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Show J Goods, From Brushes to Bombs, Are Stored Huge Warehouses of Utah Ordnance Depot H ' 'fw'l V' iff Inspectors at the Tooele Ordnance depot examine a batch of empty cartridge cases, returned to be melted Into brass scrap. They must see that no live ammunition has got mixed with the shells, since it would explode In the furnace and possibly cause an accident 5 ons Arc Made W Jirby Factory T t Lake City bridge Jones ?. ;fe,rn Newspaper Union ? :iiarV axiom that ,ravels on its belly " t a modern army J! other necessary 2 shoes, for instance, ) .s and tanks, trac- -' tions and guns. " ish these supplies IS where needed and Is raer amount, the U. ? as built up separate y ltionS within the ,ded by Lieut. Gen- - ,on b. Somervell, - p'rvice Commands." E a "Service Com- - reach military area !! rithin the U. S. but !" the army goes. ' irst 12 months or more 41 all information regard-- l peration and placement iry secret; now in driv--1 eal vietory-t- he army o know how it operates; ! ;! care of your son or ; n4what it feeds him, in him what it gives I with and how it cares ,en tick or wounded, in mind Maj. Gen. Ken-:- e, commanding general service command, with j in Salt Lake City, :J) invited a group of men to visit all of the ' ice forces. These news-wer- e shown everything erything, but they were ut to reveal military ul to the enemy. rCombat Goods. t thousands of articles - combat equipment," i general, everything the except actual weapons machines, are procured e or are made to order, etables, blankets, safety as of all sorts, road mai-d stoves are samples of snot used in actual right- )' ist necessary Just the . h service command pro- -' stores this non-comb-in Utah Army Service ot at Ogden, under the sand of Brig. Gen. Ralph Here are tremendous and storage spaces in the open, with seem-- s ol rows of equipment railers trench diggers scrapers, water ft, portable generators, and bridge building ma- - t is roughly a mile wide Jes long. There are 15 type warehouses of con-ste- el and nine temporary of wooden construction. everything the army m outside of munitions "ents of war. are used for food, others I kitchen equipment, for s. 'or drainage tiles, for erything. were box lockers, 12 s or caps, shirts and "rrying bags, gloves, 'kits, sleeping bags, uni-sfm- y and for WACs and musical instruments, tool sets, helmets, plastic of the repair and rebuilding of dam-aged and badly worn equipment. In the depot area are huge buildings, one of them 525 feet wide by 540 feet long, used wholly for making repairs that cannot be taken care of at the front. Duplicate parts of all equipment are kept on hand either for use in the depot or for ship-ment. The third function of the Tooele Ordnance depot is one of salvage. Back to this depot are sent train-load- s of used shells, large and small. The undamaged are shipped to the munitions factories for re-filling, and the unusable are sent to the smelters. The army expects to get back approximately 90 per cent of the shells, packing cases, ammu-nition belts, clips, etc., issued. Women by far outnumber the men in the warehouses. Girls trained for the Job operate motor driven fork lift trucks which pick up huge cases and stack them 8, 10 and 12 feet high. The depot is manned mostly by civilians. Most interesting of all the fea-tures of the depot is the storage of the actual munitions. Small caliber ammunition is stored in above-th- e ground warehouses, peavy ammu-nition and bombs are stored in "ig-loos." There are about 1,000 of these ig-loos ranging in size from 40 feet to 80 feet long. In the shape of ' foot tubs, flags, tents, tent stoves, and mountain tents. Among thou-sands of other articles were pack kits, gasoline lanterns, emergency rations, G. I. thread and needles, compasses, pliers, sunburn cream, chap stick, towels, and rubber pants. Unique here was the fact that a part of ie guard for daylight serv-ice is made up of women: women trained to do guard duty to carry a gun and use it Police dogs aid the guards at night Making Cartridges Guns, cartridges, bombs and sim-ilar munitions, as well as war ma-chines like tanks and armored trucks, are made at the army's own ordnance factories, or by private manufacturers, under government contract. One of these latter is the Utah Ordnance plant in Salt Lake City. The plant area is about 5,000 acres with more than 175 buildings 10 miles of heavy track railroad and 17 miles of surfaced road. Inner and outer fences extend a distance of about 21 miles, most of which is under 24 hour surveillance by auxil-iary military guard under direction of the army. This plant is the last word in a modern line production system for manufacturing small arms ammuni-tion, such as 30 and 50 caliber armo-r- piercing, tracer, incendiary and ball shells. Here the principal op-erations are making the shell, the bullet and the primer bringing them all together, and then filling them with powder. The finished ammunition is put into belts or clips and then packed in metal-line- d cases for shipment. Outstanding in the plant is the continuous rigid testing and chec-kingfor on the efficient operation of these munitions may depend the life of your son or husband. Finally a certain percentage of each batch is sent to 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 di-rect to the field of action, but a large part of the material must of necessity be held in reserve in stor-age. For this purpose the govern-ment has built huge storage depots in strategic locations. These basic supply depots are removed from the seacoast for protection, yet so locat-ed that war goods may be transport-ed swiftly by rail, highway or plane to the points of embarkation. The army has built the Tooele Ordnance depot at Tooele, Utah, about 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The depot, comprising an. area of some 26,000 acres, is served by two transcontinental rail-roads, giving quick access to the Northwest, the San Francisco Bay area and the Southwest all impor-tant ports for the Pacific theater of war. Within the depot are 150 miles of hard surfaced highway and 77 miles of railway track. Five Diesel switch engines handle freight cars. The ordnance depot performs three main functions first it is the reserve storage for all munitions-includ- ing rifle and machine gun am-munition, shells and bombs of all sizes and weight. It stores re-serves of ordnance equipment such as pistols, rifles, machine guns, can-non, trench mortars, and mobile fighting equipment such as tanks, Jeeps, trucks and tractors. Repair and Salvage. Second, the ordnance depot is a service organization. It puts equip-ment together, gets it ready for shipment and ships it It takes care F8 fiPf I ;i t ' I $ 1 1 j Viy hi. Women and machines have dis-placed husky men in the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses. Miss Kalherine Boswell runs a fork-li- ft shop truck, that can move and pile ten cases a trip. The work done by one truck would cost $10 an hour if done by hand. half of a barrel, the walls and ceil-ing are made of reinforced cement nine inches thick, covered with two to three feet of gravel and soil. One of the igloos visited was about half full, containing several hundred 1,000 - pound semi - block buster bombs all ready for shipment to Hirohito. For protection the depot is watched over by a corps of auxiliary military guard under the direction of the army, who patrol in cars. Not far distant from the Tooele Ordnance plant but entirely sepa-rate is another depot Here the army stores and experiments with gas for the kind of warfare the Unit-ed Nations hope to avoid. But as proof of what President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill say about being ready for it, it is there. It may never be used but it's there wait-ing and ready if needed. w Ww Work'r, Miss Lou-.rZ- .b exh'Wtirur belts of cartridges for a machine WU. which are made SfT THEY WERE irsa ILIPEMIffi&IBLlL'srr WHITE y TfStj207Ul W.N.U.FEATUREJ beer, to celebrate on. But Peggy had been preparing. The island was, on two meals a day, but she'd man-aged to hold back a couple of ap-ples and a whole box of marsh-mallow- That was our New Year's Eve supper, and I'll bet that yours, wherever you had It, couldn't have tasted any better. "Running any kind of romance, no matter how mild, was a real prob-lem on Corregidor. About the best place to sit was right down where we were, at the tunnel's mouth. But the road ran right In front of it, and every five minutes an army truck would barge tactlessly around the curve, shining its dimmed-dow- n headlights right on you. Then for another three minutes you were choking with dust. If you got tired of this and tried to go for a walk, you'd hardly get started when you would realize that eleven thousand men were trying to sleep all over that little Island, and if you went far, you would step on most of them In the dark, and not many of them would thank you for it. There wasn't an unoccupied square toot any where. "We proved that later on when the doctor prescribed walks for me' to build back my strength, be-cause I'd lost thirty pounds and Peggy was assigned to go along. The troops swarmed on that island every pond was crowded with them bathing, and I would always have to go ahead to take a look Chungking cabled back that it could be done. "They said the Japs held the Swa-to-region thinly at no point did they go more than ten miles inland. So, at an agreed time, and at an agreed rendezvous on the coast, Chungking would send a raiding party down to fight its way to the beach and meet us. "There we would burn our boats now useless with all torpedoes ex-pended against Jap targets. The Chinese couldn't hold that point long but long enough to hustle us through that ten-mil- e Jap-hel- strip onto free Chinese soil. There trucks would take us to the nearest air-field, we would fly to Chungking, and from there a four-motore- d American ferry-comman- d plane would bring us back to the States. "Where was the flaw? We couldn't see one, unless somehow It leaked out. Besides myself, only four liv-ing people knew. They were g of our squadron, Captain Ray, chief of staff, Colonel Wong, and of course the skipper here, who had worked out every detail. "But before we left we knew there would be plenty of action ahead for us here, and I told Bulkeley I was crazy to get out of this hospital, and asked for his help. If they'd let me get back to duty, I'd agree to anything promise to soak my hand for so many hours a day any-thing they said, Just to get back even on a semlduty status. "So we staged it for the next morning, when the ward doctor would be dressing my hand at about the same time the head surgeon made his rounds. We tackled him. I made my talk, and he seemed to waver. Tell this bird you need me,' I said to the skipper. 'We really do,' said Bulkeley, but Just then Peggy overheard and queered the whole thing. "Certainly not!' she said. 'You can't let him go back to duty with his hand wide-open- !' That swung him back. 'Duty!' he growled. 'Who said anything about duty? Two weeks of It and you'd lose your whole arm.' "I tried to argue point out that if the MTB's went out on a mission, I could hold on with one arm as well as two, but Peggy had done it, and now he wouldn't listen. '" 'One of these days you're go-ing to find an empty bunk,' I said. I was gloomy all that next week, but Peggy said I was a fool. That there were plenty of well, fit men to1 do my Job. And that If I hadn't been so damned stubborn In the first place, and had got that hand treated in time, I'd never have come to the hospital, and never met her, and she would never have been able to break up my plan to get out, so it was all my fault! "She's always had that cute way of seeming to storm at you and dress you down, so that you ended up by grinning and couldn't stay mad at anything long. THE STORY SO FAR: The itory of their 'part In the batUe for the Philip-pines li being told by (our of the Ave naval offlcera who are all that It left of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron i. They re Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieutenant Commander), iquadron commander; Lieut. R. B. Kelly, and Ensijni Anthony Aken and George E. Cox Jr. Lieut. Kelly, tent to the tun-nel hospital on Corregidor, learned from the wounded there how badly the war wai going for Ui. Cavlte, our big naval bate, wat gone and our air force nearly wiped out. While be wat there the hoi-plt-wat bombed. Ensign Aken It tell-ing tome of bit experiencet before Ma-nila feU. CHAPTER V "Twelve hours before the Japs en-tered the town I was sent back Into Manila to pick up the remnants. I had Just eighty gallons of gas to go those thirty miles finally got back with ten. A curious thing happened during those closing hours; nobody had given orders to blow up the oil reserves. Maybe some of them be-longed to private companies; it would go against a business man'a grain to blow up good oil Finally a little Junior-grad- e naval lieutenant noticed it. He had no authority, but be gave orders he had no right to give, and presently the oil was blaz-ing. I hear he got a Navy Cross for doing it "I was In Manila about that time," said Cox. "A big air attack was go-ing on, although it had already been declared an open city. For that reason I had gone In with the guns on my boat with their canvas covers on for welfare reasons. Vet, open city or not, the big air raid was on streets deserted except for a few people running nowhere in particu-lar like crazy, planes crisscrossing the sky above. The big church, about a mile from shore, was Just beginning to burn. In the harbor, boats were burning and sinking on all sides five and ton-ner- s. But not a single shot was fired at the planes which came down as low as five hundred feet "I went up on Into the city, and everywhere people were kind and helpful. The Japs were right out-side the town, and yet the store-keepers would give me anything we Americans needed without either money or a voucher Just sign a paper, that was all. They trusted us." "I took my boat into the harbor Just as the Japs were entering the city," said Bulkeley. "It was night and we could see the town burning a huge death-pal- l of smoke hang-ing above and oil six Inches deep over the water. It looked like doom hanging over a great city, and it was. Made you feel bad. We stayed out there from nine o'clock at night until about three In the morning. Didn't dare go ashore, and anyway our job was to destroy harbor shi-ppingso what was left of it wouldn't fall into Jap hands." "I had to leave all my spare uni-forms in my locker there, damn them," said Akers. "I hope none of them fit." "Watching them take over made you feel pretty sick," said Bulkeley. "We finished up and started home, to get back before dawn, now and then looking back at the fires over the water. Every time it made us sore." "It was a tough New Year's Eve for me, too," said Kelly, "because we knew more or less what was go-ing on. Then there was another rea-son. Some of the army officers were throwing a little New Year's party with the nurses that night, and since this medical officer Peggy had been going with was Just back from Bataan, of course I knew where she'd be. "Along In the evening after sun-set I walked out to the mouth of the tunnel and sat down, to watch the twilight of the old year die away. It had been a tough year, but the one ahead looked worse. And here was I, useless for the war, in an army hospital. From away off I could hear them playing the portable at the officers' party, and I remem-bered how cute Peggy had looked in her civilian dress when she danced, and that didn't help any. Pretty soon one of the other nurses I knew, Charlotte, came out and sat down near me. She wasn't at the party because she had to go on duty soon, but that didn't matter, because her boy friend had Just been wounded three days before, and she was wor-ried sick about bim. "Just then I noticed someone sit-ting down on the other side of me I turned and, by George, it was Peg-gy. Not in uniform, either. She was wearing that cute g cotton-prin- t civilian dress. "I couldn't figure it. 'Didn't you like the party?' I asked. 'Wasn't it any good?' " 'I don't know,' she said. 'I didn't go to the party.' " 'Weren't you asked?' " 'Yes,' she said. 'I was asked. But it was New Year's, you see, and I thought it might be nice here.' "Not very many nice things hap-pen to you during a war, but this was about the nicest that ever hap-pened to me then, or any other time. It made me feel so good that be-tween the two of us, we managed to get Charlotte cheered up. She had to go back on duty presently, and she managed to sneak us out a cou-ple of fairly cold bottles of Pabst "So it went along for another week, she leading me out for walks every day to get some of those thir-ty pounds back, and then one day we returned to find that Bulkeley had been by looking for me said he was going out on a raid that night up to Subic Bay looking for a Jap cruiser, that he'd waited hoping to take me, but finally had to leave. "It set me almost crazy. If I hadn't been out on that damned health tour with a pretty girl, I wouldn't have missed the raid! So here I was while my gang was up there tangling with a cruiser, may-be getting killed, because the Japs had Subic Bay so thick with guns that it was almost suicide to go in. "All that night there was no news. I was up at 5:30 'Any dope from the torpedo boats?' still nothing. But at seven they said, yes, Bulke-ley had come back, managed to sink a cruiser and get away, but the other boat was missing proba-bly lost." "It was a Job we did for the Army," explained Lieutenant Bulke-ley (describing the historic attack of his P. T. Boat in Subic Bay men-tioned.) "A couple of Jap ships, one of them an Imperial Navy aux-iliary cruiser with guns had been shelling our emplacements on Bataan blasting them with heavy stuff. The major in charge had been wondering how to get rid of them and had phoned Admiral Rockwell, who gave us permission to tackle the job. We knew they were based in Subic Bay, probably in Port Binanga. Subic is on the west coast of Luzon, Just north of Bataan. I decided to send two boats the 31 boat which was Lieutenant DeLong's, and the 34 boat which was Kelly's, now com-manded by Ensign Chandler. I went along in it for the hell of it "We tested everything tuned the motors, greased torpedoes, and got under way at nine o'clock, chugging north along the west coast of Ba-taan. It was very rough. We throt-tled down to thirty knots, and even then we were shipping water, but we got off the entrance to Subic Bay about half an hour after midnight Here, according to plan, the two boats separated. DeLong in the 31 boat was to sweep one side of Subic Bay and I the other. We were to meet at Port Binanga, at the end. If something happened and we didn't meet there, then we were to rendezvous at dawn Just outside the mine fields of Corregidor. (TO BE CONTINUED) "Yet, open city or not, the big air raid was on." over hilltops and be sure Peggy wouldn't surprise them. "Meanwhile Bulkeley was report-ing to .the Admiral daily and was formulating a plan which he would talk over with me, as I was his second officer for what we would do when our gas ran out. We had damned little left, and the army couldn't spare us any. "Our first plan was, when we got down to our minimum, to get out to Australia. The navy patrol bombers had planted caches of gasoline among the islands like stepping-stone- s, and the Admiral gave us their location. But the first was Singapore, and the Japs were working their way down the peninsula, closer and closer to it Could we get there first? Of course we' wouldn't leave the Philip-pines until all of our torpedoes were gone and we had Just enough gas left to make the final run. But then, as you know, Singapore fell and also the southern islands-Cele-bes and Zamboanga. The route vith the cached gas Was closed that plan was out. "So then we said, who wanted to go to Australia anyway? Our job was to defend Manila Bay wasn't that our part in the war plan? Yet even then It kept coming up: sup-pose the worst came to the worst and Luzon folded up the whole ar-chipelago even Java what then? "Then Bulkeley here hit on a real plan. When our gas was down to just what we could carry on our decks, instead of waiting around to get captured by the Japs, we'd take our boats to China to continue the war. At first glance you'd say that was crazy the Japanese holding most of the Chinese coast but not the way the skipper had it thought out. He knew China from the years he'd spent out there on a gunboat while I was there on a destroyer. "The Japs were closing in on Hong Kong that was fine for usl We'd make our dash shoot our last few remaining fish at their gathered transports just where they least ex-pected an attack, and then head north toward the region of Swatow. "Of course the Japs held that coast too, but Bulkeley had worked out an answer, all in the utmost secrecy. He'd gotten in touch with Colonel Wong, the Chinese military observer. Wong had cabled Chung-king to investigate) the vicinity. That's It Diner Waiter, take this chick-en away. It is actually so tough it seems to be made out of stone. Waiter Nothing strange about that, sir. It's a Plymouth Rock. Smile a bit every day. It real!; isn't painful. Something Wron "Docs your uniform fit?" asked the sergeant. "Perfectly," said the recruit. "And your cap?" "Perfectly." "And your boots?" "Perfectly." "Man, you must be deformed.' Fair Question "Now, my man," said the judge, 'you know that under our system of juris-pruden-you are presumed to be in-nocent,'' "Then," replied the defendant, "why all this effort to convict me?" The gaily enameled unit insignia you see on a soldier's lapels and overseas cap are reproductions of his regimental shield displayed in the center of the eagle on his reg-imental flag. It's a part of U. S. Army tradition. Traditional, too, is the Army man's preference for Camel cigarettes. (Based on actual sales records from service men's own stores.) It's a gift from the folks back home, that always rates cheers. And though there art Post Office restrictions on pack-ages to overseas Army men, you can still send Camels to soldiers in the U. S., and to men in the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard wherever they are. Adv. ITPUftIP Soothe with Mexsana, fbf 1 1 ly 1111.1) merly Mexican Heat Pow-O- F MINOR der cooling, medicated. SKIN IRRITATIONS Mockingbird's Tunes The mockingbird, state bird ol Florida, has been known to change Its tune 87 times in seven minutes CONSTIPATION HAUNTED M- E-It hung on and on. Medici-nal laxatives relieved it only temporarily. Then I found my con- - Bstlpatlon was due to lack of my diet And I also found out that KELLOOO'S gets at the cause of such constipa-tion and corrects it 3 Boy, what I'd been miss- - I . lng before I tried all-bra- n I I It's a swell-tastin- g break- - I fast cereal and, as far as I my constipation was con-- 1 cerned, it sure worked. I I eat all-bra- n regularly 1 now and drink plenty of 9 water. And I've "Joined I the Regulars"! 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