Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1940 — Page 16

_ Ft. Harrison Troops Leave July 1 for Maneuvers In Wisconsin.

About two thousand officers and men will leave about July 1 from Ft. Harrison to attend Second Army maneuvers at Camp McCoy, Wis. The men include the 11th Infantry, 1600 strong; Military Police . Headquarters and headquarters of the Fifth Division, and the Fifth Quartermasters Battalion. "A portion of the infantry is mo torized -and will take two days to reach Camp McCoy, traveling so as not to disturb regular highway traffic and bivouacking overnight. Nonmotorized riflemen probably will go by train. 65,000 to Take Part

A report from Second Army Headquarters said that a 17-car train from Ft. Harrison is expected at Chicago for retrainment there. Each group will make the trip under its own unit commander. : About 65,000 soldiers from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia will take part in the maneuvers,” under the drection of Lieut. Gen. Stanley H. Ford, Second Army commander. A total of 27 different lines are concerned in the movement of the * troops. About 1200 tons of National Guard equipment will be hauled. From - Ft. Knox, Ky., 179 combat cars, prime movers for 75 mm. Howitzers and half track ambulances will be transported by rail.

Long Column Planned

More than 30,000 troops will be transported by rail. The rest will move in 150 separate convoys. *The motorized unit from Ft. Knox will have more ‘than 1000 vehicles in the column, which will be about 60 miles long.

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Times Special MUNCIE, Ind. June 17.—Thirty years ago, William Barlow, then a resident of Parig Ky. enlisted in the United States Army. In the following years, he lost track of his family and worked all over - the country until 24 years ago when _ he settled down in Topeka, Kas. Last week, he came to Muncie and saw his brothers, Earl and * Oliver for the first ‘time since 1910. A few days before, he was united oS ints sister, Mrs. Jesse Case in Pari Mr. Barlow expects to return to Topeka after a visit with his family. .

Coast Defense Rests on Guns

Used But Little

(Fifth of a Series)

By CHARLES T. LUCEY and LEE G. MILLER

WASHINGTON, June 17. —Coast artillery guns as little used as cannon in the park,

and tragically lacking in modern equipment, would be called on today to meet an enemy invader powerful or elusive enough to get past the United States Navy. Some of the giant weapons of the 19 major harbor defenses in continental United States—the largest are able to throw a one-<ton armorpiercing shell 20 miles—haven’t been fired in 20 years. } The nation’s finest anti-aircraft weapon, the 90-millimeéter gun, has not even reached the hands of troops yet, and about 10 of the 37 r.anned anti-aircraft regiments exist oily on paper.

Will They Fire?

The European war has. centered attention on the airplane and the mechanized column—and properly so—but smart Army officers cite what happened to the British at Gallipoli to stress the importance of coast defenses. They mention, too, what just one or two defending guns in Oslo harbor, unsilenced by Fifth. Column treachery, were able to do to modern Nazi warships. Yet Chairman Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) of the Sénate Subcommittee on Military Appropriations

.isaid of the coast artillery guns a

the important harbor of Charleston, S. C.: “They don’t know whether they will shoot or not. They hope they will”.

War Department Secretive

Many coast-defense regiments are hardly more than skeleton organizations. I Coast artillery in the| past has been a mighty weapon, but one speaking with only local| authority. The long-range cannon might batter to pieces anything [trying to move into New York or San Francisco harbors, yet they were helpless against landings in other spots. The swing in coastal defense today is to railroad artillery—mobile, massive weapons which can be shifted quickly from one coastal

{area to another. |

The War Department is secretive

anti-aircraft batteries|

An eight-inch Coast Artillery mobile railway rifle barks. The shell is in the upper right hand corner. | Rearmaments in big guns can’t probably will be months before the

in | regard to how much of this equipment it has, but there are estimates of about two dozen units. This, it may be judged, is no more than half of what is considered necessary, as funds for 24 new railroad guns have been asked of Congress. These will be 8-inch pieces, rather than 12, 14 or 16-inch. Use of the largest units is limited in lmany areas by the insufficient strength - of bridges. There have been instances of roadbed itself collapsing under such weight.

Coast defenses are based on elab-|

orate systems for finding enemy ships accurately and speedily. It may take a half-minute for a big shell to travel from gun to target, and since the target may be moving fast, fire must be directed to where the ship will be when the projectile travels to it. Each shot, that is, is based on prediction. Temperature, wind and even the earth's curvature may enter into the calculations.

It’s Done in Seconds

All this must be done in seconds, hence the importance of modern guns with the finest scientific equipment for fire control. Today 155-millimeter guns (about 6 inches) and 8-inch howitzers— field artillery weapons—are being used as complementary units for coast defense. These are powerful guns of moderately long range. Mounted on motorized equipment, they can be taken into many areas unreached by| railroads. The 155-mm. gun hurls a 95-pound shell 10 miles.

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'be rushed. It takes two and one-| half years to build one, and this country hasn’t built many since the World War. : Anti-aircraft defense is linked closely with coast-defense planning today. An ominous suggestion of the potential future range of air attacks which might be aimed at America’s coast line has been given in a recent statement by a leading plane manufacturer. The Glenn L. Martin Co. has announced it is ready to build, when the need develops, a 65-ton stratosphere liner which will go from New York to London in 12 hours. If this country can do it, others may be able to.

Enough for 26 Regiments

The Army has 448 3-inch antiaircraft guns, enough for 26 regiments, and by the end of the year it will be able to equip 30 regiments. It has directors and height finders for 27 regiments. It has about 1000 £0-caliber machine guns, effective against low-flying aircraft, but only a few 37-mm. (about 1%-inch.) anti-aircraft weapons. Plans until recently called for 37 fully equipped anti-aircraft regiments by the end of 1942. That so much time would be required brought comment from Gen. Marshall that the delay in obtaining such material, after appropriations are made, is “long and maybe tragic.” ¢ With a reappraisal of military needs in the light of European events, the anti-aircraft = defense goal may be increased sharply. Manufacture of the 90-mm. anti-

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first guns are ready. This weapon

bombers at great heights than anything the Army has now. Shortage of the T7-MM. gun in both the Army and the National Guard is a serious one, according to Gen. Marshall. ‘Regiments Organized

Of 26 anti-aircraft regiments for which there is, in the main, sufficient equipment, 21 are %rganized and five are in process of organization. Seven will be Regular Army troops, 19 National Guard units. To bolster anti-aircraft defenses, antiaircraft battalions recently have been organized in 11 coast-defense regiments. ‘ Ordinary equipment for a regiment ‘includes 12 3-inch guns, 15 searchlights, three sound detectors, 24 50-caliber machine guns and— though they are not available now —24 37-mm. guns. Most of the Army's defense against air attacks is mobile, though there are 86 stationary anti-aircraft guns at harbor defenses. No more stationary batteries are planned. The Army, conceding the shortage in vital equipment, believes it is able to overcome much of this mobility. .Congressmen have been told that single cities in Europe are guarded by hundreds of ainti-aircraft guns —but the Army says such attacks as those occurring in Europe today are hardly an immediate likelihood in this country. J Many Congressmen aren't so sure. That's one reason why they're voting unprecedented peacetime funds

NEXT—Iron Cavalry.

Hoosier hospitality, hard work and a hip-hip-hurray campaign were responsible for Indianapolis being awarded the 1941 convention of the Shrine.

The Imperial Council of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of Mystic Shrine will meet here on June 8, 9, 10 and 11 next year, bringing between 15,000 and 20,000 visitors. It will be the largest convention here in many years. Sixteen months ago the local Divan first moved to get the conclave for Indianapolis in 1941 when

|Dr. C. E. Cox, Murat Temple treas-

urer, presented a formal invitation at the Baltimore convention. Then, four months ago the big push really started. Many meetings were held between Henry T. Davis, secretary-manager of the Convention Bureau, and Temple officers. Twice the national officers were brought here as guests of the Bureau and the Temple, shown the city and told what Indianapolis could and would do to entertain the visitors. During the state meeting May 17 the four Indiana Shrine groups at Ft. Wayne, Hammond, Terre Haute and Evansville pledged their aid to the drive. , Then came the 1940 national convention at Memphis. Two hundred imen from Murat Temple attended, | including the band, the chanters {and the gun club, all set to “whoop ‘er up” for Indianapolis. . { Two headquarters were set up in {the Peabody Hotel. A week before {the convention opened letters were sent to all imperial delegates and national officers inviting them to visit one of the headquarters. Here the Murat officers greeted them. During the week 5000 persons visited this headquarters receiving bookletsson Indianapolis, cigaret lighters inscribed “Murat Temple invites you in ’41” and Kingan & Co. pencils. | In the other headquarters guests were given mints from HamiltonHarris & Co. and Stokely Bros. & Co. tomato juice while the Murat Temple orchestra played for dancing. Mingling among the visitors were the four imperial Indianapolis delegates: Fred McNeely, Temple potentate; Lloyd D. Claycombe, last year’s potentate; Dr. Cox, and G¥anville Richey, past potentate. They

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all were under Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers, Temple chief Rabban, who is slated for next year’s potentate. As such he would be official host to the convention. During the Memphis meeting, telegrams inviting the Shriners to Indianapolis were read to the delegates from the Hotel Association, Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, the Merchants’ Association and the Scottish Rite.

here was in 1919. All delegates to whom he talked all had the same thing to say to Mr. Davis:

in Indianapolis 21 years ago.”

CYCLIST, 11, WOUNDED BY ACCIDENTAL SHOT

FRANKFORT, Ind. June 17 (U. P.).—Norman Carlson, 11-year-old son of Russell Carlson of Franklin, was in a critical condition today as the result of a bullet wound accidentally inflicted by two neighbor boys. / According to the story told “police, Ted Spalding, 13; and Max

caliber rifle on a bed in young Spalding’s home. One of the boys rolled off the bed, the gun discharged and the slug hit Carlson who was riding by the house on a bicycle.

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LAWYERS T0 PICNIC IN NOBLESVILLE PARK

Writs and pleas will be forgotten next Saturday when the Lawyers Association of Indianapolis holds its annual picnic at Forest Park at Noblesville. 5 Golf, baseball, horseshoes; tennis and bridge are on the Judge Edwin K. Steers is chairman of the golf committee.

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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1940 PIERCETON WOMAN = MARKS 100TH YEAR :

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PIERCETON, Ind, June 17. —

Mrs. Catherine Beard Pletcher, a native of Ohio and a resident of Indiana for 91 years, celebrated her 100th birthday here last week.

Mrs. Pletcher, who was born in

West Lodi, O.,' has two sons, 14 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchil= dren and three great-great-grand-children. She has a brother, Samuel

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