Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1944 — Page 16

Eas Herrington Vehi-

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_dubbed the Locust,’ “streamlined, Tii-foni all-welded ve~|

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“tempts had met with only *

A vehicle are many,

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cles Flown to France oi In Invasion.

tanks manufactured by of Indianap-| olis . flown from England in! huge Eiders in the initial stages

Light

2 of the Normandy invasion, surpris“Ing the Germans wlio

COTE WHINE | to fire upon the troops they expects}

ed to see the gliders land, 't was revealed today. i The tank, which the Briush, ’

is a compact,

hicle wgth an extremely low silhouette and low center of gravily,| the company said. ! It rides in the belly of the huge

* Hamilcar glider which is towed by

a neavy bomber and which has a wingspread greater than that of a Lancaster four-engimed boniber. | Conceived shortly after - Pearl Harbor, the lank was built on ordnance department ® specifications | and was saved until the Normandy | invasion, Marmon- derrington re=

vealed. ‘|

Other Action Predioted

“1¢ will, without doubt, be heard from again, in the European ‘area | as well as in other theaters of ac-| tion. before this war is over,” the company said. While the idea of carrying tanks by air was not new, previous at-| ‘indiffer- | ent success,” Marmon-Herrington said. . “The tactical advantages of such | The element sof surprise in their first ‘ance on the battlefieid obviously would be an important factor and accordingly the high command did | not use this trump in ‘any lesser operations, but saved it for the

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for more than two years has been a ibee-hive of activity turning out rthese units and hag been one of the {most {building plants in Even officers in uniform had diffi{culty in getting past the front door. i The secret was well kept,

.part’ in the invasion across the channel, its existence can be re[Yonled.

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Marmon-Herrington's TH

2-ton glider-borne tank, proving ground.

To Nag sreat invasion, where it had such | telling effect. “Other advantages are the ability {to reach placeg otherwise inuceessiible to tanks, the possibility of efecting tank concentrations at distant and strategically important | points on short notice and the | Oppui ‘tunity to have the tanks ar-| rive at the scene of combat with the vehicle in fresh mechanical condi- | tion and the crew rested and ready. |

far combat, { Build: Other Armor

Marmon-Herrington had heen [building all-wheel drive trucks and armored cars, high speed tracklaying tractors and several sizes of jcombat. tanks and had just completed “a large contract for hun{dreds of tanks forcoar allies” and {for the. U, S. ordnance department

the gliderborne tank, + The Marmon-Herrington plant

restricted armament the country.

highly

Now - that this new weapon has met the enemy and played a stellar

Soldier's House

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Sept. 4 (U. P) ~The unrhythmic bang of hammers and the grating buzz of rip saws provided sweet music

to the ears of Mrs. C. M. Roberts today as 35 friends of her soldier husband, serving overseas, began a dawn-to-dusk task of building a cottage to replace the one which burned down recently. The volunteers are all old pals | and former fellow workers of Roberts + at Chavannes Lumber Co, many of them expert carpenters. They chose Labor day’ for the “house raising” because it was the first work day they had ' had off since July 4. Construction began at dawn and the only interruption was at | noon when Mrs. Roberts, wear=- | | ing a neat white apron, made the | rounds with fried chicken “and | with 1 Ww ' for the men,

staunch moccasin

* av inl 1 L “ad with flexible all leather uppers«and all weather cord! It

feet! And for his best-behavior . a sturdy, good-looking saddle

in a mock German village at the Aberdeen, Md,

Arrests were made in 503 per bint of ‘the 423 accidents here dur-|. ing the month of August, Police] Chief Clifford F. Beeker disclosed today. 3 In a report fo the Indianapolis Chamber of Comnierce Safety Council, Chief Beeker pointed’ out that the gverage rate set’ up by the International Association of Chiefs of Police is 50 per cent.

Delay Arrest So h “Suspect CanWed |

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (U. P)—

Don't say cops aren't sentimental. Detectives waited patiently outside a church while Joseph Marcinkiewicz, 24, was being married. When the bridal party left tie

| church the detectives arrested the groom on an assault and robbery

charge. © But before taking hit to jail they accompanied the couple to a photographer's studio | to have a wedding picture taken.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (U, P). —The ‘battleship building program temporarily side-tracked to make way for other more urgent types of warship construction, is now going for ward. again, it was learned today.

Chairman David I. Walsh (D. 'Mass.), of the senate _haval affails | committee, told the “United Press | that construction had been sus- { pended for a time on the 45,000ton battleship Kentucky to make

tion was proceeding 3 of the 45,000-tonners, the filinois. Under the naval expansion act of 1940, the navy was to have built five 60,000-tone super-battiesnips oft the Montana class. - Even the first keel was aid for tog craft, the navy in 1942, abandone plans for their construction because . the - steel, manpower and facilities were needed for more ¢ urgent building. The chances are they may not ‘be started during @ this war.

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"One fatality during the month ~tapparently- was caused by a motor= ist's ‘failure to give right of way to a pedestrian; two more were caused by pedestrians’ not crossing at in-, tersection, and the’ other fatality was attributed to failure of motor- | ist to have adequate brakes, | Arrests for all types of hazardous! violations showed a total of 489 ‘Iper cént. A report showed the highest percentage of arrests were]

Massachusetts, College and Noble! sts; 13th and West sts; Kentucky | lave, and West st.; 16th and Mont-} calm, West and ‘Washington, and Noble and Washington sts. ;

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