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Number 160: Volume 51
The Battalion
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COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1951
Second Installment
On Basic Division—
Today on Page Two
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Tank Force Counters
Reds on Eastern Front
Tokyo, May 23—(#>—Tank - led
United Nations forces today coun
terattacked battered Chinese across
the East-Central front.
Jumping off behind mass air and
artillery bombardments, American
tank and infantrymen recaptured
■»Hangye, key highway junction on
the front.
The allied force ground steadily
ahead. It was led by U. S. Second
Division troops who had broken
3 Rs Causes
Veto of State
Textbook Bill
Austin, May 23—DP)—“Reading
and ’riting and ’rithmetic” was
what the governor had in mind yes
terday when he vetoed a textbook
bill.
Gov. Shivers said he was vetoing
the bill because “I feel it may of
fer an opportunity to reject the
time-honored teaching of the three
R’s in elementary education and
substitute therefor other forms of
teaching which have not as yet
proved as effective.”
The bill would have authorized
the State Board of Education to
combine subjects on recommenda
tion of the State Textbook Commit
tee and State Commissioner of
Education.
Its author, Sen. Pat Bullock of
Colorado City, explained that it
would allow schools to use text
books combining two subjects such
as spelling and penmanship.
Bullock introduced the bill at
the request of the State Elemen-
fciry Teachers Association of Tex
as.
“They endorsed it 100 per cent,”
he said. “They thought they could
do a better job with the combina
tion textbooks.
“Even now certain subjects are
taught together, subjects such as
geography and history and spell
ing and penmanship, but the teach-
trs use a textbook on each separate
tubject.” '
’26 Aggie Graduate
Dies in Houston
Jack C. Jones, an Aggie graduate
jn ME in 1926, died yesterday in
^Houston.
Jones, 45, had been with the
Humble Pipe Line Company for 23
years and at the time of his death
was general superintendent of that
company.
Until 1939, Jones worked on var
ious engineering assignments for
the company. In January of that
year he was made district pipe
line superintendent at Pampa.
From 1942 to 1949, he was assist
ant division pipe line superinten
dent at Midland.
He became superintendent of
field operations for the company
in 1949 and general superintendent
in 1950.
MSG Meetings
Groups who have meetings
regularly scheduled in the MSC
and who plan to cancel those
meetings this week and/or next
week should go by the front
office of the Center and check
with Betty Bolander.
the back of the Reds’ second spring
offensive.
Chinese still held the offensive
only on the Eastern front, on the
right flank of the Second Division.
Beat Off Attack
There allies’ forces beat off two
strong attacks during the night.
Each action was fought against
1,000 Chinese southeast of Soksa.
The Reds had cut the main lat
eral highway near that point 25
miles south of Parallel 38 and 25
miles inland from the Sea of Japan.
But allies rushed in to check the
Red advance in turn cut the Com
munist supply route Tuesday by
seizing a key pass.
One officer said “a hell of a
fight” was raging around Soksa.
Across the Western front war-
plapes harried Chinese retreating
north and east of Seoul. U. N.
ground forces gained up to four
miles Wednesday morning. A tank
column recaptured Changgong, im
portant highway town 25 miles
northeast of Seoul.
An Eighth Army spokesman said
allied forces cleaned out the Reds
Foreign Study
Offered to 700
American Grads
The United States Govern
ment is providing opportuni
ties for more than 700 Ameri
cans to undertake graduate
study or research abroad next
year under the Fulbright Act,
Kenneth Holland, President of the
Institute of International Educa
tion, announced today.
Competitions are now open for
awards for study abroad under this
program during the 1952-1953 aca
demic year in Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Burma, Egypt, France,
Greece, India, Iran, Italy, the Neth
erlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand,
Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The Institute of International
Education is the private agency
designated by the Department of
State to receive applications and
recommend candidates for grad
uate study.
The awards wall enable young
people in all fields of graduate
study or research, as well as those
qualified in certain non-academic
fields including fine arts, drama
and music, to study in foreign in
stitutions and universities.
Interested students presently en
rolled in college should secure
further information and applica
tions from their campus Fulbright
Program Adviser, before Oct. 15,
1951. Persons not em’olled in a
college or university in the Spring
or Fall of 1951 should secure such
data directly from the Institute
of International Education, 2 West
45 Street, New Yoi'k 19, New York.
The last date on which applications
will be issued is Sept. 30.
from their bridgehead south of the
Pukhan and Hongchon Rivers.
These had stretched from Chang
gong to Hongchon, 50 miles east of
Seoul.
Recaptured Hangye is 10 miles
northeast of Hongchon on the road
to Inje wheer the Red offensive
jumped off a week ago.
Except on the extreme flanks,
the strong U. N. counterattack
moved steadily ahead under a
bright sun. Tanks and infantry
units drove through valleys strewn
with Chinese dead. They found
few live Chinese in early stages
of the counterattack.
Fighting Is Heavy
Field dispatches said heavy
fighting was confined to the con
fused Soksa salient. Army spokes
man described the situation as very
fluid.
The area was reported swarm
ing with Chinese.
U. N. troops were shifted to
check Reds streaming into the
area. They cut off Communist
sparheads by capturing a strate
gic pass north of Soksa. The pass
runs through the 5,000 foot high
Kyebang ridge. It is the key ap
proach into the wild and rugged
region around Soksa.
Light Opposition
The pass was taken against rel
atively light opposition. U. N. of
ficers said its capture was perhaps
the most important development on
the front Tuesday.
Another U. N. tank-infantry
force ran into stiff opposition in
a northward counterattack. The
allies hacked their way through the
Chinese and the mountains for a
gain of nearly a mile.
Fighter planes aided armored
forces in hunting down the Reds.
Altogether U.N. planes flew ap
proximately 1,000 sorties Wednes
day. Pilots reported killing 1,700
Reds in front line attacks. It was
the hightest toll reported by the
Air Force in days.
The Reds put on a one plane
attack of their own. It strafed
Allied lines on the Western front
near Munsan, 21 miles northwest of
Seoul.
First Game With Arizona
Now Going On In Tucson
Wildcats Have Won 28, Lost Only 2
:
is 28 wins and two losses.
The Arizona Wildcats proved last year to NCAA repeat
ing champion, the University of Texas, that anytime a South
west Conference representative meets an Arizona University
baseball club, plenty of trouble can be expected.
Many partican and bi-partisan observers believed that
the Longhorns were extremely lucky to eke out a 7-to-6 vicr
tory in the first contest and even the 9-to-3 slamming of the
Wildcats in the last game. Arizona had taken the second game
5-to-4.
Up to date material has been unavailable for report, but
the Arizona record through its first twenty games can be
recorded.
The Wildcats opened the season with a trip to the West
Top Spring Sports Awards
Presented at Barbecue
Pat Hubert
• . . started the opening play
off game against Arizona tl. in
Tucson today. His season record
is 10 wins, 1 loss while his con
ference mark is 6-1.
He Shouldn’t Have
St. Joseph, Mo.—DP)—A trip to
church cost Earl Eugene Davis a
three-year term in state prison.
While at the First Methodist
Church, Davis stole a chime clock.
Moslems in Iran
‘Boo’ US, Britain
Tehran, Iran, May 23—DP)—Ten
sion mounted today in crisis-tom
Tehran after some 30,000 Mos
lems — booing the United States
and Britain—vowed yesterday to
wage holy war if need be to na
tionalize the nation’s rich oil re-
soui-ces.
An air of crisis gripped the Iran
ian capital as police and troops, on
a 24-hour alert, patrolled the
streets in tmcks and on horseback.
A dozen tanks roamed the city,
ready for action.
A resolution declaring “strong
hatred” of the United States and
Britain was cheered wildly at yes
terday’s mass rally, called by Mos
lem religious leaders and Premier
Mohammed Mossadegh’s national
bloc.
The cheering reached fever pitch
when black-bearded Chams Ghan-
atabadi, leader of the militant Mu-
James Jennings, left and Calvin Beckman are
holding the 22” loving cup which was recently
presented to the Civil Engineering department
for displaying the best Open House Day exhibit.
Gus Pape, Ish Callaway, Bob Sewell, Wayland
D. Oradat, Joe Schultz, Vonnie Pearson and Joe
Benson were) several of the students who helped
made the winning exhibit possible through their
work on the exhibit and during Open House Day.
jaheddin Islam (fighters for Is
lam), declared:
“All loyal Moslems will throw
the British bandits into the Persian
Gulf, if they do not leave the
country.”
Thousands of Moslem religious
banners weer waved in approval
when another speaker, parliament
member Hossein Makki, declared
a recent statement by the U. S.
State Department was “a stab in
the back of the Iranian nation.”
The State Department, which has
urged moderation on both sides of
the dispute, has been accused by
Iranians of backing the British
stand against nationalization.
Makki is Mossadegh’s right hand
man in parliament and secretary of
the joint Senate-Majlis oil nation
alization board.
Rally New Move
The rally—called by Ayatullah
Seyed Abolghassem Kashani, one
of Iran’s leading priests—was the
latest move to step up pressure
against any British resistance to
government seizure of the British-
owned Anglo-Iranian oil company.
The law nationalizing the giant
firm was enacted more than three
weeks ago, but the government has
given no practical hint of how it
intends to carry it out.
The resolution, which drew loud
cheei’s, contained these points:
• “We hereby declare to the
whole world the unbi’eakable will
(See MOSLEMS, Page 4)
By FRED WALKER
Battalion Sports Editor
By, the time that you read this story, the Texas Aggie
baseball team, co-champions of the Southwest Conference,
will have either won or lost the first of a three game series
which will decide the NCAA District 6 titlist and representa
tive to the Omaha playoffs.
A&M sent lead-off batter and All-Southwest Conference
Shortstop Guy Wallace to the plate at 4 p.m. (CST) today,
on the diamond of the University of Arizona in Tucson.
At an elevation of 2000 feet above sea level and amid
a temperature in the neighborhood of 100 degrese, Pat Hu
bert, who has a sensational record of 10 wins, one loss,
took the mound to face a team whose combined batting aver-
•*age is above the magical .300 and whose won and lost record Coast where they met and walloped San Diego State, 23-5.
Three games were then played with
the University of Colorado and
Arizona won all three by the re
spective scores of 31-11, 10-3 and
10-4.
Another sojurn was then made
to the Pacific Coast Conference
and the invaders from Tucson met
five far West mines and won eight
contests.
Arizona won its first two games
on that trip from UCLA, 11-8 and
8-5. In their next contest, how
ever, the Wildcats took it on the
chin as they were belted by Col
lege of the Pacific, 10-to-3.
Sweet Revenge
It was sweet revenge for the
Tucsonites the next day, though,
as they slipped past the same Tig
ers diamondmen, 5-to-2. It was at
this point that the Wildcats start
ed a 20-game winning streak be
fore the University of Souther?
California was to drop them, on,
their 28th try.
San Jose provided the opposition
next as Arizona went up and down
the tip of Southern California like
a forest fire. The Crimson and
Navy scourge from the Great
American Desert bowled over the
Spartans 9-to-5 and 4-to-12.
San Francisco University and
the University of Califomia were
the next to fall before the Wild
cats—who were fast living up to
their name. The Dons went down
7-3 and the Golden Bears were
clipped 3-1.
By RAY HOLBROOK
Battalion Sports Staff
Outstanding athletic achieve
ment was honored last night at the
annual Brazos County A&M Club’s
barbecue honoring all Spring-
sports participants.
Darrow Hooper, who broke a rec
ord almost every time he pushed
the shot this Spring and Tommy
Comstock, standout swimmer were
Profs Offered
Chance to Get
Advance Study
Four faculty fellowships
have been offered to A&M by
the Ford Foundation, Dr. Ide
P. Trotter, dean of the grad
uate school announced today.
“The program,” Dr. Trotter
says, “is not intended to provide
for the completion of doctorate
study. However, such proposals
will be considered, provided this
appears to be the best possible
preparation for the development of
the teaching capacities of the in
dividual concerned. With the ap
proval of the committee, work may
be done at any institution.”
Present and prospective staff
members are eligible. No limit has
been placed on age or rank, though
preference will be given to young
er members of the faculty, Dr.
Trotter points out. “The applicant
must be able and willing to return
to his present or prospective teach
ing position for the academic year
1952-53,” he says.
The program has been designed
primarily for the strengthening
of college teaching.
“The committee making the se
lections will be more interested in
the implication of the applicant’s
program to undergraduate teach
ing than in the implication of the
program for any graduate degree
or research project,” the dean of
the graduate school says.
Stipends for the faculty fellow
ships will be comparable to the
applicant’s 1951-52 salary plus
amounts necessary for travel and
tuition wherever appropriate.
The applications must be in Dr.
Trotters office by June 13, he said.
presented the Lipscomb-Colson
award as “most valuable player”
of the track team and the Jimmy
Kiel trophy as an outstanding
swimmer and student respectively.
Ronnie Dwyer, freshman basket
ball player, was presented an
award by Reed Wipprecht for the
best percentage of free throws.
Other basketball awards were pre
sented earlier this year to the
tri-champion varsity team.
Simpson Gets Award
Pole vaulter Jack Simpson re
ceived a special award as captain
of the 1951 track team. The swim
ming team presented gifts to their
coaches, Art Adamson and Emil
Mamaliga and to Dean of Engin
eering Howard Barlow “for being
of the greatest help to the team
during the season.”
Coach John Floyd px-esented the
varsity and fresbman basketball
players to the group, estimated at
2 Dead, 12 Hurt
As Commie Fire
Hits US Ships
Washington, May 23 —
(AP)— Communist artillery
fire from the Korean shore
hit the battleship New Jersey
and the destroyer Brinkley
Bass, killing two men and wound
ing 12, the Navy said yesterday.
In the 24 hours since the battle
ship was hit thex-e has been al
most a constant duel between
Amex-ican ships offshox-e and Red
batteries on the land.
One shell hit each vessel, the
Navy said, with “no matex-ial dam
age” to tbe New Jersey and only
“minor damage” to the Bass.
The hits were scox-ed on the New
Jersey Monday (Korean time) and
on the destroyer Sunday. Both were
at anchor bombarding the Red-held
port of Wonsan on the Kox-ean East
coast when the shells struck. Both
slipped anchor and got out of x-ange
but the shelling was soon resumed.
The spokesman said that fire
from the enemy shore, heretofoi'e
rare, has been on the increase for
five days.
about 300, and the Lipscomb-Col
son awai’d for most valuable play
er and captain were re-awax-ded
to Buddy Davis and Jewell McDow
ell. John DeWitt had previously
been presented the Reed Wipprecht
trophy for best percentage of free
thx-ows.
Golf, Tennis Teams
Gayther Nowell iixtroduced the
golf team and tennis coach W. M.
Dowell presented members and let-
termen of the SWC’s third ranking
tennis team.
Col. E. V. Vaden presented the
fencing lettermen and Sgt. Reese
introduced the rifle team and its
outstanding members. Sgt. Dailey
presented the pistol team.
The freshman baseball team was
introdxxced by Wally Moon, fresh
man coach.
Col. Frank Anderson introduced
all members of the varsity and
fish track teams and told of their
undefeated season which was cli
maxed by winning the SWC champ
ionship.
W. N. “Flop” Colson, chairman
for the program, briefly reviewed
what has been a banner year in
A&M sports with SWC champions
in ti’ack, basketball and baseball.
Austin Losses
To Be Repaid
Students who suffered person
al propexly loss during the
Corps Trip to Austin may col
lect partial repayment for their
losses in the Student Activities
Office in Goodwin beginning at
8 tomorrow morning.
Joe Johnson, chaii'man of the
Student Senate Better A&M-TU
Relations Committee, announced
the payments today specifying
that only students who have
filed prior claim of loss will be
eligible for repayment.
Students were asked to file
such claims shoxtly following
the report of the numerous loss
es last Fall.
Claimants will receive an al-
loted percentage of the value of
their loss, Johnson said. The
money is coming from funds
collected from each military
unit on the campus.
Any money not claimed by
Sunday, June 3 will revert to the
Twelfth Man Scholarship Fund,,
Johnson concluded.
Students, Profs Promote A&M
By ANDY ANDERSON
Battalion Campus Editor
One of the finest student publi
cations that has been published in
this institution in many a moon is
ready for disti’ibution—The Engi-
neei\
Fi'om the three-color front cover
to the advertisement on the back
coveiy the magazine is ci'ammed
full of features involving some
phase of engineex-ing or the stu
dent life at A&&M.
Editor R. W. “Tex” McDaniel
has presented a vivid picture of
A&M to the prospective student
of A&M and in outlining his
purpose says, “If this magazine
is the deciding factor for just
one prospective student, then we
will consider that our efforts
will have been a success.”
Messages from Deaxx of Engi
neering, H. W. Barlow; Pi’esident
of the College, Dr. M. T. Harring
ton; Dean of the College, C. Cle
ment Fi’ench; and Dean of Men,
W. L. Penbei’thy extend personal
invitations to high school senior
boys of Texas.
Dean of the Basic Division, John
R. Bei’trand, explains th#. setup
and function of the summer pre-
ti’aining center at Junction. He
also explains the oi’ganization of
the Basic Division and how it will
apply to each new student of A&M.
Colonels E. W. Napier and H. L.
Boatner, PAS&T and Commandant
and PMS&T respectively, fuxmish
the future Aggie with the militaxy
point of view and how ROTC will
affect their life while they will be
at A&&M.
What an Aggie graduate does
as a former student upon grad
uation is explained by J. B.
“Dick” Hervey, executive secre
tary of the Association of For
mer Students.
A full page picture of Aggieland
as viewed from about 750 feet
above the golf course and exter
ior and interior shots of the MSC
as well as an article on the Cen
ter by Russell C. Wright give the
prospective student a view of the
campus and some of the highlights
of the methods and operations of
the “Poor Man’s Shamrock.”
W. R. Horsley, director of the
placement office, explains the need
for engineers in an article about
his depai'tment.
How a student may get aid
through the scholarship and fellow
ship fund, opportunity awards and
many other awards and px-izes is
presented in an article by E. E.
McQuillen, director of the Develop
ment Fund.
What it means to be in the
Cadet Corps is presented by
Cadet Colonel A. D. Martin, Jr.
Jes D. Mclver, president of the
Engineers Council explains the
purpose of the council and how
it coordinates the student and the
school of engineering.
Some of the highlights, benefits
and other points of the depart
ments in the school of engineering
ai’e explained by diffex-ent student
engineex-s for the publication.
The center spi’ead is devoted to
athletics at A&M and shows SWC
x'ecord setter Dai’row Hooper, All-
Conference shortstop and baseball
team captain Guy Wallace, “Bruis
in’ ” Bob Smith in a touchdown
jaunt against SMU and pictures
of the track, swimming and bas
ketball pai’ticipants.
C. G. “Spike” White, assistant
dean of men for activities, explains
how the entex-tainment for the
school is obtained and the func
tion of the Singing Cadets and
other entertainment gx-oups on the
campus.
All in all, the magazine is one
of the finest published in respect
to makeup, editing and typography
and Editor McDaniel should feel
px*oud he has done this much to
ward influencing the high school
senior to come to A&M,
Slaughter House
Coming back to home gi’ounds,
Aifzona slaughtered its cousin
from Tempo, Arizona State Col
lege, 11-2 and 10-0.
Even the Aniiy Air Force felt
the impact of Arizona’s big guns
as Davis-Monthan Air Foi’ce Base
was blasted twice, 10-to-0 and
14-to-0.
Still feeling the need for runs,
inns and more inns, the Wildcats
went to Albuquei’que and annihi
lated the University of New Mexi
co in two games, 18-3 and 10-2.
They might have been first on
the land, air and sea, but the
Marine Corps wasn’t fii'st in base
ball with the Univex-sity of Ariz
ona. The “gyrenes” from a San
Diego base landed in Arizona, but
their fi-ontal assault was checked
once 7-to-6, and they never estab
lished a beachhead in the second
game as the host nine tore them
apart 6-to-0,
Seven More
From there, although the re
sults are unavailable for publica
tion at this time, the Wildcats
went oxx to win seven moi'e with
out a loss before falling to South
ern Cal last week. But then just
for another warm-up exei’cise, the
Arizonians whipped the fly-boys
from Davis-Monthan for the third
time.
Arizona suffered a bad break
when it was leaxmed that their No.
1 shortstop, Chet Vassey and their
top hurler, Brad Tolson, would not
be eligible for NCAA competition
since he had competed as a fresh
man. Tolson, who had won ten and
lost none, had the reputable scalps
of San Diego State, UCLA, Cali
fornia and Ainzona State among
his collection.
Not only could he pitch, but Tol
son collected nine hits in 19 trips
to the plate for an average of
.473. He also scored six times and
batted in seven x-uns.
(See CATS, Page 3)
Bradley Skeptical
Of Russian Intent
Washington, May 23—DP)—Gen.
Omar Bradley said yesterday he
wished he could be sure Russia
realizes how destructive atomic
bombs are.
Bradley told a Senate inquiry in
to the removal of Gen. MacAidhur
that “We must all realize that Rus
sia has the bomb” and the planes
to deliver them in event of war.