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^ CoS* 6 * Aat 5tu de^ a COp^- eS Y. 'S'* Circuited to More than 90% Of College Station’s Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation’s Top Safety Section Lumberman’s 1949 Contest Number 60: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950 Price Five Cents Cadets Favored Over Georgia Fifteen Gridsters to Wear Aggie Colors for Last Time By FRANK MAMTZAS Battalion Sports 'Editor Tomorrow afternoon at 12:30, the unpre dictable Aggie football team will take to the gridiron for their final game of the year against the University of Georgia in the first Annual Presidential Cup tilt. Fourteen seniors and one junior would be wearing the Maroon and White uniform for the final time Saturday, except that one of the seniors—Linebacker Jimmy Flowers and Junior All-Conference End Andy Hillhouse —will be sidelined. Flowers has an infected hand, Hillhouse the flu. With 42 players aboard, the Cadet’s char tered plane left early this morning for Col lege Park, Md., home of the University of Frapped Marines Attempt Evacuation Maryland and Byrd Stadium, site of the game. ' W Players graduating before next season include Max Greiner, Dorbandt Barton, Bob Bates. Tuck Chapin, John Christensen, Ced ric Copeland, Murry Holditch, Carl Molberg,. Charles Royalty, Mickey Spencer, Dwayne Tucker, Doyle Moore, David Duncan, Flow ers, and Hillhouse. All of the above mentioned are linemen with the exception of Royalty, Christensen, Moore, and Duncan, the first two being half backs and the latter duo fullbacks. With the loss of the 15 veteran stars, the Cadet squad will lose more key individuals ~ +than the number signifies. Act M’s Mead Coach Harry Stite- | ler with his usual before ggnte i chipperness said that the teaii), [ with the exception of Hillhouse and | Flowers, was in excellent physical • ; condition and in high spirits. Coach Stiteler, who is now coaching an A&M team to its first J post season game since 1944 when j the Cadets lost to Louisiana State in the Orange Bowl, 14-19, is de- i pending - on All-American Bob Smith and the Maroon and White’s fine offensive line to show up. in spotted by marine nines' Fifth Regiment fighting a j the game for the deciding and win- rearguard action north of Koto. A ! ning margin. Tokyo, Dec. 8—(A*)—T w e n t y j after being thousand trapped U. S. marines i planes. and doughboys crunched desperate- The push from Koto began early ly down a steep, snow-covered can- Friday, with elements of the Ma- yon trail in northeast Korea today under blazing Red Chinese attack. The going was slow and tough. Thousands of Chinese mounted on dominating ridges along both sides of the twisting road swqpt ^em I r(1 "'Nd^h^rfonv^d'erpm^ntrof Points, the Aggies will clash with with gunfire. A swirling snow- (ii-poried that torwaul elements ol t p e G eor p'j a B u lld 0 o' S The Farm- j> I the convoy were nearing p 0 hu-| 11 , ,, A , • , ' 1I,t \ .Vr jang, about six miles south of Ko- 1 ers 10 ^ 11 ^ win-loss record, the to. The road ahead drops 1,800 feet in a few miles. tank-led convoy rumbled southward i from the town. U. S. Eighth Army headquarters Aggies Favorites by Favored four to seven May Take Job As Linguist. . . Sakamoto Freed After Escape Try (Editor’s Note: In this, Battal ion Reporter Walston concludes the story of Seiichi Sakamoto, Class of ’38, who was captured by the Russians while serving in the Japanese Army against his will. (In yesterday s article, Wal ston told of Sakamoto’s early ex periences as a prisoner. His re fusal to accept Soviet teachings when that nation turned against the IJ. S. following the last war, had put the defiant prisoner un der suspicion. A Russian woman :,py was watching his every move.) By DALE WALSTON In 1948, repatriation of Japan ese prisoners began. The months passed away with Sako still re maining a prisoner. Wondering Why he, too, was not being return ed to Japan, Sakamoto went to his Russian supervisor to ask. The supervisor beeaPhe angiy and or- dent! Sakamoto back - to work, j The y o u ng Japanese - Am erican began to believe that he would never be set free, so he refused to re turn to work. This got him feakamoto only solitary confinement. He was charged with iate Review Set For Guion Hall Talent will be plentiful on the , stage of Guion Hall Monday night; when a group of North Texas. State College students unpack their Collegiate Review which pro mises an hour and a half of lively entertainment. An 18-piece band, vocal rendi- ^ lions, lively comedy, and profes- ■ sional sleight of hand tricks will form the nucleus of the program. Feature attraction of the Re-, view is the 18-piece stage band ' Ag - Georgia Tilt On Air at 12:15 The football game to be play ed Saturday on the University of Maryland stadium between A&M and the University of Georgia, will be broadcast over Radio State WTAW. “Wo go on the air at 12:13 p. m.,” Dick Webb, station man ager, announced today. The game gets under way at 12:30. ...The play-by-play account of t he game will be given by Char lie Jordan. The Humble Oil and Refining Company is putting on the broadcast. led by Gene Hall, director of the Modern Music Department at NTSC. Several members of the regular band will emerge into Dixieland Crew and present several Dixieland numbers. Miss Lesley Ryall, remale vocal ist with the group, will let out; with her renditions of “Happiness j is a Thing Called Joe,” and “That i Old Feeling.’ Male vocalist Leo Vincent will sing “All the Things You Are,” and Adrian McLish, formerly with the Vaughan Monroe Orchestra, will furnish the audience with a few well-chosen numbers. Jack Alexander professional night club entertainer, will act as chief comedian for the group as well as providing his popular im itations. Featured with the band will also be Buddy Ryland and his trombone. Ryland is the former leader of the popular band at Stephen F. Austin .State College two years ago. Following the Collegiate Review which begins at 7:30 p. m. Mon day, a regular Guion Hall movie will be shown for no extra cost to holders of tickets to the Re view. Tickets for the review and movie will sell' for fifty cents,' sabotaging work and disobeying orders. A Russian political officer paid Sakamoto a visit at the end of his first week in the dungeon. Finally realizing that anyone who was anti-Russian would never be released, he told (he officer that he was no longer against the Russian government. Sako expected to, be sent out at! any time With “oriented” prison- | ers, many of whom, had been given j specific assignments to work j against democracy and capitalism. For some. reason, though, his name never came up. Escape seemed to be his only way out, so he joined three friends in planning to flee the camp. The others backed out but Sako went ahead with the plan. He used his drivers pass to leave the camp then hid in a railway car for two days and lived on black bread that he had stored up. His efforts were fruitless, though, for police captured him on the second day. He was returned to camp and placed again in soli tary confinement. This time he was brought before a people’s court of Japanese Communist and Russian officers. The court accused him, on the basis of his personal history, of being an American agent. Their verdict—that if Saka moto was to leave Russia, he must actively work against America and the working class. His only alternative was per manent confinement in Russia with 15 years of labor in Si beria. Finally termed a “reactionist,” he was put under heavier guard. A short time later his captors transported him to Khabarovsk for investigation and questioning. The “questioning” was in the well-known “third-degree’ style, performed in the middle of the night. (See SAKAMOTO, Rage C) storm deprived the Americans of air support. Forward elements of this bloody retreat from icy Changjin Reser voir had covered five of the 45 miles from Koto to the escape port of Hungnam on the east coast. Relief Arrives A relief column of the U. S. Third Division was driving north, in an effort to clear the road be tween the mountains and Hung nam and link up with the strug gling survivors from Changjin. Far to the southwest of this bit ter action, the U. S. Eighth Army consolidated positions on its new ly formed west Korean defense line. Only patrol contact was re ported with the forward units of an estimated million Chinese Reds committed to the intervention in Korea. The breakout attempt by the marines and doughboys came after they had smashed through one trap in a battling, eight-mile drive to Koto from Changjin Reservoir Thursday. , At Koto, the weary Fifth and Seventh Regiments of the U. S. Marine First Division and the U.S. Seventh Division’s 31st and 32nd Regiments joined other elements of both divisions. With them were around 50 Brit ish commandos who were rescued from the reservoir area Wednesday best an A&M team has had sinee 1946. The Georgians hold a 6-2-3, win-loss-tie record. High ridges providing excellent Again, as against Texas Uni- Chinese ambush positions make the ; versity, the Aggies will be facing road a death trap for some. 1 a rough, tough defensive team that Elements of the U. S. Third Di- , this year holds its best defensive vision moving north to meet theslate since 1921 when they allowed forces from Koto were stalled by ! their opponents only 31 points, fierce Chinese resistance south of ; This season, the Bulldogs’ foes Majon. Majon is eight miles south of Pohujang. Enemy Waiting have garnered only 58 markers, , A&M’s highly potent offense which has slacked for the past two games, may he the Cadets Even if they run this gauntlet, | only point in their favor, because the Americans are threatened with : the Aggies possess very little de- envelopment by other Chinese | fensive strength, forces gathering north of Ham-1 • hung for a drive on the escape port. MacArthur’s spokesman said ; secondary positions-are being pre pared above Parallel 38. United | Nations, forces will fall back to] them, he added, if unable to with- ! stand the 18 Chinese Red divisions, | reported moving down from .North Korea and Manchuria on the west- ern front. The war summary reported Al lied warplanes Thursday attacked Red troops in boats on the Tao- dong River estuary, south of Py ongyang, the Red capital. Athens, Ga., Dec. 8—(APl—v Georgia’s Bulldogs left last night for their Presidential Cup game in Washington wondering if two stalwart tackles will be in shape to meet the Aggiea Tackles Dick Yelvington and Dick Steele are hobbling around on game legs. If they are unable to go at full speed. Georgia’s once-poweiTuI tackle corps will be reduced to a mediocre level, But Coach Wally Butts was a bit on the optimistic side. “I’m glad A&M’s defense Is not its strong point,” In' remark- (Sce CADETS, Page 6) Preview of Things to Come Players Display Promise By HERMAN C. GOLLOB If the Aggie Players’ season opening production last night in the Assembly Hall of Edward Chodorov’s melodramatic thriller, “Kind Lady,” is any indication of what may be expected of them in the future is safe to prophecy here a successful season for this capable and conscientious organi zation. Annual Horticulture Show Begins Monday Which is not to imply that the evening was theatrically sublime. Far from it, your observer found the presentation as a whole tedi ous and unsuccessful in building the dramatic intensity inherent in Chodorov’s story of the near-per fect attempt of a slick English hoodlum to imprison a soft-heart ed, wealthy spinster in her own home and make away with her fortune. Performers Unrelaxed Performances were generally stiff and unnatural, with many lines recited, not acted. Cues were picked up too slowly, adding to the recitational effect and preventing the necessary rise in “Kind La- of her lines inaudible, and Davis’ suave malevolence seemed forced at times. Gordon Milne and Florence Farr as Abbott’s accomplices were the play’s brightest performers, and did much to enliven.stage proceed ings. As French appraiser of paint ings, Jerry Asaro displayed ap propriately elegant gestures, and Teresa Renghoffer, Harry Good ing, Jean Robbins, Doyle Smith, Sarah Puddy, Don Demke, and Barbara Hughes were convincing in other supporting roles. Alta Walker, Darwin Hodges, and Pete Carson are to be com mended for the set and lighting, which not only enhanced the mood Exhibits of citrus fruit, pecan,- McAllen. and vegetable propagation are the theme of the annual Horticulture Show to be htdd from 4 p. m. Mon day through 8 p.‘ m. Tuesday in the Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall. The show, presented annually by the Horticulture Society, will also feature methods of processing fruits, vegetables, and pecans. Product Sale Fruit sold at the show is pur chased in the Rio Grande Valley at wholesale prices and sold at regu lar retail prices. Profit from sales will help defray expenses of a field trip which senior horticulture majors plan to make Jan. 13. Rio Grande Trip Seniors making the field trip will travel through many parts of the Rio Grande Valley and will study the various crops there. An added feature of this year’s dy’s emotional pitch. And pro- j but brightened the atmosphere of Fresh Ruby Red Grapefruit and grapefruit juice will be on sale at the show. Fifty standard boxes of grapefruit have been secured from the Mission Fiuit and Vege table Company of Mission. ; sorship with the Texas Other items to be sold at the ! Grower’s Association, show will include gift packages of 1 Prizes are to be awarded for the fruit. These packages will also be i best pecans of each class. Size, longed pauses, at which times members of the cast froze in their tracks and posed as if for a pub licity shot, also detracted from the needed build in fervor. But these frailties were by no means evidences of anyone’s chron- j ic inability. Rather, they were | superficial in nature suggesting I that the cast was hampered by; : first-night uneasiness and the di- j | spiriting effect of an audience j hardly larger in number than the | participants. Several flashes of expert the- ! that converted chic-sale, the As sembly Hall. “Kind Lady” will close its two- day run after tonight’s perform ance. Curtain time is 8. exhibit is a pecan show which is j atre, which provided ticket-holders being made possible by joint spoil- j an occasional fillip, were obvious Pecan sold in dormitories by students with copcession cards. Fruit for the gift packages will be obtained from the Green Valley Packers of number per pound, color and ap pearance, shell thickness, and cracking qualities, will be con sidered in the judging. proof of the troupe’s thespic ca pabilities, and of director C. K. Esten’s directorial proficiency. In the leading roles of criminal Harry Abbott and spinster Mary Hevries, Wayne Davis and Alice Burk acquitted themselves nicely, although Miss Burk rendered many Bryan Girl Named Cup Game Beauty Miss Goldie Ann Ruth Brians of Bryan has been chosen “Miss Texas” in the (galaxy) of beau ties representing each state at the Presidential Cup Game near Washington Saturday. Miss Brians is a secretary to Olin “Tiger” Teague, ’32, con gressman from College Station. Each state is to be represented by a beauty at the first annual football classic sponsored by the American Legion. Alk*« Bauer Marlene Bauer Here for Wednesday’s opening and playing again yesterday, the sisters braved the cold afternoon wind to display their talents. Alice sends her putt towards the cup while Marlene awaits het shot.