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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
FDR Favors Higher Taxes to Restrict
Size* of Public Debt, Defeat Inflation;
Russia Continues Steam Roller Attack;
‘Unconditional Surrender’: Allied Terms
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TAXES:
More in War Economy
Higher taxes—that, in short, is
President Roosevelt's recipe for off-
setting the tremendous federal war-
time expenditure and at the same
time heading off inflation.
Said the President: The govern-
ment will spend 108 billion dollars
during the next year. The public
debt is expected to increase by 69
billion to 206 billion dollars by June,
1944.
The national income should ap-
proximate 150 billion dollars for the
Car. But the manufacture of civil-
i 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 President's conclusion:
More taxes with which to meet cur-
rent expenditure and restrict the
size of the mounting public debt, and
with which to mop up excess infla-
tionary buying power.
6 Billion at Most
President Roosevelt's call for in-
creased taxes was mat by Sen. Wal-
Senator George
ter F. George’s
prediction that
the most that
could be expect-
ed to be raised
was 5 or 6 billion
dollars.
The influential
chairman of the
senate finance
committeee, Sen-
ator George, said
of the 5 or 6 bil-
lion dollars, about
60 per cent will
have to be ob-
tained 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 io col-
lect 35 billion dollars under present
rates, George said any increases in
individual rates would bear most
with low or moderate fixed incomes.
RUSSIA:
/ft the City's Gates
Russia's steam-rolling attack on
Orel continued to meet heavy resist-
ance even as the Red columns bore
into the suburbs of the big Nazi
base. As the Russians' pressure in-
creased, long lines of German troops
were seen withdrawing westward
toward the secondary Nazi hub of
Bryansk.
Slugging matches raged all along
the winding 1,200 mile front. The
Reds attacked heavily south of Len-
ingrad in an effort to widen the cor-
ridor 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 Novorosissk.
Principal action of the summer
centered at Orel. Here, the Rus-
sians, with masses of infantry fol-
lowing up in the echo of thunderous
artillery fire and chugging tank at-
tacks, jabbed deeper and deeper
into German defenses, until they
stood at the gates of the city itself..
RIOTS:
Sweep Harlem
Allegedly interfering with the ar-
rest of a Negro woman in the lobby
of a New York
hotel, a colored
soldier was shot
by a police offi-
cer. While the
wounded man
was being re-
moved to a hos-
pital, a crowd col-
lected. Wild ru-
mors began to
circulate, a pop
bottle was thrown,
and the worst riot
since 1935 in FioreUo
America's largest LaGuardia
city was set off.
Negroes stormed through Har-
lem’s business districts. Plate glass
windows were smashed; stores were
looted; crumpled merchandise lit-
tered the streets. Six thousand po-
licemen aided by 1,500 wartime aux-
iliaries were called to restore order.
In imposing a 10:30 p. m. curfew.
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia moaned:
"Shame has come to our city.”
Five Negroes were killed and 543
persons were injured. More than
500 arrests were made. Property
damage was estimated at 5 million
dollars.
ITALY:
Allied Terms
When Benito Mussolini's govern-
ment fell, one of the requisite con-
ditions for an Allied treatment with
Italy for peace was established. To
Marshall Pietro Badoglio, Italy’s
first soldier, was. given the charge
of a new military regime.
The hectic days following Musso-
lini’s fall saw a diplomatic stew.
Axis sources declared that Badog-
lio's assumption of power was a per-
fectly natural evolution since what
was more appropriate for a country
faced with invasion than to concen-
trate 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 resist-
ance; 2. An end of collaboration
with Germany; 3. Withdrawal of
Italian troops from Greece, Al-
bania and Jugoslavia; 4. Surrender
of war materials undamaged; 5. Es-
tablishment of an Anglo-American-
Soviet military government of occu-
pation; 6. Arrest of war criminals;
and 7. Release of all Allied prison-
ers of war in Italy.
Decisive Action
Viewing the campaign in Sicily,
military authorities might well
credit the Americans of Gen. George
S. Patton’s command and the Cana-
dians under Gen. Bernard Montgom-
ery with decisive action in the final
phase of the fighting.
With Montgomery’s British forces
stalled before strong Axis positions
in the Catanian plains to the south-
east of the defensive triangle, roar-
ing artillery covered General Pat-
ton's Seventh army's cautious ad-
vance over barren hills in the face
of mortar fire from enemy sheltered
in trenches and caves. Capturing
Maj.-Gen. G. G. Simonds, com-
manding the First Canadian divi-
sion, wades ashore during opera-
tions in Sicily.
Troiha, the Americans cut the sup-
ply 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
enemy’s whole Catanian 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 fight after air-
craft had failed to reduce sufficient-
ly strongholds the Japs had hewed
in the jungle, 13-ton tanks led the
Americans’ drive on Munda in the
Solomons.
Unable to detect the Japs’ posi-
tions 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 when-
ever the infantry attempted to ad-
vance after the barrage, it met stifl
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 gun-fire, the tank crews
discovered the Japs' strong points
and then blasted them at point blank
range. By such tactics, they grad-
ually overran stubborn centers of
resistance as the drive approached
the encircled Jap base.
MISCELLANY:
CHINA: Lin Sen, 81-year-old pres-
ident of China, died after a long ill-
ness. Gen. Chiang Kai-shek has
been named acting president.
FOOD: Food output this year will
be about 4 per cent higher than last
year, according to department of
agriculture estimates. About three-
fourths of the supply has been set
aside for civilians.
WOOLENS:
Army Buys Less
The army quartermaster corps
will purchase about 50 per cent less
wool and worsted products for the
remainder of the year, and will de-
fer buying these goods until the first
four months of next year, according
to the War Production board.
This change in plans will immedi-
ately release about 18 million yard*
of material for civilian needs to b»
made into blankets, coats, maeki
naws and winter clothing.
DRAFT:
Call Dads Oct. 1
service starting
October 1. Ac-
cording to the
War Manpower
commission, they
will be called in
their draft order
numbers, regard-
less of the num-
ber of their chil-
dren.
The WMC’s an-
nouncement of
the forthcoming
draft of dads
drew an immedi-
Burton K.
Wheeler
Fathers 18 to 3? years of age who
are not "key" men in agriculture
and industry will
be inducted into
ate promise from Sen. Burton K
Wheeler that he would press fdi
passage of his bill postponing the
induction of fathers until January 1
when congress reconvenes Septem-
ber 14.
According to the WMC, fathers
will be called only when draft
boards run out of men in the other
classifications. Some boards are ex-
pected to be faced with that predic-
ament by October 1, others are not,
thus delaying the induction of dads
in their districts beyond the date.
Approximately 875,000 childless
married men are to be called by Oc-
tober 1.
780 Miles Per Hour!
Last September, 36-year-old
Lieut. Col. Cass S. Hough of
Plymouth, Mich., took his P-38
Lockheed Lightning flghter plane
83,008 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 780
miles per hour before being lev-
eled off at 18,000 feet.
But last February, Colonel
Hough decided to crowd two
thrills into a lifetime. This time,
he took a P-47'Thunderbolt 39,000
feet up and again plunged it into
a whining power-dive, straighten-
ing out once more at 18,000 feet.
Technical director of the Sth
American fighter command, Colo-
nel Hough undertook the two
flights to obtain scientific infor-
mation for assisting fighter pilots.
For his services the European
commander of fighter planes dec-
orated 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:
7,000 Planes a Month
Thirty-four years ago, congress
appropriated $25,000 for the army to
purchase its first airplane—a Wright
brothers 1909 model CI craft, with a
wing span of 48 feet 8% 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 produc-
tion averages 7,000 planes a month,
with the army air forces receiving
4,500 of the total of sleek, high-
powered craft. Since the attack on
Pearl Harbor, 73,132 planes have
been delivered to the army, and up
to June 30, 1943, 40 billion dollars
was allotted to the air forces.
Against America’s record produc-
tion, it was estimated that the Axis
puts out 4,000 planes monthly. Of
this total, Germany makes 2,200, Ja-
pan 1,200 and Italy 600.
BERLIN:
Ordered Evacuated
With Germany’s great industrial
port of Hamburg laying in ruins,
with 8,000 of its
people killed and
259 of its facto-
ries demolished,
Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels ordered al)
residents of Ber-
lin not engaged
in essentia] war
work to leave the
city.
The Nazis made
no effort to mini-
mize the destruc-
tion in Hamburg.
Besides the vast
number killed, it
was reported an additional 4,000
were missing and 18,000 were in-
jured. Along with industrial instal-
lations, large residential areas were
wiped out, it was said, and others
were badly mauled.
In ordering the evacuation of Ber-
lin, Goebbels instructed residents
with relations in other parts of Ger-
many to make use of such accom-
modations, while those who could
not were told to apply to the gov-
ernment for housing facilities. Ac-
cording to reports, the Nazis pre-
pared for mass evacuation several
months ago, laying up stores at cen-
tral points throughout inner Ger-
many.
Paul Goebbels
SHIPS:
U. S. Transfers Vessels
Speaking before the house of com-
mons, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill revealed that the United
States was turning over from 15 to
20 cargo vessels a month to the Brit-
ish merchant marine.
In making the announcement,
Churchill quoted from a letter of
President Roosevelt’s, in which he
said the transfers were being made
in order to employ Britain’s surplur
of trained seamen.
Washington Digest
Geography Is Factor in
Determining War's End
Road to Tokyo Both Long and Rough; Pacific
Remains Studded With Well-Fortified
Japanese Strongholds.
By BAUKHAGE
Ntwt Xaalyal and Commanlslor.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
No victory over Japan before 1949?
When that sentiment was broad-
cast from Washington by Vice Ad-
miral Horne under the aegis of Sec-
retary Knox, a good many eyebrows
were raised here in the capital. Of
course, it is fully realized here that
once the American people think the
war is in the bag, they will be ready
to resume the plowshare and the pen
as simple citizens again, not as dol-
lar-a-year men or munitions work-
ers or victory gardeners or ration-
ers or any of the other things we
don’t like. So Washington can’t af-
ford to be overoptimistic. But 1949
is a long, long way off.
When Admiral Halsey Anally ad-
mitted that the capture of the im-
portant air base of Munda was
“within reach," it looked like an-
other easy victory scored and that
Tokyo ought to tremble.
About Distances
But how much nearer are we to
Tokyo? Get a map of Asia, includ-
ing the Solomon Islands and if you
can identify the little specks which
are Guadalcanal where our main
base lies, and Rabaul, our objec-
tive, note the distance between, and
then see how much farther it is to
Tokyo. It’s as far as from New
York to Casablanca.
And there is a lot of difference
between the two roads. When we
sent our troops over the Atlantic to
Africa, it was pretty nearly our pond
—there wasn’t an Axis base en
route. The Pacific is studded with
Japanese bases.
There are two powerful Jap
strongholds, much better protected
than Munda right in the Solomon
Islands^on Bougainville island and
Rabauiythe hub of the Japs’ empire
in the Southwest. Beyond, over a
long stretch of water, is the little
island of Truk, said to be the main
Jap naval base in the Pacific.
From New Britain, where Rabaul
is located, it is 890 miles to Tokyo-
further than from Tunisia to the
northern tip of Norway.
In order to realize why we are
still so far away from our objective
in the Pacific war, we have to con-
sider what it took to get as far as
we have already gone. It took six
months, some terribly gruelling
fighting, and many lives, to capture
the little island of Guadalcanal. It
took another five months before the
Allies were ready to start their sec-
ond offensive movement with the
final capture of Rabaul as the ob-
jective. Progress at this rate and
with this type of island-to-island ad-
vance is taken for granted by those
who put 1949 as the date when Japan
will be vanquished.
Defensive Action
It took MacArthur approximately
as long to turn back the Japs on
New Guinea, fighting to reach Port
Moresby, and to capture their key
point of Buna, so they could move
on Salamaua and Lae driving the
enemy out foot by foot from these
pretty much isolated points.
The fighting, up until the drive be-
ginning with the capture of Rendova
on June 30, has been nothing more
than offensive-defensive. Before that
the effort, and a successful one, was
to keep the Japs from attacking
Australia from Port Moresby, from
seizing the Solomons and making the
Australian east coast vulnerable and
to save the life line of mep and
supplies moving front America to
Australia.
Only now, summer 1943, are we
really taking offensive action in the
Southwest Pacific and, as I said, if
you look at a map of Asia which
shows all of the territory held by the
Japanese, you will see that what
we have won since our offensive
really began is a very thin sliver,
geographically speaking. In enemy
effectives destroyed, it has been
larger in proportion, but the navy
men in Washington who talk about
1949 speak with a conservative geo-
graphical accent.
• • •
Diary of a Broadcaster
Isn’t it awfully dull in Washington
with congress gone home and every-
thing closed up?
If you think so, you are dreaming
a midsummer night's dream.
When I arise and start down
toward Pennsylvania avenue, I note
the little spring cat which has joined
its maltese mother and its tiger (per-
haps) father. Is it going limp with
boredom? It is not. It prepares its
toilet with the same tongue-weary-
ing energy that it did when con-
gress was in session.
That is just an example. The
buses are just as crowded. Tele-
phone numbers as hard to get
Laundry lingers as long among the
launderers. Pants pant for press-
ing.
Recently I tried four leading ho-
tels before I could reserve places
for lunch. One of them was not
air cooled. “I am ordinarily a two-
suit guy,” said a newspaper man
to me the other day when Donald
Nelson was complaining about the
heavy buying of clothes, "but if I
didn’t have four suits now, I’d go to
work unpressed and uncleaned or in
a barrel."
• o •
“The Little Prince1
You recall I reviewed "The Little
Prince" by Antoine de Saint-
Exupery in this column some time
ago. I have had many letters con-
cerning the author whom I said was
at the front.
Recently Leonard Lyons. New
York columnist, reported that the
aviator-author, who is back on the
fighting line again although he is 43
years old, wrote to his American
translator:
"After seeing the fighting men and
the mighty armaments, I realize
that I must come to Africa to ap-
preciate America.”
He was spared, after the fall of
France, “to fight again.”
Let us hope he will be spared, when
she rises, to write again.
• • o
Food Program
It was a cooler and more peaceful
day than many which had preceded
it in Washington. The President
was in a genial mood when be met
the press and radio representatives.
The administration, he said, is
working on a new food program.
A few days before, I talked with
a member of the administration who
said to me: "Frankly, if we have
a food program, I can’t find it." And
he was very anxious to locate it be-
cause a lot of his friends had been
asking . . .
The President, at the conference
I referred to, explained that he’d be
tickled to death if anyone would ex-
plain to him how he could reduce
prices in accordance with the sta-
bilization under the present limita-
tions set by congress.
A little bit later, I heard it said
flatly: "We’ve got to increase prices
if we expect the farmers to raise
enough food to meet the present
goals.”
Now, Howard Tolley, chief of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
(whose business it is to figure out
what is needed, not how we'll get
it) says this:
Increased Consumption
"If the United States carries out
its proposed international pledge to
do all that is needed to provide
better diets for its own people, the
consumption of dairy products here
would have to be increased 40 per
cent.”
That is just one product—repre-
senting, of course, milk, butter,
cheese.
In order to bring the national diet
up to the standard set, truck crops
would also have to be increased
about 80 per cent, eggs more than
20 per cent, fruit about 20 per cent,
according to Mr. Tolley, and to raise
crops for such a market would take
about 40 million additional acres of
cropland or about one-eighth more
than is now cultivated.
With the present full employment,
Tolley says that this extra output of
the farmer’s product could be ab-
sorbed. And this leaves out what
would be sold abroad.
Right now, industry is working on
plans to maintain this "full employ-
ment” by converting war plants to
peace plants. Industry is trying to
compete with the government in
post-war planning in this field.
How many farmers are interested
enough to gel up and say “their say”
in favor of a plan that will keep
enough people at work so that they
can buy this extra 40 million acres'
worth of food they need to be
healthy?
BRIEFS. ..6y Baukhage
Shoes are being made with soles
of plastic, felt, wood, combinations
of cotton and wool, cord and friction
belting and other fabric and syn-
thetic substances.
• • •
Women war workers at Douglas
Aircraft company have released
men to the armed forces to the point
where at one plant, they comprise
59 per cent of shop personnel.
The goal set for the third war loan
drive, starting September 9, will be
15 billion dollars.
• • •
So serious is the Italian coal sup-
ply situation as a result of the RAF
bombing of Germany’s Ruhr valley
that Italians are now trying to raise
40,000 tons of coal from Trieste har-
bor where it had fallen from ships
during coaling operations.
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