Snow Cruiser Hit By Truck, But Only Hub Cap Damaged

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Oct. 27.--(UP)--Admiral Richard E. Byrd's thirty-five ton cruiser came out the loser in its first encounter with a truck today. The cruiser sideswiped a truck belonging to Bourman Peebles Co., of Newcastle, Pa., and driven by Lloyd Bowman. The truck escaped without serious damage but the collision took a hub-cap off the cruiser. Its crew gave it a thorough going over before picking up the trail to Boston once more. They removed all the additional hub-caps from its ten-foot wheels so they would be able to clear the walls of a bridge outside of town. They expected to take "about an hour" to cross the bridge. State police unofficially guessed that the cruiser might spend the night in Fort Wayne, just twenty-four hours behind schedule. The monstrous machine was forced to bed down in Warsaw, Ind., last night when crowds of curious Hoosiers and narrow bridges slowed it to a snail's pace.