| Show TIIE GUNNISON VALLEY yar Goods From Brushes to Bombs jnjjuge Warehouses Are Stored of Utah Ordnance Depot Munitions Arc Made In Nearby Factory At Salt Lake City I Repo f (Har isn’t Govei By John Elbridge Jones lUlctaed hr Waattrn Nawapapar Union The military axiom that "an army travels on its belly" is true but a modern army needs mahy other necessary supplies -s- hoes for instance and trucks and tanks tractors munitions and guns To furnish these supplies when and where needed and in the proper amount the U 5 army has built up separate organizations with the army headed by Lieut General Brehon B Somervell called "Service Commands” There is a "Service Command" for each military area not only within the U S but wherever the army goes For the first 12 months or more of this war all information regarding army operation and placement was a military secret now—in driving for final victory— the army wants you to know how it operates how it takes care of your son or vour husband— what it feeds him how it clothes him—what it gives him to fight with and how it cares for him when sick or wounded n With that in mind MaJ Gen A Joyce commanding goner al of the Ninth service command with headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah recently invited a group of newspaper men to visit all of the army service forces These newspaper men were shown everything and told everything but they were restricted not to reveal military information helpful to the enemy Goods All of the thousands of articles called "non combat ’ equipment" meaning in general everything the army uses except actual weapons and fighting machines are procured by purchase or are made to order Canned vegetables blankets safety pins uniforms of all sorts road machinery and stoves are samples of these things not used in actual fighting but most necessary just the j same The Ninth service command cures and stores this pro- equipment in Utah Army Service Forces depot at Ogden under the direct command of Brig Gen Ralph Talbot Jr Here are tremendous warehouses and storage spaces— much of it in the open with seem-- 1 ingly miles of rows of equipment such as trailers— trench diggers— harrows carry-all- s scrapers water tanks plows portable generators barb wire end bridge building ma- terial - t The depot is roughly a' mile wide by three miles long There are 15 permanent type warehouses of concrete and steel and nine temporary warehouse of wooden construction They house everything the army needs and uses outside of munitions and implements of war Several are used for food others for clothing kitchen equipment for automobiles for drainage tiles for pipe for everything On display were box lockers 12 kinds of hats or caps shirts and underwear carrying bags ' gloves coats mess kits sleeping bags for army and for WACs and for nurses musical instruments shoes sox tool sets helmets plastic This young war worker Miss lie Anderson is exhibiting belts at machine for airgun cartridges She operates a machine planes that flUa the belts which are made : of webbing v : BUSnNELL HOSPITAL loir soldiers is another department of the Ninth service command Construction of tha huge Institution was bogus shortly after Pearl Ilarbor It Is located at Brigham City CO miles north of Sait Lake City At present It has 2000 beds ‘ I Corp Jobs Karlger 21 of Neb is one patient oho probably own his life to the new drug penicillin administered at Bushnell His thighbone was shattered by a Jap bullet and infection developed army "ever get i his hands oh this it will provide him toith amuse-merit throughout a long hard winter When he reads that Private Edward Thomas Marion Lawton liar grove ASH 34116620 is gmng ad- pice to prospective soldiers hit do-risive bellow will disturb the train-ing program in the next regiment "My Godr he will roar "Look who's teaming who how to do what I ?? blindr Wi lto 1 j So£ O Inspectors at the Tooele Ordnance depot examine a batch of empty It was once said Sergeant Goldcartridge cases returned to be melted into brass scrap They must smith by the eminent vegetarian see that no live ammunition has got ipixed with the shells since it would George Bernard Shaw that he who explode la the furnace and possibly canal an accident can does f he who can't teaches foot tub flags tents tent stoves of the repair and rebuilding of damThis dear sergeant is my contriand mountain tents In bution to the aged and badly worn equipment Among thouarmy and to posterity sands of other articles were pack the depot area are huge buildings Please go away and leave us young kits gasoline lanterns one of them 525 feet wide by 540 emergency rations G I thread and needles feet long used wholly for making people to our studies compasses pliers sunburn cream repairs that cannot be taken care of CHAPTER I at the front Duplicate parts of all chap stick towels and rubber pants Unique here was the fact that a equipment are kept on hand—either part of the guard for daylight serv- Tor use in the depor or for ship- whoIf I were giving advice to the boys have already been called into ice is made up of women: women ment trained to do guard duty— to carry a The third function of the Tooele the Army and will go away in a few days I’d sum it all up to this: gun and use it Police dogs aid the Ordnance depot is one of salvage "Paint the town red for the rest of guards at night Back to this depot are sent s your civilian week Pay no attenof used shells Making Cartridges large and tion to the advice that is being small The undamaged are shipped Guns cartridges bombs and simpoured into your defenseless ears for ilar munitions as well as war ma- to the munitions factories for re- twenty-four hours a day Form an and the unusable are sent to idea filling chines Uke tanks and armored of what life is going to The army expects to be like LeaveArmy trucks are made at the army’s own the smelters your mind open” back 90 ordnance factories get or by private approximately per cent Two weeks from now you will be of the shells packing cases ammumanufacturers under government thoroughly disgusted with your new contract One of these latter is the nition belts cups etc issued You will have been herded Women by far outnumber the Job Utah Ordnance plant in Salt Lake men in the warehouses 3 iris from place to place you will have City: The plant area is about 5000 acres trained for the Job operate motor wandered in nakedness and bewilwith more than 175 buildings— 10 driven fork lift trucks— which pick derment through miles of physical miles of heavy track railroad and up huge cases and stack them— 8 10 examination you will look upon pri17 miles of surfaced The depot is vacy and individuality as things you road Inner and 12 feet high left behind you in a golden civilian manned mostly by civilians and outer fences extend a distance of about 21 miles most of which is Most interesting of all the fea society 24 under tures of the depot is the storage of Probably you will have developed hour surveillance by auxilhatred for at least one iary military guard under direction the actual munitions Small caliber a murderous sergeant and two corporals You of the army ammunition is stored in above-th- e will writhe and fume under what you This plant i the last word in a ground warehouses Heavy ammu- consider brutality and sadism and modern line production system for nition and bombs are stored in "igyou will wonder how an enlightened loos" manufacturing small arms ammunination can permit such atrocity in tion such as SO and 50 caliber There are about 1000 of these igTake it easy brother tracer incendiary and loos ranging in size from 40 feet its army take it easy ball shells Here the principal op- to 80 feet long In the shape of erations are making the shell the Keep this one beam of radiant bullet and the’ primer— bringing hope constantly before you: The first three weeks are the hardest them all together and then filling them with powder The finished For those first three— or possibly ammunition is put Into belts— or four—weeks you will bear the greatclips and then packed in d est part of the painful process of cases for shipment adjusting yourself to an altogether Outstanding in the plant is the new routine In those first three continuous rigid testing and checkweeks you will get almost the full ing— for on the efficient operation of required dose of confusion and misthese munitions may depend the life You will be afraid to leave ery of your son or husband Finally a your barracks lest the full wrath of certain' percentage of each batch is the war department fall upon youi to sent the ballistics department where shells are actually fired in guns used by the army and are checked for accuracy fire power and penetration Tooele Ordnance Depot During war the various ordnance manufacturing plants may ship direct to' the field of action but a large part of the material must of necessity be held in reserve in stor- For thia purpose the governage ment has built huge storage depots in strategic locations' These basic supply depots are removed from the aeacoast for protection yet so locatWomen and machines hava dised that war good may be transported swiftly by rail highway or plane placed husky men in the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses to the points 6f embarkation Miss The army has built the Tooele Katherine Boswell runs a t Ordnance depot at Tooele Utah shop truck that can move and pile "Too don’t get anywhere by buyten easea a trip The work done about 40 miles southwest of Salt soda pop or beer for your serLake City The depot comprising by one track would eost $41 an boor ing geant" an area of tome 26000 acres is if done by hand served by two transcontinental You will find unbelievably giving quick access to the half of a barrel the walls and cell- awkward and yourself when clumsy you try Northwest the San Francisco Bay ing are made of reinforced cement to learn the drills and the knowledge area and the Southwest— all import nine inches thick covered with two of this awkwardness will make you tant ports for the Pacific theater pf to three feet of gravel and soil even more awkward Unless you war Within the depot are 150 mile One of the igloos visited was about relax you can be very unhappy durof hard surfaced highway and 77 half full containing several hundred ing those first three weeks miles of railway track Five Diesel 1000 pound semi block buster When you are assigned to your witch engines handle freight cars bombs— all ready for shipment to basic training center you’ll really Tbt ordnance depot performgT Hirohito s For protection three main functions— first it Is tha the depot is get into it You’ll drill and drill a reserve storage for all munitions— watched over by a corps of auxiliary little more each day and when the tries to correct or tdvise including rifle and machine gun ammilitary guard under the direction you you’ll want to tear his throat munition shells and bombs ot all of the army who patrol in car out with your bar hands You’ll aizes and weights It stores reNot fart distant from the Tooele be tick of the sound of his voice serves of ordnance equipment auch Ordnance" plant but entirely sepa an has passed The as pistols rifles machine guns n rat is another depot Here the beforecomforthour I can ’give you is the only trench mortars' and mobile army stores and experiment with knowledge that the is sergeant poo? auch as fighting equipment tanks gas for tha kind of warfare the Unit a helluva time too He knows jeeps trucks and tractors ed Nations hop to avoid But a t having whit you’re thinking and he can’t " Repair and Salvage of what President Roosevelt proof fertfr-OM- I Second the ordnance depot is a and Mr Churchill say about You’ll be inoculated against small service organization It puts equip- ready for it it is there It mat ment together gets It ready for never be used— but it’s there wait pox typhoid tetanus yellow fever Shipment snd ships it It takes care tog and ready if needed pneumonia and practically the other ills that flesh is heir to You’ll be taught foot drill the handling of a rifle the use of the gss mask the of military vehicles peculiaritie snd the intricacies of military cour- tesy Most of what you are taught win impress you as utterly useless' non-icnse but you’ll learn it You’ll be initiated into the mya- terlcs of the kitchen police proba- tly before you've been in the Army for week Possibly two days 1st- 1 er you’ll be sent on a ration detail to handle huge bundles of groceries You’ll haul coal and trash and S You’ll floors and the win Jows you’ll wonder if you’ve been yanked out of civil life for This All pour persecution is deliberate It is collecalculated systematic giate practice of hazing applied to the grim and highly important task a civilian into a of transforming tot0 a man It ls the 8oldier a Hardening Process you WOn’t you won’t feel sorry tor yourself You’ll You’ll be Just get mad as hell breathing fire before it s over the United Brotherhood of and Steamfitters the butt of flcelokes "Period said Mr Griffith piv iSj Bid fortress tnor18 eJ id J1 K paragraph” "I lead a terrible I wailed "I am the man f0r2l by Destiny" "If you win get your elbows my desk” he said "the boy ft J J put the mail on it "What you need” he ontiniarf sorting through a batch of ietj is a tour of military ser ice Army would make a man of you was in the Army in the last top sergeant at eighteen The Aral did wonders for me’’ “That’s not much of a silos ment" I told him "Then again" he said "if must take up my whole busy t weeping over your sorrows letW burden the Army when it has helluva job already Concerning whole matter I would suggest tk you apply yourself to making the woman’s page right now you come down tomorrow morniJ and find someone else sitting in I chair Leave my sight” “There’s not a letter there New York” I asked "with at the USnaked th jjjrupoi &t that 4jifO ol a the wi be dres: Queen af ft c I schoster de Islow Ipublishci good You’ll be full of spirit and c uncar energy and you will have found frf the e yourself therelook commen You’ll at the new COt! ing in to go through the same hardoffer stii ening period and you’ll look at them bde of with a fatherly and sympathetic eye o chief They will be "rookies" to you a not to t veteran of almost a month danger For practical advice there is none that u better than the golden rule of the icriber Army: "Keep your eyes open and not the your mouth shut” At first probably you’ll be inFrom clined to tremble at the sight of gal of every corporal who passes you on nrRini the street You might even salute Japanes the privates Then when ably is the top sergeant neglects to beat dean in you with a knout they rub GI (These women two letters are the cornerstone of lamew yonr future Army vocabulary They aotenoi stand for the words "Government wing (c Issue" and jnst abont everything fiv Ja you get in the Army will be GI them u Even the official advice This story meant on the other hand is not GI) salt tuba ai into wounds you might want to go until th to the other extreme This way ffie line madness lies first— bi When corporals and sergeants are forth to be dealt with always remember this: Make friendships first and H Al leave the joking until later When Putty I it’s the top sergeant it might be "Well my lad" he said with fait nderab best to leave the joking permaglee "we know what Fate mens mao v for you nently You ean be happy not’ column It can be very easy to start your achieve name written on In a it life delightful on the wrong foot by military ipectat giving your officers and noncommis- illegible feminine and slightly reitself h sioned officers the impression that dheaded hand?" forwari "Is there ever?’1 he snortei you’re a wise guy a smart aleck from h Soldiers like senators "don’t like "Let’s see—" and he went throug digest!1 for a new guy to shoot his mouth the stack "Well my lad" he said with fail tyfor off" come So much for the don’ts On the glee "at last we’re getting sol conceit “do" side the most important thing where We know what Fate mens for you You can be happy not' temper for you to watch is your attitude 1 kno He handed me a long white to As a matter of straight and practical Yy tm fact the best thing that you can do envelope addressed! newsp: is to reason that you are going into me The return address read "& kmatde lective Service a new job The job is temporary System— Mecto outspoi but while you have it it’s highly burg County Board Number Thret’j cient The President of the United State important greets As when you go into a new job in to Marion Hargrove greeting! never civil life you do your darnedest to -though Impress your employer with your The boy across the table la 8e lharp earnestness your diligence your inPiedmont Grill lifted both hands ud terest in your work— go thou and clapped his brow three times Bt "Hn do likewise in the Army As in your looked at the clock then back it kyBe civilian job the impression is made his breakfast then back at Min in the first few weeks You make clock you’ve that impression starting from the "My name is Hargrove” I & Hvtd very first day by learning as quickhanding him a cigarette cam ly you can by applying yourself “Mine is Piel" he said "Meto "Doo’i with energy to each task no mat- PieL Tomorrow you ct than maybe ter how small or how unpleasant it make it 'Private on the front" eight is You don’t get anywhere I "So long as you’re healthy" by buyvent soda ing pop or beer for your sersaid shrugging a shoulder "It to t9 V geant down on the income tax" aippl “My hay fever" he wailedL "TM Orego Griffith managing editor will I do with my hay fever? la of the Charlotte News adjusted his jungles of South Carolina for Roth sneient green eyeshade and Two began neuvers with my hay fever I Oyl" glancing through a sheaf of copy “Just look at it" he said oa cam "Hargrove" he said lighting a way to the bus station "maybsi entic cigarette "it beats the hell out of posthumous medal my grandcU Yurnt me what fate did mean for dren will Melvin Private Strafe get you Dr down e high school who gave his life valiantly 'Teste years ago that it didn’t write a through the nose from hay fever Pi asAr I Sneezing to glory" 00 your dget The bus station on that mornk out that you Bee ?ST ulJAbbe70und weren t destined to be worth ia July was a pathetic picture Ftoj w s pubhc relations man tor a large groups of boys reconciled (Hey edict®® college the grim and gruesome life she The drugstore lewin of them were bade farewell by Washington said Fven neither the talent nor the you had tog mothers and suffering f A pul tempera-menobly tor And you cer- - friends who had come down to cepti ed their blazs loved ones off in a theater usher peop Maybe fate don’t know pathos It was pretty terrible out 1 you" “May 1 have a cigarette?" tertH The buses the of out priva skcdr each tog before he could I nal through swung has midtown and out kj tect them "Dty after day I work ward the road to Fayetteville T) ptc “V ftnCeri to the shoulder blade foe boys began to fevl better shoui neither thanks nor ho living ware I farewells to startled girls oa ) rn be feature editor of a nroer street and finally broke into rsuc th slve growing newspaper' thou What oaf Four flowers of the makes it that? My heart’ blood started a blackjack game on to j ally makes it that!" case to the back of tha bus that Brother Piel’s spirits brightened Vorl a!rw’°“!? ftr 7011 morrow" he found p little M His netg voice smooth bf port way nthe through th hty fever brought to this omce In virt "It’s the emerged In song ‘ in p underpaid brotherhood in the day tomorrow he sang 7°“ ar the most ficie morrow ia a lovely day Z overpaid aded brother" "Look at me tomorrow" he an the most undernild If breaking off suddenly "H? an?ed Siva" I anorted "Look Private piel rath straw foot Pn m the feature editor Hus t hi Piel Hay and straw and to0) obituary editor the woman’s what I’ve got pine Hay fevef editor the hospital what a IJe I’ll lead!v etc editor tha — to 1 afsistant to the city IjSl1 '’Maybe what Td better do c°mmissar tor paste and I get there Pd better tell the or ( j eokfI can like to go north They could tf custodian oi oral memoranda Hci pubUc’a good man in Alaska" whipping boy 1 art inf! nsUl°r and “The Is fill South Pol your oren tor I told him castigate® per room "That'a it! The South PoleJ staff the guest CoU "m umnuu going to love th Army!" let Th tumult end th ihoutirg chlldreftld fur vUlt’ civ sentaUv1 bsrbccI s fepr" bout halfway to Fayetteville- y'" boys became quiet and thou J $ -' M SJ"” K t i u ' artuTf'"1 'to ns twnsusm |
