Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              The St lbs Pes Ajimian sell fax Iii 47 Cairo four cents november 1 november 1945 saudi arabian Airfield is Sandy and Dull by Matt Mcdade Dhahran on these famed Sands of which Lay so quietly for centuries and were stirred by nothing less medieval than Camel some 75 american officers and gis and 55 civilians of the construction division Are undergoing the Rigours of life in a comfortless Camp to Complete project a project which has been shrouded with mystery and Misander and Only recently clarified by the state on the Gulf const of King ten Sands nomadic a army Airfield is quickly Tak ing shape in a Fawn coloured desert of almost indescribable Deso lation and its contour broken occasionally by crags of Ashen Rock hitting Pyramid Cally through the Barren from this reporters objective life at Dhahran has not been easy for from the Youthful Norris Down to the a Cross Section of i opinion lists the idiotic heat of the or the intolerable dragging and Lack of recreational facilities is the features of what abets engineers Hope will be their last slow mail some men feel keenly the absence of a chaplain and a place to worship and the fact that he moslem not our Sabbath is others consider the cams remoteness and its effect on mail the worst Cross Treyve had to As letters from the Hom Folus reveal that mail from Dhahran is travelling by the end of the wives of certain men who wrote daily had received Only two letters although the men arrived at Dhahran in Early but aside from the purely Phy Sical inconveniences and disco unavoidable in such a new assignment to Dhahran had a strangely Dis enchanting effect upon the a sort of psycho see Dhahran on Page 7 weekend jaunts to Luxor begin if youve from a hankering to go some place Fand the sen porpoise is not for Luxor is just the arrangements have been made for resumption of the particularly Fine weekend trips to Luxor beginning one Headquarters flirt of plane will1 depart from Payne Field each Friday at 0800 returning on sunday after the allocations Are As follows two officers and four ots three officers and six its Payne the baggage is limited to 25 pounds f this All personnel will stay the Luxor hotel of which the daily Flat rate is with out private flight will to accompanied inn arc representative who will Taue care of necessary arrange ments and provide recreation and for members of the tourist hours to the temples of Luxor and Karnak on Friday and Allday excursion across the Nile to Thebes and the Valley of Kings will be conducted again by he Well known who Char Ges a Pound each for the whole since theres bound to be a Rush for arrangements with your special services office should he made did you gobble you were Lucky by Art Kortheuer Alexandria enjoy your Turkey want it whether you knew it or not those turkeys had them selves n time before they landed in your the Ca Valry rescuing the settlers from the indians could take a Cue from mess race against time to put the White and dark meat on your the Story goes Back to june when Asp in Washington asked our requirements in the Way of holi Day Folk Robert and Carl Manning of the 328th pm Supply Huckstep made out a breakdown for each mesh Camp and requisitioned october 21 a the fran Cis left the states with the rolling into Casa november 9 she received orders to take on an emergency clothing three Days Days nearer finally getting underway the 12th our Good ship wended its Way towards news came that the Lewis would Dock the two Days before the pm had collective the Holiday gobblers were Frozen at required at least hours to thaw out before they could be and Here the was still at As it our sturdy arrived monday Eugene transportation corps no on the Dock Hust led about and the precious cargo started coining Over the Al most stevedores worked from six until eleven and began again seven tuesday morn meanwhile a g79th pm Convoy loaded o the gunwales Sec did on Page 10 his first wac Ive heard about waca and Saeei Pic of pm while i wat in but youre the first Ive Ever met in the so uttered Jerome be Chi Veteran of Over 30 after being introduced to Ether Stettka in while ing for transportation to a Brief who served in Kunming and thanked the for a unique and pleasant interlude and then walked we docked right off the said but Shes engaged to a Guy Back Acca Arcasa Wilfo by on strike in Auto Industry latest developments on the troubled labor front yesterday were the United Auto workers Cio called out its members in 100 general motors plants in the first big strike of the reconversion Union pre said the corporation had chosen Between stable Industrial peace and unstable Industrial dictatorship by not replying to the arbitration 3 what appears to be an irreconcilable split has developed in president Truman Labo management conference with Complete disagree ment on collective Patch is dead san Antonio Alexander Patch died Here on thanksgiving Day after a Brief attack of the former commander of the seventh which he led through France and had recently been named com Mander of the fourth As signed to training troops for the he was delayed sea porpoise to be stateside by Christmas the sea porpoise has been but amet head quarters still expects to get the commands 60pointers Home by the transport now is due to leave new York next it should arrive at port said around december 8th or 9th and after a Quick turnaround is hoped to pull into new York Harbor two Days before two More ships will arrive in port said on december with troop space for these Are the John Hood and Cornelius Gilman and armed training Issue postponed until next year Washington two Battles Over the future of the armed forces to whether there will be compulsory military training and whether All the armed forces will be under a unified need this week indications of a Quick compulsory military training legislation will not foe brought be fore Congress until next members of the House military affairs committee and chair Man Andrew May although he had hoped for quicker he said a Republican Maneu ver was delaying consideration of his conscription Bill and that scores of witnesses have been asked to be testimony Mav be Complete by May but drafting of the measure will require some Mays Bill would require a years continuous training of All Able bodied youths starting when they Are 18 or upon graduation from High Eisenhower testifies up said there appeared to be Little congressional  the proposal despite appeals in its behalf by Marshall and while Eisenhower and King were in agreement on compulsory Mili tary on the merger of the armed forces they took opposite Eisenhower told the Senate military affairs committee this week that unless the armed ser vices Are placed under a unified command we May enter another emergency in a time to come As we did at Pearl this nation must preserve a adequate measure of our sea and air Power lest we lose the peace we have so dearly see on Page 10 Eisenhower and Nimitz replace Marshall and King Eisenhower is to succeed Marshall As army chief of staff and will be replaced in Europe by his acting chief of staff Joseph at the same time he made this president Truman revealed that Fleet Admiral Ernest King will retire and be succeeded by Admiral Chester the president said that Saaf com Mander Arnold and ask chief somervell have both asked to be relieved but that their resignations have nol been a asks military training in the course of his Bush week in the Eisenhower addressed the 27th annual Conven Tion of the american reiterating his Lea for oneyear Mili tary training for All american youths and the merger of the armed the chief of staff elect warned we have just entered on the scientific age in its most fearsome contains unimaginable threats for it May be possible that the time will come when the age old Virtues of physical and moral of patriotism and readiness for self sacrifice will be meaning less to a nations is Idle to say our nation can never be Pearl har Bor should have effectively dispelled that it is equally Idle to say that reasonable preparation for ourselves constitutes Unwar ranted suspicion of those whom we have been and Are glad to class As a respectably Strong America to others the willingness on our part to Bear our full share of the burdens of preserving peace riot the intention to resort to Force for our own enrichment or Adan i wives to Europe earlier in the week he had come out in favor of taking the wives of occupation troops to Europe after we have gotten Down to occupation lie said that his policy would give the wife of the Low Liest i the same right As any offi cers my Osvin for when such a policy might be put into effect he did not ikes appointment becomes effective immediately on its confirmation by the Senate and while it had been announced that he would return to Germany the matter now is neither confirmed nor expected to land in new York Christ Mas eve or Christmas theater transportation Connell Albertini said yester Day that Texe delay of the sea waa due to unforeseen circumstances in but that to Felt confident she would touch stateside at least two Days before Albertini confirmed reports of the Hood and the stating they would be loaded quickly by the make an immediate getaway and certainly Dock by the quite possible the in Washington at last weeks end the War department announced a Point drop to 56 effective december a new Point score for officer release was set at Tough these and several other discharge changes will make an additional Eli Guhle for reconversion to civilian for the first the depart ment introduced length of service alone As a Factor in announcing that men who have served four years and officers with four years and three months of service will become men with three or More children under 18 dependent on them for support also will become eligible for discharge a week from to the new Point As Well As the other factors of length of ser vice and parenthood changes Are see on 10 mesh tops amet enlistment push Ami its regular army recruits jumped to 1g1 on november the latest Date for which figures Are totals released by amet head quarters show that mesh is Way out in front wit i 76 men who signed on the dotted line for a 18 two or three second Amonjr the Heaters com mands is Pusc with followed closely by Nasus recruiting in cd and Etc has lagged in the with Only six men in the three com mands signing thus earlier the we announced men had enlisted or reenlisted in the a in the states and overseas As of 31 Eto has the Best percentage of the total for Heaters in the the 8th service command leads the Parade with a fraction More than the its other leading overseas Heaters Are the West Pacific and which Hung up percentage of and the army is offering induce ments to men already in the armed forces to consider an a such As Ruste Ridgout furloughs up to 90 retaining present Grade and Eli i trility for loan and readjustment allowances of the i Bill of interested in signing up should Contact unit recruiting