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VOLLXIV ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 NUMBER 25
Cardwell Runs As Prexy, WSGA
Nine Candidates Up
For Other Offices
The qualifications board of
Women Student Government As­sociation
met last Tuesday after­noon
and qualified ten candidates
to run for offices of WSGA in
the election next Monday.
Vam Cardwell, junior in busi­ness
administration from Ever­green,
was the only coed to quali­fy
for the office of president. An
independent, she is secretary of
WSGA now. She will succeed,
Anne DuBose of Huntsville, who
graduates in May.
The two candidates who seek
to fill Martha Ellis' position as
vice-president are Elizabeth Hol-loday,
junior in education from
Mobile; and Joyce Slaughter,
junior in home ec from Mont­gomery,
who is treasurer of
WSGA and member of Kappa
Delta sorority.
Ginger Duncan, sophomore in
art from Atlanta and members of
education and Alpha Gamma
Alpha Delta Pi, will vie with
Yvonne Wallace, sophomore in
Delta from Pensacola, Fla., for
the office of secretary, now filled
by Vam Cardwell.
The treasurer's seat is sought
by Louise Landham, home econ­omics
sophomore from Lincoln,
who belongs to Chi Omega soror­ity.
Her opponent is Sue Hamil­ton,
sophomore in home econom­ics
from Fairfield.
Mary Lee is unopposed as town
representative.
Carmelila Ward and Betty
Grimes are candidates for the of­fice
of coed representative to the
Executive Cabinet. They are both
juniors, Carmelita in the School
of Home Economics and Betty in
business. Carmelita is an inde­pendent
and Betty belongs to
Delta Zeta sorority.
Polls for the election Monday
will be located at Social Center
and at the Main Gate from 8
a. m. until 5 p. m. In case of rain
the poll from Main Gate will be
moved to student center. Candi­dates
for any position on WSGA
are not to be within fifty feet
of the polls.
Record Drive Ends
April 25 For Houses
April 26 For Greeks
The drive for records for
wounded servicemen in Ala­bama's
military hospitals will
continue until April 25 and 26,
according to Pat Elliot, Collegiate
Red Cross chairman of the col­lections.
The two dates have been set
to avoid confusion between the
houses and dormitories and the
fraternities and sororities, she ex­plained.
Wednesday, April 25, is the
date for all records from houses
and dormitories to be turned to
Pat Elliot or Red Cross workers
in Dormitory IV. Collections will
be received from noon to 5 p. m.
The house or dorm amassing
the largest number of records
will receive an extra dating privi­lege,
Dean Marion W. Spidle's
office announced.
Collection day for sororities
and fraternities will be Thursday,
April 26. The records should be
turned in at Dorm IV between
noon and 5 p. m.
The Greek organization with
the most platters to their credit
will receive a cup from the
Executive Cabinet.
All records must be in usable
condition. They should be placed
in boxes with label containing
the name of the group which col­lected
the records and the num­ber
of records in the box.
Invitations To Be Sold
At Main Gate Thursday
Invitations for all graduating
seniors will be on sale at the
main Gate from 1-5 p. m.
Thursday.
This will be the only sale this
quarter.
RUNS FOR OFFICE
Vam Cardwell. junior in
business from Evergreen, is
unopposed in the election for
president of Women Student
Government Association, which
will be held next Monday. A
member of Owls, sophomore
honor society, she was presi­dent
of Oracles when a fresh­man.
At present she is secretary
of WSG.
Student A Ph A
Elects Officers
At a recent meeting of the stu­dent
chapter of the American
Pharmaceutical Association, of­ficers
were chosen for the coming
year.
Don Tillery, sophomore from
Phenix City, was elected presi­dent;
Patty Northington, fresh­man
from Prattville, vice-presi­dent;
Ruth Estes, sophomore from
Centre, secretary; and Tilda Jane
Brewton, freshman from Roberts-dale,
reporter.
The next meeting of the chap­ter
will be Thursday, April 19,
at 7 p. m. in Ross Chemistry
Building.
A PHI 0 ELECTS
Alpha Phi Omega fraternity
elected the officers on Monday
night, Joe Hooten, junior in Edu­cation
from Columbus, Georgia
was chosen President. Vice-Pres­ident
will be Bryson Hatfield,
senior in mechanical engineering
f r om Montgomery; secretary,
Percy Carter, freshmen in busi­ness
administration from Ohio;
treasurer, ( "Smokey" Warner,
freshman in mechanical engineer­ing
from Lanett.
Two Local Artists
Exhibit In Gadsden
Marino-Merlo, Lowe
Show Water Colors
Paintings by Professor Joseph
Marino-Merlo, of the applied art
department at API, and Harry
Lowe, III, of Opelika are being
exhibited by the art department
of the Woman's Club in Gadsden,
Ala., through April 14.
The exhibit includes ten water
colors by each artist depicting
everyday subjects familiar to all
Alabamians. Imagination and a
delightful sense of humor char­acterize
the work.
Professor Marino-Merlo attend­ed
opening of the exhibition last
Sunday and was present at the
unveiling of an oil portrait of
Gadsden's Mayor Meighan. The
portrait was painted by Edward
Hurst, internationally known por­trait
painter.
The Auburn professor is presi­dent
of the Alabama Art League
and a musician of note. His work
has been described in the New
York Times by art critic Howard
Devree as "bold, well considered
art."
Mr. Marino-Merlo has been
praised by critics for the best
art journals in the country. His
paintings have been displayed in
numerous exhibits in various sec­tions
of the United States.
S/Sgt. Lowe, now in France,
is one of the South's best known
younger artists. His watercolors
are among his finest work.
CAMPUS OFFICES
TO BE FILLED
Petitions to run in the election
for campus offices to be held
Thursday, April 1, are due to Bill
Crum, chairman of the elections
committee, by 1 p. m. Wednesday,
April 11. They must contain the
signatures of at least two percent
of the total class enrollment of
the candidate. The form in which
they are to be submitted is:
"We, the undersigned members
of the class of , do
hereby nominate
for " (signa­ture
of sponsors follow).
"I hereby accept the nomina­tion".
Signature of nominee.)
Candidates will meet Qualifi­cations
Board Monday, April 16
at 7 p. m. in Dr. L. N. Duncan's
office.
Offices to be filled at this time
are president of the Executive
Cabinet, vice-president, secre­tary,
three senior representatives,
two junior representatives, one
sophomore representative, one
freshman representative, and one
fifth year representative.
Presidents, vice-presidents, sec­retaries,
treasurers, and historians
of all classes will be selected at
this time.
To be eligible to run, a candi­date
must have 2.0 average, and
be a member of the proper class.
A person may run in the elections
of the class in which he votes.
Students in the third quarter of
a class vote in the succeeding
class elections.
SIMMS, KIRBY, WOODHAM UNOPPOSED
FOR PLAINSMAN, GLOMERATA OFFICES
Yearbook's Business Manager Open;
Board To Meet Applicants Thursday
AIA Chapter Holds
First Meeting;.
Elects Officers
The first meeting of the stu­dent
branch of the American In­stitute
of Architects was held last
Thursday night. At this t i me
Landis C. Worthy, Auburn, fifth
year architecture student, was
elected president.
The AIA student chapter has
been organized on the campus
for the purpose of acquainting
future architects with the Insti­tute
and to further the interest
of students in the profession.
All third, fourth, and fifth year
students of architecture are eligi­ble
for membership. Peggy Smith,
Jackson, Miss.; Gus Wingo, Bir­mingham;
Gus Lopatequi, Ciales,
Puerto Rica; Martha Rand, Tus-cumbia;
Bill Martin, LaGrange,
Ga.; and Landis Worthy, Auburn,
attended the meeting.
Faculty members present at the
meeting were Prof. E. W. Burk-hardt,
Prof. Edwin B. Lancaster,
and Dean Turpin C. Bannister.
TAU BETA PI TAPS
THREE NEW MEN
Three new. men were tapped
by Tau Beta Pi, national honor
society for engineers this week.
They are Robert M. Dewery,
junior in aeronautical engineer­ing
from Haleyville; Joseph M.
Spinks, junior in electrical en­gineering,
and Alder F. Caslanoli,
'13 grad who now lives in Hunt­ingdon,
W. Va., and is vice-pres­ident
and one-third owner of
Kanawha Coal Company.
The purpose of Tau Beta Pi is
to mark in a fitting manner those
how have shown distinguised
scholarship and exemplary char­acter
as undergraduate or show
unusual attainments as alumni,
and to foster a spirit of liberal
culture in the engineering schools
of America.
To be eligible in his junior
year, a candidate must be in the
upper one-eight of his class,
scholastically.
Engineering faculty members
who belong to Tau Beta Pi are
Professors G. H. Carlovitz; A. St.
Clair Dunstan; W. C. Frishe;
C. R. Hixon; W. E. Honour; F. A.
Kummer; J. C. McKinnon; R. G.
Pitts; T. W. Sparrow; R. M.
Steere; V. B. Watwood; and Dean
J. E. Hannum.
BUILDER OF PICK'S
PIKE PROMOTED TO
MAJOR GENERAL
The promotion of Brig. Gen.
Lewis A. Pick, Auburn, to major
general has been announced by
the War Department in a mes­sage
received by his wife, who
lives with her mother, Mrs. Em­ma
Carey on North College St.
Maj. Gen. Pick, builder of the
Ledo Road—now officially named
the Stilwell Road but for a time
known as Pick's Pike—made pos­sible
the transfer of American
war supplies for China across the
Burma border into Yunnan. The
construction of the road has been
cited as the greatest engineering
feat in the annuals of the U. S.
Army.
For years he was one of the
outstanding Army flood-control
engineers and before going to
the Stillwell road, he was divi­sion
engineer of the Missouri
River division. When Gen. Pick
took command of the Stillwell
road in 1943 he was a colonel.
Chi 0, APhiO Sponsor
ARC Clothing Drive
The campus canvass for usable
old clothes will be conducted
Saturday, April 14, by Chi Omega
sorority and Alpha Phi Omega,
honorary scouting fraternity.
A goal of five pounds per in­habitant
of Auburn has been set
by the city chairman. The drive,
part of a national campaign for
reclothing men, women and
children in war devasted coun­tries,
is sponsored by the United
National Clothing Collection.
Dormitories and houses will be
canvassed Saturday morning. Cot­ton
clothing should be washed
but not ironed. Bedding, shoes,
and all types of usable coats,
shirts, suits, dresses, sweaters,
skirts, and underwear are urgent­ly
needed.
Chi Omega and Alpha Phi
Omega have asked that all cloth­ing
be placed in boxes or tied in
bundles.
SHUPE AND KIRKMAN
DISCUSS PEACE AT
INTER FAITH MEET
A summary of the Dumbarton
Oaks Proposals by Mary Louise
Shupe, Danforth Fellow, ana
Mary Moling Kirkman, director
of the Wesley Foundation, paved
the way for an informal discus­sion
on the subject last Thursday
night at the home of Prof, and
Mrs. Jerome Kuderna.
Good points and bad points, as
well as questions, were raised. A
large number of students, Dr.
Ben R. Showalter, director of ex­tension
teaching, Mrs. Showalter,
and two servicemen attended.
Sponsored by the Inter Faith
Council, the discussion was one
of a series designed to stimulate
interest of students in current
and far-reaching affairs. All stu­dents
are invited.
Sue Hawkins, senior in educa­tion
from Macon, Ga., will lead
the next discussion on April 19.
The place and time to the meet­ing
will be announced.
Two weeks later, on May 3,
Dr. and Mrs. Showalter will be
hosts to the group. The place of
meeting for the May 17 discus­sion
will be announced.
CADET OFFICERS
NAMED IN ROTC
Tentative appointments of ca­det
officers and non-commission­ed
officers to fill existing vacanc­ies
have been announced by
ROTC headquarters.
In Company "A", Frank Pease,
Columbus, has been named as
cadet second lieutenant. Cadet
corporals are J. B. Edgar, Shel-byville,
Tenn., and C. W. Field,
Phenix City.
In Company "B" cadet first
sergeant is C. E. Paul, Montgom­ery;
cadet corporals are R. B.
Baucom, Marshville, N. C; and
L. A. Bullington, Florence.
HONOR SOCIETIES
WILL RESUME
ANNUAL BALL
The Honor Societies Ball, an
annual affair suspended a few
years ago, will be held again this
year, on April 21 in Girls' Gym­nasium
on Opelika road. Music
will be furnished by Zombie
Lauderdale and the Auburn Col-legiates.
All honor societies have been
invited to help sponsor the ball.
Tickets for non-members may
be bought for $.60.
Presidents of honor societies
who have not entered may call
James Luquire, president of Blue
Key, at number 509 or Harry Gil-more,
vice-president of Blue Key,
at 445.
Honor societies already entered
are Phi Kappa Phi, ODK, Blue
Key, Cardinal Key, Tau Beta Pi,
Scarab, Owls, Oracles, Kappa
Delta Pi, and Phi Lambda Up-silon.
Davis Speaks
Under t h e theme "United
America" an NBC broadcast over
132 stations will be presented on
Sunday from 1:15 to 1:30 p. m.
by P. O. Davis, director of the
Extension Service at API; F. H.
Ahlgren, Memphis Commercial-
Appeal; and Ransome Aldrich,
president of the Mississippi Farm
Bureau.
RIVERA DRAWINGS
ARE ON EXHIBIT
Drawings by Diego Rivera is
the current exhibition being pre­sented
by the School of Archi­tecture
and the Arts in the Art
Library. Visitors are cordially in­vited
to enjoy these drawings by
one of the world's most outstand­ing
contemporary artists. The
present exhibition is distinguish­ed
by its variety of drawing
mediums. Pencil, charcoal, cray­on,
ink and wash drawings are
among those included.
AIEE Resumes
Activity, Elects
The student branch of the
American Institute of Electrical
Engineers has been reorganized.
At a short business meeting on
March 27, officers were elected
and plans laid for the meeting of
last Thursday.
On that date twenty-six mem­bers
attending viewed a film,
jointly with the ASCE, on high
frequency phenomena, staged by
Prof. R. M. Steere. Unwired light
bulbs burning brightly, short
circuits having no effect on a
light circuit, flourescent light be­ing
erased at the wave of a hand
and sound waves produced by
radio were among the pheno-mema
observed.
The AIEE serves as a student
engineer's link with the newest
and best practices in his field,
and serves to bring to members
a clearer and more complete
picture of the practices and stand­ards
of his profession.
Application blanks for mem­bership
may be obtained by stu­dents
enrolled in electrical en­gineering
from Phillip Raymond,
chairman; Jesse James, vice-chairman;
or Barry Graves, sec­retary.
Other officers are E. B. Foster,
treasurer, and Joe Spinks, pub­licity
director.
Mimi Simms, Bob Kirby, and Mildred Woodham are un­opposed
for offices of editor of The Plainsman, business man­ager
of The Plainsman, and editor of the Glomerata after
qualifying before Publications Board Monday afternoon.
Since no one was qualified for business manager of The
Glomerata, Publications Board will meet again Thursday
afternoon at 5 in the president's
offices to consider candidates.
Petitions which may be obtained
from Mrs. Sara Tidmore in Dr.
L. N. Duncan's office must be
turned in by 3 p. m. Thursday.
Although unopposed, each of
the qualified candidates will go
through the formality of being
elected in the general campus
election on April 19. They will
take office at the beginning of
the summer quarter.
Mimi Simms, Auburn, is a
member of Delta Zeta, Cardinal
Key, Pan-Hellenic, and is serv­ing
as managing editor of The
Plainsman this quarter. She is a
third quarter junior in science
and lit.
Bob Kirby, Birmingham, is a
member of Omega Tau Sigma,
AVMA, IRC, the Intramural
Board, and has held the position
of advertising manager of The
Plainsman for the last three quar­ters.
He is a third quarter junior
in the vet school.
Mildred Woodham, Geneva, is
a member of Art Guild, Debate
Council, and has served as as­sociate
editor of the 1944 Glomer­ata.
She is a second quarter jun­ior
in commercial art.
Scholastic averages of all can­didates
were above 3.0.
Dr. Jep Dennis, former col­lege
physician, has resumed
his position after two years
service with the army. His
family is now residing in Au­burn.
During Dr. Dennis' leave.
Dr. C S. Yarbrough look his
place at the John Hodges Drake
Infirmary.
API Conducts Two Weeks Short Course
For State Nursery School Teachers
A special two-week training course for nursery school
teachers in defense areas began at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute Monday under the direction of the state depart­ment
of education's Extended School Service with the co­operation
of Mrs. Ruth D. Morley, head of the nursery school
at A.P.I., and her staff.
Oracles Meet
At the last meeting of Oracles,
freshman honor society, a pro­gram
committee composed of
Kathryn McMillan and Bettye
Burge was appointed. The time
of meeting at Social Center was
changed to 5 p. m. for conven­ience
of a majority of its mem­bers.
Margie Wilson and Althea
Johnson are president and vice
president of the organization.
Lions Show Planned
A variety show featuring Au­burn's
local talent is to be pre­sented
at Langdon hall Thrsday
and Friday, April 12 and 13, by
the Auburn Lions club.
The evening's entertainment is
being arranged to provide funds
for the service men's roll of honor
at the corner of College and
Magnolia streets.
Talent so far enlisted includes
the Auburn Singers, Zombie's
orchestra, the PE club, Misses
Bibza and Peggy Strange, Martha UJ1(, LWU IIUJU ,_.il,i„v,.,„.„,.,
Nell Simpson and the Farnham o n e e a c n fr0m East Gadsden and
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Knitting Due April 25
Knitting for the Collegiate Red
Cross?
If you are, you'd better get
busy. Your sweater is due on
Wednesday, April 25.
Pat Kirkwood, Red Cross knit­ting
chairman, will accept any
finished sweaters now. All sweat­ers
and wool must be returned
two weeks from today in order
to get the Collegiate Red Cross
records correct before the end
of the year.
Miss Lula Palmer, supervisor
of the Extended School Services,
who established t h e nursery
school at A.P.I. in 1929, arranged
for the course which came as a
result of a conference of super­visors
which met in Auburn last
December. The rapid increase of
nursery schools with the expan­sion
of the national defense pro­gram
made necessary the opera­tion
of the schools with an un­trained
or partially trained staff.
There are over 100 nursery
schools in the state at this time,
but the number for this class was
limited to 15.
No credit is given for the work.
The mornings are devoted to ob­servation,
the afternoons to child
feeding classes with Dr.. Inez
Schrader, assistant professor of
home economics; philosophy of
nursing science and guidance of
children taught by Mrs. Morley;
a n d equipment of nurseries
taught by Mrs. Ruth Newland,
instructor in nursery school.
Including in the class are five
from Birmingham; six from Mo­bile,
two from Childersburg, and
sisters, Prof. Chas. R. Hixon, Mr:
Hulse, Prof. John-W. Roe, Dr.
Fagan Thompson, Sarge Moxham
and M. J. Danner.
Art Guild Sponsors
Student Exhibit
An exhibit of student drawings
in pencil, pin and ink, lithograph,
and similar mediums will be
presented by the Art Guild on
April 17 in the Little Art Gallery
in the Applied Art Annex.
Drawings to be entered in the
show should be given to Helen
Drippe, Molly O'Connell, or Mild­red
Woodham before five p. m.
Saturday.
Eufaula, all of whom are housed
at the Theta Chi fraternity house
on Mell street. They are Miss
Madge Rotton, Mrs. R. H. Jack­son,
Miss Ethel Baker, Mrs. W. C.
Jarrett, and Mrs. R. E. DeMedices,
all of Birmingham; Miss Jeanette
Napp, Mrs. B. S. Cagle, Miss
Shirley McKinney, Mrs. J. M.
Vander Bunt, Miss Sara Britt,
and Mrs. Thomas Gray, all of
Mobile; Mrs. Edwin Boatwright,
East Gadsden; Mrs. Lois Neely,
Eufaula; Mrs. Clifton Edwards
and Mrs. J. C. Hardy, Childres-burg.
Similar courses will be offered
at the University of Alabama and
at Montevallo.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M A N WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945
CAMPUS
If you were lucky enough to
read a copy of the Christmas or
New Year's greeting written by
Mr. Ralph Draughon, director of
instruction, to the alumni, you
chuckled over his humorous des­cription
of the mule - in - the -
women's-washroom incident (. . .
and it is rumored that two boys
resigned a few weeks later to
join the Marines . . .).
Or maybe you felt that you had
had a friendly chat with an old
friend — an Auburn man—and
you were proud you were an Au­burn
man, and you felt that the
Auburn Spirit would never die—
as. long as such perpetuators of
tradition as Mr. Draughon re­mained—
no matter how much
the size and enrollment of the
college increased.
That's how servicemen felt.
Letters of appreciation have come
from all theaters of war, some
written on V-Mail stationery,
others on air mail stationery with
Army, Navy, or Marine letter­heads,
and one on a picture postal
of Magdalen church in Paris.
Lt. Bob Anderson, editor of the
Plainsman in '41 wrote, "I re­ceived
your Christmas letter this
week, with a great deal of pleas­ure.
I always enjoy a letter from
you, and particularly the Auburn
news type that that one was.
"And your penned note about
the "poor writing" therein was
just more unnecessary modesty.
I've always said, you know, that
you should have been a journal­ist
by profession. To misquote
S a m Clemens, 'Shakespeare's
dead, Keats is dead, and Ralph
Draughon is bound to Dr. Dun­can.'
"
Nearly every serviceman who
writes pays tribute to Col. Water­man.
Lt. Anderson's comment
was typical. "I had received from
Marg, earlier, word of Colonel
Waterman's retirement, and was
terribly sorry to hear of it. He's
a wonderful man and a real of­ficer
in spite of West Point. Au­burn
has certainly had its share
of top notchers in its military
training. I know that Colonel
Gates will do a fine job, too."
Lt. Roy Tillery, Jr. added to
a similar comment in his letter,
"However it is indeed nice to
know that he and Mrs. Waterman
will continue to reside in Au­burn."
There were questions about
the football and basketball teams
and about the new building pro-
SCENE-AROUND
By Irene Long
gram, bits of information on
other Auburn men, and a num­ber
of replies to Mr. Draughon's
request for fishing equipment.
Lt. John Ball, Jr., writing from
Germany, said that he had been
through a great many ruined
houses and other buildings but
that he had not run across any
fishing tackle.
From another country, Capt.
Reed O. Christenson V-Mailed,
"Frankly, Ralph, I can't help you
on your plea for cat gut. You
must realize that Italy is a musi­cal
nation, and cats donate their
vital organs for violin strings
'solo.' I might send you a violin
and you could salvage the strings
for fishing."
Some of the men mentioned
their work. Maj. John C. Rice,
stationed, in Burma, wrote, "Our
supply line continues to get long­er
and we claim the longest sup­ply
line in the world. Beautiful
workhorses, the C-47 transport
planes, and we survive many
foodless days by having them
air-dropped to us."
A little on the grim side, Lt.
Henry Seawell wrote, "The only
real news I know is quite sad,
but I'm sure all who knew Bob
Dunaway will agree that a finer
man never lived. I am sure he
will get due recognition in the
Glomerala and Plainsman."
"There are three Auburn men
here," wrote Lt. John Ball from
Germany, "Major Bud Hodo, Ma­jor
Billy Smith, (both from Alex­ander
City), and myself.
"I passed the 'Greetings' around
and we all enjoyed it a great
deal. We three have quite a time
together, and the other officers
say that the place seems to be
run by Auburn men—which isn't
very far from wrong either, be­cause
there are so many of us
over here now. I've been running
into more and more of them late­ly,
and from the reports that
Ellen sends me, the 'whole gang'
will be here soon. Ernest Mills,
Rene Bidez, John Bruce Martin,
John Turner Hudson, and many
others are around this front
someplace."
The hope that the Auburn
spirit would live was expressed
by one soldier who said, "There
is another Aubyrn man coming
along there, even though he isn't
but about eight months old yet.
I hope I can at least see him
once, though, before he gets that
far along."
Deadlines
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THE GLOMCRATA OFFICE
CHERRY PIE
Editor's note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the edi­torial
policies of this paper.
That funny smell permeating
the air around the girls gym
Saturday night wasn't an auto
/•adiator boiling over. It was
merely the local chapters of fu­ture
members of alcoholic an­onymous
having their yearly
musical binge. Said Sally Soup-flake
of the dance — the next
morning of course—, "Oooh, my
head."
"Thornton and Laney were
both there well soaked—by the
rain of course—and I overheard
them trying to overhear some­thing.
Said Thornton, "Look! that Phi
is going to hit the SAE with the
glasses". Said Laney, "Yeah, but
there's nothing intoxicating in
them."
Cherry Pie
This is a fable
This is the fable of Professor
Trueheart, Ph.D., M.A., M.F., and
L.H.D. He was known to one and
all as a sharp man with a rule
book. Professor Trueheart was so
careful that each morning before
he brushed his teath, he reread
the directions on the tube so he
wouldn't make any mistakes. At
exactly 7:35 a. m., his wife boiled
his breakfast egg for 3.148 min­utes
and flavored it with 10
grains of salt (dehydrated). One
quarter of an hour later the pro­fessor
would take readings from
the barometer, thermometer and
weather vane to determine the
number of layers of clothing he
should- wear across the campus.
He arrived at Ayres Hall ex­actly
five minutes before the
hour chimed which gave him
time to hang his coat on the
third peg (the fourth belonged to
Professor Goodeman), find the
correct chapter in the lecture
book he had used for the last 20
years, and clear his throat twice.
Professor Trueheart marked his
examination papers on a graded
scale, placing an even one-third
of the papers below 70, and regu­larly
advocated benefits of exact­itude
to his colleagues at all fa­culty
meetings. He was also a
strong supporter of registering
the students three days early so
they'd have time to settle down
before classes began.
Consistent w i t h professor's
theories of discipline was his
hearty disapproval of all music
not strictly in a classical vein
and he violently opposed swing
music. He himself often sat on
his front porch of a summer's
evening listening to the song of
the thrush in the lilac bushes and
carefully calculating the number
of false notes. Because Professor
Truehart was colorblind, he had
his youngest son observed the
sunset and determine how many
of the shades clashed.
The Trueheart family regular­ly
attended all Tennessee athletic
contests and the professor kept
box scores during the progress of
each game but not because he
liked baseball, football or basket­ball.
He hoped to catch the um­pire
making a mistake in public.
One day when Professor True-heart
was walking across State
Street near the Strand, he halted
horror-struck before a 30-foot
poster of Rita Hay worth in a
bathing suit. What do you think
he saw? The artist had spelled
her name "Heyworth." The good
man stood in the middle of the
street trying to determine wheth­er
he could contact the manager
of the theater more quickly by
telephoning him from the Ithaca
Hotel or by walking over to the
box office. As he was dividing
the speed of sound by the dis­tance
to the theater, an Eddy
Street bus tore down the hill.
The driver was munching a bag
of Karmel Korn and looking at
Rita. He never even knew that
Professor Trueheart was stand­ing
in the middle of the street
until the professorial derby had
been knocked over the marquee
of the Dutch Kitchen and the bus
stalled because a Phi Beta Kappa
key punched the front tire. That
was the end of Professor True-heart.
It was a terrible tragedy.
No one ever again noticed that
Rita's last name should be spelled
with an "a." — (University of
Tennessee).
JAYWALKING
With THORNTON and LANEY
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.
* * *
The increase in enrollment at Auburn "during the next year
will call for a great awakening on the part of many campus
organizations, especially the student government. The return­ing
servicemen may not approve the present government, and
they may wish to see it changed. Any suggestions or demands
that they make must be reasoned with by a capable, efficient
governing body.
Since the war began, the Student Executive Cabinet and
the Women's Student Government have steadily diminished
their influence, until today they are little more than figure­heads.
Certainly they seldom reflect the majority of the stu­dents'
feelings.
Let us hope that in next week's general election, the stu­dents
of API will exercise wisdom in their choice of officers,
that they will select members of their classes who "know the
score" about campus activities. And more than ever before,
it is important that everyone votes.
Prof. Stalnaker—"Who's that smoking in the back of the
room?"
Stude—"No one, sir. That's just the fog we're in."
* * *
Landlady—"I thought I saw you taking a gentleman up to
your apartment last night, young lady."
Young lady—"Yeah, that's what I thought, too."
As somebody has said, there's nothing like the happy med­ium.
The Interfrat Dance of two weeks ago was so well lighted
that you could see Sam's freckles, and the Alpha Psi brawl
was so dark that only the ga^ in the white dresses got danced
with (since that was the only means of identification). We
didn't say, however, that the dance wasn't well-lit in certain
respects. But the Phi-SAE juke of last Saturday was some im­provement,
as far as electricity goes. The hall was just dim
enough to make a white coat resemble a dinner jacket and
transform a leer into a smile.
Incidentally, we were rather startled at the leadout, since
we had expected to see the girls run out from behind those
trees instead of simply walking out alongside their escorts.
Alas, we looked forward (?) to an imprompu talk by the SAE
prexy with diatribe from Spivey, but those individuals (and
What individuals!) limited their banter to the participants of
the leadout.
* * *
Headline In University of Tennessee Newspaper
- "U-T Dean of Women Resigns Position"
—It Can't Happen Here
* * *
For several weeks now we have been trying to tip you
hearty eaters off on a good place to satiate your appetite for
(1) chicken, (2) steak, or (3) sandwiches. The place is Har­well's
Tiger Tavern, located a couple of miles out on the Mont­gomery
Road. You won't be disappointed.
* * *
A "Little Henry" episode occurred here last week that
should be of some interest. As you no doubt noticed, the murals
of artist Diego Rivera were on exhibit in the architecture
building. Well, one of our enterprising studes, who concentrate
on making life a bit less drab, had a fiendish brain-storm. When
the murals were unpacked, he drew one apparently quite
similar to the artist's, attached a blue ribbon and a price tag
($1000.00) and put it up alongside Rivera's. For a number of
days everyone in the architecture department was fooled, in­cluding
the faculty.
* * *
An Epitaph
This tattoo artist is anchored with lead;
"Put a bridie on my knee," the cutie said.
But this poor guy—is dead, dead, dead.
He tried to tatto a giraffe there, instead.
There is a limit to all good things—and
a limit as to when stories can be set up
in type in time to appear in The Plains­man.
Also there is a limit to the time
pictures can be sent to the engravers for
cuts to be made to appear in any publi­cation.
It takes a whole day for a picture to
get to the engraving company in Mont­gomery
from Auburn, another day for the
cut to be made, and then another day for
the cut to get back to Auburn.
That means that pictures for page three
of The Plainsman, which is printed Tues­day
morning, must be sent off by at least
Friday morning in time to return and be
set up.
Copy for the social page, such as date
lists and articles about initiations, parties,
hayrides, etc. should be turned in to The
Plainsman office on Tichenor avenue by
Sunday afternoon in order to be properly
prepared, with correct spelling of names
checked, and hometowns listed.
Material regarding dances and other
social events cannot be printed in a paper
appearing on Wednesday unless turned in
by the previous Sunday afternoon.
Pages one and six are prepared at the
same time, and the very latest date that
copy for the sports page or news stories
to be in is Monday night.
Lineups Again
With elections so near, politics has be­gun
to rear its head in our midst again.
The scheming minds of the little campus
politicians are eternally hatching up new
plans—big "deals", each one "bigger" than
the last. Things have got to such a state
that, to quote a statement heard last
week, they can't get much worse, surely.
The very purpose of campus elections
is being defeated by the sort of political
training t h a t present campus politics
yields. Lineups, in their most recent de­velopment,
teach students to do things
the way crooks or thugs (or worse) would
do.
An example of this is found in the
case of the student in the "other" lineup
who, When he announced his intention
to run for one of the leading Cabinet po­sitions,
was warned, via grapevine, that
should he even try to enter the race he
would be disqualified on the grounds
that he had served six instead of nine
months on the Cabinet previously.
This seems to indicate that it's all very
well to stick to qualifications set out in
the so-called "Constitution" of the Cabi­net—
when they suit your purpose.
One former line-up has announced it's
disbanding. Every candidate for himself,
it says. The avowed intent of this group
is to get more voters to the polls—regard­less
of whom they may vote for. And that
is indeed a noble purpose. If it works
that way.
Last winter a typical example of lineup
workings was shown, when one group in
an election persuaded two other groups
to back their candidate—previously in the
opposite lineup, promising support of the
two group's candidates in the next elec­tion.
The result was that the group-of-the-first-
part's candidate won, and that group
immediately went back to it's original
alliances. You never can tell.
Old Clothes
Your shoes that are "too good to throw
away; but not good enough to wear" can
be used by the girl in Athens, Greece,
who hasn't worn a pair since hers wore
out three years ago.
There is a family in Holland whose
members own only the clothing that they
have on. They could use an extra shirt,
skirt, and a coat would be an undreamed
of luxury.
Not all of Europe is naked, but there
are a lot more people without adequate
clothing than we like to admit.
Clothes just don't evaporate, but they
do wear out.
In the first place when the Germans
looted a village, they took everything
they could firre — money, art treasures,
food, clothing, and human lives.
Almost immediately the factories that
had been turning out civilian supplies
were converted to feed the German war
machine. The few civilian' goods that were
manufactured went to the German home­land.
Nowhere in the world today are enough
civilian goods being produced to clothe
the millions who are half-naked. If the
supplies could be found, most of these
people could not afford to buy them.
That's why the United National Cloth­ing
Drive is being sponsored throughout
the United States.
Five pounds of clothing and blankets
from each person in this county are needed
if the liberated people of Europe and the
Far East are to be adequately clothed.
The request is for usable, practical sec­ond-
hand clothing. That means, for ex­ample,
that tuxedoes aren't needed. But
coats, dresses, shirts, sweaters, shoes, and
other usable clothing are.
When the solicitor comes to your door
Saturday, why not have your five pounds
waiting for him?
How To Do More Work
Henry Ward Beecher once was asked
how he managed to get through so much
work in a day. He replied, "By never do­ing
anything twice. I never anticipate my
work and never worry about it. When the
time comes to do a thing I do it, and that's
the end of it."
The fussy, harried, worried person is
the one who tries to do everything at once.
He dabbles in this and dabbles in that—
finishing nothing. He picks up a letter to
answer it, and lays it down to pick up
another to fuss with that.
He puts the hard work at the bottom
of the pile. He leaves a hard job on his
desk day after day until it absolutely has
to be done and then he rushes it out in
such a hurry that it seldom is done right.
He then goes home with frayed nerves.
In imagination he drags his desk and
papers home with him and worries about
them there.
The big things in life never are done by
fussy man. When one is worrying about
half a dozen tasks that must be done in
the future, he fails to do the present task
as it should be done. One task at a time,
finished and started on its way before
tackling the next is a rule that makes for
poise and power.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11,1945 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Delta Zeta Rose Formal To Feature Joint Leadout Saturday
Sanford Installs ~~ Tays And Betty Lead
Phi Kappa Tail's
New Officers
Officers of Phi Kappa Tau's
Alpha Lambda chapter were
chosen for the spring quarter and
installed by Oliver Sanford,
Dadeville, retiring president at
their last meeting.
J. T. McMichael, Cordova, was
elected president; Homer Mc-
Naron, Anniston, vice-president;
Alex Tucker, Dadeville, secre­tary;
Howard More, Mobile,
treasurer.
New chaplain is H. I. West
from Bay Minette; T. C. Poole,
Anniston, is sergeant-at-arms;
and Homer McNaron, vice-presi­dent,
is pledgemaster.
Three Engagements
Announced By
Former Students
Mosley-Anderson
The engagement of Miss Carrie
Dent Moseley, to Harvey Gordon
Anderson, Jr., of Huntsville, and
Baltimore, was announced recent­ly
by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
O. R. Moseley of Huntsville.
A '44 graduate, Miss Moseley
is now teaching at Hazel Green.
While at API she was enrolled in
the school of education, and was
president of Kappa Delta, a mem­ber
of Kappa Delta Pi and Pan-
Hellenic council.
Mr. Anderson attended Gulf
Coast Military Academy, Miss.,
and Battle Ground Academy,
Franklin, Tenn. He is now em­ployed
in Baltimore.
Ragan-Johnston
Miss Frances Ragen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ellis
Ragan of Eufaula, will marry
William Young Johnston, USM-CR,
sometime in May.
She attended Agnes Scott col­lege
in Atlanta for two years and
is now a senior at the University
of Alabama, where she is a mem­ber
of Kappa delta sorority. She
attended Auburn during the sum­mer
of '42.
Son of Mrs. Ida Merrill John­ston
of Eufaula, Johnston attend­ed
Darlington School and API,
where he was a member of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon. After training in
the Marine forces he received his
degree in mechanical engineering
at Duke University, and is now
attending OCS at Quantico, Va.
Prigmore-Mariin
Pattie Prigmore, former stu­dent
of science and lit at Auburn
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. J. Prigmore of Birmingham
will marry Teackle Wallis Mar­tin
of Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Mo­bile
on April 27.
Miss Prigmore was a member
of Chi Omega sorority while in
college.
Mr. Martin was graduated in
mechanical engineering, and was
a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
NEW PRESIDENT LEADS
iimmmifmSSi
Miss Betty Grimes, Auburn, will be in the joint lead of the
Delta Zeta formal in the Girls' Gym, with Robert Williams of
Auburn. She is the newly elected president of Delta Zeta.
CHI 0 INITIATES
Birma Wise, freshman in home
economics, f r om Birmingham,
was initiated by Chi Omega
sorority at the end of the winter J
quarter.
MissJaneGatewood
Weds Lt. Jim Kelly
The marriage of Miss Jane
Gatewood to Lt. James Kelly,
Monroeville, took place on Satur­day,
March 30, in Richland, Ga.
the home of the bride.
Both are former students, Mrs.
Kelly having attended Auburn
until this spring. She was a sen­ior
in the School of Education
and was a member of Chi Omega
sorority. She was a member of
WAA, the Pan-Hellenic Council,
the PE Club and was historian
of the senior class. During her
freshman year she was chosen
"Sweetheard of Sigma Chi."
The bridegroom .received his
BS degree in Mechanical En­gineering
at Auburn in March,
1944. He was a member of Pi
Kappa Phi fraternity, Executive
C a b i n e t , Publications Board,
ODK, Scabbard and Blade, In-terfraternity
Council, in Who's
Who Among Students in Ameri­can
Colleges, University Elec­tions
Committee, and American
Society Civil Engineers.
PiKA Pledges Elect
Sellars New President
Pi Kappa Alpha pledges elect­ed
Carl Sellars as president,
Keith Landram, vice president
and Curtis West, secretary- treas­urer
at a meeting last Wednesday.
Those present were Bill McNid-er,
Keith Landram, George John­son,
Jinks Barganier and Curtis
West.
SAE ELECTS
In a recent election, Sigma Al­pha
Epsilon elected Norman
Burns McLeod, Jr., Troy, presi­dent.
Other officers are Tommy
Pease, Columbus. Ga., vice-presi­dent;
Bill O'Brien, Sheffield,
treasurer; Guy Folmar, Luverne,
secretary; and Frank Pease, Col­umbus,
Ga., correspondent.
LOST: Plaid shirt with bill­fold
Thursday afternoon at
track meet. Finder please noti­fy
Lewis Tanner. Kappa Sigma
house, phone 9107. Reward.
Delta Zeta Dante
In Girls'Gymnasium
Zombie's Collegiates
To Play 9 to 12 P.M.
Presenting their Rose Ball,
Delta Zeta sorority will entertain
Saturday night from 9 to 12 with
a dance, Zombie Lauderdale and
his Auburn Collegiates playing.
Before intermission a joint lead-out
will be featured in which
Tays Tarvin, the retiring presi­dent
and Betty Grimes, the in­coming
president will both be
presented with bouquets by Mrs.
F. E. Guyton and Mrs. J. C.
Grimes. •
The Girls' Gymnasium will be
decorated with old rose and
green streamers with a backdrop
containing the sorority's Greek
letters. The leadout will come
through a large delta entwined
by ivy and roses.
Members pledges and their
dates will include Tays Tarvin,
Roger Norris, Montgomery; Bet­ty
Grimes, Robert Williams, Au­burn;
Mary Ella Allen, Harry
Hillhouse, Birmingham; Gwen
Tucker Biddle, Lt. C. G. Biddle;
Virginia Borders, Grover Whit­ley,
LaGrange, Ga.; Sue Carder,
Elwood Daughterity, Mobile; Eu­nice
Crump, Paul Irvine, Auburn;
Mary Largent Davis, Ens. Raburn
Davis, Opelika; Jean Gauntt,
Mack Rumbley, Monroeville; El-vin
Haden, O/C "Oaky" Brumm,
Ft. Benning; and Margaret, Had­en,
Jimmy Clark, Birmingham.
Theresa Hug, Billy Whitley,
LaGrange, Ga.; Mary Kerr, Cpl.
Fred Walker, Ft. McClellan; Imo-gene
Logan, Monroe Quinney,
Linden; Elizabeth Mackie, Lilben
Stevens, Gadsden; Emma Jean
Maddox, Clifford Mitchell, Thom-aston;
Ann Mitchell, A/S Clarke
Stall worth, Atlanta; Paula Jean
Mozley, Billy Epps, Orlando, Fla.;
and Helen Pace, Ernest Heffer-ber.
Elizabeth Prather, O/C Clyde
Daniels, Ft. Benning; Peggy Rey­nolds,
John Conner, Birmingham;
Wynn Hall, Carl Hurston, Tallas-see;
Marilyn Sheffield, Clyde
Dawson, Palm Beach, Fla.; Billie
Jean Short, Thurman Burns,
Florence; and CarmeUta Slayton,
Wallace Bradshaw, Longbeach,
Calif.
Margaret Snead, Steve String-fellow,
Birmingham; Louise Tor-bert,
Earl Fowler, Atlanta; Ruth
Upton, Bill Lawshee, Mobile;
Kathryn Owen, Johnny Jones,
Atlanta, Ga.; Frances Williams,
Lt. J. H. Whitley; Jean Adams.
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Added
"Screen Snapshots"
Travel Talk
Miss Tarvin, past president of Beta Xi chapter of Delta
Zeta. will be in the joint leadout of the rose formal next Satur­day
night with Lt. Roger Norris, former student at API from
Montgomery. A junior in secretarial training, Tays is from
Tuskegee.
Randall Walker, Jessup, Ga.; and
Virginia Allen, Milt Jordon,
Timberland, N. C.
Ruth Estes, Cecil Lanier, Sel-ma;
Katherine Mackie, Charles
Rex, Tallassee; Sara Oswalt, Bob­by
Blaylock; Carolyn Parker,
Bobby Harrington, Sweetwater;
Bonnie Penn, Crawford Howell;
Lessie Jo Rounds, O/C Ralph
Kozoed, Ft. Benning, Mary Tay­lor,
Julian Logan, Mobile; Mimi
Simms, Ed Overt, Columbus, Ga.
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POP INITIATES
Phi Omega Pi held formal in­itiation
for two girls on March 21.
They were Mary Howard, Bir­mingham,
and Virginia White,
Huntsville.
S/Sgt. George McFaden, We-tumpka,
grad of '42, has been
awarded a good conduct medal at
his 15th AAF base in Italy. He
is a mechanic on a B-24.
» * *
Lt. and Mrs. Brad Clopton are
visiting in Auburn this week.
They have been at Ft. Leonard
Wood, Mo.
CHICKEN & STEAKS
COLD DRINKS
OPEN: 10 A. M! TO 12 P. M.
Sandwiches of all kinds
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
HOUSE OF
FRANKENSTEIN
with
BORIS KARLOFF
LON CHANEY
Also
Sport "Girls Preferred"
Novelty "Little White Lies"
THURS. & FRL, APRIL 12. 13
A TREE GROWS
IN BROOKLYN
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LLOYD NOLAN
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"Where Friends Meet"
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3 Miles South of Auburn
...ON...
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SATURDAY. APRIL 14
Double Feature
No. 1
TRAIL TO
GUNSIGHT
4
with
EDDIE DEW
No. 2
U-BOAT
PRISONER
with
BRUCE BENNETT
Added
Cartoon
No. 4 "Adventures of Flying
Cadets"
SUNDAY ONLY. APRIL 15
ROUGHLY
SPEAKING
with
ROSALIND RUSSELL
JACK CARSON
Also
News
Cartoon
MONDAY. APRIL 16
HANGOVER
SQUARE
with
LAIRD CREGAR
GEORGE SANDERS
Also
Added Short Subjects
Page Four THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945
LT. ROBERT GILMAN
KILLED IN ACTION
WHILE IN FRANCE
Second Lt. Kobert Frank Gil-man,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Gilman, was killed in action
March 15, in France where he
was serving with the Seventh
Army, the War Department has
informed his parents.
Overseas since the latter part
of January, Lieutenant Gilman
entered the service on April 25,
1943.
After completing basic train­ing
at Ft. Bragg, N. C, he was
assigned to the Army Specialized
Training Program and was sta­tioned
at Auburn, at Alabama
Polytechnic Institute there.
He then was sent to Ft. Sill,
Okla., where he was graduated
from the school of artillery and
commissiosed June 24, 1944.
Lieutenant Gilman also receiv­ed
training at Ft. Jackson, S. C,
Ft. Benning, Ga., and Camp Gor­don,
Ga.
Prior to entering the service he
was a third-year electrical engi­neering
student at Alabama Poly­technic
Institute where he was a
member of the Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity. .
A graduate of the Anniston,
Ala., High School, Lieutenant
Gilman also attended school at
Grand Rapids, Mich., and Macon,
Ga.
He was a member of the
Evangelical and R e f o r m ed
Church of Nashville.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by a brother, Pfc Joseph
Bruce Gilman, now serving some­where
in the Pacific.
COFFMAN LEADS REVIVAL HERE
AT CHURCH OF CHRIST THIS WEEK
E. O. Coffman, principal, Lawrenceburg County High
School, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, will. conduct a week of
gospel meetings at the Auburn Church of Christ, beginning
Sunday morning April 15 and continuing through Sunday,
April 22, announces R. W. Turner, minister.
Song services for the series of meetings will be conducted
by Prof. J.
L. Brock, athletic
High School,
Scoggin To Work
For Tennessee
Eastman Company
Bob Scoggin, graduate of Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute of
March '45, was in town iast week.
From Dora, Scoggin was enrolled
in chemical engineering and was
a member of AIChE, Tau Beta Pi,
Phi Lambda Upsilon, president
of Blue Key, Delta Sig, Pi Tau
Chi, and the Wesley Foundation.
Since graduation, he has made
a trip to New York, New Jersey,
and Tennessee. He is planning to
accept a position as chemical en­gineer
in the plastic development
division of the Tennessee East­man
Corporation, which is a
branch of the Eastman Kodak
Company.
OC Jay Green, also from Ft.
Benning, was in town over the
weekend. Member of Theta Chi,
Green was sports editor of the
paper while in school.
CHURCH BULLETINS
METHODIST
An International Party will be
held on the lawn of the Metho­dist
parsonage Saturday, April
14, Pan-American Day. Sponsored
by the Wesley Foundation, the
party begins at eight o'clock and
will include folk dances. Every­one
is invited.
* * *
Picture-hymns will be featured
on the prayer-meditation program
at the Wesley Foundation Thurs­day
evening at 7 o'clock. Colored
slides representing worshipful at­titudes
in the hymns, "Day Ts
Dying in the West" and "Evening
Star," will be presented with
musical arrangements. This pro­gram
lasts approximately 30
minutes.
BAPTIST
The Baptist Student Union of
the Auburn Baptist Church will
give a Kid Party, Saturday, April
14, for all Baptist Students on the
campus. The party will be given
on the first floor of the church,
from 8 until 10. The party is
under the direction of Betty
Heaslett and James Capell.
director, Lanett
Lanett, Alabama.
Both have had wide experience
in educational work. Coffman has
taught school for 46 years, 36 of
which he has served as principal
of the Lawrenceburg County
High School. He attended the
University of Tennessee and Pea-body
College, before receiving
his B. A. degree at Abilene
Christian College and his M. A.
degree from the University of
Alabama.
Brock has had several years
of directing athletics at Lanett
High School after graduating
from the University of Alabama.
Services will be held at 11 a.
m. and at 7:45 p. m. each Sunday
and at 7:45 p. m. e a c h day.
throughout the week. Invitations
to attend are extended to all col­lege
students and the public.
Ens. Raburn Davis, former stu-1 OC George Strother, former
dent, of business administration, student of aero engineering and
who is now in the Naval Air member of Pi Kappa Alpha, who
Corps, is visiting, his family in Us now stationed at Benning, was
Auburn and Opelika. in town over the weekend.
S/Sgt. L e s l i e Kirkpatrick,
Montgomery, who was a student
of chemical engineering in '42
and a member of PiKA, visited
here last week. He is now station­ed
at Ft. Benning.
Jenkins Hill Files
Modifications At
ATC Base in Cairo
ATC Air Base, Cairo—A civi­lian
at heart, but an Air Tran­sport
Command technical ans­wer-
man by 'expediency, is Staff
Sergeant Jenkins A. Hill, son of
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hill, Jack­son,
Ala. To hasten his home­coming
he furnishes technical in­formation
to John H. Payne
Field, Cairo, flight crews who
daily transport priority cargo
and passengers from Payne Field
to the Far East over the North
African Division's extensive air-routes.
"This war can't end too soon
for me," Hill says. "Egypt is a
nice place—but Jackson is the
place for me."
Sergeant Hill is a technical
publications clerk, an unheralded
but important assignment essen­tial
in ferrying operations. His
job is to maintain a correct file
of the latest modifications on
those transports utilized by the
North African Division.
Hill attended Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Auburn, for
three and one half years before
joining the service in May 1942.
Formerly he worked with his
father as a merchant and farmer.
GOSPEL
MEETING
All college students and the public
are extended a cordial invitation to at-tend
a series of gospel meetings at the
Auburn Church of Christ during the week
ofAprill5-22.
The minister will be E. 0. Coffman,
for 36 years principal of the Lawrence­burg,
Tenn., County High School, and the
director of song services will be J. L.
Brock, athletic director, Lanett High
School, Lanett, Ala.
Services will be held at 11 A. M. and
at 7:45 P. M. each Sunday and at 7:45
P. M. daily throughout the week.
R. W.TURNER, Minister
WINSTON BURTON, Asst.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11,1945 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Lieut. Greene Tells Of Rescue Fror
And Life In A Japanese Prison Camp
Naval Officer Was Rescued Last January
By Spectacular Ranger-Guerilla Raid
"I was lucky," asserted Lieut.
George Greene who was rescued
by American Rangers and Fili­pino
guerillas from a Japanese
prison camp in East Luzon.
The grey-haired lieutenant had
told of prison camp existence and
of Japanese cruelties. He had
spoken of the atrocity stories
that have flared across American
front pages.
"All of the stories that I have
read or heard—except the ones
about being set on fire—I could
match out of my own experience
or observation," he had declared.
Then twice in one conversation
he'd said it.
"I was lucky. I was one of the
last to be captured and one of
the first to be released."
As he spoke the naval officer
stretched comfortably in an arm­chair
at the Armstrong Street
home of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Paul Bomar. Campaign ribbons
flashed gaudily on the blouse
that fit considerably better than
it would have several months
and many pounds back.
"You Never Knew"
Worse than all his other ex­periences,
and they included be­ing
imprisoned for 21 days and
nights in a 5,000 foot square hole
of a ship with 1,400 other pris­oners,
was the mental torture of
never knowing where you stood
with your captors. Prisoners were
informed of a change of regula­tions
by force rather than by
verbal directions and the "only
method of giving orders was with
a rifle butt."
Lieut. Greene related that on
one occasion a friend of his had
been given two bananas by an
unusually friendly Japanese of­ficer.
The officer then strolled
away while the recipient shared
with another prisoner.
A Japanese private promptly
beat the prisoner over his head
for eating one of "the emperor's
bananas". And the officer, gaz­ing
on the scene from some feet
away, didn't interfere.
So it was "the capricious man­ner
in which we were treated and
the utter helplessness of the con­dition
we were in" that was
greatest punishment to the
prisoners.
Was In Six Camps
The repatriated officer stated
that he had been in six intern­ment
camps after the Semar-
(Continued on back page)
Leyte sector, of which he was
executive officer, surrendered.
His was the last American force
to surrender.
Camps at which he was intern­ed
included ones near Devao, one
on Cebu, and Bilibid, the old
Philippine penitentiary at Man­illa
where formerly the worst
convicts were kept. Of the latter
Lieut. Greene laughed "That was
the best camp I was in, and I
don't recommend any of them".
Speaking of a prisoner's life,
the sunbronzed officer repeated
his "I was lucky" and smiled
wryly as he added "Because the
bed bugs didn't bother me."
Raid Was Second Try
The Ranger-guerilla rescue
raid came just after dark on Jan.
30. An attempt had been made
the night before, but the raiders
arrived at their destination only
to find it surrounded by a tem­porary
encampment of 3,000
Japanese soldiers.
Lieut. Greene told of the res­cue,
in these words:
"Without any warning at all
we heard first one shot followed
by heavy firing all around the
camp which lasted for three
minutes . . .there was complete
silence and then yells at the
main gate 'the Yanks have
come'."
The raid was a complete sur­prise
to the enemy and over 500
Japanese were killed within a
half mile of the camp. By time
the rescue was completed the
prisoners had to march only 25
miles to get into American-held
territory although the raiders had
come 30 miles. American lines
had advanced five miles in that
time.
The former Japanese prisoner
estimated that 121 Rangers and
286 Filipino guerillas were in the
rescue party.
A Former Sugar Broker
Lieut. Greene, formerly a sugar
broker in Manilla, joined the
Navy as an intelligence officer a
month before Pearl Harbor. After
his capture on Leyte he was
destained for transportation to
the Japanese home islands but
was detained at Manilla by ill­ness.
After the Rangers made their
spectacular raid he was among
those whose names were men­tioned
in a broadcast in a report
telling of the rescue. He was
later mentioned by AP corre­spondent
C. Yates McDaniel and
it was thus that Mrs. Greene
knew much of his welfare before
letters ever reached her.
Airline Reduces Mileage, Retains Auburn
Engineer's Library
Adds 100 Volumes
The School of Engineering at
Auburn recently acquired ap­proximately
100 volumes of re­ference
books on welding.
The library contains standards,
specifications, and codes of the
American Welding Society. In­cluded
are all phases and types
of welding, such as diving, cut­ting
and welding underneath
water, arc welding, gas welding,
and aircraft welding.
Manuals included in the set
cover welding metallurgy, elec­tronic
control for resistance weld­ing,
salvage operations and arc-welding.
Responsible members of in­dustry
are invited to use the
library on welding.
New books on any phase or
types of welding will be added
to the John J. Wilmore Engineer­ing
Library as they are published.
The library also has the monthly
issues of the leading magazines
on this subject, making available
information on the latest de­velopments
in an important in­dustrial
field.
The books are the gift of James
F. Lincoln Arc Welding Founda­tion,
and an appropriate book­plate
has been placed in each
volume.
COLLEGE FADS AND FANCIES,
CLASS OF 1850
Fads and fancies in college costumes are by
no means modern phenomena. Here is a
gay undergraduate of the Class of 1850.
Observe his flowing collar and tie, his super
expanse of Panama brim, and his studied
air of nonchalance.
This was in 1850, when America was
basking in peace. The Golden West was
opening up, and Express Service was keep­ing
pace. Today, there are few fads and fan­cies
on the college campus. They have given
place to the uniformity and efficiencies of
war time. Thousands of students are con­centrated
on the needs of the nation in arms.
Railway Express is devoting its nation­wide
services, both rail and air, primarily
to speeding war materiel. To help all con­cerned,
you can do three simple things with
your 1945 home packages and baggage:
Pack securely — address clearly and ade­quately—
avoid abbreviating state names.
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The Auburn-Opelika airport is being retained in an ammended Southern Airways application
for feeder airlines in the Southeast. A report from the airline indicates that substantially the
same number of cities will be served in an application which reduces route miles to be covered
from 7,578 to 3,073. The revision reduces the number of routes from 15 to six and the new route
will offer service to 62 cities.
The amendments have been offered the Civil Areonautics Board in conformity with economic
facts developed during recent studies by Southern Airways.
Frank W. Hulse, president of Southern Airways, which has its headquarters in Birmingham,
Ala., cited the Board's own statements of policy as the reason for the amendments which reduce
the total mileage of the routes. Explaining that the Board has indicated its willingness to grant
certain "feeder line operations on an experimental basis", Mr. Hulse observed that, in his opinion,
there is a question as to whether experimental feeder line routes would be granted for a system
as extensive as originally proposed by Southern Airways.
CAPTAIN FEASTER
REBUILDS FIELD
IN SEVEN HOURS
Reconstruction of the first
Motoyama airfield under heavy
enemy fire and the job completed
in seven hours is the record of
Captain Arthur T. Feaster III,
nephew of Mrs. Jack Tamblyn
and grandson of William McD.
Moore, of Auburn.
A dispatch from Iwo Jima this
week said that Captain Feaster
directed the work of repairing the
1500 by 100-foot strip, enough to
accommodate small artillery spot­ter
planes.
The New Orleans Marine Corps
captain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ar­thur
Feaster, Jr., led his com­pany
of engineers in a landing on
Iwo while enemy mortar and
artillery fire raked the beach, the
dispatch said.
Although the landing strip was
completed seven hours after
Captain Feaster's men began
work, the planes did not land un­til
several hours later because of
the terrific enemy fire.
Lieutenant Colonel Walter R.
Letz, Mobile, Ala., a Fifth Ma­rine
amphibious corps engineer,
said that too much credit could
not be given to Captain Feaster
and his men.
"They worked under enemy
fire and in constant danger of
land mines, but they kept going
through everything," he said
"Nothing I could say would be
too high praise for them."
Carmack Stationed
In California After
35 Mile Hike Back
Lt. Ted Carmack, Auburn, has
been assigned to the ATC Fair-field-
Suisun Army Air Base,
where he will aid in the dispatch
of Army Transport Command
high-priority cargo, personnel,
and airmail into the Pacific Thea­ter
of Operations.
A fleet of giant C-54 Skymas-ter
transport planes fly sick or
wounded military personel from
combat zones to this base in Cali­fornia
on regular air evacuation
flights and returns combat—
weary veterans to the United
States under the overseas rota­tion
plan.
A graduate of Lee County High
School, Lt. Carmack was a stu­dent
at API. He was a civil serv­ice
public relations man at Fair­field,
Calif, prior to entering the
Army in '42.
In November, '43, the plane
which he piloted over the six
hundred mile supply route to
China was downed by a Jap
Zero attacting from 10000 feet.
The crew of the gasoline-loaded
plane jumped and landed near
a village in Indo-China.
Mrs. Irene Carmack, Brewton,
his mother, received word from
the War Department on Nevem-ber
13 that he was missing and
on December 8 she was notified
that he was alive and well, after
the 35 day hike back.
On the seventeenth day of the
hike they met an American mis­sionary,
Allen B. Cook, who fed
and doctored them and turned
them in the right direction to­ward
their American air base in
China.
Through his army experiences
Lt. Carmack was awarded the
Air Medal, ETD, Asiatic-Pacific
ribbons and the Presidential Cita­tion.
DANCE TO BE HELD
AT CENTER SAT.
An orchestra dance will be held
at the USO-Student's center Sat­urday
night from 8 to 11 p. m.
The dance will be informal.
USO activities at the center are
going on with some success ac­cording
to Mrs. William Askew,
chairman. Service men are com­ing
over each week end, she
stated.
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Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945
Girls Start
Softball
Practices
The girls spring intramural of­ficial
Softball practice began
Monday and will last through
Friday. On these days each team
will be allowed two practices to
be well prepared for their com­petition.
The games will begin
the following week — Monday,
April 16. The houses and sorori­ties
which have signed up for
practice are Dorm I, Alumni Hall,
Theta Chi house, Susan Smith,
Pi Kappa Phi house, Dorm IV,
Theta Upsilon, Alpha Delta Pi,
Phi Omega Pi, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon house, Alpha Gamma
Delta, Phi Delta Theta house,
Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Phi
house, Kappa Delta, and Delta
Zeta.
Tennis
Singles matches will begin on
Monday, April 16. Those girls
who have signed up to partici­pate
in the tennis matches are
Joy C a m p , Elaine Braswell,
Mary Morgan, Lee Morrow, Kath-ryn
McMillan, Ruth Winning-ham,
Evelyn Schubert, Jean
Blair, Ann O'Lander, Barbara
Harrison, Billie Moore, Anne
Grant, Anne Cagel, Carolyn Lee,
Mary Sinclair, Essie Mae Salter,
Vip Duncan, Jeanne Blair, Bar­bara
Rutledge, Anna Breeden,
and Aylene Hurst.
Doubles competitions will be
played later in the season.
The girls' swimming meet has
•been scheduled for May 14 and
15. Further announcements will
be made about swimming later.
LOST: Black letterelte en­velope
containing 8 ration
books lost Saturday, April 7
probably in downtown Auburn.
Names on books are Hatcher
and Irving. Reward of a carton
of cigarettes and cash will be
paid for return to Mrs. J. C.
Hatcher, Route 2, Box 208B,
Auburn, or to office of Lee
County Bulletin.
COACH JEFF BEARD
CALLED UP FOR
PHYSICAL EXAM
G. W. (Jeff) Beard, business
manager of the Auburn Athletic
Association, and assistant track
coach, reports Tuesday at Fort
McClellan for his pre-induction
physical.
Jeff is 34, married and the
father of three children. He grad­uated
from Auburn in 1932 after
having starred in track and field.
He has been on the athletic staff
since 1937.
Golf Classes To Be
Taught From 5 Til 6
On Bullard Field
Classes in golf will be taught
by Julius Haggerty twice a week
from five until six o'clock in the
afternoon. One group will meet
on Mondays and Wednesdays and
another on Tuesdays and Thurs­days.
The classes will meet at
Bullard Field to start.
Four lessons will cost $1.75,
and eight for the price of $3.50.
You should furnish your own
clubs, but if impossible, it is
said that arrangements can be
made with the PE department
for borrowing equipment.
TEX" AND "SHOT ^ S ^ 5 g ^
"Tonight Every Night"
Coming To Tiger
Sunday And Monday
"Tonight and Every Nnight",
Columbia Pictures' technicolor
musical starring Rita Hayworth,
Jeanet Blair, Lee Bowman and
Marc Piatt, will be shown at the
Tiger Theatre on Sunday and
Monday.
Besides the stars, the cast in­cludes
Marc Piatt, Leslie Brooks,
Professor Lamberti, Dusty An­derson,
Stephen Crane, Jim Ban-non,
Florence Bates, Ernest Cos-sart,
Richard Haydn, Philip Meri-vale,
Patrick O'Moore and Adele
Jergens.
The score is by Jule Styne
and Sammy Cahn, the screen
play by Lesser Samuels and
Abem Finkel. It was produced
and directed by Victor Saville.
Photo by Lewis Arnold
Charging into new jobs are 'Shot' Senn, left, and Tex Warrington, right, new football coaches
at Auburn. The old members of the staff are having their fun breaking in the new help, with
Head Coach Carl Voyles, on the left, and Swede Umbach and Here Alley, on the right, getting
a free ride. Senn, working with the ends, comes from Birmingham's Woodlawn High. He's an
old Auburn end. Tex, the great All-American center of 1944, works with the linesmen.
Swimming Pool Open
From 7 Til 9 On
Tuesday, Thursday
The swimming pool in Alumi
Gymnasium will be open to
everyone from 7 until 9 p. m. on
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Miss
Anne Cannon, of the PE faculty,
and Annie Lou O'Grady, a physi­cal
education major, will be on
life-guard duty on .alternate
nights.
Service Personals
Pvt. Flash Riley, former chem­ical
engineering student and
member of PiKA, who is now
stationed at Ft. Meade, Md. visit­ed
in Auburn last week.
* * *
John Lodge, USCG, who was
at Auburn in '43 with the ASTP,
visited here last weekend. His
home is South Pittsburg, Ten­nessee.
* * *
Pvt. Pepito Elizondo, former
SPE ELECTS
AND INITIATES
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity
announces the formal pledging of
Marvin L. Blaylock, Prospect
Hill, N. C; James R. Denson,
Columbus, Ga.; Tom B. Wetmore,
Birmingham,1 Jack F. Colbert,
Columbus, Ga.; Ray T. Kitchens,
Decatur; and R. C. Ryan, Somer-ville.
New officers of the fraternity
were elected at a recent meeting
H. J. Bradley, Jr., Wesson, Ark.,
is new president; Herbert O. Ful­ler,
Jr., Columbus, Ga., vice-pres­ident;
Charles C. Thompson, Jr.,
Patterson, Ga., comptroller; Law­rence
W. Cheney Columbus, Ga.,
secretary; James Price, Hunts-ville,
historian.
student, member of Theta Chi,
the track team, and Sabers, visit­ed
his parents in Auburn last
weekend.
OC Henry Glass, also stationed
at Benning, was in town over the
weekend.
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