1944-07-21 The Plainsman

              Keep Your
Appointment
With the Glomerata
VOLUME LXVIII
"TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT"
) ~ ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1944
The Photographer's
Already Impatient
So You Gotta
NUMBER 30
ELECTION AUGUST 9
FOR PUBLICATIONS
Three Offices On Glomerata, Plainsman
Open To Juniors That Can Qualify
Third quarter, juniors and first and second quarter seniors
will have a chance to cast their ballots for three candidates
August 9, the election day for those seeking offices on the
collegers two publications, The Plainsman and the Glom­erata.
An editor and business manager, to succeed the present
two students in these offices, will
be elected for The Plainsman and
a new business manager of the
Glomerata to take the place of
the recently elected business
manager who was called into ac­tive
duty with the, armed ser­vices
at the end of last quarter,
will be elected for the coming
school year.
Before any student can run for
one of these offices, he must be
passed upon -by the Board of Stu­dent
Publications composed of
students Lo.is Rogers, Roy Brake-man,
Ross Grey, and Tom Roberts,
and faculty members Charles
Scarritt, Ralph Draughan, J. R.
Rutland, K. Brown, and W. T. In­gram.
Applications to this Board must
be submitted by noon Saturday,
July 29th, to Mrs. Wallace Tid-more
in the President's office. The
application blanks may be secured
from Mrs. Tidmore.
The Board will meet at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, August 1, to review ap­plications,
interyiew prospective
• candidates and qualify those who
meet the requirements.
Qualifications for candidates for
for Business Manager of the
Glomerata are as follows:
That every candidate must have
completed at the time of election,
at the end of the second quarter
of his junior year, at least 138
hours of work.
That a minimum grade-point
average of 2.0 be- accepted as
standard.
That every candidate must sub­mit
a paper of not more than 1,000
words, including his plans for im­provement
of the publication, to­gether
with constructive cirticism
of the publication during the pres­ent
year.
That candidates for business
manager of the Glomerata and
Plainsman shall have completed,
with an average of 2.0 or above,
a course in Accounting, or shall
be enrolled in that and doing
work of that quality.
That candidates for editor of
the Plainsman shall have com­pleted,
with an average of 2.0 or
above, courses in reporting and
copywriting, or shall be enrolled
in such courses and doing work
of that quality.
That candidates shall have had
one year's experience on the pub­lication,
or the equivalent.
That candidates be informed
that the Board will expect them
to assume duties as assistant in
the position for which they are
elected immediately after their
election and serve for the
remainder of the year in order to
gain valuable experience.
•That candidate agree, if elect­ed,
not to hold or secure any
other job or position with or with­out
remuneration unless he first
obtains approval by the Board of
Student Publications.
THE TI6ER NOSE
How about the football player
(and really goodlooking) who is
true loving with four Auburn
coeds I It happened in front of
Samford . . . being with one. he
met another unexpectedly
tried to drop the hand he held,
but she wouldn't let go.
* * •
We refer you to "Around The
Editor's Desk" concerning the two
boys looking for the fifty cent
piece. In the first place, the two
had plenty of business looking for
the money they had lost, and sec­ondly,
the actual running away
wasn't performed very politely.
The two in question weren't
drunk or disorderly. We often
wonder just who owns the Quad­rangle
. . . Taxpayers?
FBI Arrests
Racketeer
In Texas
By Jack Thornton
Adapting his confidence racket
to today's headlines, James W.
Compton, an Army deserter, who
has been preying on the parents
of deceased service men, had his
scheming brought to an abrupt
end early last week when he was
placed under arrest by the F.B.I.
Compton, a frequent inmate of
southern jails, victimized the par­ents
of many Auburn students
during 1941 and '42. Traveling
to some town near Auburn, he
would call on the parents of an
Auburn student, whose name and
address he had previously obtain­ed
from the Student Directory,
and pretend to be a braternity
brother of their son. Declaring
that he had to be back at school
the next day, he would ask for
a small loan so that he might
return to Auburn.
In some instances he would ask
them to endorse a chack written
on an Auburn bank which was
signed with a ficticious name.
Without doubting his word, the
victims would comply with his re­quest,
to discover at a later date
that they had been duped.
After numerous instances of
this kind, he was arrested in
Auburn in February, 1942, but
was released when the victims
failed to prosecute.
When arrested by the F.B.I. in
Texas he was posing as an Army
officer just returned from the
South Pacific. Calling long dis­tance
the parents of a soldier
killed in action, Compton claimed
to be a friend of the deceased. He
told the dejected parents that he
had news of their son that he
wanted to tell them, but as he
didn't have the money he couldn't
visit them before his leave was
up.
The parents, anxious to hear of
their son, immediately offered to
wire him money to make the trip,
which he accepted gratefully and
promised to arrive on the next
train.
When the expected Army Offi­cer
didn't arrive, the parents us­ually
began to make inquiries
and found themselves to be the
victim" of a hoax.
Receiving many complaints, the
FBI traced Compton and placed
him under arrest, discovering that
in addition to the other charges,
he wa'sa deserter from the United
States Army.
L. F. SMITH
KILLED ON
INVASION DAY
Maj. Lionel F. Smith, Auburn
graduate from Capshaw, com­manding
officer of an engineer
combat battalion, was killed on
Invasion Day in France. He is
the son of Mrs. Elow Smith and
the late W. Edwin Smith, Cap­shaw.
Maj. Smith received his degree
in mechanical engineering at Au­burn
in 1934 and worked with the
Soil Conservation Service until he
entered the armed forces in Au­gust,
1941, and had been over­seas
since last November.
If you have signed UD, to con­tribute
to the Blood Bank, be sure
to keep your appointment. This is
one time when you really cannot
"stand up" your date.
Former Student
Lost In Action
During Invasion
Lt Melvin Morton Spruiell, 29,
a graduate of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute from Leeds, was
killed in action June 11 while
serving with the 101st Airborne
Division in the invasion of France,
according to a telegram received
by his parents from the War De­partment.
He had been overseas
for nine months.
Lt. Spruiell received a B. S. de­gree
in chemical engineering from
API in 1934. He w<a sa member of
Tau Beta Pi, engineering frater­nity;
Phi Lambda Upsilon, chem­istry
fraternity; and Phi Kappa
Phi, honoroary fraternity.
He was awarded a fellowship to
the University of Tennessee,
where he received his M. A. de­gree.
Later he received a fellow­ship
to Ohio State University
where he received his Ph. D. de­gree.
While assisting in Physiol-logical
chemistry at Ohio State,
Lt. Spruiell was elected to Sigma
Xi, honorary scientific research
fraternity.
At the time of his induction into
the Air Corps he was stationed
in Cincinnati with the U. S. Pure
Food and Drug Department.
Combat Pilot,
Auburn Man' Meets
Enemy Over Italy
Lt. William A. Sloan, 22, for­mer.
Auburn student from Besse­mer,
has flown 60 combat missions
as pilot and flight leader of a B-26
Marauder squadron with the
Mediterranean's oldest medium
bomb group.
He has been over Rome "three
or four" times, including the first
Rome attack, Florence, the Anzio
and Salerno beachheads, Sicily,
and southern France, and has won
the Air Medal with three oak leaf
clusters.
After a mission against an Ital­ian
rail bridge in April Lt. Sloan
became one of the very few—
possibly the only—pilot to have
made a single-engine landing
while in formation with other
landing bombers.
"We had been dodging weather
so much that day," he says, "that
we ran out of gas in one engine
just as we were ^approaching the
runway with two other B-26's for
a formation landing. We had been
sweating out our gas, though, and
were more or less ready for the
engine to cut out.
"When it did quit we already
had our wheels down so I just
threw a lot of coal to it and re-trimmed
a bit and came on in."
It was only eight months ago
that formation takeoffs and land­ing
by Marauders, even with both
engines functioning, were con­sidered
almost impossible.
Overseas 13 months, Lt. Sloan
was promoted from pilot to flight
leader after his 38th mission. His
gunners are credited with shoot-ting
down two Messerschmitt
109's.
He attended the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Auburn, before
entering the army in March, 1942.
NEW PE PLANS
SOON TO BE
ANNOUNCED
The Physical Education - pro­gram
for men students has been
completely revised by recent ac­tion
of the Executive Council. The
new regulations will be published
in their entirety next week.
Under the new program Dr.
V. W. Lapp will have charge of
the teacher training work. Coach
"Swede" Umbach will direct all
the regular boys PE, while Coach
Bob Evans will be in charge of
intermural athletics for men.
FACULTY FORUM
The Faculty Forum will have its
regular meeting in the grove back
of the library .Monday night, July
24, 1944, at 7:30 p.m.
SENIORS REQUESTED
TO GO BY BURTON'S
All seniors who expect to
graduate at the end of this quar­ter
are aksd to go by Burton's
Book Store to be measured for
caps and gowns by August 4,
announces Reuben Burch, presi­dent
of the Senior Class.
Graduation is to be August
25, at seven p.m. in Graves Cen­ter.
In case of rain it will be
moved to Langdon Hall.
Photographer
Will Remain
Here Longer
Only five hundred and seventy
students reported to Student Cen­ter
to have their pictures taken
for the next Glomerata.
The cooperation of everyone is
needed to make 4he publication a
success, and all students who fail­ed
to keep their appointments
earlier in the week are asked to
please report to the photographer,
Mr. Gaston, either Saturday from
8 "'til 4 or Monday from 8 'til 5.
Excuses will be given for the hour
missed from class.
It is very difficult to procure
the services of a photographer,
and it is only by utilizing such
service when it is available that
the pictures of all students can
be made for the 1945 book.
BLOOD BANK RETURNS
TO AUBURN FIFTH TIME
Donations Asked Of Townspeople
And API Students By Committee
APhiO And ChiO
COLLECT PAPER
Alpha Phi Omega, national
scouting fraternity, and Chi Ome­ga
sorority will assist the Jaycees
and Boy Scouts in a scrap paper
drive in Auburn on Saturday.
People who have scrap paper
are asked to place it on the curb
next to the street early Saturday
morning so it can be picked up
during the day. Only flat paper
can be used, and it is asked that
people keep it in stacks, or flat
bundles.
Four trucks will leave Ramsey
Hall at 8 a.m. All members .of
Alpha Phi Omega and pledges are
urged to meet there.
Work will continue untii noon
and from one p.m. until finished.
FFA PLANS
SERIES OF
MOVIES
The collegiate chapter of the
FFA met Tuesday night. Professor
D: N. Bottoms spoke to the group
on the subject of the meeting of
colored agricultural teachers in
Tuskegee.
The FFA boys will hold their
regular meeting next Tuesday
night in Langdon Hall at 7:30. The
movie, "The Greenhand," will be
shown. This film, which has been
shown to rural audiences all over
the state, is reported to have been
commented upon favorably by all
audiences.
At its meeting Tuesday the
group decided to show a movie
at each meeting for the rest of
the quarter. Group singing was a
feature of the meeting.
A picture made of the collegiate
FFA officer recently by Roy Ful­ler
will appear in one or more
state agricultural publications in
the near future, it was announced.
(Continued on Page 6)
'One and Two and Three'
The scene of our comedy of
the week: the sidewalk beside
Samford Hall; the time: about
five-thirty one sunny afternoon
last week; the characters: two
ASTPR's and one sailor from
the Radio School.
The two boys in army uni­form,
not knowing that the
sailor was approaching from
the rear, gave expression to
some urge or other by break­ing
into a clog routine, a la
George Murphy and Cantor.
The sailor, coming up even
with them about this time,
smiled tolerantly and tossed a
penny on the sidewalk.
AST's APPEAR AGAIN
ON AUBURN CAMPUS
By Dottie Woodall
"At first we wondered—we arrived in the pouring rain,
and didn't know just what to expect," said a tall ASTPR, the
other day. "But now we're beginning to get situated and we
like Auburn." He said it in all sincerity, so we didn't reply,
smugly, "Of course, everyone does." ~
These boys have been on the API campus for a week or
so now and many of them
have become acquainted with stu­dents
here and feel more at home
than the majority. They told us
that they had been very conscious
of the fact that the coeds con­sider
them rather juvenile. It is
true that they are all under the
age of 18, but many of them have
had at least one year of college
work and all of them are fully
as old as many our Auburn fresh­men.
So don't expect them to start
building model kiddy-cars in
their spare time—they just won't.
Personally we had been a bit
vague about their whole set-up,
but a tall Floridian who says, "Ah
am a pro-o-ofou-u-und S'uthern-or,"
explained it. They are to take
engineering here, carrying about
twice the normal load in hours,
until the end of the quarter in
which they have their 18th birth­day.
After that they will be sent
somewhere for the regular army
basic training. It is their hope
that when they have finished this,
the army will send .them back to
school under some program simi­lar
to the ASTP we used to have.
It hasn't been so long since we
had those other army students
here. We remember how suscepti.
ble they were to the Auburn &pir>
it, and even how some plan to
come back here to school after the
war. It's a pretty even bet that
these boys who have recently ar­rived
will find it just as conta­gious.
Already they have almost
stopped looking surprised when
strangers greet them with a
friendly, "Hey."
In speaking of that traditional
Auburn friendliness, our friend,
the "profound Southerner," said
that he had heard about it before
he ever got here. "And t had
heard right, too, but the girls
spoke to us those first few days as
if they wouldn't let that tradition
down, but they were a little
doubtful about whether we were
old enough to leave our mothers!"
This thing of their youth, has
become a big joke to the boys.
They even have moments of see­ing
the humor of that old Boy
Scout gag—which incidentally has
whiskers, vets, so why not drop
it? One ASTPR even said he
would start working on his sec­ond-
class Scout rating as soon as
he learned to tie a sheep-shank.
And then there's the group who
call themselves the wolf patrol.
Wonder if there's any reason
that they don't know the names
of their instructors? When asked
which ones they had, they an­swered
that they; had English
from "a white-haired gentleman"
and geography from "a friendly
fellow." Really, faculty! Let the
boys in on the secret of your iden­tity—
they might want to send you
a Christmas card sometime. -
News Analysis
Reveals Change
In Jap Leaders
By Van Hemert
Without a doubt Thursday,
July 20, 1944, will go down in
history as one of the more mem­orable
dates of World War II,
for on that day three very signifi­cant
and newsworthy events oc-cured.
Taking these events in the
order of their importance would
be extremely difficult of accom­plishment
because the far reach­ing
effects of these occurrences
cannot, as yet, be calculated.
So let's take them in order from
East to West, starting from our
left. By this method we consider
first the resignation of the entire
Japanese War Cabinet, including
the infamous Premier Tojo. This
shake-up indicates two things. (1)
The all-powerful dictators we
have heard so much about are
not as powerful as their titles
would indicate. In Japan, the Em­peror
reasserts his authority and
removes the man whom most peo­ple
thought could not be removed.
And the average man's conception
of supreme authority must under­go
a revision. This leads one to
consider the relation of any leader
to the roots from which his au­thority
springs. In the United
States the people apply the boot;
in Great Britain the Parliament
nods approval or disapproval; and
in Russia the Communist Party
theoretically selects or rejects the
head of the government; but,
things are a bit hazy as to who
can give Hitler the well-known
sack. (2) The Japanese realize the
.seriousness of of their present sit­uation
and in a desperate effort
to avert the inevitable disaster,
which U. S. successes in the Pa­cific
have brought home to them,
have resorted to the old power
shift device.
Second big event of an eventful
day was the nomination of F.D.R.
as the Democratic candidate for
President at the Democratic Na­tional
Convention in Chicago^
This is an indication that the lead­ership
of the President for the
past twelve years has met with
the approval of the Democratic
party, and this leadership is deem­ed
vital to a successful continua­tion
and conclusion of the war.
Contrast this indorsement to the
sacking of the Japanese Cabinet
and you will have some idea of
which way the war is going.
Third, and last, big event of the
day was the revelation by German
news sources that an attempt had
been made on the life of Adolph
Hitler. Taking this as a sign of
the times this occurrence can be
taken either as a brand new metn-od
on the part of Hitler to get
rid of some of this Generals, since
several Generals were reported to
have been wounded as a result
of the attempted assasination, or
it can be taken as an indication
of a movement within Germany
to get rid of Hitler and thus make
way for a German government
that could tak peace terms with
the Allies. Both of the preceding
conclusions are- highy specula­tive
interpretations of an event of
which we have little or no knowl­edge.
The version we have is the
one presumbaly passed on by
Giebbels, and the unreliability of
the Geobbel's propaganda line is
a well substantiated fact.
To sum up on the significance
of Thursday, July 20, 1944, we
(Continued on Pag* 6) •
The Lee County Blood Donor.Service announced today that
many have responded to the appeal for donors and many have
signed pledges for giving plasma when the mobile unit from
the Atlanta-Red Cross chapter will be here.
- The unit will have its headquarters at the First Baptist
Church in Auburn on August 9, 10, and 11.
If you have not already volun­teered
to give^-your blood, you
may make an appointment for a
convenient time with the repre­sentative
of the donor service,
who will be stationed in the lob­by
of the Tiger Theater every
night until July 28.
Representatives will also be
stationed and members of Kappa
Delta Sorority will canvass the
campus next week.
Miss Katherine Wright and Miss
Carolyn Self are to be credited
for the fine showing made in the
matter of securing donors, accord­ing
to R. E. Smith, chairman of
the Lee County Blood Donor Ser­vice.
In connection with the student
branch of the American Red
Cross, Carolyn Self is chairman
of the drive in the city of Au­burn,
and Katherine Wright is
chairman of the drive on the cam­pus.
Chairman Smith says that he is
confident that the student body
of API will continue its loyal sup­port
of this great service.
"To date," he says, "We enjoy
the record of three times having
gone over the maximum quota,
and only once failing to make the
maximum."
Lt Col. Chappell,
Recent Grad, Given
Air Medal And DFC
Lt. Col. Frank B. Chappell,
Aliceville, a graduate of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, has been
awarded the Air Medal for meri­torious
achievement on bombing
attacks over enemy-occupied
Italy. He also holds the Distin­guished
Flying Cross and the Air
Medal.
Promoted to his present rank
just three ears after receiving
his wings, Lt. Col Chappell was
made squadron commander when
he was assigned to the Tunisian
front in August, 1943. He had
completed 47 missions over enemy
territory when he was stricken
with pneumonia and remained in
a hospital for two months, until
July 1.
Lt. Col. Chappell received his
B. S. degree in mechanical engi­neering
from Auburn in 1940. He
was a member of Kappa Sigma
fraternity.
ON THE CAMPUS
Alpha Phi Omega
Alpha Phi Omega, national
scouting service fraternity, will
hold its regular weekly meeting
at 5:00 Wednesday above Ben­son's.
Plans will be discussed for
a social to be held this summer.
* * *
Veterans
All discharged servicemen who
are interested in forming a cam­pus
organization please contact
Wiggins or Laney at the ATO
House and suggest a meeting date.
Phones 898 or 9123.
* * *
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Methodist Youth Fellowship
meets Sunday evening at 8:15 in
the Wesley Foundation audito­rium.
The vesper service is fol­lowed
by a social hour in the
lounge of the same building.
» * •
IAeS
IAeS will meet Monday at 7:15
p.m. in Ramsay 109. A film on pro­pellers
will be shown, and all
aeronautical engineering students
are urged to attend.
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Take Your Choice--You Wont Fall
Because in^all ages he who gave the
world some new idea, or some original
concept for its further development, has
been one who dared to be what most men
fear above all—separated from the herd,
we have come to have t h e idea t h a t to be
different is to be superior. Those desiring
fame—or even personal edification—need
only to make a point of being "radical."
He who can shock the most people in the
shortest length of time is labeled a "char­acter,"
and if he only pursues his course
long enough will likely be looked upon as
something rather special in the way of in­tellectual
pioneers.
Most of us have a sort of ingrained con­servatism.
We go our own way blithely for
years—we think we believe in spiritual
freedom. We are enamoured of the idea
that we care not even the proverbial fig
for "convention," the opinion of a smug,
Fraternity Patriotism
No names shall be mentioned in this
article, for the accused are well aware of
their guilt.
Several fraternities on this campus are
falling down on their obligations, not only
to their national organizations but to the
public spirit as well. Everyone agrees that
servicemen should be welcome anywhere,
even in the clannish fraternity houses. But
they are not. It is not merely that the non-fraternity
men are given a cold reception,
but the members in service are unwelcome
at their own fraternity houses.
As a consequence, a burden is thrown
on the few chapters that have discharged
servicemen. For only the men who have
been in the service can realize the value to
a soldier or sailor, of "a pleasantly spent
weekend. It is not uncommon to find mem­bers
of several fraternities enjoying their
hard-earned "pass" in one chapter house.
Last Saturday night three lieutenants
from Fort Benning asked for lodging at
the house next door to their own, because
they had been refused even the comfort
of a soft for the night. At the other house
they were made welcome even though
half a dozen men from three other frater­nities
were already encamped there.
It is very true that the Greeks are hard-pressed
financially at the present, but there
is no expense in lodging the servicemen for
Honest Or No?
When talking to a cafe manager recently,
we learned that some "changes have been
made" in the way of living in Auburn. Not
so many years ago, he said he could not dis­play
candy profitably on the counter. Stu­dents
thought it the height of cleverness to
order breakfast and pay for a cup of cof­fee.
Football heroes were so full of self-glory
that they were afraid of no one and
expected favors from everyone.
"They can have the good old days," he
said, explaining that the situation, from his
seat behind the cash register, is exactly
reversed. Now, several times a day students
remind him of a piece of pie or dish of ice
cream that the waiter forgot to add to the
bill. Some have come back hours after
they absent-mindedly walked out without
paying for a meal.
Being a member of the generation cur-laced-
and-stayed society. Then one day,
with no warning, we find ourself in a sit­uation
where we have an opportunity to
prove to ourself just how unfettered we
really safe. And there you are. Call it
cowardice, or call it moral courage—it's
all the same. Arid we are still safe in our
own eyes, for we can think we displayed
"moral significence" or some such thing. In -
the event that society loses the bout, on the
other hand, we can think we're really a
superior liberated soul—born to be unap­preciated
by your contemporaries, but just
wait til A. D. 2044! So you see, there's
no way to lose.
Still, occasionally there's a Socrates, a
Luther, or a Thomas Paine. They probably
found it a problem, too, to know whether
they were fools or not; whether they
might not have been better off with a ham-and-
eggs-for-breakfast sort of mind.
the night. They will gladly pay for their
meals, and they desire only a bed, shower
and some assistance in getting a date. That
is little enough.
Coach Voyles told the fraternities re­cently
to stay on their toes and continue
to be beneficial and appreciated at Auburn.
There are some diapers here that would
do well to heed that advice.
Many fraternity men at Auburn do not
seem to realize that there's a war going on.
Their indifference to THEIR OWN
BROTHERS in service is no less than as­tounding.
All that is needed is lodging for
the night in the spare bedrooms that all
the houses now have. The fraternities are
obligated to perform this very small ser­vice
not only by their national organiza­tions
but for the public spirit as well.
Those are the men who are doing the
work now—not the dawdling college stu­dents.
Ill-will is a poor exchange for the
unselfish labors of a serviceman.
It is not uncommon now to find mem­bers
of half a dozen fraternities, repulsed
by their brothers, spending the weekend
in one chapter house—a deplorable state of
affairs. _
Be alert, Fraternities! You have done
beneficial and well-appreciated work in the
past. Certainly now is no time for back­sliding.
rently accused of going to the dogs, we
were elated to be commended by one who
has watched, if not from the lecturer's
desk, the evolution of etiquette in Auburn.
We were swelling with pride when in
walked a student in the School of Archi-.
tecture, indignant because someone had
stolen his scale. Not only were his supplies,
in the freshman drafting room (where stu­dents
have left things unlocked for years)
tampered with, but whole sets were taken
from a few, and miscellaneous equipment
here and there—but it ain't hay. Of course,
we are not accusing anybody; maybe it
wasn't a college student. Maybe we are
a little too idealistic, but it hurts our ego to
think anybody-in Auburn would be so
deficient in something that neither can be
bought nor sold—the Auburn Spirit.
By SUSAN BROWN
COPR. IUH, KINO FEATURES SYMIICATE. Inc. WORLD ItlUHTS RESERVED 7»"- 7
"It's the most marvelous stuff I've ever used! It attracts
men and repels mosquitoes!"
Around The Editor's Desk
A Sharman-less and Simms-less edition in the making—
that's what this was from the very first. The above-mentioned
copy-hounds didn't darken the doorway of the Plainsman of­fice
the whole week, and left us sort-of shorthanded on two
accounts, for in addition to not having them around, the Plains­man
has lost an old and good friend, Mr. W. H. Dinkins, the
fellow who's acted as a fairy-godmother to the staffs of untold
volumes of the paper.
* * *
Mr. Dinkins has left for Shreveport, Louisiana, to work on
a daily newspaper. He has been the guy here who kept our
toes to the mark along headlines and in regard to page make­up
(which is, incidentally more intricate than any of the fine
art put out by Cody, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Max Factor, etc.)
* * * * *
We had no dreams of such lib«frty, and were about to get
into the habit of blaming everything on Sharman. We never
thought we'd be put on our own while the ice-cream-cone
eating editor made a quick change into a semi-professional
sportsman, the Terror of the 'Ittle Fishies. But it seems that
the day that every dog is supposed to have has come at last.
* * * * *
Which brings us around to the subject of mistakes—and the
one Mrs. Spidle made the other night. Seeing a couple of boys
crawling along in the bushes next to Dormitory III, she very
naturally thought they had no business being there. After all,
it was too dark for them to have been looking for specimens
of grub worms. So she walked up and politely, but firmly
asked them to take their presence elsewhere. The comic truth
of the whole thing is just too good to keep. They were looking
for a fifty-cent piece. No, not so they could go down to the
bar and squander it in riotous living—there are no bars in
Auburn, pardner. One of them had quite innocently been flip­ping
said coin up into the air and catching it again as he walked
down the sidewalk. He had been catching it, but one time he
missed. Hence the search. We didn't hear whether or not he
ever found it—he left in a hurry, see above. So if you're short
bn funds—institute a Gold Rush of your own.
* * * * *
It doesn't hurt, really it doesn't, and even if it did, who
wants to be a sissy? Contributing blood to the Blood Bank is
what we mean. The Blook Bank will be here soon again. It's
a very little thing for us to do, and one of the few things we
have an opportunity to do.The response of students and others
in Auburn has been very good on the other occasions that the
Blood Bank has been here. Just because it's hot 'n lazy weather,
let's not let this be an exception. Many of us know from having
been "bled" before that there's nothing to it. But if you've
never yet tried this method of backing your man out there,
and you get a qualmy feeling in the pit of your stomach at
the idea of losing blood, just ignore it and go ahead. You'll be
glad and you'll laugh at yourself for having been scared.
/ * * * * *
Take one night at the end of a six-week period, when the
next day's gonna be Friday, add three pots full of coffee, a
whole book to be learned for a final the next morning, and
three or four congenial companions—then forget to go to bed
at all. Just forget all about it, don't even get sleepy. And then
by the dawn's early light go up and take a long, luxurious bath,
look at yourself in the mirror, and try to decide whether you
look like a zombie, or whether you look intriguing. The result
of this will be that you'll see black and collapse light in the
middle of class, or else you'll feel no pain for the next thirty
hours. This should be practiced only once or twice a quarter,
but it's one of those things that we'll remember about college
after we forget how to conjugate weak verbs for Herr Rose.
* * * * *
We tried hard not to mention fish and fishing—after all,
Sharman has overdone the subject. But we'v"e been thinking
about Dr. Wassel's golden catfish that wear blue and silver
bells. The concensus—if two can constitute a concensus—is
that we wish we knew a man who thought that way.
"If the Social Committee really
wants to do something for the
good of Auburn, why doesn't that
body do more to control the con­duct
of the Paratroopers each
weekend. As a whole their moral
conduct is lower than any group
or individuals we know or have
kown."—The Tiger Nose. July 14,
1944.
* * »
In a 10 x 20 fish pond there
lived some medium-grade intelli­gent
goldfish who swam around
in a school passing wise and wit­ty
remarks about RELIGION,
FISH, and SEX, not necessarily in
that order. Nine-tenths of the time
they stayed in the west end of
the pond and lived an amazingly
frivolous life considering their
preoccupation with the intellect­ual.
There was a time -when
they swallowed live tadpoles just
for the sake of swallowing live
tadpoles. Life in the west end of
the fish pond was pretty rich.
There were some belligerent
ducks that were making war on
some other fish ponds, eating
goldfish and washing muddy feet
in some of the very best ponds.
It didn't particularly bother the
fish in the west end of the 10 x 20
until the ducks were obviously
waddling toward that vicinity.
Then all the fish got fairly up­set.
The short of it was that a lot
of the finest masculine fish—with
the sharpest fins—left. The west
end was mostly feminine.
That was why some fish in the
east end of the pond, who had
been put there by some of the
higher-ups to learn how to leap
in war began to swim down to the
west end on week-ends. They and
the blithe fish discussed curved
space and gravitation—remotely
connected with leaping, ponds on
farms—where most of the fish
really lived, and swam around
blowing bubbles.
' The fellow fish had become
pretty much a part of the west
pond when some west end fish
began telling about how the fish
from the east pond were seen
with feminine fish of "that type"
wlho couldn't be described be­cause
who would want to de­scribe
them, how they blew bub­bles
with almost any Auburn fish,
and horrible! horrible! how their
moral conduct on weekends was
lower than any group of individ­ual
fish.
None of the fish paid much at­tention.
Some of the femipine fish
who felt rather indirectly con­cerned
talked about it some while
they played black jack under a
lily pad. By* recounting and com­paring
past actions of the accus­ing
fish they concluded that those
fish always responded that way
when they thought some other
fish were scraping their fins. One
very young feminine fish thought
•they might be jealous of the fel­low
fish. They all fluttered their
gills when another fish remarked
"They aren't really very subtle."
And then they talked about the
new water proof pancake.
Not too long afterward the leap­ing
fish all went somewhere else,
the fish who had been gone from
the west end came home and the
red stones strewed back on the
floors of all the "toujours gai"
joints. The feminine fish backed
to normal life with the B.F.O.S.
(big fish in our school) and moral
conduct lower than any group of
individual fish was never men­tioned.
* * *
Congratulations to Managing
Editors Martha Rand and Dottie
Woodall who are responsible for
this week's Plainsman. Incidental­ly,
it's the first time since- Shirley
Smith moved from the editor's
desk that The Plainsman has been
done by a coed—or coeds.
war topjii
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.
Last weekend we decided to go
home and since our copy had
to be in the first of the week,
we wrote our column and handed
it in to the editor before we left.
He read it, passed it on to his
staff—consisting at the time of
three girls—and when the staff
shook its head and frowned, the
final result was that our column
which should have appeared here
found itself torn up and in the
wastebasket.
Frankly, it seems to us that the
present policy of this school pa­per
is one of outmoded conser­vatism.
True, our column did con­sist
of several jokes that might
be described as being "rough," but
on second thought-they could be
no worse than the minds that read
them. We should like to refer the
editor's staff to Georgia Tech's
Yellow Jacket and the Universi­ty's
Rammer Jammer.
We tried our hand at jokes in
the first issue of this quarter. We
gathered thern from the past pub.
lications which have appeared
from time to time on the campus—
and judging by the comments
which we heard, they were well
liked. But had it not have been
for the sanction of the publica­tions
from which they were de­rived,
it is doubtful that we would
have been able to get them in at
all. We realize that jokes—per­haps
a little risque—go over big
with the reading public and a col­umn
without readers is a pretty
useless thing. Our attempt to
brighten this spot on the editorial
page failed.
It is interesting to look back
over the periodicals and theatrical
productions of the past centuries,
and the recent few years, and to
see which ones were great, held
the public's interest, and became
known as classics. If one looks
back, he will find in these a spice,
a flavor that held them above
their contemporaries — and nine
times out of ten that spice bears
the mark of obscenity. Let us not
go back so far: let us look at the
legitimate theater of today. There
is scarcely a long run play on
Broadway **now — nor has there
been in the last decade—that
does not bear in its scrip the
words d n, b —d, ors
a h. In fact it would
seem that the more often these
obscenities are repeated through
out the performance, the greater
the hit the play turns out to be.
We ane not psychologists. We
cannot explain why civilization
establishes a moral code on the
one hand and then on the other
sets about to corrupt it. It would
seem to us that a middle of the
road plan would bring about a
leveling process that would in the
end result in a moderation of
things.
But perhaps that's after all
what people like most. And the
reason that they do is that they
enjoy placing an object or an ideal
on a pedestal and then slowly and
deliberately chipping away the
foundation until the ground work
crumbles and the object of their
esteem lies in a heap at their feet.
That is a fraility of the mind of
man.
Long ago an author, found that
if he could write a book and then
have a ban placed on it, that his
book would outsell any book that
had been •written before his time.
The fellow that pulled that stunt
was probably just a run-of-the-mill
sort of man, but he knew
' t he inner workings of psychology,
and so today his work and the
works of his compatriots enjoy
such widespread popularity. These
are the classics.
The point we would like to
make is this: we had a column
written for this week that had in
it the basic requirements of a
classic. That column lies in shreds
and our chance to take our place
beside Benjamin Franklin and
Michel de Montaigne has vanish­ed.
Speaking of these two eminent
writers, if you never peaked into
the classics, look up the autobiog­raphies
of these illustrious men,
sit down in a good comfortable
chair, and read •them! These two
books are two- of the most inter-have
ever read. They are a col-esting
and worthwhile books we
lege education within themselves
—and we might add that the read­ing
isn't as dull as you might
imagine. . . .
\
July 21, 1944 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three
EXECUTIVE CABINET
SPONSORS "SWING"
Campus Dance On Samford Terrace
Set For Saturday Night, 8:30
Under the sponsorship of the Executive Cabinet, Satur­day's
Samford Swing will get under way promptly at 8:30
p.m. As is the summer ruling, freshman and sophomore girls
will be granted 12 o'clock permission if they sign out for the
dance. *••
The street will be lighted with red, white, and blue lights
as in the past. These, as well as
STUDENT TELLS
OF PUERTO RICO
AND OF SPAIN
By Waunita Wilkinson
strategically located chairs and
benches, are furnished by the
Building and Grounds depart­ment.
Soft drinks and popcorn will be
sold.
Music will be furnished by a
nickelodeon with popular selec­tions
on it.
Prexy Gibbs Ashley, of the Ex­ecutive
Cabinet, wants to make
this the "best dance of the sum­mer."
"Due to student coopera­tion,"
he says, "the dances have
been more successful than we had
hoped. Future success will be de­termined
by the student's interest
—or lack of it."
As in the past, bridge games,
skating, an dwatching will be en­couraged,
as well as dancing. Stu­dents,
servicemen, and townspeo­ple
are welcome.
Because it is an Auburn tradi­tion
to get acquainted with every­one
at dances, breaking is good
taste.
Girls are encouraged to come
in groups, as well as with dates,
for in the past there have been
many more men students than
coeds.
Miss Williamson
Weds L t Alden
Here This Week
Miss Mary Lydia Williamson of
Auburn was married to Lt. John
Alden of Camp Maxey, Texas, and
Maplewood, N. J., on Monday,
July 17, at the Williamson home.
Dr. J. R. Edwards, pastor of the
Baptist Church, performed the
ceremony. The traditional wed­ding
marches and Beethoven's
Moonlight Sonata were played by
Mrs. Christine Tidwell.
Virginia Williamson was her
sister's ..only attendant. John Les­lie
Alden of Maplewood, N. J.,
was his son's best man.
Immediately following the cere­mony
the bride's parents enter­tained
at a rectption. Receiving
wit hthe bridal party were Mr.
and Mrs. Williamson and Mr. and
Mrs. Alden, parents of the groom.
The bride graduated from Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute. She
wa sa member of Kappa Delta
Sorority. She did graduate work
in economics at the University
of North Carolina and has been
doing geographical and economic
research for the United Nations
Interim Commission of Food and
Agriculture.
Lt. Alden graduated from the
University of Michigan in Arche­ology
and was connected with
TVA in Knoxville before enter­ing
the Armed Services. He re­ceived
his commission from OCS
at Camp Davis, N. C.
After a wedding trip to New
Orleans the young couple will
reside at Camp Maxey, Texas,
where Lt. Alden is assigned.
Home Ec Canteen
Now Operated
At Student Center
The Home Economics Canteen,
located in Student Center, is op­erated
every Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday mornings from 10 to
11 o'clock by the institutional or-ganzation
class.
This class, though very small
in number, has been very efficient
in this quarter in the operation of
this canteen. The three students,
Aline Stephens, Ardelle Thomp­son,
and Lettie Cowart, under the
supervision of Mrs. G. A. Scbra-der,
have served delicious pie,
cake, -cookies, fruit juices, and
coffee.
Miss Cowart, was here for only
the first six weeks of this quar­ter,
and the canteen management
has been left entirely to student
management. Because of the re­duced
class, the canteen will
.probably be open only two days a
week during the last six weeks.
"None of the girls smoke but
everyone drinks at the dances at
home," said Agustin Lepategui
from Siales, Puerto Rico, a stu­dent
in the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts.
"All places have a bar, and cock­tails
are served whether it be at
a dance at a private or at a public
place," added Agustin.
He went on to say that there
are places to dance even in towns
as small as Auburn and these
places always have their own mu­sicians.
Agustin said the boy us­ually
meets his date at the dance
or goes by for her and the chap­eron
who is sometimes the girl's
mother. The dances start at nine
and last until five in the morn­ing.
"At the schools at home we
talked about politics more than
about sports," spoke Augustin.
English is taught in the grade
schools beginning in the fourth
grade and continuing through
high school. He said that he at­tended
a private American own­ed
school in Puerto Rico.
He explained that the Puerto
Ricans think that the Americans
are happy-go-lucky and care free
as shown in the movies and he
said the ladies' styles are greatly
influenced by the pictures shown
there.
After having spent most of his
life in Puerto Rico he went to
Spain in 1936. His father was kill­ed
in the Civil War two years
later.
Augustin told of the night he
and his friends serenaded their
girl friends in Spain. With a laugh
he said, "Sometimes the serena­des
were soaked with, water if
the girl's people objected but this
seldom happened." Most of the
homes have balconies and here
the girls stand and talk to the
boys but only with an invitation
from the girl's father could the
boy enter the home.
Agustin said Spain is a very
colorful and historical country.
Bull fights are the most popular
form of entertainment and the
bull fighters are as popular there
as the movie stars are here in the
states.
He added that if you didn't see
the bull fights on Sunday you
were left out of the next week's
conversation at the Plaza. The
Plaza is a garden around the
church and a favorite meeting
place for the young people of
Spain.
When asked which country he
liked best' Agustin said, "Home
is Puerto Rico but I like America,
and some day I want to make my
home in the States."
Agustin came to America in
1940 to study architecture. Two
years were spent at school in
Pennsylvania and one year at
Mississippi.
Ann Dunlap Weds
Malcolm Horrell
In Montgomery
The engagement and approach­ing
marriage of Miss Ann Dunlap
to Malcolm Burke Horrell, Jr.,
both of Montgomery, is of promi­nent
social note.
The marriage will take place
Saturday, July 15, at 5:30 at the
First Methodist Church, with Dr.
Gaston Fotte officiating.
The musical program will be
under the direction of Margaret
MacGtregor, organist.
Miss Dunlap will ibe given in
marriage by her brother David
Dunlap. Dan Wilson, of Montgom­ery,
stationed at Camp Stewart,
Ga., will serve the groom as best
man.
Miss Dunlap's maid of honor,
and only attendant will be her
sister, Miss Elinor Dunlap.
The bride-to-be was graduated
from Sidney Lanier High School
in Montgomery and attended Bre-nau
College where she was a
member of ADPi, and Lorelei,
honorary musical organization.
Mr. Horrell is a graduate of
A.P.I. While at Auburn, he was
a member of Sigma Nu, and Pi
Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical
engineering fraternity.
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Miss Julia McCord
And Dave Shaffer
Will Marry Here
The marriage of Miss Julia Mc­Cord
to J. David Schaffer will
take place Friday afternoon, Au­gust
25, in the Auburn First
Methodist Church at 4 o'clock,
with the Reverend Fagan Thomp­son
officiating.
The bride-elect is the daughter
of Mrs. C. S. McCord of Five
Points and is a graduate of Five
Points High School. She is a
sophomore in Physical Education
at API and has taken part in va­rious
activities since being on the
campus.
The groom is a senior in Veteri­nary
Medicine at API, and will
receive his degree at the end of
this quarter. He holds, also, a
B. S. degree in Agriculture from
the University of Maryland.
Miss McCord has chosen Mrs.
Ruth Gunn of West Point, Geor­gia,
as matron of honor.
R. P. Knowles, Miami, Florida,
will serve the groom as best man.
Lt. Frank Marsh visited Au-last
weekend. He is stationed at
Fort Banning now.
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"The Man Wilh
The Tape"
Chaplain From
Opelika Speaks
Sunday Night
Union church services will be
held at seven p.m. Sunday night
in the amphitheatre in Graves
Center, with Irwin E .Heckman,
chaplain of the Internment camp,
Camp Opelika, as speaker. His
daughter, Miss Heckman, will be
soloist.
In case of rain, the services are
to be moved to Langdon Hall.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the services each week.
Abner B. Kerby,
Auburn Alumnus,
Receives Award
For wounds received as a re­sult
of enemy action in the South­west
Pacific area on March 2,
1944, Abner B. Kerby, a midship­man
at Cornell, will receive the
Purple Heart award Saturday.
Presentation will be made by
Captain B. W. Chippendale, com­manding
officer of the Naval
Training School, at the regular
captain's inspection on Lower
Alumni Field, 1:30 p.m..
Kerby, 23, of Leighton, Ala., re­ported
to the Midshipman School
on May 26. He served 19 months
with the "Seabees," and saw ac­tion
at Guadalcanal, New Guinea,
and the Admiralty Islands. Pre­vious
to Navy service he was a
student at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, Auburn, and at State
Teacher's College, Florence.
7 Ex-Students
At Pre-flight
School Now
Seven former students of API
have reported to the pre-flight
school at Maxwell Field, Alabama
to begin another phase of their
training in the United States Ar­my
Air Forces.
These men will receive nine
weeks of intensive physical, mili­tary
and academic instruction
while at Maxwell.
They are Ernest C. Dawson III
who attended API in 1942-43;
Charles H. Ellis, 1942-43; James
W. Fogleman, Jr., 1940-44; Ernest
Home, 1943; William Weed.^Jr.,
1942-44; Charles W. Whatley,
1940-43; and James P. Wood, 1936-
37.
"Gay Nineties"
Will Be Theme,
BSU Banquet
Featuring the theme of "the
Gay Nineties," the Auburn BSU
will be host at a banquet at 7
p.m., July 29, at the Auburn Bap­tist
Church.
Speaker for the occasion will
be Dr. Clarence Jordan, who is
reported to be a favorite of the
BSU assemblies at Ridgecrest,
North Carolina. Dr. Jordan lives
in Americus, Georgia, and is a
graduate of Mercer University and
the Southern Baptist Seminary in
Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. J. L. Steel, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Opelika,
will be toastmaster.
Members of the BSU are work­ing
hard and from all reports the
banquet will be quite successful.
Committee chairmen for the
occasion are: program planning,
Morris Wilkerson; placecards,
Mary, Jo Thomas; tickets, Tom
Roberts; food, Ann Arnold; clean­up,
Bryson Hatfield; program
making, Theresa Ann Gunter;
room and stage decorations, Dot
Plant; table decoration, Ann Bish­op;
and publicity, Mary Lou Wall.
SERVICE PERSONALS
Vick-Nordan
Marriage
Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Z. D. Vick, Sr., of
Fayette, Ala., recently announced
the marriage of their daughter,
Emma Jean, to Lt. William W.
Nordan, of Abbeville, Ala., on
Feb. 6. The marriage took place
in Opelika. Both Lt. and Mrs.
Nordan were at that time stu­dents
at API.
Mrs. Nordan received her de­gree
in Secretarial Science in
June, and Lt. Nordan graduated
in March with a degree in Agri­cultural
Education. , ,
While in school, Mrs. Nordan
was a member of Phi Kappa Phi,
Phi Omega Pi sorority, Owls, and
Oracles, and held office on the
WSGA Council at various times.
She served as president of Phi
Omega Pi during the '43-'44
school year.
They are now making their
home at Camp Breckenridge, Ky.,
where Lt. Nordan is stationed
with the 767th Field Artillery.
WHEW! IT'S HOT!
And going to be hotter—and for a long time. Get into
one of our new arrivals in
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COTTONS
And show Old Sol a
thing or two about keep­ing
cool. These are in
ginghams and seersucker
$5.98-$7.98
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Nattily made up for
ease, comfort and dressy
appearance—ideal for the
hot days when you crave
to run around, play and
garden during these hot
days.
And they are service­able,
too, in many more
ways.
For cooling and dressy attire, step in at
MILDRED LIPPITTS
TOWN AND COUNTRY
Julian Lewis Bernheim, Atlan­ta,
Georgia, has received his com­mission
as Ensign in the United
States Naval Reserve at Camp
MacDonough, Plattsburg, N. Y.
Ensign Bernheim attended A.P.I,
from 1940 to 1943 in the school of
mechanical engineering, and was
a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fra­ternity.
He is now temporarily
stationed at Charleston, S. C.
- * * »
Second Lieutenant James Coop­er,
Montgomery, has completed a
Field Artillery course at Quantico,
Va., and had been assigned to du­ty
with a combat organization. Lt
Cooper was commissioned April
5, 1944. He is a graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, where
he majored in business adminis­tration,
and was a member of the
the SAE fraternity.
* * *
Ralph L. Killebrew, Abbeville,
has received his commission as
second lieutenant in the Field Ar­tillery
after completing OCS at
Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Lt. Killebrew
was a student in agricultural ed­ucation
at Auburn prior to his
entrance into the army.
* * *
Erwin Hanry Mangrum, Bir­mingham,
was recently commis­sioned
second lieutenant in the
Army Air Corps at Turner Field,
Albany, Ga. Lt. Mangrum was a
former Auburn student in me­chanical
engineering, and a mem­ber
of SAE fraternity.
* * •
James Lee Beindorf, Vero
Beach, Fla., recently received his
wings and gold bars as second
lieutenant in the Army Air Corps
at Turner Field, Ga. Lt. Beindorf
formerly attended API and was a
member of Lambda Chi Alpha
fraternity.
* * *
Cullen Matthew Ward, former
student at API, has been commis­sioned
in the Marine Corps Re­serve
at Quantico, Va., after com­pleting
the Reserve Officers'
Training School. He is a native
of Auburn. A member of Tau
Kappa Alpha, Ward was a stu­dent
in economics and public
speaking before he was called to
active duty with the Marines. He
visited Auburn this week.
* * «
Cpl. Hugh M. Motes, Sylacauga,
Ala., has been commissioned a
second lieutenant in the field ar­tillery
upon completing the Field
Artillery Officer Candidate course
at Fort Sill, Okla.
« » *
Lt. Motes studied civil engi­neering
at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, where he was a mem­ber
of Kappa Sigma fraternity.
He has been assigned to the
87th Infantry Division, Fort Jack,
son, S. C.
* « *
Ernest L. Lindley, Montgomery,
former student in electrical engi­neering
at API has received his
commission as second lieutenant
and his pilot's wings of the Army
Air Forces, at the Altus, Okla.,
Army Air Field.
* * *
Lt. Charlie Henagan, former
student of electrical engineering
from Birmingham, and member of
ATO fraternity, visited Auburn
this week.
* * *
Lt. Jack Plews visited the cam­pus
last week from Fort Benning,
where he is stationed with the
paratroops.
* * *
Ralph C. Adams, former API
student, and a membe rof Lamb­da
Chi Alpha fraternity, is how
located at Ft. Ord, Calif.
* * *
Miss Marian Snow left Friday
for Orlando, Florida to visit her
brother, Lt. H. Robert Snow, Jr.
Bob received his commission from
Yale University in May. He grad­uated
from Auburn in '42 and is a
member of TKA.
* * *
Lt. Col. Forney H. Ingram, Au­burn,
has been assigned to the
staff and faculty of the Field Ar­tillery
School at Fort Sill, Okla.
Lt. CoL Ingram is a graduate of
API. Before going into active ser­vice
with the army, he was em­ployed
as a civil engineer for the
Alabama Highway Department.
* * *
Lt George M. Heard, API grad­uate
of '43, former editor of the :
Plainsman and president of Sig­ma
Chi fraternity, has been re­cently
transferred from the 383rd
Bomber Group at Colorado
Springs, Colo., to the 504th Bomb­er
Group at Fairmont, Nebraska.
* * *
Lt. W. W. Nordan, API '44, has
beenassigned to duty at Camp
Breckenridge, Ky., after having
graduated from OCS at Fort Sill,
Okla.
* * *
Ensign Cameron G. Grammas,
USNR, former student at API,
has been removed from the Naval
Training Station at Ft. Schuyler,
N. Y, to the United States Naval
Training Station al Norfolk, Va.
OlOIOiOIOlO*
1.-
3.
3.
4.
5.
6.
PLAY SOME
EVERY DAY!
Top Flight and Bat Rackets
Tennis Balls, Wilson
Soft Balls and Bats
Badminton Sets and
Shuttle Cocks
Table Tennis Sets
Checkers and Chess Sets
Burton's Bookstore
"Something New Every Day"
Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN July 21, 1944
Spotlights On Auburnites
Cosby? Oh, she's down in her room at the end of the hall,
asleep. That's where you'll find her almost any Saturday
morning. Poor Coot's on the go so much that's her only chance
to rest."
• * * *
And we can well believe it, for Betty Cosby, president of
Women's Student Government Association, is also an ener­getic
worker in the.Student Branch, American Red Cross.
She was chairman of the last Blood Donor and War Bond
Drives. Her sorority is Kappa Delta, of which she was vice
president last year.
* * *
Betty was tapped for Oracles her freshman year and Owls
when a sophomore. She belongs to Cardinal Key and Kappa
Delta Pi honorary societies. Ex-prexy of WAA, she is now a
member of the Executive Cabinet.
* * *
In November she will receive her degree in education. She
came to API in the fall of '41 to major in history and minor in
English. Her home is Edgewood, Birmingham, and she went
to Phillips high school.
* * *
"Coot," as she is called by her friends, is enthusiastic about
her favorite sport, swimming, and was lifeguard at a girls'
camp the summer between her freshman and sophomore
years. She'd be infinitely happier if spinach and liver were
non-existent.
* * *
Betty has a yen to be in the WAVES, and likes small
towns 'specially Auburn. She rode a horse ONCE.
* * * .
Right now she's up to her ears in work revising "Co-Eti­quette,"
the handbook of WSGA.
Andy Hardy Copes With
Pitfall Of Higher Education
By Stella Regis
"Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble" has been produced for
laughs will be yours at the.Tiger Theatre this Sunday and
Monday, with Mickey Rooney as the lovable and frolicsome
Andy Hardy, the latest in the Hardy series. It promises to
have more laughs than you can clock in a minute. Andy goes
to college in his newest picture and he faces a new problem
when the Wilde twins, Lyn and
Lee, show up.
Lewis Stone, Sara Haden, Fay
Holden and all the favorites of
this series are seen in their regu­lar
roles, in addition to newcom­ers
Bonita Granville and Herbert
Marshall.
Anyone familiar with Mickey
Rooney pictures will remember
his impersonations which are a
feature of this attraction. He adds
a new one this time—that of
Herbert Marshall.
In this film, Andy Harday sets
out for Wainwright College, de
termined to be a success. On the
train he meets Bonita Granville, a
co?ed, and Herbert Marshall, a
professor of English at the col­lege.
Andy is smitten by Bonita's
charms but she is infatuated with
Marshall. Also on the train are
the Walker Twins, complicating
matters by pretending there is
only one of them. Andy's troubles
really start when he responds to
the flirtatious wink of blonde Lee
Walker as she struts through the
car. A few minutes later Miss
Walker returns and when Andy
attempts to continue the flirtation
he receives a withering rebuff.
Before he knows it, Andy be­comes
involved with their
troubles, •which nearly led to his
expulsion from college. When
they arrive at school Andy tries to
help the twins out of their pre­dicament
and only succeeds in
getting himself into trouble. His
affairs with Bonita aren't going
well either. He is so miserable
that he decides to leave college
rather than risk blemishing his
father's good name. But before he
can go the Judge arrives and sets
everything to rights and Andy
then decides to settle down to a
happy scholastic career.
George Seitz, who directed thir-
BIKE RACKS
CLEAR CHAOS
By Lib Deal
Have you noticed the bicycle
racks that now adorn the campus?
If you haven't, you had better
start looking around. There are,
at present, four white racks, each
placed in very convenient places:
One in front of Smith Hall, New
Classroom Building, Building and
Grounds, and one back of Sam-ford.
According to Mr. Bickle,
head of Building and Grounds, the
racks have been put out as an
experiment. If these racks are
used, others will be added.
The racks are so constructed
that they can easily be moved.
They are placed on concrete
blocks that may be dug up and
placed elsewhere. Each rack holds
six bicycles but additional racks
can be added to the end or the
back. They will be painted gray­ish-
brown instead of the white
that is now used.
The project was approved by
the President and the Campus
Plans Committee in hopes that
the students would place their bi­cycles
in the racks instead of on
the ground or against the trees.
If you boys and girls like the
racks, place your bicycles there.
It will greatly improve the ap­pearance
of the campus.
MARKET EXCHANGE
IN PACIFIC AREA
By Pfc. Cyril O'Brien, USMC
GUADALCANAL (Delayed)—
Here are the latest quotations on
Marine-native trading along the
local bourse:
"GI"
Corn cob pipe..
Sack of rice
Native
Grass skirt
Chicken (alive)
Sack of sugar. Rooster (alive)
Celluloid ear-rings
Bird Wing pounch
Mirror jPig-tooth necklace
Tin of tobacco wooden comb
Red cloth sash Shell beads
Candy bar 3 straw bracelets
Canteen cup of flour....l pinapple
Flashlight Bow and 6 arrows
Red comb .8 bananas (green)
Hunting knife-Coral bowling ball
Glass beads -Coconut shell cup
Can corned beef War club
Tin of cigarettes .2 papayas
Shoes Nothing
Money Anything
But for the grace—"
"You have often heard the ex­pression
that of being behind the
eight ball." Well, literally speak­ing
some young lady from Eu-faula
is just that. Last week
around midnight a group of young
ladies stopped in the Recreation
Parlor for soft drinks and dur­ing
their stay an eight ball disap­peared
from one of the billiard ta­bles.
As it is almost impossible
to replace these at this time, the
management is in hopes the young
lady will return it on her next
trip."
The paragraph above was clip­ped
from a copy of "The Abbe­ville
Herald" this week. With the
opening of the pool parlor in Au­burn
to ladies, it could very well
have happened here.
These girls preserve order in WSGA Council meetings—or so we suppose, but since its only on
rumors that float out that we can base our idea of these meetings—who knows? Officers of the
Council pictured above are: Belly Cosby, of Brmingham, president; Mary Bowen, of Tallassee, vice-president;
and Anne DuBose, of Hunlsville, treasurer. Those not shown are: Frances Susan William­son,
of Belle Mina, secretary; and Vivienne Duncan, of Atlanta, freshman representative.
He's Part
Of The
Quadrangle
By Ruth Booras
"I can play the piano before an
audience of five or six hundred
without getting nervous a bit, but
my knees would not support me
if I had to stand on a stage and
give a speech," said Darnell Gid-dens,
former Tuskegee student, as
he stopped arranging flowers at
Social Center to be interviewed
one day this week.
When asked which kind of mu­sic
he liked best he said, "It's be­tween
classical and sacred, and
recently I have become interested
in popular music. I would like to
play in a swing band if it weren't
for leaving my elderly mother to
live alone."
Darnell is good-natured, most
agreeable, and is skilled in the
graces of conversation. He has an
excellent memory for music and
names.
He can play a number two or
three times and then remembers
it. If he hears someone called by
name he never forgets it.
Aftr finishing training school in
Lee County, he won a three
months' scholarship in music. He
then entered Alabama State
Teachers College in Montgomery
for one semester, taking general
courses because he was uncertain
about what he wanted to do.
While there he decided to major
in music and transferred to Tus­kegee
Institute.
"Doctor Carver's daughter, who
studied in Berlin, was one of my
teachers," Giddens said. "She gave
me the inspiration to direct church
choirs and music for Sunday
school conventions."
Giddens has played by ear since
he was six years old. He has an
unusual degree of talent, playing
popular songs in the tempo he
desires.
When asked about his social life
Darnell replied, "I like to waltz,
two-step, and play cards."
AMAZING, SOMETIMES,
WHERE CHIPS DO FALL!
Last week the Plainsman ran a
perfectly routine announcement
concerning a meeting of APhiO,
honorary scouting fraternity. "All
—interested in continuing their
affiliation with the scout move­ment
are invited to drop around."
A group of ASTPR's reading it
felt rather broad-minded that they
could see the humor of it. You
see they thought it a subtle barb
aimed at them!
teen of the fourteen Hardy Family
pictures has done an efficient job
of the direction bringing out all
the lovable family relationships.
ANDY HAliDY'S
BLONDE TROUBLE
THIS LAUNDRY DEAL
HAS ANOTHER SIDE
Ideal Carries On In Face Of Labor
Shortage and Student Ridicule
By Irene Long
It can happen here. Speaking of the Ideal Laundry, a stu­dent
voluntarily said, "I like them. They sewed buttons on
my pajamas, and the buttons were off before I sent my laun­dry."
Such statements are rare, but criticism of the "Raw
Deal" is not. When one thinks of the tremendous job of being
ing wash-woman to Auburn students and townspeople, Pep-perell,
Valley Mills, and Tallas­see,
he wonders how they operate
as efficiently as they do.
Tracing a student's laundry
from bag to bundle, one finds the
process of cleaning a far cry from
the "wash 'em out, hang 'em,
wring 'em out, hang 'em on the
line" idea. One bag at a time is
emptied on a table in the marking
department, by a girl who is call­ed
the "bundle-buster." Stamp­ing
the individual's number on the
laundy slip and on each article
of clothing, she separate them ac­cording
to color and material.
Twenty bags make a "lot" to be
washed together. All socks from
one lot are placed in a net bag
closed with a large pin bearing
the lot number, and hand-washed
materials are placed in a similar
bag.
In a small cart, the lot is then
rolled to the adjoining room to
one of the 12 two-compartment
was hmills. With white clothes on
one side, colored on the other,
with soap from a huge tank near­by,
and with hot water from the
4,000-gallon tank in the boiler
room, the clothes are churned
around in the mill for several min­utes.
The clean clothes are trans­ferred
to an extractor, a glorified
wash tub which renders the
clothes damp-dry.
By now the clothes are free
from germs. Shaken out and sort­ed,
the sheets and towels go to
the flat-work ironing machine;
trousers to the pants machine; and
shirts have a long journey from
"yoker" to bosom press to sleeve
press to the' girl who gives the
final touch-up by hand before
folding. The steam-heated press
machinesare arranged ina circle
so one can operate several at one
time. By the time the operator
has closed the lid on the last ar­ticle,
the first is ready to be
moved.
Near the ready-to-wear stage
and the front of the building, the
neatly-folded garments are sort­ed
and placed on a shelf where
the corresponding number is
found on the student's original
laundry slip. The garments are
checked against the listings of
the student before they are wrap­ped
and turned over to the driver
of the truck serving that number.
When articles are misplaced or
for some reason do not have a
number on them, they are kept
for one year before the Salavation
Army is called to pick them up,
Mrs. Alma Whatley, maanger,
said.
Faced with the problem of in­creased
service with a shortage
of mateirals and trained labor,
Mrs. Whatley said she had tried
to meet the challenge of neigh­boring
industries to help keep
war-workers on the job by keep­ing
their clothes clean for them.
Twenty-seven former employees
of the laundry are in the armed
services, and many have been lost
to better paying jobs. Mrs. What­ley
and two others are the only
employees who have been with
the plant five years; there are not
enough trained employees to train
the new, inexperienced labor. Ten
or twelve are absent each Mon­day.
A health program has been fol­lowed
for eight years, toeing en­forced
even before the state laws
were passed. A blood test is given
every employee, and half of the
expenses for treatment of social
diseases is borne by the employer,
the other by the employee. The
working conditions are not bad;
the building is surprisingly cool.
The roof is equipped with a
sprinkler to reduce fire hazards.
Even with fixed prices and in­creased
operating costs, with no
pins or wire hangers, the "Raw
Deal" is striving to keep pace
with the demands on its services.
They still deliver and pick up stu­dent
laundry, although they are
not supposed to, with the curtail­ment
of gasoline. Could it be that
we are not always "Ideal" cus­tomers?
WSGA Founded
22 Years Ago
Various and Diligent Activities
Included In Organization's Record
By Sarah Smith
WSGA is an institution at Auburn, and has been for such
a long time that could just visualize a no-dog and no-rain
campus as a time when women's student government was un­known
on Samford's domain.
Actually, it is only twenty-two years old, for it was back
in the fall of 1922 that WSGA made its initial appearance at
API, under the guiding hand of
Miss Zoe Dobbs, then Dean of
Women, and President Spright
Dowell, who gave her a free hand
in organizing the women.
The baby organization opened
up a new avenue for self-expres­sion
for the coeds, and gave new
chances to talent for leadership;
it went over terrifically right from
the start.
Shortly after the women organ­ized,
the men followed suit.
WSGA was organized on the
same general set-up as it now fol­lows.
It was designed to serve
hundreds of women, for it had an
eye to the future and anticipated
a time when coeds would be num­bered
by the hundreds at API. At
its beginning, less than 100 wom­en
students attended Auburn, but
that number has increased by
leaps and bounds in the ensuing
years, making the early dream a
reality.
In those early days all regula­tions,
especially the dance rules
for the coeds were, of necessity;
strenuously rigid, for there were
all too few girls to attend the
dances and large numbers flocked
to them from other places; the
rousing days of prohibtion were
then in full swing; and the large
numbers of men in school just
back from the war were tired of
discipline, and kept WSGA on its
toes. The majority of them real­ized
the problems student govern­ment
faced however, and when
the prevailing rules seemed to be
inadequate, a group of men stu­dents
on the campus actually met
together and helped WSGA make
the rules more rigorous.
The only major feature of the
early program which has faded
out is the biannual pubbcation
which was put out by Sphinx, in
anticipation of a women's newspa­per
to be published by the coeds,
aside from the all-campus publi­cation.
The project seems to have
faded out from lack of interest,
possible because the Plainsman
made it unnecessary.
The first president of WSGA
was Maria Whitson, of Talladega,
who had graduated with an A.B.
degree from Randolph-Macon and
come to Auburn to study engi­neering.
Miss Whitson received
her B.S. degree in engineering
from Auburn, and later became
a member of the Allied Engineers
of America. She it was who led
the new body over its first rough
hurdles.
Down through the years WSGA
has progressed steadily and kept
a wise and guiding hand on ever­growing
body of coeds, which is
no easy task for anybody. It meets
regularly once a week to consider
infractions of rules and to consid­er
measures to help the coeds im­prove
the campus—a ticklish job,
but has done it well.
The present officers are doing
Words of the Wise
. Live today, forgetting the
anxieties of the past.
— (Epicurean Maxim)
RENT A BIKE
CHIEF'S
(ACROSS FROM CHIEF'S U-DRIVE-IT)
a job efficiently and doing it well.
Besides President Betty Cosby,
there is Mary Bowen of Tallassee,
who was recently elected to fill
the vice-president's chair. A pe­tite
brunette Mary is a senior in
home economics education andthis
term is working out her life in
the practice house trying to prove
to whom it may concern that she
really is competent to manage a
household as well as govern coeds.
France Susan Williamson of
Belle Mina was elected last win­ter
as secretary for WSGA, to take
notes on meetings and keep track
on all its varied activities. Fran­ces
Susan is an Alpha Gam, a
junior in home economics, study­ing
dietetics, and looks forward
to the day when she can manage
the food program of some large
hospital.
Treasurer Anne DuBose, of
Huntsville, holds the money-bags
for the body. "I just do general
flunky work," she smiles. A junior
in Vocational Home Economics,
Anne has ambitions to teach some
place, sometime. "I don't care
where," she says, "just so it's
good." She was elected to her
present office last fall and is a
member of Awls, Theta Epsilon,
Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma
Delta Sorority, Collegiate Future
Homemakers, and the BSU Coun­cil.
Freshman representative is Vi­vienne
Duncan, from Atlanta, who
was elected last September. The
only blonde in the group, Vivi­enne
is a student in commercial
art, with an eye toward doing
free-lance advertising illustration
some day. She is a member of
Theta U, Oracles, Players, WAA,
an dthe Pan-Hellenic Council.
FDR day*:
Payroll savings is
our greatest single
factor in protecting
ourselves against in­flation.
YOU'LL ALWAYS
BE PLEASED WITH
The Food
Served
AT THE
GRILLE
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the
students to come in of­ten
for "the best food
in town."
THE AUBURN
GRILLE
JOHN GAZES, Mgr.
July 21, 1944 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Gen. Lewis A Pick Engaged
Now In Front-Line Construction
Family Of Expert Engineer, Charged With Building
Vital Military Highway, Is Residing Here In Auburn
By Bill Laney
The man who was handed one of the toughest assignments
of this war not many months ago, Brigadier General Lewis A.
Pick, is in charge of the construction of a highway across two
hundred and forty miles of merciless, impenetrable jungle
from Ledo, India, through Burma into Yunan Province in
South China.
But the territory first had to
be cleared of Japs. General Joe
Stillwell was given that task. In
seven months of bitter fighting in
the monsoon season, he has push­ed
nearly two hundred miles from
India toward China.
And in seven months General
Pick, driving his nine thousand
engineertroops and ten thousand
native laborers twenty-four hours
Unusual
Tests At
Soil Lab
In a modest brick building at
• the back of Bibb Graves Center
is the nucleus of activities that
may well lead to a revolution of
postwar farming methods all over
the world. This is a Tillage Ma­chinery
Laboratory, project of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The purpose of this laboratory
is to develop and test machinery
that will enable farmers to do
more work with less man labor
and do the job in a practical man­ner.
Under its head engineer, Mr.
I. F. Reed, the project is making
rapid progress. .
One machine on which Mr.
Reed and his associates are now
working is a machine for harvest,
ing tung nuts. The tung nut is
a small dark-looking nut with
a thick hull. Inside the kernel is
a whitish substance which, when
dried and "compressed, produces
about fifty per cent oil.
Tung oil, because of its quick
drying properties, is used exten­sively
in the manufacture of fine
paints and varnishes. It is a na­tive
of China, and before the war,
more than 100,000,000 pounds of
the oil were imported by the
United States annually.
Fortunately, tung oil trees
have been successfuly introduced
in the United States in the ex­treme
Southern regions, notably
Florida.
When the nuts fall from the
trees each year, they are picked
up by hand, the hulls removed,
and the nuts are stored until
completely dry. This requires
quite a bit of hand labor, con­sequently
slowing up production.
Mr. Reed and his engineers de­veloped
a machine to take the
husks off, but they weren't sat­isfied.
Now they are trying to
perfect another that will pick up
the nuts, hull them, and put them
in sacks ready for storage.
When the apparatus is complet­ed,
it will ibe whisked away to
the tung groves in Florida where
actual field tests will be made.
This is typical of the many field
tests which are made each year
all over the United States.
Over in a corner of the Lab's
shop sits a small machine which
looks like a picture of simplicity.
Yet Mr. Reed informs you that
this little machine will shell as
many peanuts in one hour as one
man could shell by hand in days.
Thus far, tests show that this pea­nut
sheller is doing its job well.
Another improvement of inter­est
to peanut growers is a digger
that the shop has made. Carrying
two rows at the time and moving
at the rate of four miles an hour,
this digger will reduce the labor
required for digging from forty
hours to three man hours per
acre. The advantage of such a re­duction
is obvious.
A few years ago, a machine was
built by the laboratory to harvest
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Y-HUT IS
CENTER OF
INTEREST
Anyone who is interested in
dramatics and all that's connected
with this field, • missing an in­teresting
bypath in his college ca­reer
if he doesn't investigate the
opportunities awaiting him at the
Y Hut,on College Street.
There are many jabs to be done
in connection with the quarterly
play, under the supervision of a
well-known figure on the campus,
Mr. Telfair B. Feet, the campus
authority on dramatics.
As the preparation of the play
for the summer quarter nears the
finishing stage there are various
and sundry interesting jobs to be
attended to, which give real pleas­ure
to the persons accomplishing
them. At the present time the
stage crew is making drapes and
covering the sofa for the set for
the forthcoming play.
As the stagehands finish one job
and start on another, they banter
and play pranks on each other,
which makes for the congenial
and very informal atmosphere
that is typical of "The Hut." The
discussions that ensue sometimes
become heated debates, which are
settled peacefully by Mr. Peet.
Then, everyone calms down, un­til
another innocent (?) and cu­rious
one starts, as ye olde son-netter,
Shakespear, would push
it—same business. There are many
interesting things to be done at
the Hut besides acting. This in­cludes
operating lights, painting
scenery, and making furniture and
props for the set. For all you new
people who haven't had the op­portunity
to learn about the work
of the Players and play produc­tion
classes—or who just haven't
thought about it, you're invited
to drop in at the Hut any after­noon
or evening, and see if any
of your talents (many are hidden
they say!) can include you in the
fun. Or—just drop in. . g
VICTORY
BUY
UNITED
STATES
WAR
BONDS
AND
STAMPS
a day, has completed nearly two
hundred miles of the Burma turn­pike,
commonly known as Pick's
Pike. So close to the front are
the engineers that the Japs have
heard the bulldozers above the
rattle of machine guns.
General Pick is the father of
Lewis Pick, Jr., who is an Auburn
student. Mrs. Pick, and Lewis,
live here in town with Mrs. Pick's
mother, Mrs. C. A. Cary. They
have many interesting souvenirs
that the general has sent, among
them some beautiful embroidery
from Chinese General Lee, let­ters
from Mountbatten, Stillwell
and others, and a number of pho­tographs.
Tough assignments are no nov­elty
to General Pick. Before the
war,.in the Missouri River Basin,
faced by the hardships and failure
of others before him, he succeed­ed
in building a series of reser­voirs
and dams to control the tur­bulent
Missouri. A drainage spe­cialist
rather than a highway en­gineer,
he has ample opportunity
to practice his specialty in the
steaming jungle terrain of Burma.
Graduating from V.P.I, in 1913,
Pick accepted a commission in
the Engineer Corps and in World
War I was advanced to a cap­taincy.
After the war he became
increasingly active in the con­struction
of drainage systems
throughout the nation.
In charge of the Missouri River
project, which had an initial out­lay
of $200,000,000, he achieved a
brilliant success. Therefore, when
Washington found it necessary to
build a road more difficult than
either the Alcan or Pan-Ameri­can
Highways—probably the most
trying construction project of the
war, in fact—the man for the job
was ready and waiting.
Working side by side with Gen­eral
Stillwell, General Pick has
gained national prominence as the
soft-spoken Southerner who has
built 6 airfields and 200 miles
of black-top in a gigantic effort
to relieve China.
The monotony of such a task
has been broken quite frequently,
and the General has had several
dangerously close calls. On one
occasion, he was driving his jeep
along the new road when he heard
the roar of a Jap fighter-bomber.
As he dived into the underbrush
alongside the road, the Jap made
a direct hit and the jeep was
blown into bits.
At another time he was talking
on the phone to his aide, Colonel
Davis, when he suddenly spied a
King Cobra creeping along the
wall toward him. With as little
movement as possible, he slipped
his revolver from his holster and
emptied it at the Cobra.
He doesn't deny the great dif­ficulties
that hamper his every ef­fort,
but he has been known to
say, "Unless you see the romance
in a job like this, it will break
you eventually."
Among the notables who have
visited the General's Headquar­ters
are Lord Louis Mountbatten,
who toured the project with Pick
in the latter's bi-motored trans­port
plane, the "Alice C."—named
in honor of his wife, the former
Alice Cary of Auburn.
Odd Fact
In England recently the owner
of a dog was taken to court on the
charge that his dog had quarreled
with another dog, pushed it into
a lake and drowned it.
The United Statas produces
about 43 per cent of the world's
lumber in an average j--ir.
ROTC UNIT
MAINTAINS
TRADITION
Plans Being Made
For A Drill Platoon
By Jesse Culp
On each Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon a group of 300 khaki-clad
cadets gather on Rat Field
to carry on thetradition of Au­burn's
ROTC? This is a different
sight from the drill sessions back
in 1942, which boasted of 2,000
men with two regiments of Artil­lery
and one of Engineers.
Since the summer quarter of
1943, military instruction at Au­burn
has been basic training de­signed
to assist those who will
later enter practically any branch
of the service. In lieu of the gray
cadet uniforms formerly used,
regulation Army garb has been
adopted for the duration of the
war.
Much interest is now being
shown in the organization of a
crack drill platoon, to consist of
twenty-four freshmen, and four
sophomores. The platoon will drill
for four hours each wek, pur­posing
to achieve picturesque skill
in foot drill and the various ac­companying
movements.
In the past, Auburn's drill pla­toons
have won much praise for
their splendid showing at foot­ball
games and on other occasions
in Alabama and other states. Be­cause
of restricted transportation
and other wartime difficulties it
may be impossible for the platoon
to perform away from home this
year, according to local ROTC
officials. A parade is being plan­ned
for the annual Homecoming
game at Auburn Stadium in
November.
Anyone interested in getting in
the crack drill platoon should con-
Miss Katherine Wright
tact Col. Waterman's office. This
is extra work on the part of those
taking part. The only reward will
be a sense of satisfaction from
perfection in drill group coopera­tion.
Any student must be in
school next quarter in order to be
eligible.
For twenty-five consecutive
years Auburn has been one of the
few schools to receive the War
Department's highest rating for
ROTC units. Candidates from
the local unit are proving the
worth of their training by their
excellent record in all branches
of the service on many battle-fronts
The percentage of Auburn-trained
men who are not able to
graduate from Officer Candidate
School is very low.
Colonel John J. Waterman, head
of ROTC at API since 1939, is
a graduate of West Point Military
Academy. His experience and per­sonality
have made him popular
among the students.
Captain Sutton, the other offi­cer
assigned to the local ROTC
is himself a former cadet here.
For four years, while at Auburn,
TAXICOLOGIST
FINDS OUT
"WHO DUNNIT"
By Stella Regis
"That's one thing that never fails to attract attention in
the state Toxicology Department"—said Dr. C. J. Rehling of
the chart hanging inconspicuously behind a door in the L
Building. It shows the six degrees of intoxication after the
consumption of alcohol. The chart is complete with illustra­tions;
the six degrees are as follows: dry and decent; delighted
and devilish; dizzy and delirious;
dazed and dejected; dead drunk;
and dead. Yes, DEAD, for it takes
only one half to 1 per cent of al­coholic
content in the blood
stream to kill a person.
Prior to the establishment of
toxicological centers in other
states the laboratories in Auburn
handled much of the material in
the southeast, being the first one
in the southeastern section. This
department serves the purpose of
providing facilities for scientific
criminal investigation to the law
enforcement authorities in Ala­bama.
During the past ten years more
progressive states have gone for­ward
with the establishment of
facilities for complete and thor­ough
criminal investigation. Mr.
H. W. Nixon, state toxicologist,
expressed the thought that co-op­eration
is needed among them all.
The purpose of the toxicologist
and his staff is very important to
criminal investigation. If foreign
material is found at the scene
of a crime, they analyze it. If
there is a death involved, their
job is to find what violence was
administered; what caused death;
what instruments were Used—
identification of guns, in particu­lar,
is important. This department
has authority by law. and by qual­ification,
to investigate befftre the
police. They investigate homi­cides,
burglary, felonious assault,
arson, and the many other crimes.
Various specimens of incrimi­nating
evidence which brought
about justice are displayed in the
outer office at the L Building.
Forged handwritings, sRulls, and
many other relics from different
cases are there to be seen.
In 1935, Mr. JSTixon brought the
necessity of this department to
the attention of Attorney-General
A. A. Carmichael and through
their influence it was established
by the legislature. Prior to this
the state had only Federal assist­ance;
all procedure having to do
with criminal investigation had to
be transacted in Washington,
D. C, which consumed time and
expense.
There are six people on the
staff of the State Department of
Toxicology at the present time.
The department is supervised by
the State Toxicologist, Mr. H. W.
Nixon, who is assisted by Dr. C. J.-
Rehling. Two branah offices and
laboratories are located at Mobile
and Birmingham.
BLOOD BANK VISITS
AUBURN AGAIN
Lee County Drive Starts,
185 Pledges Here Already
The mobile unit from Atlanta will be in Auburn for it's
fifth engagement with the Lee County Blood Donor Service,
on August 9, 10, and 11, reports Mr. Bob Smith, who has been
chairman for the drive since April, 1942.
"Our quota for this visit has been set at 700 donors. To
date we enjoy the record of three times having gone over the
maximum quota, and only once
Miss Carolyn Self
he was in the same battery. Dur­ing
his senior year, Capt. Sutton
was in command of Battery B,
which was awarded a saber for
being judged the best drilled bat­tery.
The following awards were
made for competitive drill last
quarter: Best drilled battery—Ca­det
Capt. A. H. Endelman, Bat­tery
<B; best drilled squad—Cadet
Corporal H. E. Meeks; Cadet pri­vates:
L. A. Sanderson, W. L. Ivey,
M. H. Cox, G. T Faulkner, John H.
Smith, Harold Penley, A. W. As-kin,
Archie Ray; best drilled ca­det—
Dee Wees Irwin.
Kapp< a Sig's
Are Hosts At
House Dance
Kappa Sig pledges entertained
members of the fraternity with a
house dance last Saturday night.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Gully Simpson, housemother,
and music for dancing was fur­nished
by records.
Members, pledges, and dates
were Lamar Ware, Libbie Heard;
Jack Gregory, Alta Wise; Bill
Pierce, Becky Ballow; Cope Good­win,
Dale Rogers; Don Wiggins,
Mary Lee; and Marshall Lane,
Evelyn Thornton.
Bill Ivey, Lois Wilson; Lewie
Tanner, Ann Grimes; Ben Jones,
Betty Brown; George O'Neal, Peg­gy
Sugart; Lamar Cannon, Betty
Phillips; John W. Jones, Mary
Roberts; and Bill Ranson, Gray
Baker.
Ed Riddle, Caroline Robinson;
Wallace Johnson, Florence Farn-ham;
James Thomas, Betty Ware;
Wilson Corcoran, Jane Keener;
and Pat Patterson, Martha Filer.
Murry Norment, Virginia Ste­phens;
Bob Markham, Jane Jan-sen;
Ernest Leatherwood, Connie
Graves; Bob Warner, Betty Jane
Ellis; and Walker Joins, Mary
Jane Mullin.
Richard Yancy, Gradine Gor­man;
Buck Motes, Frances Hunt;
Charlie Smith; Don King; Larry
Bartlett; Billy Joe Roberts; Keifer
Hobby; Lee Taylor; Bill Floyd;
Dug Baldrof; Joe Woznick; Buck
Stringe; and Bob Hebson.
failing to make the maximum at
which time we did register one
unit over the maximum require­ments.
All citizens of Lee Coun­ty
are urged to support this move­ment
which will, in so many in­stances,
mean that 'we may fin­ish
the job together'."
The mobile unit can only trav­el
within a certain radius be­cause
the blood must be rushed
back in a refrigerated car to the
central laboratories for this dis­trict
in Atlanta, within the time
limit. The plasma is then pre­pared
and packed to be sent to
the fighting fronts, there to save
the lives of sons, brothers," and
fathers of America. Everyone
should be aware of the importance
of the service they are doing when
they donate their blood.
Miss Carolyn Self is acting
chairman, Solicitation Committee,
Lee County Blood Donor Service,
in the absence of Miss Margaret
Toomer, who is at Columbia Uni­versity
for the summer. Mr. Smith
expressed confidence that Miss
Self will do her job well.
The new chairman of student
solicitation for the Lee County
Blood Donor Service, is Katherine
Wright. She is W.A.A. represen­tative,
and is doing her utmost
to promote the drive. The presi­dent
of W.A.A. is usually chair­man
for the Auburn students' do­nation.
Confidence is expressed that
the API student body will con­tinue
its loyal support to this
great service under the leadership
of Miss Wright.
Students are urged to go over
the top in blood donations again
this time for "if we let the fight­ing
man down; we're letting our­selves
down. If you can't fill his
shoes; fill his veins with your
blood."
Thus far, Auburn has 185
pledges, Peperell, 56; Tallassee,
35. Opelika and Alexander City
have not yet reported.
SIGMA CHI GIVES
BUFFET SUPPER
Rain turned the plans for a hay
ride into a buffet supper for Sig­ma
Chi fraternity on Saturday
evening. \
Food, dancing and a good time
were enjoyed by the following
members and dates: Charles Pea­cock,
Eleanor Bailey; Lawrence
Cottle, Ann Du Bose; Tom Raines,
Katbryn Thornton; Clark Hollo-way,
Marilyn Sheffield; Jack Kil-burn,
Martha Hay; George Kee-non,
Barbara Weaver; and Greg
Herring, Dottie Woodall.
Harper Johnston, Ann House;
Kilshaw Klisly, Ann Black; Field­ing
Lindsey, Marcia McWilliams;
Alex Handcock, Mildred Lamar;
Star Prolsdorfer, Jean Sharp; Bud
Eiskmyer, Francis Williams; Ben
Brown, Mary Martha Sellers; Jim-niy
Melson, Margaret Rogers;
Paul Brock, Jean Smith; Roger
Stephens and Margaret Fletcher.
WANTED: Goodlooking date
for OTS Carnation Ball on .Au­gust
5. Must not have lieutenant
complex. False teeth will not be
tolerated. Call Emory T. Adams
& Harold Caudle, Inc. Phone 324.
SALE OF ALL SUMMER ITEMS
Starts Thursday Morning
1L0T
LADIES
DRESSES
% OFF
HOT
LADIES
DRESSES
% OFF
BATHING
SUITS
Vs OFF
LADIES
PLAY
SUITS
% OFF
ALL SPRING
AND
SUMMER
HATS
OFF
LADIES
SUMMER
HANDBAGS
% OFF
CHILDREN
SUN
SUITS
% OFF
Be here early for these wonderful values
LOFTINS
'Ready To Wear
Auburn, Ala.
Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN July 21, 1944
KA-TC Upsets OTS 5-4
In Threat To Leaders
Alpha Psi and Sigma Chi Win Easily
Over Oppnents To Remain Undefeated
Two upsets in League III spotlighted the fifth week of the
Intramural softball circuit as SAE trimmed KA-TC 9-5, pre-ceeding
the unexpected win by KA-TC over a highly favored
OTS team, 5-4. Alpha'Psi and Sigma Chi remained undefeated
in their leagues, winning one and three games respectively.
On Wednesday night's game, KA-TC played errorless ball
— in their defeat of OTS with both
All-Stars Win
From Opelika
The All Stars journeyed to Ope­lika
Monday night and thoroughly
defeated a very weak Opelika
team. The All Stars are managed
by former star third sacker of
the Auburn Tiger's baseball team,
Gibbs Ashley. The team is com­posed
of a picked bunch of fra­ternity
softball players.
The All Stars got off to a flying
start in the first inning by tally­ing
ten times. After this the Stars
settled down to some degree but
managed through very, fine hit­ting
and excellent fielding to
emerge victorious by the score of
23-1.
One of the outstanding points of
the game was very effective
pitching of Cliff Hart and Charlie
Peacock. These boys are really
good pitchers and are an asset to
any team.
Every man onf the All Stars
garnered at least one hit, with
most of them collecting two or
three. The leading hitter for the
Stars was George O'Neil who
bagged four for five. .
Lineup for All Stars were: L.F.
Milton Jordan, OTS; CF, Malcolm
Dykes, AP; 3b, Council Sapp,
KA; SF, Jimmy Robinson, AP;
2b, Jimmy Acree, AP; SS, John
Morgan, AP; C, George O'Neil,
KS; RF, Gelfer Kronfeld, OTS;
lb,~ Dr. William Bailey, Faculty;
.P, Cliff Hart, AP; P, Charlie Pea­cock,
SC. '
War Correspondent
Shown Ropes By
An Old Auburnite
Lt. Thomas Shirley, former Au­burn
student from Louisville, Ky.,
recently flew over the heads of
Allied .troops in France with a
rookie, William Randolph Hearst,
Jr., publisher and war corres­pondent.
Lt. Shirley is a bombar­dier-
navigator.
It was Hearst's first mission in
a B-26. "Bill seemed to be enjoy­ing
himself, after he got used to
the flak and tracers the Germans
threw up," said Lt. Shirley.
The mission was directed just
behind enemy lines. The targets
assigned to the Ninth Air Force
twin-engined bombers included a
road intersection and a road
bridge, and both were successful­ly
hit by the bombs.
Unlike Hearst, Lt. Shirley is no
stranger to such operations. He
has 69 missions to his credit, most
of them over enemy-held France
in the pre-invasion days when the
Maurauders paved the way for
Allied landings. Since D-Day, he
and other fliers in the groups led
by Col. Wilson R. Wood of Chico,
Tex., have often flown twice a
day to bombard the enemy's com­munication
and supply lines.
teams giving sideline spectators
their best game of the season.
OTS jumped into an early lead
with one run in each of the first
two innings but found themselves
victims of a 5-run KA-TC rally
in the third. OTS fell short of a
successful rally in the same in­ning
producing only two runs to
place the count at 5-4 and ter­minating
the scoring for the af­ternoon.
A scrappy SAE team found sec­ond
place KA-TC in a temporary
slump Tuesday night and edged
out a 9-5 victory. Spurgeon Kel­ler
played a bang-up game at
short field backing up the success­ful
pitching of Bobby Bones, and
aiding the rise of SAE from the
cellar position to third place in
League III.
In League I, Alpha Psi won
their only game of the week trim­ming
Kappa Sigma 6-0, while Phi
Delta Theta won two, defeating
SN-SPE 7-6 and Kappa Sigma
13-8.
In League II, Sigma Chi
strengthened their lead by tak­ing
three games, one of which
was a 4-3 decision over "OTS (II).
PKA and the Faculty were the
running victims, going down 7-5
and 11-1 respectively. The Facul­ty
dropped their second game of
the week to OTS 8-1 Tuesday af­ternoon.
In League III, Phi Kappa Tau
lost to KA-TC 20-16, while OTS
was defeating SAE 14-3 to com­plete
the week's schedule.
Standings in the respective
leagues are as follows:
League I
Team W,
AP 3
BUY WAR BONDS
AND STAMPS
PST
KS
SN-SPE
Team
SC _
L.
0
0
4
6
League II
OTS (II)
Faculty..
AP (II) ..
PKA
W. L.
...7 0
4
4
4
6
4
3
3
1
Team
OTS (I)
KA-TC .
SAE __
ATO ....
PKT ....
League III
W.
6
- .2
1
1
L.
1
2
5
4
5
Pet.
1.000
.800
.333
.000
Pet.
1.000
.500
.428
.428
.166
Pet.
.875
.750
.285
.200
.166
NEWS ANALYSIS
(Continued from Page 1)
must conclude on the evidence of
the events described that the war
has reached a decisive phase. In a
State, as on a ship,.mutiny is in­dicated
by the elimination of the
Captain.
Words of the Wise
Man is not allowed to know
what will happen tomorrow.
— (Statius)
WANTED TO RENT for the du­ration
of the summer quarter, one
ice box or refrigerator. Call
Plainsman 448, or write box 411,
Auburn.
Auburn Alumni
Watch Tiger
Practice Game
A group of Auburn alumni from
verious sections of Alabama and
Georgia came to the city last Sat­urday
on invitation from Dr. L. N.
Duncan, and while here had an
opportunity to get a good look at
Coach Carl Voyles' young foot­ball
hopefuls.
After finishing the business for
which they came to Auburn, a
large number of the alumni re­mained
over to witness the grid­iron
squad play a practice game
and, according to reports; all were
well pleased with what they saw
arid left the city confident that
the "War Eagle" will make a lot
of opponents scream next Win­ter.
UN USUAL TESTS
(Continued from Page 5)
the castor bean. It was hoped that
the bean could be successfully
grown in the United States, as
well as in nearby Mexico, since
the war made importation uncer­tain.
-
It was later learned that Mexi­co
was teaming up with the Al­lies,
so the tillage laboratory
turned their machines over to
Mexico so that she could increase
her production of the castor bean
and send more to the United
States.
All of the machinery used in
the experiments is either made in
the laboratory's well-equipped
shop, or by commercial manufac­turers
from laboratory-made
plans. It is the only equipment of
its kind in the world.
Part of the land leased to the
project, (the entire plot is only
325 x 500 ft.), is occupied by soil
bins, where experiments are car­ried
on with sail tillage machin­ery.
There are ten types of soil
here, brought from land all the
way from Georgia to the Missis­sippi
Delta.
When a machine is developed
and assembled ready for a try-out,
it is put on one of the laborar
tory's trucks and carried to a
farm which can offer a practical
test of its value. Some tests are
conducted in various parts of Ala­bama,
some in Oklahoma, Texas,
Florida, or wherever the particu­lar
crop is grown.
The concern ,is well-equipped
for its work, with four tractors,
several trucks, and up-to-the-min­ute
shop, in addition to a host of
small planters and other field
equipment. The work of the la­boratory
is recorded in pictures
with its two movie cameras and
other picture-making facilities,
including a dark room for devel­oping
films.
A large measure of the success
of the federally sponsored project,
the only one of its kind in the
world, is due to the work of Mr.
Reed. A mechanically-minded in­dividual,
deeply interested in his
work, Mr. Reed plays a large role
in leading the $200,000 enterprise.
"Alabama is fast approaching a
machine age," declared Mr. Reed.
He pointed out that Alabama far­mers
must keep up with the me­chanical
pace of the nation's far­mers
if they hope to survive. Most
of the machinery made by the
laboratory will require more pow­er
than many small farmers have
today. Mr. Reed believes that far­mers'
incomes will increase in
proportion to the increased acre­age
which more farm power will
enable them to cultivate.
The land on which the project
CHAMPION 3-YEAR-OLD? By Jack Sords
TIGER TALES
By COUNCIL SAPP
Coach Carl "Dutch" Voyles, head man in Auburn's draft-decimated
gridiron camp, is still shaking his head each time
the phrase "bright prospects for '44" is even mentioned. Main­taining
that for a number of reasons brought on by war-time
conditions, Auburn will field a young, inexperienced, and
offensively-weak machine, Coach Voyles did not hesitate to
point toward blocking as the chief weakness of his charges.
Using the last few weeks of intensive practice as a sort of
gauge for determining the value of his present material,
Voyles said that emphasis had now been shifted toward the
alHmportant blocking. "Those boys have a wonderful spirit
and are trying hard," he said, "but they lack certain funda­mentals
that must be ingrained into each man before a power­ful
and formidable team can be produced."
"The back field material is encouraging, but further de­velopment
of the majority of the backs will have to be post­poned
until the linesmen have been thoroughly trained in
their duties of putting that opposing player out of action by
means of a well-placed block.
"The present candidates for the forward wall are very
definitely high-schoolish in their blocking. It is difficult to
get the men to place those feet wide apart, body low, and
balance the weight on both feet."
The former William and Mary mentor continued, saying
that after this biggest weakness is taken care of, the passing
and lighter work will be used to taper off the summer prac­tice
session which is scheduled to end with a regular game be­tween
two teams chosen from the present roster of players.
Heavy football gear will be discarded during the latter
part of the current practice season and the twenty-odd plays
that have been worked out will be polished up a bit—minus
the rough stuff.
One of the biggest headaches bothering the entire coach­ing
staff, which includes, besides Coach Voyles, Coaches
"Shorty" Propst, and Jeff Beard, is the ever-threatening draft
that is sure to get several potential stars before the season
is well under way.
When broached on the subject of outstanding players,
Voyles refused to comment on any player other than Curtis
Kuykendall, only returning varsity man, since he reasons that
time and experience only, can be trusted to bring out any
stars present in the new material. He does, however, class
Kuykendall with the best of them.
Nor was there any comment forthcoming concerning the
possible result of Auburn's first game, scheduled with Howard
in Birmingham. Reports from various sources have it that
the "Smoky City" eleven is one of the best to represent How­ard
in the last decade.
Ex-Professor
Promoted To
Rank Of Major
The promotion of Major Elmer
A. Jones, 410 No. Gay St., Auburn,
Alabama, from the rank of captain
was announced recently, by Ma­jor
General William E. Kepner,
commanding general of the Eighth
AAF Fighter Command.
Major Jones is the commanding
officer of a station -complement
squadron attached to a P-47 Thun­derbolt
fighter group. He has
charge of all base utilities, and
is located is leased to the govern­ment
for 99 years. As Mr. Reed
smilingly pointed out, "We've on­ly
been here nine years, so we
will be here for quite a while
yet."
directly supervises a large squad­ron
of officers and enlisted men.
Arriving over in England in
August, 1943, Major Jones has
worked in close conjunction with
the station commander, Colonel
James J. Stone, Jr., from West-field,
N. J. For months this sta­tion
flew the largest operational
fighter group in England, and
Colonel Stone's command recently
celebrated the first year of com­bat
operations against the Ger­man
Luftwaffe.
Major Jones, a graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, in
1937, was assistant professor of
Zoology there prior to entering
the aimy. Previously he graduat­ed
from Handley high school in
Roanoke, Alabama. He was grad­uated
from the AAF Officers
Training school at Miami Beach,
Florida, and subsequently was
stationed in that city in command
of a training squadron.
His wife lives at 410 Gay St.,
in Auburn.
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Alumnus Chalks Up
More Than Thousand
Hours Of Navigation
When 1st Lt. John L. Redd, stu.
dent officer at Courtland Army
Air Field who attended API be­fore
entering the Air Corps, takes
off in a BT-13 his instructor is
fairly certain he won't get lost.
Lt. Redd has flown more than
1,000 hours as an ATC navigator
in the greak weather conditions
prevalent in the Pacific, Asiatic
and European theaters.
'Back in 1942, when he was navi­gator
on a DC-3 being delivered
to New Caledonia, Lt. Redd par­ticipated
in a long search for Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker and his com­panions.
The Rickenbacker party was
scheduled to land at a certain
South Pacific island at ten o'clock
in the morning, but never suc­ceeded
in reaching it. L t Redd's
DC-3 arrived at the same island
at noon of that day and,was im­mediately
asked to conduct a
search for the famous World War
I Ace. During this perilous mission
they had to fly through three
equatorial weather fronts.
Several planes continued the
search from the island base until
the gasoline supply was exhaust­ed.
Lt. Redd's outfit then proceed-to
New Caledonia.
On arrival at that point they
had the neat problem of spiraling
down to the airport through an
overcast. Mountains up to 1,000
feet in the vicinity made this a
hazardous task requiring letter
perfect navigation. A two-minute
error in the ETA might have been
tragic.
Lt. Redd has also been an ATC
navigation instructor, training
other navigators for the high alti­tude
problems they were to en­counter
in flying "the hump" be­tween
India and China.
A native of Ozark, Ala., he en­tered
API in 1939, where he was
majoring in electrical engineering.
He has been in the Air Corps
since January, 1942.
Lt. Jimmie Davis
Is Now Stationed
At Sedalia Base
Lt. Jimmie Davis, of Auburn,
Ala., is now stationed at Sedalia
Air Base as Flight Engineering
Officer in the Troop Carrier Com­mand.
Lt. Davis, formerly an aeronau­tical
engineer at Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, is a graduate of
AAF Officer Candidate School at
Miami Beach, Florida. Prior to his
assignment at Warrensburg, Lt.
Davis was on temporary duty
with the Douglas Aircraft Corp.,
at Long Beach, Cal., where he was
associated with the C-47 produc­tion
line and test flight depart­ment.
Before entering the Air Corps,
Lt. Davis was stationed with the
Field Artillery at Ft. Bragg, N. C.
As flight engineer he is responsi­ble
for all aircraft in his flight
being blyable and operationable.
Although primarily a ground offi­cer
he flys with all ships in his
group on test flights.
LUCKY BONNET
COAST GUARDSMAN John J Kel-ley,
18, of Brooklyn, N Y„ exam­ines
the two-inch gash made by a
German machine gun bullet which
•truck his helmet when he stepped
ashore on the Normandy coast from
a landing craft and began to fight.
Coast Guard photo. (International)
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. O. Davis, 131 West Glenn Ave.,
Auburn.
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The FFA is an organization of
students of agriculture and the
committee urges everyone who is
interested to attend.
—Friday, July 21—
ALBERT DEKKER
CLAIRE TREVOR
in
WOMEN OF THE
TOWN
Last Chapter Of The
"BATMAN"
First Chapter Of
"THE SECRET CODE"
—Saturday—
BASIL RATHBONE
NIGEL BRUCE
in
SPIDER WOMAN
Lulu Gets The Birdie
Lucky Cowboy
—Owl Show, Sat. 11 P.M.­PAUL
LUKAS
MADDY CHRISTIANS
in
ADDRESS
UNKNOWN
Battle Stations
—Sunday-Monday—
with
LEWIS STONE
MICKEY R00NEY
FAY H0LDEN
SARA HADEN
B0NITA GRANVILLE
JEAN PORTER • KEYE LUKE
ond
HERBERT MARSHALL
Screen Play by Harry RusWn, William ludwlfl
and Agnes Christine Johnston
Directed by George B. Seltx
• a M a w ^ i ^ H H M H a a M a a M a a a w a M i M M N K i
—Tuesday—
ROBERT WATSON
BICTOR VARCONI -
in
THE HITLER
GANG
Science