1943-02-16 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUME LXVI ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1943 NUMBER 62
Aviation Cadets
!78 Students To Leave
Sunday, February 28
College Record Transcript Should Be Carried
By Cadets to Commanding Officer in Miami
Captain Solomon of the 4th Service Command informed
college officials over 'phone Tuesday morning that 178 men
enlisted as Aviation Cadets at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
will be ordered to active duty on Sunday, February
28, at Miami Beach, Fla.
Unofficially it was explained by Kirtley Brown, Armed
Forces Representative, that these
Called to Duty
men, who are called to duty on
February 28, could without dam­age
to their standing with the
Air Corps, report to Miami Beach
one day late, or on Monday,
March 1.
Captain Solomon stated that, if
possible, each man should take
with him to Miami a complete
transcript of his college record.
If this is not possible, the college
will send the transcript as soon as
possible to the Commanding Of­ficer,
Army Air Forces Basic
Training Center No. 4, Miami
Beach, Fla.
"These Auburn men should by
all means complete this quarter's
work at Auburn," said Captain
Solomon. "Their college record as
shown by the transcript will have
a distinct bearing on their future
specialized training in the Air
Corps," he added.
There will be an important
meeting of men enlisted as Avi­ation
Cadets this afternoon at
5 p. m. in Langdon Hall. At
this lime announcements con­cerning
special final examina­tions
to be arranged for all
Cadets being ordered to active
duty on February 28 will be
made.
A list of all men who are to re­ceive
orders to report to the Air
Corps on February 28 will be sent
to Mr. Brown Saturday, February
20. The list will be posted on the
bulletin board on the first floor
of Samford Hall.
The orders for these students
who live in the area covered by
the 4th Service Command will be
sent to their homes. The states in
the 4th Service Command are
Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida. The orders
of those students who live out­side
the 4th Service Command
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Players End
Run of Farce
Tomorrow
Play Has Already
Been Presented To
Five Packed Houses
The sixth performance of the
Auburn Player farce, "Petticoat
Fever," will be presented tonight
at 8:15 p. m. at the Y Hut. Five
packed houses have already en­joyed
the very adequate effort of
the Players during the past week.
The final night of. presentation -in
the seven-day run of the play will
be .tomorrow. Admission is free
to all regularly-enrolled students
presenting their student activities
book at the door. Others are
charged twenty-five cents. Tickets
may not be purchased in advance,
but are being sold at the door
from 7:30 to 8:15 each night.
In the leading role of "Petti­coat
Fever" is Tommy Allison, as
Dascom Dinsmore, a Labrador
wireless operator. Starring oppo­site
Allison is Patty McCoy, as
Ethel. Robert Blackburn, who
turned in a particularly fine job
as "Macbeth" during the Fall
Quarter production, is cast in the
part of Sir James Fenton. Clara
is played by Madge Jarrard.
Lewis Richmond, a new mem­ber
of the Auburn Players, is cast
as Scotty, a sailor. Willis Dickey,
Milton A. Strain, and Eliah Perl-man
have minor roles in the play,
while Brownie Holmberg, Miriam
Richmond, and" Margaret Toomer
play non-speaking parts.
Professor Telfair B. Peet di­rected
"Petticoat Fever." The set
for the play was designed by a
member of the art faculty.
Mrs. Harriet Ellis
Is Injured by Fall
From Jumping Horse
Mrs. Harriett Ellis, librarian at
the API Library, was injured
yesterday afternoon when her
horse, "Walter G." of the API
stables, refused a jump. Mrs. Ellis
is a member of the ladies' riding
class and, although an equestrien­ne
of several years' experience,
was jumping for only her sec­ond
time.
Suffering a bruised shoulder
and wrenched back, Mrs. Ellis'
condition is not considered seri­ous,
and it was learned last night
that she was resting comfortably
at Drake Hospital. Captain Louie
James of the Auburn Military De­partment
is in charge of the class.
Delta Sigma Pi Party
All members of Delta Sigma Pi
fraternity planning to attend the
"bir" party tonight are reminded
to meet at 7:45 p. m. midway be­tween
Auburn and Opelika. Those
who promised to bring their
checker, monopoly, or anagram
sets are urged to remember these.
Auburn to Train
Army Engineers
Marmion Opens
Sermon Series
Sunday Night
The Rev. William H. Marmion
of St. Mary's Church, Birming­ham,
delivered Sunday evening
the opening sermon of a series
that is to continue through Fri­day
evening of this week. Speak­ing
on the subject of "Conversion
a n d Church-membership" t he
Rev. Marmion stressed the im­portance
of attending church and
the need for united efforts of de­nominations
toward closer rela­tionship
and the need for pulling
together of each church. This op­ening
discourse was presented at
the Methodist Church. Five other
sermons will be given each night
Monday through Friday at the lo­cal
Episcopal Church at 7:45 by!
the Rev. Marmion. !
A graduate of Rice Institute and I
Virginia Seminary, the Rev. Mr. j
Marmion served as rector of an j
Episcopal Church in San Antonio, j
Texas, before going to Birming­ham.
At present he is chairman of
the Birmingham Interracial Com­mission
and the Forward In
Service Commission and has
served as president of the Birm­ingham
Ministerial Union.
Actual Contract To
Be Let after Check
Of All Facilities
Last week the Army, with the
approval of the chairman of the
War Manpower Commission, an­nounced
plans for the utilization
of the educational facilities and
personnel of Alabama Polytechnic
Institute for the specialized train­ing
of engineers needed at the
present time in the United States
Army. Auburn was selected by a
joint committee created with au­thority
to select non-Federal ed­ucational
institutions for the war
training programs. This commit­tee
was composed of three repre­sentatives
from the Army, three
from the Navy, and three from
the War Manpower Commission.
This committee is to operate, in
the future, under rules and regu­lations
prescribed by the Chair­man
of the War Manpower Com­mission,
after consultation with
the Secretaries of War and Navy.
Although the committee has ap­proved
the first group of institu­tions
for the placement of the in­dicated
training programs (in
which group Auburn is included),
it has been made clear by the
War and Navy Departments that
the actual contracts will be let
only to those institutions whose
facilities prove acceptable to the
Auburn Men Advised
When to Expect Call
Latest War Department Information Is Dated
January 27, February 2, and February 10
According to information received from the War Depart­ment
dated January 27, February 2, and February 10, 1943
the following facts concerning the call to active duty of Au­burn
students are apparent. Changes in these plans may be
made by the War Department at any time. Notice of any fu­ture
changes, if any are made,
designated branch of the Armed
Services and to whom the pro­posed
contracts are acceptable.
The committee has pointed out
that it will continue to approve
other institutions and in some
cases additional training programs
for institutions, like API, which
have already been approved.
All contracts made by the
Army and Navy for training be­fore
the creation of "the special
committee are to continue in
force. The two armed branches of
the Armed Forces have between
600 and 700 such training projects
already operating in non-Federal
institutions. Most of these are on
college and university campuses.
Additional Invitations
Are Ordered by Liles
Duncan Liles, chairman of the
invitations committee, announced I
yesterday that 400 additional in­vitations
had been ordered for
those seniors who were unable to
buy theirs at the specified day last
week.
Liles said that these invitations
could be obtained from Jimmy
Butt or himself. Butt can be
reached at the Pi Kappa Phi
house phone 363, and Liles may
be contacted at the Sigma Nu
house, phone 259.
He continued and asked all
seniors who wanted more invita­tions
or to place an original order
to call before Monday night. The
invitations will be the same price,
16 cents, as they were before.
Louise Wooldridge Is
New President of Dana
King Gatchell Club
Louise Wooldridge was elect­ed
the new president of the
Dana King Gatchell club at their
last regular meeting. Louise suc­ceeds
Mary Guarisco as the head
of the club. She will assume her
duties of office at the beginning
of the new quarter in March.
Other officers elected at the
same time were: Juanita Cross,
vice-president; Bernice Dryer,
secretary; Ann McClurkin, treas­urer;
Dottie Norman, song leader;
Betty Lindley, pianist; and Mary
Wurst, reporter.
Miss Wooldridge is majoring in
dietics and will become a senior
in June. She is from Eufaula and
is non-sorority. She has issued
an invitation to all the new
and old members of the club
to be present at the first meet­ing
on March 11 when the in­stallation
of the new officers will
be held.
At the close of the last meeting
a tribute was paid to Mary Guar­isco
for the work which she had
accomplished during t h e past
year.
are
will be published in The Auburn
Plainsman.
1. Students not in the ERC who
are taking pre-medicine, pre-veterinary
and pre-dental courses
and junior and sophomore (see
definition for "sophomore") stu­dents
taking approved technical
engineering courses (see last par­agraph
of 1.) will be deferred if
voluntarily inducted prior to June
1, 1943. They must secure from
their dean a letter to the Com­mand
Induction Station stating
that they are pre-medical, pre-veterinary
and pre-dental stu­dents
taking approved course or
junior taking approved engineer­ing
course. This letter will state
when the Spring Quarter will
end and that upon induction the
student should be placed on in­active
duty under the provision
of War Department memorandum
No. W150-1-43. This letter will be
delivered by the student to the
Commanding Officer immediately
upon reporting to the Recruiting
and Induction Station. When this
letter is received by the Com­manding
Officer, the following
action will be taken:
a. Immediately after induction,
orders will be issued releasing
the inductee from active service
and transferring him to the en­listed
reserve corps.
b. Service record orders and al- j W a r Department for the volun-lied
papers will be forwarded t o | t a r y Auction of 2nd year Ad-
Headquarters 4th Service Com-1v a n c e c o u r s e students not in ERC.
m a n ( j ! Instructions later.
9. First year advance course stu­dents
ROTC who are in ERC will
3. Is in good standing accord­ing
to standards of API.
4. Has completed % of course
required for degree by Feb. 26.
5. Sophomores in ERC (see defi­nition
in 4 above) and Juniors in
ERC taking approved courses in
Engineering, will continue on in­active
status until end of the
Spring Quarter.
6. Engineer Seniors in ERC
(non ROTC) taking approved
technical engineering courses, re­main
on inactive status until
graduation or the end of the
spring quarter whichever is earl­ier.
Then to active duty for basic
military training.
7. Definition: "First Year Ad­vanced"
and Second Year Ad­vanced"
ROTC students refer to
the status of. the student at the
beginning of the Spring Quarter.
8. Second Year Advanced
course ROTC who are in ERC
will be called to active duty on
the initiation of the Army Spec­ialized
Training Program at Au­burn.
They will continue in school
until graduation if graduation oc­curs
prior to June 30, 1943. They
then will be detailed to their re­spective
branch service schools
and commissioned in the Offi­cers'
Reserve Corps on comple­tion
of the three months course.
Arrangement will be made by the
(The approved technical engi­neering
courses are Aeronautical
be called to active duty upon ini-at
Auburn. They will remain in
school to the end of the spring
quarter when they will receive
military training in replacement
training center in lieu of that
normally given in the second
°* year advanced course. At the end
of this training those selected for
further technical training will be
detailed for such instruction un-fder
the Army Specialized Train-
Specialized j i n g program. Others after further
! instruction will be sent to Officer
Candidate School and after that
course be commissioned in the
Pre-Law Club Meets
There will be a meeting of the
Pre-Law club tonight in Broun
Hall at 7:30. All members are
urged to be present. The meeting
will be in room 302.
Engineering, C h e m i ^ a i . E n g i o e e r . , ^ Army Program
ing, Civil Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engi­neering,
R a d i o Engineering,
Chemists, Physicists.
2. Pre-Vet, Pre-Dent. Pre-Med
students in ERC, will remain on
inactive status until close
Spring Quarter. They will then
go to active duty and if selected
for further medical training, will
be detailed for such instructions
under the Army
Training Program.
3. Veterinary students in ERC
will remain on inactive status un­til
end of Spring Quarter. They' Officers' Reserve Corps.
will then be ordered to active 10. Air Corps Reserve students
duty and continue their course( will be ordered to active duty by
under War Department contract.
Veterinary students commis­sioned
Med. Adm. Corps may at
the same time (end of Spring
Quarter) resign such commission,
enlist as privates and be detailed
same as men now in ERC.
4. Sophomore in ERC taking
approved courses in Engineering
is defined:
1. Is in the Enlisted Reserve
Corps.
2. Is enrolled as a full time stu­dent.
the Commanding General, Army
Air Forces. Latest information
received is that those orders will
issue at the close of the Winter
Quarter.
11. Other ERC. not included
above, will be ordered to active
duty at the end of the Winter
Quarter. Orders will be effective
14 days after close of the quarter
or as soon there after as practical
to avoid congestion at reception
center. Men will be assigned to
(Continued on Page 4)
Army Questions and Answers Given by Government for Students
Editor's Note: Present war de­velopments
have raised many
questions in the minds of college
men and women everywhere. To
help answer some of the ques­tions
which are being brought
up and to aid students in mak­ing
decisions about their college
careers, the following questions
and answers have been prepared
and are printed for college stu­dents
everywhere. More questions
will be printed in the future.
These questions are the result
of research on the part of several
national councils and student
federations and take in more than
200 colleges over the United
States. They, and those to follow,
are the ones most widely asked.
What is the most useful thing
we can do in these several months
before we are drafted?
A. The President and other
Government officials in the War
and Navy Departments have con­sistently
urged that students who
are competent should remain at
their studies until in the regular
course of Selective Service they
are called to some other duty.
The Government needs trained
men and women for both the
armed forces and civilian life, in­cluding
war industries. However,
you should get into good physical
condition, and spend some of
your spare time reading about
this new kind of war we are fight­ing
and the reasons we are fight­ing
it.
Now that we aren't allowed to
enlist, how are they going to de­cide
who goes to the Army, who
to the Navy, who to the Marines,
who to the Coast Guards? How
will they decide whether to send
us back to college for more study?
How will they decide where we
belong in some branch of the serv­ice—
that is, in the Army Air
Forces or the Rangers or the Mili­tary
Police or the Infantry?
A. Men who enter the armed
service through Selective Service
will have opportunity to indicate
their preferences. No assurance
can be given in any- individual
case that this expressed prefer­ence
will be followed, because
each branch of the service not
only needs a certain number of
inductees but it needs inductees
of certain types of ability and
training.
From those inducted e a ch
armed service will determine how
many and for what purpose men
will be sent to college for train­ing.
In selecting these men, the
services will have the assistance
of special personnel officers from
colleges appointed for the pur­pose.
By this device it is hoped
that each man will be enabled to
prepare for that arm of the serv­ice
for which he is best suited.
The Army and Navy will do their
utmost to give you the kind of
training and the kind of work
for which you are best fitted.
Q. Has the Government any
over-all plan as to the number
to be soldiers, workers, farmers,
and doctors? Or is it just going
to put us all in the Army and
hope that the problem works
out right?
A. There is gradually taking
form under direction of the War
Manpower Commission a policy
whose principal objective is to as­sure
each man the best chance
possible to render his service
where it will count for the most
in the war. This will involve men
being assigned to farm, to pro­fessions
and the like as well as
the armed forces.
Q. Is there any way by which
I can continue my interrupted
studies while I am in the Army?
A. Yes. Any enlisted man in
the armed forces, after he has
been in active service for at least
four months, can enroll with
either the Army Institute or with
any of the 76 universities or col­leges
cooperating with the War
Department in offering corre­spondence
courses. The Army In­stitute
awards a Certificate of
Proficiency u p o n satisfactory
completion of work, while cours­es
offered by the universities car­ry
college credit. In addition, sev­eral
hundred thousand inductees
are to be sent back to college for
special work.
Q. Is there any way pre-medi­cal
students can finish their
courses?
A. The plan contemplates that
enough pre-medical students will
be retained in pre-medical courses
to keep the medical schools filled.
Some of these will be provided by
the Army and some by the Navy
and probably some outside of both
the Army and Navy.'The Army
and Navy contingents will be
members of the regular training
programs and thus will be in the
pay of the armed forces.
Q. Does the country really need
more educated men now? Or
should we all plan to go either
into the Army or into production
jobs?
A. The problem is how many
men can be kept in schools and
colleges to provide the trained,
educated personnel needed for
both the armed services and the
war industries, while we also
meet the immediate requirements
of the armed forces and of indus­tries.
So far as they are free to
do so, it is wiser for men to
continue their education but to
direct their studies toward great­er
war usefulness. '
Q. You have a plan for train­ing
and using college men for
war. But this is a total war. What
plans have you for training and
using college women?
A. Women are able to do most
things which men customarily do.
In order to relieve men to do the
things only men can do in the
war, women should train for a
wide range of activities. The War
Manpower Commission is d e ­veloping
proposals for utilizing
colleges and universities for train­ing
both men and women in a
wide variety of activities useful
in the war effort. Announcement
of these plans will be made in
the near future, but in the mean­time
colleges are going forward
as they should, developing all
sorts of useful curricula for wo­men.
Q. Should women stay in col­lege
or find useful jobs?
A. Women must decide this
question for themselves. The ans­wer
in any individual case de­pends
upon the interests and abil­ities
of the woman in question, the
availability of a war - connected
job and the college facilities at
hand.
Q. Should women get jobs on
farms next summer, or should
they go to summer school and try
to finish their college courses as
quickly as possible?
A. When the shortage of farm
labor is acute and where the work
is the type women can~ perform,
many college women should help
with such farm labor. No gener­alization
can be given. The ques­tion
must be answered in terms
of the woman and the job.
Q. What will happen to work­ing
women and professional wo­men
when the men come back
from war to take their old jobs?
A. Plans are being made for
orderly demobilization and as­sistance
in finding employment
after the war for all those in the
armed forces and war industries.
Following the last war, women
were dropped from many jobs
which they had taken on during
the war (e.g., street car conduc­tors),
but many women continued
to work on the jobs and in the
occupations which had for the
first time been opened to women
during the war. It is likely that
after this war there will be a
wider range of jobs open to wo­men
than ever before; but the
extent of women's employment
will be governed by the general
economic situation and availabili­ty
of employment for men as well
as women.
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SAAA MAT JANTIOR OF THE
U OF ALABAMA CHEMISTRY SCHOOL.
HAS. THROUGH 29 YEARS' EXPERIENCE,
LEARNED EVERY FORMULA IN THE
QUAUTATfc/E ANALYSIS BOOK. HE IS
EXPERT AT ANALYZING CHEMICAL COM­POUNDS
EST SIMPLY "SWELUN" EM
TASTIN' 'EM n ft AND 'DEMnFYIN1 &kt
TKHMI«ue.
IHE UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON OFFERED
A .SPECIAL JANITORIAL
COURSE DURING THE
LAST SUMMER SCHOOL
SESSION/
Stuff and Nonsense
By RALPH STANFORD
Do You Know:
What year Alabama Poly was founded?
What year we first had a football team and who was the
team's first coach?
Who was the first team we played and the score of the
game?
The approximate enrollment of API today?
The year Auburn went co-ed?
* * *
Memorandum To Seniors:
Don't forget that little reunion in "53"—The class has a
nice little nest egg in the form of a war bond in the bank to
spend on the occasion. Hope we can allymake it—Might be a
good idea to leave the kids at home.
Could Be:
You can't go wrong
With Ethel Stall
That's why the boys
So seldom call.
* * . *
With the quarter shortened it won't be long before we'll be
seeing:
Finals, finals everywhere
With drops and drops of ink
With never a prof who'll leave the room
And allow a guy to think.
* * *
Opinion of Quizzes:
Almost any quiz goes to prove that a fool can ask more
questions than a wise man can answer.
* * #
When finals are all over you'll probably have something
like this to say:
I think that I shall never see,
r^ An "F" as lovely as a "B".
A "B" whose rounded form is pressed;
Upon the Record of the blessed—
"F's" are made by fools like me
But only God can make a "B".
Thanks to B. Mitchell and Columbus, Georgia, for that one.
The Wolf:
If he parks his little flivver
Down beside the moonlit river
And you feel his heart a-quiver;
Baby, he's a wolf!
If he says you're gorgeous lookin'
And your dark eyes set him cookin'
But your eyes ain't where he's lookin';
Baby, he's a Wolf!
If by chance when you're a-kissin',
And you feel his heart a missin',
And you talk but he won't listen;
Baby, he's a wolf!
If he says that you're an eyeful,
While his hands begin to trifle,
And his heart beats like a rifle;
Baby, he's a wolf!
If his arms are strong as sinew,
And he stirs the gypsy in you,
And you want him close agin' you
Baby, You're The Wolf!
"The Wolf" is compliments of the gal from the Angel Farm.
* * - *
Answers to Questions:
Alabama Poly was founded Oct. 1, 1859—was known as the
East Alabama College.
Auburn had its first football team in 1891, and Dr. George
Petrie was its first coach.
The first game was with—of all people—Georgia. The score
10 to 0—favor Auburn., -
Your guess is as good as mine on the present enrollment of
the school—Changes daily.
API went co-ed in 1892—Happy Day.
Amazing Russian Offensive Not Slackening T i g e r S p i r it
I t ahnnt t w o n t w mnn+Vie art/-. It was about twenty months ago +tVh1a0+t **.,-.«, „ „ - . 1 4.: _JU. xi_^„ xrt _ -. • * * •
Adolph Hitler, from his headquarters in
Berlin, announced that the armies of So­viet
Russia were annihilated, "never to rise
again." And yet, over a year and a half
after the German leader's optimistic, if
rather boastful, communique, the Russian
armies are in the midst of the greatest of­fensive
of this, and perhaps to prove great­est
of any other war. Climaxed by the an­nouncement
Sunday of the recapture of
the great industrial city of Rostov, key
city to the entrances to the rich Caucasus,
the first phase of the mighty offensive
has rolled the Nazi Wehrmacht all the way
back from the Grozny and Maikop oil
fields to their secondary defense lines in
the Ukraine.
The primary purpose of Hitler's south­ern
thrust into Russia was to capture the
oil fields to their secondary defense lines
in the Ukraine.
The primary purpose of Hitler's southern
thrust into Russia was to capture the oil of
Grozny and Baku, and that purpose seemed
almost accomplished When, a few short
weeks ago, the epic Soviet stand at Stalin­grad
halted the Nazi drive to the East.
Seemingly inspired by the strength and
determination of the defenders of Stalin­grad,
the soldiers of the Red army began a
series of offensives that drove the invaders
from one bastion after another until, as it
now stands, advances of some 400 miles
have been made in certain sectors. After
falling back from their advance positions
deep in the Caucasus, the German troops
retired to the defense line that they had
previously established; a line which had
Rostov for its southern anchor, and pro­ceeded
northward to Kharkov and Kursk.
But the Russians, it seemed, were just gain­ing
momentum. After crushing a German
army of some three hundred thousand men
amid the ruins of Stalingrad, the Russians
pressed their advantage and swept steadily
westward where they encircled and
smashed the defenses of Voronezh, then
Kursk, and this week Rostov and Voroshil­ovgrad.
Now the Red armies are within ar­tillery
range of Kharkov, the last remain­ing
factor in the erstwhile German defense
line. And they seem to be maintaining
their pace. After the fall of Kharkov, which
seems imminent, the Russians will prob­ably
concentrate their efforts upon the an­nihilation
of the huge Nazi army trapped
in the Caucasus and around Rostov.
What will follow, and what events will
take place in the fertile grain fields of the
Ukraine only the Russian strategists can
tell, but we may be sure that it is causing
many sleepless nights for a certain ex-paperhanger,
tossing and turning in his
bed in Berchtesgarten. A.L.
By EARL CLEGHORN
Long Distance Call Racket Exposed
One of the most vicious and clever rack­ets
ever to assert itself upon this campus
has just been exposed by several defraud­ed
students. It seems that one or more im­postors,
assuming the name of an Auburn
student, has preyed upon the generosity
and sympathy of parents of different stu­dents.
By placing a long distance call to the
parents of a student, preferably the moth­er,
the impostor introduces himself as an
Auburn student and claims close friend­ship
with the son of the usually frightened
parent. Telling a tale of woe, involving an
automobile accident in most cases, the
clever actor expresses the need for a cer­tain
amount of money to enable him to re­turn
to school. His solemn promise is giv­en
to repay the "close" and uninformed
"friend." The devoted parent in most cases
complies with the request and wires, the
money immediately, to learn later that he
has been swindled.
One parent received a call late at night,
and to make sure of the "close friendship,"
phoned her son at Auburn, and was in­formed
that no such person was known by
the student. Later it developed that the
student, whom the crook impersonated,
was in Auburn the entire week, while the
call was made from North Carolina to Vir­ginia,
where most of the cases have oc­curred.
Evidently the impostor possesses an Au­burn
student directory and picks his vic­tims
at random from the book. A warning^
to parents might prove helpful toward
bringing this unscrupulous party to swift
justice.
Meanwhile, officers of the states in
which the racket is being carried on are
working on the case. R.S.
Legend of Nazi Invincibility Blasted
The legend of the invincible Nazi ma­chine
has been broken at last. Many are
the stories behind the breaking of that le­gend.
When Hitler invaded Russia there
were very few people who conceded the
Russians the slightest chance of repeling
the great Nazi hordes. Even the great ex­perts,
H. V. Kaltenborn, Upton Close, Mor­gan
Batey, and many others told their list­eners
why they., thought the Russians
would be crushed in six weeks.
When the Russians retreated and were
pushed back to such places as Moscow,
Leningrad, and Stalingrad, they were far
from defeated. But, the entire world had
practically given up all hope. That is, all
but the gallant Russians themseves.
All of Russia's available manpower was
mobilized. Her women took up arms and
stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the men
at the front, and died with them. In the
cold winters, when the Germans were suf­fering
starvation and freezing to death, the
fight went on. Wherever the Russians
were forced back they always followed
the scorched-earth policy. Nothing was left
for the invaders.
Everyone knows the story of the almost
super-human resistance exhibited by the
Russians in Stalingrad. The battle for this
strategically important city raged for
weeks in the streets and from house to
house. Finally the Germans were ousted
and have been in reverse since then.
Until recently we heard much about the
"master race." If the Germans captured by
the Russians are any indication of a "mas­ter
race," then we need not quake at the
thought of the German army. Those pris­oners
had been poorly fed, ill-clothed,
dirty, and their morale was no longer un­shakable.
They were glad to surrender,
and many of them admitted that Hitler
was doomed. A.H.
Editor'* 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.
News of the week—Japs claim
they have the American people on
the short end of the score. It
seems the Nippo radio has been
broadcasting thaf the folks in the
States will soon crack up as they
can only get one cup of coffee a
day. They don't know about the
various substitutes — such as
"Snore-no-less" — the dripless
draps for drips in draped Zoots.
* * *
While reading some old rules
and regulations for co-eds in the
late 1890's, I found some strange
and unique rules, such as—girls
could not study in same room as
boys—could not sit in chapel with
boys—the fems had to walk a
straight path to and from class
with their face straight ahead—
girls could make dates for
church and they usually did, for
months ahead.
* * *
Now we will examine the life of
"Mae B. Restricted," the modern
version of an Auburn coed. She
goes to class in a round about
way. It its raining she pulls off
her shoes; but if it is not raining
and there is no possible chance of
rain, she pulls on her floppy
boots, raincoat, and bandanna,
and starts out in the general di­rection
of her class.
* * *
First she goes by "Pop" Ben­son's
for a morning dope or lime
ade or reasonable facsimile, next
she goes by the "Grille" for some
good coffee and thence to class.
She trips lightly into the room
only 15 or 20 minutes late, flops
into a seat, winks at "Goat" Go-forth,
the campus smoothie, and
gazes at the outraged prof in com­plete
and sweet innocence.
* * *
I would like to sling a word of
praise to a retreating member of
the Auburn Plainsman staff, a
member of the beheckled class of
columnists—the author of Column
Left, Bruce Martin. Bruce be­came
a columnist last June and
has carried on in that capacity for
a school year. He succeeded a
writer who can never be equalled
as an original college humorist,
none other than Herbert Martin,
his brother. Bruce is the last of
the Martin clan to serve on the
staff and take it from me, "The
Plainsman" will never be the
same without a shot of that old
Martin spirit to keep it going.
Good luck to you—Bruce—and
may the Martin spirit never per­ish.
* * *
I sort o' figured I had better
write the above this week as the
quarter might end tomorrow—one
never knows, does one? Things
happen so fast around here poor
ole Willie Willie keeps confused
and does some mighty queer"
things such as trying to rent a
room in the quadrangle—or buy
two cups of coffee—or hitch hike
—or purchase a new pair of clod
covers (shoes). Dementia distrac-tia
equals confusion.
* * *
Orchid of the week—the bunch
o' buds goes to that cultured class
of college culprits— the Auburn
Players — who turned in a re­markable
piece of production in
their latest play, "Petticoat Fev­er".
The actors were so realistic
in their repective roles that I for­got
it was a play and found my­self
holding my breath toward
the end and wondering if "Das-com
Dinsomore" would get the
right girl. Lets have more— more
often.
* * *
Auburn and Alabama may meet
on the fields of athletic endeavor
after the war if the movement in
the State Legislature that has
been discussed recently goes
through. A committee has been
working on the streamlining of
courses at both schools and the
athletic relationship of b o th
schools has been throughly dis­cussed.
Here's hoping, and a toast
to the Legislature.
* * *
To you students who may leave
this week or sooner—good luck
and remember you have been a
member of the Auburn student
body. Wnerever you go, carry that
old Auburn spirit. And just for
old times sake—when you are
strolling across the campus of the
University of Tokyo, give a "War
Eagle" and watch the yellow rats
take to their holes.
* * *
I. Ben Skunt says his neighbors
are unfriendly because they re­fuse
to lend him their sugar ra­tion
cards. He says he only want­ed
them to use as money in his
monopoly game; but they thought
he wanted to use them in his
"white lightning" business. Sus­picious
cusses.
* * *
The wearisome wolf, Willie,
wistfully whispers these woeful
words; Rita Hay worth is a classy
lassie with a sassy chassis.
* * *
Lets let bygones be bygones,
but buy bonds, boys.
Crossed Cannon and Castles
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Question: From which side do
you mount a horse?
Answer: The right (meaning
correct) side.
* * *
At first and second day during
week of Feb. 15-20, on which
there is no PE 100, a training film
on "Fire Direction" will be shown
in class room No. 3 at the Stables
at 1610. All F. A. Seniors and
Juniors will attend on first and
second day respectively.
* * *
On a Sophomore writ the stu­dents
were asked to define sev­eral
common terrain features.
Following are some of their def­initions
of a "Fill."
1. Spac#- that has been filled
with gravel.
2. Terrain feature in which a
hill has been made.
3. Part of a mountain that has
blown away.
4. Is the packing of dirt around
an object.
5. When there is a high em­bankment
along a road the fill
is the gully or low part beside it.
6. A Delta.
7. A rise in the ground.
8. A rise near fairly level ground.
9. A place where elevation is
"Lest" than surrounding Terri­tory.
* * *
Juniors in deliberate prepara­tion
of Fire will be responsible
' for Chapters 7 and 8, F.A.B. 161
on final examination.
* * *
Question: How is citizenship at­tained?
Answer: Either by birth or be­ing
neutralized.
* * »
Among a list of descriptions of
terrain features on an Engineer
Sophomore pop quiz was this one:
A saddle is a leather thing a horse
wears to protect him when a hu­man
rides.
* * *
Sgt. F. A.: What is a battery?
Pvt. Buck: A battery is used for
lighting up the enemy position.
* * *
Instructor: On the 105 mm
Howitzer, what is the automatic
switch on the emergency battery
used for?
Freshman: To furnish power for
the lights so chief of section can
see where he is shooting.
* » *
Question: Name the components
of the Army of the United States.
Answer: Administrative, Sup­ply,
and Fighting.
Wkatyau&tufWitk
WAR BONDS
That new cooking range, whether
it be gas, electric or otherwise, is
something to look forward to when
the War is won. But you can start
saving now to buy it. Put a definite
amount, every payday, ten percent
of your pay check . . . into War
Bonds today.
f—
When your Bonds mature you will
have the money ready for that new
range. You will have made a good
investment, getting back 84 for ev­ery
S3. And your purchase of War
Bonds is helping that boy, husband
or sweetheart on the lighting front.
U. S.TreaAiry Department
February 16, 1943 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
^
Rev. Mangum, Selma, To
Speak for Commencement
Dr. L. N. Duncan Will Give Diplomas To
Those Graduating; List Is Continued
The Reverend J. T. Mangum, of Selma, will deliver the
commencement address for the first war-time graduating
.class of Alabama Polytechnic Institute on Sunday morning,
February 28 at 10:30 a. m.
President L. N. Duncan will deliver the diplomas to the
294 seniors who are graduating three months ahead of time
under the new accelerated pro­gram
which was begun by the
school last June.
The list of the seniors who will
receive degrees is continued be­low
from last issue:
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics Education: Barbara
Bell, Gaylesville; Margaret Cath­erine
Gary, Comer; Emmie Mar­tin
Hunt, Ozark; Lila Kathryn
Jones, Wedowee, and Dorris Eli­zabeth
Williams, Anniston.
Bachelor of Aeronautical En­gineering:
Mathew De Pass Brin-son,
Mobile; Frederick Madison
Chisolm, Birmingham, William
Dollar Daniel, Jr., Birmingham;
James Mayes Frey, Marietta, Ga.;
McMurrey Logan Griffith, Birm-ham;
Jack Fariss Heard, Camp
Hill; Finch Morgan Jones, Mont­gomery;
James Lyle Malone,
Quincy, Fla.; Thomas Wendell
Morgan, Flomaton; Charles Al­bert
Overby, Mobile; John Lewis
Scarborough, Jr., Birmingham;
George Jackson Tankersley, De­catur;
Edward Alois Wagner, Mo­bile;
and Jack Henry Whitley,
Birmingham.
Two Types Civil Engineers
Bachelor of Civil Engineering:
John Conrad Cole (Structural),
Cullman; John Paul Crow (Ad­ministration),
Fort Payne; Wil­liam
Monroe Gregory, Birming­ham;
Cullen Fowler Harris (Struc­tural,
Montgomery; Lonnie Pres-tor.
T?r>.kinz, Jr., (Stru^,"K^
Gadsden; Charles Gideon Ker­shaw,
II, (Administration), Fort
Payne; Ralph Hicks McGee
(Structural), Randolph; Henon
Wiley Pearce (Structural) Deca­tur;
and Edwin Cook Rodgers
(Structural) Bay Minette.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineer­ing:
William Wallace Allen, Jr.,
Jacksonville, Fla.; James Walter
Barr, Montgomery; James Donnal
Barlett, Collinsville; John Paul
Brooks, Montgomery; Kermit
Roosevelt Brown, Ozark; Walter
Clements, Birmingham; William
Potts Crawford, Lincoln; Charles
Gunn Crowe, Decatur; Ralph An­gus
French, Samson; John Lewis
Griswold, Fitzpatrick; Robert Cy­rus
Haraway, Florence; John
Broadus Holt, Jr., Jackson, Miss.;
Robert William Horner, Jr., Birm-
SPEAKS TO GRADS
Society
By JEANNE TOWNSEND
THIS WEEK
The Auburn Grille
ANNOUNCES THAT
DUNCAN LILES
has been selected to receive
a Free Dinner for his out­standing
service to Auburn
during the last three years.
ingham; Richard House Houston,
Anniston.
More Electricals
Robert William Kaisner, Co­coa,
Fla.; James Preston Lewal-len,
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Edward
William Lindsay, Boyce, Va.; Sa-bert
Oglesby, Jr., Birmingham;
Milton Sanders Park, Jr., Mont­gomery;
Grady Hobson Saunders,
Montgomery; William Joseph
Schilling, Jr., Mobile; George
William Seoggins, Jr., Odenville;
Perry Alexander Seay, Brun-didge;
Jacob Robert Shepherd,
Jr., Montgomery; Ernest C.
Vaughn, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.;
Hobert Lowell Vernon, Sumiton,
and Roy Elmo Wilson, Jr., Birm­ingham.
Bachelor of Industrial Engi­neering:
James Linton Allegood,
Jr., Moultrie, Ga.; Mike Thomas
Blevins, Ensley; William Benja­min
Calhoun, Columbus, Ga.;
William James Califf, Jr., Birm­ingham;
Thomas Millroy Chalm­ers,
Jr., Birmingham; Henry Mc-
Lain Dickinson, Jr., Auburn; Ed­ward
Julian Leysath, Chapman;
Robert Green Merrill, Jr., Edge-water;
Joe Nix, Guntersville.
Bachelor of Mechanical Engi­neering:
John Cooper Ball, Jr.,
Auburn, Charles Andrew Baum-hauer,
Jr., Mobile; Randall Ray
Bell, Jr., Pensacola, Fla.; David
Groseclose Bowers, Fitzgerald,
Ga.; John Stricklin Bridges, Jr.,
Birmingham; William E. Craw­ford,
Jr., Alhambra, Calif.; Wil-
Delta Sigma Phi
Kappa chapter of Delta Sigma Phi pitched a 'brew party'
at Chewacla Park Saturday evening. The party was probably
the last large get-together for most of the members, and was
given in special honor of Curtis J. Eatman, who left Sunday
for the Army Air Corps.
One of the park's cabins served as home port and refuel­ing
station for the evening. Group singing and speeches com­prised
most of the entertainment indoors, while a few of the
livelier members enjoyed a swim (how could they?) in the
nearly freezing waters of the lake.
Dance Club
There will be an important meeting for election of officers
for the Dance Club Wednesday, February 17th, at five p. m.
All members are urged to be present at the meeting which
will be held at Alumni Gym.
Sigma Chi
The modesty of the Sigma Chi brothers led us to a great
understatement concerning the decorations for'their formal.
Excuse please?
The decorations were gorgeous, and the general opinion is
that the dance was the prettiest of the year. There were blue
streamers strung from a ring at the center of the ceiling to
the balcony, but this was a minor detail.
The object of special consideration was a huge, red, heart-shaped
box which was placed just behind the orchestra. In
white letters across the front of the heart were the words,
"Be My Valentine." At ten o'clock, while Helen Johnson,
vocalist for the Knights, sang "For You," the lid was re­moved
from the valentine. The lights were turned low, with
one spot light focused on the heart. Inside was a five foot
cross, a Sigma Chi pin, composed of flowers, mostly white
and red carnations.
The sixty-five couples later lined up for the lead out, which
was also different, as lead outs go. The top from the valentine
was placed at one end of the hall and Sigma Chis and their
dates entered the room from behind the valentine.
Miss Phyllis Kloeti led/the dance with Sam Buroughs
and was presented a bouquet of white flowers by Mrs. Lena
Zeigler, housemother of Sig fraternity. Miss Kloeti wore a
dress of white marquisette adorned with silver sequins.
Need I say more?
liam Howard Donovan, Jr., Binn-ingham;
Eric Dumont, Moblie;
J'ohn Philip Fonde, Mobile; Wil­liam
Pendleton Gaines, Birming­ham;
George Carrington Garden,
Birmingham; Walter Somerville
Going, Jr., Birmingham; John
Darwin Grimes, Decatur; Joe A.
Hamil, Jr., Columbus, Ga.; and
Edward Oscar Jones, Jr., Auburn,
Mechanics Continued
Charles John Magnuson, Birm­ingham;
Thomas Isaac Mastin,
Jr., Montgomery; Charles David­son
Orrison, Anniston; C a rl
Thornton Pace, Oxford, Burton
Goodloe Peterson, Whistler; Ho­ward
William Putman, Birming­ham;
William Cooper Richter,
Savannah, Ga.; Estes Bailey Sher-rill,
Tuscumbia; Percy McCall
Smith, Jr., Birmingham; William
Howard Trammell, Warrior; John
Bonard Wilson, Jr., Auburn;
Clayton Godfrey Wright, Birm­ingham;
and George P o r t e r;
Young, Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelo; of Textile Engineer­ing:
William Joseph Dttacan, III,
(Administration), Decatur; Jess
Willard Meherg (Manufacturing)
Fayetteville.
We Lose the Girls
Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics: Beulah Elizabeth
Crawford (Home Demonstration),
Marion; Bertha Ann Etheredge
(HD), Town Creek; Margaret Nel-rose
Evans (HD), Albertville;
Sara Nell Walding Garcia (HD),
Monroeville; M a r y Christina
Guarisco (HD), Daphne; Luch
Frances Hamilton (HD), Russell-ville;
Obera Hunter (HD), Dou­ble
Springs; Annette Jones (HD),
Newton; Melba Adele Moorer
(HD), Evergreen; Kathryn Odom
(HD), Dothan; Wynona Meriam
Parker (HD), Thomaston; Mary,
Elizabeth Pritchett (Home Man­agement),
Linden; Virginia Louise
Sparks (Food and Nutrition),
Demopolis; Marian Tompkins
(Continued on Page 4)
jQ^^^f^a
Each week the
Grille will select
standing student
ceive this award.
Auburn
an out-to
re-
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.
MERRY-GO-WHEft
ADEVICE that rotates in the manner
of a combination merry-go-round
and Ferris wheel has been developed to
speed the drilling of marine gear cas­ings
at a General Electric plant.
Known as a universal indexing trun­nion
fixture, the device permits quick
moving of the casings for drilling at any
angle in a full circle and on any plane.
Movement is controlled by a push­button.
I
About 110 holes must be drilled and
rapped in each of the casings. Formerly
it took a crane to move the casings
(which vary in weight from 1000 to
2000 lb) after each surface was drilled,
and every piece of work had to be set
up at least six times.
Now work is set up just once—on a
table that can be turned completely
around in either direction with no more
effort than it takes to push a revolving
door—and, amazingly enough, 24 to 32
hours a week are saved.
THE BETTER TO SEE WITH
PARTICLES as small as one millionth
of an inch—one thousandth of the
diameter of a human hair—can be
clearly seen with the new G-E electron
microscope.
Developed by Drs. C. H. Bachman
(Iowa State, '32) and Simon Ramo
(U. of Utah, '33), the new instrument
can magnify a specimen as much as
10,000 times and reveal the actual com­position
and structure of such minute
things as dust and smoke particles.
Here's how it works: a beam of elec­trons
inside a vacuum chamber passes
through the specimen, passes through an
"electron lens," and produces a magni­fied
picture on a fluorescent view screen.
This image can then be photographed
outside the tube and enlarged up to
100,000 times the original specimen.
The microscope, designed for use in
small laboratories and war plants, is
portable and operates on ordinary house
current. General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.
GENERAL ® ELECTRIC
Tiger to Show
The "Tales Of
Manhattan"
Telling a story as exciting as
the New York skyline and peo­pled
with practically every star in
the Hollywood firmament, the
eagerly-awaited "Tales of Man­hattan"
will play tomorrow and
Thursday at the Tiger Theater
and promises to thrill local movie­goers
to the very marrow of
t h e i r entertainment - seeking
bones.
Less ambitious producers than
Boris Morros and S. P. Eagle
might well have prided them­selves
on any one of the dozen
or more cinematic triumphs con­tained
in "Tales of Manhattan."
New Romantic Team
The creation of an intriguing,
new romantic team like Charles
Boyer and Rita Hayworth, for
instance; or the pairing of Ginger
Rogers and Henry Fonda for the
first time. But they didn't stop
here.
Compelling Performances
Instead, Charles Laughton and
Edward G. Robinson were called
upon for the most compelling per­formances
of their distinguished
careers; Paul Robeson, Ethel Wa­ter,
and "Rochester" were invited
to blend their talents into the
proceedings; and filling every
foot of film with some deft bit
of humor and pathos, suspense
and excitment is the mightiest
cast of all time, in performance,
as well as numbers.
There's Thomas Mitchell and
Eugene Pallette, Cesar Romero,
Gail Patrick, Roland Young, Elsa
Lanchester, G e o r g e Sanders,
English Professor Rae
Talks to Ag Faculty
By ANNETTE CHENEY
England came to Auburn, ac­cent
and .all, when Professor
Robert Rae, head-of the Depart-of
Agriculture at Reading Univer­sity,
near London, talked" to Au­burn
faculty members and stu­dents
last Thursday.
Stressing -the importance of
livestock in English farming,
Professor Rae said that England's
cattle furnish the entire ' milk
supply of the country, although
they are raised on mostly import­ed
foods.
* Among England's edible crops
James Gleason, the Hall Johnson
Choir and many, many more of
your film favorites.
Director Julien Duvivier has
mounted all this with clever cam­era
magic—deftly blending the
brilliant parts into one superb mo­tion
picture. Words pale before
the magnificence of "Tales of
Manhattan," for it is indeed one
of the most enthralling of all
films ever produced. Everything
is of epic proportions.
Writers Collaborated
The most successful writers of
stage and screen collaborated on
the masterful screen play—Ben
Hecht, Ferenc Molnar, Donald
Ogden Stewart, Samuel Hoffen-stein,
Alan Campbell, Ladislas
Fodor, L. Vadnai, L. Gorog, La­mar
Trotti and Henry Blankfort.
All of these share in the credit for
the screenplay so generously en­dowed
by 20th Century-Fox and
so ingeniously directed by Julien
Duvivier.
is the potato. .Milk and potatoes
are the only foods which Eng­land
does not have to import.-
Probably the most interesting
thing Professor Rae discussed was
the land tenure system of Eng­land.
Although most of the land
is owned by a very small part of
the population, each estate is di­vided
into farms, which are rent­ed
out to tenants for a cash sum.
The scarcity of land in England is
shown by the fact that one av­erage
acre of land rents for sev­en
dollars or more.
Since the war has been in prog­ress,,
the agricultural students
have decreased in number, but
many of these have been deferred
since England, like the United
States, believes that an educated
farmer, will be Of more value to
his country in his own work
than he will be in some branch of
the armed forces.
Although the curriculum of the
agricultural student in England
is very similar to that of one at
Auburn, the Britisher can com­plete
his required work in a
slightly shorter time. During his
senior year, the English student
makes a tour of some of the re­search
institutes in various parts
of England. Included among these
is Rothamstead, the oldest experi­mental
station in the world. Un­like
Auburn, Reading has large
farms where livestock is raised on
a commercial basis.
LOST: Brown overcoat at Sig­ma
Chi dance. Reward. W. J. Mill-sap,
214 W. Magnolia. Phone 309.
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. ."/ help** e00k 'em
mm^itcHeni
ttrT",HIS is more of a woman's
-L war than any war ever
fought!
"From the heroic nurses of Ba-taan
to the women at home faced
with the problem of preparing
nutritious wartime meals for
their families, we're all playing a
vital part in winning the Victory.
"But there's another way we can
show our patriotism that many of
us have probably never consid­ered
. . . and that is by avoiding
wasteful use of Natural Gas in
cooking and especially in house
heating and water heating.
"Most folks think of Natural Gas
only as a household fuel. But the
truth is it's also used in making
nearly every kind of fighting
weapon that goes to our fighting
men . . . planes, ships, tanks,
guns, bombs!
"Gas makes them faster, and that means lives saved! It's much more
economical, and that affects all our pocketbooks. It's easier to control,
and that means finer planes, better equipment for our husbands and
sons on farflung battlefronts."
Natural Gas saves time, money and food in
cooking. It provides instant hot water, and
refrigerates food silently. But remember the
importance of GAS for war production. Use
what you need—use it wisely—but during these
war days don't waste Natural Gas!
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SAVE LIVES
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INTERFRATERNITY BASKETBALL
PLAYOFFS BEGIN TONIGHT
Ag Club Meets Tonight
Ag club will meet tonight at
7:00 p. m. in Comer 108, instead
of Wednesday night. Final plans
will be made concerning Ag
Banquet.
Pi Kappa Phi
Has Tea Dance
For Members
The Alpha Iota chapter of the
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity gave a.
tea dance last Saturday afternoon
in the Student Center in honor of
the members who will . leave
school in March.
The date list of those attending
is as follows: Bill Couch, Louise
Fleming; Charles Hall, Mae Ea-son;
Ed PepJey, Ada McCaleb;
Lawerence Pnaro, Barbara Stump;
J. Denny, Renaldo Rich; Dick
Evans, Evelyn Thomas; Bob
Smith, Mary Bowen; Al Miller,
Frances Croons; Will Gregory,
Robbye Tate; David Nettles, Lo-line
White; George Reddoch, Ma-jorie
Prince.'
Bubber Weldon, Patricia Kan-singer;
D. K. Clanton, Babye Bess
Beatty;. Charles Martin, Margaret
Douglas; Lawerence Woolbright,
Martha Ellis; E. Smith, M. Wal­ker;
Glenn Crim, Betty Morgan;
Gene Dennard, Marguerite Hais-ten;
Everett Daily, Naomi Dun­can;
Butch McHugh, Betsy Davis;
Ed Henderson, Lucille Meares;
Porter Roberts, Halsa Kyear.
Lewey Frank Harris, Berly Mc-
Daniel; Joe Ed Kirkland; Betty
Lindsey; Gloria Thornton, Jock
Whisnant; Al Amos, Doyce Till-ery;
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Allen;
Frank Rooks, Martha Whitwortth;
Jimmy Reddoch, Helen Crook;
Jim K e 11 e y, Jean Crebasse;
Charles Morgan, Sis Glenn; Hawk
Thomas, Joyce Birmingham.
Phi Delta Theta To Meet Alpha Psi;
Theta Chis Tackle Alpha Gamma Rhos
By JAY GREEN
The semi-finals of Interfraternity basketball will begin
tonight. The first game will get under way at 8:30 when Alpha
Psi and Phi Delta Theta tangle. Both teams have unmarred
records and both are fast scoring teams. The Alpha Psis won
their league championship last
Wednesday when they defeated
the Kappa Sigs 25 to 21; the Phi
Deltas accomplished the same
feat when they defeated the KAs.
2 to 16. If the Alpha Psis use a
well-organized defense they will
be hard to beat. However, the Phi
Deltas are tall and have three
.men that are potential scorers
from anywhere on the court. The
Alpha Psis are a steady moving,
confident team.
At 9:30 tonight the Theta Chis
will play the Alpha Gamma Rhos.
The Theta Chis were the dark
horse in their league but finished
undefeated by winning victories
over the SPEs, Sigma Nus, Delta
Sigs, and the Sigma Chis. Their
team is composed of short men
whereas the Alpha Gamma Rhos
have probably the tallest team on
the campus. The Alpha Gamma
Rhos had little trouble reaching
the top of their league and are
going to be trouble for their op­ponents.
On Wednesday night the two
winners of Tuesday night will
play at 7:00 and the two losers
will play at 8:00. The teams will
rotate in this fashion, winners
playing winner, loser playing los­er,
until only two teams remain,
neither having lost two games.
These two teams will play in the
finals and each will receive- a
trophy.
Jack Curlee, head of the intra­mural
department, will announce
the outcome of the year's sports
activity and the winner and run­ner-
up for the intramural sports
trophy early next week.
Volleyball season will come in
with the new quarter. This sport
is scheduled first in the spring
quarter and is to be followed by
track and Softball.
ENDS TONIGHT
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RHYTHM"
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STORY THAT MATCHES
CHARLES BOYER
RITA
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HENRY FONDA
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PAUL ROBESON
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(Food and Nutrition), Lake Vil­lage,
Arkansas; Vera Ileone Wal­ker
(HD) Somerville; Marjorie
Ann Walls (HD), New Market;
Martha Ward (Clothing and Tex­tiles),
Andalusia; Nancy Jane
Webster (Food and Nutrition),
St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Claudia
Weinmann (HD), Decatur.
Bachelor of Science: Callen Al-r
e d , Clanton; Richard Henry
Bjurberg; Auburn; Jeanne Wal­ker
Bourdeaus, Meridian, Miss.;
James Nelson Bourne, Grace,
Miss.; John Cooper, Montgomery;
Charles Dozier Corr, Selma; Vick
Costellos, Birmingham; Carroll
Sanders Crawford, Atmore; Rob­ert
Sidney Dabney, III, Florence;
Evelyn Ellis, Centre; and Jack
Gordon Ferrell, Birmingham.
From Science and Lit.
James Clifford Goare, Pensa-cola,
Fla.; E r n e s t Linewood
Goolsby, Jr., Birmingham; Alfred
Franklin Green, Jr., Atlanta, Ga.;
Senior Vets
Gain Valuable
Experience
Allowed To Take
Over the Practice
Of State Vets
Seniors in veterinary medicine
gained valuable experience and a
"busman's holiday" during the an­nual
veterinary conference held
in Auburn, Feb. 3-5. They were
allowed to take over the practice
of veterinarians over the country
who attended the convention, and
the short internship served as a
part of the meager experience
they will be allowed to obtain
before entering the Army Med­ical
Corps.
Cal Adams, one of the under-grads,
took over Dr. Rossman's
practice in Albany, Ga., and was
impressed with the well-oquipped
hospital and up-to-date methods
employed by Dr. Rossman. Adams
underwent the routine experi­ences
of a "vet," getting up be­fore
day and retiring late, receiv­ing
skinned knuckles, wicked an­imal
and human "kicks," and ob­serving
humorous maladies of an­imals
and people.
A call from one frantic lady
was answered by the student who
was surprised to find the patient's
mistress and the housemaid asep-tically
gauzed about the nose and
mouth for fear of catching pneu­monia
from a small dog. The poor
animal was suffocatingly wrapped
in an old sweater and confined
to a hot stifling room. When the
dog was unwrapped, he stood
panting, showing no symptoms of
pneumonia.
In one day 535 cows were vac­cinated
by Adams as he pursued
his practice, and cases such •- as
leptospirosis and encephalomye­litis
were encountered. Probably
the- hardest case of all to treat was
the dog that wouldn't eat his cer­eal
lor-his-(toting mistress.- - -
THOMAS KITCHIlt • EUGENE MILETTE
CESAR ROMERO • GAIL PATRICK
MIAN* YOUNG • EISA UNCHESTER
GEORGE SANDERS • IAMES GLEAS0N
and THE HAU JOHNSON CHOIR
WED. and THUR.
Diamonds - Watches
Jewelry and
Giftware
Cook Jewelry
Co.
Eason T. Cook Class '14
115 South Eighth Street
Opclika, Ala.
Robert Miller Guillot, Dothan;
Rebecca Janette Gunn, Jackson,
Tenn.; John Taylor Hunt, Birm­ingham;
John Herbert Harris, Jr.,
Montgomery; M a l c o l m Earle
Hunter, Jr., Richmond, Va.; Frank
William Hatchings,* Jr. Selma;
Jack Trice Jones, Jr., Birming­ham;
Evelyn Livingston Kelly,
Headland; William Shepard King,
Florence; Helen Ottilie Krauss,
St. Petersburg, Fla.; Louis Grady
Landrum, Lafayette; James Hen­ry
MacNaughton, El Paso, Texas;
James Rushton McHugh, Jr.,
Birmingham; Cowdery Kent Mer­rill,
Dothan; Harry Morriwether,
Atmore; Flynn Dillard Morris,
Geneva; Fred Newton Morris,
Geneva; Mary-Mar jorie Perry,
Council Grove, Kan.; Henry Wit­hers
Poellnitz, Jr., Greensboro;
John Winfield Scott, Jr., Auburn;
Sarah Theodora Smith, Slocomb,
and Mabel Lucille Wesley, Talla­dega.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine:
Charles Edward Rice Adams,
Kensington, Mo.; John Eric An­derson,
Delray Beach, Fla.; Rob­ert
Wesley Beaty, Jr., Sumter,
S. C; Avery Lamar Blalock,
Nicholis, Ga.; Samuel Reid Now-en,
Jr., Tifton, Ga.; Carl Ellis
Boyd, Raleigh, N. C; Francis
Horace Case, Savannah, Ga.;
James Roland Clanton, Quitman,
Ga.; Wilburn Bishop Cochran,
Pauls Valley, Okla; George Darby
Coffee, Auburn; Nolen Duncan
urn Loses Final
Game to Georgia, 51-31
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To Be Trained in 500 Colleges
Connor, Auburn; J o e Bower
Crane, Dixie, Ga.; Dudley Ross
Coppage, Vinceboro, N. C; Ben­jamin
Wofford Dawsey, Aynor,
S.C. Gilbert Floyd Dean; Som-merVille;
Arthur Bruce Douglas,
Birmingham; Luther Marsena
Ennis, Salem; James Mathis
Fancher, Wilton; Philip David
Fichandler, New Haven, Conn.;
Billie Underwood Flynn, Birm­ingham;
Samuel Garwood Fores­ter,
Sumter, S. C; Walter Warren
Galazener, Brevard, N. C; Hoyt
Cousins Hall, Pinellas Park, Fla.;
Wilson Heath Harrell, Enterprise;
Thomas Akins Hayes, Thorsby;
Robert George Hicks, Rocky
Mount, N. C; Warren Henry
Hicks, Rocky Mount, N. C.
More and More Vets
"Clinton Preble Huges, Evington,
Va.; Leonidas E. Irby, Eufaula;
Willis Hugh Irvin, College Park,
Ga.; William Jesse Isbell, Jr.,
Langdale; Joel Henly Jacobs,
Moulton; Edward Meredith. Jor­dan,
Allen; Clinton Newman
Kaminis, Tarpon Springs, Fla.;
Robert E. Lee, Brewton; Walter
Lee Lindsay, Galax, Va.; Jack La-
Fayette London, Goodwater; Ma­rion
Ellison Meadows, Jr., Smith
Station; Willie Lybwood Moore,
Roba; Harry Hobson Morgan,
Cunningham, Tenn.; C h a r l es
Langdale Nowlin, Pensacola, Fla.;
Coy Hansel Poitevint, Dothan;
Eugene Jerome Pope, Newsoms,
Va.; William Witt Putney, Farm-ville,
Va.
Mark Anthony Quilt, Jr., Lake
Charles, La.; John Thad Riddle,
Piedmont, S. C; William Earl
Spence, Dover, Delaware; Alfred
L. Stafford, Plant City, Fla.; Jo­seph
Tipton Stearns, Louisville,
Ky.; John Patterson Thrasher, Jr.,
Whitman, Ga.; Albert Ulysses
Turner, Phenix City, William
Wood Weissinger, B r o w n s;
George Dana Whitney, Orange,
Conn.; Josiah McKewn Williams,
Moncks Corner, S. C; Leonard
Evans Young, Columbia, S. C;
and Lester Bell Young, Johnson
City, Tenn.
A Few More Ags
Master of Science in Agricul­ture:
Willie Aubra Johnson, Au­burn
; Master of Science in Educa­tion:
James B. Faulkner, Hayden;
and James Albert Lowery, Joppa;
Master of Science in Wildlife
Management: John Medlock Law­rence,
Centre.
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McNutt Advises
Students To Wait
Until Called
A plan drawn up by the War
Manpower Commission s h o ws
that approximately 37,000 WAACs
will get college training along
with the men of the Army and
Navy who will utilize about 500
of the nation's 1,700 colleges.
Paul V. McNutt, chairman of
the WMC, placed special emphasis
on the fact that every college in
wartime must "justify its own
existence." He read his previously
undisclosed order outlining the
method by which crtlleges are to
be selected to the House Military
Affairs Committee last week, and
his order provides that a joint
Army-Navy-WMC committee will
select the colleges by unanimous
consent of its members. Taking
geographical distribution i n to
consideration the plan states that
colleges will be chosen on the bas­is
of "their available administra­tive
and instructional facilities in­cluding
staff, library, laboratories
and equipment, as well as on the
basis of housing, messing, and rec­reational
facilities." The fact that
a college has a Reserve Officer's
Training Corps or other Army
and Navy programs already in op­eration
will be given "due consid­eration."
McNutt stated that all young
men should be advised to stay in
college until called.
Losing to the Georgia Bulldogs
51-31 in a game played in Athens
on Saturday night, the Auburn
Tigers' basketball team finished
their 1943 season with the disap­pointing
record of one conference
win against twelve losses. The
lone win came against Georgia
last week in a game played in
Auburn's Alumni Gym.
In their loss Saturday night, the
Tigers let a halftime lead of
18-17 slip away from them as the
Bulldogs put on a concentrated
scoring spree that swept the Au-burnites
off their feet. The ab­sence
of high point man Frank
Williams no doubt handicapped
the Plainsmen, for without him
they have no outstanding point-maker.
Guard Frank Wadsworth
led the Tiger scoring with a total
of nine points, while guard Dick
McPhee and freshman forward
Delapierre led the Georgia of­fense.
The Tigers seemed unable
to stem the second half Georgia
rush which netted them a total
of 34 points and the decision,
which was their first conference
win. This win placed Georgia
above Auburn in the league
standings, with Florida's winless
Gators holding the cellar.
Despite his team's poor show­ing
this season, Coach Bob Evans
will take his boys to Louisville
next week for the Southeastern
tourney. With center Willianafr-irr-good
shape again after a layoff
due to a twisted ankle suffered
in the LSU game, the Tigers
should again be in good shape and
able to give any team a good
fight. Coach Evans expects big
things of his team, and the Tiger
showing in the tourney might in­deed
be a creditable one. The two
Tiger seniors who will end their
careers in Louisville are Fagan
Canzoneri, guard, and Charlie
Finney, forward.
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11.
AVIATION CADETS
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will be sent to their addresses
here in Auburn.
It is believed that the group of
178 Aviation Cadets will include
all those who have up to this date
completed their transfer to the
Air Corps from the ERC by ap­plying
at Montgomery.
This group, according to Cap­tain
Solomon, will not include
those who have qualified and
been accepted for ground duty
such as Engineer, Armament, etc.,
officer, or meteorology.
The orders will include travel
requests for transportation, in­cluding
Pullman, but the men
wiD have to advance the money
for their meals. They will be re*-
embursed later for the cost of
their meals enroute from their
homes or from Auburn to Miami
Beach.
STUDENT-STATUS
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replacement training center of the
branch in which they have re­ceived
ROTC training. Each stu­dent
wil be directed to appear at
the reception center with a trans-script
of his college record and a
copy of his ROTC record.
12. No changes have been re­ceived
on Navy or Marine Corps
Reserve. It appears these men
will be ordered to active duty
about June 1st.
13. Sophomores enlisted in Air
Corps Reserve who were selected
for Advanced ROTC will Not be
enrolled in Advanced ROTC but
will go to active duty with Air
Corps at the end of this (Winter^
quarter.
Let the Eagle
Strike!
Uncle Sam's "eagles" —
our fighting forces on land
and sea and in the air —
must have metals, gasoline,
oil, and rubber.
This means no rnore new
t i r e s or delivery trucks. We
must make those we have
last as long as we can.
We will continue to make
pick-ups and deliveries for
your convenience, until our
trucks can no longer run.
But every e x t r a mile today
may mean a mile less next
year.
So please, whenever possi­ble,
help us conserve our
trucks — group the garments
you wish picked up and call
us as early as possible! We
shall continue pick-up and de­livery
service for you . . . but
only on E S T A B L I S H ED
ROUTES and at a REGULAR
TIME.
Ideal Laundry
PHONES 193 — 294
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food packed full of nourishment. It contains energy-giving cream, milk,
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drinks and in cones.
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