Show news Sevi esi of Clor current rent events BILLION FOR DEFENSE president ent wants bigger navy budget message reveals reveal s larger deficit less revenue ft w X K i i 1 I x z silk to feed anti japanese bonfire flames is being gathered from the shapely limbs is of girls at vassar college poughkeepsie N Y where the delegates to the third annual convention of the american student union staged a demonstration for a boycott against japanese goods silk stockings shirts and neckties were buived summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK Q newspaper union budget message summary X ORE vitally important than his ia annual message on the state of the nation was president roose volts budget message to congress in it he forecast oie cast a deficit of 1088 for the current fiscal year which ends on june 30 and a deficit I 1 of for the 1939 fiscal year there was no promise that the budget would be balanced in the near future the national revenue estimates being reduced because of the business depression nearly a billion dollars was asked by the president for national defense because of world conditions over which this nation has no control ol and more may be called tor for soon tor for the same purpose summarized the presidents budget statement said i revenues for the next fiscal year maw i 11 total a 01 from the present fiscal r 1 year Expedit expenditures ures exclusive of debt retirements will total 6 a decrease of from the present fiscal year national defense appropriations will total an increase of later the president may ask for additional funds to construct several extra naval vessels relief expenditures tor for the next fiscal yer will total roughly 1138 a decrease of from the present fiscal year tha the deficit will be financed th through rough social security and other trust funds and not through public borrowing the deficit estimate for the fiscal year which ends june 30 has been rals raised ed from to 1088 because of the business recession E expenditures for new highways new rivers and harbors projects new public buildings new reclamation projects and other new public works will be reduced sharply the public debt will reach a record high of on june so 30 1939 K for national defenso defense E FORE the reading of the BEFORE budget message in congress had been con concluded eluded tle tl e president was in conference in the white house with men who will have most to do with putting into effect his plans for strengthening the national defense these were assistant sec detary of the navy charles edl edison and admiral william D leahy chief of naval operations chairman edward T taylor of the house appropriations committee chairman carl vinson of the house naval affairs committee and representative william B umstead chairman of the appropriations subcommittee sub committee on naval appropriations the group considered additions to the navy building program including recommendations for beginning construction on five battleships to replace all obsolete american capital vessels ten to fifteen cruisers and additional submarines destroyers and auxiliary craft senators hear about autos ASTER A arter listening for two days to kil k IL government officials the senate committee studying merit and relief turned to industrial leaders for information and advice it began with the automotive industry receiving a long and exhaustive hau stive statement from the automobile manufacturers association which includes all the most important concerns con cerna in the industry except the ford company major points in the statement were in 1937 automobiles were produced in the united states au per cent less than in 1929 employment averaged largest ever and 18 16 per cent above 1929 the automobile industry was the only one having en an increase in labor cost per unit of output since 1929 weekly earnings of workers averaged for first eight months of 1937 at present dealers have on hand about new cars hI highest gIest since 1930 manufacturers have very large inventories of parts and sub assemblies hourly wage rates are 30 per cent above 1929 all direct manufacturing costs equal to 1929 but auto prices per pound are still 13 per cent below 1929 t sutherland retires huge HAVING passed them retirement as of seventy five years associate justice george sutherland Pu sutherland therland notified quit his seat in the supreme court on january 18 like justice van devanter he win will still bs be eligible for duty in the lower courts at VI his own pleasure justice suther landa land a former unit pa ed states senator ea 11 ll ilia from allom utah and a a aia former president of sherman the 05 american bar minton association was appointed supreme court by president harding in 1922 he was born in Bucking hamshire england and was brought to the united states in his infancy lie ile was identified with the conservative wing of the court immediately upon the announcement of sutherlands herlands Sut retirement everyone began guessing as to his I 1 successor it was taken for granted that mr roosevelt would select a liberal prominent among those mentioned tor for the place was senator sherman minton of indiana a steadfast supporter SUP of the new deal if the appointment goes to the middle west gov frank murphy of michigan seemed to stand a good chance except tor for the fact that new york state already has three men in the court senator robert ri wagner would be near the top of the list of possibilities solicitor general stanley reed of kentucky was the favorite of many but there tire are two other southerners on the bench others suggested were judge william denman of california Call for lloyd K X garrison odthe university of wisconsin and donald chberg Rl former general counsel and later chairman chair manof of the remembering the hugo black episode the senate will 11 carefully scrutinize the presidents nominee k ford wont comply REFUSED a reopening of its case before the labor relations board the ford motor company served notice it would not comply with the boards order to cease and desist from alleged violations of the wagner labor act and to reinstate instate certain discharged ny workers ork the board decided to ask a circuit court pi of appeals to enforce its decision sion and the case probably wilt wili be carried up to the supreme court c cant limit strikes national labor relations THE A board informed congress in its annual report that legal limitations on the right to strike would be unconstitutional consal tut ional the statement was made inthe face of a reviving drive to amend the wagner act under which the board operates and to take steps to increase trades unions responsibility hill to be alabama senator EP LISTER HILL adminis tra artion REP tion adherent is to be the new senator from alabama in the democratic primaries he defeated former senator tom heflin and that Is equivalent to election the seat he will have formerly filled by hugo black has been occupied since blacks elevation to the supreme court by dixie bibb graves wife of governor graves but it was agreed that she he would resign as soon as an election was held mr hill who is forty three years old will be one ot of the youngest members ot of the senate ile he has been serving as chairman of the house military affairs committee kno now new doal deal retreat his annual message on arthe READING the state of the nation before the senate and house at the opening of congress president roosevelt de dared his purpose to advance upon the same fundamentals of the new deal that have hitherto been proposed ro posed he said el 1 I do not propose to let the people down I 1 am sure the congress of the united states will not let the people down we hold our principles and our objectives objective president to be sound we will Ito roosevelt sevelt never go back on thern them the president again urged congress to enact legislation for control of wages and hours of work lie he asked that all segments of the nation operate cooperate co with the government to achieve better economic balance reasserting his approval of proposed changes in tax laws he said three things should be kept in mind first the total sum to be derived by the federal treasury must not be decreased as a result of any changes in schedules second abuses by individuals or corporations designed to escape by using various methods of doing business corporate and other otherwise lse abuses abuse s which we have sought with great success to end must not be restored third we should rightly change certain provisions where they are proven to work definite hardship especially on the small business men of the notion nation but speculative income should not be favored over earned income speaking of his attitude toward the nations nation business as a whole mr roosevelt declared the overwhelming majority ol of businessmen business men and bankers intend to be good citizens only a small minority have displaced poor citizenship zens bip by engaging in practices which we bare dishonest or deAf definitely tely harmful to society this statement is straightforward and true no person in any responsible place in the government of the united sta states tes has ever taken any position contrary to it lie he called for prompt agreements on a farm program now in conference between the house and senate and asked specifically that congress keep the cost of its administration within the figure of current govern government me nt expenditures in old aid ol of agriculture power loans OX OK THE Tern HE supreme court ruled the gov ment could make loans and grants tor for publicly owned electric plan plants ts secretary ickes the public works administrator said the decision would affect construction of 52 power projects costing for which his agency had bad allotted as loans to be repaid and as federal grants justice sutherland delivered the opinion of the court c farle parley y finds a surplus i TIM IM PARLEY FARLEY in his annual re port as postmaster general was able to show a surplus of more than 12 millions tor for his department to do this however he deducted an expense item of about 60 million dollars calling it a non postal item he charged oft off the air and ocean mail subsidies and all free mall mail dealing with the activities atthe of the postal inspection service parley farley said the traffic in spurious lott lottery 0 ry tickets is believed to have been broken up with the arrest and conviction of a band of racketeers in the fast east who disposed of more than 10 million dollars worth of such tickets in the last few years K china reorganization INSTEAD of surrendering to the japanese invaders the government of china has been reorganized and plans made lor for continued resistance si against the enemy chiang cheang kaiz shek as was predicted some som e time n ago in this column has dropped all his civil duties and will devote himself to building up and leading the army he Is now commander in chief of the land forces and tern tem is chiang sk pora por rily airily at the head kai kal shek of the navy finance minister H IL kung his brother inlaw in law succeeds him as president ot of the executive yuan or premier and other important changes have been made tn in ministries and key posts it was announced that he has in training a new army of men to support the who are combating the japanese |