| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Favors Higher Taxes to Restrict I Size of Public Defeat Russia Continues Steam Roller Unconditional Surrender Allied Terms When opinions are expressed In these they are those of Western Newspaper I news analyst and not of this Released by Western Newspaper Union More in War Economy Higher taxes in if President Roosevelt's recipe for offsetting the tremendous federal wartime expenditure and at the same time heading off Said the The government will spend billion dollars during the next The public debt is expected to increase by 69 billion to billion dollars by The national income should approximate billion dollars for the But the manufacture of civilian goods has been sharply thus leaving the public with large amounts of surplus money with which to bid up prices for smaller Hence the President's More taxes with which to meet current expenditure and restrict the size of the mounting public and with which to mop up excess inflationary buying 6 Billion at Most President Roosevelt's call for increased taxes was met by Wal- ter F. George's I prediction t h n t jc-HeC 0 most t h a t K could be expect- jt ed to be raised A I 5 or 6 billion L J chairman of the M senate finance H BBB of the 5 or 6 bil- mm about Senator George 60 per cent will have to be obtained from individual The rest could be gotten by raising the corporate normal and surtax rate and broadening the federal tax on Declaring the U. S stands to collect 35 billion dollars under present George said any increases in Individual rates would bear most with low or moderate fixed At the City's Gates Russia's 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' pressure in- long lines of German troops were seen withdrawing westward toward the secondary Nazi hub of Slugging matches raged all along the winding mile The j Reds attacked heavily south of Len- j ingrad in an effort to widen the cor- I leading to the besieged both sides fought to a standstill in the Donets and the Russians stabbed stiffly at the Nazis' foothold along the Black sea at Principal action of the summer centered at Orel the with masses of infantry following up in the echo of thunderous fire and chugging tank jabbed deeper and deeper into German until they stood at the gates of the city Sweep Harlem Allegedly interfering with the arrest of a Negro woman in the lobby of a New York a colored r soldier was shot by a police jr Jp wounded i was being re A moved to a hos- a crowd col- A mors began to I fl p p I bottle was I and the worst riot since 1935 in Fiorello America's largest LaGuardia city was set Negroes stormed through Harlem's business Plate glass windows were stores were crumpled merchandise littered the Six thousand policemen aided by wartime auxiliaries were called to restore order In imposing a p. m. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia has come to our Five Negroes were killed and persons were More than arrests were Property damage was estimated at 5 million i i Lin president of died after a long Chiang Kai-shek has been named acting Food output this year will be about 4 per cent higher than last according to department of agriculture estimates About three-fourths of the supply has been set aside for i Allied Terms When Benito Mussolini's government one of the requisite for an Allied treatment with I Italy for peace established To I Marshall Pietro Italy's first was given the charge of a new military The hectic days following Mussolini's fall saw a diplomatic Axis sources declared that lio's 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 I military Meanwhile diplomatic skirmishing indicated proposals from the The Allies laid down these terms J for 1 Cessation of An end of collaboration with 3 Withdrawal of Italian troops from Albania and 4 Surrender of war materials Establishment of an Anglo-American-Soviet military government of C. Arrest of war j and Release of all Allied prisoners of war in i Decisive Action Viewing the campaign in military authorities might well credit the Americans of George S. Patton's command and the Canadians under Bernard Montgomery with decisive action in the final phase of the With Montgomery's British forces stalled before strong Axis positions in the plains to the southeast of the defensive roaring artillery covered General Pat-ton's Seventh army's cautious advance over barren hills in the face of mortar fire from enemy sheltered in trenches and Capturing G. G. commanding the First Canadian wades ashore during operations in the Americans cut the supply road linking the Axis' right flank with their left and bending the whole enemy line in this sector toward the Farther to the Canadians broke through the Axis stronghold of thus menacing the whole line from the The advance also put the Canadians within sight of the supply road rimming towering along whose slopes the Axis have entrenched SOUTHWEST Tanks in Jungles Brought into the fight after aircraft had failed to reduce sufficiently strongholds the Japs had in the tanks led the Americans' drive on Munda in the Unable to detect the Japs' positions through the dense brush and aircraft were compelled to drop their bombs over a wide hoping that a heavy tonnage would land on some But whenever the infantry attempted to advance after the it met stiff enemy machine gun and mortar fire from the concealed Then the tanks were flung into the Grinding their way through the thick they drew the fire of the hidden Following the course of the the tank crews discovered the Japs' strong points and then blasted them at point blank range By such they gradually overran stubborn centers of I resistance as the drive approached I the encircled Jap Army Buys Less The army quartermaster corps will purchase about 50 per cent less wool and worsted products for the remainder of the and will defer buying these goods until the first four months of next according to the War Production This change in plans will immediately release about 10 million yards of material for civilian needs to be made into and winter Call Dads 7 Fathers 18 to 37 years of age who are not men in agriculture and industry will d d War Manpower they j I will be called in of the n o of the forthcoming Burton draft of dads Wheeler drew an immediate promise from Sen Burton Wheeler that he would press for passage of his bill postponing the induction of fathers until January 1 when congress reconvenes September 14 According to the fathers will be called only when draft boards run out of men in the other Some boards are expected to be faced with that predicament by October others are thus delaying the induction of dads in their districts beyond the Approximately childless married men are to be called by October I. Miles Per Last Cass S. Hough of took his Lockheed Lightning fighter plane feet in the Then Colonel coolly nosed the plane into a power and down it cutting through the wind before at miles per hour before being leveled off at But last Colonel Hough decided to crowd two thrills into a This he took a Thunderbolt feet up and again plunged it into a whining straightening out once more at I Technical director of the American fighter Colonel Hough undertook the two flights to obtain scientific 1 mation for assisting fighter For his services the European commander of fighter planes decorated him with the Distinguished Flying In private life vice president of the Daisy Air Rifle Manufacturing Colonel Hough is married and has two Planes a Month Thirty-four years congress appropriated for the army to purchase its first airplane a Wright brothers 1909 model CI with a wing span of 48 feet inches and a Capable of flying 32 miles per j the plane could stay in the air 2 I hours and 19 American aircraft production averages planes a with the army air forces receiving of the total of high-powered Since the attack on Pearl planes have been delivered to the and up to June 40 billion dollars was allotted to the air Against America's record it was estimated that the Axis puts out planes Of this Germany makes Japan and Italy BERLIN Ordered Evacuated With Germany's great industrial port of Hamburg laying in j with of its ries bels ordered residents of Ber- W v in essential war The Nazis made A no effort to mil Jj BJ mize the LA tion in Hamburg Besides the vast Paui Goebbels number it was reported an additional were missing and were in- j Along with industrial large residential areas were wiped it was and others were badly In ordering the evacuation of Goebbels instructed residents with relations in other parts of Germany to make use of such while those who could not were told to apply to the government for housing facilities Ac- j cording to the Nazis pre-pared for mass evacuation several months laying up stores at central points throughout inner U. S. Transfers I Speaking before the house of Prime Minister Winston Churchill revealed that the United States was turning over from 15 to 20 cargo vessels a month to the British merchant In making the Churchill quoted from a letter of President in which he said the transfers were being made In order to employ Britain's surplus J of trained seamen |
