Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1941 — Page 20

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* DEFENSE ROADS

1000 Men Employed on Highways Called Strategic © By the Army.

Times Special / WASHINGTON, . Oct. 15.~Approximately 1000 Indiana WPA workers are engaged in the construction of strategic highways in

the State, the WPA, in a defense

report. from the Federal Works Agency, stated today. These -workers are “speeding an intensive construction and improve‘ment program on a state-wide network. of strategic highways and ‘access roads designated by military authorities as important to national defense,” the report states. + It continues: | “The work includes improvement of seven highways connecting Ft. Sheridan, near Chicago; Ft. Harrison, near Indianapolis, and Ft. Enox, in Kentucky. "| “Work is also being done on 13 ted roads over which delivery of Army trucks and other military vehicles from- Michigan auto plants is made. A major part of the work is the construction of roadway shoulders, - which - permit . truck convoys to park for refueling and repair without hampering other yehicles using the road. “Other work includes the widening of culverts and bridges, the setting back of ditches, and sodding and seeding of roadway banks to prevent ‘soil erosion. “The WPA is also building and improving ‘access roads to Ft. Benjamin ‘Harrison, the smokeless powder plant at Charlestown, the ordnance plant at Kingsbury, Studebaker = Corporation plant at South Bend, and the Guide Lamp Corporation. at Anderson. Eight roads are being built and improved near the Charlestown plant.”

LOCAL MAN NAMED BY CHIROPRACTORS

HUNTINGTON, Ind. Oct. 15 (U. P) ~The Indiana Chiropractors’ Association has elected Dr, D. G. Walesby, Indianapolis, president, and selected Indianapolis as the 1942 convention city. . Dr, W. H. Gwynn, Indianapolis, was named vice president and Dr. ©. BE. Sowards,: Bluffton, secretary*treasurer. Other officers include Dr. P. D. Stanton, Remington; Dr. Paul Watson, Ft. Wayne; Dr. V. W. Dean, Indianapolis, and Dr. F. H. Maisel, Gary, all directors.

the outbreak of the war. He was ordered to leave Italy because of the anti-totalitarian spirit of his dispatches. The first American ‘corsespondent to arrive in Eritrea with Italian troops, Mr. Whitaker cabled eyewitness accounts of the Ethiopian war from the Italian front. He was in Berlin during Hitler's “blood purge” in 1934 and he eovered the action in Vienna in which Chancellor Dolfuss was killed. Covered Spanish War Mr. Whitaker covered the story of Alcazar after having spent four months in Spain with the insurgent troops of Franco. During the German blitz. of Czechoslovakia, he transmitted the story by way of short-wave radio, there being no other channels of communication.’ Stationed in Paris at the outbreak of this war, Mr. Whitaker for a time covered the action on the Western Front. It was during this time that he spent a day with a French air squadron over German territory. He went to Rome in the spring of 1940, and made his headquarters there until this year. This past summer Mr. Whitaker was in England, conferring with many government and military experts about American participation in the war. Wrote Two Books

Besides his newspaper experience,

the | Mr. Whitaker is also the author of

two books, “Americas to the South,” and an autobiography, “And Fear Came,” which concerns mainly his experiences in ‘Africa. In his lecture here, Mr. Whitaker will ‘discuss the probable role which Africa will play in the war that is now going on. Mrs. David Lurvey, chairman of the managing committee of the Indianapolis Open Forum, will infroduce Mr. Whitaker. Holders of season tickets to the series will be accomodated beginning at 7:30 p. m. Others, who wish Jo buy tickets, may do so at 8 p Other events rien] by the Open Forum -series this year are: ; Nov. 23-Maj. George Fielding Eliot, regarded as one of the nation's foremost military experts, who will speak on “Could England and America Rule the World?” Dec. "7T—Carlos Davila, former

John T. ‘Whitaker fo Open y Forum Series Here Soncoy

John T. Whitaker, tanfous war i orrespondent for the ‘Indianapolis 3

John T. Whitaker

Chilean ambassador to the United).

States and provisional president of Chile, whose talk will be “A South American ‘ Appraises the U. 8. AX Feb. 1—-John Mason Brown, dramatic critic of the New York Post, whose new lecture will be titled “Broadway. in Review.” Feb. 22—Janet Flanner, former Indianapolis resident, who will: talk on “My Pirst 15 Years as the New Yorker's Paris Correspondent.” 16th Year for Series March 22—Dr, Hans Kohn, professor of history at Smith College, speaking on “Waves of ‘the Future and the Past.” “This is the 16th season for the Indianapolis Open Forum. It is a non-profit organization, foundéd as a civic project to provide a medium for frank and uncensored discussion of social and economic problems. The "speakers are selected by a representative committee, = which} acts upon’ suggestions received from a general questionnaire which 1s held at the close of each season. Officers of the Jewish Community Center Association,’ sponsor of the Forum, are: 'Theodore R. Dann, president; Allan Kahn, vice president; Mrs. I. G. Kahn, secretary; Samuel A. Kroot, treasurer, and Allan Bloom, general secretary.

KILLED BY LIGHTNING COLUMBUS, Ind, Oct. 15 (U, P.).

—Francis Emmett Marlow, 23, was|*

killed yesterday when he was struck by lightning while working on- his farm five miles east of Hartsville. A companion, the Rey. Clarence Klopistein: of Hartsville, was uninjured.

Work to Be Tested at ‘Plane Factory.

ciates ‘plan to test 1100 aircraft

ed. Mr. Ford said that “a far-reach-ing. effect” on: the productive power of defense workers was anticipated.

8 LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 U. PY} | ‘or. Robert A. Millikan and his asso-|

He quoted. Prof. Henry Borsook, one of Dr. Millikan’s associates, that “while the nation is spending millions of dollars to produce the most efficient war machines, it is overlooking the physical effectiveness of its workers.” : Dr. Millikan and Prof. Borsook,

both of the California Institute of Technology, are being aided by Dr.

ern California.

GERMAN COUNTESS "HOPES BRITAIN WINS

JERSEY CITY, N.-J., Oct. 15 (U. P.) —Countess Jeanne von Bern-

man Ambassador to the United States from 1908 to 1917, returned to this country aboard the 'S.’ 8. Exeter yesterday and “announced that she had “come home to die.” As for Germany, “I never want. to see that country again,” she said, adding. that “it will be a long time before it will: be : possible to live there.” “If I didn’t think the British would win the war,” the countess said, “I would commit suicide. Th must win.” The countess’ husband, Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorfl,

died two years ago in Geneva,

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storff, 73-year-old widow of the Ger- \

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