The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-09-01
U. S. Army Ordnance Chief, Chrysler
Head Visitors To Pascagoula ShipYard

piished in three years what IL
took Germany and Japan ten
years TO do toward armament,
Major General Levin II. Camp
bell, Jr., chief of Ordnance of the
u. S. Army, declared Thursday in
PascagoGla where he and X. 7.
Keller, president of the Chrysler
Corporation and member of the
advisory board of the Ordnance
division, made a brief visit.
Accompanied by Brigadier
General Walter p. Boatwright,
Office of Chief Ordnance, De-
troit, and Major F. j. Moore, aide
to General Campbell, they we're
en- route to their homes from
Admission. Ala, Ordnance Depot
which Chrysler is operating for
the Army. The party was guests
of r. /. ingalls,, Sr.
I'VE have turned out imple-
ments of war of much higher
quality and with finer precision
than our enemies" he said.
The hope and belief that after
the war with Germany and Japan
there will be no production of
implements of war were express
ed by General Campbell and Mr..
Keller.
Army Has The Tools"
CAS- a taxpayer and as an army
man." General Campbell said, 81
hope to see the cessation of war
production in any quantity"
Except" Mr.. Keller adder.
for models used to develop the
finest possible type of every con
ceivable implement of war
Under those conditions, they
agreed. the United States could
then go into quick production of
the finest ornaments in the world
il the clouds of war should
threaten again.
we are a mechanically mind
ed nation which has become great
through industrial processes and
it is only natural that the Army
should have lhe exas' toal~ far
each job" General Campbell
said, "The more tools the Army
has and the precise they are
the better the job al be done
He further stated that at least
one of every weapon in use on
battle fields by the enemy today
has been captured, brought to
this country and analysed, exam
ined i'm minute detail and operat-
ed to determine the comparative
rating with our similar wea-
pons.
CAS- yet we have found none
better and most of them inferior
he said.
The robot bomb is useful to
Germany, he continued, because
her planes have been shot out
of the air and these bombs rep
resent her only means of access
to England. Our air supremacy
makes such weapons unnecessary,
he added.
Winning War First Job
According to Mr.. Keller whose
company employs $4,000 persons
in war work, the first job is to
win the war and then the time
will come for postwar talk.
Our company has converted
100 percent to war production
he declared. "and we have no
time for planning for postwar
automobile production"
Nh. Keller expressed particu-
lar interest in visiting the ship
ward in Pascagoula and he and
the entire party were taken on a
tour by Mr.. ingalls, and r. |. In
gals, Jr. Special attention was
given the sea mule built at the
yard by the head of Chrysler
Corporation where the sea mule
and sea tractors first built.
Were not in the ship building
business" he smiled, but We are
building Is e going crafts a day
which makes us the largest ship
building in the world. Mr.. In
gals has done a swell job Of the
sea mule built in this yard, max
ing more of a ship of it. Undoubt-
eddy the sea mule will make a
big change in sea traffic after
the war"
The Chrysler Corporation CON
verted first for tank production
the contract negotiations begin
ming in June. 1910. A. NJ Swi-
CERT, now works manager at the
ingalls, Shipyard, was given the
job of getting out the first two
tanks ever built at the company.
Mr.. Keller said. The corporation
is now making engines and cab
ins and other parts for the B-29s
as well as six different types of
tanks.
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