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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1949)
I 'J:' Si • ll« I y H I ( {The diapl familiarize military sconce students with bridge construction. •.II if 1 By I OH > T l)rlvinif jfourii or t»« A help hut IK ti^tf lilwl on trii i hltu’k In tolor . utroot. Wr ttni (he !ijj ’“Ml the oxpl'feHitnHif» brouuhti fr im ji^H atnl every kutif iji't I il “- nloitH urtf | tiotyi mid I Tavern." vfhosfe! 1 item the h|»jipiWjt tained herihi. 'ty an olcl diiiC|rde(i j ing over these {d contains » a; Siguj i reward foil the a! yc Dortnifories Sp&rt From All Over U. S. (hi, 4 tion of anyone! gji the city limits' sign bftingj tertip from the office b Then there^!ie Lounge,” vl(hich{ Is! n*i “Flop Inn’ /. bedbugs, w I1VNE8 be alive and 1 is lonesome; d l<te that has „ . chj W4 blonde, for Signs from ev^r seen one of “G»d are apparent. > “Para-dicie - LfeSkifl Ihis it’s walls lined with $uc’ ■ ’ “ ! h; fiifi itsoi! * might thihk that; New Orleans c^t|||j tr !l<|wn the main you chuldn’t hjnmrhs Ncrih* t vc 11 war tins, i rh Him the are some of alt'have been rta -ijif Texasi (■cheated here, (is and ex pres* ghtful quota* ijt.iiB "Tarpaper dn j is derived conditions con- bright observe 11 pr two hang- l i. "Club 228” tl offers $100 is and convic ts of arson in .G ijocsbcck, the ir .ly borrowed the sheriff. rL u n a t i c ; ■ , Just how one of the signs In the barracks area j redds. Countless numbers of customers that visit the many) service stations through* out Tuxes are still looking for signs directing them to the ladies' rust rooms, One barracks, not to be outdone by the various other Annex “re sorts," term theirs the "Last He* sort," This Ihcludef onei large, spa cious room, with a. bepuitifu^ ap proach-way, one sandy paih. ;, Tho bur is equipped with television to assure the interest of the customers until the last coin is drained from every pocket. , v “Red and Joe" are in charge of the distribution of cots to day sleepers in barracks ‘‘Fall Inn.” Here w'e have local cadets hailing from t’lorcsville, the home of the gophers, from Amarillo, the para dise of the Panhandle, and Gaines ville, the home of the meanest women. “Purgatory Inn” has jtwo revivals nightly, beginning woo. The, dawn and lasting until dusk, fea- ide. , KOud of its son of Sintojv I thej lard; rtf -, T , rT _ giave need of turing talent from -far and w ilt to. women” Just turn your tiny feet to redo, where the 1 land is blackest and the people are whitest. On your way, detour through “Cowtown,” “Big D,” the key city “Big A,” noted for peaches, peas, peanuts, ^ | By observa-! I pigs, pottery potatoes and perto- ‘P 1 | tion, a »M<:taM-|]| id ] the. Annex’ leum. You might run across the t its was the [ “Lone Ranger from Granger.” But ip tjs, for that'sM before you pass ithrou^i. those •r , Pho4e ij;: -* y<] • im :n it I: - 1 V "vf : : MW OP THI TIUlf TO CH< I j jj ' Glenn Miller Three Sun« Eddy Arnold e H^d Nose Reindeer a\ ih‘ King pi i ' fool All RCA Victor releases on the new 1 rjftdi records will also be available e standard TO- and 12-|nch discs. TER HOMES i;; “For Better Living” Bryan '';:i tl'i 314 N. MaiiP pearly gates on the rojad to “8<m- tonc, dine awhile "where the tem perature Is 20 degrees cooler all year around," where the dtinke are made with what’s left from the day’s washing, the "Old Black Joe" whatever that,may be 1 And when you look ijnek on your visit to the "land of enchantment", think of the many tllghits spent listening ' to the tall ] ndme-town tales woven by the fi(m belleVers in "Tfxas Brags," the Texas Ag gic freshmen. 44- ■ TBE.BAT.TAL Page 4 rT T 44- TMUR^DAY, APRIL 7, 1949 Movie Cowboy, Hindu Calm Stampeding Elephant Herd By CAL BRUMLEY GONZALES) Tex,—tan—A sing ing cowboy riding a stallion and a tiny Hindu mounted on the small est elephant in captivity quieted a frantic elephant herd stampeding across Texafj hill country Jnear here. That’s right — stampeding ele phants in Texas—cow country. The elephaihts stampeded while being filmed in a movie jungle scene. It was like the old cattle stam pedes—when g A herd could be sent thundering by a few pistol shots. Pistol shots—blank ones—started the elephant scramble here yester day. They were part of a herd of 2& belonging to Daily Brothers Circus, in Winter quarters here. Cowboys and handlers hazed the elephants by Jack Orr’s newsreel camera once. Orr, from Dallas, Tex., said the fake stampede- was unrealistic, j I / Circus owner Ben Davenport told his cowboys to fire some hlagfrs. , .1 I / Dudley Aqtry, brother of screen cowboy Gene Autry, and Chuck Carson, Hollywood stunt man, obliged. Both are circus perform ers. The elephants were frightened into a real stampede. The moun tainous beasts shook the Texas prairie sod.' The porch from one house was brushed aside. Sections of fence were laid flat. Cameraman Orr had to run for safety. "I haven’t seen Orr since he got out-of the way,” Daven-i port said. "But we found part of his trouser* he lost getting away." Handlers -fled. But not Autry and the littU* Hin du, Singh, from India, "Autry picked up Singh <m the horse and rode into the herd," Da venport said. "Hingh fbund Butch—thalj’s the smallest i>n|y olophuht in eu()tlviLy — and hopiied astraddle his neck. Butch, 2Mi' years old. ami Hlngii managed ujj mill the baby eleph ants." Davenport explained that the ba by elephimtH could not keep up with their f larger relatives. .♦■■Maaa.j——in I .4 i... fn, | •■- ONE MAN PYRAMID CLUB Autry spurged to the head of the running elephants. Shouting and waving his hat, he started the herd milling. Others joined higi and kept the animals circling “just outside the city limits" of Gonzales, -the circus owner said. “They ran four or five miles.” Davenport estimated a crowd of 2,000 gathered at a distance to watch the milling herd. “The best thing is that nobody was hurt se riously,” he said. , “The animals stopped just short of/ a school house.” ' Two circus men were shaken up, Rex Williams, 20, former, marine, was knocked down and cut slight ly. Raymond Freivogal, 30, utility man, stumbled and fell between, some logs. He was bruised, but the logs—part of the scenery—saved hrs life. Orr and Davenport had draped a wooded ravine with scenery to imitate a jungle. The camera was set up near some llogs which the elephants had to jump over. The camera, set, automatically, photographed most of the stam pede. It was finally buried by the charging beasts. But the film was uninjured. —a COMMUNISTS IN CHINA WITHDRAW ' NANKING, April 6 —UW— A general withdrawal of Communist troops from the Yangtze River front appeared underway today. Capital observert; hoped it meant an end to 22 years of hostilities ilt the Civil War. But it was far too early to tell. Peace talks reportedly were uni- derway in earnest i at Peiping. There were various reports of a general Red reuse jfire order, Com*. muuists attacks on Nanking, W>0 miles southwest olf here, hult*l. Rod troops mirdhing toward the river from the nofth suddenly did an about fatje. Observers felt they Boyle’s Column !j Concerning K Crowds; By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK—It began at the carnival—in fun. “Let's march!" cried the’ clown who had his audience, all he needei to be happy. The laughing crowd lined up be hind the jolly clowp and the throng grew . . . ‘^step-and-a-half, step- and-a-haJf . . step-and-a-haMT • •? They marched and marched, and MflMf ier© are we marching?” ... and th* em then somebody called, “wher boldened clown replied:, /pj “To the palace . . we’ll shov king his loyal subjects.^, •" I And word- spread througl crowd. . . * And somebody phonpd thei y might null back a fow miles and d HP all along the river uwg^t developments The Reds nnpeuml Nanking to Mlmnghal —■ I— ■■»na»<M>ynnni 4 at Peiping, bonded iiortn front from H Miss Ann Fleetwipid will repre sent the Spanish Club at the Cotton Ball and Pageant, A Tessie from Del Rio, Mlsa Fleet- wood will be escorted by Have Kreager. — ,/.4. CAB I’KICKS CUT AGAIN Tho DETROIT April (I downward movement in car prices continues, Effective Monday night, Nash- Kelvlnutor Corp. announced it re duction of $20 to $120 on Its two serins of cayii m* mu ■ — —a—•a-tanKJ*——— Kings, i > ■ i j . • dr m M w ' nt your. man- suspects thdli^i# may, or may not machine guns, bui you feel I feel it didn’t hear the c save oqr merry kj group came. I “Rir^l” screair altem ; . . And tl Bodiesjfpll. The —into a mpb A straqger s man who hadn’t! S them at all, f B “Why are weagajn he screamed rhetp ed i«n. the 1 “What are ’ beds or freedo “Pm short oil] the amazed do “Breath?" holL “A man can[t livj Let’s attack can breathe ag So tiie mob stranger and' while the wonde mistress watcheu,-,. bajeony. . ?i! r ; “I* dpn't krjoiy this nonsense,^ i PI clown didn’t eitl If ioti »W» “Why, I’ve go again—I can o said the poor cl* But nobody higytl ANBWERH TO.i|p f»r L Mi<Jdluwi*ight';.,cl 2» moo feat W ft, A neck ft. Trqe fii Jl; II fesiion$jv€l)i at- M Cobb ■aoi 10, *0.107. ... the doubt )r>(o h.i stranger your tor Will and Fifrch!" s« “Step l r . l» : *H* I ! an., . si shot hi N : 1 p i king and his rope-end for I was done, and Uurning the mob of people again, pped forth and - • 1 now—I accept 11 be doncj" npw strapger , stop!. . ip. .” And the m'clown, just id to go “step-and- Ind-h-Kalf’T. . and d of high and seful .man miy iLininj, water Will 11,8:00, a™ 1 *- if the water er WiB may be •li] .. m SSE -esident Li Pomori be Cut off in tpmorrow morn- to Allen Mad- Office. be off all <m ly untU' Satfff- emergancy r«* 4»Sde Sported to lunipt ultii (ij^iSncler of fegii -Pfrtil T 1 —•A 1 ' Act ng ung ien tonight was e •ejected a com- m for the virtual C Hanking govern- no su quart was making a rate- ttttoiqdt Itu bargain iho Reds forjlbflttor terms. I-M j also was. said to have turtied ^iwn a propdial that ho go, to l>ei- Kngj) where ‘peace talks now ar« progress, j j ; i; j. I . ( was rwortodly Invited (J m bly by ' (h« (Kcds) to g< w ng ami wirva;im a joint which ;w«ju ling 1 ovi ill Uteicom Id supvlviso Notion nunlMts, RoLiiison Refuses Coadiin^; Fosiliou Jackie Robinson, who was a crack basketballer at Baylor Uni versity prefers saving souls to coaching. In an interview here last night ho said he had turned down a $4,000 a year job with |a Univer sity athletic staff, Hit did not name the university. Robinson, 21, said He will en ter .Southwestern Theological Seminary in Foci Worth this fall to study towgrd a doctor of theology degree. Robinson Helped- tlio United States Basketball team win the Olympic title last year. He was unable to play basketball last sea son because of an injured leg. H. M. AMSLER, HOUSTON EX, EXPIRES IN KEY WEST, FLA. HOUSTON, April 6 -^UP>— The body of H. M. Amsler, 61, Houston oilman, was to arrive here today from Key West, Fla. 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