| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward C wayne biggest budget in worlds history for expanding of U S war program will cost nation 56 billion dollars dollars russians continue to push back nazis rd opinions opinion are express expressed eA la in tite they their are ar hose e of the tha news new analyst and not 1 y of abl thin released by western newspaper New paper union 1 11 11 M 17 vl I 1 01 s A I 1 v g 4 4 Z ILE IN veteran chinese soldiers or of this type pictured at 9 A railway station somewhere in china are advancing t toward oward malaya to old aid the liard hard pressed forces of the british against tho the japs it was reported that veterans of this his type took took part la in the slaughter of jap troops in the Chang sha china sector TAXES billions illions If ott on Bil billions liotis americans who had been given grim satisfaction by the presidents stirring message to congress faced with what courage they could mus ter the huge bill that will have to be paid SO 50 billions of dollars congress to a man had told the president we will give you the money had said we can and will do it end and labor said we will not stop working and the country with surprisingly little grumbling but with no small measure 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 its as it Is spent on the basis of people the expenditure in taxes for the fed eral war program added to whatever local and state taxes might be levied would be tor for each person man woman or child for or a family of four our that of course was an average with those better oble able to pay shouldering the larger portion of the burden the overall war expenditure estimate was thus brought to billions or three times the total cost to this country of world war no 1 L mr roosevelt frankly had told newsmen it was the biggest budget in the history of the world government I 1 authorities said it was twice the estimated annual war ex expenditure of germany on top of the taxes it would be necessary to borrow 32 billions the national debt therefore would skyrocket to or about three times the huge figure of june 1040 1940 at the e nine extra billions the president said would be divided into seven billions in direct taxes of various types though he said ho he opposed a general sales tax the other two billions would be uthe 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 1812 18 billions for thearty th the army earmy 17 billions for or supplement but unspecified items seven billions to the navy 7 billions for the lease lend program 1 14 billions tor for the maritime commissions merchant ship program the rest for miscellaneous cellan cel purposes perhaps a billion can be lopped off of non defense government activities tivi tivit ties les the president said that Is all REACTION local arul and word britain was exultant over the program believed it adequate for the swiftest possible victory and praised the administration to the skies for the stand it was taking and the X YZ Y Z or all out plan to win the war one london headline had been typical the yanks are coming which was the british answer to president Roosevel ts promise to send to the british isles a large australian premier prem lur john curtin said the presidents plan was one for working and fighting italy called the plan and spectacular and was not to be believed nevertheless the italian censors did not permit the newspapers to publish the figures planes tanks in 1943 Geri germans nans also were not allowed to discover what the american production plans were and the retch reich sources were belittling calling the program a warm over ot of previous utterances by the president italians went further and said that these armaments were all in the future a future that would come too late JAPAN still pressing reports from the far east eastern ern fronts with tho 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 failing back bach toward singapore the japs apparently hoa had complete mastery of the air in luzon and it was deemed only a question of time how long general macar thurs army could hold out where the main defense was coming was obscure and remained a military secret but there thera were certain indications which were said to be giving tokyo plenty to worry about for instance the naming of wavell as supreme commander and the placing of a well trained chi ch nese army in burma together with other allied forces readying themselves tor for an onslaught on the japanese 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 eions A glance at the southwest pacific maps showed the position of it java find and sumatra and their relation to to the malacca straits and the open ocean routs 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 sid erable naval force out of the chi na sea and into the open south pacific and that could only be done with grievous results to the land cam campaign REDS hi increasing creasing pace news from russia had been uniformly good with towns reported captured in one week enemy troops slain and huge quantities of booty taken hitler went to the front made his headquarters at sk and suddenly 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 the disaster befalling the getman german arms in the north around leningrad turkey had temperatures tar far below zero coldest in turkish history and that was ah aft indication indication of what the ill prepared germans and their italian and rumanian allies had to stand in the crimea ordinarily dina rily the warmest part of russia the germans were resisting most strongly on the central front in the north the russians had even recaptured hogland island which had been taken by the finns and it was evident that the Fin landers reportedly deserted by their nazi comrades were rapidly getting into the safest possible places and losing one dangerous spot after another 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 on a pitch battle in the most favorable ground he could ind find this vm a plateau bateau on which there was considerably more clay foundation than desert sand which would aid the german mechanized forces and afford better than average land hig ui puts cuts for planes planer cause for study y ai senator walter F george of georgia chairman of the senate finance committee is pictured looking over the ho 1172 pages of the 1943 fiscal year budget bu aget his chie chief id inter est its in t the e budget would evoi bo be a study dy ol of it with a view of planning new tax measures the war budget calls ails c for or 56 FARMER has pt prospects aspects president roosevelt was seen by a senate enate leaders ns 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 it if it came to that would be close indeed secretary Is getting 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 wheat would be a possibility the average market price on december 15 was cotton similarly could bo be purchased for cents a pound and could go to 1963 1905 cents before the law would take over control beet beef however had currently been selling higher than it would under the bill he ha added men also getting considerable support was a senator taft proposal that neither nor henderson be given farm price control but that it be vested in a board of five members this taft proposal might form the test of sentiment on the other two proposals CHINA Chang sha victory the chinese victory over the japs at Chang sha was termed by chiang kal kai shek as a possible turning point ot of the war it was the thiril successive 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 indochina indo china direct to menace the jap rear and relieve the pressure on malaya the chinese said that in addition to the japs killed in the battle they them got 1000 more as the fleeing nipponese attempted to cross a nearby river with chinese lying ambushed on the far bank A jap force of was said to be trapped in one locality the total estimated japanese strength of the drive on Chang sha was men few of them according to were able to get away to the north ZEPPELINS raid the vast east army authorities in washington said it definitely was waa 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 came oft off the sister ship of the von hinden burg which was destroyed by flames in new jersey was said to be still in existence together with another zeppelin of the LZ L Z type capable of flying the atlantic each of them army men mch said could be loaded with 10 bombing planes could drop them to takeoffs within easy flying distance of east coast cities or they pointed out it would be possible tor for the airships themselves them selves to be loaded with an enormous quantity of bombs and to make a suicide flight over one or more eastern cities dropping their deadly cargoes before planes could shoot them down miscellany london terrific raids on occupied countries in europe were believed 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 canadas production for war will be nearly doubled riou Iou bled in line with the presidents plans for the united states |
