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Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Number 11: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland)* TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cents Filing Closes Today at 5 p.m. For Senate-Life Committee Filing for the Student Senate and went to class vice-presidents and fi; Jes D. Mclver, Robert E. “Bob” MSC Council Student Life Committee ends this afternoon at 5 p.m. Sixty candi dates had filed by 8 a.m. this morn ing, Bill Moss,' co-chairman of the senate election committee, an nounced. 1 Three of the 3G positions to be filled in the election will go to the Student Life Committee. Accord ing to the student senate constitu tion 43 members are authorized in all, but seven of the ofices are fill ed by virtue of office. TISA Members Four of the seven ex-officio seats (!iviiian Seniors Hold Meeting Non-corps seniors discuss ed the same topics in a meet ing at the Assembly Hall last night that were discussed by corps seniors the night before. Senior class president, Dare Kee- lan, assured the 65 non-corps sen iors present that the senior cadets were eager to have non-corps sen iors take part in all senior class activity this year. “There is an opening on every major committee for a non-corps man if he is interested,” Keelan said. Establishment of a non-corps division of the senior court to handle the same type violations by non-corps students as the present senior court handles in the corps was suggested by non-corps vice- president Bob Allen. No definite committee appoint ments were made pending the next senior class meeting. In answer to complaints by those attending last night’s meeting that they knew rtothing of Monday’s meeting, Keelan said that future meeting will be more widely pub licized. ‘AM Story’ Gift From Exes Group Fifty thousand dollars to cover cost of writing, publication and distribution of “The A&M Story” was named as the principal objec tive of the 1951 program of the Association of Former Students. The sum was named as a birth day gift to the college at the an nual fall meeting of the Associa tion Council Sept. 15-16 in the Memorial Student Center. Contributors to the 1951 fund will receive a personalized copy of “The A&M Story” which will be on sale to former students and the general public. Announcement of publishers and author is pending while the committee works out de tails. Gun cases to house the Metzger Gun collection now owned by the mllege, and operation of the cam pus offices of the Association, were allotted another $6,000 which will be a secondary objective of the program for 1951. Professor D. B. Gofer, college irchivist, displayed several sam ples of the Archive Department ?.nd showed large photographs of early campus scenes as evidence of the department’s progress. DJI Judging Team Attends Iowa Meet A&M’s Senior Dairy Judging Team left Sunday, Sept. 24 for Waterloo, Iowa where the National Dairy Congress will be held Oct. 2. Judging teams from the entire nation will compete in the judging contest for national honors. Members of the team making the trip are C. B. Smith, Jack Berk- ner, Dick Allen, and Calvin Rinn. They are coached by A. L. Darnell, professor in the Dairy Husbandry Department. The team will stop at Oklahoma A&M, Manhattan, Kansas, and Iowa State College on the way to Waterloo. They will return October 8. three to A&M’s delegates to the Texas Intercollegiate Student As sociation. Members of the T'ISA were awarded seats in a constitutional amendment voted on by the student body Friday, however the amend ment must be approved by the Academic Council before it becomes effective. Requirements for both governing bodies is a 1.0 grade point ratio, Moss said. Each dormitory will elect a representative as will day students and housing areas. Day students will choose two senators, while College View, Vets Village- Project House area will elect one each. In addition, seven senators will be elected at large. Candidates Candidates who had filed for the Student Senate by 8 a.m. were as follows: Robert L. Sturdivant, Dorm 2; William R. Cornish, Ken neth Grant, and Don Napp, Dorm 3; Douglas Hearnft, Dorm 4; Charles R. Ruble and R. M. “Dick” Elliott, Dorm 5; Dan Davis, Dorm Loving Care Fails to Save Box-Car Cur Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 27—(A 5 )— Hobo’s friends can stop sending him money and food. He is dead. Conductor J. V. Hobbs and his Louisville & Nashville railroad crew found the little crippled dog’s body yesterday when they made their daily stop to give him food and water. They buried him to day. The railroaders adopted Hobo when they found him in a box car more than a year ago, his back in jured and all four legs broken. They fixed a den for him beneath an overhanging rock on the L. & N. Spur line and made a daily ritual of the stop to care for him. A story about them and the little mongrel was widely published. People from many states began to send contributions. Membership Large In Economy Group The Texas Commission, in its birthday clothes, is growing. Mem bership in the organization is ex ceeding expectations, at this time, at least. Hundreds of persons in this section of the state have join ed, Davis Grant, Brazos County chairman, said this morning. The commission is set up to pro mote and promulgate that legisla tion most needed and most desired, that will eliminate duplications in administration and operatons in the state government which, in the last analysis, will mean more eco nomical expenditure of the tax dol lar, Grant pointed out. Membership is open to every citi zen of Texas. The state has been divided into senatorial districts, 31 in all, with a chairman in each district and a county chairman. The commission plans to take the needs of the citizens to the legisla ture and otherwise offer aid in making more efficient the differ ent phases of the state government, Grant said. Membership is $1 per person. Quotas in Washington County, with L. Hausman, as chairman, $250; Brazos, Davis Grant chairman, $400 and Burleson County, D. L. Al ford, chairman, $150, have been met, E. L. Angell, senatorial dis- trice chairman, announced today. Martin, Dorm 7. Jack A. Tanner and Ralph E. [ Gorman, Dorm 9; Raymond Kunze and Hans R. Killingstad, Dorm 10; I Richard L. Goodwin and Robert W. Jack, Dorm 11; George F. Ger- mond, Dorm 14. C. L, Ray, Dorm 15; John Tom Poynor, Dorm 16; Lloyd H. Manjeot, Dorm 17; Ralph Ellis, and R. E. Sandlin Jr., Hart Hall; E. R. Bernard, Karl F. Mey-1 ers, and Joe R. Alexander, Walton ! Hall; I. E. “Monty” Montgomery, 1 Milner Hall; C. W. Thomas and | Nolan H. Brunson, Leggett Hall. J. R. Allen and J. Fred Ham- ! bright, Mitchell Hall; Wallace G. Garrison, Jerry Fineg, and Bill Da-' vis, Puryear Hall; L. J. “Jim” On- stott, Law Hall; and Alfred R. j Bigson, Bizzell. Day Students Day students filing for student senate positions are Hayden Jen kins, Howell Johnson, Bill Moss, John Webb, and George Young. Running for Senator at Large are William Arkins, Jackson Ra ley, John McFall, Joe Johnson, W. D. Barnes and Tommy Martinez. Edward E. Roberts, Earl D. Sher man, Herbert G. Mills, Thomas Jewell Jr. and W. A. Sky-Eagle have filed for senate seats from Vet Village. Student Life Seven men running for the three openings on the Student Life Com mittee are Sid Abernathy, Roy Nance, Joe Fuller, Ray Williams, Earl Tweed, Jim Martin, and E. T. Ted Pitzer. Ballots will be distributed Oct. 3. Time between Sept. 27 and election time will be spent in checking qual ifications and campaigning, Roy Nance, co-chairman of the election committee, said. Tech ■ Ag Ducats On Sale in MSC Student tickets for the A&M- Texas Tech football game are now being sold in the Memorial Student Center, Ticket Sales Manager Howard Nelson an nounced today. A booth has been set up at the building entrance from the South Station post office, and all du cats will sell for $1.20, Nelson concluded. Members of the Memorial Student Center Coun cil stopped work on passage of their new consti tution long enough Monday evening to have their picture snapped by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molinary. Seated left to right are Dick Hervey, Dave Coslett, Fred Smith, Dan Davis, luiugraptiei.' J. T. McNew, Jr., and John Rowlett. Standing left to right are Wayne Stark, Clayton Selph, Sid Loveless, Dr. W. H. Delaplane, Joe Fuller, Dick Ingels, Joe Wallace and LeVon Massen gale. Absent because of illness was Dr. John Quisen- berry, chairman of the group. First American Prisoners Tell of RecTs Mistreatment With the U. S. 24th Division, Ko rea, Sept. 27—VP)—Three wounded GI prisoners, first to be freed in Korea, gave their American libera tors an account of mistreatment by Red police and learned for the first time that U. N. forces are winning the war. They are SFC Frank Freede, of Monett, Mo., and Long Beach, Calif.; SFC Blaine E. Mackrall, of Colome, S. D., and Tacoma, Wash., anil Pfc. James E. Martin, San Andreas, Calif. Held captive for 25 days, they had heard nothing of the Seoul and Pusan perimeter victories. “We thought the gooks had taken Taegu and gone through,” said Freede. The trio was rescued from a jail near Yongdong by the U. S. 24th Division. Each of the three said Red sol- Famous Artist Sets Second MSC Talk By GEORGE CHARLTON others. He was acclaimed a prodi- c , gy. His first painting work was Seymour Stone, one of the out- not on a portrait; it was on the standing portrait painters in Amer ica addressed members of the Me morial Student Center Gallery Committee at a meeting of that group Monday night. The Houston artist has promised a return speech in the MSC studio some time next week. This pro posed talk will be open to all per sons interested in attending ac cording to Mrs. Ralph Terry, di rector of the Gallery Committee. Among some of the famous personages sitting for Stone’s portrait work have been the Pope, cardinals, members of Eu ropean royalty, Truman, Nimitz, Eisenhower, Jesse Jones, and Glenn McCarthy. His offices are in Houston. Of Polish birth, Stone clime to America as a small boy. At the age of six, he made his first draw ing. It was of a vase. His teacher marveled at the lines of the sketch, its symmetry, and passed it on to Queen Candidate V' Architects Wives Plan Social Events Officers of Architectural Wives Society held an Executive Commit tee meeting on Wednesday night, to formulate plans for social events and programs for the semester. First meeting is to be held Wed- i nesday night, at 7:30 in the Cab inet Room of the YMCA. Artillery Party Planned Artillery company commanders, juniors and the artillerv section of the Military Department will be guests of the 352 Armored Field Artillery Battalion at a picnic at the Brazos County A&M Clubhouse, Wednesday at 6 p. m. Helen Woodard My, oh my, where do all these beautiful women come from? Gad, Dallas, it’s Houston again. Miss Woodard- who was a duchess in the Cotton Pageant last year, is plenty OK. You might ask Rus sell Hagens, who entered her in the 75th Anniversary Queen con test sponsored by The Commentator. the side of a truck, for which he ceived 50 cents as compensation. When he was still in his teens, a patron of the arts became interest ed in his work and sent him to art school in Europe. While over there, Stone was shocked to find his benefactor had died. He had to find immediate work to even tually pay his passage back. His first important commission came from the president of Sears & Roebuck. The big business man made the offer to Stone to paint the portrait of one member of his family; if he liked it, Stone could paint the whole family. The com pany head liked the picture and paid $5,000 per portrait for each succeeding picture of the members of his family. He said in his speech Monday night that now he’s feeling too old and that time is short. He has a great desire, he said, to tell people it isn’t he who paints* but that something stronger than himself guides the brush. Many fine examples of art in cluding water colors and portraits are presently on display in the Center. These pictures and many more this year were and will be secured for the Center by Mrs. Terry known professionally for her own art work as Mrs. Emalita Newton Terry. This director of the MSC Gal lery Committee, has been on the job for two years. Purpose of the committee, she explains is “to bring art to the average per son in every walk of life. Art has existed too long on a pedes tal.” Plans for the year include three hours of instruction periods per week in the third floor, well-equip ped studio. Here, persons may try their tutored or untutored hands, as the case may be, at sketching, wash drawing, painting, water col oring, and working with pastels. No copy work will be done; all will be creative. Models will sometimes be used. At other times, classes will be held outdoors for scenery pictures. During the year, the committee will sponsor special series of pic tures from museums in large Texas cities. Also, student work will be exhibited. diers treated them all right after they were captured, but that Com munist police made them sit in one position for 16 hours a day—from the time they arose until they went to sleep. The police fed them a handful of barley three times a day, they said. Mackrall said 15 men surrounded with him were machinegunned to death. The Reds also wounded him but he played dead until one of the Comunists threw a rock at him and discovered he was still alive. Doctors who treated them, the three said, were well educated US to Support UN Occupation Of North Korea Washington, Sept. 27 — (AP)—The United States is telling friendly nations they will have to carry the main burden of occupying North Korea under the United Nations flag, if U. N. forces push north of the 38th parallel. Under the policy, the main body of United States forces would stop at the 38th parallel in cleaning up enemy remnants. Restoring peace and order northward toward the borders of Russia and Communist China would be left to other hands. Secretary of State Acheson is said to feel this is the best course. The chief reason is that an Ameri can disavowal of any territorial or permanent military interest in Ko rea should reassure Russia an se curity grounds. The big Soviet port of Vladi- vostak and strategic Manchurian industrial and rail lines lie beyond the northern border of the Korea. If the Reds thought American troops were going to settle down as a peace force in Korea, they might conclude that the United States intended to establish bases there. Officials are anxious to re assure all comers that they have no such intentions. Two questions require ui'gent de cisions at the U. N.: Whether U. N. forces should cross the 38th parallel boundary into North Korea; and what steps should be taken toward achieving ultimate peace and unity in the peninsula. Peace Prospects. American experts say if there is to be any prospect of a peaceful and unified Korea, the northern half of the country cannot be left with a defeated, discredited and in ternationally condemned regime. That means that as the Korean Red armies are crumpled in the South and revert to some extent to fleeing armed mobs, measures must be taken to bring them under con trol in northern Korea. One possibility always open is that the Russians or Chinese Reds may occupy the north. In that case the United Nations forces, not wishing to let the war spread, would undoubtedly stop short rather than undertake any thrust over the line in the face of such powerful Communist opposition. The feeling of Washington offi cials is that peace and order could as readily be restored by British, Indian and other forces as by Americans. and spoke English. One doctor told them: “We don’t hate you. We hate your government.” They said the doctor claimed the North Koreans had “a secret weap on” above the 38th Parallel. Mackrall once was in a group of 67 prisoners but he escaped and was retaken when he crawled into a truck with a North Korean. Freede was the sole survivor of eight men machinegunned in a ditch by the North Koreans. He said he crawled away from the shooting scene at night and lay for nine days until North Korean med ics found him. In their jail cell near Yong dong the prisoners knew that rescue was at hand when they heard a soldier tell a North Ko rean. “We are taking this joint over.” “When he said that, I knew he was a GI,” Martin related, adding: “When those GIs walked into that jail I cried.” Queen Contest Deadline Set For October 18 Contest for the Diamond Anniversary Queen, sponsor ed by the Commentator mag azine, is now well under way, George Charlton and Herman Gollob, co-editors announced. Deadline for submitting pictures for the contest is Oct. 15. En trants for the contest should sub mit head and full length pictures to the Commentator. Four final ist will be chosen and announced Oct. 18. A special afternoon Dance hon oring the four finalist will be held in the Memorial Student Center be fore the A&M-Arkansas game that night on Kyle Field. During the intermission at the dance the final ist will be presented and judges will make their selection of the Diamond Anniversary Queen. During the half time of the game t he winner will be presented as queen and given a bouquet of roses by a special guest, yet to be announced. The winner will also be cover girl for the January Commentator. Pictures of the three runner-ups will be included in “Pretty Peo ple’s” page of the magazine. Noose Tightens Around Reds In South, Seoul Allied liberation forces, mainly American, held about one-third of Seoul this morn ing. Hard fighting still 1 a y ahead before they can take the heart of the capital where Red die-hards have thrown up strong defense works. (This dispatch was sent from Seoul at 12:30 p.m., Wednes day—10:30 p.m., Tuesday, EST). General MacArthur in Tokyo an nounced at 2:10 p.m., Tuesday — 12:10 a.m., EST, that Seoul had been.liberated). The final result is as inevitable as the day that follows the night— all of Seoul will be freed of the Reds—but much fighting remains to be done by the U.S. Marines and Seventh Division Infantry in the city. This morning the Americans held the Southwestern and Southern sections. Rear Guard Battle It'looks like the Red defense of Seoul is a stubborn rear-guard bat tle to delay the American advance in the North—to give the Red for ces time to escape from the Allied drive launched in the South. The puzzle of the war is the re treat of Red divisions from the Southern front. They seem to have evaporated — dissolved into thin air. Twelve days ago the Reds in the South were battering Allied lines along a front of 125 miles. Then the Marines landed at Inchon and drove toward Seoul to cut off the Red supply lines. Almost overnight the Red forces in the South began disappearing. American air reconnaissance has n’t spotted any movement of large enemy forces on the roads. There has been no sign that the enemy has been sending columns north in great force. And yet the divisions are gone—except for rearguard elements. It is as though an army had walked into oblivion. Equipment Gone The big question is what have they done with their equipment, their guns, their supply dumps, their vehicles, the mass of gear and trappings that every arm must have in the field. When an American army moves, it is a ponderous, road-clogging movement of guns, trucks, tanks, jeeps and planes. But the North Korean army has pulled back from the South in cleverly hidden moves. When Rommel retreated across 1,500 miles of western desert in North Africa, the Allied forces al ways knew where he was and his columns were under constant at tack. But the Reds have bene able to pull back under cover of darkness and camouflage without disclos ing any large scale movements. Junior College Men Plan Meeting Here The Seventh Annual Conference of Junior College Executives will be held here from 9 a. m. October 9, to 4 p. m., October 10 in the Memorial Student Center. The executives will study prob lems common to junior and senior colleges in meeting needs of lower division technological students who expect to complete degree courses. Registration will be held in the Serpentine Lounge, October 9, from 8:30 a. m. until 12 noon. There will be a registration fee of $1.25 per person. Meetings will be held in the As sembly Room, Room A, and Room C with an estimated attendance of 90. Programs have been planned for the meetings to formulate both business and entertainment. A dinner will be held in the MSC Ball Room at 7 p. m., October 9. Tickets will be $2 per per son and may be secured at the time of registration. By Associated Press Allied forces closed their noose today around many thousands of Reds now trap ped and thinned by casualties and desertions in Southeast Korea. The Allied line runs unbrok en for 215 miles diagonally across the peninsula from ex treme southeastern Pusan on the Sea of Japan, through the flaming mop-up battles of Seoul, to the Inchon second front beach head on the Yellow Sea. The Reds once got within 30-odd miles of Pusan. The Allied line was spliced to gether at Changji, 25 miles south of Seoul. An armored First Cavalry task force from the south sped 106 miles through Red territory to close the gap between the two fronts. United Nations forces, spread ing out on both sides of this line, liberated great areas of the U.N. sponsored Republic from the North Korean Communist grip. Reds Fleeing Red Kirean troops were fleeing in disorder—in a route at some places—all along the battlefront. But suicide rear-guard units, rang ing in size from a few troops to thousands, fought bitter delaying actions. The fighting remained hottest in Seoul, now a city of rubbled, burn ed and blackened buildings. Red holdouts, fighting over a maze of alleys, ridges and buildings, held off the final liberation of the cap ital which General MacArthur an nounced Tuesday was back in friendly hands and liberated. At the linkup AP Correspondent Bill Ross said First Cavalry tanks rammed through a last-ditch Red attack to join Seventh Infantry Division units from Inchon-Seoul in the walled town of Changji, about 25 miles south of Seoul. One Day Race The task force raced the last 55 miles through Red territory in one day. A tank commanded by Lt. Rob ert Baker of Spokane, Wash., lead ing the First Cavalry column 1 blasted through Red fh’e at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday (8:25 a.m., EST). Lt. Frederick Procissi of Detroit, with the Seventh Division’s 31st regiment, investigated. He recog nized the American tank silhou ette. “What the hell are you doing out here?” Procissi barked. “Dam mit, you’re not supposed to be here. You’re supposed to be back at the (Suwon) airstrip.” Baker’s voice cut through the rattle of Red Korean fire. “I’m from the First Cavalry.” Then he leaped from the tank turret and pumped Procissi’s hand. “I never was so glad to see any one in all my days,” Procissi said. “But you don’t know how close you came to catching everything we had. We thought you were Red tanks moving around. The linkup was made close to the place where the first American soldier was killed in the Korean war. That was July 5. Top Football Sign of Week To be Pictured in Battalion The Battalion “Football Sign of the Week Contest” re sumes this week with the first list of winners to be an nounced Friday. The contest, designed to afford wider recognition to well-made football signs, was originated by the co-editors of last year’s Battalion. A photo of the winner of each competition will be published each week in this paper. The signs are being judged by a three-man committee composed of the corps commander, the corps chaplain and one of the co-editors. The winner is chosen on the basis of neatness, originality of both pictorial and wording ideas, and artistic presentation, all factors being considered equally. All football signs appearing in any area of the campus are automatic entries in the competition. Cattle Raisers Set Banquet in MSC A&M, through Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, will be host to. the offi cers and directors of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association at a banquet in the As sembly Room of the Memorial Stu dent Center at 6:30 p. m. Thurs day, Sept. 28. The Association officials will be here for the dedication of the new Beef Cattle Center September 29- 30. Committes of the Association will hold business meetings after the banquet. A business session of the As sociation will be held from 9-12 a. m., Sept. 29 in the Conference Room of the MSC and at noon the Association officers and directors will be luncheon guests of A&M students in Duncan Hall. Vet Advisors Here Thursday for Talks Dr. William M. Dickens, chief outpatient surgeon, and Jim F. Flowers, Jr., chief prosthetic and orthopetics specialist of the Vet erans administration at Waco, will be in the Veterans Service Office on the first floor of the county court house in Bryan Thursday aft ernoon, Sept. 28. These two men will be available to any veteran who has questions pertaining to outpatient treatment or appliances.