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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1958)
g-(Sec. I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., June 13, '58 'Ghost Ships' May Be Answer If Subs Block Ocean Traffic t By ROGER GREENE AP Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-Remem-ber the legend of the Flying Dutchman, the ghost ship that sailed- the seas with a phantom crew? Now the IT. S. Maritime Admin istration is studying the feasibil ity of using ghost ships, without a living soul aboard, if American seagoing traffic is ever blockaded by Soviet submarines. The idea would be to ram vital cargoes through submarine-infested waters to overseas bases with out risking the lives of American seamen. Spurred by the threat of Rus sia's reported fleet of 500 subma rinesand the knowledge that Hitler almost brought England to her knees withonly 50 U-boats in World War IMthe Maritime Ad ministration has called on the Navy to help plan the nation's first commercial ghost ships. As presently outlined, the ships would be huge, high-speed under seas craft. Federal Maritime Administrator Clarence G. Morse says he be lieves it is now possible to achieve automatic navigation the mari ner's dr e a m for centuries through a major breakthrough in the development of inertial guid ance systems. Morse cites a recent announce ment by a British firm, the Mitch ell Engineering Co., that it is de signing an atomic-powered sub marine oil tanker capable of crossing the Atlantic without a single crewman. Frederick Mitchell, chairman of the London firm, says model tests of such a craft have been successful and the company hopes to launch a full - size vessel, steered and navigated by automa tion, within five years. Col. Charles R. Denison, chief of the Maritime Administration's research branch, says the nerve center of the proposed ghost ships would be based on the Navy's top- secret Ship Inertial Navigation ' nvy of Thousands' v.,s .?', .$) . : , t. 1 "'r " . , ' " r '. r C -vi o r t - V o-- f System. With SINS, he says, it would be possible -to set a crewless ship or submarine tanker on course and have it cross the Atlantic un erringly regardless of wind,' wave or stormy weather. As conceived by Col. Denison, a pilot and skeleton crew would, take the ghost ship out to the open sea and head it toward Southampton, England. Pilot and crew would then re turn to shore and leave the ship to sail on alone without human guidance. " v- At a pre-arranged point off the English coast, another pilot and crew would meet the ship and guide it through harbor traffic into port. ' Already successfully tested aboard the Navy's experimental ship Compass Island, SINS is the gadget with which the Navy fi nally licked some of the trickiest problems in launching its 1,500 mile Polaris missile from a sub merged submarine. Rivals Compass IRWIN, Iowa Pretty 17-year-old Judy Plumb- of Irwin packs her bags preparatory to leaving for a job for which thous ands of teen-age girls would give their eye teeth. Judy Is ffelng to live with and be a boby-sltter for four daughters f singer Pat Boone. Judy got the Job because her mother wrote a letter to Boone and asked for It. (AP) Navy experts call it the great est navigation development since the invention of the compass. SINS, with its fantastically com plicated system of gyroscopes, accelerators and computers, pro vides the Navy with precise data for missile alignment of naviga tion without reference to the stars, radio, radar and other con ventional methods. Capt. L. L. Schock Jr., chief of the Navigation Branch, Special Projects Office, says this is its importance to the Navy: Unlike land-based missiles with their stationary bases at unknown geographical positions, ship-based missiles such as- the Polaris' de mand highly accurate and contin uous information on the exact lo cation of the launching ship. Required Answers Otherwise it would be impossi ble to direct the missile to its far off target. By the magic of its gyros and computers SINS comes up with the required answers. Schock goes on to explain that SINS, with its nest of gyroscopes, provides almost 100 per cent sta bility of position. "When the ship pitches or rolls, the gyro package floating in heavy fluid remains absolutely motionless more level than a pool table," he says. Since the Navy fights with its ships, either to seek out the ene my or ward off attack, it has no known plans to develop crewless vessels. Navy officials, however, express keen interest in the Mari time Administration's proposal to build commercial ghost ships for possible wartime use. Welfare State, Promised by Japan Boss TOKYO (AP) Conservative Kobusuke Klshi, re-elected prime minister by Parliament, pledged Friday to steer Japan toward tan independent foreign policy and a welfare state at home. The new lower house gave Kishi l-year-old leader of the Liberal Democrats, a 290-162 margin Thursday over Socialist Moaburo Suzuki. Kishi immediately chose 16 Cabi net ministers, all new except one. Emperor Hirohito then installed Kishi and his Cabinet at the Im perial Palace. The Prime Minister issued a statement saying his party's elec tion victory May 22 proved "our progressive conservatism is what the people really wanted. He proposed a social security system, a long-term economic pro gram and promised to do his ut most "to construct a welfare state." He has advocated ex panded welfare programs to coun ter Socialist appeals. He did not elaborate on his plans for what he called an independent foreign policy. The Socialists charge Japan's foreign policy is too closely geared to that of the United States. Kishi's party won 298 of Parlia ment's 467 lower house seats. 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