Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1940 — Page 9

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TAVESnAY or 17, WORK STARTS TODAY ON NEW PURDUE UNIT

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 17 (U. P)—~Work was to start today on the new Purdue University physics building after award of a $481,828 contract to A. E. Kemmer of Lafayette. The contract was approved by the Board of Trustees. The building will be three stories with brick walls and a title roof.

It will front on Northwe - nue and the Mall. Stern avs

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By NED RUSSELL, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 17.—London may be battered and groggy from the vicious slashing of German bombers, but the capital today still showed that it would take a long time to knock her out. : I made a four-hour tour over more than 60 miles of London streets to study the extent of damage which the Luftwaffe had inflicted after six weeks of attempting to carry out Hitler's threat of total destruction.

Some of the world’s historic buildings, including several of Sir Christopher Wren’s churches; stores, squares, hotels and apartment houses, all of which were well known to American tourists, stood battered and torn. On the streets I met many “fugitives” from time bombs, who had been evacuated from many areas roped off while authorities waited for the inevitable explosions with their further destruction or until brave crews could cart them off. The damage showed that in re-

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cent nights, as the Germans tightened the screws of destruction, they concentrated. on a smaller and smaller area of London, like a concentric vise, they closed in on the city. : It showed that this war, which has become almost entirely a civilians’ war in England, was striking home with terrible power at the rich and poor alike. There's hardly a man, woman or child in London who has not felt the error of bombing in some immediate and very real way. Either

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London Still Far From Knockout in Rich-Man’s-Poor-Man’s War

his or her home, place of work, cituioal, buatGur, UL Sulc€L has oeen damaged by a bomb or bomb blast. Everyone has felt the shock of bombs landing within a close radius. For example, everyone working in the United Press office, all of whom live in different parts of the city, has had a dose of bombing by now. There is no honest means of hiding the fact that London is taking a fierce thrashing. A couple of weeks ago you could wander over big areas of the city and see no damage. Today that would be impossible.

But there was no sign of civilian morale cracking. Every Londoner was gamely “carrying one,” and being remarkably cheerful about it. I saw a crippled panhandler hobbling along the sidewalk. He smiled up at a friend with him and said: “They say a blast always goes up. I guess I have nothing to worry about—unless some damn brick gets a good aim at me.” Driving through a south London district I saw a billboard advertising afternoon tea dances. It said:

“Don’t risk night raids—dance in the aftermoon to the music of Arthur Forrest and his Killer Dillers.”

I don’t want to give the impression London is lying in ruins. It isn’t. During my tour I saw blocks and blocks of houses and office buildings in some sections of the capital which were unscathed. But generally bombs had fallen near enough to assure that the people in those houses had felt the concussion at least.

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'WARNER DISCUSSES DEFENSE WITH FE. BR.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (U.P.).— Milo Warner of Toledo, O., lew national commander of the American Legion, discussed national defense problems with President Roosevelt yesterday. Mr. Warner presented to the President resolutions passed by the Legion during its recent Boston convention.

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