Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

toned by the military authorities
with few leading hotels available for
civilian travel. Meals throughout
Italy are very expensive as illus
trated by the Grand Hotel in Rome
where the present-day charge fol-
luncheon is 400 lire and up. This
is further illustrated by the price
range for room in a private home
which is $50 lire to 300 lire pei
person per night.
Italy is being faced by a severe
shortage of food which explains the
absence Of many restaurant cars
and eating stations on the italian
State Railway System. Private
automobile travel is not to be rec
commended and the rates of transit
are very high.
TaXls are not available in smaller
cities and, while not numerous. are
available in Rome Prices are high
and usually the fare is to be negoti-
ated at the time of hire. Guide
service is available in Rome.
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Hotel accommodations for Amer
lean businessmen arriving in Paris
are now being arranged by the
central billeting office of the Amer
lean Express, Ralph T. Reed, COM
pany president, has announced in
New York.
The United States Embassy
jointly with the help of the United
States Army. have enabled Amer
lean Express to inaugurate this
service" Mr.. Reed said. 1T has
been arranged with the Air Trans
port Command, the War Shipping
Administration and steamship
agents to refer all passengers de-
sirous of obtaining hotel accom-
modations to the company building
at IL Rue Scribe, which is now oper-
ating "a hours a day"
The Inauguration of the central
billeting Office offers a solution to
the accommodations problem OF
American businessmen, who have
arrived in the French capital in
steadily increasing numbers since
It's liberation last year.
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First resort area in the South
west to become reconverted fully
to tourism is Tucson, Ariz., the Old
Pueblo south of the ella.
Corrals are full of coWponies sad
dies and brides refurbished, guitars
tuned up, chuck wagons busted off
the land of time, space and sun
enough is returning to a peaceful
life. Ranches, desert resorts and
downtown hotels are being readied
for an anticipated bumper crop OF
tourists.
Pilot training programs-Uncle
Sans wartime testimony to Tue
sons sunshine and bright weather
are terminated. The giant bomber
modification center has sent its war
workers home. Tucsons major in
dustry, the tranquil and happy life
is back in the saddle.
Extension of tourist facilities this
year ana next is promised by Bill
Chamberlain, Tucson tourist impre-
sario. From the Sunshine Climate
Club he reports that over so hotels,
desert lodges and guest ranches
are projecting unprecedented &C
tivity.
Pasadena next New Year day
definitely will stage its first Tour
nament of Roses parade since 1941,
it was announced by Charles A.
Strut, president of the Tournament
of Roses Association.
Mr.. Strut, who served as chair
man of the last parade, said that
special committees already have OBJ
tanned first call on some 200 acres
of flowers in prospect of the events
revival.
The 1912 parade was Cancelled on
the evening of the day of Pearl
Harbor and since that time the
tournament has been curtailed.
One of the most dramatically
beautiful countries in South Amer
lea is Bolivia resting high among
some of the most spectacular peaks
of the Andes, according to an article
in the current issue of Grace Log.
Mountains three and four miles
high hang in rust and gold folds
against the sky. At their feet dark
forests and jungles, bright green
fields and ranchlands checker the
landscape Sparkling rivers fling
over the country network of silver