Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 23 four cents june 1945 Aux Hiseler Washington homing Veter ans Are to be Given a Chance to Settle a score with profiteering tax under a plan announced by president Truman and Treasury an army of a servicemen will be recruited to Hunt Down tax we arc not fighting this War to make millionaires and certainly Are not going to allow Black Market operators or any other racketeers to be in a favored class when men in the armed forces and citizens generally Are sacrificing As ten thousand new investigators will be employed for the the president asked that civil service recruiting agents be stationed at army discharge centers to enlist sex servicemen for the surplus goods for vots in it was announced that veterans who plan to open email businesses will get first Chan be at surplus War the plan applies to veterans entering any commercial manufacture financial medical or Legal Enterprise with an invested capital of not More than interested vets must list their needs with regional offices of the smaller War plants which in turn will buy the re Quested items at various govern ment declare them sur plus and resell them to exse vice swag will have an Al priority for this for Farmer veterans who want to Huy surplus farm a plan is being devised whereby the see tax chisel hrs on 8 no planes used in algerian conflict major general commanding Africa Middle East United states stated a report in the press alleging that american air transport was used to carry French moroccan troops to the scene of is completely without the generals statement Fol lows on the 3lst evening news bulletin of United published in carried a under Rome Date in which it quoted american army newspaper stars and Home edition of the 28th the Story quoted dealt with algerian uprisings of re cent Date and contained the Fol lowing statement the paper stars and stripes Rome said that some ame rican planes were used to Fly French moroccan troops to the fringe of the troubled areas to help quell the the quoted statement is without foundation in at no time have planes under the control of military or naval forces of the United states in Africa been used for such a Pur carpet rolled out As Ike reaches Berlin new York through a picked up broadcast Frosini it was Learned that Eisen Hower a rousing1 recep tic ii from the russians this week a russian military band struck up the Star spangled Banner when the supreme commanders plane landed at the air he arrived to represent the on the Allied control now meeting in the Nimitz tells Okinawa it Sailor gags on movie colons Home Welcome As the Navy Hospital ship Comfort eased into a California her deck rails lined with survivors of Jap suicide combines off Hollywood rolled out the Welcome it was plastered with according to an on looking nuts he thus the Sailor summed up the he had seen a quartet of movie actresses stand Offin a Busy Tele phone typical of the Wel come remarks was one made by an unknown Starlet who gushed hello were Sootoo proud of i dont know what to say except Welcome goodbye the disgusted Sailor who watched from the Dock knew what to he reiterated nuts when each famous actress was somewhere in the announcement was the inevitable plug for her latest to which the Sailor muttered who the hell and when a Young Hula dancer abruptly appeared and began to squirm around the the gob looked at his companion and said what Are they trying to make the Guys homesick for the Pacific the Only refreshing part of this Welcome came when a girl approached the introduced herself then proceeded to sing one song after an other As Long As the cries of More thundered from the that Dinah Shore for sighed the and she didst mention her latest radio recording or living Honor the dead on Normandy beaches Paris victorious Allied sol Diers honoured the memory of their fallen comrades in simple Ceredo observing the first anniversary of diday and the storming of the Normandy on famed Omaha and Utah Allied soldiers who sur Vived that and 11 following months of paid reverent in response to Eisenhower orders there were no big no bands and no Long critical figure of revise scores Washington a Soldier who has acquired sufficient Points since May 12 to gain a discharge from Tho army wont to Able to get out at the War department explained this men who Havo been discharged from service since May 12 had 85 Points or More As of that data this known As the interim was chosen to permit re lease of eligible soldiers until the critical score can be determined after an analysis of service rating records from every military critical score vet to or decided upon will govern the release of personnel from service in the at a future the army will fix a new Point revaluation Points accumulated Between May 12 and the new Date then will be figured and those who Havo the proper score will be calculation of the critical score is expected to take about six beginning in the Middle of it is generally expected that the critical score will be lower than the 8f Points originally established As the interim both suffering from head a Navy Hospital corpsman and a Marine trudge heir Way Back from the Okinawa front under their own Power toward a Medieta Aid station for own Levant fighting stops but hot accusations still Fly by army news service London prime minister Churchill charged tuesday that France reinforced her Syria Gar Rison despite thus bringing on the Levant and at the same time he rejected de Gaul Les plan for a full big five settlement of the dispute As too time Churchill said he hoped the problem would be adjusted at a three Power conference with France and the saying Britain had started is suing arms to syrian National police in order to safeguard against new a Good part of the prime ministers statement on the Levant in the House of commons was taken with a Point Point answer to de Gaul Les charges made at a press conference and in a government communique 18 was on missing Liberia bound plane Washington ans an army transport command plane carrying 18 wuss and three Crew men Lias been missing for a week on a flight Friori British West to Roberts i the was Are members of a group transferred to a new assign ment from the at base at planes Atul surface Craft have been combing the French Ivory coast for a week searching for the missing but it is in these Are the first was reported lost overseas during the de Gaulle had said that France will not submit the syrian question a tripartite Conier declaring that a number of British agents created the uprising de Gaulle declined to identify such saying everyone knows their i would Blush to give them to British troops he said the cease fire order in Syria had been executed by French commanders May 31 before Chur chills note requesting this action was de Gaulle withdrawn All but to troops from the Levant but Britain had kept including it ninth syrian desert sheikhs and tribesmen vented their nation Alist feelings in jeers and insults thrown at French troops and civilians being withdrawn from Damascus and other syrian cities under British Protection and us up reported that the British in tend to see that All French nationals Are removed from Popula Tion centers to isolated Camps to give the situation time to Cool while a solution is being worked to Alarab conference in Cairo took the unanimous see Levant on Page 8 a blackout of news from Oki at possible end of the Campaign on the Arrowhead tip of the Island us marines on the West coast and infantrymen Ori Tho crash the bugs the 6nemys with the Maria nes storming Tho army men closing a trap on having completed the mop up of the islands capital sixth division Marine raid ers and paratroopers made for Complete control of the is lands last Airfield in a Surprise amphibious Landing which put Strong american1 forces on sides of Tho enemy Oroku Penin Sula eyewitness correspondents i wrote that Alan shapely and his fourth Marino regiment dashed into the Coral beaches of Oruku Peninsula Helow Nairn at 0 after a half hour ship and Shore based artillery the marines pushed in a driving rain against sniper knee mor tars and some Light machine gun stealing another last ditch piece of terrain from the japs in Southern pouring out of amphibious the leather necks clambered Over Tho Coral seawall and onto rolling Penin Sula to the Edge of the largest air Field in the Well says Nimitz army units slashed ahead in Central and Eastern areas reaching the Southern coast and registering advances up to three Miles in this confined re the seventh infantry Divi Sions gain of Yards in one Days fighting through red mud sealed the reaching islands Southeastern this move frustrated any ideas the japs might have had of see Okinawa on Page 2 Kraut colonel is bucking 12tii army group rican soldiers take a dim View of the captured German colonel who keeps babbling about his invention gun that will shoot around they suspect Hes Buck ing for a Section Merican losses top million hard est hit divisions were revealed with of War Robert Patterson announcement that Battle casualties have topped the million the figure now stands at an increase of Ivy thin seven outfits which have suffered casualties in of their Normal strength Are the 9th and 4th infantry ja11 fought in North Sicily or Italy or a combination with the exception of the 4th which went into action on i the divisions based on reports received april Are As follows the armed forces total casual ties include for the and among the Rinc corps and coast the breakdown shows Kihei 1 missing captured total