1940-01-05 The Auburn Plainsman

              Now The 400'
Are Settled THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN Kemp And
Duchin—Fine
VOL. LXIII z-i ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, JANUARY 5, 1940 No. 29
Kemp, Duchin Signed
For Mid-Term Dances
Music for Two of Proms to be Furnished by
Kemp; Duchin Playing for Last Four
Hal Kemp, one of the most popular orchestra leaders
in the entertainment field, and Eddie Duchin, "The Magic
Fingers of Radio," will bring their famous dance orchestras
here to play for the Junior Prom on Jan. 25, 26, and 27, ac­cording
to Tom Henley, chairman of the Social Committee.
The set will consist of six dances, one in the afternoon
and night of each of the three days. Kemp's band is sched­uled
to play for the two dances Thursday, the opening day
-r——————^—^—-^^—^^ of the set, and Duchin's will play
API Float Cops
Second Prize In
Blue-Gray Parade
Auburn's float won the second
prize trophy in the Blue-Gray pa­rade
and pageant staged in Mont­gomery
on Dec. 30 in connection
with the Cradle of the Confederacy
football game.
The float was designed by Prof.
A. W. Lincoln of the School of
Architecture and Allied Arts. It
was built on an approximately 30-
foot truck' and was decorated in
orange and blue with the college
seal prominently displayed. The
sides were decorated with tiger
heads and elaborate fringes and
tinsel.
Seven students represented va­rious
departments of the school.
Suzelle Hare and Christine Black­burn
represented the home econom­ists
and artists respectively. Red­ding
Sugg represented the agricul­turist
with plow in hand, and John
C. Ball was the surveyor with a
transit and level. Turner Hudson,
Douglass Nettles, and Rene Bidez,
dressed in ROTC uniforms were
standard bearers.
Heflin Speaks To
Young Citizens
Citizenship Day was observed in
Auburn on Dec. 14, sponsored by
the PTA and the Open Forum
Club.
Main event of the day was a
program held at 11:00 o'clock in
Graves Center, for which all classes
were dismissed. All students who
were to come to the age of 21 in
1939-40 were seated in a special
section in the auditorium.
Several speeches were featured
on the program, the main address
being that of Ex-Senator J. Thom­as
Heflin. The program was open­ed
by patriotic music played by
Robin Russell at the organ, and
the singing of "America, the Beau­tiful"
by the audience.
James A. Harkins gave the in­vocation,
which was followed by
an opening talk by William M.
Boggs, president of the Open Fo­rum
Club, on the privileges and
responsibilities which citizenship
will bring to the 30,000 new white
citizens in Alabama. The audience
repeated the allegiance to the flag
of the United States.
Dr. L. N. Duncan spoke on "The
Value of Being a Citizen", and then
introduced Mr. Heflin. Following
his address, the ceremonies were
concluded by the singing of the
"Star Spangled Banner".
Westinghouse to
Give Scholarships
A u b u r n electrical engineers
should be interested in the estab­lishment
of a $25,000 trust fund
by the Westinghouse Electrical
and Manufacturing Co. to provide
graduate scholarships in electrical
engineering.
Known as the Charles Legeyt
Fortescue Fellowship, the educa­tional
trust fund wilLbe used for
the benefit of the "most promis­ing
candidates," who will be se­lected
by the Fellowship Commit­tee
of the AIEE, which has a
chapter at Auburn. Minimum al­lowances
of $500 are to be issued.
Any student of electrical engi­neering
who has received a bach­elor's
degree from an accredited
school is eligible for a fellowship.
for the four on Friday and Sat­urday.
This is the first time that two
such outstanding orchestras have
been engaged to play for a set of
dances at API.
Kemp is an Alabama boy who
has made an outstanding record as
a band leader. With him he brings
several stars of radio and stage,
including Jeanette B l a i r , the
Smoothies, Bob Allen, Jack Le-
Maire, and Eddy Kusby. His ver­satile
orchestra has broken engage­ment
records at New York's Hotel
Astor, Chicago's Drake Hotel, and
New York's Waldorf-Astoria.
Kemp gained radio fame with
such programs as "Time to Shine",
"Chesterfield", "Magic Carpet",
and "Penthouse Party".
Eddy Duchin also boasts an out­standing
group of entertainers with
his famous dance band: Lew Sher­wood,
C a r o l Horton, Stanley
Worth, and Johnny McAfee.
Duchin has gained national rec­ognition
for his distinctive piano
style and is one of the best known
popular pianists. Hs has been fea­tured
on several big commercial
radio programs including Texaco,
Cadillac, Elizabeth Arden, and
others over national hook-ups.
As revealed in the Social Com­mittee's
report to the Executive
Cabinet the Opening Dances show­ed
a profit for the first time in a
number of years.
There may be an advance in
ticket prices, but the committee
has made no official announce­ment
yet.
Mid-Year Exams
Begin January 18
It was reported yesterday by the
registrar's office that mid-term ex­ams
will begin on Thursday, Jan.
18, and will continue through the
25th. The schedules of the exams
will be similar to those of the past
years.
Past schedules have been fixed
so that the Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday classes have had their
exams in the mornings while the
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
classes had theirs in the afternoon.
Eight o'clock classes came the first
day, 9:00 o'clock classes the second
day, and so on until the exams were
finished. Freshman English ex­ams
came the day before the reg­ular
schedule for the exams began,
and the exams for one hour classes,
and labs came at the last meetings
of the classes.
It was also stated that registra­tion
for the second semester would
b e g i n Jan. 2 5 and continue
through the 27th.
Two Croups Giving
Week-End Dances
Kappa Delta and Theta Upsilon
sororities will begin the 1940 so­cial
activities in Auburn with
d a n c e s tonight and tomorrow
night.
The Kappa Delta dance will be­gin
at 9:30 tonight and will be
preceded by a banquet at the Bap­tist
Church to begin at 7:00. Se­niors
in the sorority will be pre­sented
with recognition buttons at
the banquet. Featured at the
dance will be a Kappa Delta lead-out,
a pledge lead-out, and three
no-breaks. Decorations will be in
green and white.
The Theta Upsilon dance will
begin at 9:00 tomorrow night. This
annual formal will be led by Miss
Helen Porch of Alexander City,
president of Iota Alpha chapter,
who will be escorted by Tom Rog­ers
of Huntsville. The program
will contain a novel Theta Upsilon
lead-out and three no-breaks, with
music by the Auburn Knights.
Post Of Queen Of
May Festival Won
By Suzelle Hare
Martha Gardiner is
Second to Kappa
Delta's Candidate
Suzelle Hare, a member of Kap­pa
Delta sorority and Cardinal
Key honorary society for women,
was chosen May Queen for 1940 in
the election held just prior to the
Christmas holidays.
Miss Hare received 103 votes and
was followed by Martha Gardiner,
Chi Omega candidate, who garner­ed
63.
Other candidates were Amy
Drake and Margaret Smith, inde­pendents;
Alice Little, Theta Up­silon;
Margaret Lindon, Alpha
Gamma Delta; Marguerite John­son,
Phi Omega Pi; and Dorothy
Hurst, Zeta Delta.
A total of three hundred thirty-one
coeds participated in the bal­loting.
The May Queen is crowned each
year at the conclusion of the an­nual
Spring Festival presented by
the coeds and sponsored by Sphinx
and the Auburn Players. The Fes­tival
is a dramatic performance
combining spoken lines and acting
with music and dancing. Last
year's was an adaptation of Mark
Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court", and pre­sented
this spring will be "The
Lady or the Tiger".
Prof. Telfair B. Peet is in charge
of the production.
Nixon-Dubberley
Win Debate Cup
Charles Dubberley, sophomore
in mechanical engineering, and
John Nixon, senior in business ad­ministration
were winners of the
annual Tau Kappa Alpha varsity
debate tournament, according to
an announcement by Prof. E. D.
Hess at the finish of the contest
late in December.
Byrd Marshall, junior in pre­law,
and Hoyt C. Hall, first year
in veterinary medicine, were close
runners-up.
The first-place winners will re­ceive
loving cups and the runners-up
will be given keys. Tau Kappa
Alpha, honorary forensic and de­bate
fraternity, awards the prizes
each year.
The other teams taking part in
the tournament were Martin
Wender and Harold Sutton, J. L.
Porter and Owen Reeder, P. T.
Bruner and Nick Nichols, William
Boggs and J. H. Wheeler, Julian
Myrick and Kirk Newell, W. E.
Strickland and A. C. Allen, and
Knox Millsaps and James Mc-
Broom.
FORMER STUDENT
KILLED IN WRECK
Julian Hall Dies
As Auto Overturns
Julian Hall, 39-year-old editor
of the Dothan Eagle, and former
student at API was killed in an
automobile wreck during the past
Christmas holidays when his car
in which he was returning alone
from a fishing trip to Florida
overturned.
Mr. Hall was enrolled here from
1918 through 1920 when he left
school to work as reporter for a
newspaper in Atlanta. Later he
served as reporter on Washington
newspapers, and following his
father's death in 1924 he assumed
editorship of the Dothan Eagle
of which his father was owner and
editor.
He was widely acclaimed for
his editorial integrity and honesty
and was recently selected for
membership in the American So­ciety
of Newspaper Editors, an
honor which is rarely accorded to
editors of papers in cities of less
than 100,000 population. He was
a nephew of Grover Hall, widely
known editor of the Montgomery
Advertiser, and Cody Hall, pub­lisher
and editor of the Alexander
City Outlook.
Coeds Occupy New
Women s Quadrangle
Over 400 Students
Move in New Rooms
Four hundred Auburn coeds
moved during the first three days
of this week into the new $400,-
000 dormitory group recently fin­ished
as part of Auburn's giant
building program.
These girls and 50 more who
can be accommodated will live in
the Quadrangle, eat in a large
dining hall, and be provided with
recreational facilities in t he
"Mansion", the remodeled ex-home
of President L. N. Duncan.
The exodus into the new build­ings
ended more than three months
of temporary arrangements under
which women students have been
living since September.
Well-Furnished Rooms
Each dormitory room contains
twin beds, two large closets, a
desk with book-ends fitted in each
end, an indirect-lighting desk
lamp, and an easy chair. In addi­tion
dressers and large mirrors
are to be installed as soon as they
arrive. Connecting each two rooms
is a bath.'
On each floor is a pressing
room, which the girls may use at
any time.
All rooms have telephones con­necting
to the house telephone
system. However, the house phone
system is not connected to the Sou­thern
Bell system.
Telephone numbers in the four
halls are 891, 892, 893, and 894,
for halls one to four, respectively.
The girls are being served three
meals a day in a large, well-light­ed
dining hall. Miss Ibbie Jones,
dietician, is in charge of the din­ing
room. She has a staff of un­dergraduate
assistants and eight
colored cooks and servants.
The old President's Mansion has
been remodeled to provide office
space and recreational facfflties.
In the building are 20 dating par­lors,
where girls may entertain
their dates, upon the permission
of the hostess, Mrs. L. Y. Dean,
until 11:00 o'clock at night.
Other officials supervising the
activities of the girls in their new
location are Dr. Rosa Lee Wals-ton,
director of women students,
her secretary, Miss Lily Barnes
Cherry, and the heads of halls:
hall number one, Miss Mary Moss
Wellborn; number two, Miss Mary
Meade; number three, Miss Janet
Lee; and number four Mrs. Willia
Calkins.
P. O. Davis Chosen
As "Man of Year"
P. O. Davis, director of the Ala­bama
Extension Service, was re­cently
selected by The Progressive
Farmer magazine as the "man of
the year" in Alabama agriculture.
A feature story carried in the
January issue of the agricultural
magazine praised Mr. Davis for
giving practically his entire life
to serving Alabama and Alabama
farm folk. He first gained wide
recognition in the South as agri­cultural
editor here. Later he sei-v-ed
as Executive Secretary of API
during the depression period.
Mr. Davis became director of
the Extension Service in March,
1937. Since that time he has
brought the agricultural agency to
the front as a leader in helping
the farmer with his problems.
Dean M. J. Funchess of the
School of Agriculture received the
award of "man of the year" in
1937.
Max Harrison Signs
To Play With New
York Football Team
Max "Goon" Harrison, former
Auburn end, told newspapermen
in Mobile on Dec. 15 that he had
signed to play professional foot­ball
with the New York Giants
next season.
"Goon" held down end for the.
Jersey City team of the American
League this fall. He was bought
by the Giants at the end of the
season and will report to them
next August.
Harrison, along with Stancil
Whatley, fellow end and room­mate,
quit the Auburn squad in
the middle of the 1938 season.
Girls Governed by
New Set of Rules
When the approximately 400
women students moved into the
new Women's Quadrangle this
week they became governed by a
complete set of rules and regula­tions
set up by the Women's Stu­dent
Government Association in co­operation
with Dr. Rosa Lee Wals-ton,
director of women students.
Among the new regulations those
pertaining to the social side are of
probably of greatest interest, es­pecially
to the men students, who
are not familiar with the new set
of rules.
Dating Regulations
Freshman girls are allowed only
two dates a week, sophomore girls
may have three dates, and junior
and senior girls are unrestricted in
the number of dates they may
have.
Except on evenings when they
have dates with boys, freshman
and sophomore girls must not be
seen socially with a boy after 7:30
p.m. However, freshman girls
who average 85 or above on their
scholastic work the first semester
may have sophomore dating pri­vileges,
and sophomores averaging
85 or above may have dating pri­vileges
enjoyed by junior and se­nior
girls.
Junior and senior girls who are
placed on probation will be reduced
to the sophomore dating rules.
Freshman and sophomore girls
must sign a date card before each
date.
In addition whenever a woman
student leaves the quadrangle after
6 p.m. she must sign an "in and
out" card, designating where she is
and when she will return to the
quadrangle. Late permissions, per­mission
to spend the night in town
or another of the dormitories, and
permission to entertain guests over­night
must be obtained from the
head of hall of the respective dor­mitories.
Telephone System
Also of interest to the men stu­dents
is the telephone system and
regulations governing its use. In
each dormitory there is a pay sta­tion
telephone for long distance
calls and" a free house phone for
use in town. No calls except long
distance calls may be made or re­ceived
after 11:00 p. m. Telephone
conversations may not be more
than five minutes in length. There
is also a modern house telephone
system, connected to each room in
the dormitory.
All girls must be in the dormi­tories
by 11:00 p. m. each night
with two exceptions. Late permis­sion
to attend dances may be ob­tained
through the head of hall.
On Friday and Saturday nights
junior and senior girls may stay
out until 12:00, midnight. Only the
central door of each dormitory will
remain open after 7:30 p. m. Girls
opening these doors after 11:00
p.m. are subject to "campus" by
the Student Council.
DRAFTING ROOMS
RENOVATED IN
HOLIDAY PERIOD
Students in architecture and
commercial art returned from the
Christmas Holidays to find a com­pletely
new system of indirect
lighting installed in the drafting
room building.
Not only have new lights been
provided, but the ceilings have been
painted, electrical fixtures over­hauled,
and compartments have
been built for students' drawing
boards. New floors have been
placed throughout the building.
Proud of the building's improved
appearance, architecture students
started a clean-up campaign this
week to keep paper off the floor
and trash in the waste baskets.
Under the new lighting arrange­ment
there are 9000 watts of light
per floor provided. Each light is
of 500 watts.
The improvements were made
during the holidays and the build­ing
was ready when the students
returned to classes Tuesday.
ONCE A MINER but now a singer is Allan Jones' record, though
of course there is considerable history in between the two. He'll sing
here Tuesday night at Graves Center.
Allan Jones to
Sing Tuesday Night
Allan Jones, widely-known ten­or
of stage, screen, and radio,
will appear at Graves Center au­ditorium
Tuesday night as the
fourth attraction of the current
Auburn Concert Series. The pro­gram
will begin at 8:15.
Tickets for the concert may be
obtained from the News Bureau
office on the first floor of Sam-ford
Hall. A report from the lec­ture-
concert committee states that
ticket sales are progressing rapid­ly.
Allan Jones appeared in operas
and operettas with several lead­ing
opera companies before being
signed by movie talent scouts to
make pictures. He co-starred in
"The Firefly" with Jeannette Mac-
Donald, and has appeared in
"Show Boat," "Rosa Marie," "Ev­erybody
Sing," "A Day at the
Races," "A Night at the Opera,"
and "Honeymoon in Bali." His
latest picture, "The Great Victor
Herbert," has just been complet­ed.
MAj. ALMQUIST
DIES AT HOME
Major Elmer H. Almquist, army
officer formerly stationed at Au­burn,
was found dead in the ga­rage
of his home at Columbia,
Missouri, Saturday with a .44 cali­ber
pistol wound in his head, ac­cording
to an Associated Press
report. Coroner W. R. Toalson
said the wound was self-inflicted.
A graduate of the United States
Military Academy, Major Almquist
came to Auburn in 1933 as a cap­tain.
Last summer he was trans­ferred
to the One Hundred and
Twenty-eighth Field Artillery,
Missouri National Guard.
Major Almquist is survived by
his widow, one daughter, Mary,
and two sons, Pete and Elmer.
The latter is a senior at API this
year in the School of Engineer­ing.
Mullen Announces
Rifle Teamsters
17 Men Holding;
Temporary Places
Dawson H. Mullen, temporary
manager of the newly organized
rifle team, announced this week
that 17 men have temporary posi­tions
on the team. These men are:
S. W. Baker, W. E. Banks, M. T.
Blevins, J. W. Cowan, L. E. Gra-lapp,
A. F. Green, J. P. Lewallen,
J. N. Lunsford, J. B. McCorstin,
H. E. Mohns, D. H. Mullen, J. W.
Powers, J. A. Robinson, Ben Scar-brough,
C. U. Smith, Fred Sutton, I
and O. M. Taylor.
Fifteen of these men will com­prise
the school ROTC team. This
team will practice from 11:00-
12:00 on Tuesday and Thursday.
One half of the team will prac­tice
on Tuesday and the other half
on Thursday. Also the time for
the regular team practice time has
been changed to 3:00-5:30 on Mon­day,
Tuesday, and Thursday.
C. L. Mershon has been made se­nior
manager of the team and is
now in full charge of it. The other
three managers will be announced
soon. Several offers for matches
have been made but no schedule
has been made as yet.
Dr. Thomas Chosen
As CAA Examiner
Dr. B. F. Thomas, local physi­cian,
has recently been appointed
official Civil Aeronauutics Author­ity
physical examiner for Auburn.
In the future any person wish­ing
to take the special type of phy­sical
examination prescribed by the
CAA for prospective pilots coming
under its regulations may take ad­vantage
of the new arrangement
and save the expense of the trip to
Columbus and Montgomery, the
nearest points where examiners are
located.
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
p I r J -I Such was the order of the day last
UlCQl L X O U U S ! Monday as the female population of
API started moving into the new women's quadrangle.
See column 4.
was the architecture department after the
holidays when long awaited remodeling
See column 4.
All Lit Up
took place.
Ml I) II J w a s °ad news for the Auburn basket-
IS I UllGQ ball squad as guard John Huff was
bedded with a case of the mumps. See page 3.
T i n describes Auburn's Junior Prom as both
IW0 in Une Hal Kemp and Eddy Duchin are signed.
See column 2.
becomes Auburn's 1940 May Queen in
Suzelle Hare pre-Christmas election. See column 2.
/ • was the trophy given Auburn for its prize-
UOrCjeOliS winning float in the Blue-Gray parade in
Montgomery. See column 1.
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Major E. H. Almquist
ALL AUBURN HAS lost a real
friend in Major E. H. Alm­quist.
Though he was never a stu­dent
here he loved the school and
it was with the greatest regret
that he left it. Six years of ser­vice
he gave to Auburn, and "the
Major" always gave in the full­est
measure.
It's very difficult for a man to
express his feelings about a man
like Major Almquist. There was
something about him that won
men. In the several summers that
he spent in ROTC Camp he
watched after the Auburn boys
like a mother hen. He could dis­cipline
a student and have him
go away still his good friend;
more than once he stood up for
his boys even when they were in
the wrong, and those he fought
for have never forgotten. In the
classroom and on the drill field
he taught men something and
made them like it.
The boys who served under
him felt for him the genuine re­spect
that goes only to a real
man, yet they admired him and
they liked him with an intensity
that was very nearly akin to love.
No higher compliment than that
can be paid to any man.
Welcome Back
WELCOME BACK! You don't
know how glad Auburn is to
see you!
Auburn during the holidays is
not the Auburn you know. It
shows its age when you are a-way;
the faces on the streets are
not as young, and the voices are
not \ as lively. The streets are a
little strange, for they do not
know dead silence until the con­stantly
exploding motorcycles are
taken away.
You give Auburn her Christ­mas
gift when you go away: you
give her two weeks of quiet and
her annual chance to taste the
experience of being just another
little Alabama town.
The Christmas present you give
to Auburn is an unusually happy
one. It is a gift which, paradoxic­ally,
is a pleasure to keep and a
greater pleasure to give up. You
see, Auburn treasures her yearly
two weeks of restful silence, but
she also realizes with yearly
freshness how lucky she is to be
at one with the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, which familiar­ly
bears her name. Even while
she rests during the holidays, Au­burn
shudders to think how vap­id
her existence would be if the
silence of the Christmas weeks
were extended through the years.
Thus it is a doubly sincere wel­come
which awaits you in the
New Year. Auburn likes you for
yourselves and for what you have
done for her. R.S.
The Romance of the
Diplomat
THE BOOKS make it sound like
an adventure life—the roman-ic
diplomatic career. R. Bruce
Lockhart, Drew Pearson and Rob­ert
Allen, and even the staid
Walter Hines Page have drawn
their word pictures of the game
of international diplomacy, and
their intriguing characters flit a-cross
the pages like personages
from some Richard Harding
Davis novel.
It must be an unusual experience
to be on the spot when history is
being made or the tide of civili­zation
is making some dramatic
turn. Playing the hidden and the
open cards in the bitter game of
international poker must give an
inward feeling of power and sat­isfaction.
Still, one wonders about the
many hundreds of diplomats who
spend their lives in the remote
places where little happens.
There must have been many lives
that have stretched on in the end­less
routine to an inglorious and
unheralded death. How do they
feel, watching life trickle away
in the atmosphere of some se­cluded
post?
Wonder how much swashbuck­ling
romance there is amid flies
and tropical heat and strange
people? Or maybe it isn't so
dreary as that.
Dreary or not, the unheralded
watchdogs are serving the na­tion
too, just as their more pub­licized
brothers. Here's to them.
Uncle Sam Laughs
CITIZENS OF the United States
are notorious for their habit of
losing count of their blessings.
Since the beginning of European
hostilities many Americans have
been trying to make up for lost
time. The striking thing about
all this enforced tabulation of
blessings is that we have so many
blessings that even while we
count them we unconsciously en­joy
them.
The United States is a great
and powerful nation, and Frank­lin
Roosevelt is perhaps the most
powerful president ever to oc­cupy
the White House. When we
face the facts we can but notice
that FDR is closely akin, in po­tential
power, to a dictator. The
Federal government becomes in­creasingly
powerful every year;
and yet America is still America,
the one country in the world that
can glory in the fundamental
freedoms of her Constitution.
Of course one cannot attribute
the healthiness of American de­mocracy
to any one thing, but it
is reasonable to suppose that the
levity, the familiarity, that exists
between the government and the
people is in part responsible for
the strength of our way of gov­ernment.
Government in almost all oth­er
countries is a project of un­relieved
seriousness. These other
governments are centralized like
our own; those at war are na­turally
completely centralized.
The point is that among all the
centralized governments of the
world only that of the United
States is humorously constructive
rather than deadly serious. Good
humor is not lacking in our gov­ernment,
while in others there is
so little of good humor that gov­ernment
is a menacing tyrant
rather than the popular servant
it should be.
The recent furore over Mr.
Roosevelt's changing the date of
Thanksgiving Day is a case to the
point.
Mr. Roosevelt came in for a
lot of ribbing about his Thanks­giving
decree. Isn't it a relief to
know that the ribbers are no
nearer "liquidation" than they
were before, and that the Presi­dent,
far from being angry, has
laughed and gone his way?
While we are counting, pre­serving,
enjoying our blessings,
let us remember to be thankful
that we live in a comparative
paradise where we can laugh and
even cuss at our ruler, and he can
laugh and cuss, too—and where,
after all the ribbing and cussing,
the state of our health is un­changed.
R.S.
The Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN
Bouquets from an Alumnus
233 Wardman Road
Kenmore, N. Y.
Editor
Auburn Plainsman
Auburn, Alabama
Dear Sir:
In the November 30th issue we alum­ni
were informed just why we were
so lucky to be receiving the Auburn
Plainsman. It is a fine thing to do, and
I am sure there are many of the old
alumni who are far away from Auburn
and hear so little about what is going
on, as with me, who hope that the plan
shall not be discontinued.
In my travels I have had occasion
to see many college papers and must
say The Plainsman ranks right at the
top from many viewpoints.
I had hoped to return for the Home­coming
Day but could not make it.
Maybe in 1941, after 30 long years, I
shall be able to return with some of
the old faithful ones of the Class of
1911.
Thanks to the Auburn Alumni Asso­ciation
for my subscription — may it
continue.
Yours very truly,
M. A. Askew
Thanks from the Band
Editor
The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Editor:
We would like to take this opportuni­ty
of thanking ODK and all others con­cerned
for making possible the band
trip to Knoxville. Johnny Davis' work
deserves especial mention. We all got a
lot of pleasure from the trip, and, more
important, we think that we gave peo­ple
in that section a better idea of the
true Auburn.
The band and cheering section evi­dently
inspired the team somewhat,
judging by that last quarter drive.
We feel that the trip was beneficial
in more ways than one, and we would
like to express our hearty thanks to
all who co-operated in financing it.
The Auburn Band
With the Co-OpS—By G J. Bastien
Mitec Meets
AT MEETINGS before the holidays the
Mitec Engineers discussed and adopt­ed
the amendments to the constitution
which the group now at work proposed.
Elections were held and the following
men were elected to the designated of­fices:
Don Kirk, president; Ed Morris,
vice-president; and Bob Colvin, secre­tary-
treasurer. The class representatives
elected to the Executive Cabinet of the
club were Avery Bruce and C. J. Bas­tien
for the pre-junior class, and Robert
Bowen and Francis Kirwin for the soph­omore
class. Two members were elected
to represent the club in the Engineer's
Council, Bob Morgan and R. H. Robertson.
Future meetings are to be held bi­monthly
on the first and third Thurs­day's
at 7:00 o'clock in room 109 Ram­say,
and all Co-ops are urged to attend,
particularly the freshmen. Although the
freshmen have made a fine showing so
far, they have not all attended, and that
is what this organization is for, all Co-ops.
A quarterly dues assessment clause
was voted into the constitution after
Vice-President Ed Morris cited the need,
and most of the members paid immedi­ately.
Movement for Co-op House
There is a movement on foot now to
rent Alumni Dormitory as a Co-op
house and a majority of the members
have signified their approval of the
plan, but the details have yet to be
worked out. Some are even in favor of
putting a dining room in the basement,
but with that, mention was made of
counting the chickens before the eggs
are laid.
Trivia
The Georgia Tech Co-ops have given
us a lot of help in the organization of
our club, and President Kirk says he
hopes we have an opportunity in the
future to return the favors. Orchids to
the Tech Co-ops.
A number of corporals were appoint­ed
in the Co-op companies in the Engi­neers
on Tuesday and Capt. H. O. Pax-son
said that if the grades hold up there
will be quite a number of the Co-ops
taking Advanced ROTC next year.
A good many of the Co-ops are ath­letic
minded, and they hope to organize
teams to take part in intramural sports.
Basketball is the next sport in line, and
no doubt a team will be formed within
the next few weeks.
Bitter Political Fights will Keep Con­gress
in Session after June 1; Strife
Looms over Budget Cut, Wagner Act,
Taxes and Trade Treaties; Wildlife,
Enemy of New Deal Power Policies,
An REA Patron in Indiana; Carmody,
Federal Works Chief, Shows Signs of
Presidential Bee Bite.
WASHINGTON — Those optimistic
statements about a short session of Con­gress
are a lot of wishful thinking. The
boys will still be on hand when June
1 rolls around.
One reason is that there is no need
for them to hurry to get through. The
presidential convention won't take place
this year until late July and early Au­gust.
The other reason is that the
shadow of the momentous fall campaign
will dominate everything said and done
on Capitol Hill and the session is a
cinch to be one of the most acrimonious
and politics-ridden in years.
There will be fierce fighting over the
Wagner Labor and Wage-Hour Acts,
over Secretary Wallace's demand for
some form of processing tax to finance
the $300,000,000 farm parity payment,
over Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade
treaties and above all over the slashed
budget.
It's on this last issue that you will
see party lines crumble and the boys,
despite all their brave economy talk and
other lofty sentiments, rally together
to save their pork.
For there's political murder in that
thar budget.
The boys don't know it yet but Roo­sevelt
has ripped $45,000,000 out of the
flood control appropriation, whittling
it down from $115,000,000 to $70,000,-
000. The cries of anguish that will go
up when this is discovered will rend the
heavens from New England to Cali­fornia
and from Michigan to Texas. At
least two-thirds of the members of both
chambers have local stakes in this ap­propriation,
to say nothing of hundreds
of contractors and thousands of work­ers,
and with an election in the offing
you can bet your boots the boys are
going to leave no stone unturned to get
their pork. If they don't, it may mean
curtains for them in November.
The flood control item is just one
of a number that got the axe. The high­way
appropriation, another prime local
pork favorite, was riddled. When Roo­sevelt
merely recommended that last
year, Congress nearly had a fit. The
boys will jump out of their skins when
'Germany Cannot Win the War* plains Talk
Kaltenborn Predicts in Speech By Herbert Martin
By BOB ANDERSON
"I AM CONVINCED that Germany
cannot win the war," calmly declared
H. V. Kaltenborn before an audience
of some 1200 people in Auburn's WPA
Hall on Dec. 14.
Going on to say that the war would
not be won by a decisive military vic­tory
but on an economic front, the jovial
commentator, who "edits the news"
regularly on the radio for the nation
and the Standard Oil Company, predict­ed
its end in less than three years.
Introduced by Executive Secretary
Ralph Draughon, Mr. Kaltenborn pro­ceeded
to get on the good side of the
audience by telling on himself and by
reading several amusing wires and let­ters
he had received, all of which con­tained
slams on his opinions, his voice,
or his appearance.
Truth and Propaganda
After speaking to an attentive audi­ence
for several minutes on the general
subject of the European situation, Mr.
Kaltenborn began to take up separately
each news event of the day and week
and interpret them and their effect on
world affairs, separating truth from
propaganda and important facts from
truth.
On the subject of propaganda, he
warned the audience that almost every­thing
in the papers and over the air
which concerns the crisis in Europe, is
propaganda. He said, "Don't depend on
the headlines—read the whole story,"
and advised newspaper readers not to
believe anything they read which pleas­ed
them—only that which they didn't
like, and to take that with a grain of
salt.
America Can Stay Out
Mr. Kaltenborn, who has just return­ed
from Europe, said he had never seen
less enthusiasm for a war than he saw
there. On the subject of American neu­trality
he said that although Americans
aren't neutral in thought it certainly
wasn't necessary for us to enter the
war.
He stated: "As long as Hitler rules
Germany, there can be no peace in Eu­rope,"
and told of rumors of inside
plots to overthrow the Nazi leader.
The blame for the present war he
placed on the framers of the original
peace treaty that followed the last
World War.
He spoke briefly on Hitler—who ac­cording
to Kaltenborn, "actually be­lieves
the lies he tells" and who is an
"impossible man to make any kind of
agreement with,"—and on Mussolini, of
whom he said, "Mussolini's not going to
jump in (the war) on Hitler's side. He
knows too much," and on Stalin, who
he says "stands, as an individual, head
and shoulders above Hitler."
Of Russia the well-known commenta­tor
said, "If ever a country was inef­ficient,
it's Soviet Russia." He declared
that the alliance of Russia and Ger­many
was merely "monetary", an af­fair
of convenience.
Stating the mission of the United
States, he said, "We must keep aloof
from war but cooperate decisively in
the establishment of the right kind of
peace."
ASU Censured by
Dies Committee
THE ASU IN ITS national session in
Minneapolis, Minn, a few days ago
added more fuel to the flames by re­fusing
by a landslide vote to pass a
resolution condemning Russia as the
aggressor in its war against Finland. As
a result of its stand the Union has been
severely censured by the press.
The American Student Union, liberal
organization of 20,000 US college and
high school students, has again become
a headline act in the national news
drama—this time spotlighted into prom­inence
by the searchlights of the Dies
committee on un-American activities.
At a series of hearings made doubly
prominent by the attendance of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the ASU and the
American Youth Congress were charg­ed
with being dominanted by the Com­munist
party and by the Young Com­munist
League.
Placed on the record against the
groups were the following charges:
1. The ASU is used by the Commun­ist
party to further its program among
college and high school students. This
assertion was made by Dr. G. W. Hart-man
of Columbia University, who stat­ed
his belief that its members were
"Charlie McCarthy's manipulated by an
unseen hand."
2. The American Youth Congress is
controlled by communists. Assertions
were made that its platform was form­ulated
by "reds."—(ACP).
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.
IT SEEMS THAT there are two tried,
true, and accepted methods of refer­ring
to oneself when writing a column.
Some columnists prefer to use "I";
some lean toward the "we" side. Hav­ing
tried the first for quite a while, I
think that I'll give the second a trial,
so, henceforth, "we" will be "I". Sorta
confusin', but . . .
* * *
We'd like to thank one Bob Ander­son
very much for so nobly coming to
our rescue after the Tennessee trip. In
spite of having been shown up by some
really masterful punning by an ace
punster, we feel ourselves to be in
eternal debt to the self-styled Monte-vallian.
Although it is true that our
personal lawyers are busily preparing
a slander suit against said Robert, we
have no animosity. Nothing but brother­ly
love fills our hearts, but just what
do you mean, "Poet Low-rate," Ander­son?
* * *
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a mouse.
. . . must've been that rat poison.
* * *
As one forlorn-looking individual dis­gustedly
put it as he shook his battered
chronometer somewhat after 12:00 Sun­day
night, "I Didn't Know What Time
It Was. . . . I didn't even know what
year it was!"
And . . . we wager that 11:30 on
New Year's Eve is about the only time
that a radio performer could use a
traffic jam to explain his being a year
late for a broadcast.
* * *
Then there's the radio shop in Syla-cauga
which boldly advertises "Tele­vision
Repairs" in six-inch letters which
completely overshadows the "Radio
Service" in smaller letters below. That's
like a houn' dawg promising job work
on a grizzly bear while a three-legged
tom-cat sleeps soundly beneath his nose.
* * *
We'll have a hard time forgetting . . .
the Tech mass meeting, Homecoming
(darn Florida anyway), student gov­ernment
progress, the band trip to
Knoxville and the spirit shown at that
game by the diminutive Auburn cheer­ing
section, Villanova and the ROTC
they see what he actually did to the
appropriation this time.
Nope, the session will not be short
and there will be little harmony. The
cards are stacked for a long and strife-filled
engagement.
Run-Out
There is one big battle, however, that
may not take place.
It's an inner circle secret but some
of the President's closest advisers are
strongly urging him to duck the trade
treaty fight.
The Act expires this year but the
pacts negotiated under it continue until
they terminate. Practically all the im­portant
treaties have been consummat­ed.
So the inside boys are counselling
the President to let the law lapse quiet­ly
and then next year, if the Demo- -
crats continue in power, it will be much
easier, with no election in the offing,
to re-enact it. If the Democrats don't
win then it won't make any difference
anyway.
Such strategy, the inner circlers point
out, will not only circumvent the GOP-ers
who are eagerly whetting their
knives to go after the Act, but far
more important, will keep the dynamite-loaded
issue out of the fall campaign.
It's a good bet that this is exactly
what will happen, barring unforeseen
developments.
Political Go-Round
After six years of advocating his eco­nomic
and fiscal theories before com­mittees
of Congress as an appointive of­ficial,
Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Marriner Eccles is quietly weighing a
different method to get action—namely
by becoming a member of Congress. The
one-time leading Utah banker has reach­ed
no decision as yet, but he may run
for the Senate next year against the
veteran anti-New Deal Democratic Sen­ator
William King. Both men are Mor­mons.
. . . Also reported to be harbor­ing
secret senatorial ambitions is Arthur
Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture in the
Hoover cabinet, who may seek the Re­publican
nomination for the seat now
held by Missouri's Democratic Senator
Harry Truman. . . . They don't know it
yet, but 140,000 union officials through­out
the country will soon get a pam­phlet
painting in glowing terms the la­bor
record of Democratic presidential
aspirant Paul McNutt. The postage bill
alone for this barrage will come to $4,-
200. The addressing is being done by
volunteer workers; the printing cost is
a secret.
unit and rain (after all, it was Armis­tice
Day, and rain is about the only
way to enforce peace), the Cake
Race. . . .
* * *
Things we'll forget, no matter how
hard it is . . .
early season football losses and the
size of the crowd which met the re­turning
defeated Tigers, the super­abundance
of "Miss" elections (does
every white girl on the campus have
to be Miss something-or-other? Most of
them just MISSed again), the PLAINS­MAN
PANTHER vs. glomerata graft
w a v e , legalized-mayhem-on-a-football-field
(just how did that game
come out?), the slow service of band
outfitters who have as yet sent no
"Sam Whites" although the order was
placed many moons ago, and Broun
Hall.
* * *
We'd like to join Karrie in wishing
our readers . . . both of them . . .
the well-known trite-but-good Happy
New Year!
In addition, Karrie, the Kampus Kon-spiritor,
offers the following advice on
how to get away from a blind date.
"Just stuff cotton in her ears," says
Karrie, "and walk away. If she's really
blind you'll get away with it, and if
she's not, she'll probably be glad to
get rid of you!"
Beloit Abolishes
Mid-Year Exams
TO DE-EMPHASIZE the importance of
mid-semester grades and to place
greater emphasis on scholarship, Beloit
College authorities have abolished mid­term
examinations.
Only those students whose work is
not equal to a passing mark will re­ceive
any indication of their standing.
Those in this group will be given "un­satisfactory"
reports.
The purpose of the new system is to
take the stress off grades and emphasize
day to day preparation and effort. Mid-semester
marks have never been re­corded
in any permanent record as they
are not an indication of final achieve­ment.
By stressing steady work and abolish­ing
a rating which can be interpreted
in terms of grade points, it is hoped
that students will view the work in their
courses as material to be successfully
mastered and not as a means to a
number of grade points.
It is not to be understood that this
arrangement will in any way interfere
with the usual exams given by instruc­tors
in regard to the class work.— (ACP).
January 5, 1940 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN Page Three
TIGER TALES
By BOOTS STRATFORD
All along, we could not see the Tennessee football team
as the wonder team of the football world as they were re-
. garded by so many sports experts and in
our column of Nov. 24 we voiced the opin­ion
that the cases of Joe Louis and the Ten­nessee
football team would be parallel, and
so they were—Joe was "the greatest fighter
of all time" until mauled to defeat by
Schmeling, and the Volunteers were the
greatest football machine in history until
the Trojans smacked them down. Such is
the eternal fate of the great.
But we hasten to make the addendum
that when we glimpsed the Vols, though
looking the part of no miracle team, they did display the
power, defensive might and long range weapons to turn
back any twice-tied eleven we ever saw. But then we
haven't seen Southern Cal. Evidently, like Auburn, the Tro­jans
run hot and cold and Jan. 1 they were better than
that California sun.
* * *
Our rather corny comment that Johnny Butler
would be Rhett Hot Butler in the Rose Bowl was
borne out for he was the Vol's lone threat against the
men of Troy. Johnny averaged 8 yards a try and will
be one of the most dangerous running backs in the
nation next year. His passing and punting are superb
also.
* * *
With five Southern teams, Tennessee, Georgia Tech,
Clemson, Tulane, and Texas A & M in the bowl games,
and consequently less material from which to choose, the
Johnny Rebs of the Southern Gray squad did wonderfully
well in trouncing the Northern Blues, 33-20, in Montgom­ery,
Dec. 30, in the Cradle of the Confederacy's annual
North-South classic.
This was the most thrilling of all bowl games from the
spectator's standpoint with touchdowns being countered
in almost every imaginable way—passes, long runs, inter­cepted
passes and line smashes. Standouts for the South
were Texas Mines' Heineman, LSU's Kavanaugh, Auburn's
Morgan and Howell, Mississippi State's Nix, Furman's Shet-ley
and Georgia's Fordham. Northern stars were Notre
Dame's Zontini, Cornell's Baker, Ohio State's Sarkkinen
and Fordham's Principe.
* * * ,
For forlorn football figure of the year we nomi­nate
George Cafego of Tennessee. The gallant Hun­garian,
slashed down from his Ail-American glory by a
knee injury in a minor game, tried valiantly to carry
on but his ailing knee couldn't keep pace with his un­flagging
heart. Never shall we forget the pathetic
sight of old "Bad News" as he limped off the field af­ter
the first play of the Auburn game, head bowed and
shoulders drooping. And what must have been his
thoughts as teammate Johnny Butler took over the
driver's seat that had so long been his alone as he
drove the Vols to glory!? We respect and salute a
gallant figure. The spirit was willing but the flesh was
weak.
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forget your corsages.
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Reach for the near­est
phone and
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for the Pineview Farm Milkman, who will
deliver you a bottle of health every morning.
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Once-Beaten Tigers
Meeting LSU Tonight
ABB CHsieTZB&iG - /njeufz.*f
Hurt in football, Abb Chrietz-berg,
a three-sport athlete, is still
a cripple and is listed as a basket­ball
loss for the entire season. The
versatile Chrietzberg, a native of
Auburn, is a very promising guard
on the hardwood.
Twenty-Eight Given
Varsity Letters
Twenty-eight Tigers, 11 seniors,
11 juniors, and six sophomores
have been named as letter win­ners
for the past football season,
according to the Athletic Council.
The same number of footballers
were awarded letters last year.
The 28 players were recom­mended
by Head Coach Jack Mea­gher
and were accorded unan­imous
approval by the Athletic
Council on Dec. 14.
Among the winners of the vars­ity
"A" were 16 former letter
winners. They are: Centers —
Malvern Morgan and Getty Fair-child;
Tackles — Bill Nichols,
Gordon MacEachern, C h e s t er
Bulger, and George Wolff; Guards
—Milton Howell, Alternate-cap­tain-
elect Ernest Mills, Walter
Chandler, and Garth Thorpe;
Ends—Jim LeNoir and Gus Pear­son.
Halfbacks — Captain-elect
Dick McGowen, Carl Happer,
George Kenmore and Bill Mims;
Fullbacks—Charlie Haynesworth.
The new letter winners are:
Center—Howard Burns; Guard—
Wallace Wise; Ends — Teedy
Faulk, James Samford, and Babe
McGehee; Quarterbacks — Lloyd
Cheatham, Buddy McMahan, and
Julian Fowler; Fullbacks — Rufus
Deal and Geter Cantrell.
Mumps Prevent Huff
From Making Trip
By BOOTS STRATFORD
An Auburn basketball team,
badly depleted by scholastic regu­lations
and illness will face a
strong LSU quintet tonight in
Baton Rouge for the first of a
two-game series.
With John Huff in the college
infirmary with the mumps, the
starting guard, in addition to Ray
Gibson, will be chosen from Soph­omores
Jack Tanner1, Tom Martin,
Ben Park and Lee * Hall. Shag
Hawkins, 6 foot 3 inch sophomore,
will get the call at the center post
with sophomore Frank Manci and
senior J. P. Streetman holding
down the forward positions.
Other men accorded a chance
to break into the starting lineup
are Bob Dickinson, Charlie Ham
and Teedie Faulk, forward; and
Bruce Allan, center.
The team has been considerably
strengthened by the addition of
Teedie Faulk and Woodie McNair,
end and halfback, respectively, on
the football squad, who reported
for duty when practice was re­sumed
on Dec. 27. Faulk is mak­ing
the trip with the team, but
McNair did not go.
The squad left Auburn yester­day
morning at 9:00 o'clock and
will be back Sunday night. Ac­companying
the team were Coach
Ralph Jordan and Manager Joe
Dean.
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* ^ •
In Montgomery on Saturday,
Dec. 31, before 10,000 spectators
the Gray squad from the South
downed the Blue northerners in a
33-20 scoring spree with two Au­burn
Tigers standing out for the
Dixie side.
"Hatch" Howell led the south­ern
team in the number of tackles
with six, and Mai Morgan tied for
second with Bill Bailey of Duke,
both having five to their credit.
Morgan shared the center spot
with Cary Cox of Alabama.
Outstanding for the South Ken
Heineman, 155-pound back from
Texas Mines and Ken Kavanaugh
of LSU. Kavanaugh scored two of
the South's touchdowns, Jack Nix
of Mississippi State two, and Bill
Schneller of Mississippi tallied the
fifth.
McGowen Barely
Misses Title Of
'Most Valuable'
Dick McGowen, star halfback,
was barely nosed out by Bob Foxx
of Tennessee and Ken Kavanaugh
of LSU for the title of "most valu­able
player in the Southeastern
Conference" in a poll of confer­ence
coaches conducted during the
holidays by the Nashville Banner.
All 13 coaches voted and Foxx
and Kavanaugh tied for first with
14 points. McGowen was just be­hind
with 13, while Ray Andrus,
Vanderbilt captain, was fourth
with 11. Last year's winner was
George Cafego, Tennessee tail­back.
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Prices reasonable. Gas heat. If
interested see Mrs. Riley at Ala­bama
Natural Gas.
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Sroo-denrs! Meet the 01' Professor!
Yessiree, stoo-dents! It's the ol' professor himself, Kay Kyser, the
maestro of radio's top-flight program, "The College of Musical
Knowledge," making his screen debut in a fun-filled melody show,
"That's Right—You're Wrong." Adolphe Menjou is co-starred top­ping
a corking support which includes May Robson, Lucille Ball
and Edward Everett Hortcm, and Kyser's band artists, Ginny
Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason and Ish Kabibble.
Showing Sunday and Monday at Tiger Theatre
They are still talking about the
many features of the 1940
Ford V - 8
You, too, will talk about the:
• CONTROLLED VENTILATION
• RIDE -STABILIZER
• SEALED-BEAM HEADLIGHTS
• "FLOATING EDGE" SEAT CUSHIONS
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Page Four T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN January 5, 1940
Auburn-Spring Hill
Split Pair of Games
Plainsmen wi n 37-34,
Badgers by 34-33
Auburn's untried basketball
quintet won the first and lost the
second game of its first-of-the-season
series with Spring Hill on
Dec. 14 and 15. Both games were
hair-line decisions, Auburn win­ning
with a score of 37-34 and
losing by a score of 34-33.
The game which the Plainsmen
won was a thriller, the score be­ing
tied seven times during the
game with Spring Hill usually re­gaining
the lead. In the last two
minutes of the game, John Huff,
Auburn guard looped a field goal,
making the score 35-34 in Au­burn's
favor; and shortly before
the whistle blew Frank Manci,
sophomore forward strengthened
the total with another.
Spring Hill scored its win in a
game that was an equal thriller.
There were four ties in the first
half and one in the second, and
the lead changed hands three
times. Auburn led from the begin­ning
of the second half until the
last two minutes of play, but with
three minutes left before the end
of the second half, Harry Bryan,
Spring Hill forward, tossed a goal
which evened the scores at 33.
Then Drury, Spring Hill's lanky
center, sank a free throw, making
the final score 34-33.
Lineups for the two games were
as follows:
Spring Hill— G. F. P.
Hudon, forward 1 0 2
Whitehurst, forward 0 2 2
Drury, center 0 2 2
Diamond, guard 2 3 7
Bryan, guard 2 0 4
Walsh, forward 5 1 11
Petrauskas, forward 1 0 2
Hatcher, center 2 0 4
Totals 13 8 34
Auburn— G. F. P.
Streetman, forward 3 1 7
Ham, forward 2 2 6
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Catalogues and application forms may
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Men's Dept.
Men's Dress Shirts, values
to $1.50, sale 97c
Men's All Wool Overcoats,
$16.50 value, special . $9.95
Men's Shoes, regular $4.50
value $2.95
Men's Dress Hats, all col­ors
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$3.95 to $4.50 value . $2.95
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'Ladies' Silk Dresses, values
to $3.98, sale price . . $1.95
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to $3.50, sale price $1.85
Winter Coats, all of our reg­ular
$10.00 coats, spec­ial
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Ladies' Full Fashioned
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Hawkins, center 4 1 9
Gibson, guard 0 0 0
Huff, guard 2 3 7
Manci, forward 2 4 8
Totals 13 11 37
Referee: Ben Chapman.
Spring Hill— G F Tp
Walsh, f-g 2 0 4
Hudon, f 5 0 10
Hatcher, c 0 0 0
Bryan, g-f 4 0 8
Diamond, g 1 0 2
Whitehurst, f 0 1 1
Pand, f :0 1 1
Drury, c 0 6 6
Petrauskas, g 1 0 2
Totals 13 8 34
Auburn— G F Tp
Manci, f 1---2 0 4
Ham, f 2 0 4
Hawkins, c 4 5 13
Gibson, g 2 4 8
Huff, g 1 0 2
Streetman, f 1 0 2
Tanner, g 0 0 0
Park, g 0 0 0
Totals 12 9 33
Personal fouls, Ham, 2; Hawk­ins,
2; Gibson, Tanner, Park,
Walsh, Whitehurst, Hatcher, 3;
Drury, 2; Petrauskas, Diamond.
Free throws missed, Manci,
Hawkins, 3; Gibson, Whitehurst,
Drury, Ham.
Referee, Ben Chapman.
KAY KYSER SHOW
ON TIGER BILL
Just as the small boy who has
the only football in the neighbor­hood
is a cinch to make the team,
Kay Kyser became a band leader
because he owned a clarinet.
"I was about the only man left
at the University of North Caro­lina
who had a musical instrument
when Hal Kemp turned profession­al,
quit school and took the col­lege
dance band with him," Kay
explains.
"Hal had seen me monkeying
around with my battered old clari­net
and thought I had a soul for
music. He suggested that I follow
his footsteps and organize a new
dance orchestra for college af­fairs.
It seemed like a good idea,
as we had to have music for our
dances. I got half a dozen boys
together and there we were.
"After a couple of efforts to run
the scale on my clarinet, the gang
unanimously agreed I was merely
gumming up the melody; so they
gave me a baton and told me I
was the leader. That kept me from
playing and I've been beating time
ever since."
Kyser can't complain, however,
as he has successfully parlayed a
battered clarinet into a fortune.
He has become a ranking radio
dance band favorite and is now
bidding for hundreds of thousands
of new fans by way of motion
pictures. With his soloists and
band, Kyser is now co-starring
with Adolphe Menjou in "That's
Right—You're Wrong," which will
be shown Sunday and Monday at
the Tiger Theatre.
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Moore Ave. Phone 867
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by FAST RAILWAY EXPRESS!
Just phone the Rail­way
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when your trunk or
bags are packed and
off they will speed,
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in all cities and prin­cipal
towns. You
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goes. Use this complete, low-cost service
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Auburn-Southern
Stars Downed By
'Bama-Howard
In Bessemer on Christmas Day
a convoy of former Auburn foot­ball
players combined forces with
former Birmingham - Southern
stars to face an Alabama-Howard
team, and the Crimson Tide-Bull-
Yes, Kyster still has his batter­ed
clarinet, which he carries ev­ery
place he goes. "But I still can't
play it," he admits.
dog combination won 13-0. Coach­ing
the Auburn-Southern boys was
Coach Dell Morgan, line mentor
at the Plains.
The front wall of the Tiger-
Panther team was led by Bo Rus­sell,
captain of last year's Tigers
and now a tackle for the Washing­ton
Redskins. Auburn men with
him on the squad were Sam Mc-
Croskey, Frank Gantt, and Garth
Thorpe at guard; Hugh Rodgers
and Bill Nichols at tackle; Getty
Fairchild and Milt Bagby at cen­ter;
Oscar Burford at end; Spec
Kelly and Bobby Blake, halfbacks;
Osmo Smith, quarterback; and
"Dutch" Heath and Charlie Hay-nesworth,
fullbacks.
At half-time Russell and "San­dy"
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