Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              40 october 1945 for 70 and Headquarters officials this week were decidedly optimistic about Progress being made in transportation arrangements to Send amet personnel Lack to the although some reasons for their optimism Are still in the pending while the Joi Stobel is expected to sail from port said shortly after the Middle of the month with accommodations for there is As yet no official confirmation that the ship has left he states for the Middle plans Are to ship was and about half of the commands 70pointers on this former liner of the Caribbean making Clear abets determination to follow the War depart ments Giles sent out the following instructions to his commanders the number of personnel in am act eligible for release under the Point system during october and november is greater than the planned reduction for this theater during those the difference is being requisitioned from the states to allo Lwi All eligible to replacements Are expected during october and you Are reminded that person no cannot be All transportation allocated your command for return of personnel will be utilized for return of and no eligible key or will be retained if transportation for his return North african sailings Robert said that up to the present there is n0 vessel scheduled for arrival Here in the latter part of the every Effort is be ing made to bring in a ship during the last week of october or the first in this is planned to take Home the remaining of the 70pointers Eligi ble for As for shipping from the North african the War de he has arranged shipping for them from North african ports at the end of the see replacement son 10 Vinson proposes 3way tax cuts Washington Treasury ired Vinson presented to con Gress on monday the administrations three Point reconversion tax Relief providing for the repeal of the three cent Normal tax on repeal of the excess profits tax on business and the lifting of wartime excise Vinson estimated lifting the three wartime levies would Cost the trea sury next seems to be going considerably the five billion Dollar tax Cut recommend the House ways and Means committee has voted a fur ther reduction of for individuals and there Are indications that it May go beyond the repeal of the excess profits the administration won one major Point As the House group voted to relieve Low in come from income taxes after this the committee brushed aside Virions proposal for an outright repeal of the three per cent nor Mal tax and adopted instead a Compromise keeping the Normal tax but on a More Liberal basis of exemptions for the plan also reduces individual surtax rates by four percentage Points in each of the graded Brack igl Besfer but trip on Guam the at spymaster plane which left Washington last Friday to make a Rounth world in 151 developed engine trouble on the homeward leg of the epoch making the plane had gone 315 Miles towards Kyj Asalein when she was forced to an other army was ready and the army personnel and three correspondents transferred immediately for the new Takeoff and resumed the the plane left Washington 21st anniversary of the army air corps first round the world junket in 1924 a flight which required 175 Days and four planes to Fly this covering started with some 20 passengers and a Crew of six to Circle the Globe and is scheduled to require Only six Andone Quarter at Cairo and Astadan after flying to new York acid Bermuda the pioneering Airship landed at Santa azores for refuelling on saturday and went on to the giant c54 picked up nine teen riders at Casablanca and passed Over desert battlefields at Madruh and Al Alamein to dip its wings Over the ancient pyramids and land at the trip from Tripoli to Cairo measuring Miles was made in 5 hours and 13 reputed to be one of the hottest places in the was next after a one hour Stop in Cairo to Start the second Quarter of its at to commercials Early monday morning the huge passenger plane landed at Karachi and flew on to Calcutta which she made misites ahead of sche China 50 Miles East of Kunming was the next then Manila and Laud ing Here the rest of the itinerary takes the ship to Johnston Hono san Kansas City and Back to longest hop of the entire trip is from Honolulu to san a distance see globes Ter on Page 10 the Clobe Stert Circle a wac kiss the girls the was Are practically on their Way next the was terminate their duties in Camp Huckstep and Payne the Cairo waca will then join their comrades at Camp Huckstep for processing according t0 present the girls will sail for the about the since t2 per cent Are eligible for discharge under the Point most girls will head direct y for separation centers nearest the or explains Saud Arabia Pepper res use go Bill of rights Claude Pepper stopped in Cairo this week on a swing Over Europe and the Middle East to Survey Trade prospects for american Small business and study the foreign affaire situation in Gen a member of the foreign affairs committee and a special commit tee to study the problems of Small Pepper has As his special interest the stimulation of foreign Trade Between America and other from the i Angle Pepper said soldiers should take full ad1 Vantage of the i Bill of particularly educational provi realizing servicemen Are anxious to return to civilian life and Start the senator cautioned Eugis against grabbing the first Job that comes the  should take time out to study and train him self for the Type work he really wants to do As that will most be refit him in he Long the Palestine problem his starting in took him to France and then occupied whore he spoke with Eisenhower in la Ter he saw Generalissimo Stalin in the Shah of Persia at and recently spoke with zionist and Arab leaders in a at a Cairo conference wednes Day the discussing the Palestine problem noted that the ame rican people have a deep sympathy for the jews who suffered from hitlers the he not in easy to goes deeper than questions of legality and i feel we must approach it with patience and he believed that his discussion of the problem with Bolh arabs and jews in pales line would furnish much information which would be useful on his return to the wartime Cost of living 1vyasnintjton the Cost of living in the Rose 35 per cent luring six Vears of reported the Bureau of labor statistics this last week stars and stripes published a Story from on a letter Philip said he had received from a Soldier assigned to work on the Airport being built at Dhah saudi the following statement has been received by the editor Roythe Public relations officer of George Welch it has been brought to the at Tention of readers of stars and Smipes that one of Congress men has been misinformed to the facts concerning the construction of an Ai drome in saudi in order to clarify this situation for All the Fol lowing facts Are Given the authority to build this air drome was entered into by the United states and saudi arabian and in no senso of the word a considered a private the agreement was entered into As a military measure Between the two governments prior to the close of the War with it is planned that the construction will be done by army Engi neers using civilian Only a few enlisted men Are being initially and they will be re placed at an Early Date by key qualified and eligible enlisted men who desire discharge and employment May be employed us the future value of this air drome As a strategic base has great value to the United meeting our commitments to foreign countries certainly adds prestige to our foreign american Oil companies have a great interest and investment now in saudi Arabia which should to protected at All times by Good will and Friendly the agreement to build this Ai drome had the Lull approval of both the War and state depart the facts Given in this let Ter were available to the Soldier whose letter was it would help if soldiers and of when commenting upon such agreements and commitments would take the trouble to learn the facts before writing letters of criticism to their friends wooden boxes Are tearing mail sacks the army postal service is reporting that its having a lot of trouble with those wooden boxes in which statesidebound1 personnel is shipping Home excess Apo reports that the wooden boxes tear the mail sacks which must contain All mail carried by some fifty of these sacks Are mutilated daily by ears caused by the wooden postal Are requesting that packages be boxed not in but in card Board such As Beer or toddy Linoir Homes after arrival in the Means bile there swamping the Post office with Bulky boxes of personal training heir packing and dashing around Cairo in a whirl of sightseeing and buy in there too Busy to up much enthusiasm Over their exodus from that fact is attested to by Josephine wac staff i in a statement on the occasion of the was departure from says As our time in Egypt draws to a close we might have Many diverse thoughts and opinions on tour of duty were not for the fact that the details of departure every was including to the exclusion of every thing fulfilled their purpose by acid continued i think its to say that what was intended originally As an Experiment the employment of was an with ail it entailed in the Way of rationing acid other Supply problems been a the was have taken to to Weir duties and carried them out with Ana if the men we released for combat never reached that is not the was fault but mat Ter of Many of them so we can take credit for Ful filled the Basic purpose for Wisloh we volunteered in the army reflecting on their Days in Majder the Early in their Ebay in see kiss the qirl8 on 10 Giles wac o Benjamin commanding hut issued following message to All was preparing to leave his command for the states and civil Ian life As Zero hour approaches for the return Home of All the wac personnel assigned to this it is a pleasant duty to record my appreciation of their splendid the first was came to this area in december of a Van guard of within a few months other contingents until the Overall strength in Egypt alone was about in other contingents were serving in Accra and Casablanca with the air transport these american women have justified to the full the expectations of the War they have filled Many different assignments in and other specialized tasks for which they were their presence has released enlisted men and badly needed for combat and other do nor have they been free from the risks of eighteen Naebers of the corps in in air plane Accident off see Giles salutes on Page t9