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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH A City in Itself, Great' Lakes Naval Training Center Is Largest of Its Kind in the World WHOS NEWS From farms, factories, offices and classrooms of the great Midwest plains area, thousands of men today are on the march. Since that fateful Sunday of December 7 when Japanese bombs rained on Pearl Harbor, they have been heading toward the naval training station, Great Lakes, 111., bent on becoming seagoing fighters with Uncle THIS F. PARTON Consolidated Features. outbreak of war in 1917, 900 build- Self-Sufficie- nt self-sufficie- nt -l d Col. guard at Great Lakes naval training station. three inches and no taller than six determine their fitness for naval feet four inches. But would-b- e sail- service, the stripping process beors who answer this general descrip- gins. First the civvies go into tion are subjected to a rigid and boxes for shipment home. Then the thorough physical and dental exami- men go through the line. nation upon arrival at the station, Each enlisted man in the navy or before they are finally accepted. naval reserve is given an allotment Primary examinations are given of $118 for uniforms and equipment. at various recruiting stations and More than 700 experienced stewsometimes physical defects are ards, bakers, butchers and storeoverlooked, because many of the keepers man huge mess halls cn tests required are not available at the station, while a veritable army outlying recruiting centers. Statis- of mess attendants recruits who tics show that between 50 and 60 per must spend some time in mess halls cent of applicants applying at re- as part of their training serve the cruiting stations are rejected for Bluejackets. Twelve general mess physical or mental defects, or other halls now are operated on the staColor conditions. The physical examination at Great Lakes is of a routine but thorough nature, conducted by medical off- tion. UA'-'S- s ., V s s, V' guardhouse. Don C. Faith, commandant of the corps, says Standards of conduct of women are generally higher than those of men. We anticipate no trouble. If there is, there will be a discharge, rather than discipline. The tactful Colonel Faith, a genial Hoosier who used to be an army educator, will, however, allow a beauty parlor, if He says not a guardhouse. theres no reason why women when shouldnt get a hair-d- o they need it and therell be time out for that. But this doesnt mean a soft time for the soldier-girlThere will be seven classes a day and one period of drill. who have qualified for women The officers training have been chosen from several thousand applicants. The full complement of the fort eventually will be about 25,000 women. They will serve in kitchen s. trail-blaz- X-ra- e, er y, photo-fluoroscop- ic - 3, 2. 5,000-pou- nd among the for long. There are professional men and highly paid factory workers, men in smartly tailored suits, farm boys in overalls, cow hands from the West boots and sombreros, d in men and poor men, men prosperous with long hair, men with short hair n of America. a After recruits have undergone physical and dental examinations to least effective of war Uncle Sams Bombers high-heele- A cross-sectio- S S si s .S twin-engin- ed B-1- one-four- th B-2- 2. E, range cers training, there will be no as barracks orderlies, clerks Cafeteria Style. end messengers and in many other Because of the great number of in which men have been capacities a men three consuming squares icers who are specialists in the vaised. the navy serves its food caferious fields of medicine. The exam- day, The tall, lean Colonel Faith, a in compartment trays. teria ination includes surgical, orthoped- The style, in this kind of ormen poish off their meals at ic, psychiatric, psychological, his job easily takes To scrubbed tables. ganization, and eye, ear, nose and throat exam- long, cleanly and casually and gives assurconcluat the facilitate operations inations, the results of which deter- sion of each meal, the sailors stack ance that the women will be mine a mans physical fitness for their inducted smoothly into army and dishes silerware, trays, the service. routine. While he is friendly and which are then sent to automatic Each man is subjected to a informal in manner, he is known dish washers for a speedy cleansing. examination of his chest in the army as a careful and hall a with mess Each is equipped and to the various blood and labora- modem competent officer and, while the galley, butcher shop, vegetory tests. He is also immunized table locker, bake shop, refrigeragirls may get their hair-d- o and for smallpox, typhoid, yellow fever all that, there will be no slack tors, bread room, store rooms and and tetanus. administration of the corps. issuing rooms. In some cases where there is Theyll do a- grand job, says Fruits and vegetables are delivdoubt as to the physical or mental ered die colonel. daily to insure freshness; carfitness of an individual, he is sent He has held an army commission loonions and are rots, rutabagas 15 to the U. S. Naval hospital here years, which experience includes and locally purchased; for a period of observation and cally grown service on the Mexican border and and are cheese, butter, eggs study. After this period, if the in- trucked in from Illinois poultry and Wis- it Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, and dividual is found to be physically consin. n the first World war. He was on Dry provisions, such as and mentally qualified, he is outfit- canned in the Philippines in 1922-2tomatoes, are requisitioned iuty ted and takes his place in recruit in carload in ind Tientsin, China, in 1931-3lots from the Navy SupBritain has made a treGreat training. ply Depot at Norfolk, Va. Coffee auxIn cases where minor surgical is received in lots from mendous success of its womens conditions are discovered, the indi- the Provision and Clothing Depot at ilary corps, which now includes viduals are sent to the naval hos- Brooklyn, N. Y., where the navy about 7,000,000 women. Fort Des Moines is just a beginning for us, pital, where the conditions are cor- operates its own roasting plant. and Colonel Faith thinks we can rected before the recruit is accepted Sixteen different varieties of fruits io even better. for naval service. and vegetables are served in genMen From All Walks of Life. eral mess: Potatoes, cabbage, tur- 1VI AJ. GEN. FOLLETT BRAD--- v The navy is a great leveler. . nips, tomatoes, broccoli, apples, tanLEY, commanding general of When contingents of recruits pour gerines, oranges, lettuce, celery, air force, with headquar-;er- s First ;he beinto the naval training station to peppers, cucumbers, onions, baMitchel at Field, N. Y., rates a boot nanas and cranberries. training, they present gin slogans as colorful picture in contrast but not' an B-1- Faiths Faith po-'ic- - s are they? politics and mus- Fort J. Fuller Pep By JERRY LINK Col. S X two things I dont Mr. Churchill. My dear madam, he replied Des suavely, pray do not disturb yourNEW self. You are not likely to come Moines, where the first 330 en- in contact with either. Auxtrants of the Womens Army iliary corps take up their quar- terS for ffi The history of the U. S. army bombing planes begins with the USD-9De Haviland, finished just too late in 1918 to see action in the First World war. It was powered by a single Liberty 12 engine, Americas outstanding contribution to World war aviation, ' ' ' ' and had a speed of about 125 miles an hour. It carried a crew of two 1 .A v 1 and a bomb load of 480 pounds. Its Vs , EV' range was about 800 miles.. While it had a ceiling of more than 18,000 feet, the crude bombsights of the day made bombing at even a few thousand feet pretty much of a hit and miss affair. first The bomber was the Glenn Martin bomber, designed by the U. S. army air corps engineers for night bombardment over the Western Front during World War I. It had bomb bays which were opened to release its pay load of 1,040 pounds. The Glenn Martin weighed more than five tons. This weight is less than that of a modem singleengine fighter plane, and less than the weight of the 7 and 4 of today. A startling development in army bomber design was the high wing monoplane known as Atlantic LB-Ahead of its time, and an adaptation for military use of the famous Fokker VII transport, the LB-- 2 saw bewings its way at service with the army air corps A Flying Fortress of the latest series, a 1931.. It was capable 1926 and tween more than 300 miles an hour to drop its tons of bombs with deadly accuracy a bomb load of 2,000 hold seven national speed records and have of carrying on an enemy objective. pounds. of more than 3,000 miles. a full-fledge- tache. WNU Release. At YORK. land-lubbe- rs More than ings were constructed. 125,000 men were trained for the fleet during the first, world conflict. The buildings erected during World War I were temporary structures and were dismantled after the signing of the Armistice. Today other temporary structures are being provided to handle the daily influx of recruits in this new war. Unit. A Extensive facilities of the station unit. There make it a are offices, barracks, mess halls, classrooms, drill halls, gymnasiums, store houses and large hospitals. The station has its own barber shops, hostess house, post office, tailor shop, laundry and shoe shop. There are three swimming pools and ten regulation ABC bowling alleys. But more important than the buildings and facilities are the men thousands of Americans ranging from beardless youths to men in their forties who were Bluejackets in 1917 and 1918. Besides being a perfect physical specimen, the Bluejacket of 1942 is A- in intelligence, courage and patriotism. Anxiously he learns the seafaring lessons being taught by veterans of the fleet. Expectantly he awaits the day when he will graduate from the ranks of a recruit to that of a sailor. Requirements of Recruits. Fundamentally, a recruit must be between the ages of 17 and 50 and must be no shorter than five feet There are like about you, And what Your new WEEK hard-hittin- 167-ac- re Gertrude Atherton: Shortly after he left the Conservative side of the house (of commons) for the Liberal, he was taking a certain young woman down to dinner, when she looked up at him coquettishly, and remarked with the audacity of her kind: fleet. At this great naval training base, 40 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, far from salt water, the navy is undertaking the huge task of into transforming men of the greatest g fleet in the world. Greatest of all naval training centers in the world during World War I, the station again bears that reputation. In the near future, 11 camps, each bearing the name of a navy hero, will provide training and living quarters for men on the station. These camps will be Barry, Bronson, Luce, Paul Jones, Perry, Dewey, Lawrence, Porter, Moffet, Morrow and Mclntire, the latter being the hospital area of the station. Supplying approximately 35 per cent of the enlisted personnel of the fleet, Great Lakes is the headquarters of the Ninth naval district. The district includes 13 midwestern states: North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Commandant of the district and commanding officer of the station is Rear Adm. John Downes. Construction of the original training station at Great Lakes was authorized by an act of congress in April, 1904. Seven years later, President William Howard Taft officially opened the station on October 28, 1911. It consisted of 33 buildings tract of land located on a and it housed 1,400 men. With the This story was told of Winston S. Churchill by Thousands of Youths Are Trained There Each Day, Sams No Prospects for the Disagreeing Young Lady weapons. He vill have none of them around the leld, not even Remember Pearl Sarbor. He is, however, hospitable n .o native, idiom, just as t happens along, uses a lot of it limself nd commends the boys who keep the flies off the horses jack, referring to the aerial gun-leof his command in whom he :akes special pride. The expression is not mine, said the general. Its their own and its very apt. It is a light way of saying that they keep destruction away. If the aerial gunners werent up there doing their job every time one of our bombers goes out over the Libyan desert or China or the Pacific, many of the bombers would fail in their mission and many would never get home. This came up in connection with ialk of this month marking the 23rd straight year in the air services of the army, and the fact that operating a fighter or bomber alane is a matter of a complex organization of human and technical actors, undreamed of when the gen-srfirst went aloft. Every bombing mission is a matter of team work, said GenIt is not by any eral Bradley. means just a piloting job. The aerial gunner is a member of the team without whom the mission might fail. So is the bombardier, the navigator, the engineer and everyone else in the crew. The failure of one can mean the destruction of all. home-grow- rs gen-ira- ls al Jed always used to say, Thlngsd be a whole lot pleasanter if folks would Just live sos theyd never be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town Uncle gossip. An speakln o parrots, reckon way I must sound like one, the Im always talkin about vitamins an KELLOGGS PEP I But Its mighty Important to getI your vitamins all of em And KELLOGGS PEP Is extra-stron- g In the two vitamins, Bi and D, that are most likely to be short in ordinary meals. An, PEPS plumb delicious, too! A delicious cereal that supplies per serving (1 or.): the full minimum daily need of ritamiu D; ll4 the daily need of vitamin Bu Having Contentment The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich. George Eliot. |