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Show M 6 I - tfd Soldien Supply Hill ft Tfcey Feed, Cfof "" ( ' " " i Hill Field, Wednesday, November 17, 1943 EDITORIAL SUPERVISION Captain A. B. Wanamaker Special Information Officer ' Lieut. Walter D. Stoekly Assistant Special Information Officer Public Relatione Officer, Lieutenant Charlei F. Mallory For Special Projects For Special Services Major Robert Kenfro Captain Carl 8. Menger - EDITOR Technical Sergeant Ryland M. Thomason Associates Ffe. Stan Olowackl Sergeant Wllbert B. Harvey Corporal Sylvester Adeeea D. Gael Moss Larry C. Evans Marge Fernlmen Art and roowcraphy Base Photographic Section and Sergeant Oeorgw I Kinney The Hlllflelder li published weewy in the Interests of the military and civilian Field, personnel of the Air Base. Ogden Air Depot and Ogden Air Service Command,theHill facilities It Is printed with Ogden, Utah, and Is distributed free each Wednesday, . and through the cooperation Opinions expressed of The Ogden Standard-Examine- r. In this paper are those of the Individual writers and members of the staff, and or the not of commanding officer. It do necessarily reflect the attitude of the army or published Is requested that articles appearing in Its columns be not without the express consent of the Public Relattons Office at Hill Field. The War Department. receives material supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, 205 East 2nd Street, N. X. O. Credited material may not be republished without Service. from permission Camp Newspaper Staff Hill-field- er "We are determined that be hire the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognised throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming power on the other." Extract from address by General Marshall to graduating class at West Point, May 29, 1942. I It l IN. CARICATURE I if " A - 9 department. Are shown the "Big Three" of the Base Quartermaster ...HnnnnM word Anderson, and Major Jess C. Hicks the men who tt .T Left dir soldiers among the best fed and best equipped fighting rW ganization which keeps Hill Field field with "a pencil and a scratch pad", by Anderson and 1 on the started was The QM B. Floyd in the first months of 1941. Tax Expert Formerly Physics 39,000 Pounds of Meat Each Mj Acquiring Pre-HitlProf. in. Germany the For Soldiers Is Only Fart ot Base UJVi Job been thrust from what he termed Hitler's fanatical er home, once by twice Having Invading Frenchmen in 1914 and later, In 19S7, by nazis, Alfred N. Bloch, head of Payroll's Individual Earnings unit, feels, There is one section of the military which Hilt Field requisition to the group probably keener than most of us the privilege of living in America soldiers come in contact with every, day and night of their consolidates all requisite where racial preejudice and political tyranny are still shadowy things, "t thouch ominous enough, GI lives, and yet one of which they are almost entirely ceives and submits thi When World War I burst upon Base Quartermaster. oblivious. That is the Base Quartermaster section. the world ,Mr. Bloch, a student at combines the reqj with quiet efficiency and without hulabaloo, again the University of Strassburg, was Working receives from all the gr of vacationing at the home of bis parmammoth on the carries section job the submits them to the Arm Quartermaster Taken ents in Uncle of men the and his and he French Forces Depot All the housing prisoner by the feeding, clothing, supplying, 63 Attended Tech father spent four years in concencome to the Base QM I Sam's army. released before tration camps ' being Schools in The iob takes the personnel of of Quartermaster; Cloyd E. Dun then distributed among tiI In July, 1018. From then to tbe section into almost every phase can, chief clerk of the property rons. the end of the war he served as a solI October Month of of a soldier's life at HiU Field. branch; and Joseph W. Crane, Keeps Items Stocked dier in the kaiser's army. aw stock in of commercial Keeping It arranges for his food and the chief clerk ' items to supply troops is I I, During October a total of 63 disposal of garbage; it operates Accepting a new post as research Hill attended fac a warehouse to outfit him for Field ex ness of the Quartermastt It was the long previous physicist with Bendix radio,AIfred tory and employes other special schools every duty; it maintains a com perience of house, located just back: work efficient and N. Bloch will resign his position U. S. to receive the commissary. Here anythin Desoldiers and their throughout made has where which of these here during the early part missary technical from paper clip various obtained in fields, at training wives can do their shopping cember. He has been employed at the organization click," Mr. An brushes to a bed or a I it was revealed from the office prices well below that of a private derson declared. this station since January, 1945. administra Here a sol of the civilian training store; and it even arranges for in the QM now num fielda range.of shoes anywl Employes get pair of Having graduated with distinc- tor. the remains ber about ISO. Most of the em proper disposal size 5A to 14EEE. And tion from college he was appointed It was also disclosed simultane in case of a soldier's death. jt ployes have been with the depart OASC 46 order he can obtain a In 1922 professor of higher mathe- ously that sol atThe task of feeding ment for over a year, and the matics and physics in one of the workers travelled to this station diers issingle a veritable KP nightmare. tendance chart indicates that a hasAnfeet to fill them. Bavarian state colleges. during the same period for train 39,000 Pounds important part of Monthly large, number have gone months house is the clothing ing in such different mechanical Emigrates to U. & A. About 20,000 pounds of beef are without a day of absence. ment with TSgt Loi With Hitler's ascendancy in 1933 lines as: airplane rigging, bon-.food to sheet back the situation But the metal, as supply sergeant, wl control, Quartermaster equipment by purchased he lost his citizenship, for. all practhe and how it reaches the soldier's thousands of dollars in tical purposes, and his job with it sheet metal inspection, and S perry section each month to grace 2000 mess kit: employes also tables of Hill Field soldiers; is handled each month. sight Hoping for an early demise of this gun schools. 3000 and of attended bacon, month Menu pounds pounds factory Master recently 600 sol Prepared new madness he remained in GerSome of the principal factory of frankfurters. Not including fowl 120 officers were fully so the The often menu, until subject but then 1937, many realizing schools are:involved inTirethe& or fish, 39,000 pounds of meat must of jibes, comes orig for overseas duty. As a the hopelessness of his position, program be month. And furnished each but Goodyear master menu pre sales are made to officer! a from inally left with his wife (American-born- ) . Co., Henry Ford Trade ter, that favorite item of the pared by the Ninth Service Com Twwww 9nnn monrhlv.' for the United States, coming di- Rubber Jam monthreaches a Organization, School, reHandy boards, familiar The mand This rationing is "Boneyaro, headquarters. rectly to Salt Lake City. Bendix: Aero Corp., Curtiss ly total of 4000 pounds; and eggs. written by Capt Fred C Schmidt east of the field is as In Salt Lake City he received In Wright & Whitney; 4500 dozen. Wright and Pratt courses base mess officer and supervisor, Base QM's activities. x 1938 an instructorship at the Uni- These schools offer in tool this involved job at to suit the particular needs Directing of HiU articles, those which are t versity of Utah to teach German grinding, die making, general in- the present time is West Pointer Field. For example, if the master serviceable, are sold for s and do research work in phonetics. struments, electrical equipment Lt Col. Wallace H. Honnold, Quar menu calls for 15 pounds of spin total about $20,000 month. In 1941, Mr. Bloch became a citi supply training, compass, propel- - termaster officer, OASC, who came can Ml and Schmidt knows of the ach, Capt zen of the United States. to Hill Field last September from that Hill Field soldiers won't eat however, supplies lors, and radial engines. the blue del like Since Pearl Harbor he has la Ten Hill Field instructors were Warner Robbins Field. His direct he cuts it down. From that Are turned over for bored vigorously to become useful on detached service during part assistants are Major Jess C. Hicks, that much, acnmiat's revised menu, the prisoners of war. in the war effort A civil service or all of October presenting courses property officer, and J. Ford An requisitions are made out under nortimt branch is supei 1943, in technical orders, blueprints. aerson, senior administrative as- the direction of Capt Kenneth B. Riley Bushnell and Capt appointment in January, brought him to the Payroll section sheet metal, safety, filing, water sistant, commonly known as the McKee, sales officer, and Don Taysom. of Hill Field where he has been proofing, crating and supervisor "civilian chief of Quartermaster." Stahle, civilian clerk, and sub' in,. Tnnt paraee u Col. Dan B. Floyd, who was on mitted to the ever since. training. ' the Mar QM. It is responsible Three weeks prior to the Septem the field until last July, and Mr. ket Center atQuartermaster of vehicle drfr 4t.n.th Salt Lake City, ber 15 tax deadline he gave indi bit in making the final peace se- Anderson were the two men who which in turn invites bids from the upkeep of the vehicle vidual assistance to well over 2000 cure and everlasting, Mr. Bloch were given the job of setting up various dealers. These requisitions selves. Parts of the HiU I. I an employes at this depot fervidly desires to become a part intoorganization which was to grow are made out 20 days in advance which was in a collision ne the to Saves present Quartermaster for perishables and cover a for example, had of the AMG (Allied Gov In each case Tie asked the em ernment) in Germany. Military and new parts suppi; pereoa. He feels he QM "All we had to start with," Mr. When the food arrives at Hill When the Base QuarU ploye what he would have done has a mission in seeing that "it Anderson reflected, "was a pencil Field, it is stored by the commis was first organized, if unable to get the information on doesn't happen again." J a scratcn pad. the field. He found that practical His hobbies are chess and American ana and then distributed as need Base Utilities, the Moton sary The two were later joined by ea to the different the Commerce ly every one would have taken a History. If he is unable to join Lt. CoL squadron port Corps, branch, and ej Thomas, Base messes. This method is known as day off to get the information else- AMG he will go back to teaching, Utilities David P. portation xnese officer, who was then a the "field ration system." where. Thus, he saved the Post which, he says, offers an oppor first fire department units, and who was eiven thousands of man-houAcquisition of supplies by the ueen rauuc ai.d hopes tunity "'to see that the coming the lieutenant j concern of to the job utilities up setting section to do even better at income tax generation is infused with a spirit branch which was troops operates in a similar man- the QM originally a part ner. For instance if a unit at duties more airecuj time next March. mat will insure the world of to. ox sim. utner early arrivals were tached to the 32nd ADG needs an with feeding, supplying iteaoiuteiy determined to do bis morrow against war." Merle A. Carbine, now chief clerk office and housing the tiwps. . desk, that unit submits fAlsace-Lorrain- Special Training Given Employes e. : "old-timer- s" - sub-dep- Sub-dep- ot good-natur- ed . ipc Man-hou- rs si 15-d- ay rs Molo Coll NICE OP I GENERAL by Milton Caniff, MDU TO OP VOUfc I PA 81 TURKEY ID HAVE PINNER) J 6. 1. 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