Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace 37 Cairo september 1945 under Way turned by marshal of utmost the army is starting a drive for three year in there arc some definite Advant no Mailer what your rating at you would enlist As a vate but would immediately be Given your current rating in the regular for a enlists to will go in As a private hut immediately resume his male american citizens women Are not included in the offer May enlist for any Heater or any Branch they As soon As a Man enlists he gets an enlistment furlough to of this depends on his length of of he has Over Throe years service he gets a 90day under three years gives Furlou Gli in pro portion to Lime one month for every 75 Days for two and a half to carry out the program com manding officers throughout a met will appoint recruiting Jap edition greets macs boys Nez York the army revealed this week that it set up a Bureau in Tokyo a week before its official occupation and greeted Douglas Macarthur and occupation troops with copies when they entered the Jap anese the surrender edition which was ready for the incoming yanks was printed in a then by George creator of sad los Chonberg and to Earl Joe managing arrived a few Days Franklin com manding officer of the said the first Tokyo Issue contained a cover picture of the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri and a Lead article on the american occupation of As Well As re Gular yank the Tokyo office is yanks jeepers creepers if it int Sarah Elizabeth Rodger in her town jeep Sarah is the first to Pilot her civilian Model Willys through the streets of new Here she is with fido and a Acme occupation f arrest of Jap american occupation authorities pressed the Roundup of 47 Jap anese War leaders this week Fol lowing Mac Arthurs triumphal but simple entry into the Bald Little warlord who ordered the assault on Pearl Hai attempted to commit suicide with a pistol when american demanded Entrance to his House to arrest him As 1 War Crimi although Tojo blasted a ing Hole in his his suicide Singapore japs sign surrender Mountbatten received the surrender of All Jap anese forces in Southeast Asia and the East indies on marking the fall of a stolen Empire of Square Miles with its the Allied seac commander received the surrender from representing the ailing commander of japanese Southern marshal count Juichi the surrender involved about Jap troops in the Singapore area and some orces press criminals attempt failed american doctors pronounced his condition very satisfactory after a transfusion of Yankee blood from Aper Sylvania of the 47 whose arrests were or dered by seven Are Al ready in including the naval minister who planned the Pearl Harbor Macarthur is obviously pleased with Progress of the occupation and contrasted the situation to that in Europe where former Axis leaders were of necessity emperor Hirohito has obeyed sub ser vently every order issued to occupation Machin Ery ran smoothly und present plans Call for new landings soon in he extreme Northern part of Honshu and in troops have fanned slowly and cautiously Accord ing i0 in the Tokyo no fanfare All Macarthur entered Tokyo with fully armed Veteran troops of the 1st cavalry division on he officially signalized the occupation with a see Page 8 Landis found Middle East likes James former United slates representative on the Middle East Supply Center and american economic representative in the Middle urges greater american aware Ness of Middle Eastern countries in these excerpts from an article that has just appeared in the new York the Middle East bikes american goods and gadgets and even the James Dean of University Law says in an article in the september Issue of Calls for the United states to pay increasing attention to the problems and potentialities in the Middle he said thai the area should be studied by americans from at least three Van Tage no All weather Rounth world air route can be developed without the use of the Middle Landi anoints out and adds that Security of such vital Points As Aden and the persian Gulf must be assured against any Mili tary or Landis Points out trouble in the Middle cast May be caused either from within or from divergent interests of great centuries Middle East wealth was even today the area is not without resources and the mid dle East offers Superb Coffee arid Long Staple but outstanding is in quantities that seem saudi Arabia about saudi Landis saudi Arabia offers an uni que Challenge to american Diplo Landis Points out that if the Oil production in saudi Arabia comes anywhere near whats now at neighbouring Abadan revenues therefrom and from the increased Pilgrim traffic together with an Economy that can also furnish taxes by will mean a balanced with american Enterprise and skill at their the saudi arabian and Industry could achieve a True economic balance and political to the Arab world this could exemplify the meaning of american on the Middle easts desire for american Landis Fon the import Side it is no exaggeration to say that the area is starved for american Dur ing War its imports were at a its Small Industrial Plant is outworn and out its railways need rehabilitation the few tractors and harvesters available have opened up new vistas in and with industrialization As the Region learns to make cheap fertilizers and even steel from the Rich and accessible Ore veins of upper Egypt and to harness the vast water Power of the euphrates and even the a see Landis Page 8 Points b 60 n to acs to 3634 the enlisted mens critical Point score will drop to 70 on october 1 and to 60 Oil november discharge Points for was will fall to 36 october 1 and to m the following Liis is the latest information received at Headquarters from the War department in week that has seen a Sharp stopping up of the arrays demobilization plans mid the dissolution of tills a met we close atthe earliest possible and already is placing civilian personnel in the jobs of Home hardbound Gas and was name ill be stateside within 60 Days the Saga of was in Egypt will soon he a closed chapter in army there going Home and 12 percent arc for Dis charge command ing has announced every Effort will be made to return All was presently As signed to units of this theater to the states in 60 Aai ets do snot apply to tile at was in Casa to latest information they will continue to return Home under acts redeployment that the was would make a mass exodus from amet cameras most of to it just that 72 percent would to eligible for discharge under the latest Point nor that the relatively Fow ineligible was would be sent along there already sending some their goods and chatter Home in the most exciting to the was is the Prospect of an Early though it depends on transportation and the training of civilian first arrived in 43 in a lot of Nile Lias flown under Kasrel nil Bridge since that eventful Day Back in december 43 when the first detachment of ten with Josephine arrived in amet then those six of whom were previously returned to the states for paved the Way and six months a Large detachment of Over 200 came Down into since relatively Small groups of replace ments have come wac staff highly commends the record which the Cairo and Huckstep was have both in achievement and army is wearing out its Welcome at wards Chicago Sewell chair Man of the Montgomery Ward has protested the army delay in returning Ward proper ties to private management in a Telegram to War Henry the said is that the government operated properties have not earned enough to pay retroactive wage increases ordered by no act of Congress authorizes the president to give away Busi Ness profits to those who have no Legal right to wired according to the you now propose to pay them approximately of retroactive increases out of Public if this is it would he equally for Ftp pm Are being sent from the acers at Payne Field with 80 Points Are on their was or coming reductions within the Hext two months will completely change the Pic Ture of transportation snags it is estimated by a checkoff ambit records that men and women Are eligible for under the 80ipoint score on october 1 another will become when the score is lowered to go an additional will he this Means that within months approximately three three fourths of amet will be eligible for separation centers in the Sta exclusive of at and pc getting there is now the ques transportation officers in amet and in the states Are cautious in their because the transportation is critical in fact for actually getting Home depends on transportation availability alone Headquarters amet has sent out instructions to the commands that men and women eligible for re turn to lie will be returned immediately when transportation becomes available and that no re placements will be service commands Are ordered to utilize transportation to the maximum and no other Titan those caused by Lack of trans com Manders Are advised plan Foi future loss or personnel least possible disruption of oper out daily clearest indication that Good news was in the air came at a Senate military committee hearing when the army revealed its plan to step up release from per Day to committee members Learned that the army strength on 1 still was compared with in the army a year War records indicate the discharges Are now coming at a rate of tie daily discharge total would almost double the army now says it can Dis charge men at 26 separation Cen see Points Page 8 Washington the latest computed total of world War ii casualties is the return from Jap prison Camps of Servi Cemen previously reported miss ing brought the total Down from earlier tie War announced that were of 379 were suffered by the army which reports in
