iTF
U
Behind
of those actions.
One incident
ly has had repenc
!; ton Pakenham;
bureau, was not .
after visiting the Uhited Statei
The recent titoftble General (f the Armies
wi i journalists
se pome of the
“kim ftoakers” to
pause in their tracks and look] around.
Although the dolbrful jGener
“loves publicity,” decent actioihs tagen by portation for limited payrr
members of his command do rpt appear to houses commandeered from the Japanese and
bear him out. Inldeed, ohe can hardly picture renovated at ^apanesefeovernment .expense,
a presidential canjdipafie Sanctioning certain For such hou$es, cOrreS '
j J ! ,? n;
vihjch oceurrei just recent-
ions in the, iress. Comp-
cljtieif of. j^e.wsi /eek'* Tokyo
allowed to retu *n to his post
al in US dollars to the US' A
average $100 a month.; '
But the gloomier sk
that files are kept on
i ]
Taxidrivcii jCalvin S. Powell said
put tho woman! out of his
talking.
Powell told | Magistrate August A.; i
Baltimore he kn|ew jt was against the 1.
to transport a passenger. But this wontian
drive his cab, too—from the back sea
She kept up! a steady stream of.co
the roundabout route he was taking, >
explained he had to do so because of icy streets.
“It just became too much to stand,” Powell saiu..
“So I stopped and let her out of the cab because
to his post j n g correspondents. The Coijnter-Inte ligence
. . r . ~ • , .. Newsweek, Corps maintointi a rbcoirjijl; of “reliai ity” on
In defending Pakienjham, catle(| the refusal newspaper and rpagajzipe Reporters, aijid these
a very gravie ir
■ ^ 1 i the press.” ; The
I meints that it “woiih
^ement of
1> cist-I
frights of, recordsare
T
finid that thi? mah, Who
n|?st (H
a has b(
democracy to thei Jhpan^e, hi
•i, petty persecutiojn in pn effort t<
' ‘ 1st as be
+iiU. who do not write' j
write.”
i H>
r;
(fepatch com
iouraging to
in preaching
is stooped to
silence those
mts them to
homes have
rants. ,
It may be
ing from bp 1
convinced ‘
ridedi 'Top, correspc ndents’
n broken! into without war-
li I 11 ’ '' ' I
by Week-end
In reply to Slenatbr Knowlaijd (R-Ca|if.) +
j| who inserted'Newbweek’sjp'rotr 1 * ^
il gressional Reeoirdi, the genera,
doubt that the Allied press enj
in the world greatei freedom
ing and disseminatipn of
in Tokyo.”
But some journalists dp d^ibt just that.
Anil why not? ACctrding to t le Associated
Press, military officials ihjavelftold cbfres
pondents that they have no r
Japan than, “a mdft selling a s
it in the Con-
saiid thht “I
ys anywhere
i the gather-
hewdj than it idoes
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rsjited thait journalists report-
md the “Silken Curtain” are
. [ ihiebr | jHiqe of the story.
Nevertheless, the pile of dbmplaints that have
reached the desks of Army and Sehpte offi
cials rate ah i riffestigajtipii.
?lt
We may be sure of -one thing— should
some bold Republican jeapeus decide to place
vention
in playing dov
bre'stat
rti” and
as m
that
Moscow, Whejre’s Bob Hop?...
T'ho rirnnooinnirlai u/arI lo ni rhino' httrflor ^ u mili r»F A-ni.
MacArtjhur’s Kjame before that party's con-
v tpe press would feiel fight
.. eu ()gies,ioffered on j the floor
of that gathering. If be Were nomihated, he
might face an extremely hostile pifess—and
a hostility of a type! different ffdm that
which fired editorial ofbadsides at the late
President Roosevelt in 1&36, 1940, khd 1944.
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H r ^
j.| |
Ida! war! ts p|obing harder 4 a “golden rain of Amerijfan dollarsf^rtili/ed
United States heavy industry for. Hitljer Germany and in
said jio be particular het war imUwjtry.” |1 :
hat theiRus- “It was th^ billions -of America^ dollars
id Nazis'until invested by ovejrseas monopolies ih: the war
lem. Now the economy of Hitler Germany thait refeutablish-
allege‘d docu- ed Germany’s, waSr pote!|tial and placed info
States finan- the!hand or thejHitler regime the weapons it
sslanS; These needed fof aggression.’; l ''
documents, also, are* said to have come from
NEW YORK, Feb. 11 -M^j—Prices fell like
today on Commodity and Securities Markets.
The break was sharper an many respects than a
week and was more Widespread. Cotton and severa
iv last
other
commodities joined grains ip crashing.
Stocks tumbled $1 to $5 a share. Many closed at the lows
— !———^ 11 1 1 !;4of the d^y. The Aif^ciattd Press
The propa
than ever. Late! last month,] th
released a seriles; of dodimen)
seized from Nakilfilis, pr^in
sians were palsy-jwaUsy with
Hitler unepcpectjedjly purnejt.lion
Russians have come forth wif
ments showing! thjat the Unite
ced Hitler as a foe of the Rii
jo,, are! said It
secret German |fHes.
V
Add to thejse itWo inuposiil js progaganda
Letters'
' ! I If . it
“( A MF*US COKN EH”—rBAII!
fi ^ , R jlj 1 ji j:
Editor, The BVjttaliitn': 1
I have just received the lifter-
noon edition of The- Batt and reiid
the name selected to replace the
undignified cognomen of ‘(UeoigeV-
I am sure that George jmust be
rolling over in hi? grave or at
letist revolving in . his new plate
of business^! [
At Rice the name would not hi;
too inappronriate, an<l at Ithe stiffe
university the name would be rittwt
fitting. Eyen at jSCW the tifle
would get along, but here at the
Braaos Boys’ Reforflijatoryi it seeiits
a trifle out of pladej
Hearing the titld, a chance visi-
she was getting! on my nerves.”
Said the magistrate (who has pro!
his share of back-scat driving trouble from
sex): “Case dismissed!”
IS HOUSING THAT SCARCE?!
to numD water. Farmer Frank Harris grabbed for
“I hated to have it (the cider) g<j to waste,’! he"
said, “but I didn’t want to lose my house. It (the
J t _ 1 Tit Li l t* - if '
He said he used 70 gallons to doiise the flamies
before a fire truck arrived.
HARD ON THE FEET, TOO
A Soviet campaign was launched againjst rumba
and “swing” arid Russians were , given this new
“definition” of American-style dance music.
“An example of militant antirealism of modern
bourgeois culture. Its degenerating nature is' en
couraging to the mentally deranged and idrUg ad
dicts even in.a dance.” [
The definition was provided by th-* Sovijet woman
choreographer. Galina Shakhovskaya, in the current
issue of the popular magazine, “Ozonyok.”
HE ‘SOAKS’ CUSTOMERS—WITH WAtEK
Oscar Tilden, 52, was fined $25 in Police Court
for selling three gallons of what he termed a “Super
efficient cleaning fluid” for $15.50.
The disorderly cjondyet eomplair t was brought
by two customers who said the bolttlcs contained
only water. . |
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—.... 1L. -f—4- -J
Blasted Out of Former Job *1
index of 60 sUak* Wfts down to a
new low since lasi^Jitne.
Cotton and grain,; both down
their daily limits, led the break.
Cotton fell the daily limi. of $10
a hale for the first time in more
than a year. ;
Consumers, hopeful of n eat bar*
gains resulting from?a sharp drop
in livestock prices, -were warned
yesterday by economists not to he
too ibptimistic. ?
Ba(*on, ham and isteak w e r e
tagged a little lower in many stores
and Wtail prices ojri florr\ lard,
.-jnigiar and bread a|fo wdre down
in shine shops. But the entire]
movepvcnt was on a relatively small j
soajtb Some chain stiiiTs lagan cut- By MAt’K !’. NOLEN
ting retail prices yesterday when “Thmu’s No Business Like Show
livestock nose-dived? as Ifie grain I Business” Is more than just a song
inarkel rallied and got back on its j |,y a eontelnporary American corn-
feet !«ft,er last week’s hijeik.
Gov.
but his f
his carce:
Histc
Northwes
across th
to his nu
in lyiO.
“To
Division,
“A.
do? Sign'll
Not
“D. Mie:
Signed: .
e tse it;for baths,-don’t we?”
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HIOA^O CHOO-CHOO
,, < f lovta, may hot know i
(thing! of it versifier during
Engineer..]
g data fotf ,the Chicago and
centennial observance came
age sent by Engineer Blue
n Winona, Minn., sometime
L Master mechanic, North Iowa
■ire (12 blub a Hue. What jihall I
r * i
•mo
i
Quinby replied:
: ;on 62fi
> - - /r - - —
ic on 62] an 4 cmrte on through.
j
-r|)|, -i
Rumors of]Son-De i
Owner of Drive-In \ hire Here
, poser to Jack Farr, entrepreneur
Hog prices fell to a top of $22.25 ; and theatre-owner. It is broad and
» hundred pounds, the low !st since | butter, money in the hank, anR new
Januaiy 6, 1947. rattle skidded as j .shoes for the babies.
» * i . 8 j ■ v t i«T *T,”” V •**•! • -jt-j much as $'! dollafs a hundred j Farr, a newcomer to Brghn, is
aSfeert, in 19S4 Britain searching for an Austinwone aqjlht poumls and lamb dropped as much;! oonductipg a project which might
»r|d a non-kggression Sng^ndenrrajiiHteso"' ' as ’ 'it I \ revolutionize the theatre business
documents the! “PrccWeol M”
the English siiid ttey iiterij
were being pa$seid drounid to-
apRrsIti Which •
Red As they •
ussian fiatel-
tojr might go about the; camigis
Also, tjhe Soviets
and Franlce- maneuvered *iou-»kkics«ium i ,4; .u-..,1,. ,
pact between Germany and Poland which whonl: While the livestock matket was He has built a drive-in theatre be-
lail “in fhL nronaratmn nf P.o,._ >hi« ,.v,lrv titU. sharply downward tjhe gram tweerl Bryan and College Station,
was pushnig aheia. All' in a population area whore drive
was instrumental “in the preparation of Ger- 1 di|scovers this cheery, tiljfe stenciled
—.w»»>iiu—4.uft. Lu„:_ „t our o\yni New Area, pink-plallk T .b
jjiublishedi with
tate Marshall
lites, and you Hage quite a hahijtful of “Secret
papers.” Almost enough; foil another: Bob
Hope spy-movie. :
The U. S. dpciimfents wjere
r the sanction of Secretary of
and-said in phr
agreed to divitje Poland betw
attempt forkeepthe U. S. an
: 'Europe, ( Asia,” alijd iifriea. |
Moscow saysi. its' documents
captured during; thie smash-?) a
man aggression.” Theyiinclude this chain of
thought with the obseniatioft that American
financial aid to! u beatfen Germany after
World War I em bled the former ireich to
quickly re-eStablisll a powerful wai* industry.
slimmed up! the. release ivith the
that the American statement
vcj( 1*
Moscow
conclusion
that Ghfmajr and Russia “does not (jo^respond ft\ fact”, i.'ahd that w
h them and i$ WashingtonlikconceaTBig some iflformatioh
Britain dut of while over-emphasizing other facts to dis
tort the true! picture, jj \
We publish these statements to (forestall
1 it-' , - the next Kijemlin release. They cah'l: say we
Germany'. They iinal:e severalj barges. First, don’t havR freedom of the: press. \
new name was excclljcnt. It'-Ss ( / urjnK Jast'week’s juice fall, was
lijughnul dispensary. ‘ ; 1 So!
The idela of a centost !to supply | d,,
grcttable that the. purpose Was up the limit of eight'cents ja bushel
defeated by the rejection of siteh jj, a tra ,|i ng ,j aVi
masculine-sounding names as “Pto- ^ f
Line Tavern” and “Eat l’N’ Bujty” jj Tht '' e waS a « vne t al fee
favor of this pew title which (
ill doubtless he put up in Spjpp
'rains contributed fto thd strong in theatres have not h(;rcfoforc
mtback, the price "of corn, which 1 been huilL And he think# it will
ari the weyst actoT of tie three succeed.
were! also
of Hitlerite
IS
Eisenhower’s
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f Ipst week
etired as
. -1)
;Pe
P
nem
rmy
Chief
Saturday
, Eisenhower
•Sthif. • '{ - - M jf i l
Ithbugh he jjeryed ip ths? capacity dur
ing; bne'of our nations #neaitest periods of
stress, few wordi qrcriticisrr| lave ever been
heard against [him.'This is pef laps the great
est indicatioii; cf t he diplbir acy, tacf and
skill which ht c isp ayed in jiSU his contacts
i fbrebs and thelpublrc.
"are well...
1
Dwight,
of
j!
1
M !
Ik 1
is. my mos^ iirjzed p<>lsession; fprlno man
can have a more worthy comrade ajnd loyal
friend than the American soldier. !
For ii? years I hai’e been] privileged to
serve with men who manifested, in tjieir per
formance of every dijty, -the stout heart? of
American^ jyid the spirit of out nation. Pride
of service,;loyalty tiolthe flag, love of country
strengthened 'them Seyoifd !the common
strength given 1 to merii
Whatever their railk of armypthey
to iehdn
consumer should
too much, too soon.
no:,
Farr’s father managed a sjlent-] (Bryan.
L
Griffin circuit until the
hion and fire erused his p
employment.: ..
On the diiy of the expld
he nitrate ship in Texir
,1 arr was at home 1 with
uid home viras nine bloelf
.he ship. When thi> first hi
over, Farr's house looked/
proverbial crashed match-1
only inspranee he had wa
i
clothes on iu collective ha'
Fair rernained in Tex
long enough to 1 rebuild the t
then he packed his clan
: 4 '
insumnep, and the family 1
with nothing to its name
on of) j
City,
flu,
from
t was
the
The
storm
rvived
it the
pi ovcmentH in sminds Mystems in
lew York Which have nht yet
ached drt vn this far. His sound
stem for the "Skyway,” across
Plajiland on Highway <1 t
’V,
’ ||
uiill lie ope
sltls, :
of! these
■i
improved
movie house in Karnes Cityj, be
tween Antonio and Corpus
ing that j Chriwi, where Jack was born. But
expect when sound came in, father Farr
predicted it was only a passing
A Selected contract set-up
(driye-in thedtre, namerl “hjf:
i»ft4r a naming contest
fway
rhethyat
660
tire, dies lined to accent* , i
) autioniobilcft., and 260
leisibnis in lawn chairs near the
'ri»nt ji* scheduled to open about
Fahfuary Li. All sorts of tmusuall
feitures am being planned—a cop*
(ceisrottis stdml, a children’s play-
City fegrpond and a Itottle-warming scr-,
* atres,’[vile for mothers who bring tobli
}ff tol jallnpc,; ! " ; H
; Most dritre-in theatres operaw
or hist jorlly during the summer’months,
’’ll'bqt Farr intendij to work on a .'!6C
Ml
rian-seijipt neon (letter81
Not wishing to he a lone dis
nter however, I < shalll 'how j ; jto
e will of the majority. I will e(»t-
ti me to purchase my three morn-
g doughnuts af the “fajmpjis
In ner,” put would like jto offer a
que.1t. Since the new; place sjof,
business is deserving of a little federation urge<l farmers to shape
ore jriigpttv, why not pepUice t|ie thei!r futures “by acting like farm
ffee urns with a green-Ua gim- Pficies were coming down ktill fur-
uifator: | 5 ■ ! • ;!
withr |
iheld, will enable Farr to i i iw all
big pictures^ no matter ji / ictjieqHjfh
i]afr intend^ b
beeriljiMy yjpar (300 jn leap year) and
A spokesman for the Nat onal Re- fad and dropped! out of the busi- firstror-secotgl-run. The a< iiissiop
i mountl li
Sjl tjhrow (o a ISaturday midnight
for| goo(l measure.
LEE J. SHOTWElLl,, '17
lotor Fleet School
o Start Feb. 23
,('L. tail Meat Dealers Assoeia ion said ness? rather than spend $4,()f)0 to
at Chicago that the hfeakj in live- convert his equipment to the talk-
stock prices would; shovj up on j fng variety. The younger FUrr dis-
the retail level “by |the enjl of this agreed with his pater and soon
week.” | ! had his Own theatre in Orange
Id Champaign. I1F„ the president Grove, W'ith sound,
of the American Farm i Bureau f ’ A rumor (hat (hc Br yantCol-
lege Station area suffered few
effects of the Great Depression
was one of the factors which per
suaded Farr to come here with
his drive-in plan. This, in addi
tion to a desire for a drief cli
mate and easier-going altitude,
brought Ihe' Farr family here
from Texas pity, where he man
aged three theatres-for the Long-
iprico will depend on the
the films cost, Farr said,
(probably he ;i>0 or 35 cents
While in the navy duri
war, Farr observed maji
IIMO, (the average value per
‘t : ’wiiiiM rol, W PMPB Rf School property
ini the Un ted States was $300,
but the ra(nge was from $80 in
Tiiniftf'isoiap* tr\ in thp n4«Trir*t
I Many independent deah i
held both action and con mcnt on
the price situation.
ARAB WARNS U. N.
PALESTINE GROUI’
with the armed f|orc£s and
he was exposed; to the Kvorljl% two greatest 0 f soldibrly tradition, distinguished For sol- tl U»y Ruwell I-itzPatrick j
^faultfinders jhej AiMencan A Idler and! poll- dierly virtue. )Vhat.tbey have done to pre-! ^ d,WJ !« r ’ re ^ a e,li
ptician. His f^rewel message to the troops serve t J eir coun t 5 y its enemies and to , ^’."S t t Irwkh tn^llnS
he comma-nded, is ; jtypicaV qt Fasenhowers fbeir world from evil tyrannies is writ- ■*, ,1 th P with uitollnjcnt
.ability to sayjtSe flight tjhinl at the proper free . the,r tyiranrtieh is writ- to one man for each trgns-
find it hard to
and the Amemdm dublic wil
replace. The texjt is aafbiltfvs..
To thje Arlexicali soldier
^Departure! firom my prefj ;nt post breaks
mariy ties that ^re dear to mi. But the separ
ation is not complete. F taj e with me the
knowledge thjiti botji by law and in my own
ic With you (j-hall not,end as
tssuranee off!such fellowship
heart, my seitvj
long as I live.
T
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The Battnlioi
of College Statioj
aftcrmkln, excip'
liHhed;acnii-wc(:k|y.
tjl!
H,
dur
S
News contributiorib rtiia;
Win Hall. Cf&ssijticd aids maly M pla<
if
209, Goodwin Hajll.
All-American
ed
■.Rights of
h!
v say t^e yigm iinin|! at tnc proper ten j ar g e j n hiimalh |hfisU»j.j
•’ tir n e » ’. - j | fv . nothing to! the|r'flBrt|e| Bi|t I cannqt let this
_ - While: the n^essdge unity rot rival Wash- day pass without te ling them, the fighting
ingtons fareMfelj toihis rrten, it is a compell- met) of grounJJ and aiij—those who have left
ing statement bv an officer honr»the Army -the-Tanks and you ivhcj-stijl wearih^ uniform
Sixty lie
i II.
CAIRO. EGYPT, Feb. 1 ! -'/l'i
deputy
Jama! Eftendi HUsscini,
., , . ,; j chairman of the Palestiiife higheV.
•cent of the avUilabl<jj ;>(l ^ executive, said yesterday Arab sui-1
Dster openings have already hjeaMi ^ sqU aci s arc training _ '
piled for tjhe fourth annual Mptoi tine “for attacking the Uijited Na-
eet Supcrviepi S' short ! miuu-hnn it comes
—that my fondest boaist Shall always be: “I
was their fellow soldier.”
—
But the one that really caught our eye
wak a little number 0allbd “Moon Mist.” It
was a period gown, whose white ermine bo
dice was topped by a bil owing black taffeta
, skirt (pardon, While \Ue drool).
,. •] F • In i—San Diego Union
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:e oiisucn xeiiowsnip ,
The Battalion
i—^ L — -4 ^ : , .■.-4 c U4__i:..Kvl |i.,J
cial ujews i|apcr rtf tipi Agricultural and Mrchanidhl CoilCgp of Texas ahd the City
Tcias, is. piilllisfied fiYo times a week and circulated CVerJf $|pnda|y. thtiojagh Friday
1
■I
ng (it lida
ibScrll
, Monday, through Friday
lination periods. (During tHe jSUB)hier The Battalion is pub-
4.30 -per school year. Advertising
,1
bo made by telephone (4-5444) pr at tib editiirial office, Rootn 201, Gond-
J ;by (telephone (if-5324) oT atlthe Student Activities jpffice. I^om
furnished on resuest.
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Member of 'The Associated Press
The Associated Press is enfi led exclusively to the use for republicatibn of kll news dispSiChcs cmlit-
to It dr not! otherwise credit d in the pa her and local news of spontaneous prig in published herein,
fhtsr of repppljCatioipoL ail ol her'matter; Iherein are also reserved.
MUlRRAY
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dtadpa, iMWi
i (or Matcbi!3, 1S70.
‘ | Assocjated Collegiate Prd$s
| i . | Member
Oootlwyn
nd. Rigan
naprutfited njitionaUy br National Ad-
vertlalfvp Servme. Inc., at New Yor» City,
|buioaso. Los Angeles, and Sau Vranctsco.
iiLi. l .ij ».• ,
v Maurice
Grady Gjj
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Art I
James
Hershell
Bob
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Co-Editors
4*4
,... . .AcfvefUsing Manager
Iby xi.;.. ...Sports Writers
(inrlation company sending a rep-
esentative. Sponsored by the tex-
its Motor Transportatibh Asscjjja-
jion, the State Board of IVocatihnal
Education and tjie Texas Safety
sociation, the course is offered
,)y the newly created Motor Trajis-
)ort Training Division of the A4M
ndustrial Extension Service. i
The course covers all operatipiial |:
iases of the motor vehicle fleet j
ndustry and stresses; safety
hrough sound Operation prince-
lures. Field work on the taxi rahops
if Easterwood Field will be given
in addition to class rOom twrk.
Fitzpatrick said. Njight sessions
and homework will be given en-j
rollers in addition to) the 40 hours .
if scheduled work, FitzPatrick con
jluded.
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