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College Station’s Official
Newspaper; Circulated Daily
To 90% of Local Residents
Battalion
Administration Begins
Policy Defense
See Story, Page Two
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 148: Volume 51
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 7,1951
Price Five Cents
UN Troops Feel Out Reds
In Cautious Rattle Advances
Tokyo, May 7—UB—United Na
tions troops advanced both anchors
of their Korean battle line today
in cautious, limited attacks.
The allies expanded their bridge
head north of the 38th Parallel
.around Inje in the East.
South Koreans advanced the
Western anchor northwest of Seoul
with a limited attack.
* Intelligence officers who report
ed this offered no interpretation of
a statement reportedly from the.
Reds which said, “The war is
about over.” Presumably the Red
officer meant the war had again
reached a stalemate; that neither
side could win and therefore neith
er would open an all-out offensive.
Intelligence reports said the same
officer reported allied warplanes
blocked Red efforts to get tanks
from Manchuria to support the now
halted; Communist Spring offen
sive.
Red transports kept rolling south
Local Talent
Displayed By
Art Gallery
The MSC Art Gallery Committee
will exhibit 85 paintings in the
show cases along the promenade
and in the Birch Room of the MSC
for its annual exhibit, which begins
today.
# The work of the committee was
judged last week by E. M. Buck
Schiwetz, commercial artist and
partner in Wilkerson, Schiwetz
and Tipps, Houston advertising
^gency. Prizes for outstanding
work will be awarded at a tea
this afternoon at 5 in the Birch
Room.
The Exhibit is divided into four
divisions—college student division,
faculty and staff division, adult pu
pil and 18 years and under pupil
division.
A $50 purchase prize will go to
Jimmie Williams from the Art Gal
lery Committee for his oil, “Chrys-
jnthymums.”
First prize in both oil and draw
ing division for college students
Kent to A. Perez Trevino.
Faculty and staff division winner
for his oil painting went to R. F.
Burkhart. First place in the draw
ing division went to Miss Charleta
Brown.
In the adult private classes, Mrs.
■iF. R. Alexander took the first
prize. Miss Elaine Chalk won the
18-year-old oil painting division
and Warner Dahlburg took first
place in the drawing division.
despite the contant air punishment.
More than 3,700 trucks were spot
ted Sunday. Far Eastern air forces
called it an “all out Communist ef
fort to resupply and re-equip their
divisions along the battle line.”
U. N. tank patrols probed
through no-man’s land trying to
find the elusive Red divisions.
The equally elusive Communist
air force tried out night fighting
Fourth Estaters
Schedule Elections
The Journalism Club will elect
officers for the coming year at
its regular meeting Tuesday night
in the MSC.
Officers are elected during the
latter part of the Spring semester
to give added continuity to the
elub program.
Officers whose terms expire
Tuesday are Sid Abernathy, pres
ident; John Whitmore, vice-presi
dent; Dean Reed, secretary; Herb
O’Connel, treasurer; Dave Coslett
and Clayton Selph, co-reporters;
and L. 0. Tiedt, junior represen
tative to the Arts and Sciences
Council.
Plans for an end-of-the-year
•party will also be discussed at the
meeting.
66 Freshmen
Initiated Into
Phi Eta Sigma
Phi Eta Sigma, freshman
honorary fraternity, will in
itiate three honorary mem
bers and 66 undergraduates at
5:15 this afternoon in the
MSC Assembly Room.
Honored guests will be charter
members of the honor society. Eli-
I gibility is based on grades at
tained as a freshman. A 2.5 grade
| point ratio at the end of the first
semester or at the end of the
freshman year is required for qual
ification for the fraternity.
At the Monday meeting three
honorary members will be taken
into the local chapter. They are
Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant
and PMS&T; W. L. Penberthy,
dean of men; and Dr. I. B. Bough-
ton, dean of the school of veterin
ary medicine.
A&M’s chapter was founded in
January, 1949 after the board of
directors authorized honor societies
at A&M.
Following the initiation of new
members a banquet will be held.
For the dinner, scheduled for 7
p.m. in the MSC, Honorory Mem
ber Colonel Boatner will give the
principal address. Dr. J. P. Ab
bott, (lean of the school of Arts and
Sciences and chapter advisor,
will make the closing remarks.
Assisting in the initiation will
be the ‘fraternity officers—Lyle
Wolfskill, president; Joe B, Mattei,
vice-president; John C. Ciebel, trea
surer; Jimmy E. Curtis, historian
and treasurer; Barry Williams,
usher; and Willie Crabtree, assist
ant usher;
Undergraduate initiates are
James W. Allbritton, Byron Ander
son, Daniel O. Atkinson, Roland S.
Bahlmann, Norman Blahuta, Rob-
ert Braslau, Rupert E. Buckalew,
John T. Cameron, William 0. Caw
ley, Joe R. Cockran, John H. Cock
rell, Allen B. Cunningham, Guy W.
Dawson, Dale D. DeRouen, James
Fades, Floyd P. Folsom, Marvin
Ford, Randall Fowler.
And Charles Gary, Alvert Gist,
John K. Goode, Donald G. Greene,
Wesley Gross, Herman Haenel,
Gene Harral, Howard Hauser, Tho
mas M. Haynes, Rodney T. Heath,
James K. Henningan, Antonio Her-
r e r a, John Hildebrand, George
Hill, Charles, Hlavinka, Samuel
Jahn, Morton Krumholz, Roger
Landers, John Leatherman 1 and
Jerome L. Ledwig.
Also Robert Lindveit, Louis E.
Little, Joe McAlister, Forrest Mar
tin, John Matush, William B. Me-
bane, Robert Miller, Stephen Novo-
sad, Albert Rentz, Luther Rogers,
William Rowland, Jerry Sales, John
Eamuels, Edward E. Sewell, Otis
W. Templer, Thomas D. Teriot,
William Torbett, Ide Trotter, Jim
Bob Vaughan, Daylon L. Walton,
Jack Walson, Frank Way, Billy
Westbrook, Oavid Williams, Rob
ert Willmann, William Wiseman,
Royce Younger, and Albin Zak.
jets, presumed to be a new type.
Three of them made unsuccessful
passes at a lone U. N. B-26 before
dawn Sunday.
Similar attacks were made Mon
day morning. But air officers were
not certain it was the same type
of plane. Far Eastern air forces
spokesmen made no attempt to de
scribe the new jet until more is
learned about- it.
On the ground the Reds offered
only spotty opposition to allies
slogging back over the same ground
the Communists had taken in their
costly nine-day offensive that be
gan April 22.
About 500 North Koreans tried
to stem the allied advance in the
Inje sectoT. But U. N. forces wid
ened their bridgehead in Red Korea.
Gifts Pour in for Farouk’s
Modest Wedding Service ’
Cairo, May 7—(TP)—Precious gifts poured into Cairo’s
Abdin Palace today following the gala marriage at which
King Farouk yesterday made beautiful 17-year-old Narriman
Sadek his queen wife.
As the Nile kingdom continued its jubilant rejoicing at
the nuptials with a public holiday today, Farouk and his com
moner bride prepared for a tea party at the palace tonight.
A gala diplomatic reception tomorrow night will wind up the
festivities.
The chiefs of foreign diplomatic missions arrived at the
palace at mid-morning today, bringing gifts from their heads
of state.
U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery delivered from Pres
ident Truman a set of four matched Steuben glass vases.
Truman had given one vase—a larger one—to Iran’s shah on
his recent marriage.
From King George VI came a massive silver inkstand,
handed over by Britain’s ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson.
What the Russians were giving—if anything—was a
deep dark secret.
•Aggie Cagers Honored
With Banquet Tuesday
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
A & M’s Southwest Conference
Tri-Champion basketball team will
be honored tomorrow night at 7
with a banquet in Sbisa Hall.
The 11-man squad that won the
first piece of a Southwest Confer
ence basketball crown in 28 years,
and the first A&M team to whip
the Longhorns at Austin in 17 win
ters, is to be the guest of the Ath
letic Department.
Also attending the victory ban
quet will be the members of the
'1923 basketball team, previously,
the last Maroon and White quartet
to annex a Southwest title. They
Hielscher. Hielscher, who was the
MC at A&M’s Winter Sports ban
quet, will call the members of the
’23 team to deliver brief speeches.
Three of the 11 cagers, Marvin
Martin, Glenn Williams and John
DeWitt, are seniors and will be ap
pearing for the last time at A&M
in connection with collegiate bas
ketball. Another starter, unani
mous All-Southwest Conference,
All-District 9 (NCAA) guard Jew
ell McDowell has only one semester
of eligibility remaining.
The remainder of the squad will
include unanimous All-Southwest
Conference center Buddy Davis,
forward Leroy Miksch and guards
Don Heft, Raymond Walker, Bob-
T, , by Farmer, Don Garrett and Bill
miT y Pannantcr-
are Eugene Derby, Pharr; nan* r nrnpn) . pv
Duckett, Houston; King Gill, Cor- j the Aceies
pusChristi; Ceborn Megority, Cor- ej J and dl S p p e ’ d f 0U1 whi^
. pus Chnsti; Lowell Keen Corsica- in compe $ ion the count
na; and Paul Washburn, New York wag 14 , 10 Th seasonal games
t . do not include the playoffs or the
Leading the SQuad to Sbisa as he Kansas City tourney.
. did to victory during the 1950-51 A&M beat TCU' once and the
season will be Head Basketball Steers two out of three in the SWC
Coach John Floyd. Bill Dayton, playoffs and were dropped by the
the invaluable Aggie trainer, will University of Washington Huskies
also be a guest of the Athletic De- j n the first round at the NCAA,
partment. Tickets for tomorrow night’s
Master of Ceremonies for the banquet, which is open to the pub-
iepeti-to-the-public banquet will be lie, are two dollars and may be
•* Cadet basketball sportscaster Newt obtained at the Athletic Office.
Gen. Marshall’s Side
Next, Hearing Today
Washington, May 7—LT)—Secretary of
Defense Marshall carries President Truman’s
case against Gen. Douglas MacArthur today
to a Senate divided—pretty well on party
lines—over a momentous foreign policy dis
pute.
MacArthur wound up late Saturday three
days of gruelling questioning by senators in
quiring into his ouster by Mr. Truman.
And today the Administration relied on
George C. Marshall—army chief of staff in
World War II, later secretary of state, now
Kiwanis Children’s
Clinic Opens Today
The King and Queen of Cotton look out on their
4,000 subjects at the pageant Friday night. Seem
ing to ignore the King, Ray Kunze, and Queen
Wanda Harris, are the Crown Bearers, David
Segrest and Peggy Jane Breazeale.
By ALLEN PENG ELLY
Battalion Assistant City Editor
The sixth annual Kiwanis Crip
pled Children’s Clinic began today
in the college hospital.
This clinic each year brings spec
ialists to College Station to exam
ine and diagnose all children of the
area who are disabled or otherwise
suffering from maladies which
could be corrected if examined by
competent physicians.
Although no actual therapeutic
work is done at this clinic, the chil
dren are examined and the parents
are told what kind of care will help
their children.
Crippled Girl Helped
“Four years ago, a little girl was
carried into the clinic for examina
tion. The following year, she hob
bled in crutches and last year, the
young lady walked into the clinic
for a final examination,” recalled
Dr. Dan Russell, chairman of the
clinic.
Hospitalization will be provided
after examination if parents are
unable to finance treatment at
their own hospital. Such cases are
referred to the Shriner’s by the
Kiwanis.
202 Receive Aid
The clinic was begun in 1945 by
the local Kiwanis group with 100
children applying for treatment.
Last year, because of the publicity
this aid had received, 202 children
were diagnosed.
The child’s deformity does not
have to be of a major type to profit
from the clinic. Deformities of the
bone muscle, tendon, or skin, will be
examined free by the specialists._
Organizations which support ‘the
clinic by giving time include the
Bi-County Medical Society, State
Health Department, Women’s Aux
iliary of the Medical Society, Mis
sionary Society, Brazos County
Health Unit, and the Campus Study
Club.
Fit For a King
Splendor Marks Cotton Court
King Cotton XVII counted his
court Friday night. And the num
ber was large and splendid.
By his side sat his lovely, smil
ing queen who helped him receive
the bows and curtsies of 400 ele
gant courtiers. An estimated 4,000
subjects watched the royal pro
ceedings.
Pres. M. T. Harrington began the
proceedings by placing the golden
crown of the Cotton Kingdom on
the head of Ray Kunze, senior
agronomy major from Giddings.
Then King Ray received eight
lovely duchesses of the Southwest
Conference.
With this much of her court in
attendance, Queen Wanda ap
proached the throne. And there, be
neath 75 giant candles, honoring
A&M’s Seventy-Fifty Anniversary,
she kneeled to receive her crown
from the King.
TSCW freshman Wanda Har
ris of San Antonio rose as Queen
of the Seventeenth Annual Cot
ton Pageant and Style Show.
The regal pair seated themselves
in the white, glistening double
thrones backed by green drapes,
drawn apart to show a giant stalk
of cotton. Above this glistened
the silver* numerals “75.”
Flanking the throne on either
side were double, white pillars,
marbled in green and each topped
by a single letter—“A”, on the left,
“M” on the right.
More dukes and duchesses
passed before the throne, then
the appointed time for entertain
ment arrived. Court Jesters Har
old Turner and Bud Matthews
cavorted about before settling
down to hear songs by contralto
soloist Alice Gene Butler.
The brawn of the kingdom came
forth next in the form of a talent
ed handbalance team of Skeet
Cameron and Bobby Moore.
Adding a final and enjoyable
touch of the evening entertainment
were Jeanne Terrill and Gene!
Pflug, a dancing duo who followed
a rousing tap demonstration with
a “Darktown Strutter’s Ball” rou
tine that brought plenty of ap
proval, royal and otherwise.
Fashion stole the spotlight for
the rest of the night as Mrs. Jes
sie Southworth of Sanger Brothers
in Dallas mounted the platform to
announce a display of latest cot
ton wear.
Modeling the dresses, swim
suits, play-suits, dusters, even
ing gowns, frocks and swim
suits were a bevy of glamorous
Tessies aided by a few duets
from the small-fry bracket.
Following the pageant and style
show came the Cotton Ball with
Bill Turner and the Aggieland
Orchestra furnishing the music in
the Grove.
Mrs. Bill Turner directed the
Pageant and Eli L. Whiteley, of the
Agronomy Department was gen
eral chairman of the night’s ac
tivities.
Joe Woolkett, of the Modern
Languages Department was mas
ter of ceremonies and David
Haines was assistant announcer.
Crown bearers were David Segrest
and Peggy Jane Breazeale.
Jurgens Concert, Dance
Rated Tops by Slim Crowd
By DAVE COSLETT
Battalion Co-Editor
Dick Jurgens and his orchestra
has everything against them Sat
urday night—even the elements.
But the group—consistant tenants
of the bandstand in Chicago’s fam
ous Aragon Ball Room—neatly
proceeded to win top rating with
all those who heard.
Starting with an ill-attended
concert in Guion Hall, the husky
Jurgens dropped any pretense of
formality and dished up one mus
ical treat after another.
Ably assisting him were vocal
ist Ray McIntosh, who doubled
on the trumpet, rhythm tune
comic A1 Galente, also a violinist
of no little talent, pianist Fred
Ditto and also sax player Lou
Prisby.
The melody menu ranged fi’om
“Mississippi Mud” through “If,”
other current favoi’ites and a med
ley of old-timers that had the
sparce crowd listening di'eamily.
Enlisting local talent, Jurgens
& Co. hit the Latin American beat
for a concoction he called “Aggie
Rhumba.”
Also in the fun department
was the “Jurgen’s Glue Club”
rendition of “Symphony.”
Following the concert, the or
chestra moved to the Grove for an
all-college dance that drew a
larger attendance. Here again, a
warm personality and just plain
good music, won immediate ac
ceptance.
Menacing skies tried but failed
to loosen the hold that Jurgens
had on the crowd. Even a few
drops of rain discouraged but a
small portion of the dancers who
were getting the highlights of
the Guion Concert plus other
such notable numbers as “El
mer’s Tune,” “Star Dust,” and
“Rag-Time Cowboy Joe.”
The elements won, though, and
dancers scattered as rain hit in
earnest. General opinion seemed
to be that Jurgens would be more
than welcome to continue the inter
rupted appearance at any time.
Sanger Brothers of Dallas
sponsored the Style Show, which
was directed by Mrs. Margaret
Wedell, merchandising counciler
for that firm.
One of the many models who
The specialists who will conduct
this year’s clinic are Dr. G. W. N.
Eggei's, head of the Orthopedic
Surgery Department of the Uni
versity of Texas; Dr. T. G. Blocker,
plastic surgeon; Dr. Steven R.
Lewis, plastic surgeon.
Dr. William H. Ainsworth, ortho
pedic surgeon, Dr. P. W. Bailey Jr.,
neuropsychiatrist; and Dr. Hubert
O. Hipps, head of the Crippled
Children’s Hospital in Waco.
Members of the crippled chil
dren’s committee representing the
College Station Kiwanis Club are
Dr. Russell, Luther Jones, Harold
F. Heady, A. R. Orr, O. Byron
Richardson, J. C. Gaines, J. S. Mog-
ford, Bob Lyle, Jesse Coon, and
Dr. George Summey.
There are no restrictions in re
gard to race, creed, or color to be
eligible for the clinic’s services.
Bond Question
Passes at Poll
By 152 Votes
All three issues which ap
peared on Saturday’s School
Bond election were passed ac
cording to L. S. Richardson,
superintendent of the A&M
Consolidated School.
The issues voted upon were the
$150,000 school bond appropriation,
the assumption of all bonds pre
viously issued by the school dis
trict, and the approval of the $1.50
tax per $1,000 value of property
taxable for the schools.
The .voting was as follows: the
new school bonds, for-152, against-
6; the assumption of previous
bonds, for—152, against 3; the ap
proval of the $1.50 tax, for 152,
against—3.
The approval i of the issuance of
the bonds means that work may be
gin on the new buildings on the
campus of A&M Consolidated
School and also on the plant at
Lincoln School. A&M iConsolida-
ted will receive eight new class
rooms, a girls dressing room, and
a new cafeteria. Lincoln School
will receive a new shop building
and new science laboratory.
A meeting will be held tonight
at A&M Consolidated High School
to officially canvass the results of
the election. The group will also
swear in the two new members of
the school board. They are Henry
Allen, who replaces Ross Bond, and
E. E. Brown who was reelected to
another term of office.
The election of officers for the
coming year will be on the agenda.
All members of the school board
are iligible for the three offices
chairman, vice-chairman, and sec-
retary.
The members of the school board
are C. B. Godbey, C. A. Bonnen,
Dr. Chas. LaMotte, Ernest Redman,
Mit Williams, Allen and Brown.
secretary of defense—to give an official re
ply to MacArthur’s suggestion that danger
of a third world war lies in the government’s
present Pacific policy.
Reduced from its verbiage of 174,000
words of testimony and cross examination,
the deposed Pacific commander’s major stand
was this:
a. Red China can be brought to her knees
by supply and industrial bombing without
great danger of Russian entry into the war.
b. If there is no victory in Korea but only
■fthe “bloody stalemate” he says
must come from administration
plans for a “limited” war there,
the Soviets may be encouraged to
strike anywhete in the world.
When he fired MacArthur just
27 days ago, Mr. Truman in a
quick follow-up speech to the na
tion said the policies MacArthur
had openly advocated carried a
grave threat of touching off a new
global war.
Marshall faced hundreds of ques
tions—possibly thousands.
Like MacArthur, he was to tes
tify behind closed doors before the
Senate Armed Services and For
eign Relations, with Chairman
Russell (D-Ga) of the former
group presiding.
And like MacArthur’s testimony,
Marshall’s was to made public
piecemeal after being screened for
matter whose release military and
state department officials feel
might affect security.
Russell said the two committees
making an inquiry into MacAr
thur’s ouster and the nation’s dip
lomatic and military policies, prob
ably would not .seek testimony from
Mr. Truman himself. He said he
assumed Marshall, Secretary of
State Acheson, the joint chiefs of
staff and others would speak the
President’s case.
Russell said the committee shall
face almost certain close questions,
• MacArthur’s assertion that in
a war study prepared last Jan. 12
the joint chiefs of staff agreed
with the Korean war strategy he
has advocated and for which he
was fired. He said he assumes the
joint chiefs were vetoed by Mar
shall or Mr. Truman.
• MacArthur’s contention that
Marshall over-ruled the joint chiefs
recommendation that there peace
talks should not include (a) admis
sion of the Chinese Reds to the
United Nations and (b) The even-
that fate of Formosa, now held by
the Chinese Nationalists. He said
he opposed any discussion of those
questions in any possible peace
talks.
MacArthur argued that a stale
mate in Korea—or the “appease
ment” of which he expressed fear—•
would look to Soviet Russia like a
sign of Western weakness.
“The initiatory action of your
potential enemy is already under
way,” he said at one point. “I be
lieve if you don’t be it in Korea you
are doomed to destruction. I be
lieve it is already started, and if
you let it grow and increase by
the enemy, you will get engulfed.”
To bring the Communist aggres
sion in Korea to a halt, he plugged
again for his strategy: Air opera
tions over Manchuria, a blockade
of China and use of Chiang Kai
Shek’s Nationalist troops.
Reserve Officers
Get Promotions
Capt. Guy Johnson, Jr., ’43, and
1st Lt. John S. Stiles, Jr. E. ’48,
both of Bryan, have just been pro
moted to these ranks in the Army
Organized Reserves, Capt. M. B.
Findlay, local ORC Instructor, an
nounced today.
Captain Johnson commands B
Btry and 1st Lt. Stiles is Battalion
Reconnaissance Officer of the
352nd Armored Field Artillery Bat
talion, whose headquarters are in
Bryan.
Captain Findlay also stated that
Texas Military District, Austin,
has authorized Army Reserve of
ficers to volunteer for tours of 60
days active duty training to serve
as umpires for the Third Army
Field Maneuver to be held in North
Carolina in July and August.
The use of Reserve officers for
this duty is unprecedented and due
to the urgent demands placed upon
the Army by the current defense
effort. Reserve officers interested
, in such duty may get full details
made the Pageant successful. f rom t he local ORC Instruction.
High School FFA
Students Vie Here
A&M played host Saturday to
1150 high school vocational agri
cultural students accompanied by
300 instructors, here for the annual
FFA judging contests.
The judgers, who represented the
high 10 per cent in area contests,
competed in livestock, dairy cat
tle, poultry and egg, dairy pro
duces and meat judging contests.
Winners, who were announced
Saturday afternoon, will represent
the state in national contests next
fall. Top dairy cattle, poultry and
dairy products teams will go to
Waterloo, la., for the national com
petition while top livestock and
meat judging teams will compete
at the Kansas City Royal Livestock
Show.
The teachers toured the college
while the students were judging.
They were welcomed by Pres. M. T.
Harrington.
Four to Take
Cotton Tours
Four agronomy majors were
named winners of the 1951 Cotton
Tour fellowships at the Cotton
Pageant and Style Show Friday
night.
Taking the tours will be Ray
Kunze of Giddings, Walt Tana-
machi of San Benito, Leo G. Mike-
ska of Temple and Pablo E. Maur
er of Atlexco Pueblo, Mexico.
The annual studies of cotton in
this country and abroad are fi
nanced yearly by proceeds from
the Cotton Ball and Pageant.