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18,426 READERS THE BATTALION HELP A&M See Editorial Number 184- Volume 55 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1956 Price Five Cents CONST \ Mid-East Tension Felt A round World By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON—Britiah-French air forces hammered Egyptian airfields through the night and again today in Suez zone and Nile Delta; combined armada reported moving up to land troops; planes, hangars reported destroyed in air strikes; returning pilots report ineffective antiaircraft fire and at- empted interception by one Egyptian fighter. CAIRO—Egypt breaks relations with Britain and France, 4 and is reported considering withdrawing from United Na tions; Egyptian communique claims Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Ismailia, Suez attacked from air and charged French planes join Israeli air force in strafing Egyptian forces in Sinai; shipping turns back from canal; Egyptian high com- ^mand makes no mention of Price Daniel Talks Tonight To Ag Workers Senator Price Daniel will make a speech in Sbisa Dining Hall at a banquet for Agri- lultural Extension Service jvorkers at 7:15 p.m. The group has arranged for Daniel to talk at the function in keeping with its policy of getting a well known person for its an nual banquet speaker. The banquet will oficially end the Extension Service Conference which has been in progress on the campus this week. Leaders of the conclave say between 700 and 800 persons have attended. During the week the delegates, including County Agricultural Agents, Home Demonstration Agents, Home Economists, Exten sion Service workers and leaders, have been briefed in four phases of their work. The group has received instruc tion in leadership, communications, counseling, and office management. Four sections of the group were formed to get the classes small enough for available meeting rooms. Classes are held in the Me morial Student Center, Guion Hall and YMCA. no fighting in Sinai, but claims fourth of Israeli air force wiped out; Egyptians say sev en persons killed in air raid on Cairo. BTRLTTT — Cairo radio claims seven British bombers shot down. TEL AVIV—Israeli calls upon Egyptians to lay down arms in Sinai and warns them they will soon be encircled; Egyptians re ported retreating in disorder as Israeli forces reach Rafa, in drive close to Mediterranean to but off Gaza Strip. UNITED NATIONS—U. N. Gen eral Assembly prepares for em ergency meeting to consider Yu goslav resolution calling on mem bers to use collective measures “including force if necessary” to stop British-French operations. WASHINGTON—President Ei senhower says United States does not intend to get involved mili tarily in Suez situation; calls Brit ish-French aid Israeli attacks er rors. DAMASCUS — Syrian military forces fight skirmish in brief in cursion across Israeli border, military spokesman says; Syria recalls ambassadors from Britain and Fi’ance for consultations. BAGHDAD — Iraq orders full mobilization in case of Israeli at tack on Jordan. AMMAN—Jordan warns Brit ain not to use her airbases in Jor dan for attacks on Egypt. PARIS — New apprehension strikes two million Frenchmen in North Africa as general*strike call goes out in Morocco and Tunisia; many French families leaving. SULLY GETS A BATH by freshmen of “A” Engineers. Paint removers pictured are Wallace DeWitt, Walter Walla, Dick Simmons, Jack Schmidt, Bob Halyell, Carlos Hickman, John Goldman, Gus Giotes, Parry Center, Steve Edmond son and Jon Swail, sophomore. Bombed Warship Stops Suez Traffic LONDON—(IP)—British and French planes carried on nonstop attacks on Egyptian airfields today and Cairo an nounced attacking aircraft sank an Egyptian warship in the Suez Canal—blocking traffic and cutting off oil shipping to Europe. Cairo said British and French warplanes raided Egyptian troops at crossing points along the canal and in the operation sank the Egyptian warship Akka in Timsah Lake just south of Ismailia, midway point of the canal. Britain and France launched military operations against President Nasser’s regime last night with the declared pur pose of protecting the Mideast waterway from fighting swirl- "Mng between Egyptian and Is raeli forces in the Sinai Pen- QUICK REVERSAL—Here two freshmen celebrate Halloween by having all day to haze sophomores. Sophomores left to right are Bob Skupin and Dan Poston. Freshmen left to right are Bob Duke and Norman Wilson. All four cadets are in Sqdn. 3. SCONA II Committees Give Progress Reports By JIM NEIGHBORS Battalion News Editor Progress reports commanded the attention of all members of the Executive Committee and commit tee chairmen of SCONA II at a meeting of that group in the Me- moiial Student Center last night. Each chairman gave a short im port on the actions of his commit tee following a general discussion by Brad Crockett, chairman of SCONA II. Bryan Dedeker, chairman of the Publicity Committee, announced that publicity forms have been pre pared and will be sent out to schools sending delegates to the conference and letters are being sent to most of the editors or pub lishers of Texas newspapers. John Specht, chairman of the Planning Committee, is in charge of selecting speakers and round table discussion. He reported that several of the speakers have al ready accepted including Chester Bowles and Hem*y Tanner. Housing Committee Chairman After Game Dance Will Have 3 Bands Midnite in New Orleans, spon sored by the Memorial Student Center Dance Group, begins im mediately after the ball game Sat urday night. The three bands playing- for the dance are the Moonglows, Bob Arevalos quintet and the Latin American Combo. Each band will be in a different room on the sec ond floor of the MSC and the dance itself will cover the entire upper floor of the building. Tickets for the dance ai - e $1.25 either stag or drag. The dance ends around midnight. Weather Today Forecast is for fair weather. At 10:30 this morning the tempera ture was 73 degrees. Yesterday’s high reading was 80 degrees, and last night’s low, 47 degrees. Walter Raynaud said that rooms in the MSC have been reserved for all the delegates and that the Di rector’s House is to be used by members of the press. Warren Johnson, chairman of the Transportation Committee, re ported that travel vouchers for delegates will be prepared and transportation money will be ready for them to pick up when they re port to the conference. Program Chairman L. E. Shep pard announced that the agenda and round table discussion topics are being- prepared by members of his committee and will include global defense discussions and talks on the United States and Al lied Powers. Sheppard also said that Col. Joe E. Davis has sanctioned a Corps Freshmen Election Filings Now Open Filing-s for the election of offi cers for the Class of ’60 began today in the Office of Student Ac tivities, according to W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, of the Student Activi ties Department. The filings will close Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. The elections will be held Nov. 14 at the post office entrance of the Memorial Student Center. Officers to be elected are: presi dent, vice president, recording sec retary, social secretary, treasurer, parliamentaritn and sergeant-at- arms. Grove Gates Open After Band Enters Gates to the Grove will be lock ed before midnight yell practice Friday night and will not be open ed until the Aggie Band goes in and takes its plaoe. Yell leaders have asked students to follow the band in and form behind them so they will have the position which they should occupy at yell practice. The request is being made be cause, in the past, the band has not had enough room to play. x-eview for the conference. Alvan E. Richey, Finance chair man, gave a brief run-down on the budget and said that this year’s budget exceeds last years by al most $1,000. Seci’etai’iat Chairman Jack Drey fus explained the pre-conference brochures which are being- readied by his committee. He also said that the post confex-ence brochux-e will be prepared by an editor hir ed for that specific pui'pose to in sure a px-ofessional job. James Dellinger, chaiiman of the Arrangements Committee, re ported on the px-ogress of his com mittee and said that name plates and cax-ds ax-e being- xxxade for each delegate and speaker. Students from A&M who want to x'epresent the school as dele gates to the convention are re minded that intexwiews for pros pective delegates will be held to day and tomorrow in Room 107 of the Academic Building. Meat Judgers Bring Trophy From Nationals A&M’s Senior Meat Judging Team returned to the campus bringing home a trophy for the high scoring team in Lamb Grading Division of a national contest held in KaYisas City recently. Competing with 16 teams from over the United States, A&M came in 5th overall in the contest, won top honors in trfe La mb Grading, foui’th in Beef Grading, complet ing only 3 points out of the money for the Beef Division, behind Okla homa A&M, winner of that Divi sion. “The teams were all px-etty close to each othex*,” Said Gene King, coach. “Only 30 points separated us fx-om the top teams in the over all contest.” Melvin Lebo was 8th highest in dividual in the ovexall coxxtest and high man for the A&M team. He was followed by Kermit Wahr- mund, who won top honox-s in the Lamb Grading Division. “Ovex-all competition was pretty stiff this yeax-,” King said. “I am very happy with the showing oux- boys made on the trip.” Members of the team making the tx-ip included Lebo, Wahrmund, David Terry and Don Johnson, alternate. insula. The Egyptians gave out no official information today on the fighting with Isx-aeli troops. But the Isx-aelis claimed Egyptian ti'oops were in retreat and would soon be cut off in the Sinai Pen insula. Even befoi'e Egypt announced blocking of the canal, shipping was reported turning back from its approaches because of danger fi'om military operations. Egypt asked other Ax-ab states to block another source for Middle East oil-the pipelines fi-om the maiix px-oduction centers to Medi- terranean pox-ts. Egypt broke off diplomatic i’e- lations with Britain and France. Jordan bx-oke x-elations with France. Caix-o dispatches said five air xaid alarms sounded in Cairo up to eax-ly afternoon, and Egyptian militax-y headquax-tex-s claimed six British planes were shot down over the Nile delta. Troops of the two Westenx na tions had not showed up in the ax-ea of opex-ations, but their land ing on Egyptian soil was expect ed. Bx-itish planes with cannon and i-ocket fix-e wex-e repoxted in offi cial announcements hex-e and at Cyprus, their base, to be striking hai'd at five Egyptian airfields in the Suez zone and Nile delta in an effox-t to destroy Nazzer’s Soviet- built MIG airfoi-ces on the ground. British pilots said they had de stroyed 14 Egyptian planes on the gx-ound. Prankster Plays Joke On Ball Staff Halloween px-anks came eax-- ly yestei’day at The Battal ion office. Someone who tried to play a trick without first asking for a txeat left a .22 caliber rifle in the storeroom in the office. The pei-son or persons leav ing- it most have been awaxe of college regulation prohib iting fix-earms from being- kept in college buildings so they placed the rifle in the storeroom as a halloween px-actical joke against the staff. After removing it from the storei-oom the staff tuimed the rifle over to Campus Security. The owner may claim it thexe without The Battalion staff’s knowledge. SHOOTING FOR THE MOON—Jack Tippit, publicity chairman for the 1956 A&M College-College Station Com munity Chest-Red Cross Drive, examines the sign erected near the North Gate traffic circle.