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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL, UTAH War Goods, From Brushes to Bombs, Are Stored In Huge Warehouses of Utah Ordnance Depot 1 ft Munitions Are Made In Nearby Factory At Salt Lake Gty " - 1 By 1 Conaolidaud . - Ken-yo- Goods. All of the thousands of articles called "non - combat equipment," Non-Comb- at meaning, in general, everything the army uses except actual weapons and fighting machines, are procured by purchase or are made to order. Canned vegetables, blankets, safety pins, uniforms of all sorts, road machinery, and stoves are samples of these things not used in actual fighting, but most necessary just the same. The Ninth service command procures and stores this equipment in Utah Army Service Forces depot at Ogden, under the direct command of Brig. Gen. Ralph Talbot Jr. Here are tremendous warehouses and storage spaces-m- uch of it in the open, with seemingly miles of rows of equipment such as trailers trench diggers harrows, carry-allscrapers, water tanks, plows, portable generators, barb wire and bridge building material. The depot is roughly a mile wide by three miles long. There are 15 permanent type warehouses of crete and steel and nine temporary warehouses of wooden construction. They house everything the army needs and uses outside of munitions and implements of war. Several are used for food, others for clothing, kitchen equipment, for automobiles, for drainage tiles, for pipe, for everything. On display were box lockers, 12 kinds of hats or caps, shirts and underwear, carrying bags, gloves, coats, mess kits, sleeping bags, uniforms for army and for WACs and for nurses, musical instruments, sets, helmets, plastic shoes, box, tool ' . non-comb- at s, - 1 A 1 :' .: v 5 I. i '!'. 'V'T'J : Y ilu lb,. '3-- V T'i ' , f s i ' - 1 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. foot tubs, flags, tents, tent stoves, of the repair and rebuilding of damand mountain tents. Among thou- aged and badly worn equipment. In sands of other articles were pack the depot area are huge buildings, kits, gasoline lanterns, emergency one of them 525 feet wide by 540 rations, G. I. thread and needles, feet long, used wholly for making compasses, pliers, sunburn cream, repairs that cannot be taken care of chap stick, towels, and rubber pants. at the front. Duplicate parts of all Unique here was the fact that a equipment are kept on hand either part of the guard for daylight serv- for use in the depot or for shipice is made up of women: women ment. trained to do guard duty to carry a The third function of the Tooele gun and use it. Police dogs aid the Ordnance depot is one of salvage. s Back to this depot are sent guards at night. of used shells, large and Making Cartridges Guns, cartridges, bombs and sim- small. The undamaged are shipped ilar munitions, as well as war ma- to the munitions factories for rechines like tanks and armored filling, and the unusable are sent to trucks, are made at the army's own the smelters. The army 90expects to per cent ordnance factories, or by private get back approximately manufacturers, under government of the shells, packing cases, ammucontract. One of these latter is the nition belts, clips, etc., issued. Women by far outnumber the Utah Ordnance plant in Salt Lake men in the warehouses. Girls City. The plant area is about 5,000 acres trained for the job operate motor with more than 175 buildings 10 driven fork lift trucks which pick miles of heavy track railroad and up huge cases and stack them 8, 10 17 miles of surfaced road. Inner and 12 feet high. The depot is and outer fences extend a distance manned mostly by civilians. Most interesting of all the feaof about 21 miles, most of which is under 24 hour surveillance by auxil- tures of the depot is the storage of iary military guard under direction the actual munitions. Small caliber ammunition is stored in above-th- e of the army. This plant is the last word in a ground warehouses. Heavy ammumodern line production system for nition and bombs are stored in "igmanufacturing small arms ammuni- loos." tion, such as 30 and 50 caliber There are about J.,000 of these igtracer, incendiary and loos ranging in size from 40 feet ball shells. Here the principal op- to 80 feet long. In the shape of 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-linecases for shipment. . Outstanding in the plant is the continuous rigid testing and checking for 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 direct to the field of action, but a large part of the material must of necessity be held in reserve in storage. For this purpose the government has built huge storage depots in strategic locations. These basic supply depots are removed from the seacoast for protection, yet so locatWomen and machines have dised that war goods may be transported swiftly by rail, highway or plane placed husky men in the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses. Miss to the points of embarkation. The army has built the Tooele Katherine Boswell runs a fork-liOrdnance depot at Tooele, Utah, shop truck, that can move and pile about 40 miles southwest of Salt ten cases a trip. The work done Lake City. The depot, comprising by one truck would cost $40 an hour an area of some 26,000 acres, is if done by hand. served by two transcontinental railroads, giving quick access to the half of a barrel, the walls and ceilNorthwest, the San Francisco Bay ing are made of reinforced cement area and the Southwest all impor- nine inches thick, covered with two tant ports for the Pacific theater of to three feet of gravel and soil. One of the igloos visited was about war. Within the depot are 150 miles of hard surfaced highway and 77 half full, containing several hundred miles of railway track. Five Diesel 1,000 - pound semi - block buster switch engines handle freight cars. bombs all ready for shipment to The ordnance depot performs Hirohito. For protection the depot is three main functions first it is the reserve storage for all munitions-includ- ing watched over by a corps of auxiliary rifle and machine gun ammilitary guard under the direction munition, shells and bombs of all of the army, who patrol in cars. sizes and weights. It stores reNot far distant from the Tooele serves of ordnance equipment such Ordnance plant but entirely sepaas pistols, rifles, machine guns, can- rate is another depot. Here the non, trench mortars, and mobile army stores and experiments with fighting equipment such as tanks, gas for the kind of warfare the United Nations hope to avoid. But, as jeeps, trucks and tractors. Repair and Salvage. proof of what President Roosevelt Second, the ordnance depot is a and Mr. Churchill say about being service organization. It puts equip- ready for it, it is there. It may ment together, gets it ready for never be used but it's there waitshipment and ships it. It takes care ing and ready if needed. train-load- armo- r-piercing, i "f'f S d iff Rv fk: ft - u This young war worker, Miss Louise Anderson, Is exhibiting belts of machine - gun cartridges for airplanes. She operates a machine that fills the belts, which are made of webbing. - 1 .until Pacific'. Horizon To ing army operation and placement was a military secret; now in driving for final victory the army wants you to know how it operates; how it takes care of your son or your husband what it feeds him, how it clothes him what it gives him to fight with and how it cares for him when sick or wounded. n With that in mind MaJ. Gen. A. Joyce, commanding general of the Ninth service command, wnn headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently invited a group of newspaper men to visit all of the army service forces. These newspaper men were shown everything and told everything, but they were restricted not to reveal military information helpful to the enemy. n Pacific, he says, and he knows plenty about the Far East, and Tokyo in particular. He was in Japan au the time the United States was in the last war. He went out there as naval attache to the American em bassy in January, 1915, and stayed four years. His government handed him the Navy Cross for what he accomplished, and Japan, being one of the Allies in those days, passed him a decoration, too, the Third Order of the Sacred Treasure. This is the third war in which this native New Yorker, now 63, has had a hand. He had entered the Naval academy in 1895 at the ripe young age of 15, and while still a middie be served in the North Atlantic aboard the TJSS Texas in the scrap with Spain. When the war was over, he went back to Annapolis, graduating in 1899. Since returning from Tokyo, he attended the Naval War college. What's more he went to the Army War college, too. some Back in the of his flying officers got his sea dog dander up when they tried to tell him that the orders he gave couldn't be carried out. He promptly had himself assigned for training with the air arm at Pensacola, and in 1926 he was qualified as a naval aviation observer. Later he commanded the aircraft carrier Saratoga. Since March, 1942, he has been one of Admiral King's right bowers in planning sea operations. Planes are his specialty. mid-Twenti- es TF Katharine F. Lenroot were set-tling upon a prayer for children, and who would be more likely to pray for them, she might easily cull from .. . statistics Are tier the athar- Grenades in Battle va - veda, For Child Welfare those loose- ly phrased hymns from India's old, old scripture: "Old Age! This child shall grow to meet thee only; None of the hundred other deaths shall harm him." Children have been Miss Lenroot's concern for 30 years and on, and though progress must seem slow she probably would agree that in her time some of those hundred other deaths have been scotched. Just back from South America she notes that there also at least a few have been; children receive even free food; medical care spreads. It is 13 years since she was last in South America and she found a change so great "I could hardly believe my eyes." Ever since she went into the chil dren's bureau of the department of labor, Miss Lenroot has had a strong interest in South America. She is well known there, and speaks Spanish fluently enough to make an easy way from the plateau cities of New g Granada to and windy Punta Arenas, though she might be more comfortable if she stopped at Buenos Aires. Children everywhere have been Miss Lenroot's strongest interest ever since she came out of the University of Wisconsin. Even earlier she was badgering that state's legislature in their behalf. After graduation, a novice lawyer, she hired out as a deputy industrial commissioner, but after a couple of years found her life work with the federal bureau at Washington. She has been its chief for ten years, and is an authority on its multitude of problems. She is a systematic chief and calm, but if the objective is big enough she can make a final drive as headlong as this fellow Patton, now all over . ct c under-privileg- low-price- d, low-lyin- CLASSIFIED DEPARTME FEATHERS WANTED. NEW 0ft Ship or write to Sterling Feather ( . 7Z HELP WANTED 'FREEDOM TO WORK' BIRTH OF AN IDEA WHAT AMERICA is fighting for GIRLS-- 18 is presumed to be enunciated in the Y101 Oration group ToJrav,?1 Atlantic Charter and expressed in nationally known company. Girli mZ must be alert, ambitious lected FreeFour President Roosevelt's able to meet public. $150 month S? Transportation furnished. Excn!.. doms. The day following the first advanced, write r. o. Box announcement of the four freeLm Anf eles, Calif. Enclose editor the doms, W. O. Hart, then of the Orange (Calif.) Daily News, wrote and printed an editorial in OPPORTUNITY which he insisted that to the four freedom the What Bare a yea ta trade for 360 a added fifth, should be west. Oregon or property in BoiSe ranch VallJ?h to work. RALPH WHITE Buwrnunl The Orange Daily News is a small rural newspaper. It does not have a wide circulation. Comparatively few editors of other newspapers see it. The editor of a newspaper trade rmhiinatinn Editor & Publisher, did coo that oHitnrial and reprinted it with credit to the Orange Daily News. That reprinting brougni me editorial to the attention of thousands of newpaper editors in all sections of the United States. Hundreds of them reprinted it, some with credit to the News and some with out. That little editorial in a rural newpaper had started an American crusade. w O Hart's Den is stilled now. He died in an airplane crash last December, but the idea he so r promptly inaugurated goes marcn-intrtn Npwsnariers in all sections, periodicals of national circulation, radio commentators, are aemanaing fnr th American DeoDle a continu ance of the opportunity to work and to achieve. It is echoed irom me platform and the pulpit. It is an insistence that the efforts of that coterie of theoretical bureaucrats, whose purpose is to change our American system, be frustrated. 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They want to know if their constituents prefer regulation by executive decree or by laws enacted by congress. They will inquire into the attitude of the people on the question of the government in business and the reign of the bureaucrats. These and many other subjects will be discussed, and th answers the representatives receive will be reflected in their actions in congress when it again assembles the middle of September. There is one thing the lawmakers will .find among the rural people. That is a definite determinat'on to fight the war to a conclusive, "unconditional surrender" end, regardless" of what sacrifice they may be called upon to make. ECONOMIC PLANNERS OUR WASHINGTON PLANNERS & RANCHES WANTED FARMS Rabbit Raisers HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR YOUR RABBIT HIDES SHIP TO DUPLER'S CARS USED TRAILERS stJosepn; ASPIRIN W WORK'S' LARGEST SEUU JUST A IM FEATHERS DASH kaXsUILFn OSJCM '"" WHIt," DON'T LET CONSTIPATION attempt to tell us that our free enSLOW YOU UP terprise system has reached the end When bowels are sluggish and of its virility. They prophesy dire fael irritable, headachy, do as millions the modem do -c- hew consequences unless the government laxative. Simply chew chewing-gutakes over the direction of producbefore you go to oea, tion and distribution. They may be taking only in accordance with Paclia?' and I believe they are mistaken, directions sleep without being as was another economist of an earNext morning gentle, lier day. He was Robert Thomas relief, helping you feel swell again, iry Tastes good, Malthus, a Cambridge university and economical.A generous family supP'y economist of 1880. He alarmed peotne Sicily. Statis- - ple of England by his insistence that FEEN-A-MINJne T led the British Isles could not support txpendabuity of tics once deto any greater population than they Nation's Mothers hfr 41 clare in dis had. English "planners" proposed WNU W tress that mothers were this coun methods of regulating the birth rate try's cheapest commodity, so many in order that the population might of them die in childbirth. If she not outgrow the number of jobs. A were saying that now she might put century later the British Isles had it ironically tnat they are as ex five times the. population of 1800, pendable as P-- boat crews at Cor living on a much higher standard. regidor. Her arsenal of facts and That is proof that economists can Disordered May Warn . of . . figures is inexhaustible. It would be wrong, and our economic planaciiu" Kidney stretch from here to there and back ners may be of that kind. I think Modern life with Its hurry f21 they are. t'3taf- -. again. trratular habita. Improper work drinking its risk ol "Pu This is not to say that she is dull. T, aeey strain Her sense of humor is keen and f the kidneys. They GENERAL MacARTHUR is not and fall to Altar til Jrilli d catholic and her public utterances advancing on Japan island by isand other impurities Iron the can amuse as well as devastate. land, but group by group of islands. anffat and her voice can charm. She comes Even that means a long road to hJdach" 4linr. a.gg!I gattujg n from northern Wisconsin where Tokyo. leg pains, out worn all BseVoua, Othg cold winds off bleak Lake Su those a tlr, of kidney or bladder disorder WHILE A CONSIDER ATU.F. n.,r. times burning, scanty or too perior, or something, all too often urination. h,in the put an edge on native voices, but ber of college professors of varying hers is low and agreeable. shades of pink are striving to "make to pua hV'Ur.' kidney, waste. They haa tn"rKO,. The figure that encloses the voice America over" to fit their ideas of century of public enprol. users every btf is on the stocky side, topped by what it should be, Dr. grateful mended by George S loosely dressed hair that used to be Benson of Harding college at Sear blonde, about half way between a cy, Ark., is doing a man-siz- e job in Harlow platinum and Bette Davis an effort to America as a land keep middling locks. oi ireeaom and opportunity. FEEN-A-MIN- m FEEN-A-MIN- T - FEEN-A-MIN- "Pea "io. 32-- T tioB-tE- rowt BUSHNELL HOSPITAL for soldiers is another department of the Ninth service command. Construction of the hnge Institution was begun shortly aftrr Psrl Harbor. It is located at Brigham City, 60 miles north of Salt Ltke City. At present it has 2,000 beds. Corp. John Kariger, 21, of Her shey. Neb., is one patient who probably owes his life to the new drug penicillin, administered at Bushnell. His thighbone was shattered by a Jap bullet, and infection developed. ft FEATHERS WANTEn Released by Western Newspaper Union. Releaa. NU Vice-Ad- and guns. For the first 12 months or more war all information regard- Feature.-W- NTEW YORK. Joseph Home takes aahead look through his binocugood lars and reports that tne ena oi me war is noi Adm.HorneSight$ on the hori- No Early Peace on zon. It may By John Elbridge Jones The military axiom that "an army travels on its belly" is true, but a modern army needs many other necessary supplies shoes, for instance, and trucks, and tanks, tractors, munitions of this Delos Wheeler Lovelace ' Released by Westers Newspaper Union. furnish these supplies when and where needed and in the proper amount, the U. S. army has built up separate organizations with the army, headed by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, called "Service Commands." There is a "Service Command" for each military area not only within the U. S. but wherever the army goes. 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