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Show Rail, Bus Travel Must Be Reduced This is a request for your cooperation co-operation in a campaign to urge every civilian to stay off trains and inter-city buses this summei unless the trip is necesary to winning win-ning the war against Japan. Women, children, workers in factories and elsewhere, housewives house-wives everyone should be informed in-formed that travel space is urgently urgent-ly needed for the redeployment oi troops and war materials from Europe to the Pacific and for the increasing use of discharged troops returning home, casualties anc military furloughees. Here's what the agencies oi government say about it: Army and navy: The consen-tration consen-tration of this nation's war resources re-sources to one front, the Pacific together with other armed services movements, will require the transport trans-port of more troops than the west has ever seen. 1. Redeployment of hundreds oi thousands of troops from Europe to the Pacific has now begun and will be speeded, week by week. 2. The end of the war in Germany and the war department reorganization reorgan-ization program provide for discharge dis-charge within a year of 1,300,000 men, most of them now overseas, These men are beginning to return and deserve prompt transportation home. 3. There still will be battle-weary battle-weary men returning from the Pacific Pa-cific areas for recuperation leaves and the number of emergency leaves of military technicians will be increased. Given comparativelj brief furloughs because they can't be spared from the battle lines for too lon& a period, they deserve every accomodation. Any delay avoided in the travel of these men gives them that much more time with their families. 4. Equal number of troops are going to the fighting front to replace re-place those being furloughed and travel space is required to transport trans-port them. 5. Armed services casualties are being moved into this country in growing numbers. More than five times as many pullman cars were used moving casualties in January, 1945 as in June, 1944. Meanwhile, thousands of American prisoners .in the Japanese-held areas are yet to be rescued. These persons will be returned to this country through Pacific coast ports when liberated. "The armed services are restricting restrict-ing unnecessary travel within their own ranks; they are encouraging en-couraging wives and sweethearts to stay at home and wait for service ser-vice men to arrive home. Consider; able furlough time is lost when families leave home to meet men returning. Orders for debarkation are frequently c hanged and families may be waiting at one Pacific Pa-cific coast port for troops returned return-ed at another port. "The armed services wish civilians civil-ians here in the west to realize these facts, knowing that continued continu-ed whole-hearted cooperation on the home front will materially help the one objective for which everyone is praying, fighting and w o r k i n g the successful and speedy conclusion of the war against Japan. V |