Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH TV labine higher liquor tax considered to finance defense program election year levy unpopular E EDI TOIlS NOTE when opinions are arc expressed in these columns they are those of the news analyst unit and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union CONGRESS budget u adget blues what franklin Roosevel ts budget message tossed into the congressional lap was a choice of following his recommendations and getting a deficit icat of only or defying him ond and making it about slashed were most items but boosted to a peacetime record was national defense if the presidents ideas are followed and if p previous authorizations are appropriated pria ted the cost will run well over very shallow was the hope that an early european peace may obviate the defense program it op ap feared instead that congress must enter an election year trance and decide which plan the public would swallow the easier zhe taxes to raise as the president asked or a boost in the national debt limit within a few days it was obvious that good democrats were sparring for time they gathered in huddles to wonder where tax money might be raised tentatively settling on new liquor taxes and a slight boost in income levies is pat har rason chairman of the senate finance 1 VA P PAT HARRISON will john barleycorn pay committee publicly doubted cheth er the defense program was justified yet he shied away from caiti cluing the president finally with white house blessing he ha sought moro more time by asking a joint legislative committee to study the roose boose budget but congress apparently pare patently Atly ly refusing turned instead to that hardy perennial the antl lyn lunching lynching ching bill notes in an election year congress and politics are intimately associated many G 0 P comments were forthcoming after the presidents budget message samples L at topeka 1038 1030 G 0 P bandl date alt landon thought this about the slash in expenditures it if the president really is serious in his budget plans you will hear howls all over the place lie got get the nomination now if 11 he wanted it he Is too smart a politician to try it C at chicago chios son sen robert tatt taft accepted the presidents challenge to submit a plan for balancing the budget the tatt taft plan 1 determination by the president to bal tince it 2 elimination of bureaus reduction of employees 3 return of relief to states and changes in housing agriculture and loan agencies 4 elimination of local works grants reduction of federal public works and reduction of subsidies 5 elimination of budget pets like army and navy items BALKANS squabbles before 1040 has gone its way the brave nation of rumania may see trouble plenty aplenty a it started that way bucharest heard that bulgaria its unfriendly southern neighbor had signed a trade pact with russia which wants the rumanian province of Bes sarabia next king carol heard that Hun garys count stefan csaky whose nation will sel seize ze rumanian transylvania it if russia invades Bes sarabia was vas conferring in italy with loreign foreign l minister clano A political realist italis benito mussolini knows the balkans have a better chance of blocking russian aggression which would also hurt italy if they settle their squabbles in advance purpose of the clano csaky conversations therefore was to urge hungary and rumania to settle their revisionist problem immediately med lately in so doing 11 II duce took a hearty slap at the soviet so did king carol encouraged to defend Bes sarabia now that the finns are doing a remarkable job against russian aggression carol and his retinue crossed into this dangerous province defied moscow and smiled while Bessar ablan minority leaders shouted we pled pledge ge our lives for our beloved rumanian numa alan fatherland ASIA ready the time is now ripe for establishment of a new central government in china careful study reveals that the objectives of wang ching wei are consonant with japans manifest efforts toward helping in the formation and expansion of the proposed new government thus after much backslapping back slapping browbeating brow beating and tutoring puppet wang ching wel wei was announced ready to take over japans make believe government in conquered parts of china THE WARS Shake shakeup tip far bigger than the war on frances western front wa was 1 the battle of london called to a cabinet meeting by prime minister neville chamberlain was leslie hore here Bell belissa Be lisha sha dynamic jewish minister of war who has built the british army from a stodgy and antiquated organization into one of the worlds smartest minister borc belosha was asked to sign his resignation also fired was lord macmillan blundering bun dering minister of information announced purpose of the shake up was to establish national unity social grounds neville chamberlain did just that there was national unity but it was unity of 11 opposition to the sacking of an efficient war minister in favor of oliver stanley the 43 year old board of trade president whose father seventeenth earl of derby was a war minister in world war days by next morning every british paper regardless of political lean ings was blasting against the government ern ment typical was the london star it if it is shown that mr hore balisha was thrown overboard to satisfy a clique of generals who disliked him on social grounds or because ho he was pressing the pace of democracy in the army too strongly then public resentment will be wide deep and lasting to both hore belosha end and the prime minister an opportunity for rebuttal was coming but it would probably take place behind closed I 1 d doors in the house of com commons meanwhile it was rumored that winston win ton churchill first lord of the j ad admiralty rally would soon follow stan ley as war chief other war news western front minor artillery ire fire entertainment by the fabulous albert french airman whose daring antics along the luxembourg frontier keep natives in stitches northern front finnish destruct dc de tion lion of still a third russian divi slon sion the forty fourth near suo mus salmi ml at Fin lands waistline fighting was stalemated stale mated in the far north and on the isthmus but in the central part finnish troops penetrated russ lines to dynamite the leningrad railroad thus isolating the northland LABOR A F foal of L damned by receiving more votes than either of his fellow members william lesserson Lel was ranked least unpopular in a poll by tho the magazine factory management but all three members lesserson Lel warren madden and edwin S smith should be fired said voters this contrasted with a supreme court ruling which held congress not NLRB responsible by virtue of too much power for unpopular decisions decision S co coddled addled and cursed by such conflicting testimony 3 NLRB went on trial again before the house committee appointed to investigate MRS BIRS HERRICK DERRICK it new evl evi how longloh long oh lord d dence A discharged NLRB trial examiner said that regional director robert cowdrill of indianapolis always speeded C 1 I 0 cases but tossed aside A F of L cases with the statement theres another damned A F of L case commented the witness the A F of L usually was referred to as the damned A F of L 11 next came a dramatic paper prepared by mrs ellnore M herrick Herr lck new york regional NLRB director complaining about delays in procedure said her paper we must how long how long must we NAVY new boss G L cannon roared aboard dread in san peoro pedro harbor finally after much saluting six foot admiral james richardson from paris texas strode down the pennsylvania 8 quarterdeck quart erdeck to shake hands with admiral claude bloch admiral richardson stayed as command er ln in chiet of the U S navy admiral bloch went ashore as a rear admiral in reU retirement rement ahead lay commandership of pearl harbor naval base in hawaii COMMERCE garne game in faraway far away buenos alres aires took place a show that may have been staged far the benent benefit of the U S congress broken off suddenly were reciprocal trade treaty talks between ambassador norman armour and president roberto M ortiz reasons given 1 influence of britain ain no 1 importer of argentine beef baet 2 a forthcoming election in argentina 3 refusal of argentina to remove discriminations against U S goods and most important 4 refusal of the U S to import argentine canned beet and flaxseed from argentina without quota limitations maybe yes and maybe no but it was possible that U S insistence on quota limitations even at the price of sacrificing the treaty was designed to allay the tears fears of western farmers and their congre congressmen esmen up for renewal this year is the re cipro cal trade act basis of the administrations trat ions lons entire low tariff program already faced with enough opposition to either destroy the act or give ratification power back to the senate the state department is eager to show farmers that the trade program wont be allowed to hurt them PEOPLE L dawes n daives death C at chicago died rufus hufus C dawes 72 president of A century of progress exposition financier brother of former vice president charles G dawes last november son elliott roosevelt fathered the transcontinental broadcasting system which first planned to start operations with stations on december 15 then january 1 then february 1 in fort worth where here he heads the texas state radio network elliott an bounced his resignation from TBS C L at boston died mrs effle 1 I canning carlton about 84 who once made up an impromptu tune to lull lul to sleep the restless baby of a neigh bor the song rock a bye baby cat L at new mew york wf V alton jones was named head of catlet avire co |