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Number 32: Volume 51
Battalion
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1950
Discussion Of
Baylor Cub-Napping
See Editorial, Page Two
Price Five Cents
Chinese Troops
Attacking
UOKs in Korea
Seoul, Korea, Oc t. 2G—<#>—Red | warplanes still held mastery of
Chinese forces today'were reported the skies, as they had from the
Senate Officers
W"
attacking' South Korean troops 50
miles south of the Manchurian bor-
der.
Tim report came from Republic
of Korea (ROK) army headquar
ters, which attributed it to a Chi
nese Communist prisoner. There
was no confirmation by any Allied
source.
This development came not long
after U. S. Marines spearheaded a
50,000-man landing force on Ko
rea’s east coast, at captured Won
san.
A South Korean spokesman re
ported the Chinese prisoner said
three Chinese Red battalions were
striking elements of the South Ko
rean Sixth Division east of Onjong,
about 75 miles north of Pyongyang,
the United Nations captured Red
Korean capital.
The spokesman said a ROK field
commander near Onjong had re
ported his unit was almost sur
rounded and called for reinforce
ments. The field commander did
not specify the attackers were Chi
nese.
Onjong is 32 miles south of
Kojang, captured earlier in the
day by a spearhead of the South
Korean Sixth Division. Evident
ly, the Red force attacking the
unit near Onjong waited for the
main body of South Koreans to
drive north.
The ROK division’s forward ele
ments were driving unchecked on
Yongsan, only eight miles from
the zig-zagging Communist Man
churian frontier formed by the
Yalu River.
The South Korean spearhead was
expected to reach the border to
night. Yongsang, the last town
before the border, is 10 miles north
of Kojang.
On the west coast an American
infantry regiment plunged rapidly
northward. It seemed unlikely the
Doughboys Would stop at any line
short of the boundary. A U. S.
spokesman said their mission is
“to clear Korea.”
And the Far East air forces’
bomb line was extended to the
Manchurian border. Previously it
had been 12 miles short.
To back up other forces forging
northward on the sea of Japan
coast, U. S. and ROK marines and
U. S. infantrymen made the new
landing at the port of Wonsan.
A remark by a spokesman at
General MacArthur’s Tokyo head
quarters raised a doubt as to
whether an end of the four month
United Nations campaign was in
sight.
Asked when American troops
may be withdrawn from Korea, the
spokesman replied they have a mis
sion to perform and that it is far
from completed. Other signs
pointed to continued mopping up.
Field dispatches from most sec
tors did not indicate any heavy
fighting ahead. American and
South Korean columns driving on
Red China’s Manchurian border
were generally unopposed. Allied
outset.
There was no indication from
high U. N. commanders that Chi
nese Communist troops were on the
move from north of the Korean
bolder. MacArthur’s spokesman
Thursday afternoon discounted re
ports that Chinese soldiers in the
North Korean army had been kill
ed or captured.
Another such report cropped up
earlier Thursday. AP correspon
dent Tom Lambert reported from
northwest Korea there was an un
verified report that a Chinese Red
soldier was captured Wednesday
near Kojang, 18 miles south of the
border.
Some officers pointed out that
thousands of North Koreans were
trained in the Chinese Communist
army, possibly leading to mistaken
identity of the captive.
Kojang was taken by the South
Korean Sixth Division in its swift
advance up the peninsula’s moun
tainous middle. The division was
in the forefront of the multi-prong
ed drive toward the border.
Sweetheart Selectors
For Tessieland Today
The 1950-51 Aggie Sweetheart
selection committee, 13 men strong,
left this afternoon for Denton,
where they will undertake • the
choosing of the Aggie Sweetheart
for the coming school year.
The Aggie Sweetheart will re
present A&M at such social affairs
as the Round Up at the University
of Texas, Rice Institute’s Rondelet,
and the Cotton Bowl Ball on New
Years Day in Dallas.
Last, but far from least, she will
be presented to the Corps at the
half of the A&M-SMU football
game in Dallas. This is a feature
of the annual A&M-TSCW joint
corp trip.
Last year’s Sweetheart was a
junior, Jeanine Holland, of Hous
ton.
Committee members, (nine corps
men and four civilian students)
will be guests of the TSCW stu-
Students Reprimanded
For ‘Borrowing’ Mascot
Student Senate Officers for 1950-51 stop on their
way for a cup of coffee in the MSC to discuss
political matters. Left to right they are Joe
Fuller, second term parlimentarian; Bill Parse,
Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molihary
president; Bill Moss, vice-president; and Dean
Reed. Holder of the newly created office of
Senate Chaplain, Curtis Edwards is not pictured.
Sixteen Aggies won’t see or hear
the Baylor game Saturday. They’ll
have the time to spend reflecting
on their escapade with a cub mas
cot last week. Such was part of
the punishment assessed the per
petrators of the now famous cub
napping.
Freshmen involved will have
some leg work to boot. They have
a date with the “bull ring” Satur
day afternoon. All students involv
ed in the affair have been placed
on conduct probation for the re
mainder of the school term. A
Gideon Bible
Ceremonies Set
in MSC Friday
A special dedication cere
mony v/ill be held in the lob
by of the Memorial Student
Center Friday at 10 a. m. for
the presentation of Gideon
Bibles to the MSC.
J. A. Williams, vice president
of the local Gideon Camp in Bryan,
will introduce the Rev. Fred Mge-
broff president of the College Sta
A Word From Prexy...
To The Student Body of A. and M. College:
In our happiness and enthusiasm over our football vic
tories, I hope we will remember to maintain control of our
feelings and spirit. The fact that our team is successful
does not give us the license to damage or destroy property
that belongs to others.
The competition takes place between teams on the foot
ball field according to the rules of the game. Let us not
forget ourselves in our enthusiasm and commit deeds that
will make the competition harder for our team and bring
discredit to the record of Aggies for good sportsmanship.
We are proud of Coach Stiteler and the members of the
Aggies football team, and we congratulate them upon the
record they are. making this season. Let us show our ap
preciation for what they have done by backing them in their
efforts to win all remaining games for this year in a man
ner of which they can be proud.
M. T. Harrington
President
Youths ‘Disgrace’;
Truman Asks UMT
Washington, Oct. 26—(7P>—Presi
dent Truman said today that one-:
third of America’s youths were
physically or mentally unfit to
fight for their country. He called
it a “disgrace.”
The President declared Ameri
cans are “not too proud to fight”
—reversing the famous words ut
tered by President Woodrow Wil
son in the early days of World
War I—and he told National Guard
leaders:
“We will fight for the right
every time.”
The speech signalled what ap
peared to be a renewed administra
tion drive for enactment of a uni
versal military training program
when Congress returns Nov. 27.
Congress has repeatedly turned
down White House requests for
UMT legislation, and Mr. Truman
himself agreed, at the height of
the Korean war crisis, that the
program could not be put into ef
fect until the situation eased.
Now, with the war virtually end
ed, Mr. Truman made it clear he
intends to press for a UMT bill.
The program would provide mili
tary training for youths 18 through
20 years old—six months on an in
tensive basis, another six months
in reserve status.
i idlest nation in the world with
all the medical knowledge that is
supposed to exist in the world.
“Universal training program
would eradicate that situation,”
Mr. Truman continued, and he told
the guardsmen:
“I hope that you will put every
thing you have behind the idea of
a training program for the youth
of this country, to make them bet
ter citizens, to make them able to
defend their country when it is nec
essary.”
The President said he has been
advocating UMT ever since he be
came a member of Congress in
1935. He said George Washington
“advocated the same thing” in a
message to Congress in 1790, and
since that time “President after
President” has urged military
training for the nation’s youth.
Then, turning to this country’s
readiness to take up arms, Mr.
Truman said:
“L don’t believe we would have
had-a Korean incident if some peo
ple had hut thought that we were
too proud to fight. We are not
too proud to fight.
. “We will fight for the right eve
ry time, and we have always done
it—and thank God we have always
won, because we have been on the
right side. I hope we will never
Baylor Delegates
Here Today
A five-man student delegation
from Baylor will arrive on the
Campus this afternoon to dis
cuss current relations between
the two schools.
One of the group will address
the student body at yell-practice
tonight. Coach Harry Stiteler
will also speak at yell-practice.
The Baylor delegation will eat
supper in Duncan Hall tonight
with the Corps of Cadets.
Arena Builders
Holding Own
Says Mitchell
Work on the Aggie Rodeo
arena is going ahead on sche
dule Pat Mitchell, president
of the Texas Aggie Rodeo
Association, reported today.
Final cementing of all holes used
in construction of the 10 bucking
chutes, and those in the judges
stand, was finished last week.
Flooring has been laid for the
judge’s stand, which will be com
pleted this week, and boards are
being nailed to head boards above
the chutes in back alleys of the
chutes.
Seven of the 10 chute gates have
been completed and are ready for
hanging. Five pen gates are still
to be built, Mitchell said. Six
light poles have been raised and
set, with only the installation of
light units and power lines need
ed to finish them.
Work is going on from one
o’clock until dark, and volunteers
will be appreciated, Mitchell added.
Gus Wheeler, Tom Harris, Bob
McGuire, and Martin Manuel are
on the job daily and have plenty
of work for those who want to
help, Mitchell concluded.
Addressing the conference of the ' h e on the wrong side.”
give the invocation.
Presentation of the Bibles will
be made by E. C. Martin, member
David Moran Assigned
Capt. David J. Moran, A&M mili
tary department, has received or
ders to Ft. Benning, Ga. on Dec.
4. He will be assigned as an ar
mored reconnaissance unit com
mander in the Fourth Infantry
division according to Col. H. L.
Boatnev, PMS&T.
. . .And From Harry, Too
A & M Student Body
Fellow Aggies:
First let me thank all of you for the fine support and
patience you have shown us in the past few years when
things were so black. It is always easy to support a winner,
and your past support has been especially outstanding in
that we have been such a consistent loser. I know that the
student body will continue to give us the same splendid ef
fort.
Let me just ask that you do not let your enthusiasm get
to a point where you will commit little acts thoughtlessly
that will hurt the very team you have helped so much We
have come a long way, but still have a far piece to go, and
I know none of you would do anything knowingly that would
make the comeback of these grand kids any harder
So let me ask that you think carefully before you pull
any pranks that would cast a discredit on the school as a
whole or on your team, and we’ll try our best to repay you
by being the kind of ball club that will be a credit to you.
Harry Stiteler
Head Football Coach
Arts and Sciences Council Sets Meet
An organizational meeting of
the Student Arts and Sciences
Council will be held Monday Oct.
30 at 7:15 p. m. in the senate
chamber of the MSC, Dr. J. P.
Abbott,'dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences, announced today.
Election of officers, president,
vice-president and secretary will
take place at the meet, he contin
ued.
The group will also fix the time
of future meetings, choose repre
sentatives for the Inter-Council
Committee, and consider possible
projects for the year.
cadet officer and a cadet non-
com will forfeit their rank and re
main with the others on the cam
pus this week-end—sans radio.
Apology Sent
The Associated Press reports
last night indicated that a letter
of apology for the incident had
arrived at Baylor. The letter was
signed by Student Senate President
Bill Parse.
And further developments occur
red in the Aggie-Baylor relations.
These, concerning the latest Aggie
ill-fated trip to Waco, were
brought to the attention of The
Battalion yesterday by one of the
men concerned.
He wanted to correct an error
in the Associated Press account of
the incident. The seven Aggies
jailed in Waco Monday night did
not, he claims, place the blame for
the cub affair on Aggies. They
told Waco police, he continued, that
the cub-napping was probably done
by University of Texas students.
Stories Conflict
Reports indicate that the cub-
napping had been cleared up be
fore the seven Aggies established
residence in the Waco bastile.
The student also pointed out a
few more errors in the AP story.
Baylor students, he said, did not
offer to go the bail of the Aggies.
He charges them instead with re
porting the Aggies to the police.
The car painted by the Aggies,
incidentally, belonged to the
daughter of a Waco judge. It was
parked on the Baylor campus. The
Aggies were arrested while paint
ing a sign on a street in down
town Waco. Waco officers have
turned their names over to college
authorities.
Total Damage
Back to the cub incident, total
damage to the Aggies concerned
there stacks up like this:'
Upholstery torn out of the back
seat of one car, a few minor
scratches to the cub-snatchers
themselves, and a bad case of
fright caused by the mother bear’s
unmistakable disapproval of the
whole affair.
dent body while on the campus and
will be honored at a dinner and
“get acquainted session” tonight,
which will be attended by the nom
inees.
The committee will select one
of 12 nominees which were chosen
in class meetings at TSCW Mon
day, from the top three classes.
Each class selected four represen
tatives.
Nominees from the senior class
are Carrie Fenichis of Fort Worth;
Dorothy Mangum of Cotulla; Car
ole Perkins of Pampa; and Mar
ianne Senders of Fort Worth.
Junior Representatives
Junior class representatives are
Martha Gill, from Houston, Ina
Hubbard of Texarkana; Johnnie
Lois Neel from Olney; and Char
lotte Williams who hails from Mun-
day.
Sophomore hopefuls are Nancy
Coolidge, from Kansas City, Mo.;
Nan Hassler from Memphis, Ten
nessee; Betty Jo Slaughter of El
Dorado, Arkansas; and Betty Ann
Timmerman, from New Braunfels.
Qualifications
Candidates must have personal
ity as well as looks, according to
Ken Schaake, head of the commit
tee. Winner must be winsome in
appearance and looks as well, he
added.
Announcement of the winner Will
be made during the week in a joint
news release from TSCW and A&M.
Members of the 13 man Aggie
committee are; A. D. Martin, cadet
colonel of the corps; Dare Keelan,
president of the Senior Class; Bill
Parse, president of the Student
Senate; Karl Meyers, Senate Social
Committee member; and George
Charlton, Commentator co-editor.
Other members are Tom Fluk-
inger,Senate Social Committee
member; W. D. “Pusher” Barnes,
Student Life Committee member;
Bob Allen, non-corps vice presi
dent of the Senior Class; Allan Eu
bank, member of the Senate Soc
ial Committee; Roy Nance, editor
of Aggieland ’51; Joe Fuller, mem
ber of the Senate Social Committee;
Schaake, and Dave Coslett, Co
editor of The Battalion.
Papers Everywhere
Thousands of Daily Chores
ForBatt Circulation Crew
By RAY WILLIAMS
senior business major from Vic
toria.
Stogdill. If anyone has any doubts as to
Work begins at 1 p. m. Monday the area covered by Battalion cir-
Ramrod of The Battalion cir- through Friday. “We’re supposed dilation, he has only to check the
dilation department for the cur- to start at 1, but the presses never drawers of address mimeographs
rent semester is Carl Van Way, start on time, so it is usually about kept by the circulation department.
1:30,” says Van May. It takes In only one drawer there are
them until 5 p. m. to complete the subscribers from 17 states and
Carl has the tremendous job press run, he added. Mexico.
I?*! f seein 8\S at fT 6 ‘‘during this four hour period states ranged all the way from ^ „„„ ™ w _
7,000 Battalions are either dehv- a thousand and one things have Flol . i(la to California. These are Washington in its efforts to con-
ered or sent by mail to the cor- to be done, \ an May said. The in ad(lition to the papei . s that vert Tibet into a military attack
are sent to subscribers in nearly point against the democratic peo-
every city in Texas. I pies of the Republic of China.”
Reds Reported
To Have Made
Tibet Invasion
Berlin, Oct. 26—'TP*—The Rus
sians announced today that Chinese
Communist forces had crossed Ti
bet’s frontier early Tuesday.
“In the early morning hours of
Tuesday, a formation of the Chi
nese people’s army crossed the Ti-
betian frontier,” an announcement
in Taegliene Rundschau, official
newspaper of the Soviet control
commission in Germany, said to
day.
It was the first word that the
Red Chinese actually had entered
Tibet.
The Peiping radio yesterday an
nounced that Chinese Communist
forces in South China had been or
dered to advance on Tibet. The
Chinese Reds had been hinting at
an invasion of Tibet for several
months.
Taegliche Rundschau said:
“In the summer of 1949 reaction
ary authorities of Tibet under pres
sure from their English and Ameri
can advisers had proclaimed their
detachment from China. This was
not the wish of the Tibetian peo
ple, but was designed to serve
rect subscriber.
Assisting him with this job are
six student assistants, Gene Long,
John Stuntz, Don Young, Jerry
Smith, Jack Bristow, and Gus
lion Ministerial Alliance, who will National Guard Association, Mr. 1 Arriving* unexpectedly, Mr. Tru-
Truman said in a chatty, off-the- man received a warm welcome |
cuff talk: from the guardsmen.
^ “Eight times I have asked the : Mr. Truman had been invited to ;
ol (he meal Gideon Camp, to J. ; Congress, since I have been Presi- attend the conference, but gave no i
Wayne Stalk, diiectot of the MoC, jdent. for a universal training pro- indication hi 1 would annear until
A dedicatory prayer will be lg ,^ for the „„„ „f lhc ffSSS Ch“
given by Cuhtis Edwards, Chaplain : United States.
of the Corps of Cadets, following j “You know, one of the most session,
acceptance of the Bibles. j disgraceful things that ever hap-
More than 75 Bibles are being | pened to this counti’y veas to find
given for the hotel rooms and of- | that 34 per cent of the young men
fices by the Gideons, and more will j were not physically and mentally
be provided if needed, Williams | fit to serve the country,
said. ! “Now that is a disgrace to the
In 1948 the Gideons placed a ■ ——— — —■
BibJe in each dormitory room on : J 0 ] gon ReCOrds
Mothers day. "
More than two and a quarter ITjo'll DpiTlHlld
l tel where the guardsmen were in
session.
Dabbs and Tatum
On Language Staff
j Two new staff members, Dr. J.
j A, Dabbs and David Tatum, are
; now with the Modern Language
. department.
million Bibles have been placed ihj x ** •*-**>• iiaAivt K Dr. Dabbs received his three
hotels, hospitals, schools, and pen- ^ degrees, B. A., M. A., and Doctoi's,
al institutions by the Gideons. j Francisco, Oct. 26 — — j from Texas University.
During World War II, the Gid- i Juke box operators and department | Tatum, who received his Bache-
eons, then an association of Christ-j s ! ores reported an unprecedented ! lor’s degree from Randolph-Macon
ian traveling men, placed Bibles | demand for records of Al Jolson, 1 College and his Master’s degree
on ships and in the American oc
cupied war zones. As a result of
the work done by the Gideons, over-
nine million New Testaments have
been distributed to the men and
women of the armed forces.
who died here Monday night.
The Pioneer Wired Music Com
pany, which operates 135 juke
boxes in taverns, reported it had
been playing almost nothing but
Jolson records since his death.
from Columbia University, began
his teaching as a Latin master in
Woodberry Forest.
Tatum taught in Washington
College in Maryland before com
ing here.
Circulation assistants Gene Long, Gus Stogdill, Jack Briscoe, John
Stuntz, and Jerry Smith.
first 2,000 papers have to be read
ied for mailing—a full time job in
itself.”
Each paper that is mailed is
run through an addressing ma
chine one at a time, to be stamped.
The 1,000 papers that go out of
town are rolled individually with
an outside cover, and papers for
the Bryan-College Station area are
all folded and bundled according to
Post Office specifications.
Home Delivery
Then the 750 papers for home
delivery in College Station are
rolled so that the four carriers
will have little trouble making
delivery.
After the outside papers are
cared for, bundling papers for the
dormitories must be completed.
Contrary to popular belief, these
papers are not counted. Instead
they are weighed, which is very
accurate to the surprise of many.
On a bundle, supposedly containing
175 papers, checked recently, the
count was off only five papers.
Van Way delivers all papers in
his own car. He takes the papers
to the post office, delivers bundles
to each of the 24 dormitories and
takes papers to the drug store
newsstands in the College Station
area. “My minimum weekly mile
age is 50 miles but it is usually
more than that,” he said.
Carl Van Way