VICTORY NEWS Published Semi-Monthly in the Interest of the Personnel of the Utah Army Service Forces Depot VOL. IV OGDEN, UTAH, SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1945 Eye Witness of Jap Jepot Bond Purchases Tables Turned for Surrender Visits Depot Hit New High Depot Soldiers Visiting the depot last. week was Brigadier man from General Herman Feld- who has recently returned the Central Pacific. He wit- Regular War Bond payroll deductions at the depot have reached an all time nounced high, General Alfonte antoday. Latest figures show nessed the signing of the now historic Jap surrender document on the battleship Missouri anchored in Sagami Bay. General Feldman flew to Japan from Guam for the ceremony. — “eine that 18.95% of the entire depot payroll for the month of September went into War Bonds. Prior to his assignment overseas, General Feldman was Deputy, The bond purchases through ductions and during when additional .cash were solicited. “Reduction in pay checks to depot employees with the adoption of the forty-hour week has not reAs a member of Admiral Nimitz’s sulted in cancellation of regular staff, the general supervised joint War Bond purchases. It is gratifying to note that our employees are supply distribution for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps through- convinced of the need for saving for the future through the regular out the Central and South Pacific purchase of bonds,” General Alareas, with headquarters on Guam. | fonte stated. He made numerous liaison trips by| Employees of the depot have air to active theatres of operations. made an outstanding record both in Brigadier General Herman Feldman, left, visits Brigadier General ‘James R. Alfonte. General Feldman recently returned from duty in the Pacific. The War Department nounced termination of tracts for cigarettes and Jobs are mately 1000 the depot, has anall con- nounced at the ing gum, cereals and ao be rhACLS con ¢ arne also were terminated. : ts of the and chili Army tracts for 163,135,000 packs, Quar- As to the other contracts, commitments for 20,000,000 half-pound packages of salted peanut s with a dollar value of $3,500,000 were intended for commissaries had been sale through Army and post exchanges. Contracts for 20,000,000 ‘packa ges of chewing gum with a dollar value of $600,000 were ended; as were commitments for 742,500 pounds of cornstarch worth $63,855. Contracts for September deliver y of uncooked breakfast cereals were reduced by approximately 13,000,0 00 pounds, including contracts for 8,697,000 pounds of rolled oats and 5,016,000 pounds of uncooked wheat and whole wheat cereals, Contracts for 6,617,702 pounds of chili con carne, valued at $1,200,00 0, also were terminated. These covered products intended for delivery prior to September 30. COOOL OOOO Thanks to Fellow Workers Carl to and express Ethel to their many contributed England sincere depot money T1Vv wish appreciation friends who to meet ex- penses occasioned by the tragic death of their daughter-in-law. eae good ind pay and shor gerieral said. eo ving tE IF go NM v that Quartermaster IOS Sees within the ‘next few weeks many soldiers who are now receiving discharges will apply at the depot for jobs, and there will be openings for them,” General Alfonte said. Civilian dormitories at the depot provide adequate living facilities for employees at $8.00 per month per person. Telephones, access to city bus facilities, maid service, and daily mail deliveries are a few of the conveniences provided for dormitory dwellers. |Ury Department Minute Man flag signifying General Alfonte conducted General Feldman on a tour of the depot. Pres that 90% of employees put 10% of their pay into bonds, and the Secretary of War flag in recognition of a later record of 95% of employees allocating 15% of their pay for bond purchases. 2 | Wald War | Gt heduled eS previously had been employees of other military installations in the Ogden area. Of new employees hired during the past thirty days, 150 have been veterans of World War II. A large percentage of these veterans have been able to accept skilled jobs as a result of specialized training received during military service. “It is anticipated of Red Cross Course positions : hundreds of new. employees have been employed at the depot. Many for termaster Corps officials said. Dollar value of the contracts was given as $8,156,750, all of which were placed prior to May, 1945, but upon which deliveries had been deferred due to reduced requirements following V-B day. peanuts . include amounts : "| During the past several weeks Scie procurement of cigarettes which were scheduled for delivery during the remainder of 1945 ended con- terminated. The k hours, the GREE 7 — Withdrawal openings cornstarch. 2 it fas vast supplies throughout the world. available for aproxiungraded employees at General Alfonte an- last week These payroll decampaigns purchases ton in the near future for an im-|_ Many honors come the portant assignment concerned with | installation as a have result of itsto War redistribution and disposition of | Bond_record, including the Treas- Many Jobs Open at Utah ASF Depot same time said reductions were Coe. Quartermaster General, in Washington. He will return to Washing- and credit completing terested will be given to those the course. Anyone in- in enrolling is invited to be present Friday evening. Although there have already been two classes held, new enrollees will be able to complete the course, Mr. Manning said. ; American Army _ personnel stationed in England wrote 258,000,000 V-Mail letters to friends and relatives in the United States between June, 1942, and August, 1945, Ninth Service Fort Command Douglas, Utah, headquarters learned During those 37 months turn received 259,000,000 letters from this country. at today. they in V-Mail A member of the Rainbow (165th Infantry) Division he was captured near Chateau Thierry in July, 1918. He did farm work in Lyon, France, and Restatt, Germany, while imprisoned. He recalls that the prisoners ate very well, sometimes five times a day, while working on the farms. he After was the Armistice was signed repatriated through Swit- zerland and was released from the army in 1920. In 1930 Sgt. Driskill says he re-enlisted because he “gets a kick out of the army.” His .wife, Thelma, is working at the Utah Depot as a woman guard. They live at 202-23rd Street in Ogden. , : than : Or mashed old, days It’s suddenly potatoes three meeting She said she felt colt, but she looked old .45. like a young more like an ribbon with from two to four Two of the men, Pfc Selle and Pfc Tyler, met in a German prison camp in December 1943, were liberated at the same time from Salzewedel, near the place where the American and Russian armies — never saw them again. But another group of guards came and started marching us away from the Russian lines, and when the Americans started a new drive, they marched us back the other way.” Pfe Selle, who was imprisoned 19 months, says of his experiences, “Tt was rough all the way through. If it hadn’t been for the good old Red Cross a lot of us wouldn’t be back here now. It was the Red Cross that kept us going.” “I went from Rome to Germany on a German hospital train; I was the only American on board. I had fair treatment, except for a few unnecessary incidents,” Pfc Tyler recalled. Cleared from west coast Army ports of embarkation to meet the requirements in the Pacific were two and one half million troops and more than 44 million ship tons of cargo during the 45 months prior to V-J Day. a fat old School ETO battle stars and invasion spearheads. In addition Pfe Tyler wears the Purple Heart and Pvt. Clark the distinguished unit citation. One of the GIs plans to return to his civilian occupation of automobile body and fender painting, andthe other three nodded agreement when one of them made the statement that for awhile he would do “nothing particular.” hen That you loved in High in nineteen-ten. Last week these four infantrymen,each of whom has over 71 points, received orders to report to Fort: Douglas Separation Point for discharge. Each of the men wears a combat infantryman badge and the Sgt. Neeley was one of a group of 2000 American prisoners of war who walked from a prison camp 42 miles east of Berlin to Warsaw with refugees after liberation by Russian armies. The use of prisoners of war has greatly alleviated the civilian labor shortage felt at the depot during the past three years. As civilians become available for jobs, the prisoners will be released. In no instance will a prisoner of war be kept in a job when civilian labor is available, the General said. there’s anything worse a waffle that’s cold, Set. Calvin R. Neeley of Blackfoot, Idaho, who was captured August 30, 1944, in the Rhone Valley in Southern France; Pfc Grandville Selle of Brownton, Minesota, who was captured September 13, 1948 at Salerno, Italy; Pfc James R. Tyler of Tombstone, Arizona, who was taken October 17, 1943 in Lottoro Valley, Italy; and Pvt. Dewey Clark of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was captured six days after D-Day in St. Claire, France, were held captive by the Germans an aggregate of 55 months. Pvt. Clark, who hit the beaches on D-Day, was imprisoned in the Sudetenland working a _ ten-hour shift loading coal in the mines. “It was kinda rough,” he said. Since the cessation of hostilities, the depot’s work load has not decreased appreciably and it is anticipated that activities will not diminish for many months to come, General Alfonte stated. If Situations in life may be completely reversed as proved by the experiences of four GIs at the depot. A year ago they were prisoners of the Germans, but for the last several months the Germans were behind barbed wire enclosures as prisoners of war and the four American soldiers were doing the guarding at the depot PW Camp. course is being give; «a. Bonneville Staff Sergeant Clyde BE. Driskill _ uilding every | of | Nodoc, Indiana, ‘ _whowho was was heheld first joined, and have _ been together Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. under |captive by. the Germans 18 months | periodically since. the direction of Alpha H. Manning, | in World War I, is acting first serIn telling of their liberation by member of the depot civilian guard | geant of the compound at the Utah the 44th Cavalry Pfe Tyler says, force. ey ae ASF Depot Prisoner of War Camp. “We could hear gunfire for days. He has been on prisoner of war Then four days before we were The class is sponsored by the liberated our guards took off; we National Red Cross Organization camp duty for the last two years. | Park Community Captive of Germans in first World War hands discharge orders to four depot soldiers imprisoned by Germans in World War II. Photo shows, left to right, S/Sgt. Clyde E. Driskill, (seated at desk), Pvt. Dewey Clark, Pfc. James R. Tyler, Pfc. Grandville Selle, and Sgt. Calvin B. Neeley. rat Army Terminates Contracts for Cigarettes No. 12 “What would you do if you got rabies?” “I'd ask for a pencil and paper.” “To make your will?” “No, to make a list of the people I’d want to bite.”