Show War Goods From Brushes to Bombs Are Stored In Huge Warehouses of Utah Ordnance Depot Munitions Are Made In Nearby Factory At A t Salt Lake City By John Elbridge Elb dge Jones Released by Western Newspaper Union The military axiom that an army travels on its belly is true but a modern army needs many m y other necessary supplies shoes for instance and trucks and nd tanks tractors tractor munitions and guns To furnish these supplies when and where needed and in the proper amount the tJ U. S. S S army has built up separate organizations organizations tio s with the army headed by General Brehon B. B Som- Som Somervell Somervell Somervell ervell called Service Com Com- Commands mands There is a Service Command for each military area not only within the U. U S. S but wherever the army goes For the first 12 months or more of this war all information regarding regarding ing army operation and placement was a military secret now now now-in in driving driving driving ing for final victory victory the the I army wants you to know how it operates how it takes care of your son or your husband what husband what it feeds him how it clothes him what him what it gives him to fight with and how it cares for him when sick or wounded With that in mind Maj Gen Ken- Ken Kenyon Kenyon Kenyon yon A. A Joyce commanding general of the Ninth service command with headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah recently invited a group of newspaper men to visit all of the army service forces These news news- newspaper newspaper paper men were shown everything and told everything but they were restricted not to reveal military in information in- in information information formation helpful to the enemy Non Combat Goods All AU of the thousands of articles called non combat equipment 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 ma ma- machinery machinery machinery chinery and stoves are samples of these things not used in actual fight fight- fighting fighting fighting ing but most necessary just the same The Ninth service command pro pro- procures procures procures cures and add stores this non-combat non 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 spaces- much of it in the open with seem seem- seemingly seemingly seemingly miles of rows of equipment such as trailers trench trailers trench diggers diggers- harrows carry aIls scrapers water tanks plows portable generators barb wire and bridge building ma ma- The depot is roughly a mile wide by three miles long There are 15 permanent type warehouses of con con- concrete concrete concrete 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 uni uni- uniforms uni- uni uniforms forms for army and for and for nurses musical instruments shoes sox tool sets helmets plastic c x xu u y I This young war worker Miss 1 Lou Lou- LouIse Louise ise Anderson is exhibiting belts of machine gun cartridges for air air- planes She operates a machine that fills tills the belts which are made of webbing S r ri i t ti 1 M hit V fr Y St e t r W Inspectors at the Tooele Ordnance depot examine a batch of empty cartridge cases returned to be incited 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 and mountain tents Among thou thou- thousands thousands thousands sands of other articles were pack kits gasoline lanterns emergency rations G. G I. I thread and needles compasses pliers sunburn cream chap stick towels and rubber pants Unique here was the fact that a apart apart apart part of the guard for daylight service service service ice is made matle up of women women trained to do guard duty duty to to carry a agun agun agun gun and use it Police dogs aid the guards at night Making Cartridges Guns G ns cartridges bombs and sim sim- similar similar similar ilar munitions as well as war ma ma- machines machines machines chines like tanks and armored trucks are madet 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 acres with more than buildings IO 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 auxiliary iary ary military guard under direction of the army army This plant is the last word in a modern line production system for manufacturing small arms ammunition ammunition ammunition tion such as 30 and 50 caliber ar ar- ar- ar piercing mor-piercing tracer incendiary and ball bal shells Here Her the principal op op- are making the shell the bullet and the primer primer bringing bringing them hem all together and then filling them with powder The finished ammunition is put into belts belts or or clips and then packed in metal-lined metal cases for shipment Outstanding in the plant is the continuous rigid testing and check- check for ing-for ng for on the efficient operation of these hese 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 direct di- di direct direct to the field of action but a large part of the material must of necessity be held in reserve in stor stor- age For this purpose the govern govern- government government government ment has built huge storage depots in n strategic locations These basic supply depots are removed from the th seacoast for protection yet so located located b Bat Bat- Bated ed that war goods may be transport transport- transported 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 acres is served by two transcontinental rail rail- railroads railroads railroads roads giving quick access to the Northwest the San Francisco Bay area and the Southwest Southwest all all important important tant ports for the Pacific theater of war Within the depot are 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 functions first first it is the reserve storage for all munitions munitions- including rifle and machine gun gun-am gun guar am- am ammunition ammunition shells and bombs of all sizes and weights It stores re re- reserves reserves re- re reserves serves of ordnance equipment such as pistols rifles machine guns can can- cannon cannon cannon 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 equip- equipment I ment together gets it ready for shipment and ships it It takes care of the repair and rebuilding of dam dam- damaged damaged damaged aged and badly worn equipment In Inthe Inthe Inthe the depot area are huge buildings one of them feet wide by 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 hand either either for use in the depot or for ship ship- ment mente The third function of the Tooele I Ordnance depot is one of salvage I Back to this this' depot are sent train- train trainloads trainloads trainloads loads of used shells large and small The undamaged are shipped to the munitions factories for re re- refilling refilling re- re refilling 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 ammu- ammunition ammunition belts clips etc issued Women by far outnumber the themen themen themen men men in the warehouses Girls trained for the job operate motor driven fork lift trucks which trucks which pick pickup pickup pickup up huge cases and stack them them 8 8 10 and 12 feet high The depot is manned mostly by civilians Most interesting of all the fea fea- features features features tures of the depot is the storage of the actual munitions Small caliber ammunition is stored in the above-the ground warehouses Heavy ammu ammu- ammunition ammunition ammunition and bombs are stored in ig igloos igloos loos There are about 1000 of these ig ig- igloos igloos loos ranging in size from 40 feet to 80 feet long In the shape of riS a. a f.- f. S. S SS ti Si b. b 9 wr 44 A T i 5 e r Women and machines have displaced dis dis- displaced displaced placed husky men in the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses Miss Katherine Boswell runs a lift fork I shop truck that can ean move and pile I ten cases a trip The work done dono by one truck would cost 40 10 an hour if done by hand half of a n barrel the walls and ceil ceil- ceiling ceiling ceiling 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 1000 pound semi block buster bombs bombs all 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 sepa- separate separate separate rate is another depot Here the army stores and experiments with gas for the kind of warfare the Unit Unit- United United United 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 used but but its it's there wait wait- waiting ing and ready if needed BUSHNELL HOSPITAL for sol sob soldiers diers is another department of the Ninth service command Construe Construe- Construction tion of the huge institution was be be- begun begun gun glen shortly after Pearl Harbor arbor It is located at Brigham City GO CO miles north of Salt Lake City At present it has 2000 beds Corp John Kariger 21 of Her Her- a they shey Neb Is one patient who y AA ljj ably owes his life to the new drug penicillin administered at Bushnell IHs thighbone was shattered by a h 1 Jap bullet and Infection developed r 7 I R UND OR W EA Washington D. D C. C ASSIGNMENT IN SICILY Unsung U. U S. S heroes who contrib contrib- contributed contributed contributed heavily to Mussolini's down down- downfall downfall downfall fall were Italian-American Italian boys smuggled into Sicily several weeks before U. U S. S troops landed How they got ashore must remain remaina a military secret But the fact that they got there is now recognized as asa asa asa a part of military operations just justas as the advance landing of Gen Mark Clark in North Africa carrying bags pf Af U. U S. S gold These Italian Americans were especially trained in the dangerous delicate job of winning over mill mill- military tary garrisons in advance of a land land- landing landing landing ing force In Sicily they had the advantage of speaking the language and being able to visit the homes of their relatives few of whom loved lo Mussolini From there they were able to work around to various mili mili- military military military tary leaders It has long been known that Ital Ital- Italian Italian Italian ian military leaders were were of two types One is the professional sol sol- soldier sol sol- soldier dier dier like like Field Fi ld Marshal Mars a Badoglio BaI glio was in n army Musso Musso- Mussolini's linis lini's time and has no love for the Fascists Also he has no love for forthe forthe forthe the Nazis and so was not too difficult difficult difficult cult to win over to the Allied side Other type of f Italian military lead lead- leaders leaders leaders I ers is the Fascist who rose through favors from II Duce I but who usually is susceptible to I coin of the realm Presumably U. U S. S advance scouts were supplied with what General Gen ral Clark took with him in advance into North Africa At any rate expert advance work by patriotic Italian-Americans Italian plus the popularity of the United States in Sicily contributed to one of the most bloodless landing expeditions in history Also the psychological shock of the headlong U. U S. S rush through Sic Sic- Sicily Sicily Sicily ily was what toppled Mussolini off his thorny throne e e GEN GIRAUD'S WATERLOO General Giraud was shown all the sights of Washington during his stay here including the war depart depart- departments department's departments department's departments department's ments ment's massive Pentagon building rated as the largest office building in the world After the French commander had been led through the labyrinth of Pentagon corridors to General Staff headquarters and later out into the sunlight he was asked what he thought of the place Well remarked General Gi Gi- Giraud Giraud Gi- Gi Giraud raud Ive escaped from two Ger Ger- German German German I man prisons but I could never get out of this building UNDER TWO FLAGS The chickens hatched when Amer Amer- American American American ican ships were put under the Pana Pana- Panamanian Panamanian Panamanian manian flag to avoid neutrality laws are now coming home to roost As a result the U. U S. S government now employs seamen whom it pays in hard cash every month but over whom it has no disciplinary control whatsoever The seamen are working under the Panamanian flag though actually they are American citizens So when they get into brawls in American ports they must answer to the Panamanian consul though they are American citizens and draw American pay Certain state department officials are urging that the problem be solved by transferring the ships back to U. U S. S registry Note At present when one of these ships clears a U. U S. S port it must pay a 20 fee to the consul of Panama in spite of the fact that the ship belongs to the USA U.S.A. e S AXIS A. A IS DISTORTIONS The Axis radio is trying to scare up a war in South America The Bolivian army with Perus Peru's support according to the Axis is about to launch an attack on Chile to gain gaina a port on the Pacific Here is the only grain of truth be be- behind behind behind hind this propaganda When Bolivian an President returned to toLa toLa toLa La Paz from his visit to the United States he stated publicly that Bo Bo- Bolivian Bolivian Bo- Bo Bolivian livian aspirations for a seaport had never been abandoned that when the opportune time arose Bolivia would assert that claim Truth is however that had no such militant motive in mind Furthermore moderate elements in fn Chile assert they would be perfectly willing to discuss the sale of the port of Arica to Bolivia If the Chilean moderates actually bring about negotiation for the sale of Arica they will set a new high in good neighbor relations It has not been long since the territorial am am- ambitions ambitions of South American countries as as in the case of Peru vs Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador dor and Bolivia vs Paraguay Paraguay have have been settled by a resort to arms CAPITAL CHAFF C. C When Augusto Rosso former Italian ambassador in Washington was transferred from Russia to be Italian ambassador to Turkey the Nazis |