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Show 2 Nearly Every Strategic Item Wednesday, November 8, 1944 Projectionist Ship Strength uM'arf are Rules Given On Promotic JnspejsJTraijung To Determine Ability to Resist (Continued from Pa., sta (This is the fifth of six cles uUiiflng the status of the war in the Pacific. An arti- eye-open-- A tendency toward ?u!e ins results ntn inr summary of Japan's sumvast supply mary of Japan's should stores, this installment who temper the hopes of those over look for swift, easy victory Nippon's empire which possesses In aviation gasoline, alone, an esreserve figures timated two-yeat the present tempo of operations Editor's note.) Raw Materials and Resources . . Through her conquests, Japan has obtained access to almost every needed strategic material of warfare. Her ability toto resist depends transport these on her capacity back to the home Islands for manof her inufacture, and on the size A general dustrial plant at home. estimate of the war plant has been shipping is now esgiven. Japan's timated to contain much less merchant tonnage than is actually needed for the maintenance of her Nevertheless, she has conquests. had two "years hi which to carry raw materials home, either manufacture or for stockpiling, and her fleet was initially much larger. When the allies cut off Japan's both shipping routes to the south, will lose by sea and by land, Japan access to her major oil supply, to rubber and important sources of manganese, lead, nickel and aluminum, (er position on tungsten wouia remain faand chromium vorable. these enlisted w el fromt overseas theatreT L2 thai aU .hlpmentsfcUr, grade grade basis. TW grade vacancies created by tfc Usition of personnel tatlop policy will not-promotions, but will be h under tois'oTicyr . " v.:. Sr - I , "1 I I b illill i SSrt. Charles a ... OVER MM MILES Manager end projectionist W. Biee (above) meunrei his stay at Hill Field in the miles of film he has seen pass thronfh the projectors of two theater houses here. Two Field Theaters Run 6608 Miles of Film Since Opening Charles W. Rice measures-thyear assignment at Hill Field, not in time but In miles. Something like 6,608 miles of film have gone through the projectors of the two field theaters here, largely under his personal surveillance. Sgt Rice opened theater number one on Hill Field, the night of September 24, 1042, and "Orchestra Wives," starring Ann Rutherford and George Montgomery played to 411 customers. With the opening of a second theater in May, his average showing amounts to about 28 performances weekly, not including the extra features which come around every so often and are compulsory to both civilian and military personnel. . f Film goes through a projector at , SSgt his -- two-and-a-h- alf e rate of 05 feet a minute and the 34,802,800 feet which have been shown at Hill Field amounts to a sixth of the distance around the world. The ..week ending February 26, 1043, saw the most customers, according to Sgt Rice, when 5.817 people went to the movies. That was In the days, he remembers, when the line went around the corner to the chapel and not even g a table on the field afforded any other form of recreaping-pon- tion. ! The attraction which brought the largest crowd for a single day's showing- - was Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca," Sunday, Feb. 4, 1043: 1,112 people attended. The first theater officer on the field was Lt William Jenner, who was transferred to Patterson Field, Ohio. Theater number one seats 372 people. All personnel who. work at the theater except Sgt Rice work extra from their regular assignments. Sgt Rice is in a celluloid groove, having been in the business of managing and projectAn Interesting program will be ing at theaters' all of his life. of provided by the dancing pupils Mrs. Reed's dancing academy of Ogden and will be held in the east wing recreation hall onm. Friday, November 10, at 7:30 p. 5 Hillcrest Highlights Fourth Year You are missing something if you don't attend the Square Dance club every Thursday evening at 8:30 p. m. in the east wing recreation hall. Get acquainted and join In the fun. May we look for you? Newcomers are welcomed to the recreation halls to take advantage of facilities for leisure hour enjoyment The hostesses will give to anyone wishing friendly help assistance or recreation. rl chorus of Hillcrest, The under the direction of Selma Erickcon, presented its first pageant, "Cycle of Life", at the northwest recreation hall by special request on Thursday evening, November 0, at 740.- The pageant will be repeated at the same halL All-Gi- , - A carnival dance was sponsored by the C. A P.. club Saturday night, November 4. Games and dancing were the entertainment features of the evening. Bast wing recreation hall will have a dance sponsored by the 10. Gargoyle club on November Ifrs. Sheppard and " Miss Ruby Timms are working, hard. to. make this dance an outstanding social event The Seagull club, will .conduct the regular Tuesday evening dance and urges newcomers to come and . get acquainted. , mm . . tfXt Mgtiway .Am ut tin take aaf wtm Mwwa the Wasatch fimt Mm antf af Morgan ratten east fmaair swrnlns. Cantaet B. WaUon. g, 28 Vsrdlaaa Park. Lar- tnaa. tattoo ,trm Un.-Htm- Is Observed Pas On) sion of Hill field's already mammoth plant The original barren and windswept site of. the Army Air Base at Hill field, the Ogden Air Depot and the Ogden Air Service Command is today one of the most modern and efficient war establishments functioning under the Air Technical Service Command, with headquarters at Wright field, Dayton, Ohio. The first change in command came during the past year when Brig. Gen. Morris Berman was transferred as commanding general of the San Antonio Air Service Command with headquarters at San Antonio, Texas. ' Dave Sapply Activity He was succeeded by Col. Wolf, who since Dec., 1042, had been chief of the supply division. CoL Wolf had directed the tremendous growth of supply activities here and under the jurisdiction of 'the command . in . surrounding states. Today approximately 172,000 items are stored c and shipped from OASCs warehouses to all parts of the world wherever needed by the global requirements of the AAF. An ever increasing schedule of vital repair work and supply shipments is forecast tor the year to come by i CoL' Wolf. The Ogden Air Service Command must be prepared to undertake an even greater task as the collapse of Germany .Pavet the way for our all-ole drive, he stated. Mora workers are needed to handle the scheduled stepped-u- p production of the coming year. (OoDtlnoad from . -- S - " ut Coal Japan's resources for. coal are enormous, but that available in the homeland is not of the quality required for use as coke in the steel industries. Manchuria and China furnish about 40 per cent of Japan's coal requirements, and a substantial part of this imported coal is of proper coking quality. Oil Janan's current wartime con sumption of oil products is esti mated at about 50,000,000 barrels a year. Her production is placed at 3,000,000 barrels a year of nat ural crude, in Japan proper and Korea; and between 15,000,000 and barrels of synthetics 22,500,000 from plants in Japan, Korea and Manchuria. Since this production represents only from a third to half of her annual requirements, and since the refining capacity of the inner zone is only about 12,000,000 barrels, it is obvious she must rely on refining facilities situated outside of Japan proper and Formosa, partic those in trie East indies. ularly Thus she is predominantly dependent for defense on what has been stockpiled in the home islands. Her stockpile of aviation gasoline is estimated to be equal to two years of warfare on the present rate of operations since it totals about 75,000,000 barrels; her lubricating oils to 18 months. Her stockpile of fuel oil, on which her navy is dependent is estimated to be equal only to five months of operations over the present huge areas of her empire. However, requirements of some of the petroleum products may bcome a reduced quantity as the Japanese-controlle- d area is restricted by military action. During war years, Japan is reported to have concentrated on synthetic oil production from her enormous supplies of coal, and on the extraction of oil from oil shales. Plants in Japan, Korea and Manchuria are estimated to be now producing in the neighborhood of 15,000,000 barrels of this product annually, and of this nearly 60 per cent Is fuel oil. Some experts believe, however, that th potential production of synethetic petroleum products may be nearly 50 per cent higher than given above, or 22,500,000 barrels a year. The rate of 60 per cent would place fuel oil production as an an nual total of 0,000,000 to 13,500,000 barrels, plus 1,800,000 from natural crudes. Taken with her stockpile of more than 14,000,000 barrels, this should provide for no more than a year's operation of the navy on the somewhat restricted basis caused by increasingly narrow areas of control. Present naval con sumption is placed at about 35,000,' 000 barrels of fuel oil a year. Iron aad Steel Japan, at present, is believed to be obtaining all the iron ore and moat of the materials for ferro-a- l loys that she has the productive capacity to handle. Most of the ores obtainable in Japan proper are of low grade. However, in iron equivalents, Japan produces approximately 1.700.000 tons a year. Manchuria, Korea and China about 9,000,000 tons, and M CoL Barry Kolb J Returnees from oversea, slve of rotation personnel) ularly combat crew penonnd In relatively AAF at its pelk of exaS is necessary that: v ATSG Envoy EM absorbed within authorized grades, (b) FlexS in the personnel replacement assignment system be maW (c) Promotions be permitted to reach a point of stagnation" A more uniform system of 1 Expressing himself as pleased motions be established, (e) A I with, the job of forrecruiting- - and employment qualified personnel be cffw training persons at the Hawaiian air depot, CoL Boles Listed To these ends, the Harry Kolb, assistant chief, ATSC civilian training branch, left Sun- promotion and reduction of L two-day visit at the AAF will be day following a governed b? this installation. , following: (1) Grades presently held I While here he checked the re cruiting program, inspected train- be retained only if minimum it ing facilities, especially those for ards for the Military Occupati Hawaiian recruits, and procedure Specialties (MOS) and the K for final transfer to the overseas of demonstrated proficiency wl are met . 1 depot He has been directing the the(2)specialties No enlisted personnel I Hawaiian project at ATSC head b promoted to a grade higher i quarters. provided for their reW He seemed with that MOS and job assignment br) C. S. Camphere, Maj. everything bell, OASC civilian personnel chief, TO. (3) Total grades will not ex( stated. those authorized, and gradeij thorized the arms and services! pacity to produce about 10,000,000 be retained in the sections art.I tons of pig iron, and from this, teed. (4) Organizations which are; plus scrap iron, about 13,700,000 are authorized to! tons of steel ingots and castings' a purposes j year. Her rolling mill capacity is lize for promotion about 10,000,000 tons. United States that share of the alloted grade capacity for steel ingots and cast- rectly proportionate to aat ) ings is about 88,000,000 tons a year. strength. (5) Personnel who are not, more than six times as great an indication of how our production signed to duty in a MOS in w classified will not be promoted machine outclasses Japan's. (0) Personnel will not be I However, anlysis shows that only moted to a higher grade pr the amputation of such supplies as of transfer. flow from Manchuria, China and or in contemplationcommands. or tween stations Korea will seriously starve Japan's (7) The transfer of enlisted J steel industries. She is not too sonnel to an unassigned stats well supplied with scrap iron, and as to create vacancies withal her steel has a larger component thorized is expressly grades of pig than is usual in the United j States, but her scran 'pile is be hibited. (8) Each base unit will es lieved to be adequate. a' board of officers to give det Robber consideration to all promet, Japan controls 90 per cent of and to make appropriate the world's supply, but all of it is mendatlons to the co in tne southernmost conquered ter- fleer thereon. ritories. Nevertheless, she had had (0) Personnel will not oe two years to stockpile this over- moted more than one gra whelmingly important war mate- time, except EM reduces w rial in the homeland. The lavish- - prejudice and concurrently ness of her supply is emnhasized moted to a graae cui by reports that Japan uses natural with their ability. rubber to pave streets and that In Borneo, rubber trees have been cut down to make way for rice plantations. Satisfied With Program well-pleas- ed der-streng- th , 1 Food bn ra. Japan's people have tioned on food since 1040. but ex. perts do not believe that a disruptive scarcity of food would develop as rapidly as shortages of some war strategic materials. Rice supplies fully half of the caloric intake of the Japanese- - Bmm anri fish, in that order, supply the other two main staples of diet Meat Is relatively unimportant since their consumption averages tea pounds per capita per year. ne rlce Japan itself raises SO consumption, cant nt Its umiI The remainder comes, 13 per cent irem jvorea ana o .per. cent from Formosa, plus a small from other places. Formosa also supplies almost all of Japan's sugar, about 1,000,000 tons. Japan has resorted to a reduced polishing of the rice In. order to increase the apparent supply to Its people, and also to reduce vitamin-deficien- w Medal Given Gen. Frank " FS from tCamUnumA iW mand in its General Frank's grasp of the reqiurementt wmuw". tie! enerauons. outstanding leadership, convworld-wid- e -- , iwsMuraefulness, achievements of the Aray u forces. . , . P..Mir'i aaam Soring. Colorado Polo Drive, orado. 1 table oils for the diet pU is estimated of thtff warfare, aMV and .la martirf eancios of of her millet production wheat adding to barley and ealorlas to tne normal cereal. By this means, cwtw . and by increasing imnorfa n parson per day u hw stockpiled at. the beginning of rXUllS ana hwtimies (1041) an estimated Jcr cy diseases, M Mx frartirni nxeTs, common rtoriai' 73,-000,0- 00 bushel the sections south of Formosa, including the Philippines, Hainan Islands, and Malaya, the small amount needed to make up a total of about 11,C80, vw tons. Jaoan has the manufacturing ca-i- . PPPort , U unit. Grade for Grade r..i. Current War Department J for rotation of enlisted' : f men III to be .b.orhV ar 1 iw approved - ng office, calculating this on 'the ordinary' toils of J iis Is CO pounds to the busheL per cent above her peace time reserve, but her Imports, over a decade and a half, averaged 1W.CC3- ,wtr Duaneis a year. Freaa tlaackarta ,' From : Manchuria, Japan's mala take of food is 40.000.000 to as.. 080,000 bushels of soya beans of Manchuria's ample crop of some Dusneis year. 12an. iib,(,uu9 Chtirla Is not a rlM Mtn m nli country, and its chJexWejJ is to Hwi tlons because of - l mtnutkma jpwmm Blum enihis ance s fractured v?5r manui"- toThunUnf leg . gj. w C la t |