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VOLLXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 NUMBER 24
GLEE CLUB AND GUESTS
Photo by Lewis Arnold
Pictured while presenting "Stabal Mater" by Rossini in Lang don Hall, the Glee Club and guest soloists under the Direction of
Dr. Fagan Thompson, has received invitations to several nearby camps. Virginia Williamson, Auburn, is president of the Glee
Club. Three members of The Plainsman staff are included in the group. They are Mary Lee, Susan Brown, and Sarah Smith.
Publications Elections Set For April 19th
QUALIFICATIONS ALTERED SLIGHTLY
FOR GLOMERATA ED AND MANAGER
Editors and business managers of The Plainsman and
Glomerata will be elected in the general campus election
April 19.
The qualifications for candidates as set by the Constitu­tion
are: the candidate must rank as a junior with 136 hours;
Country Gentleman
Publishes Article
Written By Students
must have a scholastic average of 2.0 or above; and must have
one year's experience on the pub­lication
on which he intends to
run, or the equivalent.
At a recent meeting the Publi­cations
Board passed a motion
temporarily altering the require­ment
regarding the number of
hours necessary for candidates
for either of the Glomerata posi­tions.
The motion reads:
"In view of the present war
emergency which has so affected
commercial photography, en­graving
and printing as to make
it impractical to publish the
Glomerata more frequently than
during each twelve-month period,
the Board of Student Publica­tions
will declare eligible, in so
far as number of credit hours
completed are concerned, any
candidate for editor or business
manager of the 1946 Glamerate
who, by taking a normal load,
can graduate at the end of the
Spring Quarter of 1946."
The Board said that this new
provision does, not apply to the
Plainsman.
Applicants for editor and busi­ness
manage rof the Plainsman
should file applications with Mrs.
Wallace Tidmore in the presi­dent's
office by noon, Monday,
April 9.
AG CLUB ELECTS
SIX NEW OFFICERS
Officers for the API Ag club
were elected at the last meeting
to serve during the spring quar­ter.
Bernard Fowler, Fayette, was
chosen president. Milton Mea­dows,
Collinsville, will serve in
the capacity of vice-president.
Secretary is Fred Browder, Mont­gomery.
Ben Richardson, Jasper,
was elected treasurer. The office
of monitor will be filled by Troy
Bradford, Phil Campbell; and
Buris Boshell, Phil Campbell, will
serve as reporter.
The next regular meeting of
the ag club will be Tuesday, April
17 in Comer Hall at 8 p. m. All
students of agriculture are urged
to attend.
ON THE CAMPUS
The Debate Club will meet
Monday at 7 p. m. in Samford to
practice the debates before going
•to Montevallo.
• * *
Cardinal Key meets Wednesday
at 5 p. m. in Social Center.
• * •
Pan Hellenic Council meets
Thursday night at 7 in Social
Center.
• • *
The drive for old clothes for
relief will be held in Auburn on
Saturday, April 14.
Articles and pictures of six Au­burn
coeds, who are majors in
home economics, appear in the
April issue of the Country Gent­leman,
leading national farm
magazine.
The articles, which present the
opinions of the writers as to why
home making is an.art and the
most thrilling career that a wom­an
can pursue, were written by
Nell Higgins, Fyffe; Mary Evelyn
Jefferson, Auburn; Martha Hod­ges,
Statesboro, Ga.; Margaret
Dorrough, Cullman; Ann Hooper,
Centre; and Evelyn Tucker, Cull­man.
Photographs were made by
Lewis Arnold, while plans for
the articles which appear in the
magazine were worked out by
L. O. Brackeen, ag editor, and
Mrs. Marion Spidle, dean of home
economics.
Home Ec Clubs
Attend Meet
Next Weekend
Representatives from Home
Economics Clubs in Florida and
Alabama will attend a two day
workshop here on Friday and
Saturday April 13 and 14. Regis­tration
and a get together spon­sored
by the Womens Student
Government Association will be
held at Social Center on Thurs­day
evening at 8 p. m. All women
students are urged to attend.
Miss Gladys Wycoff, field sec­retary
for the American Home
Economics Association, with
headquarters are in Washington,
will be guest speaker at an open
meeting held in Duncan Hall
Friday night, April 13 at 8 o'clock.
Representatives chosen from
the Dana King Gatchell Club are
Ann McClurkin, Alabama State
President of Home Economics
Club; Louise Jacks, Alabama
State Secretary; Ann Grant, and
Mary Popwell. Miss Jacks will
be released from her field work
in Montgomery to attend these
meeting. FHA club will send two
delegates to this workshop. They
are Helen Williamson and Glenda
Bennett.
Women Student Government Offices
To Be Filled At Election April 16
Elections for president, vice-president, secretary, treasur­er,
town representative, and coed representative to the Exe­cutive
Cabinet will be held on Monday, April 16. There will
be a special election in June for house presidents and for
freshman representative to WSGA.
The candidates should have a petition signed by 75 girls
and bring it with them to Social
Petitions Due For Entrance
Into General Election Race
Qualifications Board Set April 16
For Ex Cabinet And Class Officers
Qualifications to run for office on the all-campus election
have been announced by the Executive Cabinet according to
Bill Crum, chairman of the elections committee.
All students running for office, other than freshmen, must
have completed at least one quarter's work at Auburn.
Student activity cards wil be required of each voter, who
will sign his ballot in order to
Little Art Gallery
Opens With Exhibit
Of Student Work
The reopening of the student's
Little Art Gallery with an ex­hibit
of student's work was an­nounced
by Art Guild this week.
Entries of commercial design are
on display in the Annex until
next Saturday.
Newly elected members to the
Art Guild, Marian Leigh, Cedar
City, Utah, Lallah Miles Perry,
Montgomery; and Helen Trippe,
Selma, are helping with this ex­hibit.
A party was given last Thurs­day
night complimenting these
three new members.
Center on hTursday, April 5, at
5 p. m. when qualifications board
will meet to give candidates a
quiz on Co-Ediquette. At 7 p. m.
Thursday Qualifications board
will meet again to interview the
candidates.
Candidates must plan to be
in summer school as they will
be officially installed at the last
convocation of the quarter.
2.5 Average
Each candidate must have had
a scholastic average of at least 2.5
the preceeding quarter, and must
meet the following citizenship
requirements:
She must not have been con­victed
of a major offense or of
repeated minor offenses. She
must be recommended by the
qualifications board.
The candidate must meet the
following residence r e q u i r e ­ments:
Seniors For Prexy
The president and vice-presi­dent
shall be resident seniors.
They shall have attended the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at
least three quarters preceding the
time they go into, office.
The president and vice-presi­dent
of the Student Council shall
have been president of vice-pres­ident
of a house for at least one
quarter, shall have served on the
council, or shall have served on
a house committee for at least
three quarters.
Secretary's Needs
The secretary shall be a resi­dent
junior and shall have at­tended
the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute at least three quarters
preceding the time she shall go
into office.
The treasurer shall be a resi­dent
sophomore. The town rep­resentative
shall be a junior or
senior.
Due to the fact that there qual­ifications
originated under the
semester system and we are now
on the quarter system, some al­lowances
and exceptions will
probably have to be made. All
girls who think that there is a
possibility of their qualifying are
urged to meet qualifications
board on Thursday, April 5.
"Miss America's" Good Looks
Will Pay Off With Scholarship
Miss America 1945 will receive
a $5,000 educational scholarship
to attend the college of her
choice, or to receive special train­ing
in perfecting her particular
talents.
This announcement has just
been made by Arthur S. Chen-oweth,
President of the national
famous Pageant held annually in
Atlantic City in September, who
said, "We, the Board of Directors
of the Miss America Pageant wish
to offer a constructive and worth­while
career, via education and
training, to the lucky contestant
who has the health, beauty and
talent qualifications to win the
national honor of becoming
America's most typical girl."
As Superintendent of Atlantic
City's Public Schools, a Rhodes
Scholar and Oxford graduate, Mr.
Chenoweth not only recognizes
the importance of higher educa­tion,
but believes civic organiza­tions
throughout the country
should support and encourage
scholarship funds for ambitious
young Americans.
Educators Supervising
The Miss America Scholarship
Fund will be under the super­vision
of a committee of five
alumnae of well-known colleges
and universities, and Dr. Guy E.
Snavely, Executive Director of
the Association of American Col­leges,
who will serve at National
Counselor to. the Scholarship
Committee.
In accepting this appointment
Dr. Snavely said. "The Commit­tee
in charge of the Miss Ameri­ca
Pageant are to be heartily
commended for their wisdom and
foresight in arranging for the
young lady selected to have a
scholarship of four • years' ad­vanced
study. It should be most
stimulating to the candidates to
look forward to the possibilities
of winning a prize of $5,000 to be
spent over a period of four years
in advance study. It is to be
hoped that this award will go to
some young lady who is ambi­tious
for a college or university
course or to a college student
who is ambitious for a Master's
degree or special training."
Covers Expenses
The Scholarship fund will in­clude
tuition, room and board,
books, and all incidental ex­penses
necessary for constructive
college work. Local and state con­tests
will be conducted through­out
the spring and summer
months by Junior Chamber of
Commerce, theatre chains, radio
stations, newspapers and other
sponsors.
Eligibility
Girls between the ages of 18
and 28 who are not married and
who have never been married
are eligible to compete in local
contests. Poise, personality, in­telligence
and Talent are basis of
judging contestants in addition
(Continued on back page)
Short Fiction
Contest Opened
By Mademoiselle
It's not too early to start on
your manuscript for Mademoisel­le's
annual short story contest
which closes May 1.
Any coed interested in writ­ing
fiction may enter. Stories
should be between 1,500 and
3,500 words in length and suit­able
ior publication in Mademoi­selle.
While stories may have ap­peared
in a college magazine or
newspaper, they must not have
been published in any other pub­lication.
Winning stories, which
will be purchased by Mademoi­selle
at regular publication rates,
will probably appear in the Aug­ust
Mademoiselle, the college
issue.
Manuscripts should be typed
on one side of regulation paper
and should be accompanied by
stamped, self-addressed envelopes
to guarantee their safe return.
All entries should be addressed
to College Fiction Contest, Ma­demoiselle,
122 East 42nd Street,
New York, 17, N. Y.
No manuscript will be accepted
which is postmarked later than
May 1.
'Mike'Morgan Wins
In WAA Election
Chapman, Grant
Graves, Howard
Also Take Office
Mary "Mike" Morgan, PE maj­or
from Lanett, was elected pres­ident
of Women's Athletic Assoc­iation
last Friday. He only op­ponent
was June Killian, Bir­mingham,
member of Chi Omega.
Four hundred and sixty, or
about half of the woman students
voted, according to
Interfaith Council
Plans To Meet
At Prof. Kuderna's
Students interested in the San
Francisco peace conference are
invited to meet at Toomer's Cor­ner
Thursday night at seven
o'clock to go to the home of Prof,
and Mrs. Jerome Kuderna, where
another of a series of informal
discussions will be held.
Sponsored by the Inter Faith
Council, these discussions pro­vide
an opportunity for better
understanding between students
and faculty as well as opening
new channels of thought for
many students.
This week's discussion will be
led by Mary Louise Shupe, Dan-ford
Graduate Fellow, and Mary
Moling Kirkman, director of the
Wesley Foundation. Both partici­pated
in the panel discussions on
Dumbarton Oaks which were
broadcast recently over WJHO.
Dr. Kuderna is a professor of
education.
HUTSELL RELEASES
TRACK SCHEDULE
Wilbur Hutsell's 24th season of
track coaching at Auburn isn't a
particularly bright one. Both
dates and material are scarce
this spring.
Hutsell today announced the
Tigers would compete in only
four meets. They are:
April 28: Maxwell Field at Au­burn.
May 5: Georgia Tech, Florida
in triangular meet at Atlanta.
May 12: Southeastern A.A.U.
meet at Auburn.
May 19: Southeastern Confer­ence
meet at Birmingham.
The most outstanding perform­er
on Hutsell's team is Curtis
Kuykendall, the Southeastern
Conference quarter mile cham­pion.
Curtis has worked out only
a few times.
make it valid.
Petitions for all offices must
be turned in to Mrs. Wallace Tid­more,
receptionist in Dr. Duncan's
office before 1 p. m. Wednesday,
April 11. At least 2 per cent of
the total signatures of the total
class enrollment of the candidate
shall be on the petition, which
will be in the following form:
"We, the undersigned members
of the class of ,
do hereby nominate
for " (Signature
of sponsors.)
"I hereby accept the nomina­tion."
(Signature of nominee.)
Candidates will meet Qualifica­tions
Board Monday, April 9,
at 7 p.m. in Dr. Duncan's office.
Miss Ann Students must be officially qual-
Canon, faculty advisor of WAA. ified by this board before they
Helen Chapman, Birmingham, are eligible to run in the election
An overall average of at least
2.0 is required of every office-president.
She is a **§££ seeker^in order to qualify He
ADPi. She polled more votes than must be a member of the proper
Pat Crowe, Atlanta, Theta U, or % ^ ? ^ £ g g £ *
who was last year's treasurer of
WAA, is the newly elected vice
Elizabeth Holloway, Mobile
Secretary- for the coming- y- e,a r secretary-treasurer of each class
is Anne Grant, Demopohs, Alpha w J U foe e l e c t e d.
Gam. She served as bowling
counselor for WAA last year. Her
opponents were Rachel Batson,
Bessemer, Dot Harper, Tallassee,
and Patty Northington, Prattville,
Seniors will elect Cabinet pres­ident
and three representatives to
the Cabinet, plus their class of­ficers.
Third quarter juniors,
first and second quarter seniors
Connie Graves, Eufaula, won w i l l b e eligible to vote.
the el' ectt :i on f''—or t'*r easure'*r•. cSwh>e ;i' s Juniors will choose vice-presi
a member of KD. Girls running
against her were Marian Collins,
Ft. Deposit, Rosa Coleman, Syla-cauga,
and Peggy Reynolds, Tus-kegee,
DZ.
Mary Howard, Birmingham,
POP, defeated Gene Rinnert,
Ragland, ADPi, for publicity
manager.
Dean's List Released
For Science And Lit
Contains Five Coeds
For the School of Science and
Literature, Dean Roger Allen has
released the names of five coeds
who are in the upper five percent
of all students enrolled in that
school, and are therefore on the
Dean's List.
They are "Van Cardwell, Ever­green;
Mimi Simms, Auburn;
Mildred Freeman, Birmingham;
Pat Kirkwood, Gold Hill; and
Jearielle Boone, Goodwater.
Government Photog
Shoots API This Week
Shooting pictures of the farm
house, fish ponds, Regional Lab
and API's agricultural projects
on the campus this week is
Madeline Osborne, woman photo­grapher
for the government from
Washington, D. C.
Miss Osborne will stay in Au­burn
until Thursday.
Her pictures will be used in
government bulletins and as pub­licity
for the Department of
Agriculture.
petition Wednesday before 1 p.m.
President, vice-president, and
dent and two representatives to
the Cabinet, as well as their class
officers. Third quarter sopho­mores,
first and second quarter
juniors may vote for these offic­ers.
Sophomores are to select the
secretary and one representative
to the Cabinet, in addition to
their class officers. Third quar­ter
freshmen, first and second
quarter sophomores are classed
as sophomores.
Freshmen will vote for class
officers and one representative to
the Cabinet. First and second
quarter freshmen will vote.
Fifth year students, including
third quarter fourth year stu­dents
and first and second quar­ter
fifth year students, will elect
one representative to the Cabinet.
Polls will be placed on Vet Hill,
and in Student Center and will
be open from 8-12 a.m., and 1-5
p.m. Wednesday, April 19.
Sunrise Service
Held Easter Morn
In Graves Center
In spite of a cloudy sunrise, the
amphitheater in Graves Center
was filled to seating capacity for
the Sunrise Easter Service Sun­day
morning at 5:59 o'clock.
Dr. John C. Reid, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of
Columbus, Ga., spoke on "Life
Everlasting." Miss Melba Stone
sang "The Holy City," accompan­ied
by Mrs. Sara Tidmore at the
piano. Ministers of Auburn and
Opelika churches assisted with
the program.
An annual community feature,
the service was sponsored joint­ly
by the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute and the Auburn Minis­terial
Association with the help
of the Lee County Ministerial
Former Coed To Edit
C-W, University Paper
Barbara Rosenfeld, Columbus, Association
Ga., former Auburn student, is . , , D . D, •
unopposed in the election for Alpna rSI Hedges
editor of the Crimson-White, stu- Elect NeW Officers
dent newspaper at the University Officers elected by the eighteen
of Alabama. pledges of Alpha Psi at a meet-
Miss Rosenfeld has been man- ing Monday are Charles Field,
aging editor of the C-W for the Phenix City, president; Ralph
past quarter. While she attended Williams, Mountrie, Ga., vice-
Auburn, she was a member of president and Jack Cobb, Moul-
IRC and was active in Collegiate trie, Ga., secretary-treasurer. Carl
Red Cross. Sellars is pledge-master.
Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945
JAYWALKING
With THORNTON and LANEY
A few more dances like the Alpha Psi's and a large num­ber
of us will be suffering from delirium tremens (we learned
that in sociology). We overheard one inebriate, who seemed
to be in a philosophical mood, ask his partner," If you had your
life to live over again, what would you do?"
Coed—"The same things, only much oftener."
Ed (over phone)—Meet me at the Chewacle clubhouse.
Coed—Oh, gee, that's a fine place.
Ed—Yeah, and it isn't very far from where are going.
• • •
Prof.—There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.
Ed—There's many a cup twixt the lip and the slip.
Coed—There's only a slip twixt the gown and the hip.
* * *
Captain—Be sure to put plenty of nuts in the cake batter.
Battalion Baker—I ain't cracking no nuts today. I nearly
busted my jaw yesterday.
* * *
Newlywey coed (reading paper)—A large percentage of ac­cidents
occur in the kitchen.
Newlywed ed—Yes, and what's worse, we men have to eat
them and pretend to enjoy them.
* * *
One of the boys came home the other night with a black
eye and wanted to know who in hell told him that silence
meant "Yes."
* * *
Nowadays, when a man bites a dog it isn't news—it's lunch.
It seems that the morals of the Auburn students are low,
or at least they would be considered low by the administration.
Of the hundred or more ballots cast in the poll last week only
5 were opposed to risque jokes. Four of those ballots were
signed by Cherry Pie. The other was unsigned, but in words
of one syllable it commended, "The whole censored business
stinks including Cherry Pie." We have heard that there was a
lot of opposition by the professors and townspeople to Jay­walking,
yet not one bothered to express his opinion. Thus we
conclude that they are not opposed. Yet beceuse of pressure
brought to bear on us and ye old editor we can't publish the
sort of thing the students want.
* * *
Party Prof.—This bottle of brandy is 91 years old.
Party Stude—(eagerly)—Yes, yes?
Prof.—And next year it will be 92.
* * *
Chewacla started charging admission Saturday (with a 9%
rise in price), and that's that. It wuz fun, wuzn't it?
Have you ever had a giant firecracker tossed into a phone
booth with you? Ask a Kappa Sig how it feels.
Ring around the bathtub
Fourteen inches high.
Four and twenty boarders
All as sore as I.
When the door is opened,
The bird that leaves a ring
Is going to be as sad a sight
As the guy who used to sing.
* * *
I wish I were a kangaroo
Despite his funny stances.
I'd have a place to put the junk
My girl friend brings to dances.
* * *
Don't, worry if your grades are low
And your rewards are few;
Remember that the mighty oak
Was once a nut like you.
Young Professor (?): "Are you doing anything tonight, Miss
Jones?"
Miss Jones (hopefully): "No, not a thing!"
Professor: "Then try to get to class on time toworrow
morning."
—Western Gazette.
* * *
A wolf is a person who has devoted the best leers of his
life to women.
CAMPUS
By Irene Long
Too Many Going To College?
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
During the past two weeks we
have asked a number of students
what they thought of peacetime
conscription, hoping to make this
week's column an opinion poll.
The answer was, too frequently,
"Well, really, I haven't thought
about it."
Time was when we wondered
why that song, "I'll Be Back in
a Year," gained a certain popu­larity
back in '41 and '42, but
that's beside the point.
The revised May Bill proposes
that, following the war, "every
male citizen . . . at the age of
eighteen years, or within four
years thereafter be subject to
military or naval training . . . for
a period of one year."
The bill is supported by poli­tically
powerful elements in
America, including the President.
It is opposed by many who as­sert
that the decision regarding
peacetime conscription should not
be made during wartime, but
should be postponed until Amer­ica
has had a chance to take a
calm look at the postwar situa­tion.
Included in the letter group is
the Educational Policies Com­mission
of the National Educa­tion
Association, church confer­ences,
and many other progres­sive
groups.
A War Department spokesman
admitted that the sole reason
why the Army and Navy want
universal military training is that
it is "based upon a military
need."
The proponents of conscription
had been saying much about the
alleged health benefits of such a
program, and about the reduction
of unemployment, ..training ..for
citizenship, and a variety of other
matters.
According to a circular which
the Army recently distributed to
its officers, "Universal military
training (in peacetime) will be
our preparation for the next
war."
President Hulchins of the Uni­versity
of Chicago believes that
America should lead the world
in constructing the foundations
of peace, rather than in prepara­tion
for a third world war.
Hence, the question of whether
America should adopt peacetime
conscirption may be stated in
these words: By what means will
world peace be maintained?
The question of military nec­essity
will be answered when the
solution is given to the problem
of how the world's peace is to
be preserved.
Do we think peacetime con­scription
should keep American
youth marking time until a solu­tion
is offered? No.
Turned out to be an opinion
poll after all. didn't it?
* » *
On the bulletin board in one
of the houses for women:
"I think that I shall never scan
A tree as lovely as a man."
• * *
At a recent meeting of the
Honor Board of the Illinois In­stitute
of Technology, one stu­dent
was given an "E" as his final
grade in a mecanical engineering
class for dis-honesty, according
to Technology News, the college
newspaper. He was also placed
on probation.
Don't get scared, folks. It can't
happen here.
» * *
Didn't see Teddy, t h e world
champion steer, but the "mobile
stable" was quite a truck.
CHERRY PIE
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
In this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
TO BE READ WITH A BROOK­LYN
ACCENT
An oyster met an oyster
And there were oyster two.
Two oysters met two oysters
And there were oysters, too.
Four oysters met a pint of milk,
And there were oysters stew.
Cherry Pie
' It's a funny world, says one
observer. If a man gets money
he's a grafter. If he keeps it, he's
a capitalist. If he spends it, he's
a playboy. If' he doesn't get it,
he's no good. And if he gets it
without working for it, he's a
parasite. And if he accumulates
it, after a life-time of hard work,
hes a sucker.
Cherry Pie
"My friend is familitar with
many, many tongues."
"Say, is he a liguist?'
"No, a physician."
Cherry Pie
Irate Prof.: "You're late! You
should have been here at eight
o'clock."
"Beagle": "Why? What hap­pened?"
Cherry Pie
Said one Alpha Psi to another:
"Do you believe in Buddah?"
Said the other: Why, of course.
But I think oleomragarine is just
as good."
Cherry Pie
Clerk: Spell your name please.
Man: Double U, double O, D.
double U, A, R, D, double U,
double O—
Clerk: Wait a minute! Start
over.
Man: Double U double O, D,
double U, A, R, D, double U,
double O—
Clerk: For the love of Mike, I
give up!
Man: What's tough about
Woodward Wood?
Cherry Pie
She was only the laundryman's
daughter—some washout.
Cherry Pie
Inmate of Asylum approaches
painter, hard at work on the
ceiling.
"Hey, mister, have you got a
good hold on that brush?"
"I think so, why?"
"Well, hang on tight—I'm gon­na
move this ladder."
Cherry Pie
Frosh: "Are there any slick
crooks in this city?"
ATO: "Slick crooks! Man—one
evening at the dance the stole
my pants and hung weights on
my suspender? «n I wouldn't miss
them until uiey had gone."
Cherry Pie
Conductor on bus: "Can't you
read that sign? It says 'No smok­ing.'
"
Frosh: "Sure, mate, that's plain
enough, but you've got a lot of
dippy signs here. One of 'em says
'Wear Nemo Corsets,' so I ain't
paying any attention to any of
'em."
Cherry Pie
Wabbits have a funny face.
Their pwivate lives is a dis-gwace.
Ood be surprised if oo but
knew
The awful things that wabbits
do.
Cherry Pie
The spinal column is a bunch
of bones that run up and down
your back, keeping you from be­ing
legs all the way up to your
neck.
Cherry Pie
Lady: "I want to see some kid
gloves for my eight year old
daughter, please."
Clerk: "Yes, madam, white
kid?"
Lady: "Sir!"
Cherry Pie
"I caught my boy friend flirt­ing
last week."
"Really? I got mine that way
too."
Cherry Pie
Doctor: "If I should cut off
one of your ears, what would
happen?"
Laney: "I couldn't hear out of
it"
Doctor: "If I cut off your
other ear, what would happen?"
Laney: "I would be blind."
Doctor: "But why do you think
you'd be blind."
Laney: "My hat would fall
down over my eyes and I couldn't
see."
—The Spectator.
Cherry Pie
He—I never knew love was like
this.
She—Neither did I, I thought
there were more chocolates and
flowers to it.
Cherry Pie
Minnie: "You look all out of
sorts. What's the matter?"
Nellie: "Plenty. On account of
my rheumatism the doctor told
me to avoid all dampness—and
you've no idea how silly I feel
sitting in an empty bathtub and
going over myself with a vacuum
cleaner."
"A larger portion of college students
• get no real benefit from so-called college
education." So said Warren Piper in an
article written several years ago, in. con­trast
to one by David Kinley who asked
,'Too many for what For the colleges to
for? for the good of society? For the good
of the applicant?"
Some seem to believe that if too many
people are highly educated there will not
be enough left to do the common labor
of society. Society does need a certain
number of hewers-of-wood and drawers-of-
water, as well as a certain number of
teachers, lawyers, and followers of other
professions.
The real point in dispute is the wisdom
and righteousness of permitting anybody
except the individual himself decide in
which group he will try to be.
A motive which has led to a demand for
limitation of attendance at college and
universities is the growth of a sort of in-tellectural
aristocracy, which like other
aristocracies, does now want its class to
become too numerous because that would
destroy its exclusiveness.
Formerly some colleges admitted only
those students from the first fourth of
classes graduating from high schools, be­lieving
that they were the leaders. Any­one
familitar with secondary education
knows that they were mistaken in this
view, as some of the ablest students come
out of the second, third, or even fourth
quarter of a class.
Then there were the psychologic en­trance
tests, to show, supposedly, the alart-ness
instead of thinking power of a pro­spective
undergradcate. It was more often
than not that a student "lucked out" on
this type of test.
Some advocates of limitation of num­bers
to colleges justify their opinion that
many who enter college fail to complete
their course and that this is a "social
waste". There is no evidence that this is
true, however, for even one more year of
schooling can often help a person in his
career.
It is the cry that the business of a col­lege
is to educate the leaders. But who
can tell beforehand who will be a leader
twenty years hence?
In Russia it has ben the policy, when
more apply for admission to colleges and
universities than can be taken care of, to
make the selection of those to be admitted
on the basis of background. In a country
supposed to be communisitic this consider­ation
of cultural surroundings in which
prospective students have been brought up
hardly seems consistant.
"A country like ours needs educated
followers as well as educated leaders, and
the more with higher education the bet­ter,"
says Mr Kinley. He went on to say
that many do not need to go to college to
be educated but can get their education
otherwise.
The demands of industry and business
for better trained employees is in itself
enough to warrant the better education
of America which is likely to come after
the war, not to mention the need that
will be aroused for a large number of
citizens trained to think on political and
economic questions.
Ten Years Ago
The front page of The Plainsman a dec­ade
ago was filled with news of a coming
campus election, just as this issue. Ten
years ago, however, The Plainsman was a
semi-weekly publication appearing twice
a week—Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Over a thousand students were expected
to vote in the elections then—same as
now—but the ROTC unit contained 1100
cadets, ever-so-many more than at present.
The cadets were planning a big drill then,
to be held on Bullard Field before the
newly elected president of the collge, Dr.
L. N. Duncan.
Sports were prominent on the front
page of the April 3, 1935, number of the
Tiger rag—the Auburn nine was just be­fore
meeting the National League champs,
the Saint Louis Cardinals, at a game in
players such as Dizzy and Daffy Dean, Rip
Collins and Pepper Martin, romped over
the war eagles with a score of 5-1; but the
polo team made up for this loss by knock­ing
off a neat little score against a team
from Maxwell Field called the Flyers.
Ted Weems orchestra had just been
signed for the senior dance, and bids were
out for the decoration of this gala an­nual
affair.
Scabbard and Blade, national honorary
military organization tapped nineteen jun­iors
for membership. The swimming team
dropped its final meet to the Georgia Tech
Tornado.
Linwood Funchess, sixth president of
the student body, made the statement in
an interview with the Plainsman represen­tative
that any candidate in the coming
elections desiring a "watcher" at the count­ing
of votes was entitled to such and that
unfair practices in voting were to be
avoided.
The Tiger tennis team had lost a match
to Mississippi State, and the Glee Club
had recently disbanded, but the boys at
Auburn were going on toward bigger and
better things, planning the ROTC Horse-show.
A debate with a team from Monte-vallo
and a squabble with the University
of Alabama, plus a paragraph in one of
the columns stating that "the Glomerata
office was giving out the same old hooey—
the year book will soon be out—" and a
review of the Players' production, "Hel­ena's
Boys", put on jointly by people from
Auburn and Opelika, were headlines in
The Plainsman ten years ago.
Qualify, If You Can
Elections for all offices on the campus
are on the April Calendar. Publications,
Cabinet, and WSGA offices are all to be
filled this month. Applications are due
for publications offices next Monday. For
Cabinet positions they are due next Wed­nesday.
For WSGA jobs petitions must be
turned in tomorrow.
It is to a student's advantage, both per­sonally
and as a group, to enter any race
in which he is interested and qualified
to run. The entering of more students in
each election would make for competition,
and that is good. It is one of the main
factors in making for a better run govern­ment.
If you have a job to do, and some­one
else is around who could do it just
as well—or perhaps better if given the
chance, with the chance likely to be given
to them—you will do a better job.
So we ask you to read over the quali­fications,
and if you can enter, then do. Be­sides
a good race is fun anytime.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Theta Hold Joint Formal
Zombie's Collegians To Play At Dance
In Girl's Gym Saturday at Nine P. M.
LB ADS FOR PHI
Miss Bettye Blaylock, freshman in science and lit from Bir­mingham,
will lead with Charles Spivey, president of Phi
Delta Theta, at the joint Phi-SAE formal Saturday night. She
is a member of Kappa Delta and has been chosen for the feature
section of the '45 Glomerata.
AlphaDelta Pi Elects
Officers For Year
Newly elected officers of Al­pha
Delta Pi were installed last
Wednesday night in the chapter
room of ADPi in Dorm III by
Dale Garber, retiring president.
Rebecca Fraser, junior in edu­cation
from Birmingham, was
chosen president; Ginger Dun
can, junior in art from Atlanta,
Ga., vice-president; and Mar­garet
Crane, who is a junior in
science and lit from Mobile,
pledge director.
New recording secretary is
Nancy B l a c k , sophomore in
science and lit from Fort De­posit.
Jane Ardis, Mt. Olive, jun­ior
in home ec was elected cor­responding
s e c r e t a r y ; Helen
Chapman, junior in business from
Birmingham, treasurer; Bert
Raines, sophomore in business
from Mobile, chaplain; and Jean
Hester, junior in home ec from
Russellville, reporter.
MERLE DODD WEDS
LYNN MORRIS, JR.
AT HALEYVILLE
The marriage of Miss Merle
Dodd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Dodd, of Lynn, and L. G.
Morris, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. G. Morris, took place at 7:30
p. m. Saturday, March 10, at the
home of Mrs. W. W. Haley, with
the Rev. W. C. Quillen officiating.
The bride wore a two-piece suit
of navy blue gabardine with
matching accessories. Her corsage
was of white orchids.
Mrs. Morris was graduated
from the People's Hospital in
Jasper.
Mr. Morris is a graduate of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, at
Auburn.
After a short wedding trip the
couple returned to Haleyville to
make their home.
TWIN MAJORS MEET
IN BELGIAN TOWN
Doughboys walking down the
street of a Belgian town stopped
short and turned to stare. But
Calvin C. and Clifford J. Chunn,
twin brothers, both wearing ma­jor's
insignia on their identical
raincoats, were too wrapt up in
their conversation to notice. It
was their first meeting in two
years.
Sons of Mr. A. E. Chunn, Jack­son,
Ala., the 33-year old majors
say the only "mistaken identity"
trouble they have, is the frequent­ly
an officer will run up excited­ly,
wring one's hand and exclaim,
"Swell to see you Cal!"—only it's
Clifford he's talking too, or vice
versa.
(Continued on page 4)
Miss Sue Dale Fleming
To Wed Bobby Dobbins,
Both Former Students
The approaching marriage of
Miss Sue Dale Fleming, daugh­ter
of Mrs. Louise Hay Fleming,
to Lieut. Robert Anderson Dob­bins,
Jr., U. S. Army Airforces,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Dob­bins,
of Sylacauga, has been an­nounced
by Mrs. Louise Fleming,
of Huntsville.
A graduate of the Huntsville
High School, Miss Fleming at­tended
Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
where, she majored in
business science and was a mem­ber
of Kappa Delta sorority. She
was also featured in the "Favor­ite"
section of the Glomerata
during her 1942 year there.
She is now an employe of the
Henderson National Bank.
Lieut. Dobbins entered service
April 3, 1943, and was commis­sioned
June 26 of the same year.
He received his Pilot's wings
August 4, 1944, at Eagle Pass,
Texas.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the
Phi Delta Theta's will present
their Spring formal April 7, from
8:30 to 12 o'clock in the Girls
Gymnasium with Zombie Laud­erdale
and his Auburn Collegiates
playing. The decorations will
consist of purple and white
streamers, and greek letters on
purple and white backdrops be­tween
the windows. The main
backdrop will be white with the
words "Spring Formal" arrayed
in flowers accompanied by the
Phi SAE Greek letters. A unique
figure of girls sitting in a swing
will be painted on the backdrop.
Members, pledges and dates of
the SAE's attending will be Mor-man
McLeod, Jr., Jeannette Ellis,
Jasper; Jack Anderson, J. M. Fur-gerson,
Huntsville; Felix Baker,
Alma Gholston, Fitspatrick; Doug
Bickerstaff, Sarah Strange, Mo­bile;
John Coleman, Carolyn Self,
Auburn; Bill Cook, Camile Lang-ston,
Birmingham; Guy Folmar,
Ada Wright, Auburn; Don Harp­er,
Joyce Slaughter, Luverne;
Sam Johnson, Sara Nell Smith,
Birmingham.
Jack Key, Betty Blackmon,
Columbus, Ga.; Dent McCullohs,
Ellen Eagle, Jackson, Tenn.; Bill
O'Brien, Evelyn Beall; Frank
Pease, Betty Foster, Columbus,
Ga.; Tommy Pease, Sis Montgom­ery,
Opelika; John Robins, Coo
Cooper, Rome, Ga.; Harper Turn­er.;
Hooper Turner, Tudy Dis-mukes;
Karow Wilson, Saxon
Shuemaker; Jim Bruce, Bill
Shelby, Martin Willson.
Members, pledges and dates of
the Phi's attending will be
Charles Spivey, Betty Blaylock,
Birmingham; Harold Watkins,
Gretchen Brown, Columbus; Ben
Radcliff, Julia LeSeur, Roanoke;
John Wood, Becky Plowden,
Florence; Bubber Trotman, Marie
Strong, Anniston; R i c h m o nd
Waits, Helen Walden, Opelika;
Tommy Oliver, Angelyn Hand,
Opelika; Joe Boulo, Angelyn
Hollingsworth, Montgomery.
Robert Howell, Jean Hubbard,
LEADS FOR SAE
Dadeville; Charles Durham, Bet­ty
Stanley, Montgomery; Homer
Carter, Yvonne Wallace, Pensa-cola;
Phillip Mangum, Carolyn
Holland; Watson Ricks, Ann
Kearse, Leesburg, Ga.; Dick
Krauss, Peggy Shuggart, Fort
Payne; Ronald Butler, Wyleen
Hill, Dalton, Ga.; Mack Horton,
Wendall .Taylor, James Scott.
He is now assigned at Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, having been
transferred there from Lowery
Field, Denver, Colo.
A graduate of the Starke Uni­versity
S c h o o l . Montgomery,
Lieut. Dobbins was a senior at
Auburn when called into service.
At Auburn he was a member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, social fra­ternity;
Blue Key and Phi Tau
Sigma, honorary fraternities, and
Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military society.
Chi 0 Anniversary
Being Celebrated
Chi Omega will celebrate the
50th anniversary of their fra­ternity's
founding with a dinner
at the Pitts Hotel and with them
will be many friends, represen­tatives
of API and of Auburn.
The dinner will be one of the
hundred being held throughout
the United States.
The program will include a
brief review of Chi Omega's 50
years by Mary Loranz and talks
by Dr. L. N. Duncan, and Mr.
S. L. Toomer on highlights of
50 years of Auburn. The Anni­versary
chairman is Carmen
Croft. Associated with her are
Mrs. C. A. Basore and Pat Kirk-wood.
Chi Omega held initiation
March 24th for five girls. Those
being initiated were Emily Thom­as,
Mobile, Alabama; G l o r ia
Vaughn, Sheffield; Martha Ann
Gaines, Birmingham; Y v o n ne
James, Dothan. The new initi­ates
were entertained with a
breakfast after initiation.
LOST: "I wuz out on the ten­nis
courts a playing tennis when
I saw that I had my watch on.
So I saunters over and puts it
in a box that normally contains
tennis balls, but due to the fact
that I just took them out, there
warn't none in if. I puts the lop
back on and precedes -to _play
tennis. All of a sudden I look over
across the courts and sees a
canine taking the box with my
watch in it. I gives chase, but
since he has more feet than I got,
he outruns me. Now I ain't got
no watch, so fer the luvva mike
if anyone finds a g o l d Le
Clouter wrist watch Monday,
April 2, or thereafter under the
circumstances epistled a b o ve
please call Pat Archdeacon at
9158. Address: Robinson Hall, 226
Genelda Avenue. Reward.
U-DRIVE IT
Tel. 446
BIKE SHOP
Tel. 260
CHIEF'S
(ROLAND L. SHINE)
SINCLAIR SERVICE STATION
Tel. 446
Miss Jeanette Ellis, junior in lab lech from Jasper, will lead
with ''Beagle" McLeod, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. A
member of Alpha Gamma Delta, Miss Ellis is president of
Cardinal Key and has also been chosen for the feature section
of the '45 Glomerata.
5-MAN PATROL ENGAGES GERMANS,
DESTROYS HIDDEN GUN POSITIONS
WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, Italy.—For heroism in an
audacious daylight patrol during which they intentionally
became surrounded by the enemy to accomplish their mis­sion,
five infantrymen of the 88th "Blue Devil" Division
recently were awarded Battle Decorations by Maj. Gen. Paul
W. Kendall, division commander. But none was on hand to
receive his.
Four of the recipients are offi­cially
listed as "missing in ac­tion"
and the fifth lies seriously
wounded in an Army field hos­pital.
The missing men are Staff Ser­geant
Dallas R. Gray of. Stokes,
(Continued on back page)
Speaking of Operations!
An invasion fleet of several hundred warships uses
some 48,000 telephones—from 1,500 on a battle­ship
to 10 on a motor torpedo boat. That's as
many as are used by most cities of 160,000!
Our fighting men are using telephones, wire,
switchboards, and other communications equip­ment
in huge quantities. And Western Electric
workers, peacetime suppliers to the Bell System,
are busy meeting those needs.
That is why there are not enough home tele­phones
right now. But we are looking forward to
the day when the Bell System can again provide
telephone service to anyone, anywhere, at any time.
BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM
"Service to the Nation in Peace and War"
MARTIN
OPELIKA, ALABAMA
TUESDAY. APRIL 3
ONE BODY TOO
MANY
with
JACK HALEY
JEAN PARKER
Added
"Wagon Wheels Wesr
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
EXPERIMENT
PERILOUS
with
HEDY LAMARR
GEORGE BRENT
Added
Sports Topic and Musical
THURS. & FRL. APRIL 5. 6
THE KEYS OF THE
KINGDOM
with
GREGORY PECK
RODDY MCDOWELL
Added
Selected Short Subjects
SATURDAY, APRIL 7
Double Feature
No. 1
STAGECOACH
TO MONTEREY
with
ALLAN LANE
No. 2
AWAVUWAC
AND A MARINE
with
ELYSE KNOX
Added
No. 3 "Adventures of Flying
Cadets"
Cartoon "As a Fly Flies"
SUNDAY. APRIL 8
GUEST IN THE
HOUSE
with
ANNE BAXTER
RALPH BELLAMY
Also
News
Cartoon
MONDAY. APRIL 9
THE THIN MAN
GOES HOME
with
WILLIAM POWELL
MYRRA LOY
Also
News
Cartoon
Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945
Prize WhilefaceBull
Comes To Auburn;
Shown On Vet Hill
Teddy, The Firestone Tire and
Rubber Company's world cham­pion
steer, came to college in the
role of a "professor."
The grand champion of the
1944 Chicago Market Fat Stock
Show—wartime version of t he
International Livestock Exposi­tion—"
Joined the faculty" at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
last Tuesday.
Cattlemen, professors of animal
husbandry, s t u d e n t s , Future
Farmers, and 4-H Club boys and
girls "sat at the feet" of Teddy to
study the "margin of magnific­ence"
which sets him apart from
ordinary steers.
Teddy demonstrates the im­portance
of a full, blocky frame,
ribs that are well sprung, a coat
that glistens, a short full face,
excellent flesh and finish and
all the other qualities that make
him the owner of the most
coveted purple ribbon a steer
can win.
The 1170-pound Hereford ar­rived
here in the glistening mo­bile
stable in which he is travel-i
n g to agricultural colleges
throughout the country, where he
appeared as an example of a
nearly perfect steer. He was in
the clinic at the New Vet Build­ing
through Saturday.
Raised by Ben Greve, 18-year-old
Bryant, Iowa, 4-H Club boy,
he was bought by Firestone for
$4.50 a pound—the third highest
price in Chicago show history.
Teddy, who competed against
a record entry list of 790 in win­ning
the title, is the fourth cam­pion
owned by Firestone.
The first was Mercer, an Aber­deen-
Angus purchased at the
1938 International; the second
was Sargo, the 1939 world cham­pion
and a Hereford, and the
third was the 1941 title winner,
Loyal Alumnus The Fourth, a
Shorthorn-Angus.
TEDDY
3 German
Remain At
Escapees
Large
Three of four German prisoners
who escaped from the Opelika
internment camp before dawn
Sunday were still at large Fri­day
morning, according to R. J.
Abbaticchio of the Federal Bu­reau
of Investigation.
The three, Willi Saal, Werner
Hartmaier and Paul Strauch, es­caped
with a fourth prisoner
through the camp sewer system.
The fourth, Heinz Wasserthal,
was captured by Pepperill resi­dents
in the village Monday
night. At that time he was wear­ing
a pair of unmarked coveralls.
Mr. Abbsticchio, asserting that
the Germans might still be in
this vicinity, urged all residents
to be on the lookout for them. In
case of capture or suspicion either
local police, the FBI or intern­ment
Camp authorities should be
notified.
Descriptions of the three men
were given as follows:
Werner Hartmaier, no. 6265983;
five feet, 10 inches; blue eyes,
fair skin, blonde hair; age 21;
former merchant; education Ger­man-
English; knowledge of lang­uage
is good; Catholic.
Willi Saal, POW No. 4WG-
73765 age 29; height 5 feet 8%
inches; weight 192 pounds; eyes,
brown; hair black; complexion,
dark; shell fragment scars on
left hand and left knee, mustache
and goatee; speaks some English.
Paul Strauch, POW No. 4WG-
3873; age 23; height 5 meet 8V4
inches; weight, 160; eyes blue;
hair blonde and very long;com-plexion,
fair; occupation, seaman;
elementary education.
Teddy, The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company's world champion steer, is louring the na­tion's
agricultural colleges, where he is being shown as an example of a nearly perfect steer.
The top picture shows the qualities that won the Hereford the grand championship of t he
Chicago Market Fat Stock Show—wartime version of the International Livestock Exposition.
The other pictures show Teddy being admired by Ann Van Horn of Clinton, Iowa, and the
champion with the boy who raised him. 18-year-old Ben Greve of Bryant, Iowa, standing be-side
the elaborate mobile stable in which the steer travels. Teddy was in Auburn on Vet Hill
last week.
LT. CULLEN WARD
STRUCK BY BULLET
Lt. Cullen Ward, USMCR, was
struck by a bullet which grazed
behind his ear and on his neck
on March 10 at Iwo Jima, a let­ter
to his family reports.
A previous bullet had struck
his helmet and glanced off. Lt.
Ward was on the island 26 days.
22 of which were spent in the
front lines.
When writing his family he
was aboard ship enroute to a
rest base.
Qualifications For Cabinet Officers
Listed In Constitution Last Fall
As set up in the Constitution of the Executive Cabinet
which was completed last fall, the members of the Cabinet
shall be the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer,
t h r e e senior representativs, two junior representatives, and
one representative each for the sophomore class, freshmen,
co-eds, and fifth year students.
The president is elected by
vote of the senior class; the vice-president,
by the junior class; the
secretary from the sophomore
class; and the treasurer from the
cabinet by the cabinet.
Candidates must have an over­all
average of 2.0 or a grade point
of at least 2.5 last quarter to be
eligible to run. Every candidate
must be an active participant in
some extra-curricula activity.
Students in the third quarter
of a class vote in the next class
(i.e. third quarter freshmen vote
in the sophomore elections, etc.)
A student is eligible to run for
an office of the class in which he
votes.
Newly elected representatives
to the Cabinet shall assume dut­ies
two weeks after election, and
will be installed at a banquet.
Cabinet meetings a r e held
every alternate Monday at 5 p. m.
on the second floor of Samford
Hall. Attendance of members of
the Cabinet at these meetings is
required. Absence of excessive
tardiness is punishable by a fine
of seventy-five cents.
The duties of the president in­clude
presiding at Cabinet and
student body meetings, calling of
either body upon written request
of five members of the Cabinet
or at his own judgement, voting
in the Cabinet in case of a tie,
signing (with the treasurer) all
vouchers and requisitions, seeing
that elections are announced in
due time, and presiding at fresh­man
meetings until officers are
elected. For his duties, the presi­dent
of the Cabinet receives a
monthly salary as determined by
the Administration.
The vice-president takes over
in the absence of the president.
He collects committee reports and
is automatically chairman of the
ring committee.
Secretary's duties include the
keeping of records of the meet­ings
and the sending of notices
of the meetings to members.
The treasurer receives and dis­burses
all money of the cabinet.
All members of the Cabinet re­ceive
Cabinet keys and station­ery.
List Of Rooms,
Boarding Houses
Being Compiled
A revised list of rooming and
boarding places for men students
is being compiled, and owners of
such establishments who would
like to be included are advised to
notify Kirtley Brown, director of
student affairs, in Samford Hall.
The lists will be used for distri­bution
before the opening of the
Summer Quarter.
The following information is
necessary: number or rooms for
rent; whether meals are to be
served; whether apartments for
couples are for rent; the price in
each case; and the name, address,
and telephone number of the
owner or operator.
EDWARD SMITH
MADE BR'G GEN.
Brigadier General Edwards W.
Smith, a 1916 graduate of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
was promoted from colonel to
his present temporary rank in
January. He is ordnance officer
of Lieutenant General Alexander
Patch's American Seventh Army.
General Smith, who was gradu­ated
from the United States Mili­tary
Academy in 1918, has been
overseas since March, 1944, and
has participated in the Italian,
Southern France, and present
German campaigns. He recently
was awarded the Legion of Merit
Medal for "exhibiting outstand­ing
ability and technical know­ledge
in the procurement of
ordnance supplies and in the
establishment of shipping priori­ties
and his selection of the nec­essary
ordnance troops to sup­port
the operation was dictated
by careful and exhaustive study
of the requirements of the com­bat
units."
After being graduated from
API with the degree of bachelor
of science, General Smith was at
the Army Ordnance School from
1923 to 1925, and attended the
Army Industrial College in 1933-
34.
(Continued from page three)
Calvin is chemical officer for
the IX Technical Air Command, a
fighter-bomber component of the
Ninth Air Force. Clifford is a
liaison officer with a 7th U. S.
Army Corps. Both received Re­serve
commissions in the R.O.T.C.
while at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute in 1933. Their Army
serial numbers are one figure
apart.
Prior to entering active service
in January 1941, Calvin was em­ployed
as a chemist by Ferbert-
Schorndorfer Co., Cleveland, O.
He went overseas in November
1943. His wife Dorothy, and
daughter Dulcy, age 2, are liv­ing
at 202 Clay St., Edwards-ville,
111.
Cliford was called to active
duty in December 1940, and went
to France last October. Mrs.
Lucille Chunn, his wife, and
their two sons, Johnny, 5, and
Denny, 3, are living at 367 West
69th St., Jacksonville, Fla. He
was employed as a chemist by
Wilson and Toomer Co., Jack­sonville,
before entering service.
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'Bring On The Girls'
At Tiger Stars
Tufts, Lake, Jones
Just to play five minutes on
the screen in "Bring On The
Girls," due Sunday and Monday
at the Tiger Theatre, Paramount's
Technicolor musical, Spike Jones
and his City Slickers had to make
the playing of "Chloe" vastly dif­ferent
and, he hopes, funnier than
any tune he has torn apart to
date.
"Bring On The Girls" stars
Veronica Lake Eddie Bracken,
Sonny Tufts and Marjorie Rey­nolds.
Once an orchestra decides to
be off-the-beaten-path, it has to
keep vering off and off, Spike
Jones reveals. "The public won't
stand for a band like ours doing
another piece with the same style
or kindred gags of the last one
we did. We have to keep topping
ourselves. I'm no longer an or­chestra
leader; I'm a gag man."
So, Spike and his City Slickers
have to sweat out every new tune
they seek to introduce. They toil
through rehersals with shooting
pistols, musical flit guns, wash
boards, buckets, boxes of broken
glass, animals like goats, parrots
and chimps and special costumes
for parts of the lyrics.
"For our presentation of
'Chloe,' we have four different
changes of scenery," says Spike.
"We look for Chloe through a
swamp, at the North Pole, across
a desert. We have a camel and
a parrot. And we wind up crazy!
"I can't enjoy a new tune mus­ically.
I sit there thinking of how
our boys can gag it up. My wife
says I get murder in my eyes
when I hear a new piece. Then
I have to wait until that tune is
a hit before I can burlesque it;
otherwise the public won't know
what we are clowning."
There are other troubles. One
embraces all Spike's props. He
has to hire a prop man. Where
prop men of other orchestras
keep valves oiled and drum tops
protected, Spike's man must clean
revolvers and repair broken
washboards.
"There are shortages, too,"
moans Spike. "I've got five wash-
FRATERNITY DIRECTORY
Phi Delta Theta, Charles Spivey, 337 East Mag. 9125
Alpha Tau Omega, Billy Wiggins, ATO house 898
Kappa Alpha, Victor Scott, KA house 9102
Sigma Nu, Frank Tripp, 174 West Glenn 169-J
Pi Kappa Alpha, Rueben Burch, PiKA house 869
Kappa Sigma, Lewis Tanner, KS house 537
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Charles Thompson, SPE house 920
Lambda Chi Alpha, Joe Benchwick, LCA house 247
Theta Chi, Foy Campbell, KA house 9102
Alpha Gamma Rho, Ralph Hartzog, 149 South Gay 873
Delta Sigma Phi, Ted Hopton-Jones, DSP house 281
Phi Kappa Phi, Warren Williams, 226 Genelda 9158
Phi Kappa Tau, Oliver Samford, PKT house 245
Sigma Chi, Charlie Peacock, SC house 376
Alpha Psi, Jimmie Acree, AP house 445
Tau Epsilon Phi, Don Rosenberg, 155 S. Gay 516
. Omega Tau Sigma, Dennard Davis, OTS house 324
L i
boards hoarded away and 50,000
rounds of black cartridges. I<
couldn't buy a set of cow-bells
for any price. But the set I have
can't be insured for more than
ten dollars.' So everytime we
work anywhere, I keep the whole
back end of a station wagon
locked up with these things. I'm
afraid to leave them around. If
someone stole my washboard, it
would be like a symphonic or­chestra
without any violins.
"Then there are my musicians.
Every time I lose one to the
army, I go crazy replacing him.
I've got to have top musicians.
You can't burlesque music unless
you k n o w s e r i o u s music
thoroughly to start with."
All this is funny, of course, but
Spike manages to stand it. After
all, being different is making
him a fortune every year. He
may have been happier as just
a drummer, but there are re­wards
for headaches which are
delightfully lucrative and pains
that pay off.
DRAKE RECEIVES
HIS COLONELCY
Fort Benning, Ga.—Announce­ment
has been made of the pro­motion
of James H. Drake, of
Auburn, Ala., to the rank of
Colonel.
Colonel Drake entered the
military service in 1917 at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans. He served
overseas in World War I, taking
part in the battles of the Vosges
and Meuse-Argonne and remain­ing
in Europe with the Army of
Occupation until October 1919.
Until the outbreak of the present
war, Colonel Drake served tours
of duty with various units in the
United States, with the exception
of the years 1926-1929, at which
time he was stationed in Hawaii.
With the 351st Infantry, he parti­cipated
in the invasions of Africa
and Italy, returning to the States
in September 1944.
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SCRAP DRIVERS
Shown above are members of Chi Omega sorority who assist the Boy Scouts of Auburn and
Alpha Phi Omega, national scouting fraternity on the campus, in the JCC sponsored scrap drives
every two months.
Going about town on a truck, picking up paper which has been placed on the curb by house­holders,
the girls send the scrap collected to Mobile via train. At the plant in Mobile it is con­verted
to usable pulp. In the seven drives which have been carried out in Auburn, 140 tons of
scrap paper have been collected.
Girls pictured in the first row, left to right, are Martha Ellis, Centre; Ruth Strain, Mobile;
Jackie Swann, Moss Point, Miss.; Emily Thomas, Mobile; Jackie Wahl, Mobile; and Alice Gate-wood,
Richland, Ga.
In the row against the box car, left to right, are Mary Fearn Geron, Huntsville; Janis Mann,
Judsonia, Ark.; Betty Lindsay, Abbeville; Teenny Fields, Birmingham; Louis Landham, Lincoln;
Eleanor Hannum, Auburn; Lucia Andrews, Citronelle; and Sarah Strange, Mobile.
SERVICE PERSONALS
Major
and son,
Ft. Sill,
Auburn.
and Mrs. Porter Grant
Russ, have returned to
Okla., after a visit in
Captain Lamar Hart is a prison­er
in a German camp northeast
of Nuremberg, according to a
letter received by h i s mother,
Mrs. Ruby Hart. The camp is
Oflag XIII-B, Lager Hammel-burg.
* * *
Lt. William B. Capps, husband
of Mrs. W. B. Capps was injured
in the air over Germany on
March 2. A recent letter stated
that he was a patient at a hos­pital
near Paris and was improv­ing
nicely. He received awards
for participation in the Battle of
Brest and Battle of Germany, in­cluding
an air medal, the Pur­ple
Heart, and Bronze Star.
* * *
Lt. Thomas Arant, Selma, ar­rived
overseas in February, and
has been assigned to a veteran
15th Air Force P-51 Mustang
fighter group. Lt. Arant was a
student at Auburn prior to en­tering
the service. He began pilot
training in August '43 and com­pleted
it May of the following
year at Eagle Pass, Tex.
* * *
Lt. Mayor H. Newton, who
graduated in March '44 in tex­tile
chemistry had landed safely
overseas. He has been assigned
to a Third Army tank battalion.
* * *
Charlie Waggoner, former stu­dent
in the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts, who has been
stationed in North Africa and
points in southern Europe, was
in town last week. A member of
Lambda Chi • Alpha, he is from
Hattiesburg, Miss.
* * *
Lt. George S. Montgomery,
Opelika, is attached to the Eighth
Air Force 353rd Fighter Group,
which recently raised its total of
enemy aircraft destroyed beyond
the 500 mark when pilots of the A. H. Metcalf, Enterprise, Ala.,
unit accounted for sixty-five to Paul Hurd Stewart, son of the
German planes in three missions j Reverend W. S. Stewart and Mr.
over Europe. Lt. Montgomery at- i Stewart, of Owosso, Michigan,
tended API for three semesters, .took place at a candle-light
and was employed by T. Smith ceremony, on March 28, at the
Cyril Kirsch, New Orleans,
former Tiger varsity football
player, now serving with the
"Appleknocker" Regiment in the
Pacific which made the beach­head
at Makin Atoll and had a
leading part in the fight for
Saipan, has been promoted from
sergeant to staff sergeant.
* * *
Thomas J. Norman,
lieutenant in the Marine Air
Corps, Montgomery, returned re-now
on leave. He logged 900
Transport Air Group, operating
combat hours as a pilot with the
cently from the Pacific and is
from the. Gilberts and Marshalls
to the Mariannas. He attended
API in '41 and '42.
* * *
James Thompson Mathews,
Birmingham, received his com­mission
as ensign in the naval
air corps at Pensacola, Fla. re­cently.
Prior to entering the
Navy, he attended Auburn for
three years.
* « •
Lt. Horace Kyzer, Parrish, has
been awarded the air medal for
meritorious achievement in aerial
flight while serving with the 15th
AAF in Italy. He attended Au­burn
and has been in the army
since December, '42.
* * *
Lt. James Pritchett, Auburn, is
now serving with the 436th
Troop Carrier Group in France.
He attended Auburn for one
year and was employed as motion
picture projectionist at the Tiger
Theater in Auburn. He entered
the air corps in '43. His sister,
Miss Lora Pritchett, is an Au­burn
student now.
Virginia Metcalf And
Paul Stewart Marry
In Apalachiacola
The marriage of Miss Virginia
Metcalf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
as store manager in Opelika prior
to entering the Army.
First Methodist Church in Apa-lachicola,
Fla.
The bride was given in marri-
Lt Malcolm McRee, Birming- j age by her brother Ray Metcalf.
ham, has been flying with a B-25 j Bridesmaids were Miss Cather-
Mitchell bomber group of the[ine Vinson, schoolmate of the
12th AAF in the Meditterranean : bride, Miss Martha Chancey, Miss
theater since arriving overseas. Mary Mack Chancey, Huntingdon
Pittman Sees 'Ching Pao'
And Chinese Trucks
Running With Alcohol
Chinese Combat Command, U.
S. Army — After twice being
forced out of Kweilin by the ap­proached
of Japanese columns,
Staff Sergeant William L. Pitt-man,
Birmingham, is now serving
in the supply section of a Chinese
Combat Command headquarters
in China.
"Our first evacuation was in
June, by truck," the sergeant
second savs> " W e h a d a P ^ t t y good con­voy,
luckily with good vehicles.
The convoy ahead of us had old
Chinese trucks run with alcohol,
but we had G. I. trucks run with
gasoline."
"We had a good trip, but we
almost wore out the horns on
the trucks because of the refugess
on the roads. We got to Liuchow
and had our routine "ching pao"
(jing bough—Chinese for air raid
alert), and as usual the planes
didn't come. They like nights
best, I guess."
"Nothing much happened on
the trip, except that a couple of
fellows got tangled up in their
jungle hammocks. I'm glad I
made the trip by truck instead
of by train as some of my bud­dies
did, because the trains were
jammed with refugees."
Only GIs In Forty Miles
"I stayed in Kunming about a
week and then went back to­ward
Kweilin as far as Tushan,
which was a town or refugees.
A buddy of mine, Technical Ser­geant
Kiester H. King, of South
Boston, Va., and I were together
—in fact, we were the only GIs
in a forty-mile radius."
"We got our job done there—
interception the outfit's supplies
and arranging for future ship­ments—
and then headed back for
Kweilin on a convoy."
"On the way back we bivouac-ed
on a hill outside of Liuchow
and the Japs did come that night.
We sat on the hill and watched
them make their runs on the
field and drop their bombs."
"We got back to Kweilin and
had a 'ching pao' the same night.
They came in again as they did
almost every night after that un­til
I left, and laid their eggs."
Hot As Blue Blazes
"When I left on September 12,
it was hot as blue blazes. We
stood at the field waiting for the
transport for two hours and I got
soaked with prespiration."
"The Air Corps must have been
Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation
Announces Textbook Competition
Authors Invited To Submit Manuscripts
On Machine Design And Structural Design
A project in the form of an Award Program to encourage
the preparation and publication of textbooks, one on ma­chine
design and another on structural design for fabrication
by all processes, including welding, is announced by The
James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
Said to be an important contribution towards stimulating
instruction and study for engineering undergraduates in
these fields, t h e program will A ff Off DM gllhlt) AND
CRIPPLED OPERATE
A BROOM FACTORY
arriving
A student at API before enter­ing
the Air Corps, he was a mem­bers
of Pi Kappa Alpha.
* * *
At a 14th AAF Base in China,
Lt. Jack H. Wilson of the famed
"Ringer" Squadron, a medium
bombardment unit of Major Gen­eral
C. L. Chennault's "Flying
Tigers", was cited for meritorious
achievement in aerial flight
against the enemy. From Shef-
. field, Lt. Wilson attended FSTC
and API. He has been actively
engaged in the distruction of
Japanese installations in the In­dia,
Burma and China Theaters
for the past 30 months.
College; and Miss Marion Huey,
Huntingdon College.
The junior bridesmaids were
Misses Sue Ann Metcalf and Gail
Murdock. The maid of honor was
Miss Ruth Walker, Montgomery.
The groom entered the church
with the best man, who is his
brother, Edwin Stewart, of Owos­so,
Michigan.
A graduate of Statson Univer­sity,
Deland, Fla, he is '-andmas-
•ter at Apalachicola, Fla.
The bride received her degree
from Auburn. She has been
teaching Home Economics at
Apalachicola, Fla. this school
year.
substantially reduce the usual
delay between process develop­ments
in industry and the treat­ment
of these new developments
in textbook form. This is particu­larly
significant in view of the
many new applications and im­provements
in welding design
techniques that have resulted
from the intensified activity and
advancements in arc welding
during the past three wartime
years. Thus, the prime effect of
the plant will be to render a
service to engineering colleges
and to the industries which em­ploy
their graduates by making
this pertinent and timely inform­ation
more conveniently avail­able
and comprehensible.
"The $20,000 Award Program
for Textbooks Covering Machine
and Structural Design for Mod­ern
Processes" is made eligible
to any person in the teaching pro­fession,
in industry, or engaged
in proviate consultation. A manu­script
may be submitted jointly
by two or more persons. No one
person can participate in the
writing of more than one manu­script
in each class—machine
design.
The awards in the program are
divided into two classes: Class A,
Machine Design; a n d Class B,
Structural Design. There are
three awards in each class as
follows:
Class A—Machine Design
First Award, $5,000
Second Award, $3,000
Third Award, $2,000
Class B—Structural Design
First Award, $5,000
Second Award, $3,000
Third Award, $2,000
Brooms being manufactured in
Auburn by blind and crippled of
the vicinity in a plant establish­ed
through the agency of the
state vocational rehabilitation
service are to be sold and ad­vertised
under sponsorship of the
Auburn Lions club.
Production in the shop got
under way recently after several
months of work by the rehabili­tation
agency aided by the Au­burn
Lions club.
The Auburn plant is called the
ABC Broom Shop, is at 449 North
Gay street, and three workers
are employed, C. R. Palmer,
blind, who is manager, and two
Negroes, one blind and the other
a cripple.
Lions clubs throughout the
state have taken interest and
given support to the work of
making vocational opportunities
possible to physically handicap­ped.
having a field day, because there
was a continous stream of fight­ers
and B-25s landing and taking
off the whole two hours."
"We finally took off and got
up to 12,000 feet, I nearly froze,
because I had put my field jacket
in my barracks bag and I was
soaked with perspiration."
For his service in the field,
Sergeant Pittman is entitled to
wear a bronze star on his Asiatic
Campaign ribbon.
After being graduated from
Shades Cahaba High School in
Birmingham in 1939, Pittman for
three years attended Alabama
Polytechnic Institute at the same
time working for the Alabama
By-Products Corporation, mak­ers
of coal by-products, in Bir­mingham.
He volunteered for service in
the Army in July, 1942, and was
sent to Camp Seibert, Ala.,
where he was assigned to the
Chemical Warfare Branch.
Flys "Hump"
At Seibert he received his
basic training and became a mem­ber
of the cadre, training new
recruits in chemical warfare.
After 15 months, he was ordered
overseas, arriving in India in
December, 1943, and three months
later flying t h e Himalayan
"Hump" to China.
The sergeant was assigned to
the American ground forces in
China, which are now training
and advising the Chinese armies
in their war against the Jap in­vaders.
Pittman was sent to Kweilin
as a member of the staff of an
American supply depot in that
city, and remained there until
forced to evacuate.
If the Jury of Award so rec­ommends,
the first award papers
in each class of participants will
be published by a recognized
books, and the authors will re­ceive
royalties from their text­books
when sold in book form.
Further details of this new
Award Program for textbooks,
which closes May 15, 1946, may
be obtained at the Plainsman
Office or by addressing he Sec­retary,
The James F. Lincolun
Arc Welding Foundation, Cleve­land,
1, Ohio.
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Page Six THE P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945
Alpha Psi Cops Interfraternity Track Meet
PSIS MORE THAN DOUBLE RUNNERUPS, SAE;
SC,TC,KS, ROUND OUT FIRST FIVE
Capturing six first spots and placing in all but one of the
other events for a total of seventy-three and a half points,
Alpha Psi copped the Interfraternity Track and Field Cham­pionship
last Wednesday and Thursday by more than doubl­ing
the total count of the runnerups, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Following SAE, who scored 30 points, were Sigma Chi
with 26 points, and Theta Chi
were 24. Kappa Sigma with 14
points, rounded out the first five.
The meet, under the personal
supervision of Coach Hutsell, was
one of the most interesting of
recent years but provided no
smashed records.
Tabor, TC, won the 100 yard
dash in 10.8 seconds. He was
trailed by Smalley, AP, Matt­hews,
KS, Ashley, KA, and
Johnson, OTS.
Killian, AP, tracked the 220
yard dash in 23.8 seconds to win
first place in that event. Trailing
him were Tabor, TC, Moss, AP,
Matthews, KS, and Ashley, KA.
SAE's Bickerstaff paced the
880 yard run in 2 minutes, 12.8
seconds. Coming behind him were
Durrane, SPE, Baisden, SN,
O'Brien, SAE, and Williams, AP.
Galbreath traveled the 120
yards hurdles in 15.1 seconds to
take first place. Waites, PDT,
Tabor, TC, Matthews, KS, and
Robinson, AP, also placed.
Lang, AP, tossed the shot 34.5
feet to win that event. Coming in
for their share of the honors were
Broussard, OTS, Thompson, PKT,
Matthews, KS, and Sapp, AP.
Cole, SC, and Young, AP, tied
for first place in the pole vault
with a mark of 9 feet nine inches.
Also placing were Raymond,
DSP, Johnson, SC, Durane, SPE,
and Dodd, KA.
Herring of SC jumped five feet
nine inches to top the high the
high jumpers. Following him
were Shelby, SAE, Galbreath, AP,
Johnson, SC, and Averitt, TC.
Broad jumping 20 feet, 1%
inches, Galbreath, AP, took top
honors in that event. Close be­hind
were Tabor, TC, Galbreath,
AP, McLeod, SAE, and Ashley,
KA.
SC's Van Cleave paced the mile
in 5 minutes, 0.8 s e c o n d s.
(O'Brien), SAE, Harper, Lowe,
KS, and West, PKT, also placed.
FIVE MEN
Miss Harriet Barnes
Goes To Montevallo
To Basketball Clinic
A Basket Ball Clinic was con­ducted
at Alabama College by the
Alabama College Board of Of­ficials
on Saturday, March 24, for
faculty members and students
from Judson College, Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, and the
University of Alabama.
Certificates for national rating
have been issued this year to
Miss Harriet Barnes of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, Miss Ma­rian
Watson and Miss Mildred
Deason of Alabama College. Re­newals
for national rating have
been issued to Miss Bernice Fing­er
and Dr. Margaret McCall.
Certificates for intramural rat­ing
have been issued to Miss Hix-son
and Miss Mamie Lou Pipkin
of Alabama College, and Miss
Ruth Thomas and Miss Nell Piatt
of the University of Alabama.
(Continued from page 3)
N. C, who was awarded the Sil­ver
Star; and Pfc. Charles R.
Rernhard of Battle Creek, Mich.;
Pfc. Cecil P. Dumont of Idabel,
Okla., and Pvt. John T. Belue,
Jr., of Auburn, Ala., all of whom
were awarded the Bronze Star.
Pfc. Jesse Phelps of Qibbs, Mo.,
the wounded man, also received
the Bronze Star. Next of kin have
been notified in all cases.
The daring raid resulted in the
killing of at least 35 Germans
and exposed a large number of
undiscovered enemy positions
that had been causing heavy
casualties to the American di­vision.
With their mission to uncover
these positions in the vicinity of
Camerla, a tiny Appennine vil-lege,
the five men were sent on
reconnaissance from the vicinity
of Cedi Marchetti early last
Winter. They were armed with
two tommy-guns, two Browning
automatic rifles and an M-l.
To reach the objective, it was
necessary for them to cross two
rivers under constant enemy ob­servation.
When they had ad­vanced
to within 200 yards of
their objective, they were con­fronted
with a sheer escarpment
that was impossible to scale. At
this point the patrol was faced
by two alternatives. They could
either return to their starting
point and abandon the mission or
flank around the cliff and ad­vance
to a point 100 yards north
of the objective.
Determined to accomplish his
assigned job, Sergeant Gray, the
patrol leader, ordered his men
to proceed although encirclement
by the enemy was inevitable. As
they advanced into enemy terri­tory,
Kesselring's men were be­hind
them, before them and on
both sides.
Suddenly, several machineguns
opened up on them. The men
hit the ground and returned the
fire. For four hours the en­counter
r a g e d . Hearing the
sounds of the fireflight and see­ing
the Americans within their
lines, the Germans surmised that
a major attack was being launch­ed
and opened up with every­thing
they had—artillery, mor­tars
and machineguns. The firing
disclosed all their positions in
the area—positions which prev­iously
had not been located by
our observers.
As the enemy's fire disclosed
location of emplacements, the
"Blue Devil" artillery and mor­tars
threw a heavy barrage into
the enemy lines with devastating
effect on enemy positions and
personnel.
A few minutes after the fire-ing
began, one German, bear­ing
a white flag,; appeared and
walked towards the patrol. Gray,
covering the man with his tom-mygun,
moved forward to take
the prisoner. When he was with-
TRIPS ALABAMA
:^W!MtM
Alpha Psi, interfrat cage champs at Auburn, defeated the
Alabama champs 38-20 in Tuscaloosa last Saturday. Shown from
left to right are Jesse Derrick, Curtis Kuykendall, Lamarr
Moree, Ben Moss, captain of the team, Faririe Smalley, Jimmy
Robinson, Jimmy Acree, and Claude Jameson. Both Moree and
Jameson are now serving in the armed forces.
Boxing And Wrestling Tournament
Definitely Scheduled For April 16
Many Berths Still Open; Only Eight
Fraternities Have Entered Teams
The much belated boxing and wrestling tournament,
originally set for three weeks ago, is definitely slated to begin
at 7:30, Monday night, April 16 and continue through April 19.
Fraternities and individuals may still enter the tourna­ment.
The deadline for entrance is 6:00 p. m., April 13. All
contestants must be weighed in by that time, also. Anyone
who has not done so may weigh
AP, LCA, SAE, SC
IN ROUNDROBIN
Games scheduled for Wednes­day
are AP-DSP, KS-PKT(2), SC­OTS,
PDT.ATO, PKT(1)-AGR,
LCA-TC, SPE-KA, SAE-PKA;
those set for Thursday are AP-PKT(
l) KS-LCA.SC-SPE, PDT-SAE,
DSP - AGR, PKT(2) - TC,
OTS-KA, and ATO-PKA.
The finals will start Tuesday,
April 10, and continue through
Thursday. These games will con­sist
of three 15 points contests,
and the winner-of each set must
win two out of three.
MISS AMERICA
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to beauty of face and figure.
Talent exhibitions will include
dramatic readings, dancing, sing­ing,
playing of musical instru­ments,
sketching and painting, or
a three minute discussion of a
subject candidate wishes to
major in at college, including
medicine, law, journalism, econ­omics,
advertising, art, etc.
This same method of judging
talent will be applied in the Na­tional
Finals at Atlantic City by
a board of nationally known
Judges.
in that field house any afternoon
between the hours of 5 and 6.
A meeting of all the represen­tatives
of all the participating
teams will be held at 7:30 p. m.,
April 13, at Alumni Gym. The
drawing for the different bouts
will be held at this meeting and
will be immediately, posted on
captive, two Jerries armed with
machine pistols and grenades
moved.in from behind and forc­ed
him to surrender. At this
moment, a mortar shell came in.
Gray and the three Germans took
cover and in the ensuing con­fusion,^
Gray captured the three
enemies. As he started to disarm
the trio, a mortar barrage hit
the area.- One of the Jerries was
killed and the other two fled, to
be captured later. Gray was not
seen again.
Dumont, observing fire ema­nating
from the rear of a near­by
farmhouse, approached it from
the rear, although under heavy
fire from enemy established in
the building. He kept the Jerries
busy from his side of the house
while other members of the pa­trol
took up the firefight from
the front. He did not return from
the engagement.
Crawling over baren ground
without cover, Belue approached
a machinegun nest and with
swift, accurate fire, engaged the
German gunners in a duel, killing
or seriously wounding them all
and destroying t h e position.
When last seen, he was crawling
the bulletin board just outside the
PE office.
Only eight fraternities have
entered so far. These include SN,
SC, SAE, AP, OTS, KA, PKA,
and LCA. Most of the different
weight classes have not been
filled, and the majority have
only one or two contestants
entered.
OUT IN
OLIN L HILL
"The Man With The Tape"
Clothing Collection Set
For Saturday, April 14
A one-day canvass of Auburn
will be made on Saturday, April
14, for good, usable clothing,
shoes and bedding for civilian
victims of war in Europe and the
Far East. A goal of five pounds
per resident of Auburn has been
set.
Sponsored by the United Na­tional
Clothing Collection, the
campaign is national-wide and
will last for the entire month of
April. The national goal is 150,-
000,000 pounds of clothing.
Billy Randolph is chairman of
college collections.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
OPPORTUNITY FOR
ASTRP Qualifying Test - April 12, 194S
towards a second machinegun
in a few yards of the potential emplacement.
Miisica Maestro... Have a Coke
(MAKE WITH THE MUSIC)
...or the cue to making friends in Cuba
At fiesta time the gay little isle of Cuba is a mighty cosmopolitan
corner of the globe—where the familiar American greeting Have
a Coke is just as happily understood as their own native Salud.
From Hanover to Havana, the pause that refreshes with friendly
Coca-Cola has become a symbol of the good-neighbor spirit.
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
OPELIKA COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., Inc.
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YOUNG MEN who are eligible will be given the oppor­tunity
of joining the Army Specialized Training Reserve
Program by taking the ASTRP qualifying test to be given in
high schools and colleges throughout the country April 12.
You will get college training at no expense to yourself,
because it s to the Army's advantage as well as yours. When
you get out of the Army you'll be ahead of the game with
several terms of college already completed as an ASTRP
trainee. The Army pays your tuition and furnishes food,
clothing, housing, textbooks, and medical care. You will have
only small personal expenses for laundry and incidentals.
"Cokc"=Coca-Cola
1 You naturally hear Coca-Cola
| called by its friendly abbreviation
1 "Coke". Both mean the quality prod.
1 uct of The Coca-Cola Company.
To join the ASTRP for assignment' to college in July,
August-, or September of this year, you must be seven­teen
but not yet seventeen years and nine months of
age; must be a citizen; must be a high school graduate
or have written proof that you will be graduated before
becoming seventeen years and nine months of age;
must achieve a qualifying score on the ASTRP test;
must have the written consent of your parents; and
must become a member of the Enlisted Reserve Corps.
You will not be called for active duty until you reach
your eighteenth birthday.
For complete information on your golden opportunity
with the ASTRP, see your high school principal, visit your
nearest Army Recruiting Station, or write the Command­ing
General of the Service Command in which you live.
PHIL sTlVERS-SHElLM I YIN 2Q
PCgRY C0H0- GLENNUMGM "SSL?*
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