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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-' 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 driv-1 eal vietory-the 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, 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-were news-were shown everything erything, but they were ut to reveal military in-elpful in-elpful to the enemy. rCombat Goods. t thousands of articles n- 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 maid ma-id stoves are samples of )' snot used in actual rightist right-ist necessary Just the . h service command pro-' pro-' stores this non-combat 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 seem-s ol rows of equipment railers trench diggers yry-alls, scrapers, water ft, portable generators, and bridge building ma- t is roughly a mile wide Jes long. There are 15 type warehouses of con-steel con-steel and nine temporary i 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-sfmy uni-sfmy and for WACs and musical instruments, tool sets, helmets, plastic of the repair and rebuilding of damaged 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 shipment. ship-ment. The third function of the Tooele Ordnance depot is one of salvage. Back to this depot are sent train-loads train-loads of used shells, large and small. The undamaged are shipped to the munitions factories for refilling, 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, ammunition 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 features fea-tures of the depot is the storage of the actual munitions. Small caliber ammunition is stored in above-the ground warehouses, peavy ammunition ammu-nition and bombs are stored in "igloos." "ig-loos." There are about 1,000 of these igloos 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 thousands 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 service 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 similar sim-ilar munitions, as well as war machines 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 auxiliary 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 ammunition, ammuni-tion, such as 30 and 50 caliber armor-piercing, tracer, incendiary and ball shells. Here the principal operations 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-lined cases for shipment. Outstanding in the plant is the continuous rigid testing and checkingfor check-ingfor 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 j manufacturing plants may ship direct di-rect to the field of action, but a large part of the material must of necessity be held in reserve in storage. stor-age. For this purpose the government govern-ment has built huge storage depots in strategic locations. These basic supply depots are removed from the seacoast for protection, yet so located locat-ed that war goods may be transported 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 railroads, rail-roads, giving quick access to the Northwest, the San Francisco Bay area and the Southwest all important 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-including munitions-including rifle and machine gun ammunition, am-munition, shells and bombs of all sizes and weight. It stores reserves re-serves of ordnance equipment such as pistols, rifles, machine guns, cannon, 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 equipment 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 displaced dis-placed husky men in the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses. Miss Kalherine Boswell runs a fork-lift 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 ceiling 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 separate sepa-rate is another depot Here the army stores and experiments with gas for the kind of warfare the United 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 waiting wait-ing and ready if needed. w Ww Work'r, Miss Lou-.rZ.b Lou-.rZ.b exh'Wtirur belts of cartridges for air-Ch!eratcs air-Ch!eratcs a machine WU. which are made |