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I nd ton. Hilde- ge Station. , and Leon- b. 45c is 37e g. 23c g. 29c 22c ig 31c Ik 15c hi. 15c is. 25c is. 25c i!9e g. 21c g. 49c LE . 27c 1). 23c 45c ^199 * 75c It. 19c Is 25c 1). 29c 5t College Station’s Official Newspaper; Circulated Daily To 90% of Local Residents nni ji JL if © Ihe Battalion PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE America Is Not Beyond Attach. Remember Pearl Harbor Number 58: Volume 52 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951 Price Five Cents Communists Hint Only 5,000 U. S. Prisoners Held Leo the Man Munsan, Korea, Dec. 7 — DPI — Communists hinted at Panmunjom floday that the Reds hold no more than half of the 10,000 Americans 'listed as missing in Korea. | The report came from a Chinese ^correspondent outside the trace lent where Allied negotiators, in a move observers said is aimed at Vetting a truce quickly, agreed to "discuss withdrawal of foreign troops before an armistice is sign ed. But they won’t talk about it until the proper time. One Half Chu Chi-Ping, a Red Chinese cor respondent covering the armistice talks, said he knew of no war in which more than half of the sol diers reported missing were prison ers of war. “I do not see why the Korean war would be different from other wars in this respect,” Chu said. The Communist newsman reiter ated that the Red command has compiled data on Allied prisoners . raid will be ready with it when ne gotiators take up the question of '...'prisoner exchange. None in China . Other Red correspondents said all Allied prisoners of war are in North Korean camps and none have been taken to China. They said all big camps are near the Manchurian border and that all prisoners have been issued war winter clothing. Maj. Gen. Henry I. Modes, U. N. negotiator, told Communist dele gates Friday the Allies will talk about withdrawing troops from Ko rea after negotiators see eye to ?ye on enforcing an armistice and exchanging prisoners of war. The sudden reversal of Allied policy came as subcommitteemen wrangled endlessly at Panmunjom over policing a trace. Road Blocks C One of the key roadblocks was ' Allied insistence on rotating troops and replacing equipment and.am- fj, munition. The delegates also were ■via. long way from agreement on in- *Spection behind the lines and on Communist insistence on building airfields during an armistice. Until Friday the U.N. command adamantly had refused even to dis cuss plans for pulling troops out of Korea until an armistice is sign ed. Allied negotiators held the matter was political and shoqld be taken up at a formal peace confer ence. There was no immediate reaction from members of the Communist ;ubcommittee trying to negotiate a settlement of agenda item three —supervision of the truce. The delegates meet again at 11 a.m. Saturday (9 p.m. EST Friday). No Agreement Modes emphasized that the Unit ed Nations could not agree to the withdrawal of troops during early stages of an armistice. The subcommittees on supervi sion of the truce are deadlocked on three major points: 1. The Allies want to freeze the size of forces in Korea, permitting the replacement • and rotation of men and equipment. The Commu nists insist on a complete freeze. The U.N. command says that would amount to withdrawal by attrition. 2. The Allies want to ban air field construction, The Reds, who haven’t a single usable base in North Korea, want to build and repair. 3. The Allies want joint U.N.- Communist teams to check all sea, air and ground ports of entry to prevent a Red buildup during a truce, plus unlimited aerial obser vation over all Korea. The Com munists want inspections by repre sentatives of neutral nations only at specified ports of entry. Flora Wants to Be an Aggie But One Problem Faces Her Flora wants to be an Aggie. In fact she has a lot of fun doing the things the Aggies do—she likes to march with the units of the corps and meet the students. To sum it all up, she likes A&M. The only hitch it that Flora is a dog—a Collie. And be fore she adopted the Aggies she was taught several tricks by her master. In a few months her master, T. H. Terrill of the CE 1 department, is going to leave the college. But before he goes he would like to give the students the dog—if they want her. He says the selling job is going to be to the students—not to ; Flora because she is sold on the cadets. For the people who saw the TU game, Flora is the dog that marched with the band and registered her vocal protest to Bevo. Senators Back Letters to Exes InForeignDuty Lion On Program For Lion’s Club The mean looking individual above is none other than Leo (the Lion) Newman, who is scheduled to appear on the Lion's Club wrestling program one week from tonight in the Consolidated High School Gym. Believe it or not, Leo is a student and a writer, his publicity man says. Col. Ghaleb Will Discuss Anglo-Egyptian Tinder Box Leo (the Lion) Newman will be among the grant and gi’oaners here next week for the Lion’s Club to show the college folks some real moaning and groaning as he and his buddies put on, an exhibition match in CHS Gym. An all-professional program is on deck for the night, and some of the big-name wrestlers in the Southwest will be on hand to give out with the rough stuff on the mat. ies. He worked there as a hard rock gold miner, saved his money for several years, and then enroll ed in Queen’s University. Worked Through College Aided by an athletic scholar ship, A1 managed to work his way through college. While at Queen’s, A1 played football, basketball, hockey, and the rough Indian game of LaCrosse. But his chief accomplishment was in winning the inter-collegiate Perhaps the most colorful and I heavyweight wrestling title. In 1940 A1 decided to turn pro- Students .and residents of the community will have a chance to get a first hand insight into the problems .confronting Anglo-Egyp- tians relations tonight. Col. Abdel Hamid Bey Ghaleb, Egyptian military attache, will ad dress an open meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Ball Room of the MSC. He arrived on the campus this morning after a flight from Washington. The talk is sponsored by The Battalion, The UN Club, the his tory department, and the MSC Di rectorate. The organizations are being coordinated by Tom Roun tree, chairhian of the MSC House Committee. England’s side of the argument will be given later in the month, when J. T. Henderson, consul in Houston, will address a similar group. At present his schedule is free about a week before the Christmas Holidays start. The colonel will present the offi- cialcial Egyptian attitude and will attack the problem as he sees it from the standpoint of- a member of the military. Quarterback Films Tonight W Color films of the Aggie vic tory over the invaders from the “Forty Acres” will be shown Friday at the final meeting of The Battalion Quarterback Club. The meeting will begin at 7:30 tonight, in the Assembly Hall. Halfback Glenn Lippman, , who turned in an outstanding performance in this final game of his college career, will nar rate the movie. With this film the Quarter back Club ends the 1951 sea son. The next meeting will be held following the first Aggie game of the season in 1952. Southwest Bankers Attend A&M Meet More than 175 bankers from Tex as, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, will attend the Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School for Com mercial Bankers, to be held here Dec. 9-12. The school will be held in the MSC. “This is a real school, not a convention or a meeting,” C. N. Shepardson, dean of the School of Agriculture and general chairman of the school, said today. “Class sessions will be devoted to specific farmer-banker problems,” he said. f The school will bring together top-flight bankers and agricultur al men of A&M to discuss trends ’ in national agricultural policies, ^provisions of landlord-tenant agreements, farm adjustments re sulting from mechanization and conservation practices, as a basis for loans. Injured Three Students Over Past Holiday Three A&M students were criti cally injured in automobile acci dents during the Thanksgiving hol idays reported the Dean of Men’s office. Billy R. Shafer, Sophomore Civ il Engineering student from San Benito, suffered severe injuries when the car he was riding in hit a bridge and crashed in a creek near La Grange. Shafer received several broken ribs and a hole was torn through his stomach. The surgeon had to remove his spleen and until Monday the doctors thought he was not going to live. His father, mother, and brother together gave him seven transfus ions and the doctors say he is now out of danger. He is in the La Grange hospital. Viru S.' Rabb, Sophomore Busi ness Administration major from Austin, received a broken leg be tween the knee and thigh when his car hit a truck near Austin. His leg will have to remain in a cast for several months his father said. Joe N. Pyle, Civil Engineering Senibr, 1802 Hildebrand, San An tonio, suffered an injured back in an accident near San Antonio. His physician said that he will have to stay in bed for at least two weeks. Two of the students, Shafer and Rabb, are suffering such grave in juries that they will be unable to return to college this semester. Rabb’s father said that perhaps Ws son will be able to return in February. But Billy Shafer is struggling to just recover from his injuries. The doctor said that Shafer would have to remain in bed for two months. Prairie View Choir To Present Show The Prairie View College Choir will present a 4(1 minute program at the annual Kiwanis Banquet Monday night at 7 in the Ballroom of. the MSC. Phil Goode, professor in the de partment of business admimstra- tion, will be toastmaster. The ban quet, is held annually for the in stallation of officers. Tickets may be purchased from Mack Thomas, assistant to the di rector of the MSC, and from Ki wanis members. During the past several years he has served as an advisor to several of the committees of the UN and during the war he was the execu tive, officer of the minister of na tional defense in Cairo. Since that time he has been the military at tache from Egypt to England and the U.S. Colonel Ghaleb agreed to come to College Station after his ambas sador, Kamil Abdid Rahim, was unable to attend. At the same time the ambassador was invited to visit the college, the group invited the English Ambassador. A need for hearing both sides of the controversial subject came when members of the sponsoring organizations decided the second hand information being sent out through regular news channels was not adequate. The group saw a need for presenting both sides of the question to the general public with an eye to a large majority of the student body becoming officers. Phi Eta Sigma Initiation For New Fall Members Twenty-five new members will mour, Michael Sliman, Ray Ulrich, be initiated into the A&M chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, national fresh man honor society, Monday night, at 7:30 in the Assembly Room of the MSC. Requirements for membership in Phi Eta Sigma are a grade point ratio of 2.5 or better, and no grade below C. Initiations are held twice a year, in the spring and fall. Nineteen of Monday’s initiates are men who were invited to mem bership because of their grades for last year’s spring term. The other six were eligible because of the fall term, but were unable to attend the spring initiation cere mony. New members are as follows: Stanley Angrist, James Aid, Char les Baker, Jerrell Bennett, Col quitt Bramblett, James DeLee, James Dowell, Richard French, Perry Hector, Robert Holland, Her bert Lackshin, Harvey Lewis James Pinson, Richard Porter, James Sey- Clive Williams, Joe Williams. The other initiates are John Cameron, Allen Cunningham, Louis Little, William Rowland, Frank Way, and Royce Younger. All freshmen who made a 2.0 average or over on the preliminary grade reports have been invited to attend the initiation ceremony. Ide Trotter is president of the Phi Eta Sigma Chapter here. well-known wrestler in the group will be Leo (the Lion) Newman. Friends say Leo got his nickname from his love for lions, and others say he got it from his imitations of lions dn the ring. But surpris ing though it may be, Leo can wrestle besides put on a good show for the audience. Lives In Boat House Leo lives in a boat house that he once piloted to the mouth of the Mississippi. The house is on dry land now though, and it over looks Leo’s favorite stream, Old Man River. He is also a person of the finer arts. He is known by his friends to be a student and a writer. He often sits for hours, so it is said, and writes at his typewriter as he watches the Mississippi roll by. Leo took a trip recently. He built a giant rowboat, pushed it into the Old River, took up his five-month-old lion, cub Rex, and manhandled the huge skiff some 1,198 miles from St. Louis to New Orleans. This little trip put Leo in goo'd condition though, and he has of ten remarked that following the excursion, he was in better physi cal shape than ever before. A1 Lovelock On the program next Friday night with Leo will be one of the fastest men in the wrestling pro fession . today. This is A1 Lovelock from Hous ton. Many people have predicted A1 will go places in the mat world, and if variety in methods of hand ling opponents has anything to do with it, he should go to the top. He comes out at his man one time using speed and deception, the next time with strength and play ing the part of a bad man, and the next minute he might be applying a series of holds which would baffle even the referees. A1 was born in Detroit, but spent most his life in the rough mountains of the Canadian Rock- fessional in the wrestling game, and made his start around Colum bus, Ohio, in the light-heavyweight class. He soon outgrew the first class, and entered the heavyweight class with the big boys, and he now tips the scales at 240 pounds. Rudy Valentino Another visitor to the night’s show will be Rudy Valentino, 195 pound native South American from Lima, Peru. Wrestling fans have pinned the name on this graceful Latin Am erican. For one reason, his real name is too long to print and too hard to say. It goes something like Manuel Huancayo Concepcion Mendoza Cisceros Die go. His fans have also pinned an other nickname on him . . . The Peruvian Panther. They named him this for his speed and graceful movements which label him as a human tiger. Manuel Huancayo Concepcion etc . . . was born a poor sheepherder in Peru, but made up his mind he would never stay a ragged sheep- boy. He ran away from his herd one day and joined a circus as a strong boy and acrobat. Then he saw his first wrestling match. Decided to Wrestle Rudy decided he would become a mat man and employ his speed and great strength which he had de veloped as a boy. From Peru he traveled over many parts of South America, and then to the U. S. This will be his first appearance in the States and he hopes to be a great success, and if Texans (See Big Page 3) Over 800 former students serv ing overseas will get letters tell ing them about what is going on,- around the campus. This was a proposal made in the Student Sen ate Meeting held last night. The purpose of these letters will be to help the morale of the Aggie-exes overseas by giving them in insight on activities here on the campus this year. The let ters will probably include a dis cussion of everything from the TU football game to “New Army”. It is hoped, by members, of the Senate,’ that the letters will in clude a description and some note of appreciation of the MSC which was built by contributions from many of these exes who have nev er seen the center. Senator to Handle The addresses of the men will be handled through the dorm sen ators by the outfits in the Corps and by the Non-Reg senators in the Non-Reg dorms. The Day students, College View Representatives, and Vet Village representative will fol low the same plan so that all stu dents of the college will have a chance to do something for their fellow Aggies overseas at Christ mas time. Recommendations by the traffic committee to- the Senate were ap proved and they will be sent di rectly to the A&M College Board of Directors for action during their next regular meeting. The Senate, after a survey by the traffic committee working in conjunction with Bennie A. Zinn, Col. Bowden Leaves Today, Becomes Adjutant of State Lt. Col. Marion P. Bowden leaves France. He fought through the Seniors to Order Announcements Seniors expecting to graduate at the end of this semester must or der graduation announcements be fore 5 p. m. Monday. Announcements may be ordered at the Student Activities office, Pete Hardesty, business manager said. Delivery for these announce-- ments has been promised by Jan. 9. the campus today to take over as Adjutant of Texas in the Adjutant General’s Office. This will bring to a close three years of sendee to A&M. Before his appointment as assistant com mandant of the college in Septem ber 1950, Colonel Bowden receiv ed one of the six annual Battal ion Awards for outstanding achievement at A&M. The award cited him for “his out standing work as a dormitory tac tical officer, in which he has prov ed that discipline can be tempered with understanding.’ Colonel Bowden was graduated from the University of Texas in 1938, and taught school in Pa lacios for two years before ga- ing to the army in 1940. During the war, Colonel Bow den served with the 36th, Texas, Division in Africa, Italy, and Salerno and St. Bierto campaigns, the Anzio beach-head, and the in vasion of Southern France. Returning from overseas duty in 1945, he was made an instructor at the Command and General Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. From the Staff School post Col onel Bowden was ordered to the G-3 section of the Army Field For ces, at Ft. Monroe, Virginia. He has served here at A&M since his release from active duty in November of 1949. In commenting on his stay here Colonel Bowden said, “I have en joyed this tour at A&M. It has been very enlightening and pro fitable.” Lt. Col. Taylor Wilkins, who has assumed Colonel Bowden’s dut ies here, pointed out, “It is going to be a hard job to fill Colonel Bowden’s position.” Fish File For Class Offices* Election Dec. 17 Seven men have applied for the office of Freshman class president and three for vice president, according to Pete Hardesty, business manager of student activities. The seven who have filed for president are F. A. Urbanic, P. E. Gentry, G. J. Langford, Jerry Ram sey, H. M. Jones, K. A. Mielkefand D. P. Wheat. J. C. Sanders, E. G. Sanders, and W. C. Gilmore have made applica tion for vice president. S. C. Laden has filed for secretary, and W. R. McCasland for social secretary. There are as yet no applications for the office of reporter. Applications for Freshman class offices must be filed at the Stu dent Activities office before 5 p. m. Wednesday, Dec. 12. The election will be Monday Dec. 17. Ballots will be distributed in the dorms between 7:30 and 10:30 p. m. It’s a BIGGER Red Feather This Year! assistant dean of men and Fred Hickman, chief of campus secur ity, made the following recommen dations: • Enlarge the lot' behind Law Hall noth and west to accomo date 80 more cars and the lot behind Dorm 5 north and south to hold 50 more autos. • All new buildings should have adequate provisions made to ac comodate the cars owned by peo ple who will be working in those buildings. • The names of all streets should be adequately displayed and they should be of a permanent na ture. These recommendations will bo? sent to the Board of Directors for approval. If not approved, they will be sent back to the Senate along with the reasons for not being approved. Telephone Committee A report by the telephone com mittee revealed that pay telephones will be installed in the lounges of dorms, 1, 5, 6, and 9, as soon as the equipment is available. A special committee gave a re port on their progress in secur ing rabber mats to be placed out side showers in college dormitories. There is a possibility mats simi lar to those outside the MSC may be secured, although they are ex pensive, the committee reported. The Senate appointed Hobart Fatheree to work with the Senior Class Campus Beautification Com mittee and to report back to the Senate their progress. The Senate agreed to back the Senior Class in any action they might take to help beautify the campus. The Campus Chest drive was or ganized with Bobby Dunn as chair man of the committee. The drive will be sometime after the first of the year. Appreciation Tickets Guion Hall Appreciation tickets will be given to Student Senators and they may be picked up any time at Student Activities Office in Goodwin Hall, announced Don Young, vice-president of the Stu dent Senate. Exchange Store Committee mem bers reported that the $47,000 Ex change Store profits were distri buted with $25,000 going to the operation costs of the MSC, $10,000 to the Student Life Committee, and $12,000 returned to the Ex change Store for operating costs. Social committee chairman re ported that the Aggie Sweetheart, Miss Wanda Harris, will represent A&M at the Cotton Bowl game on Jan. 1. She will be escorted by Grady Smallwood, president of the Senate. Student Life Committee Student Life Committee report ed $4300 will be saved on the cost of the annual for next yegr and it will be out earlier by litho graphing instead of engraving. They also announced $3,000 will be available for Band trips next year’. There was a rather small repre sentation of the student body pre sent with only 26 senators showing up. College Station Is Still Behind Offices Move To Ad Building, Open by Dee. 20 Administrative officers of the college will move into the new Administration building Dec. 20, Oscar Telg, superin tendent of construction an nounced today. Moving into the new building will be the offices of President, Registrar, President-E m e r i t u s, Dean of the College, Dean of the Graduate School, and the Fiscal Office. The Registrar and Fiscal of fices will be located on the first floor and each will occupy an equal portion of the floor. The basement will be used by the two depart ments for filing, storage, and other necessary equipment. On the second floor will be of fices of Dr. C. Clement French, Dean of College, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Dean of Graduate School, and Dr. M. T. Harrington, President of