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Show THE I,FH! nv i FH1 IH'AH A Couple of Good Cracks at Herr Hiter Cause for Study WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS By Edward C. Wayne 'Biggest Budget in World's History' For Expanding of U. S. War Program Will Cost Nation 56 Billion Dollars; Russians Continue to Push Back Nazis (EDITOR'S NOTE When oplnln arc expressed la the eolamns, thcr r tho ( th Dtw anal wit and not naecuatlly of tbl Bwpapf.) . (Released by Western New ipaper Union.) c ' J Biiil J A 0 " SOMEWHERE IN CHINA. Veteran Chinese soldiers of this type, pictured pic-tured at s railway station "Somewhere in China," are advancing- toward Malaya to aid the hard-pressed forces of the British against the Japs. It was reported that veterans of this type took part in the slaughter of Jap troops In the Changsha, China, sector. TAXES: Billions on Billions . Americans who had been given grim satisfaction by the President's stirring message to congress faced with what courage they could muster mus-ter the huge bill that will have to be paid, 56 billions of dollars. Congress, to a man, had told the President "we will give you the money." OPM had said, "We can and will do it," and labor said, "we will not stop working." And the country, with surprisingly little grumbling, but with no small measure meas-ure of worrying, decided to dig down Into its earnings to foot half the bill this year. Twenty-seven billions of dollars, taxes of nine billions on top of 18 billions were to be levied to meet as much as possible of the due bill as it is spent On the basis of 130,000,000 people,' the expenditure in taxes for the federal fed-eral war program, added to whatever what-ever local and state taxes might be levied, would be $204 for each person, per-son, man, woman or child; $813 1 for a fantily of four. That of course was an average, with those better able to pay shouldering the larger portion of the burden. The "overall" war expenditure estimate was thus brought to 131 billions, or three times the total cost to this country of World War No. 1. . ;. Mr. Roosevelt frankly had told newsmen it was the biggest budget in the history of the world. Government Gov-ernment authorities said It was twice the estimated annual war expenditure expendi-ture of Germany. , On top of the taxes, it would be necessary to borrow 32 billions. The national debt, therefore, would skyrockets sky-rockets to $110,000,000,000, or about three times the huge figure of June. 1940. The nine extra billions, the President Presi-dent said, would be divided into seven sev-en billions in direct taxes of various types, though he said he opposed a general sales tax. The other two billions would be in the form of new social security taxes. Existing taxes of all descriptions would be continued, and they have been estimated as due to produce 18 billions. The war allocations had been split as follows: 18 billions for the army; 17 billions for supplement but unspecified un-specified items; seven billions to the navy; 7tt billions for the lease-lend lease-lend program; 1V4 billions for the maritime .commission's merchant ship program, the rest for miscellaneous mis-cellaneous purposes. Perhaps a billion can be lopped off of non-defense government activities, ac-tivities, the President saidthat is alL ... . . . REACTION: Local and World Britain was exultant over the program, pro-gram, believed it adequate for the swiftest possible victory, and praised the administration to the skies for the stand it was taking, and the X-.Y-Z or all-out plan to win the war. One London headline ha I been typical "The Yanks Are Coming," which was the British answer to President Roosevelt's promise to send to the British Isles a large A.E.F. Australian premier, John Cur tin, said the President's plan was one for "working and fighting." Italy called the plan "sensational and spectacular" and was not to be believed. Nevertheless, the Italian censors did not permit the newspapers newspa-pers to publish the figures 185,000 planes, 120,000 tanks in 1943. Germans also " were not allowed to discover what the American production pro-duction plans were, and the Reich sources were belittling, calling the program a "warm-over" of previous utterances by the President Italians went further and said that these armaments were all in the future, fu-ture, a future that would come too late. JAPAN: Still Pressing Reports from the Far Eastern fronts, with the exception of China,' were uniformly continuing stories of increased Japanese pressure in occupied zones, and uniform efforts to extend Japanese operations. The British had doggedly been holding on in Malaya, but steadily and slowly falling back toward Singapore. Sing-apore. The Japs apparently had complete com-plete mastery of the air in Luzon, and it was deemed only a question of time how long General MacAr-thur's MacAr-thur's army could hold out Where the main defense was coming com-ing was obscure and remained a military secret but there were certain cer-tain indications which were said to be giving Tokyo plenty to worry about' For instance, the naming of Wa-veil Wa-veil as supreme commander, and the placing of a well-trained Chinese Chi-nese army in Burma, together with other Allied forces, readying themselves them-selves for an onslaught on the Japanese Jap-anese rear at Malaya was one . of these. ' - . Another was the American and Australian insistence that strongest possible aid be given to the Dutch. On top of this came the word that Java would be chosen as general headquarters of the Allied operations. opera-tions. : - A glance at the Southwest Pacific maps showed the position of Java and Sumatra and their relation to the Malacca straits and the open ocean route to the south to Darwin, Australia, and plainly indicated the general tactic that was most likely to be pursued. . Japan, to break supply lines along this route, would have to move a considerable con-siderable naval force out of the China Chi-na sea and into the open South Pacific Pa-cific and that could only be done with grievous results to the land campaign. REDS: Increasing Pace News from Russia had been uniformly uni-formly good, with 572 towns reported report-ed captured in one week, 10,000 enemy en-emy troops slain, and huge quantities quanti-ties of booty taken. Hitler went to the front made his headquarters at Smolensk, and suddenly sud-denly found he was . only 45 miles from where the chief fighting was. He was believed to have moved his headquarters hurriedly farther to the rear. The Crimean debacle was equalling equal-ling the disaster befalling the German Ger-man arms in the north around Leningrad. Len-ingrad. Turkey had temperatures far below zero, coldest in Turkish history, and that was an indication of what the ill-prepared Germans and their Italian and Rumanian allies al-lies had to stand in the Crimea, ordinarily or-dinarily the warmest part of Russia. The Germans were resisting most strongly on the central front In the north the Russians had even recaptured re-captured Hogland island, which had been taken by the Finns, and it was evident that the Finlanders, reportedly report-edly deserted by their Nazi comrades, com-rades, were rapidly getting into the safest possible places, and losing los-ing one dangerous spot after another. an-other. . - - . In addition to the successes for the Reds on the Crimean peninsula, which were rapidly raising the siege of Sevastopol, the Russians were gaining in the Donets basin. AFRICA: British Winning British sources reported they had evidence that General Rommel had virtually given up hope of eventual retreat from Libya, and had resolved re-solved on a pitch battle in the most favorable ground he could find. ' This was a plateau on which there was considerably more clay foundation founda-tion than desert sand, which would aid the German mechanized forces and afford better than average landing land-ing spots for planes. '3 k ' Vv.K: V .. ....'iU-f! Is mmmX&mm s!ZJZM Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance committee, is pictured looking over the 1,172 pages of the 1943 fiscal year budget. His chief inter-est inter-est in the budget would be a study of it with a view of planning new tax measures. The war budget calls for $56,' 000,000,000. FARMER: Has Prospects President Roosevelt was seen by senate leaders as opposed to the proposal of the farm bloc to have secretary of agriculture given the authority to exercise veto power on wartime controls of farm prices. Senator Brown of Michigan said that the President approves having a single price administrator handle all price questions, including those of farm products. Brown, however, conceded that the farm bloc had powerful support and that the vote on such a measure, if it came to that would be close indeed. - , Secretary Wickard is getting support sup-port for the post of farm price czar from both parties. The dispute, of course, is between him and Leon Henderson, the price administrator. Under the present bill Brown pointed out $1-40 wheat would be a possibility. The average market price on December 15 was $1.02. Cotton similarly could be purchased pur-chased for 16.2 cents a pound, and could go to 19.65 cents before the law would take over control. Beef, however, had currently been selling higher than it would under the bill, he added. Also getting considerable support was a Senator Taft proposal that neither Wickard nor Henderson be given farm price control, but that it be vested in a board of five members. mem-bers. This Taft proposal might form the test of sentiment on tne other two proposals. CHINA: Changsha Victory The Chinese victory over the Japs at Changsha was termed by Chiang Kai-shek as a possible turning point of the war. It was the third successive suc-cessive setback for the Japanese at this city, and the most disastrous. Some Chinese newspapers were urging that the Chinese armies now strike into Thailand and Indo-China direct to menace the Jap rear and relieve the pressure on Malaya. ' The Chinese said that In addition to the 30,000 Japs killed in the battle, they got 7,000 more as the fleeing Nipponese attempted to cross a nearby river, with Chinese lying ambushed am-bushed on the far bank. : , A Jap force of 40,000 was said to be trapped in one locality. The total estimated Japanese strength of the drive on Changsha was 100,000 men. Few of them, according to Chungking, Chung-king, were able to get away to the north. ZEPPELINS: Raid the East? Army authorities in Washington said it definitely "was in the cards" that Germany might try to get their two huge dirigibles into the air for token raids on the east coast of the United States. It was revealed after the last war that the big transatlantic Zeppelin of those days was being groomed for just such a trip, but which never nev-er came off. The sister ship of the Von Hinden-burg, Hinden-burg, which was destroyed by flames in New Jersey was said to be still in existence, together with another Zeppelin of the L-Z type, capable of flying the Atlantic. Each of them, army men said, could be loaded with 10 bombing planes, could drop them to take- offs within easy flying distance of east-coast cities. Or, they pointed out it would be possible for the airships themselves to be loaded with an enormous quantity quan-tity of bombs and to make a "sui cide" flight over one or more eastern east-ern cities, dropping their deadly cargoes before planes twuld shoot them down. . MISCELLANY: London: Terrific raids on occu- nied countries in Europe were be lieved the definite forerunner of an invasion attempt on Europe by the Allies, it was said in informed quarters. The invasion is set for springtime. Ottawa: Canada's production for war will be nearly doubled, in line with the President's plan for the United S'-ates. Washington, D. C. A INSIDE STORY Here is' the inside story on what happened in all the fuss and furore over the Free French seizure of the two tiny North Atlantic islands of St Pierre-Miquelon. The story illustrates a very important im-portant point: That U. S.-Brltish foreign for-eign policy has got to pull closer together to-gether in the future, and that state department officials might have thought twice about slapping British Brit-ish policy in the face especially at a time when Winston Churchill was sitting in the White House working on plana for closer Anglo-American co-ordination. The crux of the situation was that the radio stations on these two French islands long have been suspected sus-pected of giving information to Vichy and then to Berlin on British Brit-ish convoys crossing the North Atlantic At-lantic also on Britain-bound bombers bomb-ers hopping off from Newfoundland. French fishing vessels from St Pierre-Miquelon cruise all over the Newfoundland banks and are in an excellent position to observe Allied activity in this vital part of the Atlantic. At-lantic. More recently, Nazi submarines subma-rines have been prowling closer to U. S. shores and it was suspected they might be getting information or even suppliesfrom the fishing vessels. So the British gave the nod to General DeGaulle to move into the Islands. In fact they even let his associate. as-sociate. Vice Admiral MuseUer, take three French corvettes to do the job. There was no great secret about it for Admiral Muselier stopped in Canada to talk to Canadian Ca-nadian Naval Minister Angus Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, and also picked up some American newspaper men to witness wit-ness the taking over of the two islands. is-lands. SO-CALLED FREE FRENCH However, on the morning Admiral Muselier placed the Free French flag on St. Pierre-Miquelon, Secretary Secre-tary Hull, getting the news at his breakfast table, hurried to the state department and OK'd a scathing statement castigating the "so-called" "so-called" Free French. ; This upset the British considerably, considera-bly, because they had been encouraging encour-aging the French people to think of the Free French not as a "so-called" government but as a government more truly free and representative of the French people than Vichy. Also it upset the , Jugoslavs, the Dutch, the Greeks and a lot of other oth-er "so-called" governments which have been maintaining headquarters in London and have been calling themselves the real governments of their countries even though in exiled However, Secretary Hull seemed to be even more upset than the British. Brit-ish. He had . made a deal with Vichy's Admiral Robert in Martinique Marti-nique a few days before, by which Admiral Robert was to keep an eye on St Pierre-Miquelon. And he felt this agreement should be kept So, his Tennessee dander up, Mr. Hull cabled U. S. Ambassador Winant in London to take up the matter with the British government Ambassador Winant in turn, went to Malcolm MacDonald, minister of colonies, who was upset that the United States and Britain should be working at cross-purposes, and telephoned his friend Lord Beaver-brook Beaver-brook back in Washington to have Churchill straighten the matter out with Roosevelt By that time, Sam Reber, in the state department had telephoned R. E. Barclay of the British embassy wanting to know what the British were up to, and every Anglo-American co-ordinator seemed to be In every other Anglo-American co-ordi-na tor's hair. What the President said to his secretary of state is their secret but in the end Mr. Hull adopted a milder tone toward the Free French and is working out a compromise agreement with the Canadians. The crux of the controversy, of course, is that Mr. Hull still believes be-lieves in appeasing Vichy, and the British gave that up long ago. The British say that General De-Gaulle De-Gaulle did most of the fighting for the Allied cause in Syria, while Vichy, in resisting, killed many British Brit-ish troops. So they are going to stick with DeGaulle. But whichever side is right the British or Secretary Hull it might pay to work out some teamwork in advance. MERRY-GO-ROUND Lend-lease officials were puzzled by a British request for "horn and hoof meal" manufactured from dead cattle until they learned it was excellent ex-cellent for extinguishing incendiary bombs. Most staggering lend-lease request was for one railroad complete with locomotives and freight cars. The order has been filled, and shipped off to Iran. Before buying cloth for army raincoats, rain-coats, the quartermaster depot in Philadelphia tests it with a machine that creates an artificial rain storm. For military reasons details can't be revealed, but the U. S. is producing pro-ducing an anti-aircraft gun that is more powerful and deadly than any now in use in the army. The new weapon is designed to combat stratosphere strat-osphere bombers. E , rr j . -J . : mJ mm r 'If - iK-J -! M i uHy From Germany comes a photograph (left) passed by the propaganda bureau containing the a crack at Adolf. And here is Jacqnes Soustelle Hitler in Mexico City, at ceremony known as tl an effigy of Hitler, Jacques found new Strength in his arm. mission: "A German motorized unit stalled by snow on the Eastern front." Thus did Old King hW l rritrht). renresentative or tne Free Frpnoh o ' r -viii laninir ... , rw:n tM mrAl.M r14 4 .AAMnnir Irnnttrn oa ftia hrpakitisr of thfi "nLnata." Afl thp nlnafa I- n Singapore, Gibraltar of East, Is Rich Prize 1 ? 'Of s-. it, m. - stv - i r-L -i" . V; TT w town oTp V i-v :v: A r kl-Trt V'.-rt rt iv. Mh. ' i..ii,ll..l.l i, , The defenses of Singapore, the Gibraltar of the East, are, naturally, military secrets, but this map tf British Island fortress gives some idea of the city's size, Its resources and harbor facilities. Raiti-fca the first days of the Paciflo war, Singapore was attacked repeatedly by Jap bombers but valiantly defeni Martial law was declared in the Singapore area shortly after the first attack by Japanese invaders. Putting Extra Stretch in Rubber We will all have to do without new automobile tires for the present. Nest best thing is a retreading job on your old ones, if they are too smooth for safety. At left yon see a re-treading operation in progress. A camel back, or new rubber top, is vulcanized to the old casing to give a new gripping tread. At the right is shown how a worn-out tire compares with one that has just been given a face lift, or a new tread The recapped tire is at left; the old "smoothy" beside it. ' As Gas Goes on Ration in Hawaii i. - Iwlik 111! nIt ? Ph0t0 Which was reccIved frm Honolulu shows Honoluln automobile owners lined Dp ever tw. block, on the first da, 22m? ? haD te Sel their easoline cke . No e the HotelGetsWarfrai II . VI ilk-' I ii ito'' li ii" 1 Completing the job Jn sandbags outside the office of Hotel Bossert in rooJ barriers were Installed son orgamziiuii in case of an air raid. Guards Singapore Ueut. Gen. . .Z, fitl r : t job - ropnam. t .- .. the Jap invasion e. i- fcps |