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Circulated Daily To 90 Per Cent Of Local Residents Number 190: Volume 59 on Published By A&M Students For 75 Years PUBLISHED DAILY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1954 Price Five Ceuta Bryant To Address News Conference Head Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant has been added to the list of luncheon speakers for the News paper Mechanical conference here Saturday. Bryant will deliver a short talk for his second appearance before newsmen in two days. He will hold a press conference Friday. Newspaper publishers from weeklies and small dailies will meet to discuss their production pro blems. Howard N. King, one of the na tions leading typographers, will Bloodmobile To Make Last Visit March 2 The Red Cross bloodmobile unit will make its second and last visit of the year to the campus, March 2. To be set up in Sbisa hall from 12 p.m. to (i p.m., the units goal is 300 pints, largest ever set for any single day, said W. M. Reed, blood donor drive chairman. Students between 18-21 must have their parent’s consent each time they give blood, Reed said. Students under 18 cannot give blood, he continued. Students may eat their normal pieals, said Harry Boyer, chief of lousing. It has been believed, incorrectly, lhat persons giving blood could iot eat for three or four hours be fore giving blood, he said. Refreshments for donors are be ing supplied by the College Sta- tion-Bryan Rotary clubs. talk on newspaper makeup and how to get the best makeup from existing type supplies at lowest cost. R. A. Downward will speak on time and motion studies as applied to newspaper production. He is with the Texas Engineering Ex tension service here. • President David H. Morgan will welcome the group of publishers at lunch Saturday. We expect between 125 and 150 to attend the conference said D. E. Newsom, journalism instructor. The meet is sponsored jointly by the Texas Press association and 'he A&M Journalism department. About 85 have already registered, Newsom said. Discussions will start at 8:30 a. i. Saturday. They will all be held n the assembly room of the Me morial Student Center. The lunch eon will be in the ballroom. Last RE Talk Set Tomorrow “What Will You Do With Your Life?” is the topic of the last Religious Emphasis week principal speech, to be given by Dr. Louis Evans, main speaker. The talk will be at 9 a.m. Friday in Guion hall. Students will be excused from classes that hour to attend the serv- I m v V - ?rr mumm ■ K if: HP life: M ? V '.v- 1 ■ r HtP MS . C- 11 Ha i i ■HIPI .V i piii la illii %”■ i , Y Ml* mmm 1 m: HI m "i - ‘4-: ’ ■ iA a* ^ ri" I TO m ■ ■ SHE’S MARRIED—Mrs. Audrey (Cookie) Terry, is the new typist for the Memorial Student Center directorate office, replacing Mrs. Sue Gill. Her husband is Condon Terry, sophomore from Dallas. Both are graduates of Sunset high school in Dallas. AFR0TC Asks Commissions For 170 Here More than one hundred sev enty cadets who will be gradu ated in May and have complet ed summer camp, have been recommended for commission ing'. Of the group, 107 have applied for pilot training and 23 for ob- Berver training. Forty two are technical graduates. No cadets who have not applied for flight training or whose major fields of study are non-technical are scheduled to receive commis sions at the present time, said Maj. If. O. Johnson, officer in charge of AFROTC seniors. The following factors helped determine which cadets would be recommended: Air science grades', air science instructor’s evaluation of each cadet, cadet activities, overall grades, 201 file records and sum mer camp grade, Johnson said. The stanine or flying aptitude test taken by some seniors was not used in determining the recom mendations, he said. Corps Review Set For Military Day Anthony To Play For Ring Dance Ray Anthony will play for the Senior Ring Dance May 15, said Gil Stribling, chairman of the ring- dance committee. A banquet will be held at (5:30 and the dance will be 8 until 12. The corps review for Military day will be 11 a. m. March (>. Taking the salute of the cadet corps will be Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway, army chief of staff, who will lead the distinguished guests from Washington here for the Mili tary weekend activities. Ridgeway and his party will ar rive here by airplane at 0:45 p. m. Friday. Tentatively planned on their schedule are a dinner with the president, the Combat ball Fri day night, the review and a luncheon with Colonel of the Coi'ps Fred Mitchell Saturday. The Military ball Saturday night from 9 to 12 will end the weekend activi ties. Wall Street Journal Staffer To Lecture Dr. J. Leroy Thompson director of the educational service of the Wall Street Journal will visit here Feb. 23. Thompson will visit two business administration classes. He will dis cuss the business news facilities of his organization including col lection of stories and data publi cation and promptness of report ing. Classes to be visited are Invest ments 420. Interested persons are invited to attend these classes, said S. T. Keim of the business administrat ion department. Weather Today Group To Get Job Of Uniting Seniors A committee is now being organized to help keep the class of 1954 together after graduation, said J. B. (Dick) Hervey, exe cutive secretary of the former stu dent’s association. A total of 50 to 54 representa tives, elected from military out fits and non-military dormitories, will serve on the committee. Each representative will have about 20 men with whom he will keep in contact after graduation. A similar committee was organized by the 1953 class. Classes will he dismissed at 10 a. m. Saturday, to allow students time to prepare for the review. Ridgeway will be met at his plane by President David H. Morgan, Col. Joe E. Davis, com mandant, and Mitchell. An honor guard from the Ross Volunteei'S will meet Ridgeway at the Me morial Student Center. Ross Volunteers will also escort guests at the Military ball. Tickets for the Military ball will go on sale Monday. They will be $2.50, stag or date, and can be bought from dormitory salesmen, the student activities office, or at the door. All former students now in the service have been invited to the dance, and members of the faculty who are reserve officers. These persons must wear uniforms, Davis said. Coming on the plane with Ridge way will be sixth district congress man Olin (Tiger) Teague. “Teague has been most helpful in arranging for the guests from Washington”, Davis said. “He has handled all the coordination there Besides Teague and Ridgeway, guests from Washington will elude: Maj. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn, special assistant to the chief of staff for reserve components; B.rig, Gen. Anthony J. D. Biddle, special assistant to the chief of staff; Brig. Gen. Renaldo Van Brunt, de- outy assistant to the chief of staff for reserve components; Lt. Col. Joe Hollingsworth, executive, of fice of the chief of legislative laison; Maj. PJ. A. Field, Ridge way’s aide; and Lt. Gol. Kamel Atalay, Turkish military attache. Hollingsworth is an A&M form er student, class of 1939. This is a tentative list of guests, according to Davis. More guests from Texas and neighboring states will probably be here. French May U.S. Aid >ose Trainin: Canines Lose; 16 Tags Sold Sixteen dog licenses were sold yesterday at the city hall. The jump in sales was a re sult of the city’s decision to collect all untagged dogs, re commended by the city council Monday night. “We even sold a license for a local celebrity,” said Ran Boswell, city manager. The tag, bought by Tommv Hall, from Galveston, was for Reveille, Aggie mascot. On Thefts Sophs And juniors Aid Investigation Aid Not Needed Authorities Say WASHINGTON—GP)—An American move to help train anti-Communist Indochinese troops appeared certain today to run into strong opposition from top French government and army leaders. There were solid signs that if France accepts this Amer ican suggestion it will do so reluctantly. French military authorities were reported convinced they are training loyal Indochinese recruits as fast as human ly possible and that American aid in this task is not needed. To back up their arguments, French diplomats reported today plans to mobilize an additional 108 “commando” battal ions of anti-Communist troops this year. If this goal is met, * they emphasized, loyal Indo chinese forces will total some 320,000, outnumbering the 300,000-man Communist force for the first time. Coupled with the 170,000-man French Expeditionary Corps, this would give anti-Communist forces a 5-3 manpower advantage unpre cedented in the bloody seven-year- old conflict. WTA W Sets Broadcast For 2-4 A.M. Radio Station WTAW will make a special test broadcast from 2 to 4 A. M. Monday 22. This, broadcast is being made at the request of the Newark Radio club for the benefit of its members. WTAW will be broadcast ing clear channel at its full power of 1,000 watts. If the weather is right, the station should receive ac knowledgements from all the forty-eight states and as far away as Canada, New Zealand, and England, said Dick Webb, station manager. The program will be a two hour recorded popular music show. Disk jockey for the pro gram will be Charlie Parker and Webb will be the engineer. Parker said that anyone want ing to make a dedication to a friend anywhere in the country should send the request to the station. PARTLY CLOUDY Continued cloudiness today and tonight. Cooler tomorrow and clear with no rain. High yester day (59. Low this morning 53. Earle To Fight Tonight In State Gloves Meet A&M’s James Earle will fight Austin’s Frankie Corpus tonight in the state Golden Gloves tour nament at Fort Worth. Earle won the regional open lightweight title at Waco last week. He has won 30 of 32 fights in his seven year boxing career. Eddie Castillo of A&M also went to the state tourney. He will com pete in the light-heavyweight di vision. WTAW Broadcasts Latin Music Show A program of Spanish music is being broadcast on WTAW from 3 to 4 p. m. Monday through Satur day. The narration and engineering °f the program is done by Gonzalo Rod riquez. There is no English s Poken on the program except for ihe station break in the middle of the program. Rodriquez started the program Reb. 1. Since that time he has re- c eived many requests from stu dents, and has also received many offers from sponsors. Before going to work for WTAW, Rodriquez worked for KFRD in Rosenberg. Corps Will Lead Inauguration Procession A&M students and dele gates from other colleges and universities throughout the United States will participate in President David H. Morgan’s inauguration May 20. The cadet corps will march in front of the procession of dele gates, guest speakers, leading the way into the new physical educa tion building where the inaugura tion will be held. “We do not have a guest speaker yet, but arrangements are being made for one,” said Dean W. H. Delaplane, head of the inaugural committee. The schedule of the day on pro gram calls for registration of del egates from 8 to 11 that morning, and robing and line-un at 10:15 a.m. The procession will move out at 10:45. A luncheon is planned for the delegates at 1 p.m., and a corps review at 2:30 p.m. The review will be followed by a reception in the Memorial Student Center. Students will be excused from classes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 20 so they can participate in the inauguration ceremonies. “These plans may be subject to revision and are subject to approv al by the board of directors,” said Delaplane. Members of the inaugural com mittee are Delaplane, Carle E. Tishler, C. W. Crawford, J. J. Wobfket, Robert Murray, C. G. (Spike) White, H. L. Heaton and Bennie Zinn. By GEORGE MANITZAS Battalion Staff Writer Two sophomores and their first sergeant sparked the investigation which finally caught the three freshmen who confessed last week to thefts totaling $2500, The Bat talion learned today. The two sophomores were Fred Hilgers and Wendel Hulse. The first sergeant was Paul Louvier. All were members of company I housed in dormitory 17. A series of thefts which began a week before final exams was the reason for the private investiga tion, said Hilgers. “On Feb. 4, Dave Parnell, my roommate, and two other fresh man in company I, missed f o u r books and several other articles,” he said. A company meeting was held in which Hilgers and Louvier were Shots To Be Given To 270 AF Cadets More than 270 of A&M’s air force ROTC juniors and seniors who are scheduled to attend camp this summer, will be given inoculatien shots, soon. Seniors or other cadets who have had the shots in the last three years, need only show their re cords, said M/Sgt John Tenery, air force sei'geant major. The inoculation program is be ing held up until serum arrives for army cadets. Booster shots are needed for typhoid immunizations every three years; for tetanus and smallpox, every four years, Tenery said. Of the air force cadets sched uled for camp, 39 took their shots last year. appointed to search the individual rooms for the missing books. This plan failed to turn up the missing articles. Then Hilgers, Louvier and Hulse decided to check the book stores around campus for the books which were missed the day before. After trying three stores, the fourth proved to be the place where the person had sold the stolen books. The store owner was questioned by the students concerning the person who might have sold the books. Later the store owner remember ed the student had carried the books in a traveling bag and had acted “suspicions”. The owner, suspecting foul play, of fered the student a downpayment on his senior boots in exchange for the books. The student had to decline the offer as the owner did not have his size. Asked if he could identify the student, the owner said that he was fairly sure he could. Hilgers, Hulse and Louvier then obtained the pictures of all cadets livng in dormitory 17 and showed them to the owner, who identified the student. “This was not enough proof in our estimation”, said Hilgers. At this point, Frank Vitrano, company G commander, was con sulted about the matter and gave the cadets permission to try their “trick” on the student and make him give himself away. “We had to be sui’e and not ac cuse an innocent person of a crime which he had not committed,” Hilgers said. So for a double check on the stu dent, Hilgers sent the student to the store to buy a belt. (See INVESTIGATIONS, Page 2) Disclosed Yesterday The Defense Department dis closed late yesterday that it has informally proposed that the French allow Americans to help train native forces, mainly Viet Nam recruits. It reported Lt. Gen. John W. O’Daniel, commander of American Army forces in the Paci fic, would be sent to Indochina to head an enlarged American mili tary mission which would have some training responsibilities, if the French agreed. The Pentagon explained that the matter so far is being discussed via military rather than diplomatic channels. The French Embassy, comment ing on the Pentagon statement, said emphatically it knew of no formal request of this kind. Diplo matic spokesmen made clear their opinion that any such American bid would have to be decided on a high diplomatic level. Closed Meetings Sen. Humphrey D-Minn., a mem ber of the Senate Foreign Rela tion Committee, said O’Daniel’s possible mission was discussed in detail by Adm. Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Under Secretary of State Dalter B. Smith in a closed- door meeting with committee members Tuesday. “The committee gave strong, unanimous encouragement to this idea,” Humphrey added. He said he understood there need not be any substantial increase in the 300- man American military mission now in Indochina in order to help in training. Humphrey said he is familiar with French arguments that they are training native troops as fast as possible and that American aid could not help speed this task. “Our observations lead us to other conclusions,” he said. ALMOST FINISHED — This new cafeteria counter in the fountain room of the Memorial Student Center will be finished about Monday, said Gladys Black, food director. The counter will serve plate lunches and dinners, and will still serve breakfasts*