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Show Goods, From Brushes to Bombs, Are Stored In Huge Warehouses of Utah Ordnance Depot Are Made Nearby Factory gait Lake City " . t ant Commander), squadron commander; Lieut R. B. Kelly, and Ensigns Anthony Akers and George E. Con Jr. Manila hat (alien, and our naval base at Cavtte Is gone. Lieut Kelly has been la a hospital oa Corregt-do- r, but has dually persuaded the doctor ta release him. Ho has gone out on patrol. They have broken ap a Jap landing party and hava now come alongside a leading barge which has surrendered after a heavy barrage. John Elbridge Jones faaed by Western Newspaper Union, he military axiom that army travels on its belly rue but a modern army ! many other necessary for instance, plies shoes, and tanks, trucks, s hjnity trac-munitio- 53 ns and guns, these furnish o supplies en and where needed and e proper amount, the U. rmy has built up separate anizations within the Geniy, headed by Lieut, HlSHiNi ita CHAPTER VII "She was empty except for three Japs must have discharged her landing party and been headed i Brehon B. Somervell, ed Service Commands. Service Com-n- d ere is a Inspectors at the Tooele Ordnance depot examine a batch of empty each for military area cartridge cases, returned to be melted into brass scrap. They must U. S. the but within only see that no live ammunition has got mixed with the shells, since it would erever the army goes, explode in the furnace and possibly cause an accident. heife acspi or the first 12 months or more foot tubs, flags, tents, tent stoves, of war all information regard the repair and rebuilding of damarmy operation and placement and mountain tents. Among thouaged and badly worn equipment In in driv sands of other articles were pack the depot area are s a military secret; now huge buildings, lor final victory the army kits, gasoline lanterns, emergency one of them 525 feet wide by 540 rations, G. I. thread and needles, feet long, used wholly for making its you to know how it operates; it takes care of your son or compasses, pliers, sunburn cream, repairs that cannot be taken care of husband what it feeds him, chap stick, towels, and rubber pants. at the front Duplicate parts of all Unique here was the fact that a equipment are it clothes him what it gives on hand either kept to fight with and how it cares part of he guard for daylight servfor use in the depot or for shipice is made up of women: women ment him when sick or wounded, trained to do guard duty to carry a ith that in mind Maj. Gen. Ken The third function of the Tooele A. Joyce, commanding general gun and use it Police dogs aid the Ordnance depot is one of salvage. the Ninth service command, with guards at night Back to this depot are sent trainloads of used shells, large and adquarters in Salt Lake City, Making Cartridges recently invited a group of Guns, cartridges, bombs and sim- small. The undamaged are shipped to the munitions factories for rewspaper men to visit all of the ilar munitions, as well as war maservice forces. These news-ipchines like tanks and armored filling, and the unusable are sent to men were shown everything trucks, are made at the armys own the smelters. The army expects to this oao17 G1 I Tie S J wanted er auto mechiL 'tiw if wts! told everything, but they were istricted not to reveal military id r jacttion helpful to the enemy. Goods. Method! All of the thousands of articles tiled "non - combat equipment, H vorniJ leaning, in general, everything the d ult Ik, y uses except actual weapons on ind fjj Iron, don' fighting machines, are procured rasentiil purchase or are made to order, futer rrewtk, alt Lake Cirri anned vegetables, blankets, safety ej hack If ins, uniforms of all sorts, road ma-iert order, todiii takal C and stoves are samples of jCity.Ut ese things not used in actual fight-iCattle Salt but most necessary just the direct fna m g, lame. The Ninth service command pro-e- s and stores this quipment in Utah Army Service non-comb- at ers PRICE IP TO orces depot at Ogden, under the command of Brig. Gen. Ralph albot Jr. Hire are tremendous arehouses and storage spaces-ucof it in the open, with seemingly miles of rows of equipment iuch as trailers trench diggers arrows, carry-allscrapers, water anks, plows, portable generators, arb wire and bridge building ma-riiirect s, al ewr JSEDl ARSf rncoi LTUn l( The depot is roughly a mile wide 7 three miles long. There are 15 permanent type warehouses of concrete 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 akoes, sox, instruments, tool sets, helmets, plastic ordnance factories, or by private get back approximately 90 per cent of the shells, packing cases, ammumanufacturers, under government nition belts, clips, etc., issued. contract One of these latter is the 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. of about 21 miles, most of which is Most interesting of all the feaunder 24 hour surveillance by auxil- tures of the depot is the storage of iary military guard under direction the actual munitions. Small caliber of the army. ammunition is stored in above-th- e This plant is the last word in a ground warehouses. Heavy ammumodem line production system for nition and bombs are stored in "igmanufacturing small arms ammuni- loos. There are about 1,000 of these igtion, such as 30 and 50 caliber tracer, 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 The finished them with powder. 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 transportplaced husky men in the Tooele ed swiftly by rail, highway or plane Ordnance depot warehonses. Miss to the points of embarkation. Katherine Boswell runs a fork-liThe army has built the Tooele truck, that can move and pile Ordnance depot at Tooele, Utah, shop ten cases a trip. The work done about 40 miles southwest of Salt one truck would cost $40 an houi Lake City. The depot, comprising by if done by hand. an area of some 26,000 acres, is served by two transcontinental rail- half of a barrel, the walls and ceilroads, giving quick access to the ing are made of reinforced cement Northwest, the San Francisco Bay nine inches thick, covered with two area and the Southwest all impor- to three feet of gravel and soil. tant ports for the Pacific theater of One of the igloos visited was about war. Within the depot are 150 miles half full, containing several hundred 77 and surfaced hard highway of 1,000 - pound semi - block buster Diesel miles of railway track. Five bombs all ready for shipment to switch engines handle freight cars. Hirohito. The ordnance depot performs For protection the depot is three main functions first it is the over a watched of auxiliary corps by munitions all for reserve storage guard under the direction including rifle and machine gun am- military of the army, who patrol in cars. munition, shells and bombs of all reNot far distant from the Tooele stores It sizes and weight serves of ordnance equipment iuch 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 of Unitfighting equipment such as tanks, gas for the kind towarfare the avoid. But as ed Nations hope tractors. and trucks jeeps, proof of what President Roosevelt Repair and Salvage. 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 its there waitand ready if needed. shipment and ships it It takes care ing . armo- r-piercing, d ft 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 f webbing. fiCSHNELL HOSPITAL for is another department of the Jhith service command. Construe u of the huge Institution was It Harbor. shortly after Pearl located at Brigham City, 60 miles oith of Salt Lake City. At present has 2,000 beds. sol-yte- rs be-D- Corp. John Kariger, 21, of s Neb., is one patient who his life to the new drug Penicillin, administered at Bushnell. His thighbone was shattered by a bullet, and Infection developed. prob-owe- Jp W.N.ILFEATURES THE STORY SO FAR: Th. story ol tfcalr part tn the hattla (or the Philippines Is betas told hy tear of the five nave! officers who are all that Is left ol Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron They are Lieut. John Bulkeley (now Lieuten- ? t -- WHITE mitions JOS! SI THEY WERE far home. One was dead, two were wounded, and one of these two was a Jap officer. "Bulkeley had his 45 In his hand when he Jumped aboard, and immediately this Jap officer went to his knees and began to call, Me surrender! Me surrender! "He was talking fast," said Bulkeand he had ley a little grimly, his hands stuck up very high and stiff, and that ought to stop, the myth about how Japs are too noble ever to surrender. I put a line around his shoulders and we hoisted him aboard the 34 boat Then I began rummaging around in that sludge for papers, brief cases and knapsacks. I collected, among other things, the muster list of the landing party and their operations plan, before the boat sank beneath me Kelly pulled me into his boat as the barge sank. The ambulance doctor, glancing at them, said' he thought the Jap officer would pull through, but that there wasn't much chance for the little private. "You never know when youre gosaid ing to run into something, Bulkeley. "A couple of nights later, I was riding the 41 boat on routine patrol off the west coast of Bataan. When we began to get near to Biniptican Point, the entrance to Subic, we cut it down to one engine, to make the least possible noise. Just before ten oclock, I spotted a Jap ship which seemed to be lying to, near shore. We called general quarters and began sneaking up on her still using only one engine until we got within about twenty-fiv- e hundred yards. Then we gave everything the gun and roared in but almost into a trap. Because the Japs had prepared a little welcome for us, and this ship was seemingly the bait to a trap they had floating entanglements and wires in the water which might foul our propellers and leave us a dead target for their batteries. We saw them just in time, and now we saw they were trying to unbait the trap because that big ship was showing a wake, trying to get under way. At a thousand yards we fired our first torpedo, and it had hardly hit the water before the Jap ship opened up on us with a pom-poTheyd been playing possum, waiting for us. But what the hell we wanted to be sure wed stolen the bait from the trap, so we went right on in, Ahead of our own torpedo, and let her have another at four hundred yards. Then I gave bard rudder and as we turned abeam of her. we sprayed her decks with the 50's, and every man on board picked up a rifle and began pumping at her hell of it and the Japs just for-th-e were dishing it right back, but not for many seconds. Because all of a sudden Bam! It was our first torpedo striking home, and pieces of wreckage fell in the water all around us. The explosion gave us our first clear look at her. She was or bad been until then a modem, stream lined 6,000-to- n auxiliary aircraft car- rier. the Japs werent through A battery of about half a dozen guns opened up on us from the shore by the flashes we could see they were pumping it to us as fast as they could load, and they certainly took our minds off our other troubles. So with big splashes all around us, we executed that naval maneuver technically known as getting the hell out of there, swerving, weaving, avoiding those damned wire nets, and trying to figure out where the Japs would place their next artillery shots, to make sure we wouldn't be under them giving her every ounce of gas we could stuff into those six thousand horses, until we were out of range. I think the Japs were getting tired of us MTBs, and risked exposing that ship to rid themselves of a nuisance. But with us. "Early in February they started sending submarines up from Australia, and our boats would always meet them outside the mine fields and bring them in Bulkeley getting aboard to ride as pilot The subs had news. They said America was building a big Australian base that supplies were rolling down there. The submarine Trout would bring In ammunition for armys guns on Bataan and take out gold which bad been brought over to from Manila before it fell. The unloading, of course, would all be at night, and then Bulkeley would take them out and show them deep water, where they could submerge and hide from Jap bombers during the day. Quezon went out on one submarine to Cebu, and a week Cor-regld- later High Commissioner Sayre left on a submarine. It seemed like a good many prominent people were leaving Corregidor. And the army had bCcu pushed back to what we knew were its last and strongest defense positions on Bataan. None of it looked too good. "Of our original six boats, two had already been lost, DeLong's over Subic Bay, and the 33 boat while I was in the hospital she'd been going full speed ahead investigating what looked at night like the feather of a Japanese submarine's periscope, only it turned out to be a wave breaking over a little submerged and uncharted coral reef." "We came close to losing the 82 boat about that time," said Bulkeley. "DeLong and I were riding her the night of February 8, patrolling up the west coast of Bataan as usual. A little before nine oclock we saw gun blasts on up ahead of us in the neighborhood of Bagac Bay, so we put on what speed we could to find out who was shooting at what Incidentally, the speed wasnt much. Because the 32 boat had had an explosion while they were cleaning that saboteurs wax out of her strainers and tanks, so that now she was held together with braces and wires, and running on only two engines. But pretty soon we sighted a ship dead-aheaabout three miles away. I was maneuvering to put her in the path of the moonlight on the water so 1 could make out what she was. But now she seemed to put on speed, heading up in the direction of Subic - d Thats It 1 t j - Diner Waiter, take this chickStill later the planes reported the en away. It is actually so tough it Japs were .breaking her up for. seems to be made out of stone. Waiter Nothing strange about scrap. But we brought the 32 boat back safe to the base at Sisiman that, sir. Its a Plymouth Rock. Cove. Our headquarters there was a reformed goat slaughterhouse Smile a bit every day. It really about one hundred feet long and isnt painful. thirty feet wide,, with a concrete Something Wrong floor. Wed scrubbed it out with cre"Does your uniform fit? asked osote. It still smelled some, but was the sergeant. habitable. We'd ajso acquired a tenPerfectly, said the recruit. der an old harbor tug called the "And your cap? Trabajador and put her in charge of DeLong, who'd lost his ship. "Perfectly. "And your boots? Then we all sat around envying "Perfectly." him, said Kelly, "because here he "Man, you must be deformed. was, living like an admiral a cab- in, a wardroom, a real galley (not Just a hot plate, which was all we had on the MTB's), and even a mess boy who could bake pie. It was life, and Bulkeley and 1 used to find some excuse to go every night and eat his dessert and drink coffee. DeLong liked it so much he later decided to stay on Bataan rather than leave with the rest of us. "Our plan for making a run for China when our gas was almost gone still stood, and Bulkeley had got hold of some landing-forc- e gear which we knew might be useful on the Chinese coast if we missed connections with our Chungking friends and had to fight our way through the Japs. So we began drilling our men in landing-forc- e procedure. This got them very curious. They knew our gas was running out, and we had almost no more torpedoes except the ones which were in the boats. So we told them we were thinking of going south to join the Moros if Bataan fell, and it satis fled them tor a while. We let only two other persons in on the secret Clark Lee and Nat Floyd, newspS' per correspondents who had been authorized by the Admiral to make the trip with us. The food situation was getting tough. Our breakfast was always hot cakes mads without eggs just flour, water, and baking powder-e- nd the syrup was sugar and water. We hadnt seen butter since the war started. Then tor dinner, It was always canned salmon and rice, and you dont know tired you can get of canned salmon until you eat It regularly for a few months. We welcomed any change." "The one high spot in our diet was the Canopus, said Kelly. She was an old sub tender, so slow shed been abandoned, but she had a fine machine shop. She was tied up at the dock and already had been hit twice by bombs, so they worked her at night and abandoned her by day. But among her stores were barrels end barrels of mix and a freezer. And her skipper would let anyone in the navy who came aboard eat all the ice cream he wanted as long as those barrels lasted they held out until the week we left. "But what we wanted most of all was fresh meat and vegetables, and along about the second week in Febarruary the first blockade-runne- r rived. We piloted her in at twenty-fiv- e miles out and as daylight came, our mouths watered as we saw her cargo, strings of bananas piled high on her decks, and below, fresh meat and fruit for Corregidor. That afternoon I went over to see Peggy, and they were ell busy slicing steaks and candling eggs. By yelling, screaming, and haggling, I got enough fresh meat to serve our crews two meals that week. She was a welcome little ship, that blockade-runne- r made two more trips before the Japs sank her. "But because of Peggy, my diet was a little better than the others. Since she was on Corregidor, she was entitled, under their rationing system, to buy one item per day from the canteen a package .of gum, a candy bar maybe, from the little supply they had left But Peggy pretended she never cared for them, and every time I came to see her, shed slip me a pocketful. She bought and saved them every day just something to nibble while I was out on patrol, she explained. I began to feel funny about that break-throug- h to China we were planning. Of course the Admiral had ordered it and of course it was the way we could be most useful But here were all these brave people on Bataan and the Rock, Peggy among them, realizing more clearly every day that they would never get out Doomed, but bracing themselves to look fate in the face as it drew nearer, knowing that they were expendable like ammunition, and that it was part of the war plan that they should sell themselves as dearly as possible before they were killed or captured by the Japs. But a handful of us secretly knew that we, and only we among these many brave thousands, would see home again, and soon. "And the more 1 liked Peggy she was a swell kid the guiltier I felt. Furthermore, I knew If we ever left, it would have to be soon. Gas was getting dangerously low barely enough to make the run for China. And so was our torpedo supply. We would have to leave with every tube full if we were to throw effective weight against Jap shipping on the China coast, and in addition to what we would need for this, we had only a few torpedoes left, enough for one good fight and that was to come sooner than we knew." (TO BE CONTINUED) big-shi- p Fair Question "Now, my man, said the judge, you know that under our system of you are presumed to be innocent." juris-prudenc-e "Then" replied the defendant, all this effort to convict me?" why The gaily enameled unit insignia you see on a soldiers lapels and overseas cap are reproductions of his regimental shield displayed in the center of the eagle on his regimental flag. Its a part of U. S. Army tradition. Traditional, too, is the Army mans preference for Camel cigarettes. (Based on actual sales records from service mens own stores.) Its a gift from the folks back home, that always rates cheers. And though there are Post Office restrictions on packages 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. nrr"! IIvIhikI Boothe with Maxaana, for-marly Mexican Heat Fow OF MINOR der cooling, medicated. SKIN IRRITATIONS , Mockingbirds Tunes The mockingbird, state bird of Florida, has been known to change Its tune 87 times in seven minutes . ifco;istipatio:i IIAU.'ITED It hung on and on. Medici- nal laxatives relieved It only temporarily. Then X found my con stlpatlon was due to lack of bulk In my diet. And I also found out that xxuooos au-bsgets at the cause of such constipation and correct s it. Boy, what Id been missing before I tried ice-crea- m night-rendez- "Immediately went to bis knees. Bay maybe, if she had seen us, to get under the protection of the Jap shore batteries there. Why had she been firing near Bagac Bay? We learned that later. She was a 7,000-to- n Jap cruiser covering a Jap landing party with her guns. We didnt know wed broken up this party at the time. Following her, we seemed to be gaining because she had apparently slowed down, maybe thinking she had lost us. We were closing on her fast now, when suddenly a huge big searchlight came on, holding us directly in its beam, and a few seconds later two shells came screaming over, landing just ahead of us with a terrific explosion and waterspout Her searchlight was blinding us and we could only head directly into It,, firing the starboard torpedo at that light at about four thousand yards range. There was another flash of guns from the cruiser, and this salvo dropped much closer to us hardly two hundred yards ahead. A third two-gusalvo landed just asterq of us, and then we let her have the port torpedo, figuring the range at a little over three thousand yards. "Now we were empty, and the problem was to dodge that blinding searchlight Before we veered off to the east, we tried to douse it with spray of bullets, but they did no good. We could hardly see where our tracers went for the glare. We could see now she was chasing us, firing salvoes in pairs from her four guns, when suddenly there was a dull boom, and we could see debris and wreckage sailing up through that searchlights beam. There was a pause in her firing-- no doubt about it, one of our torpedoes had struck home, probably the second one. We knew she was crippled because she had slowed down that light which was trying to hold us in its glare was getting farther and farther away, and about 10:30 we lost it by making a hard turn to the right. Presently it went out It came on again once or twice on the horizon, feeling for us over the waves, but never found us. 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