NEWS
In Brief
HEARNE CASE TO
GO BEFORE JURY
FRANKLIN, Feb. 15 —CP)—A
grand jury convening here today
is due to investigate complaints
against S. B. Jones, 47, Hearne,
Texas., charged in the $81,000 hot
check swindle of the First State
Bank of Franklin.
Jones, an insurance man, is
charged in eight complaints with
swindling by worthless checks. The
loss caused the First State Bank
to merge, last Dec. 18, with the
First National Bank of Franklin.
Stockholders of the First State
Bank absorbed all losses.
The First State Bank cashed
worthless checks totaling $81,000
during the Thanksgiving Day holi
days last year.
Jones was arrested near Mata-
moros, Mexico, and returned to
Texas Dec. 14. Mexican authorit
ies found no substantial amount of
money on the Hearne man when
they picked him up.
Jones told a reporter in an in
terview: “I have at no time viola
ted any criminal laws.
“The business in which I was
engaged and the use of the funds
involved was a perfectly legiti
mate business. Every check that I
drew I had been assured by the
bank against which it was drawn
that it would be paid when pre-
sentecL”
Besides his insurance business
at Hearne, Jones was engaged in
operations in the Rio Grande Val
ley in which items such as used
cars, refrigerators and barbed
wire were sold in Latin-American
countries.
Jones, is free on bond.
JURY TO RECONVENE
SOON ON SLAYER
STEPHENVILLE, Tex., Feb. 15
—td?)—The grand jury is expected
to reconvene soon to consider the
case of a teen-ager charged with
the holdup slaying of a filling sta
tion operator here.
The suspect is 17-year-old Rob
ert Curtis Bagwill, who officers
said confessed to the killing Jan.
28 of Crockett C. Ross.
Dan White, 47, the boy’s uncle,
is charged as an accomplice.
Both are charged with a string
of burglaries and robberies that
stretch from Texas to Oklahoma.
Bagwill was transferred here
Sunday from Vernon, where they
were arrested Feb. 6. White, an
ex-convict, was transferred from
Vernon to Palo Pinto, where offi
cers are trying to recover articles
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Sheriff R. EJ George of Stephen-
Iville said White would be return-
led here later.
CONVICTION REVIEW
DENIED TO MEYERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 —CP)
The Supreme Court yesterday re
fused to review the conviction of
Bennett E. Meyers, retired Air
Force major general, on a charge
that he persuaded another man to
lie under oath.
Meyers has been in jail here
since March 15, 1948, serving a
sentence of 18 months to five
years. A district court jury con
victed him of inducing Bleriot H.
Lamaree to testify falsely before
a Senate War Investigating sub
committee.
Lamaree was wartime president
of the Dayton, Ohio, company. He
first told the subcommittee that
Meyers had no connection with the
company, which got war contracts
at a time when Meyers was the
Army Air Force’s no. 2 purchasing
officer. Later Lamaree said Mey
ers was the real owner of the con
cern.
Meyers’ conviction was upheld
by the U. S. Court of Appeals here
by a 2 to 1 vote.
In appealing for a supreme
court review, the ex-general said
his trial was “a subtle mockery, a
travesty and a sham.” He said the
court of appeals decision uphold
ing his conviction was “a fitting
and hyprocritical climax to these
disgraceful proceedings.”
The Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Volume 48
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1949
Number 124
ALVARADO CYCLONE
DAMAGE ESTIMATED
ALVARADO, Tex., Feb. 15 —
(A?)— This little Johnson County
town counted $50,000 damage from
a powerful gust of wind which de
molished a few structures, dam
aged others and scattered two
over 10 acres of land.
The wind blew in about 3 a. m.
Sunday. It passed through town
in a hurry—residents said it last
ed less than a minute at any one
spot—traveling in a northeast to
southwest direction.
Fire Chief A. L. Creswell esti
mated the damages.
The city was drenched with four
to five inches of rain within a two
hour period.
The wind knocked out windows,
toppled chimneys, and interrupt
ed utility facilities for a brief
period.
A granary and tool shed belong
ing to E. L. Prestridge, a farmer
living about one-half mile east of
here, were demolished.
T. W. Hooks reported two rent
houses scattered over 10 acres of
land. He also said his car body
and paint shop was ruined.
“The wind blew hard enough to
make my well-cohstructed resi
dence tremble, and we were only
on the edge of it,” Hooks said.
The two-story frame residence
of H. P. Johnson was moved four
feet off its foundation.
A brick building used by the
Fundamentalist Baptist Church
was practically destroyed and one
10-room residence was twisted out
of shape.
The cadet corps in mass formation in front of Duncan Hall was one of the pictures posed for
Life photographers last weekend. This formation preceded the review on the main drill field.
PG Study by Mail Offered /
For Ph.B. Liberal Education
By TOM CARTER
The most frequent objection to
the college graduates of today is
that they are technically trained
but socially irresponsible. They go
through a rigid curriculum of
scientific studies which allows al
most nothing for coordinating the
individual and broadening his un
derstanding.
A hundred years ago colleges
concerned themselvesv mainly with
the study of history, language and
philosophy. That sort of educa
tion turned out a number of great
men.
But in the passing years new de
velopments clamored for a place in
the curriculum. As a result scien
tific and technical subjects have
all but replaced the humanities,
and the professional curricula of
today contain only a few credit
hours of literature, history and
human problems.
However the executives of
1949 have begun to cry out for
technically trained men who al
so have a broad education and
broad understanding. These exe
cutives realize that a knowledge
of history and social thought is
necessary for a man to be equal
to the problems he faces.
One solution to the problem has
Thou Shalt Not
• • •
Religious Editor
Thrown In Jail
By CHUCK MAISEL
Religion is having a tough time
all over. First it was Cardinal
Mindszenty getting tossed into a
Hungarian cooler. Now, it’s hit us
here at A&M.
The Battalion’s religious editor,
who also holds the job of Devo
tional Vice-president of the A&M
Baptist Student Union, was thrown
into jail not once, but twice, be
tween semesters.
A1 Johnston, the theological
jailbird in question, started out
on an innocent weekend trip to
Pleasanton, Texas, little realiz
ing the fate in store for him. He
didn’t even have time to write
a letter to the world saying that
if he confessed it would ,only be
under torture.
Johnston decided to travel first
class—hitchhiking, that is. All
went well until he arrived at San
Marcos. He took to the road in that
Baptist city and, after time and
a half had ^one by, got picked up
by a drunk driving a “hot rod.”
The gracious host proved that
he could drive rather fast, but
not fast enough to outrun the
state highway patrol. A1 was car
ted back to the San Marcos city
hall and for a minute it seemed
that he might prepare for a life of
mining salt. However, after much
explaining, he was allowed to con
tinue on his trip.
On his way back to A&M after
the weekend, Johnston decided to
take a quick look at the Capitol
A-M Club to Dance
In Dallas Saturday
An all-Aggie square dance under
the sponsorship of the Dallas A&M
Club will be held Saturday night
at the Casa Linda Log Lodge in
Dallas, according to George Marble
publicity chairman.
The dance, which will feature
both square dancing and popular
dancing, will be open to all stu
dents. It will start at 7:30 p. m.
The lodge is on Garland Road,
one mile northeast of Buckner
boulevard. Tickets may be obtain
ed from Marble in Room 217, dor
mitory four, Mai’ble said.
while in Austin. He set his suit
case down in front of the building
and went in for a brief look around.
When he returned to get his
bag, he was very surprised to
notice that his suitcase had
turned into a genie in a blue
uniform. Closer inspection prov
ed that it was not a genie at all
—you guessed it—it was a cop.
Some questioning proved that
the lost bag had been picked up
and taken to the Detective Bureau
either to prevent its falling into
the hands of some person other
than the rightful owner or to
search it for pumpkins and micro
film.
For the second time in as many
days, Johnston made a trip to jail
where he identified his suitcase.
He says that he is glad to be back
at A&M where he is not so ex
posed to the strong arm of the
law. However, rumor has it that
the speakers for Religious Empha
sis week wouldn’t come to A&M
until they were promised immuni
ty from the Campus Security Of
fice. A preacher can’t be too care
ful these days.
Rodeo Hands Form
Collegiate Chapter
College rodeo hands met in the
library of the A. I. Building and
formed the Texas Aggie Rodeo
Association. This campus organi
zation is to be the college affil
iate of the newly formed National
Inter-collegiate Rodeo Association.
The chief purpose of the Aggie
Rodeo Association will be to pro
mote the sport of inter-collegiate
rodeos. Membership is open to any
student interested in rodeo, re
gardless of his major field of
study.
During the first meeting of the
club, the following officers were
elected: Earl Guthrie, president;
Maxie Overstreet, vice president;
Wally Cadwqll, sec-treasurer; Paul
Kramer, publicity director and Sid
Lanier, representative to the Na
tional Inter-collegiate Rodeo As
sociation.
The next meeting is scheduled
for 8 p.m. Monday, February 14
in the A. I. Building.
been offered which requires stu
dents to spend three or four years
in a liberal arts college before
being admitted to professional
schools. This would make educa
tion highly expensive and would
discourage the young man who is
intent on getting a professional
degree in the shortest time pos
sible. This young man tends to be
impatient of minor excursions into
fields other than his own. His lack
of appreciation suggests that gen
eral education forced on an imma
ture person may fail its purpose.
A&M’s solution to the problem
is to offer the broadening by a
post-graduate corres pondence
course leading to the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy, Ph.B. The
courses, many of which are now
available, will deal exclusively
with economics, literature, psycho
logy, sociology, geography, his
tory and social development.
Upon completion of 36 credit
hours of these studies, A&M grad
uates with a minimum of two years
in residence for their first degree
will be awarded the Ph.B degree.
The plan’s advantages lie in
the fact that you study while
earning your living and get the
extra education at a lower cost.
Post graduate correspondence
studies in this series are approv
ed by the Veterans Administra
tion under the G. I. Bill.
The courses will probably im
part special satisfaction because
at his older age the post graduate
student will be more appreciative
of the significant factors of life
than he was at the freshman or
sophomore level.
Aspirants to executive status
will find these courses helpful
because they deal solely with
humanity. They offer deeper un
derstanding of your self, of fel
low men, and of the institutions
which you want to direct.
Succeeding issues of The Batta
lion will carry a description of the
courses offered and an idea of
their potential value to the grad
uate.
‘Let’s Accept The Incredible,’
Advises Barbour In Address
R . P ^Religious Advisor’s Findings As Important As
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Fails to Reach
Dance Decision
The Senior Ring Committee fail
ed to reach any decision last eve
ning regarding a proposed change
of policy for issuing Senior Rings
to all Students graduating before
February 1950. After three hours
the committee voted to adjourn
until five o’clock this afternoon.
Posed before the Senior Ring
Committee is the proposal to per
mit men who will graduate before
February 1950 to order and receive
their Senior Rings before the
Senior Ring Dance on April 22.
The Registrar’s Office announced
that mid-semester grades would
not be released before the first
week in April.
Heretofore, students’ qualifica
tions for receiving the ring before
the Ring Dance were based upon
evidence by their mid-semester
grades of the spring semester that
they would graduate before Feb-
ruaiy of the coming year. This
year there will be too little time
between release of mid-semester
grades and the Ring Dance for the
necessary checking of each stu
dent’s records preceding issue of
the ring.
The Committee is now faced with
selection of a fair method for is
suing Senior Rings with the mini
mum amount of record checking.
Several plans were discussed but
none were considered final enough
to merit a call for voting, accord
ing to Charles Kirkham.
John Zinn of the Registrar’s Of
fice estimated June graduates at
1000, August graduates 500, and
January, 1950 graduates at 700.
This would make 2200 men eligible
to attend this year’s Senior Ring
Dance.
Members of the Committee pres
ent were A. D. Martin, Doyle
Avant, Don Kaspar, and Charles
Kirkham. Also other members
present were W. L. Penberthy, E.
E. McQuillen, H. L. Heaton, John
Zinn, and Mrs. Bauer.
Religious Museum
To Be Shown Here
A traveling museum of items
used in Jewish worship will be on
display in the YMCA during Re
ligious Emphasis Week, Mrs. Es
ther Taubenhaus of the Hillel of
fice, has announced. Including some
pieces 300 years old, the exhibit
will consist of 66 relics from all
over the world.
Valued at $6,600 the collection
will be on display throughout each
day in the Mother’s Lounge, with
representatives of the Hillel Club
to guide visitors.
Outstanding parts of the dis
play are pices of North African
and Oriental origin. Many of the
items have highly decorative fea
tures as silver filigree, wood and
ivory carving, and colorful illu
mination, Mrs. Taubenhaus said.
This is the first exhibit of its
type to be shown in this area.
Tonight’s meeting of the Ag
riculture Engineering Society
has been called off because of
Religious Emphasis Week pro
grams.
"P Association
Cancels Dinner
The T Association dinner
scheduled for Tuesday night
at the Fin Feather Club has
been cancelled, according to E.
J. Bilderback, president.
A meeting of the association
will be held at 7:15 Tuesday
night in the Hart Hall lounge.
Those in Special Scientific, Technical Fields
Dr. C. E. Barbour, who yesterday announced to an audience of more than 1,000 stu
dents that he “Had arrived where every distinguished man of intelligence hopes one
day to arrive—in Texas,” was the main speaker at the second Religious Emphasis Week
service in Guion Hall at 10 this morning.
Speaking to an audience which filled the lower floor of the auditorium and
spilled over into the balcony, Dr.
m ^ ~ 'Barbour extended his theme for
Architects Prepare
For Costume Dance
By ART HOWARD
Next Saturday the campus will again be afflicted with
ASABAB—the annual Architecture Society’s costume ball.
This year the dance will have song titles for its theme,
most of which even the non-architects will be able to
recognize.
1 ——r f “Buttons and Bows,” and “Pistol
Soph Scholarship Packine Momma ^ omise
Announced For
Development Fun<
A new scholarship, the “Lulie
Hughey Lane Scholarship Award,”
has been established at A&M, ac
cording to E. E. McQuillen, direc
tor of the A&M Development Fund.
The award was established by
the Texas Society, United States
Daughters of 1812, and will pay
the sophomore student to which it
is given $200 for a school year.
The student chosen for the
award must be majoring in liber
al arts and taking military science.
He shall be chosen for outstanding
qualities of scholarship, leader
ship, and character, McQuillen
said. Special consideration is to
be given to students who have
overcome difficult obstacles in
evidencing the possession of these
qualities.
The winner of the award will
be chosen during the spring term
of his sophomore year by a faculty
committee.
Members of the faculty and
members of the sophomoi’e class
are invited to recommend suitable
prospects for the award, McQuil
len said.
Establishment of this award was
announced by Mrs. Earle D. Beh-
rends of Dallas, chairman of the
scholarship committee, who said
that the scholarship has been set
up to honor Mrs. Alvin V. Lane of
Dallas, who passed away several
years ago.
Department Programs for Open
House Day Due Before March 1
Department programs to be sponsored during the A&M
Open House must be turned in to the program committee be
fore March 1, James W. Andrew, chairman of the Open
House program committee, announced at a committee meet
ing Thursday evening.
The programs must be in at this time so the program
committee can begin scheduling'
the events for the A&M Open
House, Andrew stated. Department
heads should specify the type of
program which the department will
sponsor, such as standing exhibits,
shows or demonstrations.
The program committee hopes
to arrange the events in such a
manner that no two shows or
demonstrations within the same
school will occur at the same
time. To make such an arrange
ment possible the department
heads should request a time at
which they would prefer to run
their show, Andrew concluded.
Robert S. Weynand reported on
the progress being made in secur
ing publicity for the Open House.
He commented on the possibilities
of securing a Texas Quality Net
work on the spot broadcast for
that day. Plans are also underway
to take television movies which
will probably be shown over the
Houston and Dallas television sta
tions. After the-departments de
cide which students will partici
pate in the Open House events,
personalized stories will be sent
to the student’s home town papers.
Local A&M clubs have been re
quested to send representatives to
high schools in the home towns
represented for the purpose of ex
tending a personal invitation to
the Open House festivities, Wey
nand stated.
Special letterheads designed for
all correspondence relative to the
A&M Open House were presented
to the committee by James L.
Liverman. After some discussion,
(See PROGRAMS, Page 6
to be
well-represented, and some cos
tumes will come from “Far’ Away
Places.” The ingenius architects
are noted for the wide range of
costumes appearing at their an
nual fling.
Prizes will be given for the two
best men’s and women’s costumes.
Jack Crook, president of the Ar
chitectural Society, won first prize
two years ago with his garb of a
“chicken Colonel.” (The theme
then was Frustrated Ambitions).
Architecture labs will come to a
halt Thursday when the entire de
partment, including the annex
freshmen, will start decorating
Sbisa Hall into- a combination of
Tin Pan Alley and one of Salva-
dore Dali’s surrealistic murals.
A huge broken record will
form the entrance to the dance
floor, and paintings of Tin Pan
Alley will line the walk to the
floor. Once inside, the architects
and their dates will be confront
ed by surrealistic paintings,
backed by walls of sheet music
covered with song notes.
To continue in the bizarre theme
the illumination will be furnished
only by spotlights, while the Prai
rie View Septet will furnish the
music.
Even the invitations follow the
musical line, featuring a cartoon
of a broken-down artist, drawn
and modeled by Emmet Trant, an
architecture student.
Every member of the Archi
tectural Society will be allowed
to bring another couple with
him to the dance as his guests.
Several honorary guests have
been invited, including the entire
faculty of the Architecture De
partment, noted local architects,
and representatives from Texas
University, University of Hou
ston and Texas Tech.
Tickets will cost three dollars
for non-members and one dollar
for members.
GALVESTON A&M CLUB TO
ELECT REPRESENTATIVE
An election will be held to se
lect a young lady as representa
tive for the Cotton Pageant at a
meeting of the Galveston Club
Thursday night at 7:30 in Room
129, Academic Building.
Plans for a spring dance will
be discussed.
the week, the “Quest for Satis
faction.” Today’s topic was “Ac
cepting the Incredible.”
In his address, Dr. Barbour
pointed out that many do not un
derstand how the radio works, how
the airplane flies, or how atoms
can be split: one merely believes
what the authorities in the field
tell him.
Likewise, Dr. Barbour suggest
ed that one must accept certain
spiritual facts which the authori
ties in that field tell him, even
though it seems that he is accept
ing the incredible.
“The most important of these
incredible facts one must accept is
that the Bible is the word of God,
and that it speaks of eternal real
ities,” Dr. Barbour said.
M. P. Williams, senior mechani
cal engineering major from Mon
terrey, Mexico, presided over this
morning’s service. H. C. Walkup,
junior I. E. major from Kirkland,
led the morning prayer.
Special music was furnished by
Leonard Perkins, soloist with the
Singing Cadets, who sang “The
Twenty Third Psalm.” Jimmy Ros-
borough of Bryan, a third year
pre-med student, played the organ
for all the musical numbers.
Again tonight each of the
churches serving the college will
feature special speakers for their
7:15 services. Each of the speak
ers was introduced at the opening
session of the Religious Emphasis
Week services yesterday by Presi
dent F. C. Bolton.
In his introduction, President
Bolton stressed the need for reli
gion in everybody’s life. “We can
not lead the moral, spiritual, and
Christian lives we must with only
occasional attendance at religious
services,” President Bolton said.
Before presenting the ministers,
President Bolton extended a per
sonal invitation to all the students
of the college to make full use of
the services being presented. He
urged each of the students present
at the initial meeting to bring an
other student with him today.
Dr. Barbour will speak in Guion
each morning during the week. His
overall theme will be to show that
“society is doomed unless it finds
and follows the thread of God’s
will.”
Lieutenant Roots
Reports for Duty
Walter L. Roots, Jr., class of
’46, will begin a tour of extended
active duty in the Army on Feb
ruary 15, Colonel Oscar B. Abbott,
Executive of the Texas Military
District, announced today.
Roots, a First Lieutenant in the
Veterinary Corps of the Army Or
ganized Reserves, will report to
Fort Mason, California, for as
signment.
LT. AUDIE MURPHY presents 20 copies of his new book “To Hell and Back’
BALLANCE.' Cadet Colonel JOHN ORR helped with the presentation.
A report on Murphy’s book is given on page 2.
to librarian PAUL