Battalia -CP)— flood foiirth REI •*>- } r. 8. SHIPS I* MED] ' ROME, July ships in the M iditefxanean wete on tie •move yeatjerday, '; i r ’ Four ships, headed l?y air craft carrier Hearsarga, sjailed from Naples ,in|i southwesterly di rection. Theirjaval attache all the l|. S. Embasst-here said the ihips sre under si cret orders, j , . f 4 T . il 1 . \ )LIDAY CfiSTS 42 . /ES IN TEXAS ;T I ; AUSTIN, ji ly 7 —liD— Violent djeath took 42 lives in Texas dur- lig the long July Fourth week- epL jl . . ' j > Traffic accidents claimed 20 tlms. Slaying* and suicides counted for a large portion of other 21. Th< re was. only' drowning, dll hough swimjn places were jc -owded. v ' WHEAT FL0 )D ROLLS i INTO KANS4S CITY KANSAS CtTY, July-7 - 4!- 7,500,000-ibjushel wheat ured into to wn over the July holida y, setting .a nei^-all e record here.' D PLOT T > SEIZE ; - ./• BERLIN UNCOVERED - i PARIS, JuJj 7 V-(iT) The French Foreign Officd announced'tod^y it has received fj-om the British em- . bhssy documjelitary evidence ^f a Russian plot tj drive the Western .Alliesifrom Pntlin. ;j. •:! > | The.'Foreign office said the Rrit- i^h jnformatiicfni was that Com- niuniists in Berlin were instructed by Moscow to touch off incidents which would c ihse intervention by Soviet Forces. . f . : j Similar J infc rmation Has dome from French officials in Berlin, the Foreign .[office added, neither ‘he British nio • the Americaniem-’ issies here ty )uid comnufnt. CZECHS CHEER BENES IN HOLIDAY PABABE PRAGUE, JC sechoslovakia, , July 7 j—i^P)— Chee -s fpr resigned~i|res- idjent Eduard Benes hang through ae Tuesdf y frqm. the threats of go,000 marrlierS' 5 in, the ?pkol ingress pa*ai^. Kelement qott- wjild, the cohilnunist premier Who succeeded Beinhs, got silent theat- ment. . ! /■ lic Speak ing Contest composed of the State FFA winners from Jklahoma, Louisiana, a n d Texas will be hed in the Y. M. C. A. Chapel Room Thursday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m. The winner of this icontest will represent the three spates in the Southern Regional Contest at a time and place yet undetermined. The winner of the Regional Con test will then represent the South ern Regional at the National Pub lic Speaking Contest to be held in Kansas City in Noveniber in con junction with the Na ional FFA Convention. The speeches will be 10 minutes in length, and at the and of each speech the speaker wi 1 be asked to defend his position, *s put forth in his speech, by questioning by the judges from questions formu lated prior to speakirtg time. A maximum of 5 minutes ivill be used for this purpose for each speaker. The contestants and their sub jects are as follows: Jimmy Darling, Texas—“Power and Farming’’ Fred Harris, Oklahoma — “Can Our Earth Feed Its People” Woodrow Hearn, Louisiana — “Opportunity in Rural Industry” The- Judges for the Contest are C. O^ Spriggs, of tljie English Dept., 1 A&M; W. O. Cqx, General Manager of the Houston Fat Stock Show and Livestock Expo*; sition, Houston, Texas;! Dr. R. D. Lewis, Director of Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station, College Station, and Dr. H. EJ Hampton^ Associate Professor, j Agronomy Dept. Jimmy Darling, from Abilenel the Texas contestant, wfas recently selected to serve as president of the State FFA Association for 1948-49. i Board of Directors Open Session Begins Cleanup Discussed at Meeting Of College | Station Council ITTSBtfRGSi:—Jvdy-7f- -ryiwalkout embracing 50.000 ui me. nation’s 400[®03 bituminous !itin- i ' .riclf By BARRY R. SMITH 1 ers was launched Teusday in it tw|o leadingj icaal .states— W Effects of the recent clean-up campaign were discussed at a meeting of the College Station City Council last night. Measures to insure future health of the community were also considered. ’ [ Garbage collection ranked high among the unsanitary stoel company jeaptive mines. The conditions of the city; .and definite-* - i ' pi ans were made to alleVulte this' Renniylyania. i - ere miners Virginia ap ^lost of {hej idle pretesting Igpty of a f contract! in re|t were cojmmercial coal diggers ini Westerni Pennsylvania who stayed home ril|i sympathy. ‘ i ■ I s iiIenT MVS RKTfi i:W PRES LEADERS START TALKS ON U. S. MILITARY AID; Washington, Juiy t -ha)— Western European diplomats J.nd State Qeparjtm ;nt officials tallied ivto the qpeition of - American miitary help fir Western Europe yesterday -a|! a conference behind, ti^itly closea < oors. jjk- j 5The conferei ice wks\ the ; f^rst* of.5what is eXptected to c ^)« a long seeies. '/-ii - [ . if,./ f ,-| 1 Officials indicated that the talks w_i|l continue he re for •three or four months* ;and tl at no! information about thleir prf ress Will be m^de pujblic until deiisioYis afe readied. iser-frAzeui UPS , PRICES ON S MODELS ETROIT, Jijiljy 7 —iiPK-Kaiper Fifzer Corp.. Tuesday announced prfce increases ranging from ^23 to |$169 ot itis Kalseit and 1 Ftalzer aulomobiles. ^ . r The new faictory list prices ajre: Kafcer, |2,09|1, up $124; Fraser, $2,221, up $16n! and (Frazer Mhn- hafan $2,573, up $23. Thp Kaiser Cuitom Model price remain* pn- clujjnged at $8,$01. • | riREME? 7ANYON, Ti x., Julj McC< TL*" f !NT| y 7 -4Ah— W. J. MdCJntnelJ, president of th Texas ; Slate Teachers Ctol at Dehton has jiven up Vis roment plan i for another year, r. McConne|, who has healed ffffned Tekas _ Board of ents, at a i|ieetinA Mte 'Mbn- asked .hpiri to delay hip re- ent a year. He agreed to serve 1 the end o: the 1949 summer lion. ' ' 1 \ ' ' \ LJ v NISH CX)MMUNIST§ E RECENT ELECTK . r ELSINKI ( Jjuly 7,- r iA>i-U-;/Ifin- nis| pommunisl s said!’Tuesday an ajn^j-Sbviet vrl^ sperinjg campaign stijjred up by re; ictionaries was bne ,e ^reasons f or Communist jos- in the parliamentary election. le communi4t-led its lost 12 I- t-led popu arit> :m- of their 49 se its. I R ipproximai fall ha^ since/; ai Firm.. to measur‘ment Experiffieiilt Static !J- I . une 28; 1 ■4 A i condition.. In cases where, serious violations are noted; letters may be sent or the violators jivill be notified personally by the council. If these notices are not heeded then tfie condition will be declared a hpisance. and legal stops will be taken. ■ — \ “The city is not unaware of its own poor disposal system,” said Dean Charles N. Shepard- son, chairman of the committee on sanitary, conditions. It wias also pointed out that cer tain steps^ have already, been taken to bring about a cooperation plan with the college whereby a piece of college property may be allocat ed foil the erection of a disposal system to be used by both- the college] and the city. In case an agreement, cannot be reached it was understood that thq city would have to proceed on its [own. In regard to the burning of trash the council insisted that the present ordinance be observed. It is unlawful at the present time to start a fire of any kind for any reason; and the council feels that due to the outbreak of grass fires in this {area i this ordinance will have to 'be enforcM.- .'. Sewage disposal was another topic considered at last night's meeting. Due to the present Inad equate system L. E. Winder has contacted u consulting engineer on the adytoability of buildlhg a hew disposal unit. Surveying has been done and u site lor the new unit is under consideration. One of the main hazardp In the College Station area is the dump ing of raw sewage in the North Gate section by the City of Bryan. This has been the condition for some time and the council feels that since sanitary conditions in Bryan closely parallel pur own, ; a joint sewage system may be work ed out in this particular area. It was pointed out; thi$; close co operation by the people of College Station and surrounding areas could make the clean-up campaign a permanent thing. In .the case of. garbage, if the city could not pick up tne trash, then it would be the responsibility of the indi vidual to see that the garbage was disposed of. The council urged that any complaints be registered immediately as it is the pity’s du ty to assist wherever possible. Many people are not aware of the city’s plan for the cleaning yf vacant lots. If your lot is too large or you can’t find the time to clean it, then notify the-city, and they will arrange to have your] lot mow ed at a charge of $2.50 an hour with a njiinimum of $2.50. The County Health Unit was praised for‘its work in helping to. locate many of the most danger ous areas. A. C. Allen, who is in pharge of the unit, said that as a result of the clean-up, the num ber of cases of dysentery has been cut in half. ff 1 ' "• • i ■ i Labor Office To Sell Lost-Found T- LJ L Articles Friday Mi in Students May Pay Fees Monday Students now enrollled at A &M who plan to continue their education here the second sum mer semester may pay fees and sign for rooms beginning at 8 a, m. jTuesday,.Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor has announced. Veterans should secure fee waver slips at Room 1)04, Good win Hall, pay fees, and report to Room 100 Goodwin and sign for a room, Wilkins said, f I '■'! A Students who have lust articles in the past year and have not been able to recover them 'will be giyen until July 9 to claim thorn at the Student Labor Office in! Goodwin Hall. George Long of 'the Stu dent Labor and Dormitory Prop erty Office has announced that a sale of these lost good!i [will be held at'2 p.m., Friday ait his of fice in Goodwin HalL ’ Included in the list of articles to be sold if not; claimed earlier are: five slide rules .eight pair of leather gloves, two pair ;cf laddies gloves, a ladies scarf, three jpair of glasses, one wrist watch, a small box of glass slides with lens paper, four garrison caps, a campaign hat, a sleeveless seater, j two dis secting sets, a gold evening bag, a ladies purse, one baseball glove, five leather jackets,' and a loafer jacket for a small boy. | Long announces that the pro ceeds from the sale of thp lost goods will go to the student loan fund. _LL Church Conference Officers Elected In Last Session The Rev. A. J. Mohr Of Bellville was re-elected president of the Rural Church Confererjce at the closing session held Friday morn ing at A&M College. ; Other officers are the Rev. James S. Butler of S vice-president; The Rev. drews, Bryan, secretary) and Pro fessor Dan Russell, A4M, execu tive secretary. Election of officers ajnd accept ance of resolutions Closed the third annual session of the Rural Church Conference Dr. Mark Rich, Amer can Home Missions Society, New ifork City, told the ministers ear ier, “the rural church exists in, i world; it is not an isolated unit.’' Speaking on “The Church In Its Communi- weetwater, W. H. An- ty,” Dr. Rich said that the duty pf the church is to reach he people “The so-called rural church problem”, he continued, “is a re sult of failure of the chttrch to ad just itself iii the face otf change. Dr. Rich observed that a church, to remain alive and aleiit, must be* both an institution and a fellow ship. “Neither by itself can make the church survive, lloo many times we try to operate an insti tution wholly or largely on fel-; lowship," he said. DR. EVERT ALBERG of Sweden will speak on agricul tural problems in Scandinavia at 7: SO tonight in the Chemistry Lecture Room. Scandinavian Will Discuss Farming Problems Tonight Dr. Evert Aberg of Sweden will discuss conditions in the Scandi navian countries in the Chemis try lecture room at 7:30 tonight. ) Dr. Aberg, now connected with the Farm Department of Iowa State College, is a graduate of the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He is an authority on barley and agriculture m general. He will conduct two seminars Wednesday and Thursday at 3 p.m. in the conference room at the Ex periment Station. His lecture Wednesday night will be demonstrated with slides and a motion picture, j ; He is being brought to the col lege by the Agriculture Depart ment. C. N. Shepardson, Dean of Agriculture, will preside at the lecture. . The lecture is open to the public. Free Fun Theme At The Grove Th)s week’s activities at The Grove will include bingo, mov ies, skating, and dancing with each event scheduled for 8 p. m. . Tonight there will be a bingo party at The Grove, and the A&M softball team will meet Marlin on the new diamond. Thursday night a movie star ring Bill Boyd in “The Maraud ers” will be the featured en tertainment. * Free skating may be enjoyed Friday night with a free dance following on Saturday night. The “Modem Downbeats” are scheduled to play for the dance. The A&M softball team will play their second game with Marlin Saturday. i 25 Million Dollar Budge Election of Developme The A&M Board of Directors will go intj|) the Board of Directors’ Home north of Sl)is4 beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. v Important items on the agenda include jh approval of a money grant to Easterwood Ai|p(|rtjfr)^|i|th|!Civil Aeronautics Authority! and hearing a proposal to increase*- the operating capital of the col lege) confectionaries. Meeting for the first time since May 10, the Board will consider the 25 million dollar budget for the coming year. The salary por tion of the budget was passed dur ing the previous meeting, but the bulk was held over until this meet ing for further study. Receive Easterwood Grant Under an earlier agreement with CAA, the College put up $22,000 for improving Easterwood. A sum of $20,800 is now being offered by the CAA as its share. Under the title of land-use, the Board will discuss the land about the Campus and consider the pos sibilities of consolidating and moving some projects. - Utilities will come under con sideration. The Board will discuss the renewal of a water contract between the City of Bryan and the College. They will alto ask the City of College Station to allow the lighting facilities of Consoli dated School to, be aefeied without increasing charge to the College. New Member Elected The Board will elect a member to the Development Fund Board to replace Tyree Bell whose term ex pires this year. Three Board mem bers, six members 'of the, Former Students, and three Faculty Mem bers named by the Academic Council serve with several ex-of ficio members. The term of office is three years. The College has been asked to prepare a central display in tli»e State Fair. The College has not sent a majdr exhibit previously. State Fair officials offered free space to the College. In connection with a bill which was passed by Congress recently, the Board will ask the Federal Project Housing Authority to transfer all rights to housing about the Campus to the College. According to the bill, the College has 120 days to make, the request to FPHA. Hear Prairie View Report"' The Board will hear a report from the Prairie yiew [Trade Course Committee. The committee was set up as the result of a re quest that Prairie View accept re sponsibility of conducting all trade course)] for Negroes in | Houston. Other items on the agenda in clude closing of the Nacogdoches Sub : Station Number 11, building another dorm at NTAC, and heari* ing a report from the Central Tex as Farm at Reisel. The Board will be asked to ap prove promotions, gifts, and grants-in-aid to the College. ALLEN MAP brnndt-like pose helping With Ithe ic Housing Office aMSumes the Rem- ot a Batt photographer. Mad ale y is cymr going on in the Housing Office. ffice Gets New Look Through Cooperative Efforts |\y |l]ilinr MAMARCIIEV Man’s desirG.ito be i jacjk-of-all-trades created roarious situation | recer ; ly v y^hen members of the Hbusing deco^ te the outer lobby of Room 100, U. S. ARMY OPENS NEW RADIO STATION BERLIN, July 7 —UP)— The U. S. Military Government formal ly opened a new radio station in the American sector yesterday. Its American head, William F. Heim lich, said it would serve eastern Germany and Berlin as a "wea pon in the fight for freedom.” ‘Lady Luck’ ot* Safety First?... . ; J ; j,. Safety First Keeps Mishaps ' ' L : " ,0 * i fy ,1 1 jrj !■ At Minimun During Fourth , By BUDDY LUp j I r \. i jf Safety first was the 1 slogan of " e Fourth A&M students durin Uly in order, and no Aggie of July holidays. Celeb tions were met with j a mishap. A poll taken on the campus yes-; r’s pre- >uld have le holiday tatest per cent the folks and of swim- terday verified this repc diction that Aggies fun and frolic during week-end. By far the g: centage of Aggies Fourth at home;with mi^ed in various amou ming, fishing, picnicking and wa termelon parties. The best deed in thb way of making College Station safer for the youngsters was dond by C. H. Chambers, a landscape s mior from El Paso. Chambers elected to re main in College Station over the week-end for romanticaj reasons. e. Hiilt, equipment being used by the youngsters was of a p: -ofessional nature and dangerous. Chambers arrived on thg scene in ting to prevent the wonld-be Indians from injuring each o vestigation revealed thst ( hers is an Eagle Scout and may be should be awarded some kind of merit badge or similar re ward for his contribution to safety. ' j* ' | [ Mrs. H. M. Garrett on her visit her mother in Hearne forgot ety for a moment and strayed close to a yellowjacket's nest, ioleht objections from the yellow- ckets resulted in Mrs. Garrett iving a souvenir sting. W. H. Nedderman stayed in College Station during the Fourth pnd just “took it easy.” He fig ured that was the safest thing he flould do. The Brazos County Sheriff tried to keep the highway* safer for holiday drivers, but his Pon tiac just wouldn’t catch an ene my of society recklessly driving a new Chrysler along Highway 6. He chased the menace from an thVough College Station, but^the speedy Chrysler left him David Seligman considered Col lege Station the safest place dur- ing the holidays. His folks came C own to visit him t and he was glad He didn’t have to brave the dan- ighways and Office decided Goodwin Hall. Harry Boyd: should have a plate be comfortable wi ll ed in line. His sU ff|wajB agreement (of n w r anted to help project. Everyone fell V scraping the wr cleaning the wallst for painting. ‘Thi heaval of furnitun was kept as ordeijy _ M-jl but the cluttered riorli tur: to be a booby tra{ in dte; Into the bustlijig and chaoH rushed assistant director if fairs, intent upon utmost importance, know what was him. The speed ol and the cuff on caused him to bucket of brown suiting gyrations |hf man looked like version of an Indljkn j The spilled paint! ti shoe and a large , seijtioi floor. Boyer almss paint the whole flpo cause there was chie o ijelu thiey Ufait- full ar|y so) and e ,pr: posed i with odwrorik ■: a n d in preparation rpultinjf arid p^iii 1 in up- mgfresH trmi sers tef and iihji live te didn’t have to brave | ers of the holiday high Qn board the U.S.S. Texas at her final resting place at the San Jacinto Battleground where some students visited safety measures were expedient. For the general safety of thousands of yiditors to the old namesake of TexM> smok ing on board was prohibited. Many special guides showed visitors the workings of a battleship. Chil dren played happily about the 14- inch guns that once blazed the way for American G'.I.’s on the -beach at Normandy. Cattle on the highway be tween Bastrop and Austin Sat urday night almost caused sev eral wrecks. This menace to highway safety was reported j(11 over the state tRis week-end. Enactment of stock laws for statewide enforcement could easily do away with this cause of many accidents. R. B. (Brad) Holmes, a resi dent of Bizzell Hall, saw a bull fight in Reynosa, Mexico, during the week-end. The bull jumped the fence into the scattering specta tors and caused quite a commo tion, says Holme*. Traffic accidents took quite a toll in Texas, but lady uck and safety first kept Silver Taps away from the A&M Campus. splattered around- cleaned up, howevef, sumed Its normal i By the end of lobby and all of will present a new- apartment-hunting lost parents. Boyei furniture, Which hsjs ed from all cornel i pus, will be rcuphdjls maroon-colored plaft The entire df cost leae than 4 work being done 1 the furniture'uphol will take $78. Evei being taken care i t ploycen of the llius If any money Is lei!; to have the walls refiniahed. The question thit how can a person comfortable while line? Asa Hollei Marry In ui-ray’s il the ilii to bdov r: 1 be- [much mint mei s Was d Won re- rse mon:li the vMo( c vork earajm e to idepta and that the of Housing, thought that jeople i and4— ^ ——t H-H: -k Absentee Ballots Ready At County Clerk’s Offices j Those voters who art) eaying town before the Dempcratic ;iri- imary on July 24 may sttll cast bal- ilots bjj’ visiting the office if their ; County Clerk and voting in nis presence.- ‘ !j;. . | ’■ Voters unable to appear in per son’ ut the County CJerh^s offiepi can obtain an Absentee ballot by writing and requesting ope Vot- ea-s are cautioned to encldsi a poll- tax receipt or exemption certifi- jcute or to specify.thqir jrecinct j number. ( , I .•». j i In order for an absenteie i’ote to , be counted it must be oust in the presence of a notary public and be in the mails before a dite sot by the county ih which it will be tallied. The deadline for u mentee voting ;in Brazos County is July 20, Absentee ballots may breast in Brazos County July 6-! 10, ,ao- coqding tp/the County Clerk’s Ofr fict. Brazos County. vote •* c?|i get absentee ballots at an;r) tim# during that period but othwhen tpe deadlines are in thei v. own counties. • trm vlll The illy Atajdbi 1 1 is remaiiii lax tti tannin The poll tax must be paid hr ah exemption certificate secured ha« fore a icitizen is eligible tjo vote lit » primary election ph tne general election JU1 No Vets to Repay VA For Unused Time ember . i m A veteran must now tSralige to restore to the VA th* amounts per taining to the unused period if he Interrupts his. training dur »g a semester, according to an; at noun cement by the Veterans Adminis tration. * | , If the veteran should sacrifice training time ir cash, the charge will be f2.1|0 pet !day of the unused period/~ ing to Veteran’s Advii Wilkins. lillie Franjes Car] •y Dale DrWe, Dajii be bride, of !x Yell • Miss B 1906 Mary become the bride, of Asa Holleman Sept ;ml>er! 1!8 "V ' Jv" 3 r Announcement Ol tpe lei ment was made 8 it\ rd luncheon given by t tib. iride-e mother at her homf\j| V Miss Carpenter i ^ it sd from Sunset High J dhpol Sh