M- -r f > ?: i V, City Of College Station Official Newspaper , z' k t h 4‘ Volume. 49 Military Student! Chosen to Recei Army Appointme m ■ . > -r Hi I ,! 'v v'; * - r i? Battal PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE & Twenty^three distinguished, mil itary studentsi have been selected from A&M for appointments as second lieutenants in the Regular Army, Colonel Oscar B. "Abbott, Chief of the Texas Military Dis trict, announced today. Texas supplied a total of 63 out of 726 students selected from 1418 applicants, Abbott said. The other 40 students came from the University of Texas, with 20; Prairie! View A & M; one from St, Mu'iVs University i»t San An tonio; eight from Texas Tech; two from Texas Western College in •Rl PasoVaml six fmm the Univer sity of Houston. 2.1 From A&M The 2it men from A&M are Carroll F, .Cogun, t)rd.| Clark C. MOnroe. Cav.j Duane A. Strother, C»tv.: J, t, Dotson, FA; Floyd H. lumk, C. B.; Klvind Johansen, C1MC; Harry J. Maek, gMC; Thomas Muldowney, MSC; Vernon ,K. Porter, QMC; Earl D. Downing, SC; Charlfts B. Modiaett, SC; and William D. Turley, FA, Ernest E. Phillips, TC; Fttanklin A. Cleland, CWS; Juliu^W. Belker, Ord.; Jose H. Cofonado, Walter Q. Bacnus, CE; Da Blakelock, CE; Louis A. CAC; Vid A. ubank, and U CE; Tillman A. Riewyi Sum G. Pate. Inf. Competitive Tiur A large number of the remaining military students, not lelected for appointment in the Regular Army, have been offered an opportunity to gain Regular Army ’Qmnjiissions through a two-year "competitive tour" off duty following gradua tion front their reaper lye Ichools. In addition to the .’ 28 students selected nationally, i'"' anblicants under, 21 years or age will be ae- levied upon reaching the legal age for commissions. This; applies to eight in Texas. ' It was deemed advisable tjo make the selections prior to the Christ mas holidays so that the prospec tive lieutenants could have an op portunity to discuss their! future careers with "home folks" Pro bably definite decision; will have been reached by the si udeii ts prior to returning to school next semes ter, Col Abbott said; Since West Point cannot fill the Regular Army requirements of 1900 new junior officers eich year to maintain the Regular Army Of ficer’s Corps at effective strength, the Army is now regarding col lege ROTC’s as the principle source of new Regular Armj officers, he concluded. Southern Assn. Rebukes Board BATON ROUGE, D^c. 21— UPl-rA commission of South ern Association of Colleges and secondary schools has ac cused the Louisiana State Board, of Education of violating “all principles of sound adminis tration” in the removal of a col lege president: , The case is that o! the late Dr. Claybrook Cottingh Navy’s Denfeld Declines Post WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -h (JP)—The controversy over Admiral Louis E. Denfeld’s dismissal as chief of naval op erations—and his refusal of ,one 'lesser job—appears likely to simmer on until after Congress returns to- the capital next month. In a bitter letter to Navy Sec retary Matthews, the ' four-star critic of defense department pol icies has turned down the post of commander-in-chief of II. S. Naval forces in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Denfeld’s. letter was made pub lic by the Navy, at his request, yesterday. It recalled the secre tary’s report to President Truman that, Denfeld was not loyal to his superiors and lacked proper re spect for authority. In view of that statement, Denfeld wrote, other nations might ndt have the confidence in him that the com mander of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean fleet should en joy- , I ! < The ousted chief of naval opera tions added: 7 [ "It is pertinent \for me to ob serve,' furthermocgij.J.from the • events which Have u-anspired since my testimony befoiy the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives on 13 October 19.49, that I would be under an un desirable restraint on the vital matter of frank discussion with the military representatives of other North Atlantic pact nations. "My views on combined strategy, and. particularly on naval part icipation in any arrangements whereby the countries concerned should be defended in the event of an emergency, might reopen the re cent controversy to the embarrass ment of my colleagues, my super iors and our government." Although the tone of Denfeld’s letter suggested he will retire from the Navy, the admiral re served his decision op that ques tion. Denfeld is on Iqave until Jan uary 19. It he postpones his decision re garding retirement, until then. Con J'TfP'fhe Southern — COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949 SEE £ 0mms mm •v l.p : mm m m IS11 Si 8 i'V-- mOM-DFA. m From the men of "D" Uleld Artillery comwt a wtah whl<>h we would ' like to puNM on to our rejudrrH In thin, the hint lunue of The Hattal|on for 1849. The greeting wum one of the flret jDhrtntnuui deeoratlons in the corps area thin year, and in the only one of it* kind on any if tm; dorMltoriM. . b Almanac Reflects texas Prosperity BY WILLIAM C. BERNARD Associated Press Staff "One almanac for Texas and an other jqlmanac for the rest of the world.” f’Thpt’s about the right prqpor- "Ts cell, general manager of the Can- I suppose,’’ said Gilhs Pur- thi uni, this year as president of Louisiana Polytechnic Institute died Aug. 17 in Mexi The association, mines which colleges shall 'have their cfe recognized, took nl action against the leges under the sta The commission’s made public yesterda; Ruston. :o City, which deter- in the south lits officially disciplinary Louisiana Col- te bpard. rebuke was < when George T. Madison, president of the State gress will be in se^sion.^And meny- hers of congress who advocate /a congressional investigation of His dismissal from the C. N. 0. poVt will be on hand. Dunlap to Attend Science Meeting Dr. A. A. Dunlap, head of the Plant Physiology and Pathology Department, will attend the an nual meeting of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Science, in New York City next, week, he announced today. Dr. Dunlap will give two papers, "Control of Camellia Canker,” be fore the American Phytopathologi- cal Society and he and E- K Ergle are co-authors of a paper, “Low Concentration Effects of 24-D on Cotton,” which he will give before the Botanical Society of America. Dr. Dunlap wdll also represent A&M at the annual meeting of Sigma Xi Clubl Bryan and College Report 150 Cases There were ISO cases of com municable disease reported for Bryan and College. Station dbring the week ending December 17 ac cording to the Morbidity Report from the Brazos County Health Unit. '-j As usual diarrhea and dysentery led the list with a total of 59 caiea reported. Influenza was next with 36 cases, 20 from Bryan and 16 for College Station. 1 Board of Education, the board a letter Godard, executive so commission. In a written sta lie Frederick, secretary K. Long and membe • of the Board of Education, said "uncalled for and is saving and u smeai the part of one n Huntley, who came chasing false' rumors and contact ing irresponsible ~ Fredericks challerged the state ment that Dr. Cottingham was given no opportunity to be heard. He said: “This letter was not presented to the executive.committee of the association nor was Colleges. This lette: 1 members of the con the association. dropped urned over to from J. M« •retary of the iment, Gov A Earl the fetter was merely face- campaign on emb^ir, M. C. to Louisiana 'nli*." it presented Association of is only from mission within on, >11, ... adian press, after surveying sights |of Texas recently. The Texas almanac, which not only Raptures but indexes the greatness of Texas, caught Pur cell’s eye. The new issue—for, 1949-50—is just off the press. It contains 672 pages, the largest ever printed. Iti is a reference book on the re sources, industries, commerce, his tory, government, population and other subjects relating to the civic, social and economic development of Texas. Texas’ remarkable growth dur ing the past decade. is reflected. Net annual value of manufactured pioduqts is now more than four times that immediately preceding the war. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in new industries. The number of indus trial wage earners has doubled. On farms the number of tractors Telephone Strike Seems Inevitable St. Louis, Dec. 21 <**'—A union official says some 50,000 employ ees of the Southwestern Bell Tele phone Company may go op strike before Christmas. Negotiations between the com pany i and Southwestern Division 20, CJO Communication Workers, broken off MondayJ Aggie Gagers ^in Over NT ; VI 1 K! •i: •' i?’ vv OrlfftMsSMb • i 1 i 'f Halp Staap Ovt It 74-33 In DeWare Before 2,000 BY HAROLD GANN Forced to use long set shots, A&M’s cage machine went score less for five early minutes lagt night, then overcame a five-point lead, and rolled to a 74-33 mass acre of a confused North Texais State quintet. About 2.000 fans saw the Aggies play their final home game for this year. I jumped from 98,923 in 19^0 to '23(5,390 in 1949. The first Texas almanac wes published by the Galveston News in 1857 but later the task was taken over by the Dallas Morn ing News. Credit for getting the almanac together bi-annually goes to Stuart McGregor, tireless, 57-year- old associate editor of the News. McGregor works daily, from 8:30 a. m. to midnight, eight months every two years, to do the job. His memory is amazing and he is credited with "carrying (the almanac around in his head.” “If the copies and all ydur al manac files were destroyed, could you write gnother almanac?” We asked him. “Just part of one,” said he. "I could write descriptions of all Texas counties and fill in the main towns and the crops and the indus tries, but I would have to go to other sources to get up-to-date statistics. I try to forget facts I know are available because I have the theory a human brain will hold just so much and no more. But the main trick in getting out an almanac is knowing where to go to get your facts.” McGregor is already at work on the issue for 1951-52. were Thg contract dispute was re ferred to; the U. S. Mediation and Conciliation Service, which can make' recommendations for avert ing x strike but lacks enforce ment authority. The upion expects to complete tabulation of a strike vote by the uni(p members by tomorrow night. Christmas Greetings The School of Military Science joins me in wishing the very mer riest of Christmases and the Hap piest of New Years to all cadets and their families. H. L. Boatner Colonel, Infantry I*. M. S. & T and Commandant State Asks Death In Hoskins Trial Amariflo, Tex., Dec. 21 UP)— States Attorneys demanded death yesterday for Dwight Hoskins, for mer high school football star on trial in 74th District Court here on a murder charge. Hoskins is accused in the Oct. 5 holdup-slaying here of Charles Lee Freeman, crippled filling sta tion operator. , | District Attorney Lloyd King opened the summation by counsel before the jury, demanding the death penalty. The case was ex pected to reach the jury by late today. Cotton Control Controversy To Federal Court WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— (£>)—Agreement was reached yesterday in federal court to try early next year the suit of 10 Texas farmers to block the new cotton control program In their (date. Counsel for the growers also agreed to delay at least until Jan. 13 their attempt to obtain a court injunction suspending the cotton acreage program fh Texas until the suit can be tried on its merits. The case was called up by Judge Charles F. McLaughlin to consid er a motion by the grower’s coun sel that the quotas, as announced by the Agriculture Department, be suspended. Shortly after the hearing open ed, Judge McLaughlin called a re cess so attorneys for both sides could work out an agreement fbr a trial date. Under terms of the agreement, disclosed by Judge McLaughlin, Agriculture Department attorneys have until Jan. 13 to file an ans wer to the farmers’ charges that the new acreage program deprives them of a fair share of the al lotment assigned to Texas. Earliest Possible Date j-h .* Judge McLaughlin said the case will be heard at the “earliest pos sible date” after Jan. 13, and at torneys in the case later said the trial likely would start before the end of January. The agreement to postpone any further action in the matter at least until Jan. 13 was described as “entirely satisfactory” by Wil liam H. Shriveman, of Corpus Christi, an attorney for the grow ers. i “This means that he will get an early trial,” he told a reporter after today’s session was adjourn ed. “’Without such an agreement tjie trial might have been delayed a year or even longer. “This is a distinct advantage for the cotton farmers of Texas, be cause they will have a determina tion of the issues here involved before planting time arrives.” He said that should the court sustain the growers’ claim that the present distribution of acreage al lotments in Texas is unfair: to them. It will mean that dome farmers receiving large quotas un der the present method may have to take sharp reductions. The suit, filed for the planters of 11 Gulf coastal counties, names Secretary Brannan and other top Agriculture Department officials as defendants. It hit squarely at their inter pretation of the new acreage law but not questioning validity of the act itself. Jewell McDowell, potential all conference guard, paced the Cadet scorers again with 17 points. Mc Dowell is now the leading scorer in >he Southwest Conference with 126 tallied. Texas forward, Tom Hamilton, only made four points last night against University of Houston and was forced to vacate the top position, 'll. North Texas, entering the .game with a two-game winning streak, racked up a five to nothing lead before A&M could analyse the tight zone defense set up by the Eagles. DeWHt Starts Fireworkk John DeWitt arched one in from the left corner to set off the Farmer fireworks, Then Mcl|owell unleashed two long beauties i from hi* guard position to pull tlte Ag gies Within one point of the load. Mike Garcia, a player with an unusual, crowd pleasing style, put the Cadets out in front, 8-7, with a long two hand shot over the cen ter after eight minutes and thirty seconds had ticked off the clock. A&M lead at halftime, 30-12. Eagles Use Zone • North Texas strategy In the first half was to maintain an air tight two-one-two zone under the A&M basket ih an attempt to keep the Cadets from driving in under for layups. This defensive pat tern, however, proved to j be .the Eagles’ downfall. A&M poured in shot after shot over the Eagles defense, soaring to ton astronomical shooting per centage during the first .stanza. McDowell. 0 arc la, and Wplly Moon provided the Crowd With lust the type of basketball they like; McDowell looped in four long, lazy shots while Garcia and Mbon rip ped the net with three ami t^oi re- Caught Without ID Card, Cadet Shows Undershirt By JOHN TAPLKY ^ | \Vhen Bill Cavanaugh, a junior ag student from Webster, casually IV ■ afternoon dropped Into the Btudertt Activities Office Tuesday his copy of the Aggieland 1949, all did not go well. The young lady at the peek, Mrs. Helen Roberts, asked him fot his ID; card. After fumbling in his pockets for a fefW minutes he related to her that he did not have it with him, “Any other identlficatio 1 '’”' she asked. A few more seconds of embarrased fumbling produced'noth ing; he had left his wallet-back in the dorni. J * “VVell, did you have your picture in the annual?” asked the pa tient girl. That did not prove satisfactory either. By r now the situation looked bad for Bill. As a last chance ,the resourceful Mrs. Roberts asked if he had a laundry mark on his clothes. , i / ; Bill busily began searching his person for the laundry mark that would cinch his identification. By now all the bystanders were pulling for Bill and aided in the search while Mrs. Roberts stood by unper- tUrb What’s this ? At last with a sigh of relief, Bill had found a laun dry niark! It was locatedbn the tail of his undershirt. He got the book.! • F * - ■ ■ , ,• /1' • ' spectively, during the first half. Pete Shands, North Texas Coach, changed his defensive plotting in the second half by changing to a man-to-man defense, but, Cbach Marty Karow’s cagers literally jtore this type of defense to shreds. I Karon Sweeps Bench With nine minutes remainink/in the contest, Karow swept the bench clean of substitutes. If the Aggie first team would have been allow ed to complete the game, the score might have well reached the b>gb eighties. | Held scoreless during the fint half, Walter Davis, S’ 8" Ag ren- ter, roared back during the Inst frame to cun 10 points. After . NTSC had switched to a muft-to- man defense, Davis was able to drift through the green-dad five- some for occaaionnl set-ups or tap- IM : V ; Garda, DeWitt, and Hill Turn- how each contributed fight r Christmas. The deadline for submitting nomin ations la January Hlimandr talned at the 81 udent Actlvlttea — .. . j , Information can be ob- ln Goodwin Hail.” Janes Ranch Scene Of Bird Field Trip The Turkey Production and Tur key Management classes under the instruction of Ross M. Sherwood made an all day field trip to the Janes Bar Nothing Ranch near Austin Dec. 15. Classes were shown mothods of raising turkeys from breeding and feeding phases to method* of trap nesting and care for eggs used on the Janes. Ranch. A. B. Hubbard, general manager of the ranch, led the tour. ! j Thursday afternoon, the group visited the East Produce Company in Austin where they saw how turkeys are processed forj the con sumer market. According to Sherwood, purpose of tbe trip was to familiarise students with methods of breeding and marketing of turkeys for a com: meat production on scale. A i I i ■ imercial Showdown Coming On Civil Rights BY JACK BELL 1 j | . J|| I Washington, Dec. 19 —Ad ministration Democrats counted to day pn swift political profits to flow from plans for a civil rights showdown in the next session of Congress. The session will begin Jan. 3. Senator Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic leader, says thai show down! will come in the Senate on a ball to set up a permanent fair employment practices commission (FEPC). The bgency would have power to enforce its orders against race and creed discrimination in jobs. i ~ | [ | • The FEPC bill will 1 bfflrj! I the most serious affront to aouthern democrats and widen the' breach that already splits that party. At the same time, some administra tion leaders hope it will prove politically embarrassing to Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio). Taft, dubbed by some of his friends as “Mr. Republican," is against the bill now on the senate calendar. He plans to offer, in stead, a measure to set Up a fed eral FEPC to obtain vauntary compliance with anti-discrimina tion rules. Taft has said that the adminis tration bill would create a board that in the long run “will tell every employer how he mtist make up his labor force." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other' groups interested in the civil rights issue have made their stand dear: they are mOre inter ested in the FEPC bill than com panion measufeS to abolish state poll taxes and to'make lynching a federal crime. By the same token, FEPC is a red flag to the southern democrats They will throw every effort into iptljt it by thfe Senate. c«m Ak ^Kgie irge in San nighti 56- 27. Arizona stopped three-game winning spljir Antonio last Saturday 50; San Francisco’s famed Cow|Pal-~. ace will 'be the scene ' of A&M’s hodpsters action when! they ‘ play the »University of California on December 29 , and Stanford 'Uni versity the follov ‘ (See BOX SC(J)RE, Page j 3) ollowing night. ; SCORE, Page :! Investigate NLRB UE Asks President called upon President terday to investigate Washington; Dec. 2l MPi-i-The United Electrical Workers (UE) nt Truman yes- thet National Labor Relations Board and; fire Robert N. Denham, jits general Counsel. The request was made after Denham revised what UE called a “secret order” for handling the organizing; battle rival be- CIO In- electrical the attempt i to prevent action' on In the House,a similar bill has cleared the House I^abor Commit tee and is tied up in the rules committee, (phairmton Lesinski (D- Mich.) of the labor group has an nounced he will try to by-pass the rules blockade. Even! ill fhe bill is blocked in each House, adiqinistrution demo crats think they n|y a matter of us to believe it. fquf becomes 11 re* time* four becomes 11 »100 under the binary system wh,cl impending tjweeniUE and the ternational Union of workers. Denham’s revision went into court for aji against the NLRB. President Albert J of UE wired President Thiman asking for the investligutioji. and Denham’s dismissal i*qt nine ajs UE injunction Fitzgerald -f ■ Frances Harris To 4-H Staff Position Miss Mildred! Fraf|ces Harris,: assistant county home demonstra tion agent, Fort Bend!County, will, become assistant state 4-H Club leaderj Jan. 1950, Gl. G. Gibson, of the Texas Agricultural Exten sion Service, announced ; today. Her headquarters will be gt Col lege Station, Gttyton added. Miss Harris is a native of Grimes County and a'graduate of Nava- sota High School. She holdi « BS degree from Sam Houston, State Teachers College in Huntsville. She was appointed assistant county home demonstration agent-in-train ing June 1946 and was named to the position she now holds in Fort Bend Countv. i. ^-8he will work with the present ’ "statb^-H staff on general 4-H activities, Gibson concluded, Kiwanis Club Djmes A&M Poultry Team The championship Aggie poul- 9 try judging team was introduced ^by Ej. D, rarnejl of the Poultry Husbandry Department qt the weekly luncheon of the College Station Kiwanis Club held at Sbisa Hall, Tuesday. Members of the team who won the recent judging competition. at Chicago are Bobby Mayfield, Del- wifi JR. Barrett and Grady 6, gains. Also introduced Ijf. ’’Doran,. team ca Scrog Bill zptajin. No More Batts Until January 4 Today 4 * izzue of The P n Ion will be the last until neaday, January 4, the 1 tors announced today, i Items to be published that day should be turned In hot la- Uii than Monday, January 2, they said. II I M.- 9 [■