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DIAL 4-5444OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1942 2275 NUMBER 17
Drops First Bombs on Japs
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Pictured above is Lieutenant Colonel John A. “Jack” Hilger, ’32, left above and his brother, Navy Lieutenant Ted Adair Hilger, ’34, who was lost off the Java coast before his brother promoted the attack on Tokio. Colonel Hilger received the Distinguished Service Cross for the maneuver.
Classes Dismissed at 10 am to Honor ExesLt Col John A Hilger Leader of Tokyo Bombing and Ensign George H Gay Will Address Cadet Corps, Sailors, Marines
Classes will be dismissed from 10 a.m. to 12 noon today to enable the corps to hear Lt. Colonel John Hilger, ’32, second-in-command on Doolittle’s Tokio bombing mission and Ensign George H. Gay, ’40, who sank a Japanese aircraft carrier, speak at Kyle Field at 10:50 a.m.
Snapshots Being Called In for ’43 Longhorn Selection
Anyone having a snapshot that has any kind of interest is asked to turn it in for this week’s Longhorn snapshot contest. Deadline for the weekly contest is 12 noon Saturday, Editor John Longley states, and because of the few that have been turned in for this week there is an excellent chance for everybody.
All photos submitted have an equal chance to appear in the Longhorn and any one of them may win the dollar weekly prize for the contributor. Anything concerning Aggie life, activities, classes, intramural contests, dates, and “bull sessions” will do.
Boxes have been placed in the lobbies of both the old and new “Y” for the purpose of entering the pictures. They also may be turned in at the Student Activities office in the Administration Building.
Longle requests to turn in their Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite pictures at the Student Activities office. The deadline for. these is September 15.
Floyd Helm Promoted To Rank of Captain
First Lieut. Floyd H. Helm, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Helm, 3122 Wabash Street, Fort Worth, has been promoted at Camp Welters to the rank of captain.
Captain Helm has been stationed there at this infantry replacement center since Dec. 2, 1941, and is now the Assistant Camp Inspector.
He has been on active duty since Aug. 1, 1941, having been commissioned here in 1935 when he was in the R.O.T.C.
For six years following his graduation from A. & M. Captain Helm has been with the cotton division, U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, in Dallas.
Lt. Col. John A. Hilger, one of the first to get the much sought after revenge on the Mikado in a raid over Tokyo in May, speaks to the corps this morning at Kyle Field. Col. Hilger graduated from A. & M. in 1932 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
While in A. & M. Hilger was in B Infantry, an outfit that had the distinction of supplying many famous men to the fighting services.
During Hilger’s college career, he was a member of the A.S.M.E.,
Second Juke Box Prom Takes Place In Sbisa Tonight
Continuing the summer social season, Social Secretary Bobby Stephens has announced the second Juke Box Prom which will take place tonight at 9 p.m. The dance will be held in half of the main dining room of Sbisa Hall instead of the annex as in the past. It has also been announced that freshmen and sophomores will not be admitted without dates. Seniors who desire to attend the dance in civilian clothes must wear a coat and tie.
The admission will be 35 cents which will cover the cost of space and the rent of sound equipment. The dance will last until midnight.
Vacancies Exist With Civil Service
Multigraph operators will be appointed to Government war jobs in Washington, D. C., and throughout the United States, it was announced by the United States Civil Service Commission today. Both men and women may apply under the new announcement. Pay is $1,- 440 a year, although some vacancies at $1,260 will be filled by qualified persons willing to accept the lower salary.
Within the past five years, applicants must have had at least six full months of paid experience operating a power-driven multigraph machine, of which three months must have been in setting and distributing type and in the composition of complex forms. In filing application, they must clearly show that they can operate the machine without further instruction. Appointees in Government jobs will be required to set and distribute type for and to operate a multigraph machine in the printing of circulars, letters, and forms, and to read proof and make corrections.
the Toonerville Reviewers, the Veterans Club and the Glee Club. In 1929 the best drilled cadet’s medal was presented to Col. Hilger from B Infantry.
He was not in school for the 1929-30 term, but came back in 1931 to finish with a degree, after that going to Randolph Field from where he received his wings in 1934.
Among some of the men who were in B Infantry are H. C. “Felly” Dittman, who flew bombers to the Philippines and received the Distinguished Service Cross; Jesse L. Easterwood, the second man to
Dedication Of Church To BeSunday
Dr Melton Will Be Principal Speaker At Dedication ServicesDedication services for the new
First Baptist Church Building in College Station are to be held Sunday, July 12, beginning with the Sunday School services at 9:45 a.m. Dr. W. W. Melton, executive secretary of the Baptist Board, will be the principal speaker at the morning services following Sunday School.
Afternoon and evening services will be held at 2:30 and 7 p.m. respectively. Albert Wiggins of Houston will be the organist for the day. Wiggins, who has studied in France, will present an organ recital, at 2:30 p.m. from the console of the church’s new Hammond organ.
R. A. Springer, who is the State Baptist Treasurer, and A. D. Foreman, Sr., who is president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas will be speakers at the services during the day. Foreman is also Chairman of the State Baptist Building Committee which made the new $50,000 church building possible.
Rev. J. W. (Bill) Marshall, State Baptist Student Secretary, will be one of the principal speakers at the evening services. Rev. Marshall plans to show colored moving pictures of activities at the Baptist Student Retreat at Ridgecrest, N. C., which is held each June.
The evening services will feature student work, Rev. R. L. Brown, pastor of the church, pointed out. Oran Jones, who is the B.S.U. president, will preside. John Mouser will be in charge of the church orchestra and will play a violin solo for the offertory.
Students, ex-students and friends of the church are sponsoring the purchase of the new electric organ. This organ will be the last to be shipped from the Houston district until after the war, church officials pointed out.
Dr. F. M. Law, president of the Board of Director of A. & M., and Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the college, will speak at the afternoon services at 2:30. Dr. John A. Held, who was the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Bryan when l£ev. and Mrs. Brown came to the campus to start Baptist work 22 years ago, will also speak at the afternoon services.
The evening service will consist of a short Training Union program followed by a regular church service. Most of the campus churches will dismiss their congregations so that they may attend the dedication services that evening. Rev. Norman Anderson, pastor of the Presbyterian church at College Station, will speak in behalf of the campus ministers and religious leaders at the evening program.
Rev. and Mrs. Brown started Baptist work on the A. & M. campus over 22 years -ago with a B.Y.P.U. and short preaching service held each Sunday night in Guion Hall. Later the meetings
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become a Naval Air Pilot and after whom Easterwood field here at the college is named, General George F. Moore, of recent fame, in the Philippines; J. J. Warden, of the Quartermaster Corps, and Gen. D. B. Netherwood, of the army air corps.
Col. Hilger’s home is in Houston. In helping Gen. Doolittle raid Japan, Col. Hilger probably settled a personal score as • well as one for his country, as his younger brother was one of the ill-fated seamen that went down with the cruiser USS Houston in the battle of Java.
Civilian Pilot Training Program Begins on Campus
Thirty Applicants Have Reported for Mental Exam Training Js for Army Navy
Thirty applicants reported for the Civil Aeronautics Authority mental examination Thursday and flight training will start during the latter part of next week Howard W. Barlow, head of the Aeronautical Engineering department, announced Friday. Training will be at the college airport.
Training under the new program is divided into two groups, Army and Navy, with primary and secondary courses for each group. The training is to cover a period of eight weeks and is designed to equip pilots with sufficient training for them to be used as liaison or utility pilots for the Army and for Naval Aviation Cadet training.
The college’s quota of trainees is fifty-five, composed of ten primary and secondary trainees each for the Naval group, and fifteen primary and twenty secondary trainees- for the Army group.
Applicants were given a preliminary examination yesterday at the college hospital. Those who have passed the mental examination will take the commercial flight physical examination of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Bryan Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
The training of the Army group is designed to train men who are capable of performing liaison and utility duties and for target towing work and basic instruction. Graduates of the Naval program will go in Naval Cadet training when they are called or when their deferment expires.
Campus Club List Made Available By Student Activities
Some of the campus club officers which have been turned in to the Student Activities office are printed below. Others will be published later.
As other clubs elect officers, their names will be published. These names should be turned in to the Student Activities office.
A. S. A. E.President: W. T. Hall Vice-Pres: Y. E. McAdams, Jr. Treasurer: L. H. Hodges
Agronomy Society President: D. W. James Vice-Pres: D. D. Morrison Treasurer: Jack H. Barton
A. I. Qi. E.President: Jasper H. Barrett Vice-Pres: George M. Wonder-
lickTreasurer: Paul W. Brandon
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences President: Steve Kaffer Vice-Pres: Gene Clark Treasurer: Gene Kipp Secretary: Clifton Adcock
A. I. M. E.President: W. H. Doran Vice-Pres: W. W. Walton
A. S. C. E.President: J. C. Denny Vice-Pres: Joe Bauml Treasurer: C. A. Riggs, Jr. Secretary: Robert Haltham
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
President: T. J. Bolling Vice-Pres: Martin Lantau Treasurer: V. P. Kally Secretary: Robert Haltham
Biology ClubPresident: Harold Holdeman Vice-Pres: Harry Trodlier Treasurer: Ed Maddox Secretary: Jack Barnes
Entomology Club President: S. K. Kirk Vice-Pres: W. B. Morehouse Treasurer and Secretary: W. B.
MorehouseFencing Team
President: R. Shaw Treasurer: J. H. Blakeloek Secretary: D. Stillinger Grayson County A. & M. Club President: John T. Lynch Vice-Pres: Billy G. Earnheart Treasurer: Billy R. Brogdon Secretary: Perry M. Barker
Lecturer To Address Student Body
Stanley W Foran Speaks to Students In Chapel Wed
Stanley W. Foran of Dallas, famed throughout Texas and beyond for his lectures on Americanism, will speak Wednesday, July 15, before meetings of the A. & M. students. Foran will address members of the junior and senior class at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, and at 8 p.m. will talk before the freshman and sophomore classes.
Title of his speech will be “My Country ’Tis of Thee—and Me!”
For the last four years—since June, 1938—Foran has conducted what he calls a “one*-man crusade” to awaken Americans to the value of the American Way of Life. During that period he has received more than 1,600 invitations to deliver his now famous lecture on Americanism. He has actually addressed more than 800 audiences, located from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Rockies. His visible audiences have totaled approximately 400,- 000 persons. In addition, he has made more than 250 radio broadcasts, and versions of his speech have been printed in millions of copies of newspapers, magazines, house, organs and other publications.
The Dallas man served in the First World War as a pursuit pilot. He held a lieutenancy at the end of the war.
Foran was instrumental in organizing the Dallas unit of the Texas Defense Guard some 18 months ago. HA is at present senior captain in command of the 19th Battalion of the Defense Guard.
For the last 25 years, Foran has devoted all of his time, except the period spent in the army, to his work as a public relations and advertising counsel. Since 1935 he has headed his own advertising agency in Dallas.
This is the themA that Stanley W. Foran has presented in person before close to half a million listeners :
“Let’s keep Americans the richest, happiest, freest and most self- reliant people on earth collectively by re-selling ourselves individually on the principles and practices that have made us great. To do that let’s re-sell ourselves on the cooperative individualism which has enriched us materially, culturally and spiritually beyond the dreams of less blessed people— and by our unified, vitalized and outspoken zeal for effectively functioning democracy, let’s regenerate belief in freedom in all lands where coercive collectivism is destroying personal liberty, equal rights, freedom of speech and the dignity of man.”
San Antonio Students Elect 1943 Officers
In an election held Thursday, the San Antonio club elected John Garrity president, Louis “Buster” White vice-president, George Tassos, secretary-treasurer ad Clifton Power historian.
Work Has Begun On Bandstand And Dance Floor Job
Construction Will Be Completed In Time For Initial Dance August 1Work on the new dance pavilion
was begun Thursday and it is hoped that the slab will be finished by the first of August.
Plans are now being formulated to have a Corps dance the weekend immediately following the completion of the slab and bandstand with the Aggieland Orchestra producing the sound effects.
The work done thus far has been the clearing of the plot of cedars and of sod to a depth of nine inches. Located just east of the railroad station, the pavilion will be surrounded by the cedars which now cover the area.
Space occupied by the slab will be slightly more than 10,006 square feet and will offer more dancing space than is afforded by the old mess hall.
The proposed bandstand will be located on the west side of the dance floor next to the old highway and will be built in three tiers and storage space in back so that the space underneath can be used for storage of chairs, public address equipment and roller skating equipment.
Funds for the construction of the slab are being furnished by the Exchange store.
Aggie Rifle Team To Fire Matches At Kilgore Sun July 12
The Texas Aggie Varsity Rifle team will leave Aggieland at noon today for Kilgore, where they will participate in the East Texas Small Bore Championship matches. These matches will be fired Sunday.
Russell Cook is the team captain and J. H. Crossland is secretary-treasurer. The team is coached by Lieut. C. A. Williams, Corps of Engineers.
The men who will probably make the trip today are R. T. Cook, captain, J. H. Crossland, Edward Fry, A. J. G’etz, Nick Mees, Jr. and J. E. Wesp. These men are expecting to make a good account for themselves in the Kilgore matches, states Captain Cook.
Student Directories Will Be Distributed Today and Next Week
The Student Publications Office announced Friday that the Student Directory would be distributed today and the first part of next week. The Battalion magazine will be issued sometime during the latter part of the week because of the need to get the Student Directory published.
Forming of the Corps
The Infantry headed by Company “B” will form with the head of the column at the front of Colonel Welty’s house. The other organizations will fall in behind “A” Battery Coast Artillery with the head of the column at the end of the street which runs directly into Kyle Field. The Infantry and the Coast Artillery regiments will begin to move at 10:30 preceded by the Infantry and the Field Artillery bands respectively. The Infantry column will pass into the athletic grounds through the gate just east of the athletic offices while the other organizations pass through the main gate near the gym. The two bands will form together as the complete Aggie band and will play just inside the grounds until all the organizations are seated.
Both Col. Hilger and Ensign Gay who will arrive on the campus at 10 a.m. will witness the movement of the corps to Kyle Field at the entrance to the athletic grounds. “A” Battery Coast and “B” Company Infantry will be seated in the middle and well forward in the curve of the stadium in the place of honor.
Dinner Delayed
To allow an ample amount of time for the addresses of the two men, dinner will be postponed until 12:30. The two men will eat in the mess halls with the members of their old organizations each of which will fall in at the head of the dinner formation and form an honor guard around each of the two men as the corps moves to the mess halls.
During the afternoon the men in their old organizations will escort them about the campus. They will leave sometime during the afternoon.
Makes Payments In Advance To Two Texas Cooperatives
The Lamb County Electric Cooperative of Littlefield, and the Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association of Muenster, repaid a total of $3,468 in advance of due dates during April, according to information to the Texas A. and M. College Extension Service from Washington.
Payments were on construction loans made by the government through the Rural Electrification Administration of the Department of Agriculture.
The two systems were among 35 in 14 states which made advance payments totaling $135,112.67 during the 30-day period and brought advance payments made by rural electric cooperatives to date to $4,336,235.58, Harry Slattery, Rural Electrification administrator, pointed out. Of the 785 energized REA systems now serving 929,673 connected consumers, 317 systems have taken up notes before due date, as compared to only 59 which are delinquent.
“Every advance payment is a guarantee that when victory has been won, these same systems will be in an excellent financial position to continue theft program of bringing power to the four million farms in America which still are without electricity,” Slattery said.
LONGHORN SCHEDULE
July 7 to 13, Field Artillery Seniors.
July 14 to 20, Coast Artillery Seniors.
July 21 to 27, Composite Regiment Seniors.
Baptist Church PlantLieutenant Colonel John Hilger One of First to Taste Revenge