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Number 18: Volume 51

The BattalionPUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE

COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950

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Lumberman’s 1949 Contest

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Queen Candidate United NdtionSTo OK Crossing 38th Parallel

Betty Ann Potter01 Army will never believe this’ but the smilinf' lovely above is from the well known city of College Station, and what’s more, she—when not attending TU—lives with her parents, three blocks from the campus. Miss Potter, who was runner-up in the local talent and beauty contest of this area for the Miss Texas contest, is David Duncan’s entry in The Commentators 75th Anniversary Queen contest. Deadline for entries is October 15th.

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Reds Scrape-Up Puny Defense Lines

Tokyo, Oct. 6 — (A3) — The Red Korean army—staggered by great losses—scraped up its remnants today on desperation defense lines against powerful blows being cocked by United Nations forces.

General MacArthur’s headquarters officially estimated Red army casualties at nearly 200,000 since the Communists began their invasion of South Korea June 25.

The overall figure admittedly contained some duplications. That means a man might be wounded, removed and returned to battle, woundedlagain, and counted as two or moresingle casualties.

But among the estimated casualties were more than 40,000 roughly counted prisoners taken by the Allies.

These included 14,028 captured or surrendered in three days this week.

Bolster FortificationsThe Reds rushed to bolster for

tifications north of parallel 38, still ignoring MacArthur’s repeated sur- Jender demands and apparently indifferent to the rising toll of men i.nd equipment.

U.S. Fifth Air Force planes spotted two convoys speeding toward the Reds’ imperiled defense points Thursday night. Flares lighted the hilly countryside in sharp relief. Pilots reported 84 vehicles and 101 boxcars destroyed or dapi- aged.

The Red defense line stretched from Haeju, on the west coast, to Hwachon on the Pukhan River in the mountainous easter interior. This was within the short-range bomb-line being kept explosively alive by Allied fighters and bombers.

The line already has been pierced and flanked on the east coast by South Korean forces but the footsore Republican troops were encountering their first dogged re

Other elements of the Capital Division occupied the town of Inje, eight miles southeast of Yachon, 25 miles east and south of the Red defense outpost of Hwachon.

A third Republican spearhead^- the Sixth Division—already has captured Chunchon, 15 miles south of Hwachon.

MacArthur’s spokesman said those were the South Korean positions up until 6 a.m. (4 p.m., EST, Thursday).

To the west of the South Korean advances, non-Korean troops—the bulk of United Nations forces estimated at 175,000—were regrouping below the boundary.

British and Australians, airlifted to the area from mopping-up jobs in South Korea, were deployed north of Seoul, liberated Korean capital. Ranged alongside these forces were U. S. marines, and infantrymen.

New York, Oct. 6—(/P)—The full United Nations Assembly meets today to give thunderous approval to an American- backed resolution containing clear but implied permission for Gen. MacArthur to cross the 38th parallel.

The resolution, which passed the all-important political committee Wednesday, 47-5, also contains a blueprint for Korea’s future as a ward of the United Nations. Wednesday’s vote assured a triumph for the West today.

Only the 5-nation Soviet bloc opposed the plan in committee. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky is ex-------- —----------------------------------------♦ pected to rise today to continue the

fight against the resolution, which is formally sponsored by' Britain and seven other countries.

Any Vishinsky tirade is expected to increase the fervor with which the nations who have backed U.N. action against aggression in Korea will support the eight-power proposal as the logical consequence of that action.

The eight powers officially sponsoring the resolution are Britain, Australia, Cuba, Brazil, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Norway and Pakistan.

The Soviet Union introduced a rival plan in committee, but it was overwhelmingly defeated by the majority of countries.

Vishinsky is expected to argue today in favor of his own plan, but there is no reason to believe that it will meet with any more favor.

Queen Candidate \ CaiietS PoSSCSS

Strength, Spirit To Defeat OU

Dog Catcher’ Lewis Warns State Dept.

Washington, Oct. 6—UP)— If he were the Nation’s No. 1 Dog Catcher, John L. Lewis said yesterday, the first thing he’d do would be to impound “the sad dogs . . . which now infest our, State Department.’’

President Truman had been quoted Wednesday as saying “I would not appoint John L. Lewis dog- catcher.”

He couldn’t afford to, the mine workers’ chieftain retorted yesterday, or he “would have more brains in the dog department than in the Department of State.”

Lewis said in a letter to Colorado State Senator Neal Bishop:

“Naturally, the first duty of the bureau of the dog, if staffed by the undersigned, would be to collect and impound the sad dogs, the intellectual poodle dogs and the pusillanimous pups which now infest our State Department.”

(The dictionary says pusillanimous means: “Destitute of manly strength and firmness of mind; of weak or mean .spirit; cowardly.”)

Bishop had started the whole thing a couple of years ago by suggesting jokingly to Mr. Truman, an old friend, that he appoint Lewis ambassador to Moscow because he offers “a more formidable appearance than Stalin, roars ‘no’ louder than Gromyko, hurls more choice invectives . . . than Vishinsky.”

It was in Mr. Truman’s prompt reply, made public by Bishop only this week, that the President said he wouldn’t name Lewis dog catcher.

Since the President wouldn’t want more brains in the dog department than in the State Department, Lewis said in his letter to Bishop made public here, “his remarks to you are eminently justified.”

Lewis also said the President’s appointment of a dog catcher would entail “creation of a new federal bureau with its accompanying personnel of thousands of employes and, in consequence, an increase in the tax burden.”

There was no indication whether Mr. Truman, now cruising in Chesapeake Bay, had heard about Lewis’ retort.

Hup, Two, Three

Fish ’53 Drill Unit Revised By SophsBy ALLEN PENGELLY

A precision drill unit, composed entirely of sophomores- is being formed this year for the purpose of advertising A&M to high school students planning to enter college next year.

Because of its great advertising value, and because of numerous letters and inquiries concerning last year’s Fish drill team, the Execu-

. , , . . five committee, at its June meetingM ™Co o!nfl.pUshing aCr0SS pai"| asked Col. H L. Boatner, PMS&T

and commandant, if it would beallel 38 Sunday.Spearheads of the South Korean

Third Division captured Changjon, about 60 miles north of 38. Reds in battalion strength fought sharply but in vain at Changjon. The South Koreans then moved on toward Wonsan, industrial city 50 miles farther north.

ROK SpearheadAnother Republican spearhead,

possible to organize a similar unit to participate in the various Fall activities.

“It would be impossible to organize a freshman drill unit for the first semester because of the time required to elect directors, plan drills, and practice these drills to give a creditable performance,” Col. Boatner said.

the Capital Division, wheeled in-' Ifc is also impossible to use the i„vm 10 __'Ross Volunteers because new jun-land 12 miles and overcame brief, bitter Red resistance at Yongdae, about 14 miles north of the Red border.

MacArthur’s Friday summary said they continued another 15 miles on to the vicinity of Yachon, some 30 miles inland and on the twisting dirt road were seven miles north of the boundary at that point.

ior members will not be elected until November.”

The question arose “Why not reorganize last year’s freshmen into a sophomore drill unit?” The drills of last year would still be comparatively fresh in their minds and with minor changes, the team could be ready for exhibition within a few short weeks. The 36 man team

will use the same uniforms as last year—green serge with white helmets, white webbing belts with large brass buckles, white gloves, and white leggings. Members will be equipped with chrome plated rifles and white slings.

Warrant Officer J. C. Thomas, last year’s Military Department sponsor, will act as coordinator between the Sophomore Drill Team, the Fish Drill Team, and the Military Department.

A Fish drill unit will be organized but will only practice the drills this fall semester. At the beginning of the spring semester, the sophomore team will disband and the freshman team will begin its activities. The same cycle will be repeated next year.

Assisting Thomas with the two teams will be Sgt. William Davis of the U. S. Army and Sgt. Thomas Black of the U. S. Air Force. These two men will aid the teams in achieving precision and snap in the drills.

All freshmen who are interested in the formation of a Fish drill team will meet to discuss details concerning the team, Monday evening, at 6:50 p. .m in the Assembly Hall. Thomas’ office is in Room 111 of the Basic Division Building, formerly the Aggieland Inn, and he wishes to talk to anyone interested in the team.

Two Peace PlansThe two Korean peace proposals

are superficially alike, but delegates have pointed out that the resemblance is only in language and not in purpose.

The eight-power proposal calls for:

1. Establishment of a unified, independent and democratic Korea.

2. U. N. forces to take all appropriate steps to insure conditions of stability through Korea but should not remain longer than to achieve united government. This was taken to mean that those forces could pursue North Korean aggressors anywhere in the country, north or south of the 38th parallel.

3. Economic rehabilitation of Korea. Supporting delegations hope Korea will be a “pilot project” to show what the U.N. can do in this line.

4. A new U.N. commission of seven members to see that the plan’s provisions are carried out.

Members NamedSix members—Australia, Chile,

the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines and Turkey—are named in the resolution. The seventh place was left open for India, but there was strong doubt today that this most influential of Asiatic coun- trieswould accept appointment.

India proposed a compromise of the Soviet and Western Korean plans. It was decisively defeated as trying to combine the practical and impractical.

The Soviet plan had envisaged a cease fire and the immediate withdrawal of foreign troops. Western delegates pointed out that this would restore the Korean status prevailing before the invasion of last June 25. France’s Jean Chau- vel charged that it was the very absence of foreign troops which encouraged the North Koreans to begin their aggression.

Soviet ProposalThe Soviet proposal also includ

ed plans for elections and rehabilitation, but only after fulfillment of the sections of the plan which would have restored domination of the peninsula to the north.

The U.N.’s powerful 14-nations steering committee agreed yesterday to have the world organization take over the problem of Formosa.

Roy NanceNance, Joe Fuller and Jim

Miller were elected as representatives to the Student Life Committee. He is editor of the Aggieland ’51 and is a senior Pet. Eng. major from Navasota.

Engineer Week Set, Planning

Selected

Cherilyn SmithThe lucky guy is Bill Haley. He entered Miss Smith in The Commentator’s 75th Anniversary Queen contest and the former Cotton Ball Duchess from Wichita Falls is regarded as one of the top beauties at Midwestern University.

Engineering week has been established and the School of Engineering Committee for celebration of the 75th Anniversary has been named.

March 12-17, 1951 has been set as Engineering Week. It will be signalized by a number of technical and educational conferences and will be highlighted by addresses from distinguished educators and engineers.

Members of the committee include Ernest Langford, head of the Department of Architecture; Arch E. Burgess, head of the Department of Management Engineering; and W. E. Street, head of the Department of Engineering Drawing.

Largest Yet . . .

A&M System On At State Fair Of Texas

By B. F. ROLAND

Works of all parts of the A&M System will be on display at the 1950 State Fair of Texas in Dallas. The exhibits will be shown in the Agricultural Building and will occupy a floor space of 56 x 60 feet, which is the largest ever presented by A&M.

One of the most eye-catching exhibits will be an animated display representing the engineering works of the system. A topogra-

Angus Ward Named Consul To SE Africa

Washington, Oct. 6—UP)— Angus Ward, the career diplomat who was held in Manchuria for about a year by Chinese Communists, hasbeen assigned to southeast Africa.

State Department officials said yesterday Ward has been made consul general at Nairobi, Kenya, a British colony.

Since the Reds released him and his staff from Mukden, Manchuria, last December, Ward has been on duty at the State Department here. He was promoted last spring from class two to class one in the foreign service. Class one carries a base pay of $12,000 a yea)-.

Ward has served in the past in Finland, Russia and the Far East, but never before in Africa. There was some evidence he was not happy about the new assignment.

Department officials had no direct comment, but they said the Nairobi post was the only position now open for a diplomat of Ward’s rank where it was felt he could perform useful service.

phic layout with a model train winding its way between oil fields, highway construction, airports, public utilities, and all types of engineering and construction will be shown.

This show will be complete with sound and smoke adding to the realism.

A historical exhibit depicting the 75-year development of the college will be shown. Full sized mannequins will be dressed in the uniforms of the corps dating from 1876 to 1950.

The uniform exhibit was previously scheduled to be shown Wednesday, but due to a delay in receiving some of the equipment it could not be shown here.Visitors will be given a chance

to test their knowledge of Texas trees in the Forest Service exhibit. An electrical question device has been built where correct answers will have the effect of a

State Fair Honors 4-H Group Today

Twenty-seven Texas 4-H club members will be honored by the State Fair of Texas Oct. 6-7, according to Floyd Lynch, state 4-H club leader of A&M.

One boy and one girl from each of the 14 Extension Service districts of Texas, will receive the coveted State Fair Honor Award medallion and will participate in the activities planned by Fair- officials for Rural Youth Day on Oct. 7.

7th Regiment Sets Initial MSC Ball

The 7th Regimental Dance will be held Oct. 20, at 8:30 p. m. in the Memorial Student Center Ball Room, according to Don Sheffield, Regiment Commander.

This is the first student organization dance to be held in the MSC since its opening.

During the evening, a regimental sweetheart will be chosen from the girls on the dance floor.

Music will be furnished by the Aggieland Orchestra.

The 7th Regiment is composed of A. C. and D veterans; A and B Composite, and A and B Athletic. Sheffield said that all former members, as well as all present members of the regiment are eligible to attend.

Symposium Slated For October 11-13

The fifth symposium on “Instrumentation for the Process Industries,” will be held at A&M Oct. 11-13. The course will be conducted as a seminar with lectures and discussions on automatic control.

Industrial concerns manufacturing oil, gas and chemical products as well as manufacturers of instruments and automatic controls will cooperate by showing exhibits and providing lecturers for many of the sessions.

The lectures will cover the subjects of measurement and control of temperature, pressure and liquid level, time control and other allied subjects.

By Ralph GormanNow in higher spirits than ever before, Coach Harry

Stiteler’s Texas Aggies will pose a serious challenge to Coach Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma Sooner 22 game winning streak.

The Cadets go to Owen Field at Norman, Oklahoma fresh from slashing triumphs over both Nevada and Texas Tech. Kickoff time is 2 p. m. Saturday, and it will mark the first time since Stiteler became coach at Aggieland that his Farmers will hold an advantage of experienced manpower over the Sooners.

Today at 2 p. m. the Aggie football squad left Easter- -------------------------- 4-wood Airport in their regular tra

veling plane with 39 players aboard. Coach Harry Stiteler expects the team to be in good shape when they reach Norman, since the team favors air travel.

Sugar Bowl champions the past two years, the- Sooners will have the home field edge, but there will be more than just Sooner partisans on hand to give both teams the moral support needed. Over 1,100 tickets have been sent to College Station and only a few remain.

According to Harold Keith, Oklahoma Sports Publicity Director, the gloomy Wilkinson has publicly predicted that Texas A&M will sever the 22 game Sooner victory cord that began early in 1948 after Oklahoma last a season opener 17-20 to Santa Clara.

Wilkinson’s PredictionsWilkinson’s prediction goes hand

in hand with the thoughts and predictions of the thousands of Aggie supporters around the conference.

The Cadets have returned nine first-teamers to Oklahoma’s one, nine second-teamers to Oklahoma’s eight, and 29 letterman to Oklahoma’s 18 from rival squads of the 1949 campaign.

Bud’s new team is built almost entirely from sophomores and last year’s reserves, and promises to fight furiously trying to repudiate the forecast of their coach and protect the hallowed run of consecutive triumphs through one more week.

Aggie supporters will be seated in a block on the east side of the stands along with the famous Aggie band, some 178 strong, that will make the trip to Norman.

The Sooners graduated their entire 1949 forward wall intact and the tilt Saturday will sorely test Oklahoma’s rebuilt line and reserves.

Hooper vs. WeatherallExtra point kicking will be en

trusted to two gigantic players. Oklahoma’s 220 pound Jim Weatherall booted all four he tried last week against Boston College, while A&M’s 215 pound Darrow Hooper hit 10 for 12 against Nevada and Tech. Buck McPhail, Sooner sophomore fullback, will try to match Hooper’s lofted, robust kickoffs.

A titantic battle of fullbaQcs looms for Saturday afternoon. Leon Heath, Oklahoma’s “Mule Train,” displayed a wide range of fullbacking talents in the Boston College game.

He line-backed savagely, getting the first two tackles of the game. With steam-x’oller blocking, he led Buddy Jones to a 23 yard run that set up the first Okie touchdown. Heath took the legs out from under a Boston College linebacker affording Halfback Billy Vessels plenty of time to spot Frankie Anderson in the end zone with a paydirt toss. Although he carried the ball only four times, his faking helped the Sooner running game.

A&M’s 192 pound Braisin’ Bob Smith scored three touchdowns in each of the first two games, ramming and bulling his way all over the field with 44 carries for a total of 221 yards. Smith plays only on offense, but carries or fakes on virtually every down. George Lynn, Oklahoma scout admits, “He’s terrific.”

In 10 previous meetings dating back to 1903, the Sooners hold a 6-4 edge. Oklahoma has won the last four games. Texas A&M’s teams of 1907, 1909 and 1912, coached by the late Charley Moran who later tutored Centre’s “Pray-

(See OU GAME, Page 6)

pin-ball machine light up.Soil test will be made by scien

tists of the college in the soils laboratory exhibit. Demonstrators will test soil samples and explain the process to the visitors.

Pictures depicting work done by the system and life at the colleges of the system will be hung around the walls. In front of the main entrance to the A&M section will be a display of growing legumes best adapted to soil building.Attendants will be in the build

ing at all times to show visitors around. An information booth has been set up.

Sunday has been officially designated A&M day at the Fair and the special train to Norman, Okla. will have an eight hour lay-over to enable students riding it a chance to go to the Fair.

A program under the direction of R. L. Slaughter, head of the speech department, of Arlington State College, will be given in front of the Hall of State at 2 p. m.

The Aggie Band and Singing Cadets will take part in the program along with the band and Wainwright Rifles from Arlington State College, the band and Sam Houston Rifles from Tarleton State College and the Prairie View Choir.

Green’s Condition Still Unchanged

Glenn Green, sophomore electrical engineering major from Abilene, who was injured in an automobile accident near Bryan Wednesday, is still in critical condition according to a report received from the Bryan Hospital today.

Jack Harper, sophomore accounting major from Waco, also injured in the accident, is reported to be doing well and will probably be released from the hospital today.

Green suffered a severe head injury, while Harper received only bruises and abrasions.

Caudill to Address Architects Wives

W. W. Caudill, System research architect, will speak Wednesday at the Architectural Wives Society | meeting at 7:30 p. m. in room 2-C of the Memorial Student Center.

Caudill is a member of the firm of Caudill, Rowlett and Scott, architects.

The meetiing is open to all wives of architectural students and instructors are invited.

OU Student Union Invites Aggies

All students planning to attend the Oklahoma University game have been extended an invitation to use the facilities of the Oklahoma Union Building in Norman, Oklahoma.

W. H. Freeland, manager of the Memorial Union Building, called J. Wayne Stark today to extend the invitation.

He also told Stark there would be special tours of the OU campus. Memorial Union telephone service will also be available for the Aggies.