European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse From Denmark quartermaster is still ironing out the kinks in the longest fresh fluid milk run Ever attempted by the army biggest bottleneck in the quartermaster program to bring milk to occupation troops and their families is there Are other reasons Why the milk has not been flowing As regularly As con Sumers would like to see but from farthest Point on the distribution All the Way Back to car Home of the danish butter Export committee which has contracted to provide the the answer to complaints of irregular delivery is it is bottles serving As tasks in Hospital bottles doing duty As water containers in mess bottles broken by careless handlers All along the distribution that inevitably shut off the flow of milk in the Long pipe and leave danish dairies waiting for something in which to put their late in quartermaster assigned to Snowden civilian consultant who had been doing Dairy products purchasing and inspecting for the government since the task of locating and sending Back 1o the eleven danish Dairy plants the one million bottles that were in the pipe or should have by that time the milk delivery program had been operating for six first shipment by undertaking for which the Quarter master had been before starting this milk Supply which they now Call the longest fresh fluid milk run Ever at tempted by the quartermaster officials invited James in charge of distribution for the Borden milk to Survey the problem of milk Supply in the his report was ample Johnston called a task comparable to procuring milk in then shipping into the new England states for scattered and he added that if milk Dis Tribu weekend report refrigerator truck imm Ritsu photographs by Michael Vaccaro it will be necessary to provide a minimum of times As Many bottles and empty cases As Are required for each Days today fifty thousand full bottles of milk Are scheduled to flow except into the zone through the army shipping Point at Weiche near Flensburg on the Ger Man danish eight cars leave for the Long ride Down through Ger one of the cars will travel the 885 rail Miles to Vienna where the milk it carries will go on Sale in commissaries four Days to Flensburg the milk comes by truck from eleven bottling plants in Southern there Are where according continue cd on Page 17 turn the Page for pictures of the milk pipe line
