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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Nation’s Top
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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.