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Show War Goods, From Brushes to Bombs, Are Stored In Huge Warehouses of Utah Ordnance Depot Munitions Are Made In Nearby Factory At Salt Lake City By John Elbridge Jones Released by Westorn Newspaper Union. 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, trac-tors, munitions and guns. To furnish these supplies when and where needed and in the proper amount, the U. S. army has built up separate organizations within the army, headed by Lieut. General Gen-eral Brehon B. Somervell, called "Service Commands." There is a "Service Com- ir--.- i'v - i4j - I , : , - C J. ; , 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. mand" for each military area not only within the U. S. but wherever the army goes. For the first 12 months or more of this war all information regarding regard-ing army operation and placement was a military secret; now in driving driv-ing 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. With that in mind Maj. Gen. Ken-yon Ken-yon 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 newspaper news-paper men were shown everything and told everything, but they were restricted not to reveal military information in-formation helpful to the enemy. Non-Combat Goods. All of the thousands of articles called "non combat equipment," meaning, In general, everything the 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 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 witn 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 ariven lorK 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. Heavy 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 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, ma-chinery, and stoves are samples of these things not used in actual fighting, fight-ing, but most necessary just the same. The Ninth service command procures pro-cures and stores this non-tombat 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-much spaces-much of it in the open, with seemingly seem-ingly miles of rows of equipment such as trailers trench diggers-harrows, diggers-harrows, carry-alls, scrapers, water tanks, plows, portable generators, barb wire and bridge building material. ma-terial. The depot is roughly a mile wide by three miles long. There are 15 '' ' ! ! j '( :: I :;:s 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 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 locat- permanent type warehouses of concrete con-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 uni-forms for army and for WACs and for nurses, musical instruments, shoes, sox, tool sets, helmets, plastic Women and machines have displaced dis-placed husky men In the Tooele Ordnance depot warehouses. Miss Katherine Boswell runs a fork-lift shop truck, that can move and pile ten cases a trip. The work done by one truck would cost $40 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 soU. 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. : O"1"-' ' - -? . 1 I iK,' l-wTOm, , i 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, ive 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 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 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. This young war worker, Miss Louise Lou-ise Anderson, is exhibiting belts of machine - gun cartridges for airplanes. air-planes. She operates a machine that fills the belts, which are made of webbing. BUSHNELL HOSPITAL for soldiers sol-diers is another department of the Ninth service command. Construction Construc-tion of the huge institution was begun be-gun shortly after Pearl Harbor. It Is located at Brigham City, 60 miles north of Salt Lake City. . At present it has 2,000 beds. Corp. John Kariger, 21, of Her-shey, Her-shey, Neb., is one patient who probably prob-ably owes his life to the new drug penicillin, administered at Bushnell. His thighbone was shattered by a Jap bullet, and Infection developed. ! ' - y ' j AFTER AN INDUCTEE has passed his physical and mental tests at the Fort Douglas reception center cen-ter In Salt Lake City, he is classified, classi-fied, and then given his army clothing cloth-ing issue. He strips, hangs a tag about his neck, and falls in line. First he gets undershirts, shorts and socks. Then his feet are carefully measured. The army has 242 different differ-ent shoe sizes, ranging from size 3 to size 15. Down the line the soldier goes, getting shirts at one station pants at another-Jackets at yet another. Then come hats-and caps-and fit- to a few minutes he Is at the end of the long counter completely dressed, with a bag fuli of extra clothing and fatigue clothes He is not through, though, for at the end , the line an officer chicks the c thes he has on for size and fit and hen has the sol,er f the clothmg out of his bag on a ram coat, to be checked agau, to see J he has everything. e u |