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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1951)
a CO? 1-63 "^J • ^ ^gJJgg^Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents The Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE The Basic Division- First of A Series See Page Two Number 158: Volume 51 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1951 Price Five Cents Bradley Back on Stand, Full)right Flails Mac Washington, May 21—O 2 ?)—Sen- .ate investigators called Gen. Omar N. Bradley back to the witness sj^and today while a fresh batch of differences kept the MacArthur dispute boiling. On one side, Senator Fulbright (D-Ark) said part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s recent testimony to Senate committees investigating his dismissal was “almost equivalent to deception” and consisted of “some half-truths.” On the other, Senator Taft (R- Ohio) declared the Truman admin istration has staged an “absolute reversal” and now has adopted practically all features of MacAr thur’s Far Eastern war program which most Republicans have urg- ed. Senator McMahon (D-Conn) dis agreed, saying there has been no major change in administration policy. Fulbright said so, too. Senator Brewster (R-Me) went along with Taft. The Maine law maker said the administration has been putting up “quite a din of op position,” but meanwhile has been “retreating under that smokescreen A r ery close to the MacArthur line.” Bradley, chairman of the. Joint ‘The Thin Man’ Shows Tonight In T Chapel “The Thin Man” with Wil liam Powell and Myrna Loy will be the school year’s last offering of the A&M Film So ciety tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the YMCA Chapel. Considered to be one of the first great mystery movies, the film lasts about an hour and a half and will conclude a program in cluding-such classics as “The Good Earth,” “Morocco,” “The Great Train Robbery,” and “All Quiet On the West Front.” As well as serving in its primary entertainment capacity, the society this year sponsored a special March of Dimes showing and was one of thg 1 first organizations on the cam- ^pus to make a substantial contri- nution to the campaign. Next year’s schedule of films will be decided upon some time in the near future, according to i George Charlton, secretary - treas urer. President of the organization this year is Herman Gollob, senior English major from Houston. The schedule of this year’s films were decided upon last Summer, and season tickets sold at $1 each the following Fall. Approximately 150' students and faculty members paid the necessary fee. “The first year of the organiza tion, we think, has been a success ful one,” says Charlton. He reminds members that if they cannot attend tonight’s showing they ma yturn their tickets over to friends, and they, in turn, may use the ducats to gain admission. Chiefs of Staff, was booked to resume testimony (9 a.m., CST) interrupted last week when he re fused to relate who said what at a conference he and other top ad visers had with President Truman April 6, five days before MacAr thur was ousted. Senators Uphold Bradley The combined Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, looking into Mr. Tru man’s dismissal of the five star general and U. S. policy in the Far East, later voted 18 to 8 against requiring Bradley to give an account of that discussion. Six Republican senators were among the 18 majority votes. Bradley took the position that to do so would destroy his value as a confidential adviser to the presi dent. Before the issue came up, Brad ley had testified in strong support of the administration’s policy of trying to limit the war to Korea. Mr. Truman fired MacArthur for publicly advocating more direct ac tion against Red China, including the bombing of supply bases. Bradley was called back before the inquiry committee against a background of these other develop ments in the stormy controversy: ® Senator George (D-Ga), a member of the committee, said it was “unfortunate” that Mr. Tru man got further into the argument by saying he had been considei’ing dismissal of MacArthur on and off for a year before he acted April 11. The White House later said the President actually started mulling it over last August. George said there was “no good reason for the President to have injected himself” deeper into the controversy. Some senators have pointed Out that Mr. Truman pub licly praised MacArthur on at least two occasions during the time he says he was thinking about firing him. • Senator Hickenlooper (R- lowa), also a member of the com mittee, declared he agrees substan tially vfith Senator Wiley (R-Wis) that the Democrats on the commit tee have, as Wiley put it, a “frantic desire to whitewash and cover up.” Wiley made the charge in a letter to chairman Russell (D-Ga) last Friday. It was Wiley who made the unsuccessful move to force Bradley to answer. Senator Flan ders (R-Vt) and several Democrats on the committee have denied the Wiley accusation. • Taft, Brewster and McMahon threw cold water on Wiley’s pro posal that Mr. Truman testify at the Senate inquiry. Ags Grab Half of Pennant, Enter NCAA With Arizona Cadets Take Texans, 4-1, As Hitting, Fielding Win' Bob Roark . . . now holds two offices in next year’s student activity pro gram in the MSC. Roark has been elected secretary of the MSC Directorate and is next year’s chairman of the MSC Ra dio Committee. Composed of the chairmen of all MSC Committees, the Directorate plans and pro motes the MSC student program. Okla. A&M Profs Appeal Loyalty Cases Oklahoma City, May 21 — (iT*) — A group of Oklahoma A&M professors ordered fired for not taking the state’s com plete loyalty oath planned to day to appeal to the State Supreme Court. Their chief hope was that the high court would agree with State Attorney General Mac Q. William son that portions of the non-Com- munist oath are unconstitutional. District Judge W. A. Carlile Sat urday ordered those fired who signed an altered oath or refused to sign at all. Some pledged allegiance to this country and swore they weren’t Communists or members of organ izations labeled subversive by the U. S. attorney general. But they struck out a provision requiring a promise to bear arms in defense of the country, which the attorney general ruled was unconstitutional. The professors claimed religious scruples against fighting. Under the district court ruling, no public employes can remain on payrolls after May 9—when the oath law became effective—without taking the pledge. Judge Carlile handed down the ruling in a suit by Paul W. Upde- graff, a Norman attorney who forced an early court test. Seven protesting Aggie professors and employes intervened as parties to the suit. The Aggie group which lost the ■suit: Robert M. Wieman, assistant professor of philosophy; Nancy Kent Ziebur, research assistant; Werner C. Baum, assistant profes sor of botany; Samuel Hunt Lee, Jr., associate professor of Chemis try; Malcolm Cornell, professor of physics; Lillian A. Schmoe, secre tary; and Luell Nietz, assistant professor of music. 'Edilor-in-Ch ief’ By FRED WALKER Battalion Sports Editor While righthander Bob Tankersley hypno tized the mighty Longhorn bats Friday after noon, his teammates pounded out eight hits and four runs to climax a two-game series for a fifty per cent cut of the Southwest Conference baseball crown and the right to appear in the NCAA playoffs. Aggie bats, Aggie pitching and Aggie fielding got the nod as the highly favored University of Texas was humbled 4-to-2 and 4-to-l Prior to game time Friday, Texas coach Bibb Falk announced that he would waive all NCAA rights if his team lost the second Seniors Smooch, Tilton Tops Show Bob Tankersley . . . decided that (he University of Texas batsmen weren’t all they were cracked up to be last Friday afternoon, so he gave them five hits and one run to keep them happy. Big Bob struck out four and walked only three, and between the third and eighth innings retired 13 men in a row. Mrs. Castleberry Gets Top Honors At Press Banquet By DAVE COSLETT Battalion Co-Editor Two small steps, an outstretch ed hand, the flash of a strobe light, a usually hasty kiss, another flash —that’s all there really was to it to the bystanders. and fifth-year men flouted the legend of freshmen having the most beautiful dates by produc ing a clan of beauties seldom be fore equaled in these parts. Will Osborne and orchestra were furnishing music for the evening. Comments on his profi- That simple procedure, however, c iency at the job ranged from ex- was infinitely more to the hundreds tremely good to mediocre or worse. Vivian Castleberry, women’s editor of The Bat talion was all smiles as she received the first honorary editorship of The Battalion at Friday night’s annual Press Club Awards Banquet. Co editor Clayton Selph, center, presented the cer tificate of appreciation for performance of her varied duties, while Co-editor Dave Coslett waited his turn to give her an electric mixer from the staff. By DEAN REED Battalion Managing Editor Mrs. Vivian Castleberry stole the show at Friday night’s annual Press Club Awards Banquet, and it was a tough show to steal. The dark-haired young lady who is The Battalion’s women’s editor became that papers first official honorary editor-in-chief at the ban quet. She was presented with a scroll signed by the president of the college, manager of Student Publications, and editor of The Battalion. In addition, the modest wife of student Curtis Castleberry pick ed up an electric mixer as a token of the staff’s appreciation of her work. She was also one of the few women in the history of the Press Club to receive the bronze, first-year key. Main speaker at the banquet was Houston Harte, publisher of the San Angelo Standard-Times and Evening Times and numerous other state-papers. Harte, author of the book “In Our Image,” spoke on the value of the Bible to the newspap erman, strictly as a source of mat erial in addition to spiritual aid. Harte entered the banquet room, in the MSC Ballroom, dressed in well-worn khakis and an old hat. Assistant Emcee Fred B. Walker spotted the late-arriver and decided to “let the old man have a free meal . . . he’s a former editor of The Daily Texan.” Few people in the audience knew the main speaker was the “bum” who crashed the party un til he was introduced by Chancel lor Gibb Gilchrist. Harte was ac companied from San Angelo by R. L. “Bill” Billingsley, co-editor of The Battalion in 1949-50. Bill ingsley now works for the Stand ard-Times. John E. Whitmore, Battalion managing editor, received the newspaper’s award most valuable staff man. Whitmore received a scroll from the editors and a cigar ette case and lighter. Joel Austin, Battalion city editor, was presented a scroll signed by the co-editors and by Mayor Ei-- nest Langford, lauding him for his civic work in promoting Col lege Station news coverage. Russell Hagens, advertising re presentative of The Battalion, re ceived a pencil-lighter for selling the most advertising. J. W. Hall, superintendent of the A&M Press who will retire in the Fall, was given an electric grinder, pre sented by Student Publications staffmen in appreciation of his cooperation. Batt editors presented E. L. An- gell, assistant to the chancellor, with a belated annual Battalion Award, given each year to men who have performed outstanding service to the college. Angell, who was unable to at tend the Student-Faculty Banquet in January where the awards were presented, received a certificate reading “ . . . for the efficient ad ministration of his present duties and for his past work in helping to found and guide the development of A&M’s far-reaching Student Ac tivities and Student Publications program.” The program of the banquet, ex cluding Harte’s speech, consisted almost entirely of uninhibited horseplay. With Walker and Bat talion Co-editor Dave Coslett lead ing the way at the main mike, members of the publications staff gave the over-260 audience quite a few laughs. Special music was furnished by two groups, a freshman orchestra and a string aggregation, led by Roddy Peeples. Guests of honor at the banquet included former editors and staff members of The Battalion, now in its 73rd year of publica tion. . President M. T. Harrington pre sented awards to the Press Club members. Watches were given to retiring editors Clayton Selph and Dave Coslett, The Battalion; Roy Nance, Aggieland ’51; Bob McDan iel, The Engineer; Herman Gollob and George Charlton, The Commen tator; Jim Tom House, The Agri culturist; and Harry Doran, The Southwestern Veterinarian. of participants, most of whom had dreamed of it for four years. It was the symbolic trip through the Senior Ring. . . the highlight of the highlight of the year—the Senior Ring Dance. Strictly for seniors, Saturday night was strictly worth the ex pectations. It began officially in Duncan Hall at 6:30 with the Ring Dance Banquet. Col. Joe Davis, for mer assistant commandant, gave the main speech of the banquet, emphasizing the job of A&M in supplying citizen soldier's to meet every crisis. Mrs. Dell Bauer, Senior Ring clerk at the Registrar’s Office, spoke of the history and meaning of the Senior Ring. She was at tending her first Senior Ring Ban quet and, later, her first Senior “Liltin,” Martha Tilton drew.a good round of applause with sev- eral appearances both at the dance and at the banquet. The Decca re cording star managed several laughs, too, with a repeated habit of forgetting the words to the song she happened to be singing. She blamed the incidents on being “spoiled” on radio appearences where she always had sheet music to consult. Her personality could have won over even a hostile audience. She had no trouble at all with the one she found. Her accom panist, though, who answered generally to the name Charlie, stole a little of the thunder with a vocal rendition and a syncopat ed trip over the keys for a boog ie-woogie number of some note. Weather-wise, the night was per- Ring Dance. She has handled Sen- feet. A cloudless sky emphasized contest to the Aggies. Falk was true to his word as an official report, substantiating the remark, was handed out Saturday. It was the first piece of a diamond title for A&M since they won the entire pennant themselves in 1943 and it brought the Mar oon and White total in that sport to four outright wins and 2 shared, both with Texas. Plans for the playoff were released yes terday after an agreement with the Univer sity of Arizona, A&M’s playoff opponent, was reached. The Aggies were very much the under dogs when they raced onto Kyle Field to start fthe second and last game. Texas, NCAA baseball champions in 1949 and 1950, had “too much power” to be silenced for long. At least that was the general concensus. Only once this season had Texas been limited to less than three runs in a ball game and the general opinion of Tankersley was that he was a good pitcher, but too erratic. The skeptics had the drivers seat until the third inning—then the big righthander put the screws to the Steers. Tankersley gave up a single in the first, second and third innings but then retired 13 men in a row before lead-off man Eddie Bur rows reached second base on an Aggie error in the eighth. Burrows still there when the inning ior Ring orders exclusively for the past 25 years. During the banquet, Col. H. L. Boatner presented Who’s Who keys to the 24 students chosen earlier in the year for the honor. Dare Keelan, Senior Class president, was toastmaster. At the Ring Dance which fol lowed in the Grove, proud fourth a moon just short of being full. That moon, coupled with a soft, cool breeze and the engrained ro mantic air of the occasion put the finishing touches to the whole af fair. There seemed to be but one com plaint—it was all over too fast. But it will be remembered for a long, long time. was was over. The Bigfiam Homers Longhorns collected their first hit since the third inning Avhen .430-batting Chile Bigham led off the ninth with a home run. It was a face-saving blow for Texas as they had never been blanked through the season. Outfielder Harry Bengtson beat out a bunt a man later to become the last Longhorn to reach base in 1951. A&M jumped into a never-relin quished lead in the second inning when catcher A1 Ogletree, collect ing his first of three hits, doubled home Henry Candelari who had previously walked. In the third Wallace scored after doubling, when Joe Ecrette singled and Yale Lary hit into a double (See TANKERSLEY, Page 3) Rec Banquet Set There will be a banquet for all recreational clubs tonight at the Grove at 6:10 p.m. Alf members of the handball, soccer, softball, weightlifting, and gym nastic clubs are invited to at tend. Valedictorian at Homo Monroe Program Salutes Aggies Vaughn Monroe’s “Camel Car avan” saluted A&M Satm-day night on the weekly Columbia Broad casting System show. Singing and playing “The Twelfth Man” and the “Spirit of Aggieland,” Monroe’s group laud ed the college in its 75th Anniver sary year. A study in studying—a night in the life of Wil liam G. Adkins, valedictorian of the June grad uating class. Bill hits the books in a manner which gave him his 2.92 grade point ratio, while wife Jane reads with four-year-old daughter, Pamelia. Adkins, 26-year-old Air Force veteran, completed his rural sociology curriculum in three years. He and his family live in Vet Village. The highest honor graduate is a member of three honorary fraternities, past president of the R. S. Club, and a former Battalion staff writer.