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- •- Published Four Times Weekly Throughout the Summer The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Number 45: Volume 50 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1950 Price: Five Cents Infantry Divisions Gain As Situation Brightens Tokyo, Aug'. 22 (A * 1 * )—U. S. 25th Division infantrymen drove a nu merically superior enemy force from hill positions of Southern Ko rea Tuesday to hold shut the land approach to Pusan port against the Red Koreans. The action was the fiercest of the day’s reported fighting. It was at Changam, 35 miles west of tht No. 1 Allied port on the southeast tip of the peninsula. The “nerve center” of the Memorial Student Center is the staff of the Purchasing Department. With their oflices in the new building, the depart ment’s employees have been long at work pur chasing the dozens of items, both big and little, needed for the successful operation of the MSC. From left to right, the members of the staff are Mrs. Marilyn Gower, Mrs. Jennie Spray; M. E. Thomas, purchasing agent and building superin tendent; and Mrs. Glenda Brown. Mrs. Spray and Mrs. Gower are wives of A&M students, while Mrs. Brown is a resident of College Station. Vet Medicine Staff Members Attend Meeting Dr. I. G. Boughton, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, and five staff mem bers are attending the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ameri can Veterinary Medical Associa tion in Miami, Fla. The meeting began Monday and will continue through Friday, Dr. Boughton said. Attending the meeting with the dean are Dr. R. D. Turk, head of the Parasitology Department; Dr. J. H. Millis, head of the Veterinary Anatomy Department; Dr. H. A. Smith, head of the Veterinary Pathology Department; Dr. A. A. Lenert, head of the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Department; Dr. F. D. J;aggi, professor in the Veterinary Bacteriology and Hy giene Department; and Dr. W. A. Boney, associate professor in the same department. Dr. Boney will present a paper ' to the meeting on “Poultry Dis eases in Texas,” Dr. Boughton said. Dr. Turk will be chairman of a committee studying parasitic dis eases. Houston ‘System’ Schedules Dance A “Beat Korea” party will be sponsored in Houston Friday night by the Houston A&M Club Sys tem, according to “chancellor” Jackie Woods. “Everyone is invited to the party at the Hi-Hat Club. It’ll begin whenever you get there Friday night,” Wood said. Celebrating both the end of sum mer school and the entrance of any members into the Korea-bound armed forces, the party is the first of the season to be sponsored by the “system.” Admission to the Hi-Hat is 65if' per person, Woods said. At the Grove Tonight 8 p.m., “East Side, West Side,” starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ava Gardner, and Van Heflin. I Korea at a Glance Tokyo, Aug. 22 (TP)—Seventy B-29s, roaring within 60 miles of Russian territory, slammed nearly 700 tons of bombs at North Korean military and industrial targets today. The principal target was Chongjin, west coast industrial city on the sea of Japan, U. S. Far East Air Forces Head quarters said. Chongjin is 40 miles from the Manchurian border and less than 60 miles from the Russian maritime provinces. B-29 superfortresses yesterday dropped 80 tons of bombs on the railway yards at Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Crews reported “excellent” results from the visual raids. Fighters and light bombers struck day and night at Red convoys and troops concentrations in the Chinju area on the southwestern front where the North Koreans were re ported building up for another drive. 25th Division Gaining With U. S. 25th Division in Korea, Aug. 22 (TP)—25th Division infantrymen grabbed back every bit of ground the North Koreans had gained early today in their drive toward Haman on the southwest Korea front. “Battle Mountain”—key position two miles southwest of Haman—changed hands for the fifth time in four days as Negro infantrymen of the 24th Regiment drove the Reds off. A vanguard charge by 1,500 Communists had captured Battle Mountain only this morning. Plane Brings Wounded Mobile, Ala., Aug. 22(TP)—A giant C-74 Globemaster ar rived at Brookley Air Force base today with 41 wounded American GI’s from the Korean fighting. This—the fourth group flown here by the Military Air Transport Service—was also the largest. The wounded are en route to hospitals near their homes. Most suffer arm or leg injuries. They were brought from Fairfield-Suisun AFB near San Francisco. Twenty-nine others were discharged at El Paso, Texas. Brookley officials said most of the wounded would be flown to the Army-Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Names of the wounded were not available. ‘No-Progress’ Malik Again Lake Success, Aug. 22 (TP)—The Security Council meets again today (2 p.m. EST) for what appears certain to be its ninth no-progress session of Russian Jakob A. Malik’s tenure as president. Despite his own failure earlier in the month to oust the Chinese Nationalists and seat Communist China, Malik was expected to present a similar demand made this week by Red China’s Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai. Chou, like Russia, also seeks participation of North Korean representatives in ! the council debates on the Korean war. Clayton Again Heads Board For Research W. B. Clayton of Dallas was re-elected president of the Research Foundation at the quarterly meeting of the board of trustees here Friday. Named vice president of the foundation was Dr. F. C. Bolton, president emeritus of the college Dr. Bolton replaces J. B. Thomas of Fort Worth, whose term ex pired. C. A. Roeber of College Station was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Named to the executive commit tee, which acts on business mat ters between meetings of the board, were Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of engineering, Gibb Gil christ, chancellor of the A&M System; D. B. Harris of Houston and G. G. Chance of Bryan. The trustees voted to increase the number of councilors of the foundation from 70 to 90 during the current year. Members of the board of trus tees present were W. B. Cook, E. A. Craft and C. M. Malone of Houston, J. D. Rodgers of Nava- sota, C. M. Gaines of San Antonio, Gilchrist, Barlow, Bolton, Chance and Clayton. The group approved a budget of $35,000 for administrative ex penses of the foundation for the coming fiscal year. Smith to Support Ramsey in Run-off Lubbock, Texas, Aug. 22—(A 3 * )— Rep. Preston E. Smith of Lub bock, who ran third in the 12- man race for lieutenant governor in the July Primary, yesterday announced his support of Ben Ram sey in the August runoff elections set for next Saturday. Smith said his choice of Ram sey is based upon the laters wide experience in state government and his already proven ability to preside over the state senate. “I am of the opinion,” represen tative Smith said, “that the inter ests of the people of Texas will be better served by Ramsey’s election. I am not trying to dictate the vote of any of those who supported me in the July election, but I feel I should publicly announce my pre ference in the runoff.” The Reds all along the general 120-mile Korean battlefront ap peared unable to get rolling on their poised offensives. Three times between Monday midnght and Tuesday mid-morning the Americans of the 25th Division charged the southern hills before they could retake them from a reg iment of the North Korean Sixth Division. The bloody fighting was almost matched in ferocity a few miles to the south of Changam where anoth er Red regiment tried to dislodge other 25th Division infantrymen from the Sobuk hills. Hold Back Reds While the battle raged for the main south coast road to Pusan, Allied units hurled back Red prob ing attacks northwest of Taegu on the central front. A Red road block behind U. S. lines only 10 miles north of Taegu was knocked out after it had de layed supplies to Allied troops for two hours. Nine Rusian-made tanks led a battalion of Red infantrymen against the U. S. 27th Regiment in Tuesday’s pre-dawn darkness. The attack near Taegu was quickly re pulsed by the Americans. Thx-ee enemy tanks were disabled or de stroyed. Northeast of Waegwan, where an Promises Only Justice . . . Racket-Smashing DA Seeks Slate Supreme Court Spot Zinn Asks Aid In Dorm Area When the “moving” rush arrives at the dormitory areas this week, all students will be required to park vehicles at prescribed parking places, ac cording to Bennie A. Zinn, assist ant dean of men. Students will not be allowed to drive off the streets and parking- lots onto the grounds or inside the dormitory areas, he said. The rul ing came as a result of damage to flower beds and busies and other shrubbery, said Zinn. “From time to time students drive their motor vehicles into the dormitory areas in order to unload or load baggage and supplies,” the assistant said. “Many students keep the vehicles on the concrete driveways, but many drive onto the grounds and damage the bush es.” Great damage was done to the grounds, flowers, and shrubbery several times during the past year, he said. “The cooperation of all students and staff members is solicited with the hope that the Landscape Department can better maintain the grounds and keep them beauti ful,” Zinn said. Vets’ Wives to Meet The Veterans’ Wives Bridge Club will hold its weekly meeting Thurs day night at 8 in the YMCA Cab inet Room. All prospective mem bers are invited to attend the meeting, it was announced. By TIM PARKER The Associated Press (Editor’s note: One of a ser ies of biographical sketches on major candidates in the August 26 second Democratic primary election.) Will Wilson of Dallas has come a long way in his 37 years. Now he wants to sit on the Texas Sup reme Court bench. In brief, here is the record of this youthful candidate for place 1 on the court in the Aug. 26 pri mary: ® Served as assistant district attorney under attorneys general Gerald C, Mann and Grover Sellers. • Won two consecutive terms as district attorney for Dallas County. Gained considerable reputation as a “racket smasher.” • Topped the three-man field in the July 22 first primary for the supreme court post, place 1. Now faces Fagan Dickson of San An tonio and Austin in the run-off. Squeeze in action-filled service with the 42nd Division in the Pacific during World War II and you can see that Will Wilson has been a busy man. Wilson’s grandparents combined the military and religious aspects of early Southern life. His paternal grandfather was a surgeon in Rob ert E. Lee’s army during the Civil War. He made his home in Texas in 1885. Wilson’s maternal grand father was a Methodist circuit-rid ing minister in frontier Tennessee. The candidate’s father is a business man, his mother a former teacher. Once Roughneck After working as an oil field roughneck and surveyer in both East and West Texas, Wilson got his law degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Later he taught evening law class es at SMU. He interrupted his career as a civil lawyer to go to war. He was commanding officer of the 465th Field Artillery Battalion of the 32nd Davison. As such he held American lines on Northern Luzon when the rest of the division head ed for Japan. At one time he took custody of five three-star Japanese generals. Back from the war, Wilson won a five-man race for district attor ney in Dallas. He was re-elected. He became an adviser to the Na tional Crime Conference in Wash ington, chairman of the Texas Bar Association’s steering committee on modernizing the penal code. He is past president of the District and County Attorneys Association of Texas. When he announced his candi dacy early in May, Wilson said: “There is nothing a candidate for the Texas Supreme Court can promise the voters except justice.” estimated 60,000 enemy troops have been massed in the mountains for a lunge at Taegu, the South Korean First Division gained mountainous ground between the towns of Man- gjong and Indong. Five disabled North Korean tanks were spotted i by South Korean patrols. The Reds were thrown back in a try to move on Taegu Monday by a combination U. S. plane and artil lery bombardment by night. Phis- phorous shells lighted the way to the targets for the planes. Tues day in the same area the Reds tried only the probing attack in small force. It was hurled back. General MacArthur’s Tuesday afternoon’s war summary said the Taegu area was quiet after the nine-tank attack on the American 27th Regiment Tuesday morning. Artillery Stops Reds Artillery of'the U. S. First Cav alry Division pounded Red troops across the Naktong River north west of Taegu. On the east coast, the South Ko rean Third Division inched north of Pohang port with cover of U. S. naval shells. South Korean troops were reported nine miles north of South Korea’® No. 2 Allied port The South Korean capitol divi sion moved north and east from Kigye, nine miles northwest of Po hang. North Korean losses in men mounted with every engagement. Their casualties in four days have averaged almost 4,000 men a day, headquarters estimated. In the deep south Red troops at tacked Allied South Korean ma rines who had advanced 20 miles in four days since landing at Tong- yong. The South Korean amphibious troops were trying to link up their coastal position near Kosong with American forces centered in the Hamanmasan area, 35 miles west of Pusan. South Korea’s President Syng- man Rheel revisited the south coastal front around Masan port Tuesday. He had left threatened Taegu with his government last week to set up a new provisional capital behind the fighting front. Marine Field Day West of Haman, a dusty, clap board village on the south coast, U. S. marine corsairs had a field day strafing a large group of Red troops caught in the open. The corsairs strafed backward and forward over the crouching troops, inflicting many casualties. Marine carrier based planes bomb ed' and strafed a Communist com mand post near Chungchon in the same area. i ^ ... issiSik mM-n'i Mm Former Instructor Missing in Korea M/Sgt. Louis W. Bratton has been reported missing in action in Korea since July 20, according to a telegram received Aug. 20 from the War Department by Mrs. Juanita Bratton, 2613 Gilchrist, Bryan. Assigned to the 19th Infantry Regiment, commanded by Col. Guy S. Meloy, former commandant at A&M, Sgt. Bratton was an assist ant instructor in Infantry here from October 1946 until January 1950. During the last war, Sgt. Brat ton served overseas in the Euro pean Theater in his reserve rank of captain in command of an In fantry Company. ' N v-U . ■ ' :*£• Jerry Odem Ann Fleming and Jerry Odem, members of the A&M Consolidated Band, model the new band uniforms which arrived August 17. The Instrumental Music Sponsor’s Club arranged to have the uniforms made while the Band Mothers, College Station Chamber of Com merce, Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, and S. A. Lipscomb helped fi nance the project. Col. R. C. Dunn, former A&M Band director, will direct the Consolidated Band. Ann Fleming Senate Shouts Down Cut in Farm Prices Washington, Aug. 22—(A 5 )—The Senate shouted down a proposal to roll back farm prices to pre- Korean war levels under any price control powers granted to Presi dent Truman. The action came as members be gan final votes on a bill author izing Mr. Truman to gear the nation’s economy to a wartime basis. The full legislation, if approved, would give Mr. Truman authority to involke price-wage-ration con trols—if he deemed them necessary —and power to restrict credit and allot scai’ce materials. 50 Amendments With a stack of some 50 amend ments on file, the lawmakers faced a long session probably running late into the night, despite a 10- minute time limit on debate on each amendment. It was agreed to remain in session until action on the bill was completed. At the outset, a Republican drive to tack on anti-Communist “raider” onto the general controls bill was called off. Senators Mundt (R-SD) and Ferguson (R-Mich), co-sponsors, withdrew the anti-Red amendment. The Democratic leadership had promised to fight such a rider but to call for early action on separate curb-the-Communists legislation. The Senate began its long or deal at a swift pace, clicking off one amendment after another by voice vote. However, the legislation soon fell into a shouting row over an amendment by Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.) which would give the Commerce Department the exclusive right to handle the allo cations and priorities program authorized under the bill. The showdown brought the first defeat for administration forces Overriding protests from major ity leader Lucas (D Ill), the Sen ate adopted the Johnson amend ment by a vote for 47 to 42. The chamber then beat down, but the same count, an administratior move to reverse the vote. On both roll call tests, 38 Re publicans and nine Democrats were on the winning side. The loser: were 40 Democrats and two Repub licans. Lucas contended that the John son amendment would give the Secretary of Commerce “more power than the President of the United States.” No Offense Meant There have apparently been some misinterpretations of a story in Friday’s Battalion. In the front page story concerning a fire which destroyed Dr. D. W. Andres’ storage garage, the last paragraph read as follows: “When a'sked why the fire wasn’t discovered and reported sooner by residents in the area, a bystander said ‘Someone just did n’t give a damn.’ ” The editors of The Battalion did not consider this an allegation against the neighbors of Dr. An dres, most of whom were away at the time of the fire. If any reader construed this from the last para graph, we offer our apologies. —The Editors Former Assistant Attorney General Qualifications are Only Real Campaign Issues—Dickson > I €. K. Esten Esteen, an instructor of English, has been named the new director of the Aggie Players, A&M’s only student dramatic group. Esten is reading “Kind Lady,” one of the three plays under consideration for production during the coming year. He will meet tonight with both old and new members of the Players to discuss plans for the fall. The meeting, to which all interested people in the community are invited, begins at 7:30 in the YMCA. By DAVE CHEAVENS Associated Press Staff (Editor’s note: This is an other of a series of biographical sketches on major candidates in the Aug. 26 Democratic primary election.) Supreme Court candidate Fagan Dickson is a Texan by choice not by chance. He came to San Antonio in 1929 to visit relatives soon after he had been licensed to practice law in Kentucky. He liked Texas so well he decided to stay. Now after 21 years of practice and of service in key spots as as sistant attorney general, Dickson is asking Texans to give him the Democratic nomination for asso ciate justice of the State Supreme Court, place 1, in the Aug. 26 pri mary. His opponent in the run off is Will Wilson of Dallas. Dickson is bearing down hard on his experience. He says qual ifications for office are the “only real issues of the campaign.” Dickson is 46, of medium height and solidly stocky. He gets his out door exercise hunting and fishing, or chopping cedar near his cabin on Lake Travis. He likes to read law books for pleasure and another hobby is collecting items relating to the life of Franklin D. Roose velt. Born In Kentucky Dickson was born in Kentucky where his father was a country storekeeper and livestock farmer. One of his first jobs was deliver ing ice with a mule and wagon. He was graduated from George town College, a Baptist institution, and took his law degree from Har vard in 1929. Dickson began his legal career in San Antonio with the firm of Hicks, Dickson and Bobbitt, which also had offices in Laredo. One member of the firm was Robert Lee Bobbitt, who was then Attorney General of Texas. With Bobbitt away and the senior part ner ill, the young attorney should ered much of the firm’s legal work. He handled all types of cases in the trial courts and both in the state and U. S. supreme court. He served one term in the Texas House of Representatives, where his record shows he voted against placing a ceiling on old age pen sions and against placing a sales tax in the constitution. Dickson became an assistant at torney general under Gerald C. Mann, then under Grover Sellers. Under Attorney General Price Daniel he was first assistant. He was head of the land division, and then the important oil and gas division. He had a leading role in many cases involving proration, including the famous flare gas suits which established the Rail road Commission’s right to issue orders halting waste of this nat ural resource.