The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

cept War, Navy, State and, pos- sibly, the Treasury. .... ..-..... ..
 InvestigatiOns-The Committees on Executive Expenditures in both Houses, which have been inactive for several years, will come to life with a bang. One agency whose spending activities will receive a thorough going lover is the Federal Works Agency. - e,s. i:6:.
 For the first time, Rep. Martin Dies will rum into serious Op-
 position over the continuance of
 his um- -Americanism investigat-
 ing committee. CAPITAL CHAFF
 About 250 to 300 Marines were AWOL just before a recent Ma rine Corps Division left for the Solomons. Turning up at camp just after it was too late to sail, there were too many to lock up in the brig and lot slept outside under guard |. Y. So far the penalty for assertion las not been heavy until the third offense .... Representative Wilburn, Cart wright of Oklahoma grabbed off the, honors when retiring House members were being toasted on the day Congress adjourned .s. .,. No less than IT colleagues, inctud- ing five Republicans, delivered speeches paying tribute to the popular Oklahoman 2. .. Asked for comment. on threats. by tsola- tionist Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana and Representative Clare Hoffman of Michigan to "investi- gate' him, William Maloney, the Justice Departments ace sleuth of subversive. activities, replied:, T have no fears so long as the hear ings are open to the public"
 END OF THE TANK
 Army Ordnance experts now foreSee the time when the tank, which made France fall, will be outmoded and discarded as a use- full weapon. In fact, they say the tank will be discarded for large-scale combat before the war is over l'
 Death of the tank is the anti- 2 tank gun. If you can mount 3
 large enough gun and give
 it sufficient mobility - you can
 blow up the enemy's tanks and
 cripple his mechanical forces completely.
 This Is just what happened to Rommel in his recent African debacle. He had previously en- joyed superiority in anti-tank weapons. While the British were still using a IS nm, gun. Rommel (the desert fox) brought into acc ton an 88 nm. gun, and to con- ceal 1t from the British until they were on top of 1t, buried the guns in the sand.
 This was what caused the rout of the British forces last June. But now the British have stepped up the calibre. They have an American-made l06 nm. gun, mounted on Q tank chassis, and 1t was this weapon. known as & tank destroyer, which outshot the German ass and crippled the German tanks in the most recent battle of Egypt.
 Thus the tany has met It's Meme esls In the form 0f . tank dee
 str0yer. The only defense against the destroyer ls t0 load
 on more nKm0r - but the more theh AFmoF, the less mobility.
 Ordnance experts see the next step as e step Into the sky. n other words, the next tank will be an alrplane. it will be Q heavily arin0red plane, protected by fight. or escort, and moving at tow al- titudes 70 do from the cir the same sort og destruction which the tank has been able to do from the ground.
 Meanwhile, the tank is still pp- orating iEl Russia. But experts hero arc awaiting the time when tho tank deatr6yer CLOS nm. gum appears on tho Russian side, to blast German tanks out Of action. It is merely a matter Of shipping, D0N0vAN'a MACHINE GUN
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