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July 10. 1948 PAGE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON New Super-Secrei Fighter Planes Roll From Assembly Lines to Combat Zones WASHINGTON, July 10 (VP) New super-secret fighter planes designed to meet up-to-the-minute combat conditions have start ed rolling off the assembly lines to take their place in the step ped up aerial offensive of the allies. Disclosure that new fighter types are In production was made by Charles E. Wilson, ex ecutive vice president of the war production board (WPB), who declined, for security reasons, to reveal any details whatever. Asked at a press conference late yesterday whether the new sky battlers are entirely new tmmatmau Starts Tomorrow BgfMi' Xfri I Ify y tV Doors Open 12:30 P.M. a JJ T J ConMnuouifrom M Feature SOfe (rffifrA L. 1 CAREY PHILLIPS r LAST DAY "BAMB1" "OLD HOMESTEAD" jobs or modifications of existing ones, Wilson replied with a laconic "both." WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson said It was those changes in types, necessitated by combat experience, that presented the greatest single obstacle to great er volume production. "There are lots of changes," Nelson said. "When changes come they upset the dollar volume." Wilson expressed confidence the new fighters would prove effective in battle "or we wouldn't be producing them." When all present production facilities reach their -ultimate maximum, Wilson predicted this country will be able to turn out "in excess of 10,000 planes monthly." This peak will not be reached until some time in 1944. (Plane production in May LAST DAY "Crime Smasher" and "Border Roundup" I SUNDAY I t -tt8 nw m un Kfwm f fix M tirt 4 Urk 4rl tU I Helena Gets Three Jap Cruisers Before Catching Torpedo Sinks Quickly ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, July 10 P The 9700-ton United States cruiser Helena Just had turned her guns on a Japanese destroyer and watched it go up in a blinding flash in the Kula gulf of the central Solomons when "something hit her," but more than 600 aboard tho Hel ena were saved from the oil covered waters, war correspon dents reported today from the South Pacific. (The Helena was the only American warship lost in the navy battle fought in the pre dawn darkness July 6, earlier dispatches have reported, against the certain loss of nine Japanese cruisers and destroy ers. The number of Helena sur vivors never has been stated. A cruiser of her type normally carries between 700 and 800 men). Story Told The story of the cruiser's de struction as related by Alan Jackson, American picture pool photographer who was aboard her, was sent to Australia by Osmar White, Australian corre spondent. White estimated the number of survivors rescued at 600. Jackson, a photographer for International News Photos, gave this account of his experience: "We were told early in the evening we were going to in' tercept the Tokyo Express (nick name first applied to Japanese ships supplying Guadalcanal forces and in this case ships above New Georgia island pre sumably bringing aid to the menaced Munda air base) and to expect action at midnight. "I went flying to the bridge. Approximately at 1:30 a. exceeded 7000, the highest so far announced.) Nelson said surveys now are being made "to find all the rea sons" why over-all munitions production failed to increase in May over April, despite new records in planes and ships. (July 8), targets were reported. "We closed and the wholo force opened a terrific salvo. After six minutes of continuous firing, two Jap cruisers disap peared. "We saw a Jap destroyer standing in and fired a salvo at her which hit with a blinding flash. Then something hit us. The order to abandon ship was given. It was pitch dark and everything was covered with oil from tho ship's vitals. "I Rot my camera and went to the quarterdeck. The sailors were slashing rafts loose and jumping overboard and I went over the side, Tho water was thickly covered with oil. Reach Raft "I paddled five minutes and reached a raft on which were 30 other men. There wasn't room for mo so I clung on life lines in tho water. "I looked back and saw the ship like a gray ghost against the gun flashes. She wus sink ing and seemed to be drugging us back. We paddled and rowed madly. One man was crying out, 'Come on sailors, give it hell.' "We cleared her and she set tled quietly and disappeared." Mother Awarded Custody of Child Kidnapped From Dad LOS ANGELES, July 10 W) Juvenile court has awarded tem porary custody of three-yeaivold Tamar West to her mother, June West, a USO entertainer, who faces extradition to Colorado on a charge of kidnaping Die child. Judge Robert H. Scott yester day made Tamara a ward ot tne court after a hearing during which the father. Lt. Willis West, stationed with the army air forces at Colorado Springs, Colo., charged that his wife had had Improper relations with Law rence Carroll, 38-ycar-old hair dresser. Mrs. West denied this. Carroll also is facing a ki naping count in Colorado. A hearing was set for July 19 to determine whether Mrs. West and Carroll will be returned to Colorado on the abduction charges, preferred by Lt. West Lt. West, former Astoria, Ore., district attorney, said divorce proceedings In Oregon gave him custody of Tamara, but Mrs. West denies this contention. West said Tamara was 'taken from his home June 23. 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