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Student Weekly Publication
The Rice Institute
VOLUME XXVI
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1040
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Preparedness Stressed in New Course
Seven Selected
Department Of Physical Education
Will Sponsor Preparation
For Emergency
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Although Rice Institute failed to receive an infantry unit
of the reserve officers training corps as requested by adminis-
trative officials two months ago, male students above the aca-
"emic rank of freshman will receive the opportunity for volun-
tary military training under a program announced Wednesday
afternoon by Registrar S. G. McCann. A statement issued by
Mr. McCann explained the essentials of the plan, which will en-
tail four hours of work a week
with facilities provided by the
Department of Physical Educa-
tion.
Statement Issued
"While patriotic motives should im-
pel all young men immediately to
begin a course of preparation for fu-
ture military service," the statement
H^fcnri,- "it idvfanMfc:
that students over twenty years of
age prepare themselves for possible
service within the next year. By do-
ing so their chances for rapid pro-
motion will be materially enhanced
when they are eventually called to
the cilors. It is the desire of the Rice
Institute to cooperate with the gov-
ernment in preparing college men
for efficient national defense. Accord-
ingly! the Department of Physical
Education is offering to all men above
the freshman year a course outlined
with particular reference! to military
preparation."
Conditioning for Rigors of War
According to incomplete details
available early Thursday, the course
Continued on page 4
The Streets of
Houston«
Editor's Note: This column is de-
voted to former, Rice men and women.
There's Ed Dyer, just back from
officiating in the Baylor-Arkansas
game. Ed managed the Houston Buffs
to the Texas League Championships.
Hello, John Coffee, oil man. Looks
like you really enjoy those Quarter-
back Club meetings on Wednesday.
Ed Lorehn, Vice-President and
General Manager of Cameron Iron
Works and Herb Allen, his chief en
engineer, members of the Quarter-
back's Club looking at football
movfes.
There's Elizabeth Gordon, out prun-
ing her orange trees. The cold weath-
er hOrt the crop last year.
And Louis Woodruff: Woody
doesh't say much but he sure was
pleased at that 23-0 score. Went out
to see the freshmen last Friday.
Helta, Logan Waterman, President of
Engineering Alumni Incorporated,
know any more new iitories? By the
way, how about tilling The "Thresh-
er" About your organization.
Charley Ofner, with the Houston
Lighting and Power Company, does
things for Rice and is a first class
man for his company.
Hi there, £Jam Emison, chemical
engifleer, superintendent of Consoli-
dated Chemical Company's Fort
Worth plant. Sam came down to see
the game and his boss, Ed Rothrock.
Sam collects books.
Ed Dupree, have you been in this
oolumn? You were the first to re-
ceive a degree from Rice, Registered
before the school even opened, got the
number one degree in 1016. Owns the
Star Electric and Engineering Com
pany.
• There's Homer Patrick, with Hum-
lie Oil and Remitting Company. A
Dwell guy with a peach of a company.
HoMl*
ing Alumni and a melilfoef -rtf the
Quarterback's Club,
Cheerleader's
Action Cancels
Manro Oberwetter To
Take Post Without
Further Contest
P h i Lambda Upsilon
Asks Honor Students
To Join Group
The Rice chapter of Phi Lambda
Upsilon, national chemical fraternity,
has asked three graduates and four
undeigi-aduate students to join the
honorary group. Invitations have been
extended to Sam Rice Bethea, Knud
Christian Poulsen, and Evin Leo Cook,
who aro doing graduate work in
chemistry and in chemical engineer-
ing, and to Meyer Goren, Alfred
Reichle, Harry Canfield Stevens, and
George Yoe Chan, a group of four
undergraduates.
Bethea holds the degree of Bache-
lor of Science from Rice, and Cook a
similar degree from Baylor Univer-
sity at Waco. Poulsen has the Bache-
lor of Arts degree from Montana
State.
Goren is a senior chemical major
from Dallas who did preliminary work
at Baylor University. The other three
men are juniors in the Institute.
Reichle, from Port Arthur, was
awarded last spring the Phi Lambda
Upsilon plaque emblematic of high-
est standing among sophomore chem-
ists. Both Chan and Stevens are Hous-
ton students.
Phi Lambda Upsilon will meet next
Monday to discuss plays for the ini-
tiation of new members anjl to plan
a program for the remainder of the
year.
The Thresher received definite in-
formation shortly before midnight
Thursday that Walter Bolton, head
cheerleader and senior chemical en-
gineer from Beaumont, had Withdrawn
from the runoff election next Mon-
day in which he was to contest Man-
ro Oberwetter for the office of as-
sistant business manager of the news-
paper. This action leaves Oberwetter
unopposed and obviates the necessity
of , a runoff, since the other two of-
fices involved in the autumn elec-
tions were filled last Monday after-
noon, when David Farnsworth gained
iY plurality over Bob Fowler and Har-
ry Holt in the race for secretary-
treusuror of the senior class after
Lee Capps had appeared on the offi-
cial ballot as the only candidate for
a^iistant business manager of the
Thresher,
Oberwetter Had Led
Oberwetter led by a margin of 196
to 178 over Bolton last Monday after
a well-organized campaign had lifted
him from comparative political 6b-
scurity to first place in late ballot-
ing. The head cheerleader, contacted
by telephone, issued a verbal state-
ment in regard to fois withdrawal,
which follows. "I am convinced" said
Bolton, "that my opponent in the
runoff has been endorsed by a ma-
jority of the student body, and is
Continued on page 2
——0 —
Ford Gives Motor
To Rice Engineers
litp
Student Body Will
Leave Tonight For
Tulane Encounter
Rice Upsetters Face Biggest Test
To Date Against Stubborn
Tulane Green Wave
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'r'harrtdin'
According to Professor J. H. Pound;
the Ford Motor Company has pre-
sented to the mechanicaT' etigineering
department of Rice the chassis and
engine of a 1940 Mercury. It has
been put on display in the west end
of the mechanical engineering sec
tion of the Annex in order that stu-
dents and instructors may be able to
examine it more easily.
Sections have been removed from
the engine so that the details of the
interior construction 'of important
parts may be seen.
In the past the Ford Company has
made similar presentations to vari-
ous colleges and universities. The en-
gineering department has several
similar engines, besides this latest
addition,
Motion Picture, Neely
Drawl, Grey Eagle To
Resume Lecture Series
•Jess Neely got a rousing reception , Owl coach explained, the intricacies
from 300 students gathered in theLf the single wingback system upon
Physics Amphitheatre last Friday toK^ h ^ ^ ^ S(WthwMt
hear him discuss the single wingouck . ,
system and the opening games on\v"'v[(!« a '*>tnm gamed further
the Owl football schedule, and the is(nith •''"•i (,"*t. Referring frequently
coach of the hour holds forth again', to the .blackboard while Giigft ap-
today in softest Carblinese. I proved silently from tile sidelines,
Motion Pictures he sketched rapidly for the interested
With a Kivat sophnnuin.' tcuni Ifudinj.' Ui(;fv
. it hall wilderness, tht* student hody wuh 'iJiyMutr Unv :!&'
to move upon New Orleans en masse for t he OvvM rreeii VV;vve ha(
tie there Saturday afternoon that: hnn.ti'.s i?).-1,iti,st. anil Ty
lane ruiversity together, on the Ki'idii'oh |||'Spe-
i cial train hearing the hand and an expected JM)0,additional, support-,
ers from the earnpus leaves the Smith', re 1||||!® stfiiion: tonurbt
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'.'ifii' tiietrrt'jjoli:-. ,-ehed
i:i>'d ipi';?*| Saturday
: Tin- kick-off is .set'1 j'uf ||||(|i;j|| ,
tfri.-ilv iJeritiand l or .ll'icliels
V.- Willi ,'iiity |i:uii!;><ia.i:iif||
1 ''tifci'.efi llfifcfite ;,n;V!:iil •
iiivg |;SijV#*|J|B!j I Sal
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Rice Graduates ^le!gjtpJi,S;
10 BeCOme Second .ami' were placed oh ~al.-
LleUtenantS 'lla,v b.v.membeis ;i!' 05ii
, coiuirMI. ifuid iuoh> t.Jmri'i^iii
Marine Official
To Explain New
Slime Virtuoso Victim
By Kelly Reed
To the time scarred portals of the
Tower of East there came on regis-
tration day a personage—a Slime—
whom we of that entrance feel has
tiO equal. Our peaceful solitude, so
characteristic of those carefree col-
lege days, was. rather rudely inter-
rupted on "hat occasion by the melodi-
ous, but unharmonious, violin of Slime
Franklin Wendel Lester.
This prodigy from Galveston is so
good that when he made a special ap-
pearance for Frit® Kreislor the latter
had only one comment to make; quote:
"I've been fritzed,". unquote.
Slime Lester also has other talents.
'Tis his delight to sing in a fiendish
manner the unsung ballads of the
■tapsters; his peculiar voice rocks back
and forth from those notes familiar
to 'Aslpep in the Deep' to an occa-
sional C above high C. It matters not
WnAmyRkvmX ffMsrt feiiatly
adMMr^Wes with it no words—hb
merely improvises , . , and we suffe^t
"The Boys"- had a tea party, and
Lester was invited as an honor guest.
He favored the gathering with a new
redntion of 'Get Out Your Old Silver
Gbblot,' but the traditional words were
lacking. Next day Slime Franklin
officiated at his own private party—
a shoe-shining-shindig, Have you ever
shineri 1!).pairs of shoes at one time 7
• Our rather large family in the
Tower always tries to meet any situ-
ation, but it appeal's that this is the
one exception that proves the rule.
An Inner Sewing Circle was created
with Blily "Papa" Heard, Johnny
"Mama" Carter, Big Paul "Godfather"
Murphy, and Bill "Roomie" Jacobe
as the principals. Just to keep this
group In the groove, Lester played
another concert. Jacobe is still a char-
tor member of the Circle, but his title
now ieads "Ex-Roomie."
On Monday last the Inner Circle
announced that Maestro Lester was
to the prdfeentefd that evening at an-
Continued- dii' page 2 <;
Beginning again in the Physics Am-
phitheatre where he. and Cecil i.J'op)
Griffg charmed -them for 'forty-five
minutes last week, Neely adds today
motion pictures of the Louisiana State '
game. In the first of the newly es-
tablished Neely Lectures, the new
Notice has been received that Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Maurice ,G. Holmes of
the United States Marine Corps will
be at Rice on Friday, October 27, to
interview applicants for commissions :
in the, marine corps under the new of-
ficer's-training set-up recently inaug-
urated. V' 1
Under the new, organization, grad-
uates from Rice Institute and .-everal
other colleges that have been selected,
are eligible t,o; a^iply fot' training to
become second jitiutwunits in the
'11 lifted States Marine Corps Reserve.
Four Periods
For tliqse Sfindidates1 who" iiile! ac-
cepted, the1 ti'nining and . aei'vice will
audience, 'the' essentials of the. attack ; 'all into four periods:
that has brought his sophomores
from nowhere to fourteenth in the
nation.
Unexpected Centenary Defense
(it) Candidate status as enlistedi
men undergoing basiie training. I Three J
mouths.) , '
ill) Reserve second lieutenant on!
A World At
ROME—-Reports in the official con-
trolled Italian press early Friday
described "widespread riots" that oc-
curred as America turned to the con-
scription of a citizen army.
LONDON—There was official con-
firmation Thursday night, of previ-
ous rumors; that this besieged city
was undergoing an epidemic of
"camp fever," a pestilential disease
caused by crowded conditions and
lack of sanitation.
ISTANBUL — Turkish diplomatic
quarters announced that the govern-
ment would contest to the bitter
end any aggression begun by Italian
forces.
BERLIN—The air force of the Third
Reich disclosed a new weapon which
would '.'paralyze" the efffectiveness
of Royal Air Force Fighters. Meag-
er details described it as a blinding
searchlight adapted to aerial •com-
bat.
WASHINGTON — President Roose-
velt worked- upon the details of re-
lief for Europe's tortured millions
during the doming winter as tabula-
tions from Wednesday's registration
of the national manpower continued
to poiir In.
RANGOON—British military author-
ities stationed here at the terminus
of China's Burma Road, closed by
the. Bmftire Wednesday, stated that
watiw: labor gangs could repair
bdnibinir damages too rapidly for
the angered Japanese to effect a
pevmanont rioting Of the Chinese
:-'lile Urn... ' . : ' p! 94:1
AVarming to his task, Neely showed; activt' duty iindergoing a courSci; of in-
struction at the? Marine Corjis School.
I'l'llr-'l' llli.llt.hs.) ■ .. .' .
(c) Active duty with troops as a
second lieutenant, Marine Corps Re-
serve. (Subject; to extension, )
|d) Inactive duty as a second lU'u-
tenant in ont' of the .classes now pi'ii-
vided by law.
Of th<( several reiiuirijiiionts. neces-
sary for application for 'this training
the firtit. is a college degree after a
full fovir-yeai' course, N' modical
student", dental students or theologi-
cal graduates will be accepted; The
age . limit requirements are that, the
Continued on page i!
what his squad had (attempted against
Centenary hi the opener, and told
how- an unexpected Gentleman de-
fense formation had slowed the home
offensive to u .walk 'for an entire pe-
riod. From scouting reports he then
demonstrated what to expect from
Louisiana State, and those who took
a good look at Tiger formations the
next night, saw the accuracy of Owl
scouting.
A brief sketch of what, to expect
from the home forces took up five
minutes of the session. Basic forma-
tions were: explained with the play-
ers involved shown by number, and
Continued on page '2
been disposed i>l' .0 1 p. ;i;. I'll
day, indicating a brisk demand f.
seats in the special Rice sectiy
the east-sidi' of Tulane Stadium.
Neely Fights Ovcrconfidencc
Meanwhile, genial .less Neely'*
job out (ft the practice field \va-
counteract any1 symptom.- ,if ow'er.i
fidence e:a;.-.ed ;by ,,ver-zealiui.-- hip
usual of iirosH';! notices, -<v!iic!i i:a
tile 6vi|| Uitritei)- tli- teaoi :•
week ami inoveii. ajl I i, \va.\ jr..
•I2llfi to - I4tli ill- :i.11 i.,I:.111:7'.i':!:■. T':
N'oi'th ('n I !,e!d 1! i.
formal Sunday i,e ■ ■■. i ■ . teijuai*
presear w iih ibe io-Tgllfl, • -■ o!' 'i'l ■-
and 'ii want •••. .vi: :ly abevi:. 1
.Gontiaued'.'im
Campus Clubs
Schedule Talk
Marconi and Hams Aid
From that theoretically appropri-
ate place, the engineering department,
combs nil avid student story to end
add such in form of a tale of A, Mos-
kowitz and his home work.
Moskowitz, sophomore engineer
who makes a quick run in every day
from Bay town to get to his classes,
had to miss school Saturday, but
had no desire to neglect the Tuesday
morning B. A. problem, kinematics
drawings, or calculus exercises,
He contracted to get the assign-
ments from Kenneth Campbell, in
the same classes, but Saturday after-
noon found hint in Baytown and
Campbell in Houston, both rendered
incommunicado with respect to each
other by virtue of distance apart.
The difficulty was solved, the dis-
tance was bridged, and science; and
sophomore classes inarched on when
Campbell contacted Houston radio
aiiuiteur Jimmy Jeffries' W5EFB, a
friend of Mis,: to get the message
through,
Dr. I SUinkv f!om i in x< km>iwi
mi^MlmMfflfiJVB'lllllalR |, thi- rvvivh!
daj , \v Vljjj siiqa.I, TlilifeiJaj'. ,„S:)iitii!n
.'it), at tile Autry llmi-e" a,: ')"! !;a,' m.
bej'n^ 'S;piifisi,1vr('id \1:iy ■ /-eVeral,' cjinijiiis
eluttS] Jones m ):Ii" ilousfon iiH1
pai:t lit' the ,Nai ioiiali ("In istiaii
siofii I>eiirtrheld Oi'tober 2" Nn-
yenibei"; fsjj Imli'SHie lloutti jMis^mn
being heUi N'oyeiiiber I and l'. .JHn :
iac thi.- week mere than thirty visit-
tng national and international no-
tables will ndrtiv-s keveii adult :;fiia:||i
meetings and two'youth mass meet-
iim's,, and ituidc restricted seminar.s
for both adults* nnd jfouth groups.
This talk at the Autry House is, be-
ing given in order to make it possi-
ble for Rice students to; I'liave the: iip-
portunity of hearlng: whti of. these' out-
standing ineii npar tlte eanipus.:
Adult Mass Meetings
Sunday afternoon, October 27. .ev-
ery1. wl(>ek! night except Saturday, am!
Jeffries' rig wasn't Working, as (Sunday afternoon, November '3, the
they sonietfiiiesi aren't, hut he "knew j adult mass meetings will lie held at.
another ham, as hams sometimes do, the City Auditoi'lum. Some of the
whose rig wus working; as they some- j speakers' to address: these meetings
times are. Thd latter, Lewis Krom- [ai:e:'.Daniel "Poling. E. Stanley Jones,
berg, manipulated on 160 meters to IJohn W. Rustin; and Marshall Steele.
sueli effect that he aroused Oscar
MeCullough. W6.IDD in Baytown,
who happened to be a friend of Mos-
kowlta.
MeCullough couldn't translate the;
message, espAially subscripts in the
math problems, hut after cnlltng
Hromberiff a luntiWc he WHs pt>rsuftded
to summon foflafetiwitz to the receiver,
nnrf eifcfrtwalfrMhy'wnrrt g ttirmtgh.-
The program for the Youth Mis-
sion' is sis follows:
Friday, NoVtmiber f| m,.: A
Mass Meeting for all the young peo-
ple, of the city.
! '!):30.11ill0: Yoiith Seminars tri'-
itvicted attendance) held at the First
Methodist Church.
(I) For young people (Up to 2-1
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