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WAINWRI
TO JO FOR Hi
ABSOLVES
TREATMENT
TOKYO, Alls'. 6 lA 3 !—Gen. Jon-,
athan Wainwright, retired: hero of|*
Bataan, has sent a hnMsaee to
wartiihe Prerh er Hidaki .Tojo ab-
..jiving him >] personal
bility for mistrl?atrr>ent W
received while a prisoner,
attorney said l oday.
“Oeheral WainwrigHt
to deliver thjis messai
said George
adelphia ati
as Aberica
/right
Pojo’s
I
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asked me
to Tdjo ”
rancis Bllewettj Phil-
rjney who is serving
counsel' for Tojo-^-
now sjwaitingl judgemesit of the in-
r crimes court.
said: ‘Tell Tojo
eneral to another, I
now tnat I do not
onsible for
scived j/hile a pr|b-
know that as pre-
, "minister he could
,expectejd to knQjw! about such
ternational
“Wainwrigfij
that is one
want ;hi,m to
hold him personally res
treatment I
oner bf war.
mier and wa
not
deta^'”
CANADIAN
$! TO SI
NEW PRIMjE MINISTE
OTTAWA
Stephei
Minisite
fir
Laure
It' Exte
rER
<JP\ —
Aug. w, ,
nL - Canadian
uiial <'A
emerged a* wavy favorite
. day? to beco'me
- Miniiiter, bu
• open/
Most of
/, Nati
whic
com
called to narpe a sncci
Minister W. L. Ma "
Canadafs next Prime
the raci is still wide
Louis
Affairs,
yester-
ic dele
al Par
yestei
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rates' to the
y convention
iayi aire un-
iventiOn was.
isorjtd Prime
nzie King.
thi
i9najs; Liber;
ch opened
mitted. fhe
iq to na L ~
Ster W. L. Mackenzie
— James Ga rfield Gardiner,! Minis
ter of Agriculture; is the ^second
leading con ender. j k
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MANY STATES FACE
NEW POLIO EPIDEMICS
WASHIN 3TON, Aug. 6 '^—In
fantile pan lysis is spreading m
more tjian lalf the states > of the
: nation,!with North Carolina, Texas
i and California suffering epidem-
J ics. ; :
‘ i, The ^ubli c Health Service issued
a report y< sterday which showed
that Ifigurei for the week ending
July 31, for the month of;July and
for the yea • up to the end of last
month all (topped the scores for
1946—-seconld worst poli<£ year in
history. .
YOUNGSTERS GIVE RADIOS
TO CRIPP ,ED CHILDREN
PALLAS Aug. 6 'Al—A group
of Dallas youngster! climbed : tie
steps to Sc >ttish Ripe hospital fag
' crippled children yesjterday clutch
ing three tible radius which were,
their!gift o the small patients.
The chile ren raised $45 for. the
, gifts at a l ackyard: ^arpjval which
they planaed ahd cbfiducte4 them-
1 selves last, week. Thfir ages range
frbinpR to 14. Tf j i
KAISER-FRA7.ER EAVES
STOCKHOLDER’S feUlT
,• -^EW YORK, Aug. 6 — A
fdierftl jud 'e has denied a motion
for-Oismis tal of a stockholders’
suit against the Kaiser-Frazer
corj oration hacl contended
n ourt lacked juirisiliction, but
was , j over ’uled Wedpesdlay by
7 judge Vincent .L. Leibell.
. Thb suitj was filed :by Michael
, v- .Stella, who charges the company
- ..iind its officers .violated the Se-
V. ycuHtijes Act of 1933.jand tbe Secur
ities and Elxchange Act of 1934 by
— buying 186,000 shaves Of its own
stock last Feb. 3 iit advance of a
proposed njew stock issue.
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TEXAS CO. TO CLOSE
DOWN HC USTON REFINERY
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 6 '#>—
The. Texas Company Thursday an
nounced p ans to Olose down- its
small refit ery at Gnleha Park on
the Housttn ship channel.
Althougl the company did not
comment on the neason for. the
shutdown, it was reported Texaco
is preparing to pipe all its avail
able crude oil to larger refineries
such as at Port Arthur.
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CIRCLING B29s^
COMFLEIE JOURNEY
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 6 <A>> —
Two globe girdling iB29s—the first
to fly aroi nd the world—landed at
their| hotee base, iDavis+llonthan
Field, at (i:31 a.m. 'today!
They made the trip in 15 days,
in 10 hopi. But er| routes a thind
superfort went doFni in -ja, crash
near! Aden, Southern
whidjj 17 of the 18
were; killed. j\
Each pli ine came in with 17 men
aboard today. One officer had been
left beHinli gt Aden to clear up
matters pertaining jto the crash of
v the 'third ;raft.
; Piloting the big-bombers- in from
Anchorage, Alaska, on /tlw fmal
leg of thi journey were !Lt CoL
/Richard W, Kline ctf Haskell, Tex.,
command! ig officer of the 64th
Squadron, and First Lt. A. M. Neal,
Visalia; ,C
ton.
!
ir::
7
Arabia, in
men, aboard
K i"
i; Calif., of the 64th Squad-
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Volume 48
The Battalion soon.
â– i
apprehended
S • > r
TWO STUDENTS attempting to crack a safe and obtain final examinations
by the camera of The (Battalion reporter who lurks in the shadows.
This reporter has "spent months studying the cheating problem. His study has been.objectiye as
he has tried to discovey WHY STUDENTS CHEAT. His complete unexpurgated study will begin in
Inquisitive Reporter Discovers
. 7fT : : vdl l.' l } â– kjUv'l' ' -Y -m* -I
Student? Favor ^Degree Plan 9
By ROLLY C. KOLBYE
Since a “Degree Plan,"’ which
has been advanced by the School
of Agriculture, will affec , the stu-
Hent, a -poll was made in order
to record student reactions. -An ' student flunk;
effort was made to get opinioosj! S. M. Ellib
of students of schools other than
Agriculture, as well as tiose ma
joring in Agriculture. ^
Those interviewed wei e a
three question*: Do you t link Chat
the new ‘Degree Plait’ will
aid to the student in i rranging
his schedules? Do you believe that
planned conferences 'will bring
about a better relationshij between
students and administrative
heads? Do you think his plan
should be a general policy for the
other schools of |his coll jge ?
Of the students interviewed
'85% thought that the pD|n would
e Illtt- LU WIlctL LU
, Lawrence E. Olive
asked thought. .Any meth
t €bat hdto the faculty to
be an (—Ar— 1 ———
n rvin o> I ‘ _
aid in the arrangement qf ached
ules, and 81% thought that the
'conferences between^department
heads and students would lead
to a better relationship,
using the system in th
schools; 63% answered
.said no, and 31% were ifeluctant
to answer.
A" nhrhber of ideas were advanc-
system,
that the
student
student
right to
that the
student
ed iti regard to the new
H. E. Phillips believed
counciling received by th :
\vould help, but not if thb
had to' relinquish his.
choose^ electives.
F. M. Stockton thought
plan would straighten th|e
A& for ? j
bther
», 6%
When asked his opinion, I. I.
I Bradshaw said, “It will be a good-
’ thing if it works and will help
1 the stjuident get the courses; he
needs,,hut what happens when a
nice a rntfrAP^**^
S. M.; Elliott though! thqt it
(would help make the decisions as
jto what electives to take.
Lawrence E, Oliver offered this
method which will
bettew under
stand the students bbjectives, and
Avhich will give the Student courses
that he wknts, not Iwhat the pro
fessors want to teiich, will be a
good plan.”
J. R. Quick ended his interview
when he said, “In any event you
will get to talk to the department
head. Whether it brings about a
better relationship depends upon
the student and the head of the
department. ‘ ir f
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Entertainment This
Tp I r . 'Intramural Softball o
4 People Give . . „ c . .
7 r And free Swimming
e wve
Their Opinions
In Batt Forum
Four people, two students
id two instructors, have con
futed to the BATTALION
RUM which begins in to
day’s Battalion.
The forum is open to all read
ers of the Battalion—students, fac
ulty, and others. The writer j may
take either side of the matter to
be discussed and give his Argu
ments. ;
iDr. Al B. Nelson and Dr. ;J. H.
Bass, $nd Buddy Luce and William
Henderson are the first conltribu-
tqrs. ;
Dr. Nelson and Henderson be-
ve the Dixiecrats should bolt
ie Democratic Party. (See Batta
lion Forum on editorial page.) Dr.
Bass and Luce feel that the Way-
Ward people should remain in the
fold. |
The aim of this new column
is to; give readers an opportuni
ty to express an opinion in other
than the Letters to the Editor
Column. As long as no personal
criticism of the other contribu
tors or obscene language is us
ed, the editors will run the stor
ies as submitted. ' ll ,
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The editors ask that people writ
ing In limit their discussion to
pages so the entiue diucus-
stbn may be carried in one issue.
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Improvements On
Easterwood Begin
Early Next Week
A&M System Budget Increase
For ’49 - 51 Asked by Gilchrist
Chancejllor-elect Gibb Gilchrist and Acting Extension Di
rector jj. D, Prewit appeared before the state H°ard off Con:,
trol Wednesday and requested an A&M Systeih budget ap
propriation of $22,988,000 for the two years beginning Sep
tember 1; 1949. i'
’for 1949-51 is
$7,046,000; the 1947-49 budget for* i ;
ithe college was $4,980,000.
.Gilchifist and Prewit emphasized
that jstkte control of the exten-
sibrnsfervie’es is being compromised
bj| iIncreased federal support of the
servnfesi.
’re practically federally dom
inated now,” Prewit said. "They
restrict" our use of money. They
hire out best people away.”
“Should not the state provide
a larger share of extension funds
out on the courses that he "needed; as part of its properly claimed
tp* take in relation to his major, i states’ rights?” Gilchrist asked
ockton was of the opi lion that | the Board. |
would be harder to ei tablish a Th e largest budget increases were
oser relationship in the arger de- j'asjked for experiment and substa-
partments than in the smaller ones, f tjdns, $4,375,000 as compared to’
$1,833,000 for the previous two-
year period, and the extension ser
vices, which requested $2,815,000
as compared to $936,000 for the
previous period.
The proposed budget includes
fire control supervision for 28
new counties, and the purchase
of new fire fighting equipment
and three airplanes for fire pa
trol.
Agricultural research will be ex
panded under the new "budget, in-
Joseph Cotton
And Dane Clark
Star at Grove ,
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Th* movies to be shown at
include
starring
is sche-
“That
the Grove next Week
“Shadow of A Doubt”
Joseph Gotten, which
duled for Monday,' and
Way With Women” with Dane
Clark and Martha Vickers,
? which is scheduled for Thurs-
d«\ H ■ j
movies are scheduled to
8 p. m. No admission
1|*>
I These r
start at
will be charged, but
will be required to show their
yellow fee slips for e
T
£ -
ton
OF THe 7"
eeL
i
students
ntrance.
Ill
eluding wide scale u?e of the Blue
bonnet; Farm at McGregor which
was acquired by the college last
January.
/ Tarlleton, North Texas, and Prai
rie View will receive increased ap
propriations under the new budget.
'N Thei total appropriation reques
ted for the 1949-51 period is $22,-
988,000; the appropriation for the
1947-49 period was $12,272,000.
Primary Run-off
Absentee Noting
To Begin Monday
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Absentee votinjj; for Brazos
County cit|zens wifi begin (Monday
and continue * through August 24,
according to Counjty Clerk A. B.
Syptak. â–  I a
Applications foriabsentee ballots
for those out of |he county now
may be made through the mail
without any prescribed form. Pre
cinct numbers musjt be given, how
ever. \ J
Citizens of Brasbs County who
will not be in town ^August 28 for
the run-off may register their vot
es at the county Clerk’s office be
fore they leave, Syp&k stated.
He added that ballots will be
taken to the homes of those phy
sically unable to go to the polls,
provided they can present k doc
tor’s certificate of disability.
Syptak predicted that the vote by
absentee ballot will be ' nowhere!
near the record-breaking level of
the July primary.il
561,331 TEXAS YOUTHS
EXPECTED TO. REGISTER
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 6 (^—Ap
proximately 561,381 yoiing Texans
are ’ expected to register for the
draft. } ;
NEW VOCABULARY. OE$CRiPTIvk.l]
ADJECTIVES AND SLANG TAUGHT
SEASONED LINGUISTS WHO HAVE BEEN
KNOWN TO SOUND OFF FOR DAYS
WITHOUT ONCE REpEATlNC* ; THEM
SELVES.
MARAK
WHY NOT ENll!
HI
â– ijfltWEi. army,
IT CAN PROVIDE
WITH.....
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pave-
of the
Nteek.
Improvements on EastejrwoOd
Airport will be started the first
of next week, C. K. Leighton, A&M
construction engineer, stated Wed
nesday. ; |-
He said the grading for
ment; of aprons at each end
pew hanger would start next)
At the same time, grading for
taxi Strips from the hanger to the
present runways will be started.
All three runways will be light
ed aS soon as materials can be de
livered, Leighton said. Worlf on
this project will probably begin
about the first of September, he
adetod.
T. R. Spence, manager of College
construction, reported that , the
lighting contract had been let to
Rogers Electric Company of 'Hen
derson, on a bid of $25,455. Besides
the complete runway-marker light
ing system, the contract covers the
(necessary power and control equip
ment and installation of a fiotat-
â– ing'beacon. I
F. W. Parker Jr., of Houston
was awarded a contract fob the
paving on a bid of $13,674; The
'Civil Aeronautics Authority! will
(furnish the $39,129 called for in
the contracts. The college will as
sume all remaining cost of the
work.
oun
By HENRHj LACOllR
dancing, and Symi 'hifoiy on
JJ'
Aggies to Discuss
Federal Education
Aid Over WTAW
Softball, skating, swimming,
planned for this weekend. . 'f -
Friday night the sports enthusiasts can watch
the lighted diamond. This is one of the intramural s^ri^s
r- However, if one is more inclined to participate
skating at The Grove. Admission
will be free to both,! of these
events, i
Saturday afternoon, P. L, Downs
Natatorium will be epemrfrom 3
until 5:30. No charge""^ igade to
students for swilnming, provided
the student presents his yellow fee
slip. .
Saturday evening the greatly
enlarged Modern Downbeats will
play for the regular Saturday
night dance at The Grove. The
dance is free and is scheduled to
begin at 8 p. m.
Now that the Downbeats number
ten musicians, they are fast leav
ing the practically unorganized
combo stage they were once and
are becoming a fine dance band.
Sunday evening the music lovers
will be entertained by Tchaikov
sky’s Symphony Number 5 in E
Minor, which will be presented
by the Symphony on Wax. The
symphony is scheduled to begin at
6 p. m. on the lawn north of the
Assembly Hall. ‘ _!
In the spring of 1888 Peter Tch
aikovsky, probably the greatest of
the Russian Romanticists, began
his Fifth Symphony. The work was
done at, a beautiful country place
on the road from Klin to Moscow,
where Tchaikovsky found the se
clusion that enabled him to com
pose some of his best works. It
would seem that his sensitive na
ture was best able to express it
self -in his music when he was
surrounded by Nature,
According, to meat music lov-
era, this Fifth Symphony is the
most satisfying of Tchaikovsky^
work, even better than his* great
Fourth Symphony.
Symphony on Wax is a regular
presentation of Student Activities.
Marvin Rice is the commentator
on the. all-record program, which
can be heard each Tuesday, Thurs
day, and Sunday evening.
gan
some
Vac
tead the list of
ball or
and Bizzell play softl
(s, and will stjtrtr at 8 p. m
erjnae,! there will Ipe free
.V ,
7.*.-
event'
I
MARVIN RICE mkkds
the SYMPHONY ON W AL
day, Thursday, and Sui da
[ALL.*
day, Thursda
ASSEMBLY
—
with
:e
6
he
between selections on
tfresehtit his program eve ry Tues-
m|. On the lawn north of- the
Aviatrix Rumors Periijst .. •
Eleven Yt
Disappearance
N0R r
DR^TH
RTH H<
ly PHIL
DisCus-
ederal
at
“Fed
wday
Bryan Residents
Home From Greece
T r~
n and
mgreen
JHrs. E. N. Holmgreenj;
daughter, Miss Shirley Hoi
returned to Bryan Sunday
ter a
reece.
head
>f the
i to
year’s residence in Athens, <
E,. N. Hohngreen has beer
of the distribution division
American Mission for A!
Gireece. ,
He is scheduled to leave Greece
by plan this week accord ng to
his wife.
While in Greece, Miss
green taught algebra and
Greek.
Holm-
;udied
The Aggie Debate and
sion Club will discuss
Aid for Education” j Mon’
4:30 p. m. on WTAW;
After calling off last Monday’s
program the club will get under
way next week with a discussion
on the Senate bill for federal aid
to general education.. The bill is
now pending in the House.
Although built around the Sen
ate debate, the program will voice
the opinion of several Aggie pro
fessors as well as the participants.
The Discussion Club will end its
surpmer program August 16 with
its regular Monday Discussion. â– 
This fall’s program will include
intercollegiate debate and a con
tinuation of the radio programs.
Longhorns Ready
On September 1^
The 1949 Longhorn will be
ready for delivery by the fall
semester, J. E. Eberhart, rep
resentative of the Storm Print
ing of Dallas, said yesterday.
“Barring unforeseen difficul
ties, we can issue the Long
horns to the students as they
go through (he registration
line,” Eberhart said.
LAN
’T HOI
“281
YOND NOR)
ER . .. ABOVE WA’ ’
Reception of thii rtie8sage|
air-sea searches in histjory—a
covered 260,0(10 square i dlls, and'
failed to reveql.any tract of Ame
lia Earhart and her lajigatpr,
Fred Nooan, who disapjX ured July
2, 1937, somewhere near â–  iny How
Ttjlnv-i/4 tvv wl 1 ■»
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ter-Earhart
S till Mystery
[OO
land Island in( mid-Pacifijj:.
Miss Earharti the fii* it
to fly the Atlantic anl >
the Pacific, Was flying tl
dangerous leg of her “ L
fun” roUnd-the-world trip,
500 mile stretch, over w it
Lae, New Guinea, to/Hi w
land, when hel’ gas etvidi n
out. | 1 â– 
Eighteen months laU r
fornia court declared
Earhart legally dead.
But, is sl^p dead? Al h
evidence points toward tl
there are these that jjelil
isn’t. And it is seldorm t
mass resistance to the fi
facts is evidenced.
Rumors, have produced more
rumors. It is believed that Miss
he
is
.itei.
»w too much of Jap-
fications anq was tak-
(woman
tart of
most
ist for
the 2,4
from
,nd Ini
ly gave
Cali-
imelia
igh all
is fact,
ive she
it such
ility of
ir
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or acd-
Earhart, ‘ intentionally,
dentally, saw too much
anese fortifi
en prisoner; or that, she and
Noonan somehow made their way
to an uncharted Islam.
Three years after sh i vanished,
a woman in Georgia drisamed that
the two were still alive. The dream
was specific: The flient, said the
Woman, were on a thicl :ly|wooded,
tiny island; Amelia’s hair had
grown long and wa^ ed in the
breeze; she qooked over a clay pot
supported by part of ler plane’s]
framework.
In March 1944, much prtminenci
was ki v en to . the stor ’ Pf a Jai
trader in the Marshall slands wh
Id a mission-trained national
ho t<»ld a United Shitea Army-
eutsnant who told corrjespondtot?
at ah American woman pildfhku
jm«i jdown between Ajima ant
iliijglapalap Atolls and was pick
* upjby a Japanese fijihing t'a
I taken to Japan.
KHAQQ
JS MUCI
LI
HIT 01
launched one of the largest
search that lasted 15 days,
a mls«
11 i the end of the war, cor-
res jondents In Tokyo ipproach-
ed Japanese- officials with this
story; In September 1945, the
secretary of the Japanese naval
adjutant said that the^e wag no
bat is! for this story.
Earlier in 1045, Captain Irvinf
lohiispn; who sailed" th msands o
jniles seeking Miss Earhart, sait
‘Th >rh isn’t any place not evei
pebble or a mythical sland, tha
lasn’ti been checked.’ Captait
Fohnsqn in 1940 huntet the flyei
through the Ellis and Gilbert Is
andsiin a search financed by i
group; of Miss Earhart s friends
As recently as last yaar, Unltei
States officials in Tokyo found i
necessary to again denj the rumoi
that the aviatrix was on a sec re
mission and the Japanese tool
her prisoner.
B|ut the rumors and hopes tha'
Am dia Earhart is aliye will stil
peri ist
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ON £! WEEK SHUTDOWN
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DETROIT, Aug. 6 J-Wt-Pack-
ard Motor Car Co. announced
Thursday materials shortages will
iite al one week shutdown Of Its
jiably operations commencing
ton ght /. |
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