Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1939 — Page 8

ern Hemisphere defense,

Program Costing Up to $1,650,000,000.

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U.P)— ‘An Army expansion program, designed to provide an adequate Westcosting perhaps $1,650,000,000 will be placed before the forthcoming session of Congress, informed ‘Administration quarfers disclosed today. The tentative rlan calls for a regular budget appropriation for the 1941 fiscal year of between ~ $750,000,000 and $850,000,000. It will be bolstered by a supplemental pro- ~ gram designed to assure an initial ‘protective force of 600,000 men which could be put in the field immediately. ‘ New Program Discussed

The new program already has ~~ been discussed with Congressional ~~ leaders by high War Department officials. ~~ It would provide increased manpower, air strength, training funds, : , equipment and supplies. It envisages strengthening the present regular army of 227,000 reg-

ulars, to the full peacetime strength |

of 280,000 and raising the National Guard from 235,000 to 320,000.

5500 Planes Is Goal

It also provides for two squadrons of nine “super flying fortresses” and hundreds of small aircraft in addition to the present air expansion program which will give the Army 5500 planes by July 1, 1941. Informed circles said that the long range aircraft which would supplement the Army’s present 51 four-engined bombers and 25 other bombing planes now on contract are necessary to meet the increased burden of a Hemisphere defense program.

VETERAN POSTMAN RETIRES DENVER, Nov.9 (U.P.).—A postman who dispatched the first package from the new Denver Postoffice on Christmas Day, 1919—a box of candy to President Woodrow Wilson—has retired after 39 years’ duty. After serving in Globesville and " Englewood, Colo., stations, he was transferred to the old Denver Post-

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Miss Mary York, superintendent of the Bloomington Hospital, was elected president of the Central District, Indiana Nurses Association, at a meeting in the Marott Hotel last night. Others elected were Sister Andrea, St. Vincent's Hospital, and Miss Ellen Anderson, Methodist Hospital, vice presidents; Miss Margaret Borst, City Hospital, secretary, and Miss Mabel Wharton, Sunnyside Sanatorium, treasurer. Misses Constance Datzman and Miss Emma Hannafin, both of Indianapolis, were naméd directors.

MNUTT URGES ‘MIDDLE WAY’

Government and Business Can Work Hand-in-Hand, Says-Securtty Chief.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Private enterprise and democratic government are not incompatible and the

| profit motive is not reprehensible

“unless it fashions and uses instru-

ments of oppression,” Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt declared in an address here yesterday. ’ Speaking at an Armistice Da luncheon of the Washington Rotary Club, the Indiana Presidential éandidate pleaded for the “middle way” as the best economic road for preserving American democracy. “There have been and are those who object to progressive adjustment, who would maintain the status quo, who hold fast to the doctrine of laissez faire,” Mr. McNutt told the Rotarians. “Fortunately these are a small, though articulate, minority, some of whose members have sought to misappropriate the principles of democracy for their selfish purposes. “Their status quo, the old social order, has made its last stand. “The supporters of true democracy have come to a realization that the first obligation of government is to protect the humanity which it serves, to provide security of livelihood through better use of the national resources, security against the major hazards and vicissitudes* of life and the security of decent

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“It is necessary to alleviate economic conditions, safeguard individual rights and dignity and wipe out illiteracy by teaching the people how to live, how to understand the history of their government and that the function of all democratic government is to be the servant and not the master of all of the

DEFENSE COSTS

T0 KEEP BUDGET ABOVE 8 BILLION

Program ls Pushed Just as Hope Rises for Cut in Relief Spending. WASHINGTON, Nov. 97(U. PJ).

—Unemployment relief . spending appears tp be coming down today

" |but soaring national defense costs -|lassure taxpayers that Government

expenses will remain for some time at levels of-$8,000,000,000 to $9,000,000,000 annually. ; The Administration is developing a $3,000,000,000 or better national defense program for the next Congress. *Actual appropriations are likely to reach $2,750,000,000. National defense spending is for the forces ashore, afloat and in the air, a peace protective undertaking which is likely to establish an annual expenditure of well more than $2,000,000,000 for some time to come.

Relief Spending Vulnerable

Regular Government establishments, the $1,000,000,000 annual item for interest on the public debt and the public works spending that has been Government policy for years are not susceptible to major reduction. But relief spending is likely to be vulnerable now to attack by economic-minded legislators. The WPA reports 1,901,000 relief clients on the rolls as of Nov. 1 compared with 3,350,000 a year ago, a reduction of approximately 1,500,000 persons. Unemployment relief remains the biggest item of Federal expenditure despite the national defense spending boom and it is the item most likely to be reduced by the next session of Congress. Mr. Roosevelt budg-

leted $2,741,000,000 for direct relief.

WPA, NYA, CCC and supplemental relief items in the fiscal year which ended last June 130.

Revised Figure Upward

But he revised that figure upward and squeezed an .additional $825,000,00 from a loudly protesting Con-

tion to more than $3,500,000,000. The coalition economy bloc in Congress is maneuvering now to block another such large deficiency appropriation for relief next session. The relief budget for this fiscal year is approximately $2,019,000,000. Four months of the 1940 fiscal year have elapsed and the deficit is accumulating a bit faster than Mr, Roosevelt may have expected when he estimated last January that the Treasury would be in the red only $3,326,000,000 June 30, 1940.

INDICT GRANDMOTHER IN ATTACK ON/ GIRL

Charges of assault and battery with intent to kill her 15-year-old granddaughter today face Mrs. Charlene Overholser, 66, following her indictment by the Howard County Grand Jury. : The granddaughter, Charlene Overholser, was mysteriously assaulted in her bedroom in Mrs. Overholser’s - home the night of Sept. 28, two of her fingers were severed and she had severe neck and head wounds. The jurors also indicted Mel Good, former City Clerk, on charges of grand larceny and embezzlement in connection with a $3000 shortage in his office. Good is in a Federal Prison serving a two-year sentence for conspiracy to defraud the Government through the misuse of WPA labor. J}

FRENCH WANT TO BUY 6000 HORSES IN U. S.

CHICAGO, Nov. 9 (U. P.).~—The French Government will buy 6000 horses in the United States as soon as cargo space is available on ships, the Horse and Mule Association announced today. The animals will be purchased at the Chicago Union Stockyards, the Kansas City, Mo., yards and the East St. Louis, Ill, National Stockyards, the association said. Twothirds of the animals are to be riding horses, the others draft horses suitable for hauling artillery.

BELGIUM BURIES MAX, ITS WORLD WAR HERO

BRUSSELS, Nov. 9 (U. P.)— Burgomaster Max of Brussels; Belgium’s World War hero, was buried this afternoon in the Burgomaster Enclosure at Brussels Cemetery after a simple funeral at Town Hall without official honors. Huge crowds watched the cortege leave the Town Hall. It halted briefly at the Unknown Soldiers’ Memorial en route to the: cemetery. Notables in the procession included Emile Faure, president of the Paris Municipal Council, and many foreign diplomats.

PARK BOARD AWARDS CONTRACT FOR PAINT

The Park Board today accepted the $266.20 bid of the Harry G. Sargent Paint Co. to supply paint and varnish for park buildings. Other bidders were the Hatfield Paint Co., $376.58, and the. Perfection Paint & Color Co., $272.70.

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KOKOMO, Ind. Nov. 9 (U. P.).—|

Dentists Deny Teeth ‘False’

BOSTON, Nov. 9 (U. P)— Never call them “false teeth.” Dentists at the 76th annual meeting of the New England Dental society insisted there were no more “false” teeth, but “reproductions” or “new” teeth. “One would not call a beautiful painting a ‘false’ picture,” they said. “So it is with teeth. The ‘patients who have to have reproductions: of their former teeth simply get new teeth.”

PRISONER WALKS CAT, FAILS TO COME BACK

NEW LONDON, Conn., Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Police today were looking for Herbert H. Morancy, 18, who took the county jail's pet cat for a walk outside the gates last night and didn’t come back. Not only did he forget to come back, but he drove away in a delivery truck owned by the James drug store. The truck was parked in the jail garage. The turnkey permitted the youth to take the cat out. Morancy was serving a year on a charge of stealing a car.

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60,000 AMERICANS HAVE FLED EUROPE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Administration officials today believed the major task of repatriating American citizens from European danger zones has been accomplished and- anticipated no great difficulty in bringing home those now remaining in Europe. : State Department figures indicated that approximately 60,000 American Nationals have returned from Europe since the war crisis developed in late August. At that time is was believed that between 70,000 and 75,000 American Nationdls were residing or traveling in European countries- immediately affected by the war. Many of these were listed as per-

manent residents abroad and were not expected to return home except under the gravest threats to their safety. : Officials saw little possibility that additional American flag vessels would be sent to Europe to bring home American. nationals unless

BORAH ASKS EUROPE TO DEFINE WAR AIMS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U.P).— Senator William E. Borah (R. 1da.) today said that the world is entitled

to know the war aims of belligerent European powers and the terms on which they would make peace.. ‘In an interview he said peace pleas, such as those made by Queen

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y ’ ] : RECORD ENROLLMENT OBERLIN, O., Nov. 9 (U. PJ). The largest enrollment in the his tory of Oberlin College for the fall term has been announced, with 1913 students enrolled.

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