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D. B * ^TcTca^n^et* 5 ^ u det^ cop^ eS ?• . ' ^ Circulated to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents Number 54: Volume 51 The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1950 Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Price Five Cent* Multi-Million Dollar Leaves Destruction, Nov. 27—W—Life for most of the Eastern Seaboard’s millions was getting: back to normal today, 48 hours after the great Appala chian storm spread death and de struction from South Carolina to Maine. The death list in the Coastal states and New England stood at 70, threatened to grow as delayed report* came in from isolated are as!. Some, estimates put property loss at .$100,000,000 in the north east alone. Most power, traffic and tele phone service- torn up by the storm was restored yesterday, but many areas still were cut off—mostly suffering from power failure. No Light Meat, Thousands still shivered from lack of heat and met the darkness with candles—if they were lucky enough to have thorn. The storm itself moved away from the coastal region Saturday night, leaving behind a cold wave that hovered just under freezing. Contrary to all normal weather movements in the Northern Hem isphere, the storm’s center turned northwest instead of continuing northeast. It left New York only to swung over Lake Erie, then down on Northern Ohio, and then north west again over Lake Huron, where the weather bureau said it was blowing itself out today. This was the storm center only. Around it on all sides raging snow- laden winds whirling out nearly 1100 miles in every direction and hitting from Maine to the Missis sippi River at their widest span. On the storm’s earlier northeast passage, the shore areas were rip ped by winds with gusts up to 108 miles- per hour, and drenched with ruin. The deluge in the New York City watershed area alone was enough to pour 25-billion gallons into the city’s reservoirs—a 25-day supply of water that was one of the storm's few bright spots. Dam Breaks The heavy runoff, however, was tod much for the dam that bucked up a hotel’s private lake at Pine llill, 35 miles north of New York City. It tore out last night, sweeping away eight highway bridges, flood ing an ami 25 miles square, and isolating Pine Hill and' affecting Phoenicia, Shandake, Mt Tremper and Fleisehmann. Upstate New York, the rain turned to snow and perilled at least HW) hunters in the Lake Placid- Haranac Lake region. Faculty Member’s Article Published Welcome E. Wright, assistant professor in the Industrial Educa tion Department is the author of a magazine article in the December issue of Industrial Arts and Voca tional Education. 'The story “Application of Cop per Foil to Furniture” discusses invitulizing and enriching the sur faces of projects made of wood through the use of tooled copper foil. Wright illustrated the subject with working drawing's and photo graphs to show how wall decora tions, lamps, and chests of drawers may be improved through this fnedium. The article is supplemented with lietailed instructions for an ama teur, student, or teacher. Storm deaths came from many causes. Many were electrocutions from fallen power lines. One man was killed by a falling cornice in New York City. Others drowned, died under falling trees, from ex posure, in storm-caused traffic ac cidents, or from heart attacks brought on by exhaustion and' strain. Pennsylvania, hit hardest by the storm’s western onslaught, had its own death toll to add to those in Ohio and Indiana. The Weather Burea said the storm was nearly a .“land hurri cane” and rated it the worst ever Storm 76 Dead recorded in the Northeastern Uni ted States. All along the coast today were the signs of its passage—smashed beach houses, flooded flatlands, washed-out bridges, broken trees, windows and a perfect harvest of television aerials. Bdatowners took extra heavy losses—greatest since the 1938 hurricane. E v e n Manhattan’s stone and steel yielded to the winds. Some whole blocks were still roped off where cornices and parts of build ing roofs and windows had ripped away or seemed about to give. Bonfire 'Ilaichetman Security Measures A rmy Restrictions Plague Reporters On the Chongchon River Line, Korea, Nov. 27—UP'—Indirect cen sorship lias settled like a fog over this heretofore freely reported war. It.is hard to say who ordered it, but any public information officer —the. connecting link between, the free press and the Army—will shrug and explain that the gen erals want tighter security. The Army insists there is no censorship. There isn’t so far as editing dispatches are con cerned. The Army can and ap parently is accomplishing the same result by withholding in formation at the operational command level. The beat was greatest about two days ago. At one corps headquar ters correspondents reported that for one day the press telephone was disconnected and then for a short time their calls were moni tored. One 1TO who asked that his name be withheld said: “You can expect to find it that way all along the line from regi mental commander on up the line to corps, They have been told to screen the news.” Corps commanders still are willing to talk to newsmen and will assure them there is no censorship but that they want withheld only matters involv ing security. But under the new and unan nounced setup tactical news is not always complete. As an example, briefing officers reported one advance up to a town Friday night. Actually, troops bad advanced through the town and moved several miles north of it. Until now the biggest headache for correspondents has been com munications. It was simple to get a story, but to get it out of Korea while it was still fresh news was a problem. As the Army says, there is no direct censorship, but indirect cen sorship is here at the moment. It is accomplishing the same end—with holding part of the news until the Army wants it released. Red Strength Stops War-Ending Offensive Photo by Battalion Chief Photographer Sam Molinary More than a few axes swung like this one over the weekend to pro vide enough wood to put this year’s bonfire in competition with those of the past two years. Scheduled to ho lighted Tuesday night, the 1950 bonfire will get its finishing touches this afternoon and tomorrow. TrafficDeath Total Hits Holiday Low Nine Texans died in traffic ac-1 however, before this years total is cidents over the first of two con- computed. secutive holiday periods. The The nation at large owed its nation placed its Thanksgiving | light traffic toll both to the .double traffic death toll at 195. The Texas figure was extremely low as compared with 41 traffic deaths over the four-day Thanks giving holiday period last year. The coming week-end remains, Demo Excess Profits Rift Seen in Lame-Duck Session By J A( V K BELL Washington, Nov. 27—UP)— A rift over proposed excess profits taxes split Democratic ranks to day as lawmakers streamed in for the opening of the ‘Tame duck” Congress session tomorrow. With President Trtmian 'urging quick action on an excess profits levy, Senator Edwin ,C. Johnson (D-Colo) told a reporter he will work, instead, for an increase in the present corporation taxes to prpvfde the $46,000,000,000 in new. revenue the President wants. Business generally has urged an increase in present rates be sub stituted for the excess profits pro posal now before the House Ways and Means Committee. Johnson, who holds a key—and sometimes; deriding—vote on the Senate finance committee, said he thinks all of 'the excess profits levies thus far. offered are “ex tremely inequitable” and are like ly. to promote, instead of retard, inflation. The tax question vvas on top of the agenda as President Truman called democratic- congressional leaders to a Monday White House conference. * The leaders expected to learn also just how much additional mon ey the President thinks is needed to finance the fighting in Korea and . btffcld up military forces at home and abroad. Estimates on this amount run around $10,000,000,000, including a sizeable chunk for atomic energy developments. The President also has indicated he will ask for about $85,000,000 for economic aid to drouth-stricken Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavian request may well become a vehicle' for expres sion of new Republican demands for a “re-examination” of admin istration foreign policies, an issue certain to play an important part in debates in the final session of this 81st Congress. As the President already has outlined his program, the lame Higgins Science to Head Group J. E. Higgins, senior wildlife I major from Hereford, was elect-1 ed president of the A&M Chapter of the Texas Collegiate Academy I of .Science at its last meeting. | Other officers, elected were Tony | Margoitta, junior business major from Reagan, secretary-treasurer; i W. B. Kucera, wildlife major from : Ennis, vice-president; Carl Steph- : ens, junior biology major from De- i vine, and Marvin Atkins, junior. physics major from Bryan, report- 1 ers; and Freddie Nye, senior wild- . life major from Brownsville, par- i liamentarian. $ k>00 Grant Made Experiment Station A $4,600 check has been received by the Texas Agricultural Experi ment Station from J. W. Barker, president, Research Foundation, Williams-Waterman Fund of New ! York. Professors J. R. Couch and L. ! L. Gee will use the money for re search in connection with “The i Effect of Feeding Antibiotics on the Growth, Reproduction and In-! testiual Microflora of the Domes-} tic Fowl,” R. D. Lewis, director of' the TABS, said today, I duck sessions also will be asked to extend the expiring rent control law for 90 days, to revise the McCarran anti-subversives act, and to push to final Senate passage House-approved bills granting statehood to Hawaii and Alaska. But with 10 lame duck senators and 64 House members in the ranks of the 81st Congress which expires on Jan. 3—they are mem bers who were defeated or didn’t run again—the inclination of Re publicans will be to delay action on many issues until the new Con gress convenes in January. That new Congress will have increased Republican strength in both Houses. No Chance Partly because of this and part ly because of Southern Democrat ic opposition, the statehood bills are given almost no chance of pas sage. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said Re publican leaders will go over the prospective program at a party policy meeting either later in the day Monday or on Tuesday. With the House Ways and Means Committee continuing to hear ex perts behind closed doors, the tax issue remained up in the air. Ad- ministrattion leaders said they had the strength to get House approval of a “moderate” excess profits bill. But Senate action remained doubt ful. Senator Johnson said he is du bious about getting any bill through before an expected pre- Christmas adjournment. Important Matter “This is too important a matter to act hastily on it,” he Said. “If we can’t get a bill passed in this session, however, T think we could act in January. When wo do, any new taxes we impose ought to be made retroactive from last July 1.” Chairman George (D-Ga) has not officially called the Senate Fin ance Committee together to con sider the tax proposal. However, Senator Millikin iR-Colo), the group’s top Republican, said he will make a “good faith” effort to get an excess profits levy put on the books. Thanksgiving and to the record- breaking storm that made travel virtually impossible over a large area. Tragically enough, the freak blizzard made up the deficit with a 205-person death toll of its town. Two Pedestrians Of the nine Texans, two were pedestrians. One of these met death because of a fist fight. Harry F, Arthur, 43, fell or was ; knocked into the path of a car during a corner fist fight at Or ange Saturday. The car ran over and killed him. It didn’t stop. The death was Orange’s first traf fic fatality in two years. Clifford B. Allison, 44, of Dallas, was killed Friday night to become the ninetieth traffic victim in Dal las County for the year. He step ped into the path of an oncoming car on South Industrial. Two men, trapped in their over turned automobile, burned to death ner Bowie Sunday. A third man, Laurence Coker, 33, of Altus, Okla., was pulled from the wreckage ser iously injured and identified the dead as William Nowell, 29, of Mangum, Okla., and Arthur Thom as Lindsay, 35, of Altus, Okla. J. W. Kaufman, 32, and Mrs. James Van Hollaman, 24, both of Taylor, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were riding overturned five miles east of Round Rock. Ronnie Carl Hodge, 9, died at Koi'mit Sunday of injuries suffer ed in a head-on automobile collis ion Saturday. His mother, Mrs. Carl Hodge of Tatum, N.M., and Joe Bill Sample, 22, were killed in the wreck. Based on AP Reports Holiday Spirit Plus Tokyo, Nov. 27 — •A’l — Bugle- blaring Chinese Red attacks today threatened complete collapse of the big United Nations end-the-war of fensive. Elements of two Chinese Com munist armies—more than 100,000 men -rolled back the Allies’ entire northwest Korean front. The char acteristic bugle calls of the Chi nese Reus pierced the frozen night air as enemy troops swarmed to the attack. AP correspondent Don White head, with the U. S. 25th Division, Artillery Camp Named After General Moore The Yokohama, Japan site of the 40th Anti Aircraft Ar tillery Brigade has been nam- ! ed Camp Moore in honor of the late Major General George : F. Moore for 10 years of service in the U. S. Army and for his heroic defense of Corregidor. General Moore, ’08, was com mandant here from 1938 to 1940. Newly designated by a General Order from General Headquarters, FEC, the camp was formerly oc cupied by the Eighth Army signal school, but now is comprised main ly of the Antiaircraft Training Center. The Tokyo-Yokohama edition of the Pacific Stars and Stripes re ported that General Moore’s name was selected from a group of ar tillery officers because of his out standing service during more than two decades of active duty. As commander of harbor defen ses on Manila and Subic Bays with headquarters on Corregidor, General Moore was forced to sur render May 6, 1942. After the five months of bitter fighting, the former commandant spent more than three years as a Japanese prisoner before being released. For his extraordinary 1 heroism at Corregidor he received the Dis tinguished Sendee Cross. Prior to his retirement, he served as deputy commanding gen eral of the armed forces headquar ters for unification of facilities and services. sized up the situation this way: j visions bore the brunt of the at- “The big United Nations often- [ tacks, which continued with in- sive to bring an early end to the | creasing fury Sunday night. Korean war was threatened with { complete collapse today. This was the stark reality of the situation after 18 hours of savage fighting.! “Chinese and North Korean Red troops have dealt a stunning- blow to United Nations forces. The of fensive that rolled forward for two days has been stopped cold. U. N. troops are on the defensive after giving up most of their gains.” Reserves See Action Correspondent L e i f Erickson said the American divisions stop ped the second night attacks in the center of the line after earlier withdrawals of several miles. The situation on the eastern flank, manned by the ROK Sev enth, Eighth and Sixth Divisions, i was not clear. Fighting with drawals of four to 11 miles in the ROK sector were reported Sunday. Heavy Casualties Kesmve units ot Americans, j pj t qq dispatches indicated heavy Bninh and iu.v» vveie lushed UP | Allied casualties. An indirect cen to bolster a sagging ,» .-mile east- . SOi . g j l j 1 , settled over operations as ern section of tno winding 80-mile ■ security inoasure . front stretching inland from the t Yellow Sea. The front runs from i rt’Lyo, General MacArthiu s 40 to 60 miles south of the Man- ! spokesman said the Chinese coun- i i„ i terblows were expected. He assert- cinuian ooiuci. ed that the U. N. offensive, which An estimated 1m0,L . 0 Reds "U Mae Arthur hoped would end the most ot them Chinese in quilted war by Christmas, was halted “temporarily” but “is continuing.” winter uniforms—began the coun ter-assault late Saturday night. Republic of Korea (ROK) troops and the U. S. Second and 25th I)i- Tanamaclii Is First In Judging Contest Walter Tanamaclii, senior agro nomy major from San Benito, Sat urday placed first in commercial judging at the annual crop judging contest at the International Live stock Exposition in Chicago. The Oklahoma A&M team won the contest by scoring a total of 5,218 points to defeat Texas Tech who scored 5,161. The Uni versity of Nebraska was third with 5,123. Kenneth W. Fitzgerald of Okla homa was the individual high scor er in all classes with 1,768 points. Second high individual scored was Victor Herring of Texas Tech with 1,742. Oceanography Gets Offices In Science Hall More space to carry out the research program is the greatest benefit of the Ocean ography Department’s new home in the second floor of the old Science Hall, Dale F. Leipper, head of department, said last week. Formerly located at 214 Hous ton, Street, the department now centers around room 26 in the Science Hall. Laboratory space is now avail able to chemical and biological oceanography and to the Naval Research Project. The latter is a $25,000 project sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. Begun last summer, the projects objectives are an oceanographic and meteorological study of the Gulf of Mexico. In, addition to Leipper’s office in room 26, the offices of Donald IV. Hood, professor of chemical oceanography, W. A. Price, pro fessor of geological oceanography, ami J. G. Mackin, professor of biological oceanography, are also in the building. Plans have been made to fur nish a study room in the building for graduate students. “The Department’s telephone number is', still 6-1001, and all persons interested in oceanography are invited to inspect the new of fices,” Leipper said. Propaganda Birds Berlin—UP)—“Little Peace Dove Fly Over the Roof,” is the latest Communist song for kindergar ten children in Soviet-occupied Eastern Germany. At a recent student festival at Magdeburg, the children sang the new tune while 30 live doves were turned loose. “They flew eastward,” reported the Communist newspaper “Volksstimme,” “to where the bulwark of peace, the great and mighty Soviet Union, lies.” Aew Features Introduced In November Agriculturist The spokesman described Sun day’s withdrawals as limited and added that, in any general advance, the foremost spearheads can be ex pected to be pushed back. That’s what is happening now, he said. But, he declined to elaborate on what was meant by limited with drawals. Correspondent Whitehead said the “reversal in battle fortunes came with startling suddenness and the Eight Army is battling* to hold the southward surge of Red troops.” “There is no chance of offensive action on this front until the Red attack has been halted and a firm new line established^’ he added. , Only in the northeast were Al lied advances reported. But Red resistance in some sectors there vvas stiffening -i - Budget Bureau Plans Security Statistics Ban Washington, Nov. 27— (AP)— The budget bureau yesterday took preliminary steps toward restricting re lease of governmental statis tical information where it “might endanger the national security.’”: Director Frederick J. Lawtoii, under directions from President Truman, asked all federal agencies to submit for budget-bureau ap proval “any proposals for the pub lication” Of statistics: “which may involve questions of national se curity.” Aides said the bureau is as much interested in seeing that age neb's do not withhold data unnecessarily as in seeing that they do not re lease matter which might “endan ger national security.’ All agencies alrtkdy are re quired to clear statistical forms and questionnaires with the bureau so as to keep the and ex pense of them at a minnltum. < The budget director observbd that “statistical series published by different agencies, each of which might be harrfiless in itself, might be combined ^ produce in- formatiion harmful to national se curity.” During World War II, a pres idential order stopped release of data on production schedules and progress reports on aircraft and part, ordnance, shipbuilding, and supplies of critical materials, among other things. Budget bureau officials said to sweeping restriction of statistics is contemplated mow:, and. that the bureau is chiefly interested in get ting up a “preparedness’ plan for restriction if and when necessary. With costumes by Lapp, Louise Street and Fred Anderson, A&M Consolidated High School students, gm their interpretations of the latest fashion styles in Dogpatch, USA. They were judged winners in the annual Sadie Hawkins Day dance held at Consolidated. Meat Plant Class Takes Field Trip Locker plants in a number of East Texas cities were visited recently by members of the meat plant operation class, 431. The class visited in Franklin, Buffalo, Palestine, Crockett, Hunts ville, and Conroe. Special attention was given to killing floors, locker box rooms, smoke houses, curing rooms, and | recognition as an outstanding lead cutting rooms. 1 er in this field. By SID ABERNATHY From the catacombs of student publications - dominated second floor of Goodwin Hall comes the awaited November Issue of the Agriculturist. Hitting the stands at a time which closely coincides with the approaching holidays, the maga zine’s placid maroon cover aptly portrays the symbolic Thanksgiv ing turkey. New Features A new feature was begun in this issue of the bi-monthly publica tion. Short Rows, a column of short articles dealing with hap penings in the School of Agricul ture, was introduced by the edi tors in an endeavor to cover those items which ordinarily would not be published. Another new-feature introduced in this issue of the magazine, and one which the editor says will be included regularly hereafter, is a biographical sketch of a faculty member in the School of Agricul ture who has gained state - wide Dr. Dan R. Russell, head of the Rural Sociology Department, was selected for the first sketch. Agricultural Facts and Fore casts in this issue gives the cur rent trends in the marketing field and prognostications as to how commodities will fare in the fu ture. Following the previously men tioned Short Rows comes a fea ture on Dual Purpose Cattle for East Texas, a story telling how East Texas Farmers can profitably use dual-purpose bovines for beef and milk in their diversified farm ing program. Destroying the long standing but ill-founded belief that all hawks and owls are harmful, the article, Hawks and Owls Work For the Farmer, gives facts and figures to back up the contention that most hawks and owls actually are | beneficial to the fanner. The advantages and restiictions to be considered in the feeding of urea to cattle are discussed in the article, Feeding Cattle Urea. It explains how urea today meets the requirements as one of the best protein supplements in feeding beef cattle. A success article,* Future Leader in Texas Agriculture, is the story of a lad who :did not appear dif ferent from several hundred other boys who entered A&M this Fall. “But a look into his past reveals that he was quite a wheel in Texas 4-H work before com ing to A&M to assume the role of ‘Fish’ Landers for a year,” the author writes. Barlow to Head Land Grant Counci Dean H. W. Barlow of the School of Engineering has been elected to the Senate of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Univer sities to represent the Council of Instruction of the ALGCU. He has also been elected secre tary of the Resident Instruction Section of the Engineering Divi sion of the ALGCU for the ensu ing year. The annual meeting of the As sociation was held last week in Washington, D. C. The 1951 meet- Alpha Zeta History The history of Alpha Zeta, na tional honorary fraternity for ag ricultural students, and how it came to A&M is told in the article, Alpha Zeta Comes to A&M. Who’s Master . , . Man or In sect? is the story ot a small j j n g will be hold in Houston. group of men at Kerrville who are : \ waging a very successful campaign against insects affecting livestock. The new 7 Aggie Rodeo Arena gets another plug in this issue of the Agriculturist. Appropriately labeled Borrowed Bull, the last page of this issue contains the prize humor lifted from other magazines throughout the country. ‘Elephant Walk' Scheduled Tomorrow The annual “Elephant Walk” will begin at 11:55 tomorrow at the flagpole in front of the Aca demic Building, Don Joseph, head yell leader, announced this morn ing.