| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS favors higher taxes to restrict size of public debt defeat inflation russia continues steam roller attack unconditional surrender allied terms EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion are ar expressed in these columns tiny they are thole of t western newspaper unions union news new analysts and not necessarily ot of this newspaper paper f released by western newspaper union TAXES S more in war economy higher taxes that in short Is president Roosevel ts recipe for offsetting the tremendous federal war time expenditure and at the same time heading beading off inflation said the president the government will spend billion dollars during the next year the public debt is expected to increase by 69 billion to billion dollars by june 1944 the national income should approximate billion dollars for the year but the manufacture of civilian goods has been sharply reduced thus leaving the public with large amounts of surplus money with which to bid up prices for smaller supplies hence the presidents conclusion more taxes with which to meet current expenditure and restrict the size ot of the mounting public debt and with which to mop up excess inflationary buying power 6 billion at most alost president Roosevel ts call for increased taxes was met by sen walter F georges prediction that the most that could be expected to be raised was 5 or 6 billion dollars the influential chairman of the senate finance com committees committe ee senator george said of the 5 or 6 billion J dollars about senator george 60 per P cent wm will have t to 0 be obtained from individual taxpayers the rest could be gotten by raising the corporate normal and surtax rate and broadening the federal tax on goods declaring the U S stands to 10 collect 35 billion dollars under present rates george said any increases in individual rates would bear most with low or moderate fixed incomes RUSSIA at the cites gates dussias Rus sias steam rolling attack on orel continued to meet heavy resistance even as the red columns bore into the suburbs of the big nazi base As the russians pr pressure assure in increased long lines of german troops were seen withdrawing westward toward the secondary nazi hub of Bryan sk slugging matches raged all along the winding 1200 mile front the reds attacked heavily south of leningrad in an effort to widen the corridor leading to the besieged city both sides fought to a standstill in the donets basin and the russians stabbed stiffly at the nazis foothold along the black sea at principal action of the summer centered at orel here the russians with masses of infantry following up in the echo of thunderous artillery fire and chugging tank attacks jabbed deeper and deeper into german defenses until they stood at the gates of the city itself RIOTS harlem allegedly interfering with the arrest of a negro woman in the lobby of a new york hotel a colored 77 soldier was shot by a police officer while the wounded man was being removed to a hospital a crowd collected wild rumors began to de circulate a pop bottle was thrown and the worst riot since 1935 in fiorello americas largest laguardia city was set os off negroes stormed through har lems business districts plate glass windows were smashed stores were looted crumpled merchandise littered the streets six thousand policemen aided by 1500 wartime auxiliaries ili il aries laries were called to restore order in imposing a 1030 p in curfew mayor fiorello Fic rello laguardia moaned shame has come to our city five negroes were killed and persons were injured more than arrests were made property damage was estimated at 5 million dollars ITALY allied terms when benito government fell one of the requisite conditions for an allied treatment with italy for peace was established to marshall pietro badoglio baroglio Ba doglio italis first soldier was given the charge of a new military regime the hectic days following fall saw a diplomatic stew axis sources declared that badig lios assumption of power was a perfectly natural evolution since what was more appropriate for a country faced with invasion than to concentrate all action in the hands of a military commander meanwhile diplomatic skirmishing indicated proposals from the allies the allies laid down these terms for peace 1 cessation of resistance 2 an end of collaboration with germany 3 withdrawal of italian troops from greece albania and 4 surrender of war materials undamaged 5 establishment of an anglo american soviet military government of occupation 6 arrest of war criminals and 7 release of all allied prisoners of war in italy decisive action viewing the campaign in sicily military authorities might well credit the americans of gen geo george rge S pattons Pat tons command and the canadians under gen bernard montgomery with decisive action in the final phase of the fighting with british forces stalled before strong axis positions in the Ca plains to the southeast of the defensive triangle roaring ng artillery covered general pat tons seventh ardys cautious advance over barren hills in the face of mortar fire from enemy sheltered m in trenches and caves capturing i raz am 1 7 hoax IF ro maj gen G G simonds commanding the first canadian division wades ashore during daring operations in sicily troina Americans the cut the supply road linking the axis right flank with their left and bending the whole enemy line in this sector toward the sea farther to the south canadians broke through the axis stronghold of regalbuto thus menacing the whole batanian Ca line from the rear the advance also put the canadians within sight of the supply road rimming towering mt etna along whose slopes the axis have entrenched themselves SOUTHWEST PACIFIC tanks in jungles brought into the light fight after aircraft had failed to reduce sufficiently strongholds strong holds the japs had hewed in the jungle 13 ton tanks led the americans drive on munda in the solomons unable to detect the japs positions through the dense brush and foliage aircraft were compelled to drop their bombs over a wide area hoping that a heavy tonnage would land on some defenses but whenever the infantry attempted to advance after the barrage it met stiff enemy machine gun and mortar fire from the concealed pill boxes then the tanks were flung into the battle grinding their way through the thick growth they drew the fire of the hidden enemy following the course of the gunfire gun fire the tank crews discovered the japs strong points and then blasted them at point blank range by such tactics they gradually overran stubborn centers of resistance as the drive approached I 1 the encircled jap base DRAFT call dads oct 1 fathers 18 to 37 years of age who are not key men in agriculture and industry will be inducted into I 1 service starting october tober 1 according cording to the war manpower commission they will be called in their draft order numbers regardless of the number of their children the announcement no of the forthcoming burton K H draft of dads wheeler drew an immedi ate promise from sen burton K X wheeler that he would press for passage of his bill postponing the induct induction inductivo io n of fathers until january i 1 when congress reconvenes september 14 according to the fathers will be called only when draft boards run out of men in the other classifications some boards are expected to be faced with that predicament by october 1 others are not thus delaying the induction of dads in their districts beyond the date approximately childless married men are to be called by october 1 miles per hour last september 36 year old col cass S hough of plymouth mich took his P 38 lockheed lightning fighter plane feet in the air then colonel hough coolly nosed the plane into a power dive and down it roared cutting through the wind before it at miles per hour before being leveled off at feet but last february colonel hough decided to crowd two thrills into a lifetime this time he took a P 47 thunderbolt feet up and again plunged it into a whining power dive straightening out once more at feet technical director of the fth american fighter command colonel hough undertook the two flights to obtain scientific information for assisting fighter pilots for his services the european commander of fighter planes decorated him with the distinguished flying cross in private life vice president of the daisy air rifle manufacturing company colonel hough is married and has two children production planer a month thirty four years ago congress appropriated for the army to purchase its first airplane a wright brothers 1909 model cl CI craft with a wing span of 48 feet 62 62 z inches and a four cylinder 28 horsepower motor capable of flying 32 miles per hour the plane could stay in the air 2 hours and 19 minutes today american aircraft production averages planes a month with the army air forces receiving of the total of sleek high powered craft since the attack on pearl harbor planes have been delivered to the army and up to june 30 1943 40 billion dollars was allotted to the air forces against americas record production it was estimated that the axis puts out planes monthly of this total germany makes 2200 japan 1200 and italy BERLIN ordered evacuated with germanys germanas Germ anys great industrial port of hamburg laying in ruins with of its people killed and N ap of its factories ries demolished P paul joseph goebbels ordered all residents of berlin not engaged in essential war work to leave the city the nazis made no effort to minimize the destruction in hamburg besides the vast paul goebbels number kill killed e d it was reported an additional were missing and were injured along with industrial installations large residential areas were wiped out it was said and others were badly mauled hauled in ordering the evacuation of berlin goebbels instructed residents with relations in other parts of germany to make use of such accommodations while those who could not were told to apply to the government for housing facilities according to reports the nazis prepared for mass evacuation several months ago laying up stores at central points throughout inner germany |
