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alionROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 1943 YOL. 43—NUMBER 6

Mysterious Howard Billed For Kadet KapersAll-Service Prom at Grove Saturday NiteHolmgreen Ordered To Active Service With Rank of Major

E. N. Holmgreen, business man­ager of the Agricultural and Me­chanical College of Texas since March 1, 1941, has been ordered to active duty by the U. S. Army with the rank of major. He re­ports June 15 to the School for Military Governors at the Univer­sity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Mr. Holmgreen graduated from Texas A. & M. in 1922. The first winter following he put in an or­chard for a lumber concern in East Texas. The next five years he was assistant county agent of Dallas county and county agent of Gal­veston county. In 1927 Mr. Holm­green was called to the headquar­ters of the Extension Service as poultry husbandman. From 1933 until he became business manager of the College he served in various capacities with the agricultural ad­justment program, being adminis­trative officer from 1936 to 1941.

General Inspection Of A.S.T.P. Units Scheduled Saturday

Colonel Walton Goodwin, Jr., of the Inspector General’s Depart­ment will make a general inspec­tion of all Army Specialized Train­ing Units of this station Saturday. The inspection will continue throughout the day, but normal work will not be disrupted, and no special formations will be held.

Saturday night will feature an all-service dance that will be held every week during the summer. Last Saturday night’s dance was called off because of the rain that fell during the afternoon and eve­ning. These weekly dances will be held in the Grove for all the Ag­gies, Navy, Marines, Air Corps, and Engineers that are stationed on the campus. Everyone is urged to come and bring a girl if he can; there will be a stag line, however.

The music will come from the old familiar juke-box on most of the nights, but plans have been made to secure a band for several of the dances. Announcement will be made when a band has been contacted and also the prices that will be charged. The juke-box proms will cost 25 cents per couple and the same for stags.

Richard Jenkins of Kadet Kap­ers and Singing Cadet fame will be in charge of these dances and a good time is assured for all who attend on Saturday nights. All service men are invited to be at the Grove on those nights unless rain comes during the day to cause a cancellation of that dance.

A.&M. Men Holding Demonstrations In East Texas Area

Practical demonstrations to fur­ther develop the fast growing livestock industry throughout east Texas will be presented by A. & M. College men throughout points in east Texas, it was announced today by Hubert M. Harrison, manager of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce at Longview.

Two of these demonstrations have already been held, it was stated, and nine more scheduled for the balance of this month. The need for such a program, it was stated, is to bring into being a development that will serve toward feeding the post-war world.

On June 8 a demonstration was held at Paris and June 9 one was held at Atlanta. Other demonstra­tions include: Longview, June 10; Tyler, June 11; Palestine, June 14; Lufkin, June 15; Jacksonville, June 16; Marshall, June 17; Paris, June 22; Kaufman, June 23; and Corsi­cana, June 24.

Wm. A. Wilson, director of the regional chamber’s agricultural de­partment, stated that arrange­ments are complete for the demon­strations and a modern Mobile Power Saw will be used under the direction of Paul G. Haines, Soil and Water Conservationist of A. & M. College, to demonstrate how creek bottom lands can be quickly cleared of brush and trees. Pasture experts from A. & M. College and U. S. Soil Conservation Service will appear on the programs to explain the best methods for developing East Texas creek bottom lands to adaptable grasses and clovers by I use of fertilizers and conservation | practices.

“East Texas has at least ten per cent of its lands along its creek | and branch sheds. These are ‘vir­gin’ lands and the best soils we have. If developed to ‘pasture crops’ a new money income of $17,000,000 annually will be real­ized by our livestock people,” Wil­son explained.

Army To Cut Heavy At Employees On Civilian Payroll

WASHINGTON—.Some 100,000 civilian employees of the War De­partment are to be released with­in the next six months, Undersec­retary of War Robert P. Patterson told the House civil service com­mittee Tuesday.

“We now have 1,305,000 civilian employees,” Patterson said, “but our period of expansion is over. We are and have been shaking down our organization.” In July, 1940, the figure was 140,000.

Chairman Robert Ramspeck (Dem.) of Georgia remarked that he had heard there were 150 com­missioned officers in the Adjutant General’s Deartment in Newark doing clerical work.

“Why aren’t they in the field where the battles are?” he asked.

Patterson replied that there are commissioned officers in all branches of the service, but added, “if it is assumed that all officers have combat knowledge that as­sumption is erroneous.”

He told the committee “there are thousands of cases in which we can get needed men for various jobs only by commissioning them.”

Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Texas A. & M. graduates who were mem­bers of the ROTC while in college are pictured here following their graduation as Second Lieutenants in the graduation exercises of the 22nd Class of the Chemical Warfare Service Officer Candidate School. First row, left to right—Otto R. Matzner, Edward Baker, Jr., John A. Mercer, Jr., James E. Clutter, Fred Rand, Jr., Wil­liam C. Franklin, Jerry F. Gleason, S. W. Menczer; second row— Robert L. Bryant, John Slaughter Wolcott, William F. Ellis, Jr., Charles V. Edwards III, Jasper H. Barrett, Raymond Rosenberg, Walter R. Pankey, Jr., Lehman E. Newton; third row—Alexander Vicevich, George E. Coffey, James A. Massey, Jr., Paul W. Bran­don, William Bever, H. B. Huffmeyer, Albert G. Smith, Addison H. Lynch, Howard A. Pimlott, S. Y. Burks, Jr.

Brazos County Sheriff and College Station Police Chief Hosts to FBI

Law Enforcement Conference to Be Held At College Station June 17; Peace Officers From All Over Area To Attend Sessions; Meet In Assembly Hall

Longhorns Ready For Distribution

The 1944 Longhorns are again ready for distribution and may be gotten at anytime at the Student Activities office upon presentation of the blue receipt slip. Anyone desiring to do so, may have their book sent to their home, but the address must be left at the office. There are plenty of books for those who have already paid for one but there are no extra ones for sale.

“Should American youth support the re-establishment after the war

‘of competitive enterprise as our dominant economic system?” is the question of the annual nation­al intercollegiate radio debate.

School of. engineering . at Man­hattan college recently celebrated its golden jubilee.

Prock of A. & M. Receives Masters

AUSTIN, June 8.—Thirty-eight degrees of Master were conferred at the University of Texas’ six­tieth commencement exercises here.

George Doyle Prock of A. & M. College was among those receiving a Master of Science degree in San­itary Engineering. A graduate of the University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical En­gineering in 1940, Prock wrote his thesis on “Flow Distribution in Hydraulic Networks.”

- Henry Koontz, Sheriff of Braz­os County, and Howard Lee, Col­lege Station’s Chief of Police, will act as hosts to the peace officers attending the FBI’s law enforce­ment conference at College Station on June 17, R. J. Abbaticchio Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Houston office, announced today.

During the conference Mr. Ab­baticchio will introduce the at­tending officers and will speak briefly on the latest developments in law enforcement practices. An­other speaker will be E. A. Gorm- ley, manager of the National Auto­mobile Theft Bureau at Dallas, who will show a moving picture dealing with the work of automo­bile arsonists who set fire to cars in order to collect insurance.

Captain J. O. Musick, officer in charge of the Texas Highway Pa­trol’s Safety Division, will discuss the problem of accidents and how law enforcement officers can help control them, thus reducing a se- (See BRAZOS COUNTY, Page 4)

Ex-Aggie Reports To Brooks Field for Final Instructions

BROOKS FIELD, Texas—“You have already learned how to fly a plane—now you’re going to learn how to handle real horsepower, real guns and real ships. Before you leave Brooks, you will be com­bat pilots and qualified aerial ob­servers. Your training here will make you the most dangerous men in the Air Corps—to the Japs and Nazis. From now on you have but one mission—the utter destruction of every enemy of our country. Gentlemen, the rest is up to you.”

With these terse words, Colonel Stanton T. Smith, Commanding Officer of Brooks Field, Texas, welcomed a new class of aviation cadets to the famous, old “Mother Field” of the Air Corps, where they will receive training in ad­vanced flying and aerial reconnais­sance.

Among those reporting was Jack W. Tunnell, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Tunnell of Cross Plains.

Cadet Tunnell is a former stu­dent of Texas A. & M. College. His primary instruction was re­ceived at Corsicana, and his basic flight training at Majors Field, Greenville.

HE DIDN’T EVEN OFFER TO FURNISH THE CHAIRS

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Dr. J. C. Geiger, city health officer, scoffs at comic-strip traditions.

Needing six more rat extermina­tors, he’s asking women to apply.

Actors and Aggies join forces in Sbisa Hall in a scene featuring Noah Berry, Jr., and Richard Quine in the Aggieland movie “We’ve Never Been Licked” which will be given its world premier in Kyle Field this summer.

Sophomore Class To Meet Wednesday In Assembly Hall

The Sophomores will hold their regular meeting of the semester on Wednesday, June 16, for the purpose of organizing as a class and planning the social activities of the summer. The Student Ac­tivities with L. D. Boone in charge have consented to help in every way possible so that the summer social season will be a success. This meeting is tentatively an­nounced for next Wednesday night at 7 in the Assembly Hall, but if enough interest isn’t shown, these plans will have to be changed.

The elections of officers will be first on the docket with plans for an all-soph dance to be held dur­ing July coming next. If enough interest is shown to justify the holding of a dance, a band will be contracted to play for it, Boone has announced. This season should be the largest of any preceding class as there will be no class of any size above the sophs to take over the dance. No freshmen will be allowed at the ball at any time on the night that it is held.

A large attendance of sophs is [ urged to be on hand for the dis­cussion that will take place so that plans can be made. Everyone is urged to talk it up among the class members and if enough in­terest is shown, the Batt will make another announcement of the meet­ing.

Aggies Urged To File Subscription Cards At Office

Students who have paid their Activities fee and have not report­ed to the Student Activities office to have their Battalion subscrip­tion cards properly filed are re­quested to do so at once. The Bat­talion will be distributed to the Aggies by subscription only after the Saturday issue, it was an­nounced today from the Publica­tions Office, and those who have not recorded their subscription at the Student Activities office will not receive the paper. There are some 200 students in the college who have not yet brought their ac­tivities fee receipt to the office and are not on the Battalion sub­scription lists.

Students who have changed ad­dress since the registration,, are also urged to bring their new ad­dress, including name, dormitory number and room number to the Student Activities office in order to be placed on the Battalion sub­scription list properly. The Bat­talion will be delivered to the rooms and dorms that are on rec­ords in the office. Unless a cor­rected address is given the sub­scriber will not receive the Batt at his present room.

Prompt attention is requested to this matter, since it is important that this information be in the Student Activities office by the end of this week so Tuesday’s Battalion may be delivered to the proper addresses.

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Hospital Hours Are Announced

Sick calls at the hospital can be made from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Sunday, it was announced today to the Bat­talion.

In cases of emergency a doc­tor will be on call at all times and the hospital will take care of such cases at once.

Students reporting for sick call, other than emergency cases, are requested to note the hours set up >by the hospital staff.

Howard Says, “Tell the Boys I’m Not The Greatest, But the Best Magician in the World; Large Crowd Expected to Attend Show

The third appearance of the “Mysterious Howard” will be the feature attraction on the Kadet Kapers show Saturday night at 6:15 in the Assembly Hall.

“Tell the boys at A. & M. that I’m not the greatest magician in the world, but the best one!” said Howard recently. He has a whole new bag of tricks cooked up, and according to those who have seen him, they are plenty good.

“The Mysterious Howard” is a magician deluxe and has no peer when it comes to cards,” was the opinion of one after another who watched a performance.

Also on the bill is a sing song with a new song sheet which in­cludes “The Fuehrer’s Face.” A contest will be held to determined the “grabbiest man at A. & M.” An announcement of a new con­test called the “All Service Sing- aroo” will be made and the details furnished.

All Aggies and their dates, Ma­rines, Sailors, Air Corps Trainees, Engineers, Stars, members of the faculty, and townspeople are in­vited.

ACTD Commander Is Lions Speaker At Bryan Tuesday

A vigorous appeal for sacrifice on the part of all in the present war effort was made by Capt. SamB. Hill, commanding officer of the Aviation unit at College Station, before the Lions club at its week­ly luncheon in Bryan Tuesday.

Captain Hill, a Presbyterian pastor at Victoria before entering the service, scored the shortsight­edness before Pearl Harbor and the failure to fortify the nation’s outposts at that time. W. D. Wil- kerson was in charge of the pro­gram and presented the speaker.

Visitors included W. H. Free­man of Houston, the guest of R.C. Franks; Pharmacist Mate Bry­ant Krenek, guest of E. R. Bryant; Jim Marrin of Houston, guest of C. L. Atmar; and J. A. Tracy, guest of Carroll Holt.

Psychological Exam To Be Given New Students Thurs.-Fri.

All new students will be given psychological examinations from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday of this week, accord­ing to information released by the Registrar’s Office. Those students who miss classes at these hours will be given excused absences.

HOUSE ACTS TO PERMIT WAVES TO GO OVERSEAS

WASHINGTON. — A modified measure permitting the WAVES to serve overseas with their con­sent and granting them the same death and disability benefits now accorded to men in the service passed Tuesday by the House without debate or record vote. The Senate must act to complete con­gressional approval.

What To Write To Servicemen Is Suggested By 0WI

The Office of Wat J offers these poiZ^Jl? for home- folks writing to soldiers, sailors, and marines—based on suggestions gathered in a survey among serv­icemen at home and overseas, in cooperation with the Special Serv­ice Division of the Army Service Forces:

TELL HIM:1. How the family is doing

everything possible to help in the war.

2. How anxious the family is for the boy’s return.

3. How well and busy the family is. Give details.

4. How the family is getting along financially.

5. What’s doing in the commu­nity: news about girls (single) he knows, doings of friends, who’s marrying whom, exploits of the home team and other sports events, social doings, effects of the war on the home town. Reminisce a little about past events and places the boy used to visit. Enclose clip­pings from the home-town paper.

DON’T TELL HIM:1. Your troubles. He has trou­

bles of his own.2. Your complaints. He can't do

anything about them.3. About things you are de­

prived of. He can’t supply them.4. Doleful predictions about the

future. He’s fighting for that fu­ture—now.

5. Unnecessary details about fi­nancial troubles. If there are things he should know about fam­ily finances, and he is in a posi­tion to do something about the situation, tell him. But don’t string it out.

NOT SURE JUST WHO’S THE GOAT IN THIS ONE

COLUMBUS, Ohio.—Sam Sel- ser, a contractor, drove into Cor­nelius Tracey’s yard to build a goat house.

He left the car door open. Along came the goats. They climbed in and licked the windshield clean of a federal use stamp, A and C gas ration stamps, auto license stick­er.

Now Selser must explain the absence of those stamps to the Internal Revenue Department, his ration board, the State Division of Motor Vehicles.

All of which got Selser’s goat.

Radio room scene from “We’ve Never Been Licked,” movie made on A. & M. Campus, with Richard Quine as Brad Craig standing before the microphane. Aggies and actors from background in this rehearsal shot.

Curriculum requirements for history majors at Hunter college have been revised to provide great­er flexibility in choice of courses as well as to give training in in­dependent research.

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