Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1941 — Page 11

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rT ers—Paul G. Hof

. panding and imp - vast network of

§ Hoffman Views Program ~ As Cushion Against Unemployment.

DETROIT, Nov.|20 (U. P.).—One of the automobile industry's lead-

Studebaker Corp.—believes that exroving America’s eets and high-

ways “almost automatically” will be »-No. 1,on the lis§ of post-defense re projects designed to cushion wide-

d unemployment.

t.' dent Roosevelt already has .recog- * nized the vital need of improving

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“ the nation’s public . appointing a national

A #/% ernment’s public

road system by highway ded by Thomas] ef of the Govpads administra-

g board hes G&G. MacDonald,

tion. If the defense

intervened, Mr. Hoffman said a

" huge road-bpilding program would

é peace-time demand

because even revealed what

be under way now

he termed great inadequacies of the

» Present highway |system - totaling) # mote than 3,000,000 ;

miles. Urges Federal Aid

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the post-defense era, according Mr, Hoffman, should recognize Bu fundamental questions of policy.

plan” developed g al authorities; | provides an or erly, long-range} ogram ‘of highway expansion to future traffic

the Federal aid rinciple of financing road building. . Keeping highway construction

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Wants High Standards

‘I see terrific hazards if our great am in the postmes synonymous Hoffman em1 never get the nd of highway system which this ition requires unless highway lding maintains its status as a siness enterprise.’ nless the public necessity of “sound highway icy,” Hoffman said, the master 'p n for orderly road development be “ignored” and the policy of eral aid will be superseded by what he termed “a centralized Feder 1 confrol.”

Autos Lead Transportation The 32,000,000 passenger cars and rucks now using nation’s highways roll up nearly 500,000,000,000

emergency had not | §

is convinced of ir

THIS EVENING

7:00—~March of Time, WISH. 7:30—Aldrich Family, WIRE. 8:00—Bing Crosby, WIRE. 8:15—Town Meeting, WISH. 8:30—America Preferred, WIBC.

The launching of the U. 8. 8. Indiana at Newport News, Va., will be heard over WISH at 9:30 tomorrow morning. The program will include a description of the 35,000-

n, president of ton battleship as it slides down the

ways at high tide-and informal remarks by officials attending the ceremonies. The first portion of the program will be a pi of Governor Schricker’s party leaving Union Station for the launching. Governor Schricker and Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson will be heard.

Actor Raymond Massey and Jinx Falkenburg, America’s most publicized model, will be guest stars of Bing Crqsby on the Music Hall program tonight, 8 o'clock, WIRE. Donald Crisp, who frequently visits . return to rib Bing and Jerry Lester will make it a trio to discuss # Hollywood foibles. Connie ° Mr. Massey the Hall Johnson Choir and John Scott Trotter's orchestra will be heard.

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Station’ WAOV, Vincennes, has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission to increase its power from 100 watts to 250 watts. The station is operated by the Vincennes Newspapers, Inc. 8 ® »

Baby (Fanny Brice) Snooks will celebrate Thanksgiving with a few lessons on turkeyology from Daddy (Hanley Stafford) tonight, WIRE 17 o'clock. The program’s buffoonery will be increased by Frank Morgan’s “confessions of the days when he ‘was ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’” 8 8 ”

Madame Grete Stueckgold, nk’ politan Opera soprano, will be uest Sar on the United States Treasury rogram, America Preferred, on WIBC at 8:30 o'clock. With Alfred Wallenstein’s Symphony orchestra, Madame Stueckgold will sing four numbers: “Dich Theure Halle” om Wagner's “Tannhauser”; “My “Little Boy

Johann,” by Grieg; Blue,” by Nevins, and Richard Strauss’ “Zueignung.” Wallenstein’s Symphony will play the overture to “Don Giovanni” and Schumann’s “Amor and Psyche.”

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BOSTON, Nov. 20 (U. P).-All, but one of 21 persons seized with |: | the small Norwegian freighter Bus-

ko in connection with a Nazi atWith a Smile | tempt to operate a radio outpost Raymond Clapper |in Greenland, have been released

in the custody of Bjarne Ursin, | Norwegian consul at Boston, it was [earned today. All reportedly : are| quartered at a Boston hotel, avaiting berths on other ships.

The only one detained was de-| scribed by authorities as “a pro-

‘| Nazi Norwegian” who had shipped

with the crew as a seaman. The remainder of the crew still were believed held by immigration authorities, pending further inv:sti-

ga : Ls Thé Busko was brought to Boston, |

where it still. remains, by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s former flagship Bear, now a naval patrol boat, on Oect. 14. The prisoners,

who supposedly included a repre-}

sentative of the German Gestapo, were taken to the local immigration station under a detail of Marines. The Busko, an ancient ea] an. er, reportedly served as tender to the secret radio station which the ye Navy “disposed of” in Gr2en-

MECHANICAL BOMBER

Drétder to Discuss) That Nation’s Role In, Present Crisis.

Theodore" Dreiser, - the novelist, | I Crisis ut 8:30. n a : p. m. tomorrow at.Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High | * School. . .. The lecture is being red by the lay Night Club and the proceeds will be used in

native of Indiana and is perhaps best known for “An American Tragedy,” “Sister Carrie,” and “The Titan.” In recent years he has made extensive travels and his best ‘book, “America Is Worth Saving,” expresses optimistic

serving the American democratic values in a war-torn world. : In his lecture he is expected to discuss the significance of Rusisla’s opposition to Nazi Germany ‘in relation to the Interests of the United States.

University, will be the meeting and introduce the | speaker,

19TH WARD CLUB MOVES The 19th Ward Republican Club has moved to its new quarters at 701 N. King Ave. It will sponsor a

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an said was more than six times | gay, at 5 o'clock. She will have the

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ther forms ‘of transportation. Since passage of the Federal Aid Highway ‘Act in 192] an investment

ighway tax revenues ‘were ‘other than rosd-bufld-

re ein GUM CHEWED FOR CHARITY TURLOCK, Cal. (U. P.).—Residents of this city will chew gum for the benefit of underprivileged children. The Chamber of Commerce has distributed through .the City gum vending machines, the profits from which will be turned over to its children’s fund. The machines were leased for the pur-

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last word since Santa himself is on the air just ahead of her at 4:30 o'clock. ‘ td » EJ Maj. Gen. Charles Evans Kilbourne, U, S. A, retired, and Rep. ’|James W. Wadsworth (R. N. Y) will argue the affirmative on a debate, “The Adoption of Universal Military Training,” over WISH tomorrow afternoon. The program, the Annual National Radio Demonstration Debt, will be aired at 1 oelok, The negative side will be esented by Oswald Garrison -VilPr journalist and author, and John Nevin Sayre, secretary of the Fellowship on Reconciliation. Maj. Gen Kilbourne is superintendent of Virginia Military Institute. Dr. Bower Aly, professor of speech, University of Minnesota, will be chairman of the debate.

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The “younger generation” will take over America’s Town Meeting of the Air tonight over WISH at 8:15 o'clock. The four speakers, the oldest 27, will toss around the weighty question, “What Is American Youth’s Moral Code?” Participants will be Jean Sarasy, 20, third-year student at Stephens College; Mary Draper, 21, Vassar senior; Douglas Timmerman, 27, executive vice president of U. S. Junior’ Chamber of Commerce, and Melvin Evans, 25, New York bookshop clerk. - George V. Denny Jr. will be moderator.

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The “Death Valley Days” story tonight, 7:30 o'clock over WFBM, will be of “St. Louis Sam” who robbed a railroad of $4000 and became a fugitive.

PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AT DALLAS

DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 20. (U. P.)—

| |The ‘Burlington Rocket from Den-

ver, streamlined passenger train; was wrecked near the outskirts of Dallas today when it struck a truck loaded with steel beams. The truck driver, who was not

out of Africa.

read to the troops.

ler’'s type of mechanized warfare. Flanders did not provide such a test because the British were not equipped for it. In this case they are equipped, after months of preparation and have the advantage of the latest American tanks, airplanes and motorized equipment. London reports that the British are meeting the Germans and ‘Italians with at least equal force. The latter may be an understatement, Britain has : been ‘making ready for the drive for five ronths, during which there has been no important fighting or waste of men and material. In that time, British air and sea reconnaisance must

enemy strength.

has been in progress for weeks. Like a barrage preliminary to a land battle, British planes and warships have been pounding the Axis supply lines from Italy, causing the heaviest damage and making it impossible for the Germans and Italians to match the British in piling up material and reinforcing. their men, The advantage in supply lies: with the British, as long as the fleet and planes based on Malta can dominate the passage between Sicily and North Africa. At the start of the offensive, the British supply lines are shorter and better. As the drive progresses, they would be considerably lengthened . and the

have given them a fair idea of the|

Moreover, in a sense the drive

‘War Moves Torey

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst The object of the British drive inLibya is not

to gain positions or worthless desert towns relieve besieged Tobruk, but to drive

nor to ‘the pe Axl forces

That is clear trom the nature and scope of the operations, which extend from the e¢oast more than 100 miles southward into the desert and are supported heavily by air and sea forces. was started with all the fanfare of a major offen-|-sive, idluding an inspirational message from Prime Minister Churchill

The attack

It should prove the first actual test of Britain's power against Hit-

a swift ‘advance of 50 miles in the first onrush, In desert warfare, where swilt withdrawals are frequently part of the technique, such advances are not uhusual. The British, 2 fhe have been feeling out the advdnce enemy strength by patrol activity for several days, probably met with little opposition. What they have ‘done is to gain advantageous positions for an assault on the main enemy lines. The heavy fighting is yet to come,

F.D.R. Remains At White House

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U, P.).—For the second time in nine years, President Roosevelt today will: ‘eat Thanksgiving dinner in the White House. While he carves one of five turkeys presented him, the nation’s armed forces will leave nothing but bones of an estimated 1000. tons of turkey and,an unpredictable number of tons of fixings. - The Navy guessed that about 360,000 pounds (180 tons) of turkey would be consumed by its men, on ship and ashore. The Army’s 1,500,000 soldiers will eat

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