Southwestern
Basketball Association. He taught
at West Port High School in Kan
sas City, Mo., for six years before
coming to A. & M.
Nelson D. Durst on Friday will
explain tbe “Auditor’s Report,”
often referred to as the auditor’s
work during the process of exam
ining a set of account books. “I
will try to discuss the auditor and
bis duties in a business enterprise
in terms that laymen will under
stand,” be said.
Durst received a B. A. in 1936
and a B. B. A. in 1937 from South
western College and a Master’s
Degree from A&M in 1937. He has
been teaching at A&M during the
long school sessions and working
for business concerns during tbe
summers since 1939. He was grant
ed his CPA from the State of Tex
as in 1940.
Senatorial Candidate Opposes Marshall
Plan In Last Two Planks Of Platform
“The statement of the A.&M. Board of Directors to the effect that I had admitted my
inability to substantiate my charges was and is an outright lie,” Dr. G’lark, senatorial
candidate, told The Battalion today.
“My dismissal could not have been more summarily done if I had been apprehended
in the act of committing murder with blood on my hands,” Clark said.
In making the accusation of the Board, he quoted letters he received at the time of
his dismissal in June as head of the economics department at A.&M. The Board’s action
came as a result of Dr. Clark’s participation in the student - administration fracas last
;—: ♦spring.
Clark issued the statement to
the press because “I have announc
ed as a candidate for United States
Senator from Texas. The people
of Texas need to be told of these
circumstances so as better to pass
judgement on my worthiness of
that high office.”
Two of the letters presented by
Clark were from his superiors who
informed him of the' Board’s ac
tion. Notice of his immediate dis?
missal was “delivered to me in per
son by a runner. This was done, I
assume, so that there could be no
doubt as to my having received
them, and as to-the exact date
when the dismissal was to become
effective.”
★
Two remaining planks in Dr,
Clark’s platform were nailed down
when he stated his views on both
the Marshall plan 'for aid to Europe
and a “Manifesto for Free Men.”
Although Clark believes that “it
certainly would be unfortunate if
(Clark’s next press release
“will relate to (he circumstances
surrounding my dismissal from
the position which I held at
this college,” he declared in a
statement to The Battalion.)
Window Peepers Delay Performance .
Virgil Mystifies Audience
With 2-Hour Show in Guion
By JAMES E. NELSON
“Where did that girl go when he closed the door?” “Aw, he couldn’t have sawed her
in half”. These are typical of the comments made by the audience last night after the out
standing performance given by The Great Virgil.
A two hour show consisting of everything from sawing a girl in half to making money
appear from the air kept'specta-'f
tors puzzled from the start. jects . These objects were written
Virgil started his program by , , , ,
on a board placed on the stage.
by
turning his gloves into a goose.
Not satisfied with this feat he
proceeded to make the goose dis
appear. The show went on smooth
ly from there, with two exceptions:
once the show had to be stop
ped to run window peepers away
from the dressing room window
and again when a few members of
the audience insisted on making
wisecracks.
Audience participation played a
major part in staging the magic
show. From time to time Virgil
called members of the audience to
the stage and proceeded to baffle
them with such tricks as doubling
the amount of half-dollars held in
the hand of a small boy. He started
the trick by asking the boy if he
was honest. He then “proved” the
boy to be dishonest by showing that
after each wave of the magic wand
he would have one less coin in his
hand.
He called on the audience again to
assist Julie, his capable assistant,
in her photographic mind trick.
Virgil passed through the audience
and had various members name ob-
Each object was placed opposite a
specific number chosen by a mem
ber of the audience who was writ
ing the names on the board. When
26 objects, ranging from T-S Cards
to sliderules, had been placed on
the board, Julie proceeded, while
blindfolded, to name the object op
posite a certain number or vice-
versa.
A short skit was staged by four
members of the cast. The skit sup
posedly took place in a pirate’s
cavern. It seems that the Devil had
been stealing the pirate’s gold and
Virgil had been summoned to chase
the Devil away. Wearing a disguise
Virgil was placed in the pirate’s
chest and the pirates moved out of
the cavern. When the Devil ap
peared he was not to be fooled by
this bit of trickery so he proceeded
to set fire to the contents of the
chest. After the chest burned for
a while, a skeleton was taken from
it. The audience was left spell
bound when the Devil removed his
mask—the Devil was Virgil!
The finale was by far the most
outstanding feat of all. With the
aid of two members of the au
dience Virgil performed an almost
unbelievable bit of magic. Virgil
had two spectators place Julie in
a large sack, tie the ends of the
sack, and place it with the girl in
side in a large trunk. The trunk
was then locked and bound with
ropes. Virgil placed the trunk be
hind a curtain. He then had the
two spectators sit on each side of
the curtain and told them to time
the feat with their watches. Virgil
said the act would take 60 seconds
to perform Object of the act was
for Virgil to change places inside
the trunk with Julie. Before the
two men could count three Virgil
was inside the trunk and Julie
was standing before the curtain.
College Library Increases
Fines for Overdue Books
Fines to be charged at the col
lege library have been increased
from 5 to 10 cents for overdue
one-week and two-week books, Mrs.
Wilnora Arnold, readers’ advisor,
announced today,
ARCHITECTS—The BOSTICS of Lafayette, Louisiana admire their new proposed
home as designed by fifth-year architect students at A. & M. while the three winners
watch.
Left to right around the model are DAN PERKINS, third place winner, A. D. SAK-
ELLARIOU, second, Mrs. TOM BOSTIC, JIMMY DEMOPULOS, first, and MR. BOSTIC.
Demopulos Awarded First Prize
In Architecture Design Contest
House Grants Pay
Raises to School
Going Veterans
Veterans enrolled in colleges
throughout the country rejoiced
over passage of a bill by the House
of Representatives that authorizes
increased veterans benefit pay
ments.
Estimates place the annual cost
of such benefits near the $400,-
000,000 mark.
Democrats joined solidly in sup
port of the Republican-sponsored
bills. Only a handful of dyed-in-
the-wool advocates of less govern
ment spending voted against the
politically popular measure.
One bill upped the subsistence
allowances to veterans in school
from $65 to $75 a month where
there are no dependents; from $90
to $105 a month for a veteran with
one dependent, and to $120 a
month for a veteran with more
than one dependent.
The other bill raised the ceilings
on wages and allowances payable
to veterans undergoing training on
the job. The ceilings are in
creased from $200 to $325 a month
Where there is one dependent, and
from $200 to $350 a month for a
veteran with two or more depen
dents.
Bills Passed by Senate
The Senate passed similar bills
last year.
The increase on-the-job train
ing ceilings will not require larger
government payments to individ
uals, but liberalization is expected
to cause more veterans to come
under the program, resulting in
increased costs to the Treasury.
First Editor Gets
Life Subscription
Judge Ernest L. Bruce of
Orange, Aggie graduate of 1894
and first editor-in-chief of The
Battalion, was presented a life
subscription to the paper in ab
sentia Saturday night, January
24.
Charlie Murray, present editor
of The Battalion, presented the
life subscription to Bill Butler
of Beaumont, since BrUce was
unable to attend the annual meet
ing of former student club offi-
cers.
By C. C. M UN ROE
Jimmy Demopulos, fifth year
architecture student from Texar
kana, was awarded first prize in
a home design contest sponsored
by Mi', and Mrs. Tom Bostic of
Lafayette, Louisiana.
As first prize winner Demopulos
received $50.
A. D. Sakellariou of San An
gelo was awarded $30 for submit
ting the second prize design, and
Dan Perkins of Hearne won a $20
third prize.
Bostic, a 1933 graduate of A.
& M, and Mrs. Bostic wanted a
new home in Lafayette, so they
turned to the A. & M. architec
ture department for the design.
After the Bostics conferred with
Ernest Langford, head of the de
partment, and Professor W. W.
Caudill, they decided to present
three cash prizes for the best de
signs.
Fifth year architecture students
visited Lafayette to view the pro
posed site and then returned to
school and their drawing boards
During the last week of the fall
semester Mr. and Mrs. Bostic re
turned to Aggieland to make final
selection. They were aided in se
lecting the best drawing by Car-
leton W. Adams, A. & M. system
architect, and Hal W. Moseley, as
sistant professor of architecture.
The design submitted by De-
mopulos calls for two bedrooms
upstairs, a living room, an all
purpose room, a rumpus room,
and a dark room.
Moss-covered cypress trees, azal
eas, and artificial lakes surround
the new location
7419 Enroll For
Second Semester
Registration figures total
7419, H. L. Heaton, registrar,
announced today.
This compares with a figure
of 7703 for the second semester
of the 1946-47 school year.
Heaton 'stated that February
16 has been set as the deadline
tor students to enroll at the
college. ^
Wives Wanting Extension
Courses to Meet Friday
All veterans’ wives and faculty
wives interested in taking Exten
sion courses this semester will meet
at the Annex Student Center Fri
day night at 7:30.
Senate Puts New
Bulletin Board In
Academic Building
During the mid-term holidays
the new bulletin board that has
been promised to the student body
was placed in the Academic Build
ing under the direction of W. H.
Badgett, assistant manager of the
construction office.
The board is made of aluminum
and tempered masonite and is 12
x 4 feet in dimension. Six headings
are listed to provide space for ap
proximately 200 4x6 inch cards.
Directions for use of the board
are posted in the lower left and
right hand corners of the board
along with cards for notices. Each
card must be dated and placed un
der the correct heading. A member
of the housing office will check
the board every two weeks and re
move notices that have been posted
the propei' length of time.
W. L. Penberthy, dean of men,
requests that all students cooper
ate in using cards only for bulletin
board notices. This is absolutely
necessary if the board is to serve
the purpose for which it is in
tended, Penberthy said.
The board was designed and
sponsored by the Student Senate
and the original layout was made
by Jug Leatherwood, president of
the Student Senate, and Harvey
Chelf, student senator.
William Breazeale, an assistant
director of student affairs, helped
the members of the student senate
in planning the board.
Wildlife Research
Head Writes Book
“Wildlife Resources of the
South,” one of 12 books on south
ern resources, has been written by
Dr. Walter P. Taylor, unit leader
of the Texas Cooperative Wildlife
Research Unit of A. & M.
The monographs are being is
sued under the supervision of the
Southern Association of Science
and Industry. Dr. Gordon W. Black-
well of the University of North
Carolina heads the committee in
charge of the publications.
Dr. Taylor’s book will appear in
April.
the U. S. did not develop and fol
low out the reactivation of Euro
pean industry and trade,” he thinks
that the Marshall Plan falls short
of this ideal in three respects.
1. “It is founded on an in
accurate conception of national
income.”
He points out that, since the
plan calls for aid amounting to $17
billion, such a program will in
crease our national income by ap
proximately the same amount, thus
helping to further a condition
which might “ultimately lead to
disaster.”
2. “The'Marshall Plan confuses
charity with diplomacy.”
Under this point Clark recog-
nies that, because of the relief work
contemplated under the plan, the
Red Cross should supervise any
type of foreign aid. But, he cau
tions the government to hold those
funds until the Red Cross asks for
monetary aid.
3. “The Marshall Plan fails to
establish a working relationship
between present and future val
ues.”
According to Clark, the funds
made available to an agency such
as the Red Cross should be alloca
ted as loans, not gifts. He feels
that there is a possibility of re
payment, or that eventually the
“tables might be reversed.”
In his final plank, the candidate
for' United States Senator offers
“in a small way” his help for the
further realization of the ideals em
braced in the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the Constitution ' of
the United States.
He proposes to do this by, (1)
making audible “voices from be
hind iron curtains of censorship,”
and (2) “giving expression to con
crete suggestions for correctives.”
To accomplish the former, he
invites anonymous correspond
ence from individuals or groups.
“In case charges of criminality
are included, please give details
and references to records,” Clark
requests.
“There may be such cases in
sufficient quantities for a collec
tion to be made of them, and if
the opportunity presents itself, to
publish them as a sort of folklore
of Texas politics,” Clark said.
Teague Candidate
For Second Term
Representative Olin E. Teague of
College Station, congressman from
the Sixth Texas District, will be a
candidate for a second term.
Glenn Marshall of Hillsboro,
chairman of the Hill County Demo
cratic Executive Committee, re
ceived a filing fee January 30 from
Teague with a request that his
name be placed on the ballot.
Teague filled the unexpired term
of Luther Johnson of Corsicana in
1946 after Johnson resigned to take
a seat on the US Tax Court.
In a special election that ran
concurrently with the run-off pri
mary, Teague found himself with
out an opponent after Tom Tyson,
Corsicana attorney, who had led
the primary field of five office-
seekers, withdrew,