Show weekly Wee fitly news analysis higher liquor tax considered to finance defense program by W la bine EDITORS NOTE when opinions ate e expressed in these columns they are those ol of tie the news analyst and not necessarily of this ibis newspaper CONGRESS budget blues what franklin Roosevel ts budget message tossed into the congressional lap was a choice of following his recommendations and getting a deficit of only or defying mm him 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 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 appeared instead that congress must mu st enter an election year trance and decide which plan the public would woul d swallow the easier more 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 aathar PAT HARRISON will john barleycorn pay rison chairman of the senate finance committee publicly doubted whether the defense program was justi just fled yet he shied away from crit criticizing the president finally with white house blessing he sought more time by asking a joint legislative committee to study the budget but congress apparently patently ly refusing turned instead to that hardy perennial the lyn ching bill t notes in an election year congress congre sg an and politics are intimately associated many G 0 P comments were NAVY it if president roose belts naval appropriation pria tion request see CONGRESS is adopted the U S will become the worlds no I 1 sea power bigger than britain twice as big as japan RAILROADS daniel willard president of the B 0 railroad said he wanted coach tares fares reduced to two ce cents ants per mile thus meeting bus competition present eastern rate cents agriculture the tariff commission was told that imports of cheap canadian wheat were keeping the domestic crop price below parity thus threatening the success of farm aid measures SHIPPING the U S warned britain it will be held accountable tor for injuries to american vessels or crews taken into belligerent ports for searching I 1 forthcoming after the presidents budget message samples 49 at topeka 1936 G 0 P candidate alt alf landon thought this about the slash in expenditures if the president really is serious in his budget plans you will hear howls all over the place he get the nomination now if he wanted it he Is too smart a politician to try it 41 L at chicago chios sen robert robe it taft accepted the presidents challenge to submit a plan for balancing the budget the taft plan 1 determination terni in 1 aaion by the president tobal bobai ance 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 red reduction ution of subsidies i 5 elimination of budget pets like army and navy items i i BALKANS squabbles before 1940 has gone its way vay the brave nation of rumania dumani may see trouble plenty aplenty a it started t that way bucharest heard that bul garia its unfriendly friendly southern neigh had signed a trade patt pact with russia which wants the rumanian province of Bes sarabia next king carol heard that Hun garys count stefan csaky whose nation will seize rumanian transylvania ii if russia invades Bes sarabia was conferring in italy with foreign minister clano ciano A political realist italis benit mussolini knows the balkans have a better chance of blocking russian aggression which would alsor also hurt hurl italy if they settle their squabbles abbles in advance purpose of the ciana csaky conversations there therefore foKe was to urge hungary and rumania to settle their revisionist problem immediately in so doing il II duce took a hearty slap at the so soviet vie f so did king carol encouraged to defend Bessai Bes sarabia abia now that the finns are doing a remarkable job against russian aggression crol carol and hi his s retinue crossed into this s dangerous province defied moscow and smiled while Bessar ablan minority mino rity leaders shouted we pledge our lives for our beloved rumanian fatherland EIRE I 1 R A purge object of the irish republican army is is to annex north ireland ulster but eires prime minister eamon de valera has suppressed I 1 R A lately 1 I R A has planted bombs all over ovee england when britain took stern action LR L I R ra A hiked back home fearing trouble devalera de valera decided to crush th the abny arnay next day police went to work not very hopeful because L I 1 li A lads are pretty shrewd THE WARS shakeup i i far bigger than the w war ar on frances western front was the jat bat tle of london called to 6 a c cabinet meeting by y prime minister neville Chamber chamberlain laia was leslie hore balisha Be lisha dynamic jewish minister of war who has built the british army from a stodgy and antiquated organization into one of the worlds smartest minister hore balisha 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 neville chamberlain did just that there was national unity but it was unity of 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 leanings was blasting against the government ern ment typical was the london star 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 he was pressing the pace of democracy in the army too strongly then public resentment will be wide deep and lasting to both hore balisha and the prime minister an opportunity for rebuttal was com coming liik but it would probably take place behind closed doors in the house of commons ae ai U R HORE social grounds meanwhile it was rumored that winton winston churchill first lor lord d of th the admiralty would soon follow stan aey feyas as war chief other war news western front minor artillery fire entertainment by afi the fabulous albert french airman whose chose daring antics along the luxembourg frontier keep natives in s stitches aitches northern front finnish destruction of still a third russian division the forty fourth near suo mus salmi 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 buss lines to dynamite the leningrad railroad thus isolating the northland ASIA fangs wangs ready the time is now ripe for establishment of a new new central government in china careful study reveals that the objectives of yang wang ching wei are consonant with japans manifest efforts toward helping in the formation and expansion of the proposed new gobern government thus after much backslapping back bacle slab slapping ping browbeating brow beating and tutoring puppet wang ching we wei was announced ready to take over japans make mak e believe government in conquered parts of 0 t ch china ina I 1 I 1 NAVY new boss il ca cannon anoh roared aboard dread in sa san n pedro harbor finally 1 after much saluting six foot ad mira miral lJames ja tes richardson from paris texas strode down the pennsyl quarter quart quarterdeck erdeck d e ck to shake hands wit with h claude bloch admiral richardson ldson stayed as command er in chiet chief of the U S navy admiral bloch went ashore as a rear admiral admi ralin fri retirement ahead lay commandership of pearl harbor naval base in hawaii COMMERCE game in faraway far away buenos aires took place a show that may have been staged for the 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 no 1 importer of argentine beef 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 beef and flaxseed from argentina without quota lim jimr stations maybe yes and maybe no but it was possible that U S insistence on quota limitations even at the price ot of sacrificing the treaty was designed to allay the fears of western farmers and their congressmen up for renewal this year is the reciprocal trade act basis of the administrations trat ions entire low tariff program already faced with enough opposition to either destroy the actor 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 dawes daives death 49 at chicago died rufus C dawes 72 president of A century of progress exposition financier brother of former mer vice president charles G dawes last november son elliott roosevelt fathered the transcontinental broadcasting system dyste 1 m which first planned to start operations with stations on december 15 then january 1 then february 1 1 in fort worth where he heads the texas state radio net network vork elliott announced his resignation from TBS aa C at boston died mrs aars effie 1 I canning carlton about 84 who once made up an impromptu tune to lull to sleep the restless baby of a neighbor The song rock a bye baby C in one hollywood day 47 year ear old william powell married old diana lewis sued for divorce by their respective mates were vivien gone with the wind leigh and laurence olivier also a miss leighs husband named baivier olivier as respondent co lat flat washington secretary of labor frances perkins canceled deportation por tation charges against harry bridges west coast C 1 I 0 leader basis recommendation of james 31 landis who ho conducted the hearing 1 C l washington rumor had it th pennsylvanian Pennsyl ex gov george georg earle would soon be named U s minister to austria not a novice statesman earle was once minister to austria LABOR A adof F of L damned by receiving more votes than el either of his fellow members william leiserson was ranked least unpopular in a poll by the magazine factory management but all three members leiserson 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 un r d decisions ec ision S coddled and cursed by such conflicting t testimony e s ti NLRB went on trial again again before the house committee 1 L appointed to investigate MRS AIRS HERRICK if it new evi how longloh long oh lord 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 sta statement bement 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 next came a dramatic paper prepared by mrs elinore M herrick new york regional NLRB director complaining about delays in procedure said her paper we must wait wait wait how long oh lord how long must we wait |