Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward 0 wayne biggest budget m in i worlds history for expanding of U S war program will cost nation 56 billion dollars russians continue to push back nazis EDITORS NOTE when opinions ord are espres ed in th columbi colum lumn ni her ore alio th of the t h new ani and not arly 1 0 this newspaper ml released by krohnn western newspaper anion 4 OF SOMEWHERE IN CHINA Veter veteran ars chinese soldiers of this type pictured at a railway station somewhere in china are advancing toward malaya malay m to aid the hard pressed forces of the british against the japs it was as reported e porte d that veterans of this type took part in the slaughter ol of jap troops troop s in the Chang sha china sector TAXES billions on billions americans who had been given grim satisfaction by the presidents a stirring message to congress faced with what courage they could muster the huge bill that will have to be paid 66 56 billions of dollars congress to a man had told the president we will give you the money money 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 of worrying decided t to 0 dig down into its earnings to toot 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 th the a due bill as it Is spent on the he basis of people the expenditure in taxes for the federal 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 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 billions or three times the total cost to this th is country of world war no 1 mr roosevelt frankly had bad told newsmen it was the biggest budget in the history ol of the world government authorities said it was twice the estimated annual war expenditure of germany on top of the taxes it would be n necessary to borrow 32 billions the national debt therefore would skyrocket to or about three times tim es the huge figure of june 1940 the nine extra billions the president said would be divided into seven billions in direct taxes of various types though he said he opposed a general sales ales s tax the ther other 0 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 thi the army 17 billions for supplement but unspecified items seven billions to the navy 7 billions for the lease lend program 1 billions for the maritime commissions merchant ship program the rest for miscellaneous cel laneous 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 and world britain was exultant over the program believed it il adequate tor 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 ha A 1 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 john curtin said the presidents depts 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 to publish the figures planes tanks in 1943 germans also were not allowed to discover what the american production 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 a future that would come too late JAPAN still pressing reports from the far eastern fronts front with the exception of china were ur 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 a and d slowly falling back toward sing acore the japs apparently had complete mastery of the air in luzon and it was deemed only a question of time how long G general macar thurs army could hold out where the main defense was coming was obscure and remained a military secret but there 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 chinese army in burma together with other othe allied rAllied forces readying themselves 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 A glance at the southwest pacific maps showed the position of java and sumatra and their relation lop to the malacca straits and the open ocean route to the 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 china sea and into the open south pacific and that could only be done with grievous results to the land campaign REDS increasing 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 german arms in the north around leningrad turkey had temperatures tar far below zero coldest in turkish history and that was an 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 ot of sevastopol the russians were gaining in the donets basin AFRICA british winning british sources reported they had bad evidence that general rommel had bad virtually given up hope of eventual retreat from libya and had resolved on a pitch battle in the most favorable ground he could find this was a plateau on which there was considerably more clay foundation than desert sand which would aid the german mechanized forces and afford better than aver average ageland landing spots tor for planes cause for study senator walter F george of georgia chairman of the senate finance committee is pictured looking over the 1172 pages of the 1943 fiscal fi year budget his chief interest in the budget would be a tudy study of it with a view of planning new tax measures the war budget calls for 56 FARMER has prospects president roosevelt ivas vas seen by senate leaders as opposed to the proposal of the farm arm 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 ot of farm arm 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 is getting support tor 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 cotton similarly could be p purchased ur c for 16 2 cents a pound and could go to 1965 19 65 cents before the law would take over control beet beef however had currently been 5 selling elling higher than it would under the bill he be added also getting considerable support was a senator taft proposal that neither nor henderson be given farm price control but that th at it be vested in a board of five members this tatt taft proposal might form the test of sentiment on tue other two proposals CHINA Chang C sha victory the chinese victory over the japs at Chang sha was termed by chiang kalchek kai Kal shek as a possible turning point of the war it was the third successive setback for the japanese at this city and the most disastrous disa 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 got more as the fleeing nipponese attempted to cross a nearby river with chinese lying ambushed on the tar 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 nen men 1 few of them according to were able to get away to the north ZEPPELINS raid the east army author authorities aties in washington agton 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 tor for just such a trip but which never came 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 12 2 type capable of flying the atlantic each ot of them army men 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 for th the airships themselves to be loaded with an enormous quantity of bombs and to make a sul side cide flight over one or more eastern cities dropping their deadly cargoes before planes bould shoot them down miscellany ANY 1 london terrific raids on bocc occupied u countries in europe were believed the definite forerunner ot of an invasion attempt on europe by the allies it was said in wormed informed quarters the invasion is set for or springtime ottawa canadas production for war will be nearly doubled in line with the presidents prest dents plans for or the united states I 1 |