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PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
The Basic Division-
First of A Series
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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.