Revamped ARP Class Begins This Evening

Featuring top-flight speakers from all branches of Civilian Defense, the second session of the Harvard Air Raid Precautions School will get under way tonight at 7 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.

Announcing that a "considerable amount of changes have been made in the School to meet the increased requirements of the State Committee on Public Safety," C.E. Walton, director of the School and Technical consultant to the First Fighter Command, emphasized the College's need for adequately trained wardens, and said last night that he expects a large crowd at the first meeting.

Must Care for Itself

Pointing out that no provisions for the protection of institutions have been or are likely to be made by the Cambridge authorities, Walton reminded the students that in time of air raids "Harvard will have to take care of itself."

The School will run for six weeks, meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lectures by prominent authorities on Civilian Defense.

Sargent Speaks Thursday

Scheduled to appear Thursday evening is State Gas Officer Theodore Sargent, who will speak on war gases. No spouter of complicated technical terms, Sargent is well known for his clear discussions of chemical warfare and the methods used to combat poison gas.

Probably the most fascinating speaker from the standpoint of general interest will be Donald R. MacAfee, due to lecture on sabotage on November 3. Present at the German breakthrough in Belgium in 1940, he punctuates his his talks with graphic descriptions of the flight into northern France of hundreds of thousands of Belgian refugees.

Speakers at tonight's opening meeting will be Guy Watts, Chief A.R.P. officer of region five, which embraces greater Boston, John D. Crowley, Deputy Chief Warden of Cambridge and expert in communications, and Aldrich Durant, Chief Warden of Harvard University.