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Number 7G: Volume 52
The Battalion
PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
‘ COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 14,1952
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Price Five Cents
Heroic Skipper
Awarded Danish
Officer’s Cross
Reveille II
London, Jan. 14 — </P) — Capt.
Kurt Carlson of the Flying Enter
prise received a decoration today
from the King of the native Den
mark.
The little skipper now an Ameri
can citizen, stood in a blaze of
movie lighting and popping flash-
ulbs as the Officer’s Cross of the
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Rates
Discussed By
T. 0. Walton
Dr. T. 0. Walton, College
Station postmaster, said today
the new postal rates did not
seem to have any affect on the
local sale of cards and stamps.
He said there had been few com
ments on the raise, of the “penny”
postcard to two cents.
Dr. Walton said he thought the
new rates that would generally ef
fect people should be clarified as
folows:
(1.) Letter mail up to one pound
is 20i‘ plus postage.
(2) Local drop letters have been
upped from 1c to 2d.
The new rates on packages are:
First Class-Special Delivery
1 oz. to 2 lbs 20( 1
2 lbs. to 10 lbs 35d
Over 10 lbs 50('
Parcel Post
1 oz. to 2 lbs 35(1
2 lbs. to 10 lbs 45(1
Over 10 lbs 60(1
For all packages weighing over
20 lbs., Dr. Walton asked people
to check with the post office be
fore presenting for mailing.
“Not all rates have changed,”
Dr. Walton stated. “The rates of
the 1st Class letter and air mail
jire the, same.”
Order of Dannebrog was presented
by Count Reventlow, the Danish
ambassador in London.
’The award from King Frederik,
equivalent to a knighthood in Brit
ain, was made at the Danish Club
on London’s near west side.
Crowds had been waiting outside
for an hour to see the sea hero
from Woodbridge, N. J., arrive for
the presentation ceremony.
Carlsen, dressed in a dark suit
and soft grey felt hat, was plainly
overwhelmed at the reception.
Earlier he had been cheered at
Paddington Station when his train
pulled in from the Cornish port of
Falmouth.
Carlsen was met at the train by
C. J. Jacobs, representing the Is-
brandsten Line, owners of the
freighter the heroic captain tried
in vain to save from the sea. They
posed briefly for news cameramen,
then made their way to a waiting
car behind three policemen.
A friend who travelled with Carl
sen told reporters:
“He is much too tired and ex
hausted with all the welcomes he
has received to say anything.
“He will probably stay with a
friend during the morning before
going on to the Danish Club where
he is to be decorated by the Dan
ish ambassador later today.
“It is not yet definite when he
will be flying home to America.”
Earlier there had been specula
tion that Carlsen might leave by
plane tonight for New York, where
he is scheduled to march up Broad
way Wednesday in the city’s tra
ditional ticker-tape reception for
heroes and notables.
Carlsen arrived in London with
a new uniform and an assortment
of other clothes purchased in Fal
mouth. He lost his wardrobe when
the Enterprise went down last
Thursday, 35 miles off the Cornish
1 coast.
Yale Lary Given Most
Valuable Player Award
Yale Lary, versatile Aggie foot- j
ball player, received the “most val-1
uable player” award at the Annual
Winter Sports Banquet held Sat
urday night in Sbisa Hall.
The event, sponsored jointly by
the Brazos County A&M Club and
the Athletic Department of the
College, is given in honor of the
football and cross country teams.
The Lipscomb-Colson awards
| for the most valuable player and
co-captains were presented by
“Flop” Colson. Lary received a
desk pen set while captains Bob
Smith and Hugh Meyer were hon
ored with Shaeffer pen and pencil
sets.
Best Blocker
Two Freshmen get together in the MSC after
the meeting of the Former Student Association
Club officers meeting. Jack Herbig, freshman
PetE major from El Campo, gets acquainted with
Revilie II, the new official Aggie mascot. Reville
was given to A&M by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wein-
ert ’00 from Sequin. She was approved by the
Student Senate at their meeting Thursday night.
Korean Fighting Continues
Weather Holds Down Planes
By MILO FARNETI
Seoul, Korea, Jan. 14 — bT) —
South Korean infantry and Chinese
Reds clashed today in a series of
battles on Korea’s western front.
In the heaviest action, the South
Korean First Division battled four
hours in an unsuccessful attempt
to win back hill positions west of
Korangpo lost to the Reds Dec. 28.
Northeast of Panmunjom, the counterattacked and drove Chinese
Presentation of Sweetheart
To High Ugh t Soph omoreBa ll
By IDE TROTTER
Battalion Staff Writer
Exams are the times that try
men’s souls. But save your curved
brass, Sophomores, the class of ’54
will rise again.
Youth Leaders
Will Take Part
dn Church Week
Youth leaders and ministers
from over the United States
will lead discussion groups as
one of the features of Religi
ous Emphasis Week to be held
at A&M Feb. 17-22. Dr. W. E.
Denham Jr., pastor of the River
Oaks Baptist Church, Houston, will
be the featured speaker each morn
ing at Guion Hall.
The group sessions will be held
each day from 4:30 to 6 p. m. and
at night, in the lounges of the
dormitories.
Those who have accepted invi
tations to lead the discussions in
clude the Rev. H. L. Polinard,
Main Street Christian Church,
Waxahachie; and Lt. Col. Herman
J. Kregel, Reformed Church in
America, eha'fdain of the United
States Military Academy, West
Point, N. Y.
Others include Dr. Roger D.
Hebard, First Baptist Church, Den
ton; Rev. Prentice Chunn, associ
ate director, Baptist Student Work
in Texas, Dallas; Willis Tate, vice,
president, SMU; Rev. Lary Eisen
berg, Board of Education, Metho
dist Church, Nashville, Tenn. Rab
bi David Jacobson of Temple Beth
El, San Antonio.
Dr. George Forell, division of
student service, National Lutheran
Council, Chicago; Col. Eugene J.
Graebner, Lutheran chaplain, 14th
Air Force, Robins AFB, Georgia;
Rev. P. W. Hurst, St. Timothy’s
Episcopal Church, Houston; H. E.
Speck, Church of Christ, dean of
men, STSTC, San Marcos and the
Rev. Grady Snuggs, Presbyterian,
Department of Religion, Univer
sity of Tulsa.
Make big plans for the weekend
of Feb.’ 23, when the Sophomore
Ball will be held.
Presentation of the Sophomore
Class Sweetheart will be the high-
point of festivities anticipated at
the ball.
All sophomores who want to
enter their one and only in the
Sophomore Sweetheart Contest
should begin to get the necessary
pictures and vital statistics to
gether, Hugh Philippus, chairman
of the contest announced.
Deadline for ail entries is Feb.
15 and each entry must be turned
in to a member of the Sweetheart
Committee Philippus continued.
No Name
Under no condition should a
sophomore put his name, dorm and
room number, or his home town
on the back of his 1 entry’s picture
the committee chairman emphasiz
ed. This will help insure a com
pletely impartial selection.
A number and the initials of the
submitter will be placed on one
corner of each picture received by
a committee member. The submit
ters names will be entered on a
master sheet which each of the
committee members has.
It will be recorded in a number
ed space corresponding to the num
ber on the photograph.
Each submitter will also keep a
copy of the number assigned to
his entry’s photograph just in case
some check might be needed.
With this system there can be
no bias in the final selection.
On the back of each photo or a
securely attached sheet of paper
six items of information are to be
included; the name of the girl,
her home address, her age, her
height, weight, waist, hip, and bust
measurements, her school if she is
attending, and the color of her hair
and eyes.
Pictures may be turned in to
any of the members of the' Sweet
heart Contest Committee. They
are: Hugh Philippus, Dorm 11-
Room 123; Clarence H. Woliver,
Dorm 10—Room 106; John Far
rell, Dorm 3-Room 309; Jim
Weatherby, Dorm 2-Room 409; and
Dick Porter, Dorm 11-Room 220.
College Library Will
Keep Recess Schedule
The hours the library will be
open during the mid-semester re
cess were announced today.
The library will remain open on
week days from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
and Saturday’s from 8 a. m. to
truce conference site, other South
Korean soldiers recaptured one of
two hills they lost to the Chinese
Sunday night.
U. S. Fifth Air Force said snow,
fog and haze held down fighter
anil bomber strikes Monday.,
Fleet F-86 Sabre Jets* sweeping
MIG Alley over northwest Korea,
spotted about 40 Russian-made
MIG-15 jets on the Manchurian
I side of the Yalu River border, but
| no contact was made.
Pilots of other U. N. planes re
ported they inflicted about 35 Red
troop casualties in close support
attacks along the warfront and cut
rails at 31 places in North Korea.
The South Koreans pushed off
before dawn Monday against two
hills guarding Paik’s Peak. But
elements of a counterattacking Red
battalion blunted the assault and
drove them back four hours later.
A U. S. Eighth Army staff offi
cer said the close in fighting was
“bitter.”
Paik’s Peak, lost to a Red ar
mored thrust last month, is close
to the two hills.
A two-pronged Republic of Ko
rea (ROK) force with screening
units launched the attack.
The ROKs ran into two platoons
of Chinese Communists at each of
three points and another Red pla
toon at another point.
Two Chinese companies then
counter-attacked one hill, and an
unknown number of Reds hit the
other hill.
The ROKs withdrew to Allied
lines. They said they counted 20
dead Communists, and estimated
they had killed another eighty.
In another action on the Western
[front ROK troops early Monday
Reds off one of the two hills they
lost Sunday night. The Com
munists still held the more impor
tant hill, an advance Allied out
post.
The staff officer said Sunday’s
action 'across the peninsula was
mostly . raiding patrols and light
probes.
He said their purpose was to
“take prisoners, inflict casualties
and destroy equipment, supplies or
communications, then return to
base without occupying enemy po
sitions.”
Much of the U. N. action in re
cent weeks has been by such raid
ing parties.
Allied warplanes flew 500 effec
tive sorties Sunday, and 82 during
the night. They hit rail yards
and bridges.
- The Bert Phaff Award for the
“best blocker” was presented to
Elo Nohavitza by Head Football
Coach Ray George, who also
awarded varsity letters to 33 mem
bers of the A&M football team.
Dallas A&M Club presented a
gold medal to Charlie Hodge as
the outstanding senior graduate on
the football team from Dallas.
Joe R. Motheral, president of
the Brazos County A&M Club, in
troduced special guests of the ban
quet and the Toastmaster for the
evening A. O. “Al” Saenger.
Guest Speaker
j The Reverend Marvin S. Vance
| of the First Methodist Church,
Austin, Texas, was the principle
speaker of the evening.
Special music was furnished by
Mr. Jimmie Harrison, sophomore
from San Antonio. He sang and
played, his guitar, accompanied by
Miss Betty Bolander.
Frank Anderson, head track
coach presented his cross country
lettermen with their “T” bars.
Those receiving the awards includ
ed James Blaine, SWC champion,
Joe Criswell, Dale DeRouen, Char
les Gabriel, Charise Hudgins and
John Gafmahy.
Klepto Holmes, Fish coach also
awarded freshman letters to 40
members of the Aggie Fish foot
ball team who were also honored
at Saturday night’s banquet.
Graduating Football Lettermen
Ends: Charlie Hodge, Dallas;
Jaro Netardus, El Campo; and
Robert Shaeffer, El Paso.
Tackles: Russ Hudeck, Houston;
and Sam Moses, Lockhart.
Guards: W. T. Rush, Lampasses;
and Elo Nohavitza, El Campo.
Centers: Hugh Meyer, Gaines
ville; and Jim Fowler, Temple.
Quarterback: Dick Gardemal,
Port Arthur.
Left halfbacks: Glenn Lippman,
El Campo; Charlie McDonald, Port
Arthur; and Yale Lary, Fort
Worth.
halfbacks: Billy Tidwell,
and Angie Saxe, Beau-
Right
Hearne;
mont.
Fullbacks: Bob Smith, Houston.
Returning Players
Returning Aggie players who
varsity letters were as follows:
Ends: Darrow Hooper, Fort
Worth; Eric Miller, Bartlett;
Charles Saxe, Beaumont; Walter
Hill, Ballinger; Howard Zuck, Aus
tin; and Jerry Crossman, Houston.
Tackles: Jack Little, Corpus
Christi; Bobby Dixon, Ingleside;
and Dick Frey, Houston.
Guards: Marshall Rush, Lampas
as; Alvin Langford, Fort Worth;
and T. K. Niland, Houston.
(See BANQUET, Page 4)
312 Students To
Receive Degrees
Ramon Froman
To Judge Local
Art Exhibition
Two Filipines Will Search
For Loot in Intramuros
Barlow, Hamlin
Receive Honors
Two local Scout leaders
received the “Silver Beaver”
award at the Sam Houston
area Boy Scout Annual Coun
cil meeting held,in Houston
recently.
Those receiving the wards were
Dr. H. W. Barlow, dean of engin
eering, and Jake Hamlin, past
president of the A&M Former
I Students Association.
The “Silver Beaver” awards were
presented for outstanding and
lengthy service in scouting.
The awards were presented by
Top Sergeant John Park Jr. a civil
engineering student who is an
eagle scout from San Antonio.
An exhibit of art work done;
by A&M students, faculty
members, and local residents
will be judged by Ramon Fro
man, celebrated portrait
painter, Wednesday in the Birch',
room of the MSC.
About 60 people will, enter over|
100 entries of oils, watercolors,
and pencil sketches depicting land
scapes, ^portraits and still-life, ac-'
cording to Mrs. Ralph Terry, MSC
art director.
Arrangements are being com
pleted for a coffee to formally
open the show. At this time awaids'
will be presented to the winners.
The exhibit will be on display for
two weeks on the promenade cases
and the Birch room on the second
floor.
Froman is a member of the Chi
cago Portrait Society; however, he
spends most of his time in Dallas.
An exhibit of his pictures will be
on display for two weeks begin
ning Feb. 14.
Three hundred and twelve stu
dents are candidates for degrees at
the Jan. 25 graduation. Fifty-sev
en are candidates for advanced
degrees and 255 are candidates for
baccalaureate degrees.
The advanced degrees candidates
include, master of education in in-
ductrial education, 2; agricultural
education, 4; education 1.
Master of agriculture, 1.
Master of business administra
tion, accounting, 1.
Master of Science: Range man
agement, 3; chemistry, 7; chemi
cal engineering, 4; animal husban
dry, 3; agronomy, 4; geology, 3;
mechanical engineering, 2; plant
physiology and pathology, 2; ento
mology, 2; petroleum engineering,
3 and one each in agricultural eco
nomics, agricultural education,
aeronautical engineering, mathe
matics, horticulture, accounting,
biochemistry and nutrition, wild
life management, dairy husbandry,
oceanography, floriculture, gene
tics and poultry husbandry.
Baccalaureate degree candidates,
School of Agriculture, agricultural
administration, 11; agricultural ed
ucation, 23; agricultural engineer
ing, 6; agronomy, 4; animal hus
bandry, 22; dairy husbandry, 4;
entomology, 3; horticulture, 1;
poultry husbandry, 1; plant and
soil science, 2; range and forestry,
9; wildlife management, 8.
School of Arts and Sciences,
bachelor of arts, 7; bachelor of
business administration in account
ing, 6; building products market
ing, 1; finance, 1; general business,
19; ’education, 1; physical educa
tion, 6; biology, 4; entomology and
physics, one each.
School of Engineering, archi
tectural design, 7; aeronautical en
gineering, 1; architectural con
struction, 5; chemical engineering,
2; civil engineering, 17; electrical
engineering, 14; geological engin
eering, 4; geology, 6; industrial
education, 8; industrial engineer
ing, 4;' geology, 6; industrial edu
cation, 8; industrial engineering,
18; mechanical engineering, 23'
and nine in petroleum engineering.
Rotarians To
Stage Variety
Show, Feb. 7 ■ 8
A variety show will be stag
ed by the College Station-Bry-
an Rotary Club Feb. 7-8 at the
Stephen F. Austin High
School Auditorium in Bryan.
“A fine program is being worked
out, equal in all respects to the
two previous programs which were
so well received,” according to H.
W. Barlow, dean of the School of
engineering.
The show will include, among
other acts, the Kemp High School
Chorus which has a national repu
tation. It will also include a magi
cian, Pfc. Charles F. Hildum who
is stationed at the Bryan Air Force
Base, Barlow added.
A vaudeville theme will be used
throughout the show, said Bar-
low, and will include several musi
cal numbers, probably a humorous
reading, several comedy skits and
a dancing act.
Lack Of Engineers
Studied By Group
By FRANK L. WHITE
Mrs. Seale Heads
Wives Bridge Club
Mrs. Ruby Nell Seale was elect
ed president of the Aggie Wives
Bridge Club Thursday night at a
weekly meeting in the MSC.
Other officers elected were Mrs.
Mary Frances Spears, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Ann Crossland, secre
tary; Mrs. Mary Vail, treasure;
and Mrs. Darla Harlin, reporter-
historian.
Manila, Jan. 14—DP)—Two dar
ing Filipinos soon will launch a
hunt for a fabulous store of war
time loot in the mysterious Intra
muros, historic walled city in the
heart of Manila.
The search is paved with peril
for Francisco Dantes and Antonio
Nepumoceno.
When General MacArthur’s
doughboys swarmed into Manila in
early 1945, Japanese troops mus
tered for a last stand in the dense
jungle of sturdy buildings and
compounds called the Intramuros.
American artillery pounded the
walled city to a rubble. Dough-1
boys blasted out the Japanese,
building by building.
Filipino survivors said Japanese
overlords fled there with a treasure
of money seized from Manila banks
and jewels looted throughout the
Philippines. They said the Jap
anese buried it in the compound
of the Augustinian monks, a block
in the eastern section of the Intra
muros.
The Intramuros became a giant
graveyard—and today it still is a 1
graveyard of mines and booby!
traps and uncxploded ammunition.
The Augustinian compound is a j
rubble which must be cleared stone
by stone. Death lurks under every
on.e
Dantes and Nepumoceno have ne
gotiated several years for the right
to hunt this cache.
The Augustinian Fathers said
they could dig—in exchange for 30
per cent of all treasure found.
The government gave its okay—
for another 30 per cent. It even
agreed to supply a bomb disposal
squad to clear the way—and an
auditor.
That leaves 40 per cent of the
melon—thdy don’t even know how
big it is—for Dantes and Nepumo
ceno. It may turn into bitter fruit.
But they’re willing to gamble their
lives.
Industrial leaders and educators gathered at A&M last week to dis
cuss the problem of shortage of engineers now being turned out by
the colleges and universities of the nation. H. W. Barlow, dean of
the school of engineering, (center) welcomes T. C. Forrest Jr.,
left, Dallas, president, Texas Section, American Society Civil
Engineers and vice-president National Society Professional En
gineers and R. N. Dyer, head of the personnel division, Humble
Oil and Sefining Co., Houston.
The nucleus of a statewide or
ganization to delve into the ways
and means of alleviating the short
age of engineers being turned out
by colleges and universities, was
formed recently with Howard W.
Barlow, dean of the school of en
gineering, as chairman.
The organization proposes to
go into every phase of the situa
tion from the high school and on
through colleges and through the
industries. The demands for engin
eers in every phase of engineering
was pronounced critical.
The present need, it was pointed
out, is 60,000 engineers, and the
future need is 30,000 engineers
a year. At the rate the supply
filling the demand now, the needs
.will not bo met until 1956, it was
I said.
Industry Men Attend
The meeting was attended by
top-flight educators and industry
men including:
S. Gardner Endress of Freese
and Nichols, Ft. Worth; H. H.
Scott Jr. and R. N. Dyer, Humble
Oil and Refining Co., Houston; F.
S. Maddox and H. L. Arno, State
Highway Department, Austin; E.
H. Flath, SMU; T. C. Forrest Jr.,
consulting engineer, Dallas; Dy-
sart E. Holcombe, Texas Tech;
and John M. Hodges, Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co.
Others were J. B. McKinley, Har
ry Benge Crozier and W. D. Gal-
lier, Texas Employment Commis
sion; E. M. Fox,. Convair, engin
eering personnel, Fr. Worth; E. L.
Williams, S. R. Wright, R. L.
Peurifoy and H. W. Barlow, A&M;
W. R. Woolrich, University of Tex
as; H. O. Hodson, Amarillo; George
Bunton, Southwest Public Service,
Lubbock; M. L. Ray and C. P.
Houston, University of Houston; J.
S. Hopper, Arlington State Col
lege.
Russian Art to Be
Discussed by Prof
Russian art will be discussed by
Dr. J. J. Stadelmann, associate
professor of modern languages,
tonight at a monthly meeting of
the Modern Languages Club.
“I will show a Russian book
with examples of their art, and ex
plain each picture,” said Dr.
Stadelmann, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Munich.
Religious art, ancient art, and
the use of the modern artist made
of these will be the principle of
his talk.
After studying art at the Uni-
versity of Munich, Dr. Stadelman
lectured in the Arts Museum in
Denver, Colo., in 1945.
He now teaches German, Span
ish, and French in the modem lang
uages department.