Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1942 — Page 1

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1042

| FDR Asks 77 Billion Budget To Smash Axis

(Other budget stories, tables, Page 1%)

WASHINGTON. Jan. 7.—President Roosevelt jolted Congress today with the biggest budget, tax and deficit program of all time, calling in the next 18 months for expenditure of £77,000,000,000 largely for arms and munitions to smash Axis militarism. Approximately $1R000.,000,000 will be spent in the first six months of this year, with $359.000,000,000 budgeted for the new fiscal year. Taxes are to be raised to increase Treasury revenue by 30 per cent in the 1943 fiscal year which begins this July 1. During that 12 months, Mr. Roosevelt proposed in his budget message to spend approximately $£39.000,000.000, to collect R27.000,000,000 in taxes and to raise the national debt to £110,400.,000.000. Of the budgeted expenditures, $33.000.000.000 would be That includes $7,500,000,000 for

for war in that one vear.

tend-lease aid.

Non-war expenditures were budgeted at more than £6.000,000,000—%437.000,000 less than this year. In addtiion to the $53.000,000,000 budgeted for war, Government corporations will spend a non-budgeted $3,000,000,000 in the fiscal year, bringing the over-all 19438 war cost to £5.000,000,000. For the 1943 fiscal year, he estimated a Treasury deficit of $35,500,000,000 which is only $6,500,000,000 less than the net cost to us of World War I computed before war veterans’ payments and interest were added to the total. Of the $27,000.000,000 aggregate tax revenue proposed for the 1943 fiscal year, approximately £3,500,000,000 represents social security tax income which is not computed as an item toward reduction of the estimated deficit.

There is nothing in any fiscal history to which the 1943 U. S. budget readily is comparable. A hint of the size of this budget may be gained by considering the $1,750,000,000 which the Treasury will pay in

the next fiscal year as interest on the national debt and comparing that sum with the §734,000,000 which sufficed to pay all Government expenses in the fiseal year 1916. Organization to spend the money this budget will raise will be a tremendous job. Mr. Roosevelt estimates that expenditures may reach a volume of $5,000,000,000 a month.

Myr. Roosevelt has cut non-defense spending for the next fiscal year. But the overall reduction leaves the total proposed expenditures for other than war. purposes at $6,141,000,000. The overall cut amounted to $437,464,000, but excluding certain fixed charges which the President was powerless to reduce, the cut wag around $1,000,000,000. Cuts were made in work relief, public works, various aids to youth and for agriculture. Farm relief still may cost around $980,000,000 in the next fiscal year, although that is a reduction of $£255,400,000 below current levels. Proposed appropriations for free food stamps were

trimmed by $26,000,000 to $132,000,000, a cut evidently im(Continwed on Page Two)

Budget at a Glance

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7 (U. P.) ==The budget for the 1943 fiscal year at a glance: TOTAL SPENDING==$59,027,992,300. TOTAL WAR EXPENDITURES=$52,786, 186,000 (including Army, Navy and Lend-Lease). TOTAL NON:-WAR SPENDING—$6,141, 806,300 (regujar civil agencies, veterans benefits, debt interest and other fixed charges). REVENUE=$27,000,000,000, DEFICIT=§35,500,000,000, TAXES=87,000,000,000 in new levies of all

types, and through the plugging of loopholes in ex isting laws; also $2,000,000,000 to be obtained in

additional social security revenue, Public debt at end of fiscal years—$110,400,000,000,

JAPS BEGIN NON-STOP LUZON RAIDS

3 LOSE POSTS Friction Impeding BRITISH FIGHT

IN SHAKEUP OF

Politics Seen as Cause of First Major OQusters | Under Hadden.

By EARL RICHERTY inhree Democratic Highway Com-| engineers have been dis-| I. missed, effective Jan. 17, in the first major personel shakeup in the department since Samuel C. Hadden ecame chairman Jast fall

mission

: civilian defense within hose ousted are Roy Etter, dis- =. wh trict engineer in the Crawfordsville ict and former Sixth District

County's Defense 3 T0 1000S IN} HIGHWAY DEPT. .., Hall Reluctant to Accept National Formule! MALAYA DRIVE } ¥ ee ?

Followed By Tyndall Council.

By RICHARD LEWIS Friction between City and County councils at the mo-| ment is delaying completion of an integrated civilian defense {program for this metropolitan area. : The two main points of weakness are: A disagreement in theory.

Jap Armored Forces Pay ‘Terrific Price’ to Push Nearer Singapore,

| Japanese armored forces pushed

Aight In reporting a bitter British odds.

| [battle against 5-to-1 | The British defense forces are 2. Political suspicion. Gen Tyn- putting up “a sucecesshul and heroic

SINGAPORE, Jan. 1 (0. B) — | mervetes Bb VENER

The County Defense! ; Council, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, is working On [aoa Neupte tre hail n | CORREGIDO a plan approved by the national eivilian defense organization. The | casualties. war dispatches said tox | City is Teluctant to accept this formula, seemingly desires to place! the framework of the present departmental — | organization.

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al _sbandoning this ares (Fort Mitte)

U. §. FORCES COOL IN FIERCE AIR ASSAULTS

‘All<Out’ Enemy Drive" Is Believed Near in Philippines.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7 (U. P.)=The War Department reported today that Japan has launched a savage land offengive against Gen. Douge lag MacArthur's “steady and valiant” Philippines defends

chaimman; Almond Greenfield, and Joseph Boone County, both subsuperintendents of main-

Democratic Wickard, Jackson

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1 reasons were said to for the ouster of all thn Resighred Party Post Etter resighed his parts ) in order

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to retain his $31 month the state his resignation ight over X it Is mber of Democrats ict have been seek-

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Pure Promotion ~. Wickard will be succeeded by m Scott of Rushville and My replaced by Ralph I of Boone County t was reported that Mr. Wickard 1 Mr. Jackson were removed “to make room” for Mr. Scott and Mr Wall whe were “in line” for state bs because of work they had done the Democratic Party. A subsuperinténdent of mamntenance sams between $173 and $195

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State House sources report that Mr. Hadden, a life-long engineer and Democrat, is resisting all efforts by Democratic politicians to give top-flight engineering jobs to the partys “faithful” but that he is co-

dall is a Republican. The City Ad-

60 ON, SHIVER! ministration is wholly Democratic. \ The Generals friends believe the City won't co-operate because of TWAS 2 BELOW this fact. The Mayors supporters

(say the City would be silly to walk

nto a Republican-domination sitvation.

Women's Units Co-operate

| «The result is that the difference (between the two groups has been | increasing and criticism has become mutual and somewhat outspoken. There is one outstanding exception to this situation. It is the City and County Women Divisions, which yesterday consolidated active ities under a single leadership.

The County Defense Couneils program calls for making each community outside the City's corporate limits a self-reliant entity, with complete civil defense machinery in. cluding air-raid wardens, emer gency police. fire crews, ete.

City Hall Seeks Direction

City officials disagree vigorously with this program. They believe that all civil defense in the metro[politan area should be headed up at City Hall, with committees as. sisting subject to City Hall direction. They look with disfavor on any Today the mercury dipped to 2 attempt to organise volunteer police below at 8 a m rose ohe degree and fire-fighting crews without first by 7 a m, and then dipped again making full arrangements for the to 2 below, where ft stayed until training of these te. after 9a. m McCool, near Lake Michigan, was there ig this reasoning: mighty cool this morning. Weath-| The existing civil agencies are erman J. H. Armington said Me. thoroughly trained in police and five Cools temperature was 8 below. protection, in health work, in sani Spots of ice were reported on|tation, in inspection. There is every roads sduth of U 8 50 and east of [reason why civil defense should fall md. 37. It was also reported snow. | within the stopeé of these agencies ing north of U. 8 30 between Mich. [ih a separate City defense unit. gan City and South Bend but the| There it the feeling that the

But. Shucks, 30 Years Ago The Mercury Got Down To 16 Below.

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grees below Zero in Indianapolis to-| day. Or feel bad because youre not so tough as the “older genera. tion.” which exactly 30 years ago went through the coldest Jan. 7 on record. It was 16 below in diane apolis on that day.

peop From the City’s side of the fence. |

struggle” designed to delay the enlemy and exact the highest possible | toll for every vard gained by the Japanese, the correspondent of the

Straits Times reported from the front

| Troops Ride in Sampans

“There it dogged resistance and successful rear guard action,” the |dispateh said in reference to the [tower Perek front. | The Japanese avoided open entry, | keeping to the cover of junglelclothed hills. But their (heavy. Imperial troops constantly

rush Japanese positions and engage’

in hand-to-hand fighting | “For example, a Ghurka devachment (Indian troops) surprised a [Japanese party burning heaps of {Japanese qead. The Ghurkas raced into action and soon gave them a few more to burn, “One troop-cartying Sampan was [sunk and another probably sunk by | British artillery during an abortive [Japanese attempt vo land on the [Selangor coast. The Japanese arrived in a dozen sampang drawn by a tug.

mvaders Ride Ricveles

“Our artillery withheld fire until the attackers were within range. Thy were £0 damaged and =o frightened that the Japanese promptly turned around and fled The tug was holed in two places The Japanese troopt refused to return, although Japanese airplanes offered to support them. “Elsewhere, however, the Japa. nese did land. They attempted to advance on bieyelee but they were mopped up By our forces” Viee Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton, temporary commander of British Far Eastern Naval forces, hag left Singapore © organise the eastern

losses are

roads were cleay

operating with the wishes Rr party organization on minor Posi.

so far, these same sources say that Kenny to

pure case of

the appointment of Mr Mr. Ettery post it 3

On Southern number of the Dette:

: emplox ees the Highway | A nuge army cantonment, spraw]Commission have held their jobs for ing over parts of Johnson, BArtholo. eight years and many officials of mew and Brown Counties was Schricker administration ar€igegnitely in the making today. o feel that other Democrats] : { be given & chance at those The camp, lest than 50 miles from the department which re- Indianapolis, will be the training particular skill to perform. ground for 33.000 officers and men

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during the coming months for an | American Expeditionary Force which, President Roosevelt promises,

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(their own soil. Clapper 8 Comics Crossword Editorials ..., 10iPvie Mrs. Ferguson 19, Questions Financial 13 Radio Forum In Indpls. Inside Imxdpls

9) Music ‘ 17 Obituaries | Pegler 0. 10 contemplated the 8 32.000 acres by the government. The

17/1ar in shape. 9 Side Glances. 10) Rep. Earl Wilson of thé Ninth Jane Jordan . 12 Society .. 11, 12 Indiana Congressional District was Johnson ... 10/Sports 14 15/told in Washington that construe

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AS evident that he has succeeded U. S. Orders Work Start

” ¥ho will be whipped into shape |

will strike down the Axis armies on |

Original plans and specifications 5 for the cantonment were drawn up | . 10/by the Mmdianapolis engineering firm | 8jof Charles H. Hurd & Son They | acquisition of |

10 Mrs Roosevelt @ military reservation ig to be triangu-

(Continned on Page Three) fleet “wo that the Allies may gain

sha supremacy in the Far Fast as toon as possible” an official ane nouncement sid today.

AXIS ARMY FACING CRIMEAN DISASTER

| Reds Report Big Advances On Other Fronts.

LONDON, Jan. ¥ (U. P). A new Russian drive, remarkable both for (power and speed, i¢ tnreatening | |disaster to a great Axis army, ine eluding the pick of the Htallan and | Rumanian armies, whieh for months hat vainly besieged Sevas. topo! in the Crimea, dispatches in. dicated today, A drive by Red Army tanks and | eavalty unite whieh had driven | [westward from the Kerch peninsula at a speed which astonished mili tary experts, had now been made A double drive, both Berlin and other reports made plain, by a fore midable Red army force which was

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Indiana Camp

The above map shows the location

BRITISH AGAIN RAID COAST OF NORWAY

Enemy Supply Ship Sunk: 2 Trawlers Damaged.

LONDON, Jan. 7 (U. P) British naval forces, under the protection of R. A FP fAghters and bombers, raided the coast of Norway again last night, a joint communique of the admirality and air force revealed today An enemy supply ship was sunk. | Two trawlers and a German -awned canning factory were damaged. it wag one of a series of raids which have harassed the Germans] ceeupied coast of Norway in recent weeks, Apparently Commandos, the spe-| ‘clally-trained soldiers who have been so effective in previous raids, | were not used in this one | The naval forces were protected] ky fAghter planes of the coastal command in relays, whieh ranged out over the sea and returned to their Britigh bases, their places be ing taken by fresh flights in an endless chain. An air attack also wag made by bombers on the Ger man airdome at Sola, near Stavanger. The raid was made at Helle fjord, between Bergen and Trondheim, and apparently eaught the enemy napping, since the Britieh found little opposition.

STEINHARDT NAMED ENVOY TO TURKEY

WASHINGTON, Jan, 7 (U, P) = President Roosevelt moved today to strengthen U. 8. diplomatic reps resentation in the key neutral state of Turkey and in America’s asgoeli« ate state in the war against the Axiz, Russia, He nominated Laurence A. Stein« hardt, now U 8 Ambassador to Mogctow, to become Ambassador tip Turkey. He wag expected shortly to name Maj Gen. James H. Burns to the important Moscow post, Burns accompanied Harry IL, Hopking to Moscow last autumn to participate in the Anglo-American Russian supply and military ocon« ferences, and is regarded as one ©

On a rugged, mountainous peninsula and a heavily fortified island American and Filipino troops are making their final stand againet Japanese invaders of Luzon. Corregidor-Manila area where U. S. and Jap forces are clashing.

This map shows the Bataan Peninzula-

‘We Will Do It" Cries Nation to F.D.Rs Plea

RY UNITED PRESR

“Let no man say it cannot be done. It must be done...”

The strong determined voice of a united nation replied to Presi= dent Roosevelt today: “Tt ean and will be done” As one man, officials, executives, skilled oéraftsmen, laborers of the East, the Middle West, the South, and the Far West buckled down to the greatest armaments building program the world has ever known From eities, towns, and villages came evidences of the determination of all to see that it wag fulfilled and more besides

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AIRPLANES

“First to increase our production rate of airplanes so rapidly that this year 1592 we shall produce 60,000 planes. . . . The rate of increase will be maintained. . . . So that next year, 1943, we shall produce 125,000 planes , ,

~~ JOHN H. JOUETT, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce: will produce them.” ROBERT RB GROSS, president of Lockheed Aireraft: ‘We accept the goal without qualifications, but we're too busy to talk about it” P. G. JOHNSON, president of Boeing Aireraft: “Last month we delivered 70 per cent more flying fortresses than the schedule called for, This is a sample of Ameriea at work in time of wap”

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AIRPLANE MOTORS

ALLISON MOTOR DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS: “We are meeting our quotas and will meet the new ones, We won't let Mr. Roosevelt down.”

PROPELLERS CURTISS-WRIGHT PROPELLER DIVISION: “We will do it.” . . » #” # "

HEAVY INDUSTRY

“Recond, to increase our production rate of tanks so rapidly that this year, 1842, we shall produce 45000 tanks, and te continue that increase so that next year, 1943, we shall produce 15.000 tanks”

WALTER 8 TOWER, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: "The present steel-making capacity . . . means we oan produce 50 per eent more than ean be made in Germany, Italy, Japan and all the conquered European countries together.” L, W. SCOTT ALTER, president of American Tool Workers Co: “About every day we get some demand that we say is fantastic and can't be dene and then, by God, we go ahead and do it”

SHIPBUILDING

“And . , . to increase our production rate of merchant ships so rapidly that in thie year 1942, we shall build 8,000,000 deadweight tons « + and continue that increase so that next year 1943 we shall build 10,000,000 tons of shipping.”

JOSEPH A. MOORE JR, president of the Moore Dry Dock Corp.: “We're all for it, We feel sufe that with the co-operation of everyone »

“The aireraft industry, aided by 580 allied industries, |

erg and has opened a virtual non-gtop air bombardment of

the fortess of Corregidor, An official U, 8. Army communie que indicated that the Japanese (attack is developing increasing moe ‘mentum, but it asserted that Gen, MacArthur and his men are fighte ing back cooly and bravely and re [sisting strongly. A brief ull in land operations noted by the War Department yege | terday==appeared to be over, and {it seemed likely that Japan ig turns ing oa the heat in an effort to smash Gen. MaeArthui’s strong [defense positions in Bataan Prove inee and on the island of Coriegie dor A elimax in Gen. MaeArthur's gallant stand may be approaching.

Airpower Carries Brunt

| Japanese airpower was carrying [the brunt of the intensified assault, The War Department reported that American and Philippines troops in the mountain=studded, jungle-strewn Bataan Peninsula are ‘holding out under a continuous rain (of Japanese bombers interspersed [with low=flying machine-gun strafs ing Corregidor, roek=girt island whieh stands as a powerful bulwark against Japanese use of Manila Bay, une derwent anether hourg=long air bombardment yesterday, the Wap Department revealed The extent of damage and easuale [ties inflicted by the attack in whieh at least 45 Japanese bombers pars ticipated was net yet known but American anti-aireraft guns were (still blasting back with a steel hail of shrapnel and shells against the Riging Sun attackers and were res ported to have damaged additional Japanege planes, The known toll of Japanese wars planer inflieted by Corregidor's guna [already stands at 15 destroyed and probably ag many mere downed or badly damaged The War Department Communis que==No, 49 issued since the start of hostilities just a month age with Japan's treacherous Pearl Harbor assault = indicated that heaviest Japanese air pressure {8 being die rected againat the key points of (Continued on Page Two)

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BULLETIN

Times Special WASHINGTON, Jan, 7.—Attors ney General Francis Biddle told his press conference today that he Is considering disciplinary ace tion against Federal Distriot Ate torney B, Howard Caughran of Indianapolis because of Mr, Caughran’s conduct in the Arthur V. Brown WPA condpiracy case dismissal, Under questioning. the Attors ney General explained that the only action which he could take would be to ask President Roosee velt to remove Mr, Caughran, sete ting out the reason for such a recommendation, «