Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
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ROAD CONGRESS
Johns Hopkins Faculty Men,
Der to Manage Details
of World Farley.

Appointment of j. Trueman Thomp-
son, professor of civil engineering at
the Johns Hopkins University, as man
ager of the Sixth International Road
Congress is announced by Thomas H.
Macdonald, secretary general The
congress, which will attract leading
highway engineers, administrators and
economists from virtually every civil
lied country in the world will meet in
Washington October to II at the
invitation of the United States Gov
eminent.
Prof. Thompson has been a member
of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins
School Of Engineering for the past 10
years, while since 1921 he has served
as specialist in highway research for
the United States Bureau of Public
Roads. His studies have included pro-
grams dealing with measurement Of
motor truck impact, determination of
stresses in highway pavement slabs and
structures and stress investigations
conducted upon model highway bridges.
Research Work Outlined.
Under cooperative agreements be-
tween the university and the bureau
these researches have been conducted
at the experimental station of the Bu-
reau of Public Roads at Arlington, Va.
and in the laboratories of the univer-
sity, where he was teaching. The re-
suits OF these experiments have been
published at various times in the cur
rent engineering journals.
Prof. Thompson is a member of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
and for a number of years he was
served on the highway research board
Of the National Research Council as
uY1iuorSifu f0Y.
AS manager of the road congress he
will have charge of detail arrangements
for one of the most representative gath
erings that has been held in the United
States. He has established an Office at
the headquarters of the American Or
ganizing Commission, which is in
charge of the congress- at 1928 N street
northwest, Washington.
As Nations to Be Represented.
According to most recent advices to
the commission, relayed through the
State Department from the several gov
ernments, approximately IS nations
have accepted invitations and will send
official delegations to the sessions of
the congress. Other acceptances are
expected.
The meeting in Washington wi. mark
th3 first time that the international
conference of highway experts has been
held in the Western Hemisphere, pre-
vious sessions having been at Paris,
Brussels, London, Seville and Milan.
These congresses are under the general
direction of the Permanent Interna-
tional Association of Road Congresses,
with headquarters in Paris, of which
M. lie Gavrian is secretary general.
One of Mr.. Thompson's duties will
he fn uyith hH,
letter and by cable regarding the many
pressing details of transporting dele
gates from the far corners of the earth
to the meeting in Washington, the
translation and distribution of reports
and addresses. arrangements for the
comfort and enterta nment of the dele
oates and ple"es of meeting. The Ian
euages of tn" congress viii h French
Spanish, German and English.
Where Sessions will Be Held.
It is expected that the sessions of
the congress will be at the building of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed States, where ample facilities are
afforded for group meetings and for the
larger assemblies.
The American Organizing Commits
sion, which has the responsibility for
the congress, was named by the Sec
rotary of State, with Roy D. Chaplin,
chairman of the highways committee
of the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce, as president, and Thomas
H. Macdonald. chief of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads as Sec
retarv general.
Virtually everv person in the United
states interested in any phase of high
wav affairs is eXD""ted tn attend the
congress according TO Mr. THOMPSON.
who announces tho commissions will
ingness to supply anv organization or
individual interested with complete in
formation