Show I T THIS HiS UTAH GIRL IS ISI I HOLDER OF ARMY DISC DISCHARGE By Selma Miller The rhe distInction of being the only gIrl In ht Salt Lake and perhaps In Utah to hold a regular United States army discharge belongs to MIss Dorothy JennIngs daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Valter P. P Jennings 1119 Laird avenue avenue ave ave- nue who has just returned home from Long Island N. N Y where she served In the great gas masc mas plant of the United States chemIcal warfare service servIce Ice a department of the regular army I Ten thousand persons the majority I lof of whom were wives and daughters of rich men worked at the plant whIch this Salt Lake girl entered as a volunteer volunteer volun- volun I teer to aId In winning the war This number humber did not include the soldiers who enlIsted In this department and received their training at the plant and who numbered many thousands Five huge buildings one of which was the property of Henry Ford were tal taken tak- tak en over by the government for the making of the masks masl s accordIng to Miss Jennings STRICT SURVEillANCE Every person with but few exceptions exceptions who worl worked ed In this department had either a husband a father or brothers In the military service The enrollment of persons having loved ones In the armed service of the United States was one of the precautionary precautionary measures taken to guard against 2 u the h entrance Inc of nas with th u malicious Intent According to Miss JennIngs the investigation of workers I upon their entrance Into the plant was wonderfully thorough nd efficient If Ifa a person lived In an apartment officers of- of of the department looked up the janitor and Inquired as to visitors and mall mail They went to visit the family of entrants Inquired among all the neighbors at their places of trade and obtained volumes of data concernIng th them em ENTRANCE BY PAS PASS Miss JennIngs served In the general gentral office ot of the plant and had access to all the Information concerning the workings of the plant SoldIer guards were stationed on every floor In every room and she and every ever associate worl worker er were watched every moment of the day A pass bearing a photograph and a complete descrIption of the holder was Issued to each person In the plant and without these they could not even go from one floor of the building to another SPIES ARE CAUGHT Two or 01 three German spies were caught in the pant durIng Miss Jennings Jennings' Jen- Jen stay sta despite despie the rigid watch kept Persons havIng German ancestors ancestors ances- ances tors could not work there Another testImony of the governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's great measures to protect the AmerIcan fighters from danger Is seen In the methods employed In Inspecting the masks upon completion A commIttee committee com com- of Inspection used one floor of one of the buildings for this purpose and the process was tedIous and exacting ex- ex acting EAGER TO SERVE When the plant opened according to Miss JennIngs men In their great enthusIasm en- en to win the war often otten went to work at o'clock to get things started for the regular shirt shift and labored labored la- la bored until 9 at night The women workers who for the most part were society girls and women who had never worked before went to work at iO o'clock and were kept busy until 5 30 The rhe work at the gas mask plant until December of last year rear Miss 1 Jennings says |