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Waterman Gives New War Status A complete summary of the recent Joint Statement by the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy as it affects Auburn students has been made by Colonel John J. Waterman, commandant. The summary is as follows: 1. ROTC Seniors who graduate in March or in June, will remain until graduation but not later than June 1, 1943, and will then be ordered to an Army Basic School for completion of that course and receive their commissions. 2." Juniors enlisted in ERC, who are taking approved technical courses in Engineering, will remain on present status until June 1. 1943, and then be ordered to active duty with the Army. On completion of their three months of basic training, if found qualified, they will be returned to college to pursue a course as prescribed by the Army. » * * 3: ROTC Juniors enlisted in the ERC will remain in school until the end of the Spring Quarter, May 28, 1943. At that time they will be ordered to replacement training centers in lieu of the second year advance course. After successful completion of their training, they will be sent to appropriate Officers Candidate School and upon successful completion will be commissioned in the Officers Reserve Corps. Arrangements will be made for the voluntary induction of first year advance course students who are not members of the ERC. After induction, the procedure will be the same as for those now enlisted. (This is a change from what Col. Waterman gave to the student body Dec. 18.) No further advance-course enrollment will be made in ROTC. * * * 4. Students in veterinary medicine who are enlisted in the Enlisted Reserve Corps will continue in college on their present status until June 1, 1943. On that date they will be continued in college under War Department training. Veterinary students who are commissioned in the Medical Administrative Corps may resign their commissions and accept enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps and then be on the same status as other veterinary students enlisted in the ERC. Those who do not resign will, from present instructions, continue in school under present status, that is, at their own expense. * * * 5. Pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students enlisted in the ERC will continue on their present status until June 1, 1943. Pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students not enlisted, but who are inducted prior to June 1, 1943, will be placed on inactive status and remain in college pursuing their course of education. On June 1 all pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students will be ordered to active duty with the Army for the basic training, and if found qualified at the end of this training, will be returned to college under War Department orders. 6. All other men enlisted in ERC, Sophomores and Freshmen, will be ordered to active duty at the end of the Winter Quarter for the basic training and at the conclusion of this three-month's course, if found qualified, will be returned to college to pursue a special course prescribed by the Army. * * * 7. All other students who are not in any of the reserve components will be inducted into the Army under the Selective regulations, and after completion of three months basic training, if found qualified, will be returned to college to pursue a course as prescribed by thf 4&a& D..-par.jnemr- Navy Program All Navy V-l, V-5, V-7, provisional ensigns and men. enlisted in Marine Corps Reserve will remain in their present status until a date to be announced later by the Navy, at which time they will be ordered to active duty, issued uniforms, etc., remain in college and pursue courses as prescribed by the Navy Department. The Navy Program contemplates men will receive from three to four scholastic years before being ordered to regular duty with the Navy. ROTC Appointments, Assignments Given Appointments of non-commissioned and commissioned cadet officers in the ROTC unit at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute were announced this week by the military department here with the approval of Dr. L. N. Duncan, president. The appointments are as follows: 1st Engineers J. D. Mitchell, Cullman, cadet 2nd Lt, Company "A"; T. M. Hoover, Marion, cadet 1st Lt., Company "C"; G. M. Cook, Elmore, cadet 1st Lt., Company "H"; W. R. Clinton, Mobile, Cadet 2nd Lt., Company "H"; George H. Gould, Mobile, cadet 1st Lt. Company "L"; P. W. Williams, LaGrange, Ga., cadet 2nd Lt., Company "I". 1st Field Artillery regiment To be cadet sergeants—L. F. Adams, Fairfax, Battery "B"; F. H. Hearn, Ward, Battery "D"; H. C. Riddle, Birmingham, Battery "D"; J. M. McCraney, Clayton, Battery "E"; H. T. Mills, Birmingham, Battery "H". 2nd Field Artillery Regiment To be cadet sergeants—R. L. Killebrew, Abbeville, Battery "C"; J. S.. Bentley, Birmingham, Battery "G"; J. E. Oates, Vernon, Battery "H"; J. F. Sandlin, Cordova, Battery "I". 1st Engineers To be cadet sergeants—D. E. Smith, Manchester, Conn., Company "D"; H. C. Mickleboro, Marion, Company "E"; W. L. Daw-kins, Pensacola, Fla., Company "F". The following assignments in the Cadet Corps are announced: Field Artillery Cadet Capt. A. G. Green, Atlanta, Ga., from Drill Platoon to Brigade Staff, S-2 from Ass't S-3; Cadet Capt. J. H. Maddox, Andalusia, from 4th Regiment to Brigade Staff, S-4 and Ass't S-l. 1st Engineers Cadet Lt. Col. R. E. Colvin, Birmingham, executive; Cadet Major J. G. Johnson, Mobile, from Drill Platoon to 1st Battalion, Executive and S-l.; Cadet Lt. Col. W. H. Weaver, Birmingham, 3d Bn. Executive and S-l; Cadet Capt. J. W. Coleman, Tuscaloosa, 3d Bn., S-l; and Cadet Capt. E. W. Morris, Montgomery, 3d Bn., Company "I". MWM TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT' VOLUME LXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1943 NUMBER 51 Honor Societies Ball To Be Held Friday Night at Gym Glee Club To Begin Practice for Spring Concert Thursday Rehearsal for the spring concert will begin Thursday night at 7:15 in the studio over Toom-er's. All old members and those new members who wish to become a part of the organization are urged to attend. Last spring the Choral Club made an extensive tour of the state, appearing in most of the major cities. Plans are being made for a similar tour this year. No try-outs will be required until a later date when the men and women have become thoroughly acquainted with the music. Those who like to sing will find the rehearsals, as well as the concerts, very enjoyable. Very light classical music, folk songs, spirituals, and popular music comprise 'the whole of the programs. Spiked Shoe to Meet The Auburn Collegiate Chapter of Spiked Shoe will hold its first meeting of the new year in the New Field House after track practice on Wednesday. J. A. Robinson, president of the society, urges all members to be present to discuss plans for the annual dance. Students Will Be Allowed To Finish Quarter The attention of Auburn students is called to the following two official interpretations released recently regarding the Army Specialized Training Program. Date of Call According to a bulletin received this week from the War Department preparations were completed by the Department on January 1, 1943, to call to active duty enlisted reserve corps students covered by Section g(7) of the Army plan. After January 1, these students will begin to receive orders to report for active duty at designated times and places. No orders will be given to report on a date prior to two weeks after the completion of the student's first academic quarter, t e r m , or semester termination after December 31, 1942. By this interpretation, a member of the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps enrolled at Auburn is assured of completing the Winter Quarter before being called. Air Corps Reserve The Army Specialized Training Program does not include the Air Corps Reserve. A student who is a member of the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve will be called to active duty at thedis* cretion of the Air Corps and at such time as he can be immediately assigned to training. Occupational Deferment On December 18, the War Manpower Commission approved occupational deferment through Selective Service of students not in the Army or Navy Reserve Corps and faculty. Students who will be deferred until the end of the Spring quarter include: (1) All medical students (including hospital internes, and residents), dental students, and veterinary students enrolled in approved institutions and subject to Selective Service; and all pre-veterinary students who have completed one year of study in approved institutions. (2) All graduate students enrolled in approved engineering curricula, and all undergraduate students who have completed one year of study in approved engU neering curicula. (3) All undergraduate and graduate students in approved colleges and universities who are specializing in chemistry, physics, or bacteriology and are within two years of the completion of the specialized curricula. (4) All full-time instructors and part-time instructors also devoting the balance of their time to study in any of the curricula above shall be deferred until July 1, 1943, or until otherwise directed by the War Manpower Commission. Advice from McNutt In announcing the above plans for deferment, Chairman McNutt urged all male university and college students to remain in school until called for active military service. He stated that students, including those in the 18-19-year-old group, should not hesitate to enroll to begin their college training at the .present time. "The War Manpower Commission is planning ahead so that there may be adequate reserves for leadership in professional and technical fields to avoid serious shortages," he said. The colorful Honor Societies Ball will be held Friday night at eight o'clock in the Girl's Gym on the Opelika Road. Blue Key is the sponsor of the ball and most of the honor societies on the campus will participate. The leadout will feature the presidents of the various societies and their dates, with the Auburn Knights furnishing the music. Ribbons will be given to the members of the different societies as their names are checked off at the door, and each ribbon will show the insignia of the society of the wearer. Because of the limited space for dancing, bids could not be issued to non-members. The honor societies participating are: Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Blue Key, Sphinx, Cardinal Key, Eta Kappa Nu, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Psi, Gamma Sigma Delta. Scabbard and Blade, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Briaerean Society, Alpha Zeta, Pi Tau Sigma, Squires, Phi Lambda Up-silon, Scarab. Kappa Delta Pi, Tau Kappa Alpha, Rho Chi, Chi Epsilon, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and the Art Guild. Cashier Joins WAVES Miss Frances Tippins, acting cashier for the college, will leave for duty with the WAVES on or around Jan. 15. Miss Tippins has been serving in the capacity of cashier since the resignation of Miss Mary Hooper on November 30. Alumni Gym Is Secured For Military Ball Alumni Gymnasium has been secured for the annual Military Ball which is to be held this Saturday, January 9, from nine until twelve. This announcement was made today by Cadet Brigade Colonel Harold J. Knight, who is in charge of all arrangements for the dance. Senior ROTC officers, who are sponsoring the ball, decided today that because of war conditions favors would not be secured. The Auburn Knights are to furnish music for the occasion. The staff of the Military Department and their wives will chaperone the dance. Members of the junior class enrolled in the advanced ROTC course have toeen invited to attend, but will not be allowed to ask dates. A list of the seniors' dates will be given in Friday's issue of The Auburn Plainsman. Decorations for the Military Ball will be red, white, and blue. These will carry out the theme of a nation at war. Leading the grand march will be Cadet Colonel Knight and his date. Following him will be the other senior officers, in order of their rank, with their dates. Sabers will be used during the grand march. Players To Present "Petticoat Fever" In Early February Eight performances of Mark Reed's "Petticoat Fever" will be given by the Auburn Players beginning on February 8, according to announcement of Director Telfair B. Peet. Leading parts in the play will be taken by Tommy Allison, Hen-dersonville, N. C; and Pat McCoy, Lafayette. Other members of the cast are M a d g e Jarrard, Montgomery; Robert Blackburn, Jacksonville, Fla.; Eliah Perlman, Pensacola, Fla.; Milton Strain, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Willis Dickey, Calhoun. The play will be presented Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the Y-Hut during the weeks of February 8 and February 15. ualifications Board to Meet Members of the Qualifications Board will meet Thursday night, January 7, at 7:30 P. M. in Dr. Duncan's office at Samford Hall. This was announced today by Jimmie Lee Butt, president of the student body. The board is meeting this week in preparation for general campus elections which are scheduled to be held during January. All prospective candidates are hereby notified that they must be present at this meeting for interview purposes. Information concerning elections for publications posts will be given in Fridc^/'s issue of The Auburn Plainsman. '*"-*-. Gatchell Club Sponsors Christmas Benefit Party Members of the Dana King Gatchell Home Economics Club at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute sponsored a Christmas party this week for the benefit of wounded American soldiers now stationed at a hospital in Texas. Over 65 individual gifts were brought to the party and wrapped by the co-eds. The gifts included books, candy, magazines, cigarettes, games, ashtrays, pencils, cards and stationery. The home economics tea room staff contributed a box of cookies. All presents were mailed in a huge box to the hospital for distribution on Christmas' morning. Salter Passes Through Lt. Elmer Salter, now on leave of absence from Auburn where he formerly served as director of sports publicity and freshman basketball coach for the college, passed through here yesterday headed for some military destination. Low of 24 Degrees Recorded Here Today The coldest morning of the new year and the coldest day since Dec. 17 caught many Auburn motorists without anti-freeze fluid in their automobiles today. The temperature dropped from a high of 62 last Sunday to a low of 24 at 7:30 this morning. Two of the local taxis were frozen as well as one automobile, one of the Auburn garages reported. There was a rush for antifreeze at all of the gas stations during the morning. Cornelia Otis Skinner Here Next Wednesday Famed Monologue Artist Will Appear at Alumni As Fourth Attraction of Auburn Concert Series Cornelia Otis Skinner, monologue artist, will appear here next Wednesday evening, J a n u a r y 13, at 8:15 P. M. in Alumni gymnasium. She will have with her a dozen, a score, a hundr e d imaginary people, and she will make these people seem as real as if they stood beside her. Miss Skinner is within herself a complete theater, a whole, tragic, if not heroic, theater. She does this by the skill of both her playing and her writing. Her material is adroitly ordered, swift in its exposition, and as unerring as it is pointed in its revelation of character. If ranges from buoyant comedy and uproarious farce to tragedy that is succinct and moving. Marked for Stage The title, "the greatest single attraction of the American theater", has long been worn by Miss Skinner. From her infancy her father, Otis Skinner, cherished a belief that his daughter was marked for the theater when a stagehand, holding her in his arms, brushed her against a piece of scenery. Both parents, famous actors themselves, took that impromptu backstage rite as a sign of things to come. From her earliest days, Miss Skinner moved stageward and lived in a world of her own imaginings. At Baldwin School and later at Bryn Mawr College, her school-mates drafted her for their productions and on one occasion she played Macbeth to Ann Harding's Macduff. Debut with Father Miss Sk4nner made her debut under her father's wing when she played Dona Saraste in Ibanez's "Blood and Sand," which Mr. Skinner presented for the first time on any stage in Buffalo in August, 1921. The next four years brought increasingly important roles in a number of plays, including "Will Shakespeare," w i t h Katherine Cornell; "Tweedles," "In the Next Room," "The Wild Westcotts," "In His Arms," and "White Collars." Yet, these parts were not what This Could Happen Here Fire in Gym Kills Eight And Injures Thirty-eight Students Fire Started From Discarded Cigarette By DAVID ALLEN Ed. note: This is purely a hypothetical case, yet it is entirely possible so long as the habits of the Auburn students remain unchanged. Seven girls and one boy died, and 38 other persons were injured in the flaming inferno that was Girls Gym until last- Saturday night. Starting at 10:39, during the leadout of the Eata Beta Pi society, the flames swept through the closely packed crowd and turned the occasion into a madhouse of burning bodies and fear-crazed dancers. After a thorough investigation by the Fire Department and college authorities, the cause of the blaze was given as that of a lighted cigarette which never reached the floor. Those Dead Were Students All of those listed as dead were students of API, while several of those i n j u r e d were visitors brought to Auburn as dates of the various members of the society. The infirmary, already practically filled with cases of influenza, was unable to hold all those receiving burns. Those having burns of less seriousness were placed in several fraternity houses which were offered to the authorities. The fire started when the half-smoked cigarette of an unknown person failed to reach the floor where it most likely would have been put out. Instead, as related by bystanders, it fell into the folds of the dress of one of the now dead girls, setting fire to it immediately. As the burning person ran toward some coats,' presumably to put out the fire, the flames spread to the flimsy dresses of all the girls who came into contact with the victim. Panic Spread Rapidly As is usual in these cases, panic spread across the floor and there was a mad rush for the one exit to the upstairs gym. This was crowded beyond its limit, and the flames spread among the crowd trying to leave the building. Most of the occpuants were clear of the building before the fire department arrived, but it aided the remaining few and gave first aid to the burned persons while still fighting the now wholly burning building. A. R. Runners, fire chief, in a statement issued Sunday morning, stated: "The cause of the blaze was a lighted cigarette thrown to the floor. This condition on the dance floor at Auburn has been warned against before, and now the evidence of its danger is very real. "The extent of property damage amounts to over $50,000," The amount covered by insurance was not known as yet. the young artist wanted. Her childhood experience in "going it alone" came back to her and with the experience the professional stage had given her, she wrote and performed the first of her original character sketches—first for her friends and then professionally. Records Her Impressions Later she developed the idea of recording the impressions of contemporaneous life which she discovered. The result was a series of sketches, humorous, pathetic, tender and satirical, which her photographic eye had caught. The original character sketches were vigorously acclaimed and tours were laid out which carried her back and forth across the United States, to Canada, and as far away as London. API Grad Commissioned Miss Juanita Johnston, who graduated from API in 1940 with a B. S. degree, receives her commission in the WAACs on Jan. 9 after completion of required work at Officers' Candidate School. War Eagle Cries At the beginning of the last world War, I remember very well the attitude the students look about the draft and their own status in it. There is not much difference now and then. Students were as undecided then as they are now about whether to stay in school or go ahead and get in the army or the navy. Last Homecoming I saw lots of the old grads who had come back to this lovely village on the plains for one last look before another war forced the government to take over. I talked with lots of them but right now I want to mention only two of them. One of them took the advice of the government and stayed in college until he was called. The desire was on him just as much as on all the others to join up and fight, but he put a little thought on the subject and decided they knew better what he should do than he did himself. He stayed here at Auburn and got all he could out of his college course. After the war he lacked very little in his education and was able to fit right in on a good job with a good future with plenty of advancements. The other alumnus was a little more headstrong than the first. He had to get over right away and "do his bit" to help win the war. He joined up after the first announcement had been made and because of his half year of college was sent to an officer candidate school, but could not make the grade on the highly technical subjects. After the war his lack of this special knowledge pushed him further back until he had to be satisfied with a job at a set salary and with little chance of advancement. A word to the wise is suffi-cenl. Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 5, 1943 m JDaxf "I used to be afraid the Government would requisition my car. Now I'm afraid they' won't' Drayrn for O. W. I. Men Under Army Discipline Someone Needed to Organize Blood Banks Blues in Berlin The American public is at the present as unselfish as at any time since we can remember in our own short span of life. Everywhere there is evidence of them gradually meeting all the demands of an efficient war machine by rationing, scrap drives and enlistments in one of the many armed forces of the nation. Perhaps the latest and the most humane thing that the American people have so far seen to do is to donate their blood for what is now called Blood Banks. By this method civilians may donate as much of their blood as they wish or as is wise and it is taken to wherever the armed forces are doing their fighting and used to restore the life of many of the men fighting for our freedom. This is one of the smallest contributions that anyone can make toward the war effort, and at the same time it is one that will do untold good. There will be no heroes or winners in donating the b lNo o d. But, American citizens are still willing to sacrifice something whjch they have plenty of and something which those boys "over there" might be caught short of. Auburn students have thus far not had any organized effort to donate their blood to the Blood Banks. Some organization looking for a worthy project for the year might take this into hand and organize a method of collection and distribution. The college officials at the Infirmary will be willing to help and so would the students and the faculty when the time came for donating the blood. The effort will not be wasted. Further Curtailment of Sports Likely The Editor's Desk . . . Dawn broke with a very disagreeable sound yesterday morning to roust out most of the students from their peaceful and for the majority, uneventful holiday period. Sleeping to ten, eleven, or twelve o'clock each day almost made some of them forget that it was still dark at seven o'clock. Waking up at the accustomed hour, made some of us think that it was the middle of the night, with the moon shining and all the other characteristics. Despite the rest that most college students tookover the holidays, things really happened in the nation and on the battle fronts of the world. So Far Just Another Rumor On the local front the latest unconfirmed as this is written, news concerning the status of college students in the present set-up of the war department, is that Juniors in advance ROTC will be allowed to remain in college until June, 1943. As yet this news is not authentic and we would not make any definite statements about it. At the present time the board in charge of selecting the colleges and universities to take the students from the army and navy for training is meeting and their decisions are expected soon. Let's Let the Board Decide A good example of rumorering was offered in the last bit of news. As the board is meeting several students have -.ready decided that Auburn is to be one of those selected and that their Alma Mater will get more than any other school in this section. It is swell t o A jw this much faith in your school, but sometimes this, same -trust aBd commence can act as a boomerang to the college and the students. There is no indication that any college will be chosen for this special type of college work. The board has released no definite choices and has remained quiet, as they should do until they are ready to speak. Until.they do say something, pro or con, no student should take it upon himself to tell others that his school is going to get this or that or when. So far no one knows and other students would do well to use their own judgment instead of listening to a miniature fifth columnist. Large Scale Conversion of Colleges From New York we find that Lt. Col. Harley B. West in speaking before the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools gave them a plan for the large scale conversion of American colleges and universities into training bases for the armed forces. Col. West said that no college or university will be taken over for this purpose, but that the training of the young men in the armed forces will be purely voluntary and there will be no requisitioning. Approximately 250,000 service men will be sent to school under this plan. Emphasis will be on the scientific and technical courses and military training will be subordinated to the academic work. School selected will be those in a position to house and feed the men and who can furnish the correct type of instruction that is required. The postseason football contests are things of the past now. Because of the war, the outcomes of these games have been forgotten even more quickly than in former years. This coincides, of course, with the situation in other phases of our national sports activity. It is only natural that the popular recreational pastimes developed with typical American intensiveness during the past half century should find the overshadowing influence of our present war effort almost too great a force with which to reckon. However, despite a slightly synthetic ring to it all, "the sports show has gone on" under government blessing during the past year. The ranks of the participating athletes have thinned perceptibly, though, in recent months. Voluntary enlistment and compulsory induction have wrecked the hopes of many a coach already. Probably the majority of the players now serving the nation in an active capacity have unselfishly left their respective field of sports as voluntary contributors to the war effor-ti-i** —«.$£at is the probable outlook "Tor amateur and professional athletics during the present year? First of all, the future of the amateur game seems bleak, to say the least. If and when most of the present crop of college men are inducted into active service it is hard to feature college sports play in even drastically curtailed form. It seems that in its present status it will almost definitely be out for the duration unless unforeseen events present themselves in the near future. A little bit brighter picture may be painted in the professional sports field. Although continued heavy inroads must be expected here, there should still be many older—but still capable—players available during 1943. Some of these are being deferred because of dependents. Then too, many are now above the draft age. The President has definitely placed his stamp of approval on continued professional sports as a valuable morale building force for the entire country. Doubtless, though, curtailment of facilities will be necessary during the coming months. Collegiate football for the past school is at an end. The curtain is now rising on the beginning of an uncertain basketball season. Spring training for professional ballplayers^looms ahead. But, all things considered, it seems that the amateur and professional game can regain full strength only after the termination of the present struggle. B.T. Father Gives Advice to Son in Letter Some sound advice from a father, who previously attended Auburn, to his son, who is now in college here, is contained in the following letter: "Since talking to you I have talked with Dr. Rauber about your grade in economics. You should see him at once and make every effort to get this work off now. There is not very much that I can do except sit on the sidelines and wait. As you know, the fellow who pays the bills does not always have the most fun. "It has not been my privilege to meet Dr. Rauber except over the 'phone, but I have had the pleasure of reading one of his very interesting articles, "Let's Be Narrow-Minded." "Son, I had the pleasure of being under Dr. Judd. He sat on me and turned me every way but loose. Yet, when I got through he was the most helpful person I could find to assist me in getting a job. "I realize that you and many of the other boys are not able to settle down to what we might call normalcy. I was in the same plight in 1917 except that I was a man and on my own. I do not place blame on you for this. Too, I realize that it is hard to do the best study under these conditions. However, it must be done if you are going tp climb. It really takes "blood, sweat, and tears." "You are clean in speech, physically fit, have a deep conviction as to right and wrong, and enough native intelligence to do better than your father. Go to it, and I shall bear with you." The men selected will be under army discipline and will receive regular army pay while in training. Selection will be based on the aptitude displayed by the men in the armed forces and their ability to receive such higher education. In Africa the trend of the times is almost the same, with Rommel, Hitler's pet still in full retreat. Reports last night stated that it was thought that the head of the Africa Korps was about to make a last stand. The shock will almost kill the pursuing British and American soldiers, who have been used to seeing Rommel crawl since early last November, and him standing might turn out to be the surprise of the year, if he can stand up long enough. Russia's reports got so good that military observers began to wonder if they were really as good as they said they were. Russia says this, Germany says the opposite, and no one is there to confirm either of them, except Germans or Russians. From out in Texas comes this bit of news that might help those who are continually trying to outdo one another in whose ancestors were here first. Dr. C. J. Heese, from A & M's museum, wth Dr. F. E. Turner of the same school and Dr. H. B. Stenzel of the University of Texas, discovered fossil remains that take us back to the Miocene period of about 12,000,000 years ago. Might be of some relationship to some of you. Better check into it. Babies for Christmas To close out with a final note of local interest. Many babies were born over the holidays, not including a New Year's baby. Three of the most prominent were those of Mr. Kirtley Brown who now has a son by the name of Kirtley Ward Brown; the new member of Captain Edwin Ruth's family, whose masculine name we were unable to find out; and Mr. Charles Edwards' addition in the form of a baby boy. Lieutenant and Mrs. Miller announced the birth of a daughter, Virginia Carroll, on December 24. Some Christmas presents! d!u&AW%iUil MOW w Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue. GEORGE HEARD, Editor-in-Chief HAM WILSON, Business Manager BUCK TAYLOR Managing Editor ALBERT LOEB Associate Editor JOHNNIE HOVEY News Editor JACK BERRY Advertising Manager News and Feature Staff John Bruce Martin Shirley Smith Robert Sharman Alvin Steinberg Allen Odom Bill Broughton Sports Staff Jimmie Davis John H. Thomas Charles Scales Billy Hill Circulation Staff O. D. ALSOBROOK, Manager Editorial and Society Staff J. M. Silverstein Jeanne Townsend Leonard Hooper Mavis Widney Business Staff Homer Reid Luther Taylor Frank Wyatt John Spencer Knud Nielson Fred Allison C. W. Hearn . Malcolm Davenport Staff Photographers* Fondren Molton Bill Stump Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mall: $2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester. Member Associated Golle&iate Press Distributor of Cblle6tateDi6est • i n U I H T n FOR NATIONAL ADVIHTIBINd mf National Advertising Service, Inc. Collet* Publishers Representative 4 2 0 MADISON A V K . NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICASO • aoiTon • Lot AKCCIII - s«» FBAHCIJCO (Ed. note: tune to "Blues in the Night.") My.fuehrer done toT me, When I was in Munich, My fuehrer done tol' me, Hans—. A Russian will fall back, and give You the east front, But when the winter snows come, A Russian's a two-face, A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing The blues in Berlin. See the bombs a-fallin' Hear the blitzes callin' Goering! Oh, where is the luftwaffe? We ain't got no booties, All we got is cooties. Goebbels! Oh, typhus and black plague. Die wehrmacht! Die wehrmacht! A clickity-clack, and soon we'll be back. With the blues in Berlin. From Smolensk to Mozhaisk, From Kiev to Lubin, Wherever the panzers go. I've taken some big towns, And made me some big talk, But there is one thing I know, A Russian's a two-face, A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing The blues in Berlin. —By students at Chicago Teachers College Tiger Spirit By EARL CLEGHORN 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. Wal, another year has rolled around, and here we are back in the same old rut. Last year ended with a bang for almost every one. This year will end with a public hanging of the Axis leaders, I hope. * * * I guess we all made new year's resolutions—and I guess we have all broken them by now. I made only one, and that was to ride the public conveyances when I left Auburn on- week ends. It-seems as if there is not much success in hitchhiking these days. I broke this resolution after riding the bus to Auburn this week end. The bus driver sure made me feel low. They loaded the service men on first (P think they should), then the ladies, the elderly people (not students), war workers came next, followed by children, then professional class, and last the traveling salesmen. After all of the above had filled the bus to overflowing, the driver said: "have all the passengers been taken care of? Well, you kids from the colleges hop on!" * * * I am not complaining; it's good to get back to the loveliest village of the plain—the' home of the Tiger, the team that beat Georgia. Georgia beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Where does that leave Auburn? The top team in the country, of course. * * * Speaking of new year's resolutions, Shicklegruber, the head hyena of the Axis mongrel pack isn't making any. The last reports say he goes around singing two songs. They are "If I Had Listened to What Mama Said" and "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More!" * * * The resolution made by II Duce (the duce) of the boot country was very touching to the heart of all native Italians and even to a few of the German-born Italians. Musty-linni has promised to leave out the meat balls from his spaghetti. This is a great sacrifice for him to make, as he is already full of the spaghetti. * * * Emperor Hirohito, the chief knife-in-the-back-stabber of the land of the sinking scum, made a new year's resolution. He said or hissed, that if the other members of the Axis parties would give him more cooperation in his great victory he would divide part of Russia with them. Germany now has more of Russia than she wants. Why, to show her open heart she is giving part of it back to Russia. The nasty soldiers of the master race have been advancing to the rear every since the Russians played their theme song — "White Christmas." The white Christmas turned into a Red new year for the boys with goose step and bat brain. * * * The Blue and Gray game was a hswiixig rsuecssSeZ The S o u th howled in glee and the North howled in sorrow. Monk Gafford was a leading star in that game. The spectators were so enthusiastic over his outstanding brand of football that they would yell for Gafford. Monk was not in the starting line-up, but he was on the first team. All, twenty-two players on the team were first string men. The people in the stands stood up and yelled "We want Gafford" and they got him. The boy showed the football fans he could catch them as well as toss them. The "Fort Deposit flash" caught a long one and galloped over the goal before the eyes of around three thousand unhappy Yankees from the flying fields in Montgomery. * * * The crowd went away from the game chanting that old spine-tingling song, "Touchdown, Auburn." The announcer seemed to have a little trouble in describing the game. Once or twice he said Auburn's ball or Auburn will receive. This is two years in a row that the North and South game has been a great victory for the South as well as Auburn. * * * — The new year's day games turned out to be very bad for the hot air teams. The past football season had its share of teams that were listed in the top places in their conferences. These teams sure went down in a hurry when they went up against some real opposition as dished out by the southern teams. * * * A toast should be given to the teams that represented the Southeastern conference. Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee were the three teams that humbled the proud greats of the west, east, and north. THREE BLIND MEN (BUND TO AMERICA'S WILL TO WIN) OPEN THEIR EYES BY INVESTING YOUR CHANGE IN WAR STAMPS * :— * January 5, 1943 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three Seventy Students On Winter Dean's List Dean's List Composed of Regular Students Who Rank in Upper Five Per Cent of Class Seventy students at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute have been placed on the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter in the Schools of Agriculture, Architecture and Allied Arts, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Pharmacy, Science and Literature, and Veterinary Medicine. The Dean's List consists of those full-time juniors, seniors, and fifth-year students in each school who rank scholastically in the upper five per cent of the enrollment above the sophomore year in that school. Cooperative students in the School of Engineering who rank in the upper two per cent of those enrolled may also be placed on the list. Those on the Dean's List in the school of Agriculture are: Perry A. Dunn, Deatsville; Joseph Henry Yeager, Cullman; Jack T. Cornelius, Jasper; Vachel Lee Keeble, Roanoke; John Eugene Wood, Cobb, Ga.; Joseph L. Dean, Opelika, Raymond Livingston, Goodwater. In the school of Architecture and Allied Arts, Minnie Reid Anderson, Greenville, S. C; and J. EYES RIGHT! FOR VICTORY GLASSES FITTED CORRECTLY by DR. STARLING JOHNSON With MOORE'S JEWELRY CO, "The Hom«; °J J*eH*£is Jewelry" Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware And China OPELIKA PHONE 120 Dorrance K i s e r, Gardendale, made the list. In the school of Chemistry those on the Dean's List are: Jane Foster, Lanett; John B. Martin, Auburn; Elias C. Mitchell, Sheffield; Mearlin Lee Sims, Birmingham, and Herbert A. Warren, Birmingham. The eleven students in the school of Education on the Dean's List are: Leta Brackin, Headland; Theo Coleman, Millport; Benjamin Dickey, Calhoun; Attie Fleming, Bear Creek; Laura Harris, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Estelle Haynes, Auburn; E. Charles Holt, Brilliant; Madge Jarrard, Montgomery; Lucretia Perry, Auburn; Irma Phillips, Wadley; and Kath-erine Smith, Montgomery. Those in the school of Engineering on the Dean's List are: Frank Bridgers, Birmingham; Henry Dickinson, Auburn; Albert L. Gaines, Birmingham; Cul-len F. Harris, Montgomery; Richard Houston, Anniston; Sanford M. Morton, Anniston; Edwin C. Rodgers, Bay Minette; Perry Alexander S e a y, Brundidge; Willis Walton Stone, Lineville; Albert. W. Ervine, Tallahassee, Fla.; Leslie Cobb, Texarkana, Ark.; Robert C. Haraway, Florence; Victor Carl Hicks, Eutaw; John Broodus Holt, Jr., Jackson, Miss.; Edward W. Lindsay, Boyce, Va.; Thomas. W. Morgan, Floma-ton; Henry Floyd Pruett, Wallace and Roy E. Wilson, Birmingham. Those co-operative engineering students on the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter (to be effective December, 1942, to March, 194.3} lor work done frorli June to '.September are: Robert: Colvin, jBirmingham; George H. Gould. T-ato'duis; Tw'ger JTolrries, Attalla; Edward W. Morris, Montgomery; | and Charles D. Brown, Selma. Other co-operative students on the Dean's List to be effective March, 1943, to June, 1943, for work done during the Fall Quar- Part of the rhythm of action the pause that refreshes It's the refreshing thing to do 1 Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 BY POPULAR VOTE—"WAAC OF THE WEEK •a M-39-4 Fort McClellan, Ala.—Sarah Peck Weaver, of Decatur, Alabama, is WAAC-of-the-Week here this week because she is as American as an old penny. Her only brother is a technical sergeant in the AEF in Ireland, her father is a farmer, her mother, a school teacher and Sarah herself is in war work in Sylacauga. At Montevallo's Alabama College, she majored in Home Economics, was outstanding orator touring thirty-six states with the debating team and was highly regarded on the campus. Her hobby is cooking and show us- a soldier who wouldn't lobby for such a hobby. Miss Weaver was inducted into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps here recently and is winding up her affairs to leave for training soon. —(U. S. Signal Corps Photo) ter are: William N. Campbell, Dadeville; Millner H. Eskew, Uniontown; John S. Hamilton, Jr., Birmingham. In the school of Pharmacy. R. J. Plant, Tallassee, made the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter. In the school of Science and Literature the following made the Dean's List: Fred Allison, Jr., Auburn; Ben Ash, Birmingham, John Dixon Bridgers, Birmingham; A. Z. Carter, Jr., Auburn; William Myack Goode, Auburn; Louis H. Jordan, Owassa; Harold C. Stanfield, Fairfax; William Buck Taylor, Mobile; Clarence E. Weldon, Wetumpka; Neil Glenn Wilcoxan, Florence. Those in the school of Veterinary Medicine on the Dean's List are: John Thad Riddle, Piedmont, S. C; Nolen D. Connor, Auburn; George .D. Coffee, Decatur, Ga.; Charles L. Nowlin, Pensacola, Fla.; Christopher C. Harman, Fiord, Va.; Joe L. Sledge, Greensboro; and William M: Burriss, Anderson, S. C. Ball, Bjurberg Are Married Over Holidays Auburn's holidays were highlighted with the weddings of two of its male students, John Ball and Dick Bjurberg, with two Auburn women. John Ball was married to Miss Ellen Williams of Opelika, who is a sophomore and a member of the Kappa Delta sorority here. Their wedding was solemnized by Dr. J. L. Steel of the First Baptist church in Opelika on Sunday, December 26. Bridesmaids of Miss Williams were her two sisters, Misses Eloise and Barbara Williams. The groom chose John Bruce Martin of Auburn as his best man, and Rene Bidez and Bryon Bruce as his two ushers. Mr. Bjurberg was married to Miss Kathryn Blake on Sunday, December 20, by Dr. Sam B. Hay at the Presbyterian church in Auburn. Miss • Blake graduated from Auburn last June in home economics and is now in Talladega with the Government Nursery school. Miss Frances Hay was her maid or honor while Misses Jean Beas-ley and Mary Florence Roberts were the bridesmaids. The bride's brother, Lynn Blake, Jr., served as best man in the wedding. The ushers were Carl Hicks, Will Crawford, L. Z. Thrasher and Clark Hudson. Patronise Our Advertisersl HOSPITAL INSURANCE MILLARD MOORE INS. AGENCY Next to Toomer's Drug Store PHONE 66 AUBURN, ALA. TUESDAY LIONEL BARRYMORE in 'CALLING DR. GILLESPIE' With Philip Dorn Donna Reed WED. AND THUR. THE ROMANTIC MUSICAL THAT'LL WRAP ITSELF AROUND YOUR HEART' BETTY GRABLE JOHN P A Y N E CARMEN MIRANDA HARRY JAMES MB HIS MUSIC MAKERS CESAR ROMERO SPRINGTIME1 mtheR0CKIES wild ChirtoHi Vm«i Evuatt GREENWOOD • HORTON FRIDAY TYRONE POWER GENE TIERNEY in 'SON OF FURY' Is Everybody's Favorite Delicious, nutritious—Ice Cream is a good combination of taste enjoyment and good nutrition. You and your family should eat some every day—between meals, with meals and before going to bed. Ice Cream helps to keep you active. It is more than a delicious refreshment—it is an important source of Vitamin A, calcium and milk proteins. Insist upon Froz-Rite Ice Cream—it provides real nourishment at moderate cost. FROZ-RITE OPELIKA • Whether for your sweetheart, a member of the family, or a good friend, the affection and thought* fulness expressed by the lending of • Valentine card means more than a thousand ordinary words. In our wide selection of lovely, up-to-the-minute designs, you will find just the sentiment td suit each person on your Valentine card list.' BURTON'S BOOK STORE If your Valentine is in a Foreign Port, it's time to page him now. Got Writer1 Cramp? ? OR ARE YOU JUST TOO BUSY TO WRITE? WHICHEVERTHECASE A\AY BE, HERE'S THE SOLUTION Send The Auburn Plainsman V r t i . It Costs Littb- But Means Much To Those On Land In the Air And 5 8* I 1 • On the Sea $|.oo TIL MARCH The Auburn Plainsman Phone 448 Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 5, 1943 Auburn's Gafford Sparks Gray Team Trainer Hutsell Also Helps the Winners By EARL CLEGHORN Auburn was one of the few colleges that did not play in a bowl, yet the tiger town college received as much New Year's football publicity as the teams that made the bowl trips. This was due to the annual North-South football battle in Montgomery. Auburn was represented by its stellar halfback, Monk Gafford, on the gridiron and by Coach Wilbur Hutsell in the training room. The largest crowd to attend an athletic event in the history of Montgomery sat under a summer sun to watch the South roll over the outclassed Yanks to the tune of 24 to 0. The 16,000 people who paid to see this all-star game' were home town folks to a large extent. Crowd Calls for Monk The biggest thrill of the game came after the Gray coaching staff sent Monk Gafford into the game to satisfy the fans who had been yelling, "We want Gafford." Monk set the stage for the victory march when he quick-kicked to the North's seven yard line. The punt was good for 56 yards and a surprise to the Blue team. • Gafford fooled the football fans again by showing them he could catch passes as well as throw them. Late in the third quarter he caught one for 23 yards and galloped over the goal line for six points. Monk had to snatch this pass between the huge Blue backs and wriggle by them before he outran the rest of the team. Gafford Stars Gafford caught five passes for a net gain of 79 yards, ran back four punts for a total of 77 yards, carried the ball from the scrimmage line three times for a gain of eight yards, and blocked and tackled with the skill of a quarterback. The end of the game found Monk kicking the ball out of bounds on the Blue seven yard line. There was much space given to the game in the leading papers, and the chief topic of interest in the write-ups was the performance of Monk Gafford. The game was covered by the Associated Press and the United Press, and their reports on the game helped to push thg^ri^iiicams off the _,_§p3rt "pages. Sports Writers Comment Zipp Newman, sports editor of the Birmingham News-Age Herald, started his story with these words: "Monk Gafford leads Rebels to glorious victory. Monk Gaf- THIS WEEK The Auburn Grille ANNOUNCES THAT TOM BULLINGTON has been selected to receive a Free Dinner for his outstanding service to Auburn during the last three years. • Each week the Auburn Grille will select an outstanding student to receive this award. 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. Betty Grable Swinging It There are two things Betty Grable would rather do above all else—dance and dance some more. The curvaceous star of 20th Century- Fox's new Technicolor musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," which opens Wednesday at the Tiger Theater, readily owns up to the ballroom bug, but she qualifies her confession slightly. Give her a standard routine devised solely for its showmanly value and executed to the accompaniment of studio music and, well, Betty will try awfully hard, but she won't really enjoy it. Her particular brand of. stepping is of the footloose variety, the kind an agile gal can literally throw herself into with zest. That's why she went about her chores in "Springtime in the Rockies" with the elan of a colleen at a high school prom. Her partner was Cesar Romero, admittedly one of Hollywood's best. The music was by Harry James and his band, just about the most popular swing outfit in the country. And the routine was the creation of Hermes Pan, a •man after Betty's own heart. Pan is the "naturalist" in his field, borrowing from the spontaneous steps of America's youth, adding a new twist here and there. But for the first time in many films, however, Betty had to look to her laurels. There was fiery Carmen Miranda, who all will admit can toss a torso with the best of them. And to make the picture complete, Charlotte Greenwood^ she of the long legs, performs one of her,specicuiaC,. as~5hly she can. ford shone like the midday sun in the greatest collection of football stars ever assembled on one team." A member of the sports staff of another paper started his report in this form. The Grays began to click when Gafford entered the game." Pat Moulton, sports editor of the Mobile Press-Register claims that Monk dominated the performances at the game. He said that if Gafford wasn't truly All- American he would do until one came along. LOST: Brown leather purse. Finder please keep money but return horn-rimmed glasses. No questions asked. Mail to Harriet Clemens, Dormitory 2, Auburn. • • WltatyouBuyWitU WAR BONDS • • The ordinary machine gun is too cumbersome for our Marines, especially for parachute troops. So the Marines have adopted new models of the Seising sub-machine gun, a .45-caliber weapon. The new gun used by the paratroops is a compact model with a pistol grip and a steel-frame stock which folds out of the way when not in use. You can help buy these for oui Boys in the Solomons and elsewhere with your purchase of War Bonds. Join the Payroll Savings Plan and let's "Top that ten percent." (J. $. Treasury Department f - " - » Diamonds - Watches Jewelry and Giftware Cook Jewelry Co. Eason T. Cook Class '14 115 South Eighth StiMt Opolifca. Ala. Anthology Of Student Verse Is Scheduled An anthology of poetry by American college students will be published early in the Spring, the editors of Harbinger House, New York publishing firm, announce. Work on the compilation of the volume has already begun, and manuscripts are now sought. Verse by all students, whether graduate or undergraduate, will be eligible for consideration. Any student may submit an unlimited number of poems, but no single poem should be more than 60 l i n e s in length. Manuscripts should be typewritten or legibly handwritten, on one side of the paper only. Manuscripts should be submitted prior to January 30, 1943. They should be addressed to Editors, College Poetry Anthology, Harbinger House, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y., and must be accompanied by return postage. Students may submit verse at once, or write for a folder giving full information. Cigarette Manufacturer Urges Citizens to Send Cartons to Soldiers The current theme of advertising for Chesterfield cigarettes urges listeners and readers to back up the men in uniform by sending them cigarettes made in the U. S. A. On the distant fronts, like Africa and the South Pacific, next to a letter from home there is nothing more welcome than their favorite brand of American-made cigarettes, and Chesterfield urges that these popular messages of cheer be sent much more often to those of our friends who are serving on the battlefields of the world. "Start the New Year Right" say the headline, "With the Right Combination for More Smoking Pleasure." The advertisement is illustrated .xiWK the picture of an attractive young woman dressed in the uniform of the American Women's Voluntary Services. In one hand she holds a sheaf of war bonds and stamps and in the other a letter and a carton of Chesterfields. WANTED TO BUY: 5"x7" view Camera with F-4.5 Portrait Lens, Mrs. Pelham. Gymnasium. Home Ec Department Makes Another First Home Management House Is First of Its Kind in the Nation By JOHNNIE HOVEY Already outstanding because of the vastness of its organization, the home economics department of A. P. I. has scored again, this t i m e making itself k n o wn throughout the United States with a farm home management house. Although home management houses where homemaking is practiced on high and low income budgets are not new, Auburn is the first college to practice rural homemaking with a house for. that purpose alone. And because the experiment is so new, the students and the faculty members involved have very little foundation to work from. The financial and general living conditions are based as nearly as possible on the corresponding conditions of the average Alabama farm family of six. Home Finished in July The Auburn farm home management house was completed early in July and six women students, seniors in home management and home demonstration, moved in July 20 for six weeks of practical training in rural homemaking. Miss Elizabeth Martin, director, lives in the house so that she is with each group of girls. The girls carry a 13 hour school course and manage the house with a cow, a calf, 49 young chickens, some hens and a garden to care for. They eut and cure their meat, make hominy, make their own cheese and butter and they are learning to make soap. Fruit Is Canned During the summer they canned 750 quarts of fruit and vegetables and a supply of jams and -jellies;- This.is..more .than.is canned by the average farm family in Alabama. The house, barn, and smoke house, built from plans that were drawn from blueprints approved by Farm Security, cost approximately $3000 and are three-quarters of a mile from the campus. It is simply furnished with maple furniture. Rugs, made by the girls, are scattered throughout the house; the matteresses, cup towels, and some curtains were made by the girls. Vegetables Raised Almost any Saturday afternoon the girls can be found digging away in the garden. For a while they supplied the cook with fresh vegetables every day. They have set out peach, apple, and pear trees, newberry and youngberry bushes, and strawberry plants. They are making plans to landscape the grounds with the cooperation of the horticulture department. Social life at the farm house is not lacking. The girls have parties that are full of fun and good food. They are often hostesses to faculty members and college officials. Recently, Miss Zelma Patchin, head of home management at Louisiana State Women's Teachers College, and Miss Jean Mc- Collum, supervisor of home management of the same college, spent the day with them, learning the organization of the house. Telephone Welcomed The most welcome addition to the house was the telephone, which came just in time for Christmas. The house is equipped with electricity, running water, and a heater, range and fireplace for warmth. The students' mail is not delivered to them at the house, but they must get it on their way to classes each morning. Although the Auburn home management house is still in the experimental stage, the students who have spent six weeks there in training agree among themselves that it is a success. Patronize Our Advertisers! 'SET THE URGE TO HELP PURSE HITLER/ Men and Women Instructors Needed for War Service Jobs Hundreds of persons —men or women—are needed for important war service jobs as instructors at Seymour Johnson Field, Brigadier General Walter J. Reed, commanding general of the field, has announced. Seymour Johnson Field is an air mechanics' school in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. By employing civilian instructors, many skilled enlisted men now serving as instructors will be released for combat duty in ground crews of the Army Air Forces. General Reed said. Technical experience" is not essential to qualify for an instructor's job. Acceptable applicants are paid the regular salary during the training period. To qualify as an instructor at a beginning salary of $2,000 a year —about $40 a week—a person must be a high school graduate or equivalent, at least 18 years of age and a citizen of the United States. In addition, he must meet one of these five qualifications: 1. One year of college; 2. one year's experience as an automobile or airplane mechanic; 3. a Civil Aeronautics Authority certificate as an airplane mechanic or ground instructor in airplane mechanics; 4. six months' full-time or one year night school experience in teaching mechanics or any other shop subject; 5. completion of a Federally-sponsored vocational training course in aeronautical engineering, or any technical course in engines or aircraft design. Prospective instructors need not be experts, Col. Wood* emphasized. If qualified, they will be given an orientation course designed to give thorough training in some phase of airplane mechanics. Such courses range from three to six months, during which time instructors are paid their full salaries. "The Technical Training Command is accepting those men who are no longer accepted in the Army or Navy," Col. Wood said. "We need them for a job that is as close to front line duty as anyone can get without carrying a rifle. Instructors ,will train the men who will go from Seymour Johnson Field to fighting fronts throughout the world." Women as well as men can be valuable as instructors in aviation mechanics, according to Col. Wood. In some phases women are proving even more valuable than men. Applicants may come or send their applications to Seymour Johnson Field for an interview with a Civil Service representative. * MA/6- T/PS • WHAT CIGARETTE GIVES SMOKERS WHAT THEY WANT START m i * * * * WGHT , . JQ43 a p«ck °* " Make you- <££%, ond en** * ° * Che.»*«W s *B» WM yoo .v.„.hin9 y » "k» y0„ t«H* That's v*y. y " f ^ „„., b.y « \ > b . « . , <!«""»<> " • I " E ' •„ U3 Tone in on *«§» F0r More B ^ S g *»** W™ VUtor, Ton.. «*«»»££ f * <* f f wtm Cof/rijbi 1>4}, hootn * Unu Toucco Ca BUY WAR BONDS WRITE LETTERS CHESTERFIELDS
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Title | 1943-01-05 The Auburn Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | Waterman Gives New War Status A complete summary of the recent Joint Statement by the Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy as it affects Auburn students has been made by Colonel John J. Waterman, commandant. The summary is as follows: 1. ROTC Seniors who graduate in March or in June, will remain until graduation but not later than June 1, 1943, and will then be ordered to an Army Basic School for completion of that course and receive their commissions. 2." Juniors enlisted in ERC, who are taking approved technical courses in Engineering, will remain on present status until June 1. 1943, and then be ordered to active duty with the Army. On completion of their three months of basic training, if found qualified, they will be returned to college to pursue a course as prescribed by the Army. » * * 3: ROTC Juniors enlisted in the ERC will remain in school until the end of the Spring Quarter, May 28, 1943. At that time they will be ordered to replacement training centers in lieu of the second year advance course. After successful completion of their training, they will be sent to appropriate Officers Candidate School and upon successful completion will be commissioned in the Officers Reserve Corps. Arrangements will be made for the voluntary induction of first year advance course students who are not members of the ERC. After induction, the procedure will be the same as for those now enlisted. (This is a change from what Col. Waterman gave to the student body Dec. 18.) No further advance-course enrollment will be made in ROTC. * * * 4. Students in veterinary medicine who are enlisted in the Enlisted Reserve Corps will continue in college on their present status until June 1, 1943. On that date they will be continued in college under War Department training. Veterinary students who are commissioned in the Medical Administrative Corps may resign their commissions and accept enlistment in the Enlisted Reserve Corps and then be on the same status as other veterinary students enlisted in the ERC. Those who do not resign will, from present instructions, continue in school under present status, that is, at their own expense. * * * 5. Pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students enlisted in the ERC will continue on their present status until June 1, 1943. Pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students not enlisted, but who are inducted prior to June 1, 1943, will be placed on inactive status and remain in college pursuing their course of education. On June 1 all pre-medical, pre-dental and pre-veterinary students will be ordered to active duty with the Army for the basic training, and if found qualified at the end of this training, will be returned to college under War Department orders. 6. All other men enlisted in ERC, Sophomores and Freshmen, will be ordered to active duty at the end of the Winter Quarter for the basic training and at the conclusion of this three-month's course, if found qualified, will be returned to college to pursue a special course prescribed by the Army. * * * 7. All other students who are not in any of the reserve components will be inducted into the Army under the Selective regulations, and after completion of three months basic training, if found qualified, will be returned to college to pursue a course as prescribed by thf 4&a& D..-par.jnemr- Navy Program All Navy V-l, V-5, V-7, provisional ensigns and men. enlisted in Marine Corps Reserve will remain in their present status until a date to be announced later by the Navy, at which time they will be ordered to active duty, issued uniforms, etc., remain in college and pursue courses as prescribed by the Navy Department. The Navy Program contemplates men will receive from three to four scholastic years before being ordered to regular duty with the Navy. ROTC Appointments, Assignments Given Appointments of non-commissioned and commissioned cadet officers in the ROTC unit at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute were announced this week by the military department here with the approval of Dr. L. N. Duncan, president. The appointments are as follows: 1st Engineers J. D. Mitchell, Cullman, cadet 2nd Lt, Company "A"; T. M. Hoover, Marion, cadet 1st Lt., Company "C"; G. M. Cook, Elmore, cadet 1st Lt., Company "H"; W. R. Clinton, Mobile, Cadet 2nd Lt., Company "H"; George H. Gould, Mobile, cadet 1st Lt. Company "L"; P. W. Williams, LaGrange, Ga., cadet 2nd Lt., Company "I". 1st Field Artillery regiment To be cadet sergeants—L. F. Adams, Fairfax, Battery "B"; F. H. Hearn, Ward, Battery "D"; H. C. Riddle, Birmingham, Battery "D"; J. M. McCraney, Clayton, Battery "E"; H. T. Mills, Birmingham, Battery "H". 2nd Field Artillery Regiment To be cadet sergeants—R. L. Killebrew, Abbeville, Battery "C"; J. S.. Bentley, Birmingham, Battery "G"; J. E. Oates, Vernon, Battery "H"; J. F. Sandlin, Cordova, Battery "I". 1st Engineers To be cadet sergeants—D. E. Smith, Manchester, Conn., Company "D"; H. C. Mickleboro, Marion, Company "E"; W. L. Daw-kins, Pensacola, Fla., Company "F". The following assignments in the Cadet Corps are announced: Field Artillery Cadet Capt. A. G. Green, Atlanta, Ga., from Drill Platoon to Brigade Staff, S-2 from Ass't S-3; Cadet Capt. J. H. Maddox, Andalusia, from 4th Regiment to Brigade Staff, S-4 and Ass't S-l. 1st Engineers Cadet Lt. Col. R. E. Colvin, Birmingham, executive; Cadet Major J. G. Johnson, Mobile, from Drill Platoon to 1st Battalion, Executive and S-l.; Cadet Lt. Col. W. H. Weaver, Birmingham, 3d Bn. Executive and S-l; Cadet Capt. J. W. Coleman, Tuscaloosa, 3d Bn., S-l; and Cadet Capt. E. W. Morris, Montgomery, 3d Bn., Company "I". MWM TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT' VOLUME LXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1943 NUMBER 51 Honor Societies Ball To Be Held Friday Night at Gym Glee Club To Begin Practice for Spring Concert Thursday Rehearsal for the spring concert will begin Thursday night at 7:15 in the studio over Toom-er's. All old members and those new members who wish to become a part of the organization are urged to attend. Last spring the Choral Club made an extensive tour of the state, appearing in most of the major cities. Plans are being made for a similar tour this year. No try-outs will be required until a later date when the men and women have become thoroughly acquainted with the music. Those who like to sing will find the rehearsals, as well as the concerts, very enjoyable. Very light classical music, folk songs, spirituals, and popular music comprise 'the whole of the programs. Spiked Shoe to Meet The Auburn Collegiate Chapter of Spiked Shoe will hold its first meeting of the new year in the New Field House after track practice on Wednesday. J. A. Robinson, president of the society, urges all members to be present to discuss plans for the annual dance. Students Will Be Allowed To Finish Quarter The attention of Auburn students is called to the following two official interpretations released recently regarding the Army Specialized Training Program. Date of Call According to a bulletin received this week from the War Department preparations were completed by the Department on January 1, 1943, to call to active duty enlisted reserve corps students covered by Section g(7) of the Army plan. After January 1, these students will begin to receive orders to report for active duty at designated times and places. No orders will be given to report on a date prior to two weeks after the completion of the student's first academic quarter, t e r m , or semester termination after December 31, 1942. By this interpretation, a member of the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps enrolled at Auburn is assured of completing the Winter Quarter before being called. Air Corps Reserve The Army Specialized Training Program does not include the Air Corps Reserve. A student who is a member of the Air Corps Enlisted Reserve will be called to active duty at thedis* cretion of the Air Corps and at such time as he can be immediately assigned to training. Occupational Deferment On December 18, the War Manpower Commission approved occupational deferment through Selective Service of students not in the Army or Navy Reserve Corps and faculty. Students who will be deferred until the end of the Spring quarter include: (1) All medical students (including hospital internes, and residents), dental students, and veterinary students enrolled in approved institutions and subject to Selective Service; and all pre-veterinary students who have completed one year of study in approved institutions. (2) All graduate students enrolled in approved engineering curricula, and all undergraduate students who have completed one year of study in approved engU neering curicula. (3) All undergraduate and graduate students in approved colleges and universities who are specializing in chemistry, physics, or bacteriology and are within two years of the completion of the specialized curricula. (4) All full-time instructors and part-time instructors also devoting the balance of their time to study in any of the curricula above shall be deferred until July 1, 1943, or until otherwise directed by the War Manpower Commission. Advice from McNutt In announcing the above plans for deferment, Chairman McNutt urged all male university and college students to remain in school until called for active military service. He stated that students, including those in the 18-19-year-old group, should not hesitate to enroll to begin their college training at the .present time. "The War Manpower Commission is planning ahead so that there may be adequate reserves for leadership in professional and technical fields to avoid serious shortages," he said. The colorful Honor Societies Ball will be held Friday night at eight o'clock in the Girl's Gym on the Opelika Road. Blue Key is the sponsor of the ball and most of the honor societies on the campus will participate. The leadout will feature the presidents of the various societies and their dates, with the Auburn Knights furnishing the music. Ribbons will be given to the members of the different societies as their names are checked off at the door, and each ribbon will show the insignia of the society of the wearer. Because of the limited space for dancing, bids could not be issued to non-members. The honor societies participating are: Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Blue Key, Sphinx, Cardinal Key, Eta Kappa Nu, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Psi, Gamma Sigma Delta. Scabbard and Blade, Tau Beta Pi, Alpha Phi Omega, Briaerean Society, Alpha Zeta, Pi Tau Sigma, Squires, Phi Lambda Up-silon, Scarab. Kappa Delta Pi, Tau Kappa Alpha, Rho Chi, Chi Epsilon, Alpha Epsilon Delta, and the Art Guild. Cashier Joins WAVES Miss Frances Tippins, acting cashier for the college, will leave for duty with the WAVES on or around Jan. 15. Miss Tippins has been serving in the capacity of cashier since the resignation of Miss Mary Hooper on November 30. Alumni Gym Is Secured For Military Ball Alumni Gymnasium has been secured for the annual Military Ball which is to be held this Saturday, January 9, from nine until twelve. This announcement was made today by Cadet Brigade Colonel Harold J. Knight, who is in charge of all arrangements for the dance. Senior ROTC officers, who are sponsoring the ball, decided today that because of war conditions favors would not be secured. The Auburn Knights are to furnish music for the occasion. The staff of the Military Department and their wives will chaperone the dance. Members of the junior class enrolled in the advanced ROTC course have toeen invited to attend, but will not be allowed to ask dates. A list of the seniors' dates will be given in Friday's issue of The Auburn Plainsman. Decorations for the Military Ball will be red, white, and blue. These will carry out the theme of a nation at war. Leading the grand march will be Cadet Colonel Knight and his date. Following him will be the other senior officers, in order of their rank, with their dates. Sabers will be used during the grand march. Players To Present "Petticoat Fever" In Early February Eight performances of Mark Reed's "Petticoat Fever" will be given by the Auburn Players beginning on February 8, according to announcement of Director Telfair B. Peet. Leading parts in the play will be taken by Tommy Allison, Hen-dersonville, N. C; and Pat McCoy, Lafayette. Other members of the cast are M a d g e Jarrard, Montgomery; Robert Blackburn, Jacksonville, Fla.; Eliah Perlman, Pensacola, Fla.; Milton Strain, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Willis Dickey, Calhoun. The play will be presented Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the Y-Hut during the weeks of February 8 and February 15. ualifications Board to Meet Members of the Qualifications Board will meet Thursday night, January 7, at 7:30 P. M. in Dr. Duncan's office at Samford Hall. This was announced today by Jimmie Lee Butt, president of the student body. The board is meeting this week in preparation for general campus elections which are scheduled to be held during January. All prospective candidates are hereby notified that they must be present at this meeting for interview purposes. Information concerning elections for publications posts will be given in Fridc^/'s issue of The Auburn Plainsman. '*"-*-. Gatchell Club Sponsors Christmas Benefit Party Members of the Dana King Gatchell Home Economics Club at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute sponsored a Christmas party this week for the benefit of wounded American soldiers now stationed at a hospital in Texas. Over 65 individual gifts were brought to the party and wrapped by the co-eds. The gifts included books, candy, magazines, cigarettes, games, ashtrays, pencils, cards and stationery. The home economics tea room staff contributed a box of cookies. All presents were mailed in a huge box to the hospital for distribution on Christmas' morning. Salter Passes Through Lt. Elmer Salter, now on leave of absence from Auburn where he formerly served as director of sports publicity and freshman basketball coach for the college, passed through here yesterday headed for some military destination. Low of 24 Degrees Recorded Here Today The coldest morning of the new year and the coldest day since Dec. 17 caught many Auburn motorists without anti-freeze fluid in their automobiles today. The temperature dropped from a high of 62 last Sunday to a low of 24 at 7:30 this morning. Two of the local taxis were frozen as well as one automobile, one of the Auburn garages reported. There was a rush for antifreeze at all of the gas stations during the morning. Cornelia Otis Skinner Here Next Wednesday Famed Monologue Artist Will Appear at Alumni As Fourth Attraction of Auburn Concert Series Cornelia Otis Skinner, monologue artist, will appear here next Wednesday evening, J a n u a r y 13, at 8:15 P. M. in Alumni gymnasium. She will have with her a dozen, a score, a hundr e d imaginary people, and she will make these people seem as real as if they stood beside her. Miss Skinner is within herself a complete theater, a whole, tragic, if not heroic, theater. She does this by the skill of both her playing and her writing. Her material is adroitly ordered, swift in its exposition, and as unerring as it is pointed in its revelation of character. If ranges from buoyant comedy and uproarious farce to tragedy that is succinct and moving. Marked for Stage The title, "the greatest single attraction of the American theater", has long been worn by Miss Skinner. From her infancy her father, Otis Skinner, cherished a belief that his daughter was marked for the theater when a stagehand, holding her in his arms, brushed her against a piece of scenery. Both parents, famous actors themselves, took that impromptu backstage rite as a sign of things to come. From her earliest days, Miss Skinner moved stageward and lived in a world of her own imaginings. At Baldwin School and later at Bryn Mawr College, her school-mates drafted her for their productions and on one occasion she played Macbeth to Ann Harding's Macduff. Debut with Father Miss Sk4nner made her debut under her father's wing when she played Dona Saraste in Ibanez's "Blood and Sand," which Mr. Skinner presented for the first time on any stage in Buffalo in August, 1921. The next four years brought increasingly important roles in a number of plays, including "Will Shakespeare," w i t h Katherine Cornell; "Tweedles," "In the Next Room," "The Wild Westcotts," "In His Arms," and "White Collars." Yet, these parts were not what This Could Happen Here Fire in Gym Kills Eight And Injures Thirty-eight Students Fire Started From Discarded Cigarette By DAVID ALLEN Ed. note: This is purely a hypothetical case, yet it is entirely possible so long as the habits of the Auburn students remain unchanged. Seven girls and one boy died, and 38 other persons were injured in the flaming inferno that was Girls Gym until last- Saturday night. Starting at 10:39, during the leadout of the Eata Beta Pi society, the flames swept through the closely packed crowd and turned the occasion into a madhouse of burning bodies and fear-crazed dancers. After a thorough investigation by the Fire Department and college authorities, the cause of the blaze was given as that of a lighted cigarette which never reached the floor. Those Dead Were Students All of those listed as dead were students of API, while several of those i n j u r e d were visitors brought to Auburn as dates of the various members of the society. The infirmary, already practically filled with cases of influenza, was unable to hold all those receiving burns. Those having burns of less seriousness were placed in several fraternity houses which were offered to the authorities. The fire started when the half-smoked cigarette of an unknown person failed to reach the floor where it most likely would have been put out. Instead, as related by bystanders, it fell into the folds of the dress of one of the now dead girls, setting fire to it immediately. As the burning person ran toward some coats,' presumably to put out the fire, the flames spread to the flimsy dresses of all the girls who came into contact with the victim. Panic Spread Rapidly As is usual in these cases, panic spread across the floor and there was a mad rush for the one exit to the upstairs gym. This was crowded beyond its limit, and the flames spread among the crowd trying to leave the building. Most of the occpuants were clear of the building before the fire department arrived, but it aided the remaining few and gave first aid to the burned persons while still fighting the now wholly burning building. A. R. Runners, fire chief, in a statement issued Sunday morning, stated: "The cause of the blaze was a lighted cigarette thrown to the floor. This condition on the dance floor at Auburn has been warned against before, and now the evidence of its danger is very real. "The extent of property damage amounts to over $50,000," The amount covered by insurance was not known as yet. the young artist wanted. Her childhood experience in "going it alone" came back to her and with the experience the professional stage had given her, she wrote and performed the first of her original character sketches—first for her friends and then professionally. Records Her Impressions Later she developed the idea of recording the impressions of contemporaneous life which she discovered. The result was a series of sketches, humorous, pathetic, tender and satirical, which her photographic eye had caught. The original character sketches were vigorously acclaimed and tours were laid out which carried her back and forth across the United States, to Canada, and as far away as London. API Grad Commissioned Miss Juanita Johnston, who graduated from API in 1940 with a B. S. degree, receives her commission in the WAACs on Jan. 9 after completion of required work at Officers' Candidate School. War Eagle Cries At the beginning of the last world War, I remember very well the attitude the students look about the draft and their own status in it. There is not much difference now and then. Students were as undecided then as they are now about whether to stay in school or go ahead and get in the army or the navy. Last Homecoming I saw lots of the old grads who had come back to this lovely village on the plains for one last look before another war forced the government to take over. I talked with lots of them but right now I want to mention only two of them. One of them took the advice of the government and stayed in college until he was called. The desire was on him just as much as on all the others to join up and fight, but he put a little thought on the subject and decided they knew better what he should do than he did himself. He stayed here at Auburn and got all he could out of his college course. After the war he lacked very little in his education and was able to fit right in on a good job with a good future with plenty of advancements. The other alumnus was a little more headstrong than the first. He had to get over right away and "do his bit" to help win the war. He joined up after the first announcement had been made and because of his half year of college was sent to an officer candidate school, but could not make the grade on the highly technical subjects. After the war his lack of this special knowledge pushed him further back until he had to be satisfied with a job at a set salary and with little chance of advancement. A word to the wise is suffi-cenl. Page Two T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 5, 1943 m JDaxf "I used to be afraid the Government would requisition my car. Now I'm afraid they' won't' Drayrn for O. W. I. Men Under Army Discipline Someone Needed to Organize Blood Banks Blues in Berlin The American public is at the present as unselfish as at any time since we can remember in our own short span of life. Everywhere there is evidence of them gradually meeting all the demands of an efficient war machine by rationing, scrap drives and enlistments in one of the many armed forces of the nation. Perhaps the latest and the most humane thing that the American people have so far seen to do is to donate their blood for what is now called Blood Banks. By this method civilians may donate as much of their blood as they wish or as is wise and it is taken to wherever the armed forces are doing their fighting and used to restore the life of many of the men fighting for our freedom. This is one of the smallest contributions that anyone can make toward the war effort, and at the same time it is one that will do untold good. There will be no heroes or winners in donating the b lNo o d. But, American citizens are still willing to sacrifice something whjch they have plenty of and something which those boys "over there" might be caught short of. Auburn students have thus far not had any organized effort to donate their blood to the Blood Banks. Some organization looking for a worthy project for the year might take this into hand and organize a method of collection and distribution. The college officials at the Infirmary will be willing to help and so would the students and the faculty when the time came for donating the blood. The effort will not be wasted. Further Curtailment of Sports Likely The Editor's Desk . . . Dawn broke with a very disagreeable sound yesterday morning to roust out most of the students from their peaceful and for the majority, uneventful holiday period. Sleeping to ten, eleven, or twelve o'clock each day almost made some of them forget that it was still dark at seven o'clock. Waking up at the accustomed hour, made some of us think that it was the middle of the night, with the moon shining and all the other characteristics. Despite the rest that most college students tookover the holidays, things really happened in the nation and on the battle fronts of the world. So Far Just Another Rumor On the local front the latest unconfirmed as this is written, news concerning the status of college students in the present set-up of the war department, is that Juniors in advance ROTC will be allowed to remain in college until June, 1943. As yet this news is not authentic and we would not make any definite statements about it. At the present time the board in charge of selecting the colleges and universities to take the students from the army and navy for training is meeting and their decisions are expected soon. Let's Let the Board Decide A good example of rumorering was offered in the last bit of news. As the board is meeting several students have -.ready decided that Auburn is to be one of those selected and that their Alma Mater will get more than any other school in this section. It is swell t o A jw this much faith in your school, but sometimes this, same -trust aBd commence can act as a boomerang to the college and the students. There is no indication that any college will be chosen for this special type of college work. The board has released no definite choices and has remained quiet, as they should do until they are ready to speak. Until.they do say something, pro or con, no student should take it upon himself to tell others that his school is going to get this or that or when. So far no one knows and other students would do well to use their own judgment instead of listening to a miniature fifth columnist. Large Scale Conversion of Colleges From New York we find that Lt. Col. Harley B. West in speaking before the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools gave them a plan for the large scale conversion of American colleges and universities into training bases for the armed forces. Col. West said that no college or university will be taken over for this purpose, but that the training of the young men in the armed forces will be purely voluntary and there will be no requisitioning. Approximately 250,000 service men will be sent to school under this plan. Emphasis will be on the scientific and technical courses and military training will be subordinated to the academic work. School selected will be those in a position to house and feed the men and who can furnish the correct type of instruction that is required. The postseason football contests are things of the past now. Because of the war, the outcomes of these games have been forgotten even more quickly than in former years. This coincides, of course, with the situation in other phases of our national sports activity. It is only natural that the popular recreational pastimes developed with typical American intensiveness during the past half century should find the overshadowing influence of our present war effort almost too great a force with which to reckon. However, despite a slightly synthetic ring to it all, "the sports show has gone on" under government blessing during the past year. The ranks of the participating athletes have thinned perceptibly, though, in recent months. Voluntary enlistment and compulsory induction have wrecked the hopes of many a coach already. Probably the majority of the players now serving the nation in an active capacity have unselfishly left their respective field of sports as voluntary contributors to the war effor-ti-i** —«.$£at is the probable outlook "Tor amateur and professional athletics during the present year? First of all, the future of the amateur game seems bleak, to say the least. If and when most of the present crop of college men are inducted into active service it is hard to feature college sports play in even drastically curtailed form. It seems that in its present status it will almost definitely be out for the duration unless unforeseen events present themselves in the near future. A little bit brighter picture may be painted in the professional sports field. Although continued heavy inroads must be expected here, there should still be many older—but still capable—players available during 1943. Some of these are being deferred because of dependents. Then too, many are now above the draft age. The President has definitely placed his stamp of approval on continued professional sports as a valuable morale building force for the entire country. Doubtless, though, curtailment of facilities will be necessary during the coming months. Collegiate football for the past school is at an end. The curtain is now rising on the beginning of an uncertain basketball season. Spring training for professional ballplayers^looms ahead. But, all things considered, it seems that the amateur and professional game can regain full strength only after the termination of the present struggle. B.T. Father Gives Advice to Son in Letter Some sound advice from a father, who previously attended Auburn, to his son, who is now in college here, is contained in the following letter: "Since talking to you I have talked with Dr. Rauber about your grade in economics. You should see him at once and make every effort to get this work off now. There is not very much that I can do except sit on the sidelines and wait. As you know, the fellow who pays the bills does not always have the most fun. "It has not been my privilege to meet Dr. Rauber except over the 'phone, but I have had the pleasure of reading one of his very interesting articles, "Let's Be Narrow-Minded." "Son, I had the pleasure of being under Dr. Judd. He sat on me and turned me every way but loose. Yet, when I got through he was the most helpful person I could find to assist me in getting a job. "I realize that you and many of the other boys are not able to settle down to what we might call normalcy. I was in the same plight in 1917 except that I was a man and on my own. I do not place blame on you for this. Too, I realize that it is hard to do the best study under these conditions. However, it must be done if you are going tp climb. It really takes "blood, sweat, and tears." "You are clean in speech, physically fit, have a deep conviction as to right and wrong, and enough native intelligence to do better than your father. Go to it, and I shall bear with you." The men selected will be under army discipline and will receive regular army pay while in training. Selection will be based on the aptitude displayed by the men in the armed forces and their ability to receive such higher education. In Africa the trend of the times is almost the same, with Rommel, Hitler's pet still in full retreat. Reports last night stated that it was thought that the head of the Africa Korps was about to make a last stand. The shock will almost kill the pursuing British and American soldiers, who have been used to seeing Rommel crawl since early last November, and him standing might turn out to be the surprise of the year, if he can stand up long enough. Russia's reports got so good that military observers began to wonder if they were really as good as they said they were. Russia says this, Germany says the opposite, and no one is there to confirm either of them, except Germans or Russians. From out in Texas comes this bit of news that might help those who are continually trying to outdo one another in whose ancestors were here first. Dr. C. J. Heese, from A & M's museum, wth Dr. F. E. Turner of the same school and Dr. H. B. Stenzel of the University of Texas, discovered fossil remains that take us back to the Miocene period of about 12,000,000 years ago. Might be of some relationship to some of you. Better check into it. Babies for Christmas To close out with a final note of local interest. Many babies were born over the holidays, not including a New Year's baby. Three of the most prominent were those of Mr. Kirtley Brown who now has a son by the name of Kirtley Ward Brown; the new member of Captain Edwin Ruth's family, whose masculine name we were unable to find out; and Mr. Charles Edwards' addition in the form of a baby boy. Lieutenant and Mrs. Miller announced the birth of a daughter, Virginia Carroll, on December 24. Some Christmas presents! d!u&AW%iUil MOW w Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue. 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NEW YORK, N. Y. CHICASO • aoiTon • Lot AKCCIII - s«» FBAHCIJCO (Ed. note: tune to "Blues in the Night.") My.fuehrer done toT me, When I was in Munich, My fuehrer done tol' me, Hans—. A Russian will fall back, and give You the east front, But when the winter snows come, A Russian's a two-face, A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing The blues in Berlin. See the bombs a-fallin' Hear the blitzes callin' Goering! Oh, where is the luftwaffe? We ain't got no booties, All we got is cooties. Goebbels! Oh, typhus and black plague. Die wehrmacht! Die wehrmacht! A clickity-clack, and soon we'll be back. With the blues in Berlin. From Smolensk to Mozhaisk, From Kiev to Lubin, Wherever the panzers go. I've taken some big towns, And made me some big talk, But there is one thing I know, A Russian's a two-face, A worrisome thing, who leaves you to sing The blues in Berlin. —By students at Chicago Teachers College Tiger Spirit By EARL CLEGHORN 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. Wal, another year has rolled around, and here we are back in the same old rut. Last year ended with a bang for almost every one. This year will end with a public hanging of the Axis leaders, I hope. * * * I guess we all made new year's resolutions—and I guess we have all broken them by now. I made only one, and that was to ride the public conveyances when I left Auburn on- week ends. It-seems as if there is not much success in hitchhiking these days. I broke this resolution after riding the bus to Auburn this week end. The bus driver sure made me feel low. They loaded the service men on first (P think they should), then the ladies, the elderly people (not students), war workers came next, followed by children, then professional class, and last the traveling salesmen. After all of the above had filled the bus to overflowing, the driver said: "have all the passengers been taken care of? Well, you kids from the colleges hop on!" * * * I am not complaining; it's good to get back to the loveliest village of the plain—the' home of the Tiger, the team that beat Georgia. Georgia beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Where does that leave Auburn? The top team in the country, of course. * * * Speaking of new year's resolutions, Shicklegruber, the head hyena of the Axis mongrel pack isn't making any. The last reports say he goes around singing two songs. They are "If I Had Listened to What Mama Said" and "I Ain't Gonna Study War No More!" * * * The resolution made by II Duce (the duce) of the boot country was very touching to the heart of all native Italians and even to a few of the German-born Italians. Musty-linni has promised to leave out the meat balls from his spaghetti. This is a great sacrifice for him to make, as he is already full of the spaghetti. * * * Emperor Hirohito, the chief knife-in-the-back-stabber of the land of the sinking scum, made a new year's resolution. He said or hissed, that if the other members of the Axis parties would give him more cooperation in his great victory he would divide part of Russia with them. Germany now has more of Russia than she wants. Why, to show her open heart she is giving part of it back to Russia. The nasty soldiers of the master race have been advancing to the rear every since the Russians played their theme song — "White Christmas." The white Christmas turned into a Red new year for the boys with goose step and bat brain. * * * The Blue and Gray game was a hswiixig rsuecssSeZ The S o u th howled in glee and the North howled in sorrow. Monk Gafford was a leading star in that game. The spectators were so enthusiastic over his outstanding brand of football that they would yell for Gafford. Monk was not in the starting line-up, but he was on the first team. All, twenty-two players on the team were first string men. The people in the stands stood up and yelled "We want Gafford" and they got him. The boy showed the football fans he could catch them as well as toss them. The "Fort Deposit flash" caught a long one and galloped over the goal before the eyes of around three thousand unhappy Yankees from the flying fields in Montgomery. * * * The crowd went away from the game chanting that old spine-tingling song, "Touchdown, Auburn." The announcer seemed to have a little trouble in describing the game. Once or twice he said Auburn's ball or Auburn will receive. This is two years in a row that the North and South game has been a great victory for the South as well as Auburn. * * * — The new year's day games turned out to be very bad for the hot air teams. The past football season had its share of teams that were listed in the top places in their conferences. These teams sure went down in a hurry when they went up against some real opposition as dished out by the southern teams. * * * A toast should be given to the teams that represented the Southeastern conference. Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee were the three teams that humbled the proud greats of the west, east, and north. THREE BLIND MEN (BUND TO AMERICA'S WILL TO WIN) OPEN THEIR EYES BY INVESTING YOUR CHANGE IN WAR STAMPS * :— * January 5, 1943 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three Seventy Students On Winter Dean's List Dean's List Composed of Regular Students Who Rank in Upper Five Per Cent of Class Seventy students at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute have been placed on the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter in the Schools of Agriculture, Architecture and Allied Arts, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Pharmacy, Science and Literature, and Veterinary Medicine. The Dean's List consists of those full-time juniors, seniors, and fifth-year students in each school who rank scholastically in the upper five per cent of the enrollment above the sophomore year in that school. Cooperative students in the School of Engineering who rank in the upper two per cent of those enrolled may also be placed on the list. Those on the Dean's List in the school of Agriculture are: Perry A. Dunn, Deatsville; Joseph Henry Yeager, Cullman; Jack T. Cornelius, Jasper; Vachel Lee Keeble, Roanoke; John Eugene Wood, Cobb, Ga.; Joseph L. Dean, Opelika, Raymond Livingston, Goodwater. In the school of Architecture and Allied Arts, Minnie Reid Anderson, Greenville, S. C; and J. EYES RIGHT! FOR VICTORY GLASSES FITTED CORRECTLY by DR. STARLING JOHNSON With MOORE'S JEWELRY CO, "The Hom«; °J J*eH*£is Jewelry" Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware And China OPELIKA PHONE 120 Dorrance K i s e r, Gardendale, made the list. In the school of Chemistry those on the Dean's List are: Jane Foster, Lanett; John B. Martin, Auburn; Elias C. Mitchell, Sheffield; Mearlin Lee Sims, Birmingham, and Herbert A. Warren, Birmingham. The eleven students in the school of Education on the Dean's List are: Leta Brackin, Headland; Theo Coleman, Millport; Benjamin Dickey, Calhoun; Attie Fleming, Bear Creek; Laura Harris, Ft. Benning, Ga.; Estelle Haynes, Auburn; E. Charles Holt, Brilliant; Madge Jarrard, Montgomery; Lucretia Perry, Auburn; Irma Phillips, Wadley; and Kath-erine Smith, Montgomery. Those in the school of Engineering on the Dean's List are: Frank Bridgers, Birmingham; Henry Dickinson, Auburn; Albert L. Gaines, Birmingham; Cul-len F. Harris, Montgomery; Richard Houston, Anniston; Sanford M. Morton, Anniston; Edwin C. Rodgers, Bay Minette; Perry Alexander S e a y, Brundidge; Willis Walton Stone, Lineville; Albert. W. Ervine, Tallahassee, Fla.; Leslie Cobb, Texarkana, Ark.; Robert C. Haraway, Florence; Victor Carl Hicks, Eutaw; John Broodus Holt, Jr., Jackson, Miss.; Edward W. Lindsay, Boyce, Va.; Thomas. W. Morgan, Floma-ton; Henry Floyd Pruett, Wallace and Roy E. Wilson, Birmingham. Those co-operative engineering students on the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter (to be effective December, 1942, to March, 194.3} lor work done frorli June to '.September are: Robert: Colvin, jBirmingham; George H. Gould. T-ato'duis; Tw'ger JTolrries, Attalla; Edward W. Morris, Montgomery; | and Charles D. Brown, Selma. Other co-operative students on the Dean's List to be effective March, 1943, to June, 1943, for work done during the Fall Quar- Part of the rhythm of action the pause that refreshes It's the refreshing thing to do 1 Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 BY POPULAR VOTE—"WAAC OF THE WEEK •a M-39-4 Fort McClellan, Ala.—Sarah Peck Weaver, of Decatur, Alabama, is WAAC-of-the-Week here this week because she is as American as an old penny. Her only brother is a technical sergeant in the AEF in Ireland, her father is a farmer, her mother, a school teacher and Sarah herself is in war work in Sylacauga. At Montevallo's Alabama College, she majored in Home Economics, was outstanding orator touring thirty-six states with the debating team and was highly regarded on the campus. Her hobby is cooking and show us- a soldier who wouldn't lobby for such a hobby. Miss Weaver was inducted into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps here recently and is winding up her affairs to leave for training soon. —(U. S. Signal Corps Photo) ter are: William N. Campbell, Dadeville; Millner H. Eskew, Uniontown; John S. Hamilton, Jr., Birmingham. In the school of Pharmacy. R. J. Plant, Tallassee, made the Dean's List for the Winter Quarter. In the school of Science and Literature the following made the Dean's List: Fred Allison, Jr., Auburn; Ben Ash, Birmingham, John Dixon Bridgers, Birmingham; A. Z. Carter, Jr., Auburn; William Myack Goode, Auburn; Louis H. Jordan, Owassa; Harold C. Stanfield, Fairfax; William Buck Taylor, Mobile; Clarence E. Weldon, Wetumpka; Neil Glenn Wilcoxan, Florence. Those in the school of Veterinary Medicine on the Dean's List are: John Thad Riddle, Piedmont, S. C; Nolen D. Connor, Auburn; George .D. Coffee, Decatur, Ga.; Charles L. Nowlin, Pensacola, Fla.; Christopher C. Harman, Fiord, Va.; Joe L. Sledge, Greensboro; and William M: Burriss, Anderson, S. C. Ball, Bjurberg Are Married Over Holidays Auburn's holidays were highlighted with the weddings of two of its male students, John Ball and Dick Bjurberg, with two Auburn women. John Ball was married to Miss Ellen Williams of Opelika, who is a sophomore and a member of the Kappa Delta sorority here. Their wedding was solemnized by Dr. J. L. Steel of the First Baptist church in Opelika on Sunday, December 26. Bridesmaids of Miss Williams were her two sisters, Misses Eloise and Barbara Williams. The groom chose John Bruce Martin of Auburn as his best man, and Rene Bidez and Bryon Bruce as his two ushers. Mr. Bjurberg was married to Miss Kathryn Blake on Sunday, December 20, by Dr. Sam B. Hay at the Presbyterian church in Auburn. Miss • Blake graduated from Auburn last June in home economics and is now in Talladega with the Government Nursery school. Miss Frances Hay was her maid or honor while Misses Jean Beas-ley and Mary Florence Roberts were the bridesmaids. The bride's brother, Lynn Blake, Jr., served as best man in the wedding. The ushers were Carl Hicks, Will Crawford, L. Z. Thrasher and Clark Hudson. Patronise Our Advertisersl HOSPITAL INSURANCE MILLARD MOORE INS. AGENCY Next to Toomer's Drug Store PHONE 66 AUBURN, ALA. TUESDAY LIONEL BARRYMORE in 'CALLING DR. GILLESPIE' With Philip Dorn Donna Reed WED. AND THUR. THE ROMANTIC MUSICAL THAT'LL WRAP ITSELF AROUND YOUR HEART' BETTY GRABLE JOHN P A Y N E CARMEN MIRANDA HARRY JAMES MB HIS MUSIC MAKERS CESAR ROMERO SPRINGTIME1 mtheR0CKIES wild ChirtoHi Vm«i Evuatt GREENWOOD • HORTON FRIDAY TYRONE POWER GENE TIERNEY in 'SON OF FURY' Is Everybody's Favorite Delicious, nutritious—Ice Cream is a good combination of taste enjoyment and good nutrition. You and your family should eat some every day—between meals, with meals and before going to bed. Ice Cream helps to keep you active. It is more than a delicious refreshment—it is an important source of Vitamin A, calcium and milk proteins. Insist upon Froz-Rite Ice Cream—it provides real nourishment at moderate cost. FROZ-RITE OPELIKA • Whether for your sweetheart, a member of the family, or a good friend, the affection and thought* fulness expressed by the lending of • Valentine card means more than a thousand ordinary words. In our wide selection of lovely, up-to-the-minute designs, you will find just the sentiment td suit each person on your Valentine card list.' BURTON'S BOOK STORE If your Valentine is in a Foreign Port, it's time to page him now. Got Writer1 Cramp? ? OR ARE YOU JUST TOO BUSY TO WRITE? WHICHEVERTHECASE A\AY BE, HERE'S THE SOLUTION Send The Auburn Plainsman V r t i . It Costs Littb- But Means Much To Those On Land In the Air And 5 8* I 1 • On the Sea $|.oo TIL MARCH The Auburn Plainsman Phone 448 Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 5, 1943 Auburn's Gafford Sparks Gray Team Trainer Hutsell Also Helps the Winners By EARL CLEGHORN Auburn was one of the few colleges that did not play in a bowl, yet the tiger town college received as much New Year's football publicity as the teams that made the bowl trips. This was due to the annual North-South football battle in Montgomery. Auburn was represented by its stellar halfback, Monk Gafford, on the gridiron and by Coach Wilbur Hutsell in the training room. The largest crowd to attend an athletic event in the history of Montgomery sat under a summer sun to watch the South roll over the outclassed Yanks to the tune of 24 to 0. The 16,000 people who paid to see this all-star game' were home town folks to a large extent. Crowd Calls for Monk The biggest thrill of the game came after the Gray coaching staff sent Monk Gafford into the game to satisfy the fans who had been yelling, "We want Gafford." Monk set the stage for the victory march when he quick-kicked to the North's seven yard line. The punt was good for 56 yards and a surprise to the Blue team. • Gafford fooled the football fans again by showing them he could catch passes as well as throw them. Late in the third quarter he caught one for 23 yards and galloped over the goal line for six points. Monk had to snatch this pass between the huge Blue backs and wriggle by them before he outran the rest of the team. Gafford Stars Gafford caught five passes for a net gain of 79 yards, ran back four punts for a total of 77 yards, carried the ball from the scrimmage line three times for a gain of eight yards, and blocked and tackled with the skill of a quarterback. The end of the game found Monk kicking the ball out of bounds on the Blue seven yard line. There was much space given to the game in the leading papers, and the chief topic of interest in the write-ups was the performance of Monk Gafford. The game was covered by the Associated Press and the United Press, and their reports on the game helped to push thg^ri^iiicams off the _,_§p3rt "pages. Sports Writers Comment Zipp Newman, sports editor of the Birmingham News-Age Herald, started his story with these words: "Monk Gafford leads Rebels to glorious victory. Monk Gaf- THIS WEEK The Auburn Grille ANNOUNCES THAT TOM BULLINGTON has been selected to receive a Free Dinner for his outstanding service to Auburn during the last three years. • Each week the Auburn Grille will select an outstanding student to receive this award. 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. Betty Grable Swinging It There are two things Betty Grable would rather do above all else—dance and dance some more. The curvaceous star of 20th Century- Fox's new Technicolor musical, "Springtime in the Rockies," which opens Wednesday at the Tiger Theater, readily owns up to the ballroom bug, but she qualifies her confession slightly. Give her a standard routine devised solely for its showmanly value and executed to the accompaniment of studio music and, well, Betty will try awfully hard, but she won't really enjoy it. Her particular brand of. stepping is of the footloose variety, the kind an agile gal can literally throw herself into with zest. That's why she went about her chores in "Springtime in the Rockies" with the elan of a colleen at a high school prom. Her partner was Cesar Romero, admittedly one of Hollywood's best. The music was by Harry James and his band, just about the most popular swing outfit in the country. And the routine was the creation of Hermes Pan, a •man after Betty's own heart. Pan is the "naturalist" in his field, borrowing from the spontaneous steps of America's youth, adding a new twist here and there. But for the first time in many films, however, Betty had to look to her laurels. There was fiery Carmen Miranda, who all will admit can toss a torso with the best of them. And to make the picture complete, Charlotte Greenwood^ she of the long legs, performs one of her,specicuiaC,. as~5hly she can. ford shone like the midday sun in the greatest collection of football stars ever assembled on one team." A member of the sports staff of another paper started his report in this form. The Grays began to click when Gafford entered the game." Pat Moulton, sports editor of the Mobile Press-Register claims that Monk dominated the performances at the game. He said that if Gafford wasn't truly All- American he would do until one came along. LOST: Brown leather purse. Finder please keep money but return horn-rimmed glasses. No questions asked. Mail to Harriet Clemens, Dormitory 2, Auburn. • • WltatyouBuyWitU WAR BONDS • • The ordinary machine gun is too cumbersome for our Marines, especially for parachute troops. So the Marines have adopted new models of the Seising sub-machine gun, a .45-caliber weapon. The new gun used by the paratroops is a compact model with a pistol grip and a steel-frame stock which folds out of the way when not in use. You can help buy these for oui Boys in the Solomons and elsewhere with your purchase of War Bonds. Join the Payroll Savings Plan and let's "Top that ten percent." (J. $. Treasury Department f - " - » Diamonds - Watches Jewelry and Giftware Cook Jewelry Co. Eason T. Cook Class '14 115 South Eighth StiMt Opolifca. Ala. Anthology Of Student Verse Is Scheduled An anthology of poetry by American college students will be published early in the Spring, the editors of Harbinger House, New York publishing firm, announce. Work on the compilation of the volume has already begun, and manuscripts are now sought. Verse by all students, whether graduate or undergraduate, will be eligible for consideration. Any student may submit an unlimited number of poems, but no single poem should be more than 60 l i n e s in length. Manuscripts should be typewritten or legibly handwritten, on one side of the paper only. Manuscripts should be submitted prior to January 30, 1943. They should be addressed to Editors, College Poetry Anthology, Harbinger House, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y., and must be accompanied by return postage. Students may submit verse at once, or write for a folder giving full information. Cigarette Manufacturer Urges Citizens to Send Cartons to Soldiers The current theme of advertising for Chesterfield cigarettes urges listeners and readers to back up the men in uniform by sending them cigarettes made in the U. S. A. On the distant fronts, like Africa and the South Pacific, next to a letter from home there is nothing more welcome than their favorite brand of American-made cigarettes, and Chesterfield urges that these popular messages of cheer be sent much more often to those of our friends who are serving on the battlefields of the world. "Start the New Year Right" say the headline, "With the Right Combination for More Smoking Pleasure." The advertisement is illustrated .xiWK the picture of an attractive young woman dressed in the uniform of the American Women's Voluntary Services. In one hand she holds a sheaf of war bonds and stamps and in the other a letter and a carton of Chesterfields. WANTED TO BUY: 5"x7" view Camera with F-4.5 Portrait Lens, Mrs. Pelham. Gymnasium. Home Ec Department Makes Another First Home Management House Is First of Its Kind in the Nation By JOHNNIE HOVEY Already outstanding because of the vastness of its organization, the home economics department of A. P. I. has scored again, this t i m e making itself k n o wn throughout the United States with a farm home management house. Although home management houses where homemaking is practiced on high and low income budgets are not new, Auburn is the first college to practice rural homemaking with a house for. that purpose alone. And because the experiment is so new, the students and the faculty members involved have very little foundation to work from. The financial and general living conditions are based as nearly as possible on the corresponding conditions of the average Alabama farm family of six. Home Finished in July The Auburn farm home management house was completed early in July and six women students, seniors in home management and home demonstration, moved in July 20 for six weeks of practical training in rural homemaking. Miss Elizabeth Martin, director, lives in the house so that she is with each group of girls. The girls carry a 13 hour school course and manage the house with a cow, a calf, 49 young chickens, some hens and a garden to care for. They eut and cure their meat, make hominy, make their own cheese and butter and they are learning to make soap. Fruit Is Canned During the summer they canned 750 quarts of fruit and vegetables and a supply of jams and -jellies;- This.is..more .than.is canned by the average farm family in Alabama. The house, barn, and smoke house, built from plans that were drawn from blueprints approved by Farm Security, cost approximately $3000 and are three-quarters of a mile from the campus. It is simply furnished with maple furniture. Rugs, made by the girls, are scattered throughout the house; the matteresses, cup towels, and some curtains were made by the girls. Vegetables Raised Almost any Saturday afternoon the girls can be found digging away in the garden. For a while they supplied the cook with fresh vegetables every day. They have set out peach, apple, and pear trees, newberry and youngberry bushes, and strawberry plants. They are making plans to landscape the grounds with the cooperation of the horticulture department. Social life at the farm house is not lacking. The girls have parties that are full of fun and good food. They are often hostesses to faculty members and college officials. Recently, Miss Zelma Patchin, head of home management at Louisiana State Women's Teachers College, and Miss Jean Mc- Collum, supervisor of home management of the same college, spent the day with them, learning the organization of the house. Telephone Welcomed The most welcome addition to the house was the telephone, which came just in time for Christmas. The house is equipped with electricity, running water, and a heater, range and fireplace for warmth. The students' mail is not delivered to them at the house, but they must get it on their way to classes each morning. Although the Auburn home management house is still in the experimental stage, the students who have spent six weeks there in training agree among themselves that it is a success. Patronize Our Advertisers! 'SET THE URGE TO HELP PURSE HITLER/ Men and Women Instructors Needed for War Service Jobs Hundreds of persons —men or women—are needed for important war service jobs as instructors at Seymour Johnson Field, Brigadier General Walter J. Reed, commanding general of the field, has announced. Seymour Johnson Field is an air mechanics' school in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. By employing civilian instructors, many skilled enlisted men now serving as instructors will be released for combat duty in ground crews of the Army Air Forces. General Reed said. Technical experience" is not essential to qualify for an instructor's job. Acceptable applicants are paid the regular salary during the training period. To qualify as an instructor at a beginning salary of $2,000 a year —about $40 a week—a person must be a high school graduate or equivalent, at least 18 years of age and a citizen of the United States. In addition, he must meet one of these five qualifications: 1. 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Instructors ,will train the men who will go from Seymour Johnson Field to fighting fronts throughout the world." Women as well as men can be valuable as instructors in aviation mechanics, according to Col. Wood. In some phases women are proving even more valuable than men. Applicants may come or send their applications to Seymour Johnson Field for an interview with a Civil Service representative. * MA/6- T/PS • WHAT CIGARETTE GIVES SMOKERS WHAT THEY WANT START m i * * * * WGHT , . JQ43 a p«ck °* " Make you- <££%, ond en** * ° * Che.»*«W s *B» WM yoo .v.„.hin9 y » "k» y0„ t«H* That's v*y. y " f ^ „„., b.y « \ > b . « . , " • I " E ' •„ U3 Tone in on *«§» F0r More B ^ S g *»** W™ VUtor, Ton.. «*«»»££ f * <* f f wtm Cof/rijbi 1>4}, hootn * Unu Toucco Ca BUY WAR BONDS WRITE LETTERS CHESTERFIELDS |
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