New U.S. Jet Ace
Produced Over Korea
SEOUL, Korea, (/P) — A jet
fight over North Korea Saturday
^ cost the Reds one MIG-15 fighter
plane and produced a new Ameri
can jet ace.
The new ace is Maj. William T.
Whisner, Shreveport, La.
He brought his MIG total of
five and o*ne-half kills just in
time to save a fellow pilot, Maj.
Donald E. Adams, Mount Clem
ens, Mich., whose plane had been
hit and couldn’t avoid enemy fire.
Whisner knocked down the Red
swept-wing fighter in a battle be
tween 34 U.S. Sabre jets and 40
Red MIGs. Two other MIGs were
damaged in the fight.
Five kills make a pilot a jet
ace. Whisner is credited also with
damaging six MIGs.
His latest kill came on his 84th
mission. Air Force policy is to
reassign a pilot after he flies 100
missions. v
Fifth Air Force said U.N. pilots
claimed 10 MIGs destroyed last
week, one probable and nine
damaged. No U.N. planes were
lost in air action, but Red ground
fire took a heavy toll. The Air
Force’s weekly summary said
Communist anti - aircraft fire
knocked down five Allied planes
^ and five other failed to return
from flights over Korea.
An( Air Force spokesman said
the pilots of some planes de
stroyed by ground-fire were res
cued.
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REDUCING WEIGHT OF
JET AIRPLANE ENGINES
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., (/P)
—There is .1 way, at least theo
retically, to reduce the weight of
jet airplanes, says William C.
Schoolfield, chief of aerodynamics
at Chance Vought Aircraft.
The pilot must fly at top speed,
say about 690 miles an hour. He
mus. maintain a constant altitude
and he must head due east. If
these simple directions are fol
lowed, the weight of a 25,000
pound fighter will decrease about
135 pounds, Schoolfield maintains.
If a pilot could fly at about
16,790 miles, his plane wouldn’t
\ weigh anything, he says. The re- j
duction in weight is the result of
a conflict between gravitational
and centrifugul forces.
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Congress To Hear
Plan For Further
SeparationServices
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of Defense Lovett will be called
before Congress upon his return
from Lisbon to explain what some
legislators said was a plan for
further separating the armed
services. Chairman Bonner (D-NC)
said his House Expenditures sub
committee has seen a Pentagon
document in Berlin directing the
Air Force to establish its own
supply system, its own corps of
engineers and other special serv
ices. These have been furnished
in the past by the army.
Rep. Brownson iR-Ind) said the
cost of setting up separate Air
Force services “runs into billions
of dollars.”
The chairman said the subcom
mittee will hear Lovett, Chairman
Small of the Munitions Board,
.md the three service secretaries
in a closed session. It will be
held two or three days after Lov
ett returns, Bonner told news
men.
The subcommittee probed a
wide range of subjects Friday in
continuing its effort to* locate
waste and duplication in the
military establishment. It will
continue hearings next Wednes
day. with Karl Bendetsen, -assist
ant Secretary of the Army, as the
main witness.
Six More Koreans Die
At Koje POW Camp,
Raising Death Toll To 76
KOJE ISLAND, Korea, (/P) —
Officials of the United Nations
prisoner of war camp said Satur
day six more Korean civilian in
ternees had died, raising the
death toll in Monday’s Commun
ist-led riot to 76, including one
American soldier.
They confirmed that one U.S.
soldier died of a fractured skull
and another was injured critical
ly, the soldiers, part of a guard
called to quell the disturbance,
were beaten by the prisoners.
Officials said the total 01 pri
soners injured now stood at 139.
Thirty - nine American soldiers
were treated for wounds and 40
others suffered minor injuries.
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Negotiators Deadlocked
By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN
MUNSAN, Korea, (fP) — U.N.
truce negotiators moved to break
the deadlock over selection of a
neutral truce supervisory com
mission Monday by offering to
withdraw their nomination of
Norway if the Reds would give
up Russia.
Under the Allied proposal be
hind-the-lines inspections during
an armistice would be made by
representatives of only two neu
tral nations for each side rather
than three.
The U.N. would be represented
by Switzerland and Sweden; the
Communists by Czechoslovakia
and Poland.
Allied staff officers asked the
Reds to study the proposal care
fully and reply later.
Staff officers working on pri
soner exchange reported a “com
pletely fruitless” meeting.
The Communists complained
that four Allied aircraft flew
over the neutral Panmunjom con
ference site Sunday. The Reds de
manded an investigation.
LUCKY CHANNEL
LOS ANGELES, (JP) — Tele
vision station KLAC-TV of this
city regards the channel which it
occupies as a good omen. Its sta
tion-break sign reads “KLAC-TV,
Lucky Channel 13.”
Communists Accuse U.N.
“Barbarous Massacring”
In Prisoner of War Camps
BY GEORGE A. MacARTHUR
MUNSAN, Korea, (IP) — The
Communists Saturday accused the
United Nations of “barbarously
massacring large numbers” of
prisoners in the U.N. prison camp
on Koje Island.
“The latest massacre fully testi- I
fies to the brutal inhumanity with i
which ycrur side treats our person- j
nel captured by your side,” said
Col. Tsai Chen-Wen.
The Reds had been expected
to inject into the truce^ conference
the Monday riot in which 69
Korea civilian internees were
killed and 142 wounded.
Despite the Red protest over
the Koje Island riot, staff officers
working on prisoner exchange
plans made some progress Satur
day.
They now have reached virtual
agreement on all but the key
question — whether prisoners
should be forcibly repatriated or
given a choice.
When a U.S. government check
for seven and a half billion
dollars was issued in 1948 to
balance treasury books, it was
believed to be the largest check
every issued.
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