July 10. 1948
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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
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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
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Cruisers Before Catching
Torpedo Sinks Quickly
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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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