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Show BANKHEAD URGES ROAD BETTERMENT MINERAL WF.I.I.S. Texas, April 13. Addressing ll""' seven t li annual meeting of the United State? I'.ood Poads association associa-tion here today. Senator Hank head of Alabama, retiring chairman of the senate postoffice committee, urged further improvement im-provement of American ro.oK e tension of thft I'.ankhead national highway from Kl F'aso, Texas, to the Pacific coast, so as to form a transcontinental highway, and the education of highway engineers by the colleges In order to provide capable capa-ble construction men. Senator I tank head told the convent ion that when the war demonstrated conclusively conclu-sively the Inadequacy of railroad transportation, trans-portation, the use of the motor truck and automobile w as resorted to. In order to meet transportation needs of the war. and showed the absolute necessity for better roads and Increased appropriations for that purpose. |