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Number 45: Volume 50
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1950
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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.
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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.
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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
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€. 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.