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be in excess of $140,000,000,000.

TAX PLANS

STILL IN DOUBT

Treasury to Start Fiscal ‘Year With Debt of 140 Billion.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (U. P.).

—The treasury will begin a new

fiscal year Thursday with 1944

tax plans still uncertain and .a national debt which probably will

The expiring fiscal year has been a record-breaker in all respects. But both receipts and expenditures evidently will fall below the estimates President Roosevelt submitted to congress in his budget message last Jan. 6. Here are current figures for this fiscal year compared with last January’s estimates:

This Yr. to Date Jan. Estimates $139, 722,000,000 $134,800,000,000

75,195,000,000 80,400,000,000

69,430,000,000 74,000,000,000 Receipts ... 20,477,000,000 22,900,000,000 Net deficit.. 54,714,000,000 57,400,000,000

The discrepancy between the smaller-than-expected net deficit and the larger-than-expected public debt is explained by the cash balance of more than $9,000,000,000 now at the treasury’s disposal. This huge fund is reflected in the debt but not the deficit.

Falls Short of Goal

The figures show that tax receipts paid considerably less than onethird of the cost of the war in this fiscal year. Secretary of Treasury ‘Henry Morgenthau Jr. who, first proposed that taxes and savings should bear two-thirds of the war cost in the next fiscal year, starting July 1, already has lowered his objective to 50 per cent and there is no assurance that that goal will be reached. Morgenthau, an opponent forced savings, hopes that the public voluntarily will invest 25 per cent instead of 10 per cent of its income in war bonds.

Nat'l debt.. Expenditures (all) War expenditures

This month the treasury has been | spending tax plan letter with “tell all the boys I said

revising its which, in its original form, was badly received by congress. Morgenthau’s advisers also favor increased income and corporation taxes. But under congressional pressure, the treasury has agreed to reduce the additional legislative revenue goal from $16,000,000,000 to $12,000,000,000 for the next fiscal year. It has been further agreed that such new income levies as may be enacted shall not become effective until Jan. 1, 1944, which is a date just mid-way in the 1944 fiscal year. Whereas congress generally was hostile. to spending tax legislation in the early winter, there is somewhat more favorable disposition ‘NOW.

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Letters From the Fighting Fronts

‘No Bag Limit’

Says Fortress Tail Gunner ; | Sickness Decreases Despite

‘Sgt. Richard L. Schuttler, tail gunner on a flying fortress somewhere in England, has been award-

Over Europe,

ed the first oak leaf cluster to the

air medal and has been advanced to staff sergeant, according to a Vmail letter received by his father Thursday. Sgt. Schuttler says “the hunting

is good in Europe and no bag limit.” He wrote to his parents, Mr. and Mrs, Carson st., about four weeks ago that.

George Schuttler, 3106 he had been given personal credit

190 and expected recognition would follow, The parents received no further word until the letter came bearing the news of the decorations, Mr, Schuttler says he believes that the medal is given for one plane and the cluster for additional planes downed.

Hungry for Candy Sgt. Schuttler's letter of June 15 follows: “Hello, folks. How is everything on the home front? Everything here is all right except that I'm getting hungry for some candy. All-we can get is one piece of butterscotch a week. “1 guess you saw by the letter heading that I finally made staff sergeant. I also was awarded the

air medal. Gen. Eaker gave us a little pep talk and Gen. Anderson

io shooting down a German FW-

pinned the medal on me. I also have

one oak leaf cluster coming. «I got caught up on my sleep for a few days but we ‘are in there pitching again. I can’t tell you anything about it ‘but you can get all the dope from the newspapers.” After acknowledging letters from home the sergeant asks to be sent a. cigaret lighter. “You can’t buy any over here” he says, “and

matches are rationed to one penny box a week,” and he concludes the

‘hello.’—So long, Dick.” In a previous letter Sgt. Schuttler had written: “We are working day and night and not getting overtime either.” Sgt. Schuttler, a Manual high school graduate and former em- | ployee of Kingan & Co. enlisted | in the air corps April 1, 1942, and has been in England since May 1 this year. His brother, Maj. Robert D. Schuttler,” former Indianapolis attorney and reserve officer, is with an armored division. His parents do not know his location. The father, George Schuttler, retired from the U. S. Postal service after 40 years. At one time he was assigned to The Indianapolis Times mailing room,

Sgt. Richard L.. Schuttler

SAFETY GROUP TO SEE STYLES

11 War Plants, 2 Depart-

' ment Stores to Give Show

At Dinner.

A style show sponsored by 11 war |

plants and two downtown stores will feature the dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Industrial Safety club at the Claypool Hotel at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow. Safety clothing will be modeled by employees of the stores and plants, whose safety directors will comment on salient features of the outfits during the parade, Wayne W, Whiffing, president of

the club, will preside, and Sam

Freeman, vice president of L. Strauss & Co., will be a special guest representing management, Following are the participating plants and safety directors: Bridgeport Brass, Allyn G. Pryde; International Harvester Co., H. E. Fahrenbach; Allison Division of General Motors, E. A. Frosch; Basca Manufacturing Co., J. P. Jones; Lukas-Harold Corp., Mr. Whiffing; Curtiss-Wright Corp., Joe Harmon; Stewart -Warner Corp, D. C. Schortemeier; Electronic Laboratories, George Dew; SchwitzerCummins Co., S. A. Raatz;- Hugh J. Baker Co. Karl A. Cretors; P. R. Mallory Co., Al G. Feeney. In addition L. S. Ayres & Co. and L. Strauss ‘& Co. will enter models, wearing their merchandise.

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VIET CHILD

HEALTH GOOD

“Mass Evacuation of

Thousands.

By DAVID M. NICHOL

ht, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

MOSCOW, June 28.—The Soviet union’s fight with those twin specters, disease and starvation, which dog the steps of almost all of Eu-

rope’s children, has been successful to a point where the death rate and incidence of most children’s ailments are lower than in 1940, the best previous year, Georgi Andrei-

The initial impact of the Nazi| onslaught, here as elsewhere, struck heavily against the nation’s children. Untold thousands, perhaps millions—the number never has been publicly estimated—were evac- | uated ahead of the advancing Ger-| man armies. Long journeys, fre-| quent exposure and irregular food supplies, all took a tragic toll. Miterev said that the Soviet union next faced phenomena similar to those discovered in England during the children’s exodus where it was found, for example, that dis‘ease flared up in unpredictable and more than normally vicious circles.

Measles Half 40 Rate

Knockout by Air?

Germany Fails fo Find Adequate Means To Stave Off Growing Fleets of Bombers

(Third. and last of a series)

By PAUL

GHALI .

BERN, June 28.—So far no adequate means of defense has been found by the Nazis against allied bombings and if they do not find

one soon, they stand a good chance This is the considered opinion

of losing the “Battle of the Ruhr.” of one of the best allied military

experts here and his views would seem confirmed by the seriousness with which the Nazis are viewing the allied air offensive these days.

The most effective Nazi defense weapon, experts here state, is un-

doubtedly the fighter to which most

allied plane losses ‘are attributable. That the

(same time.

Unlike England, he said, the Sov- | iet union so far has not had to face a second upheaval, for the | ‘bulk of the Soviet’s youngsters are still at evacuation points. The relatively small number who have] returned to their homes came back under closely controlled circum- | stances, Figures have never been published; only comparisons are available, but Miterev said that the | measles rate for example, is how} half what it was in 1940, the best] pre-war year. Even more successful has been the campaign against | scarlet fever, dysentery and intesti- | nal ailments. These cases are one and one-half times fewer. Diphtheria has neither decreased nor increased for the whole of the! Soviet union since 1940. There is | no general immunization law, Miterev explained, although many localities have separate compulsory orders and where these have been observed, he said, there has been marked improvement.

PHALANX TO GIVE PARTY Members of Epsilon chapter, Phalanx fraternity, will have a party for members and their guests tomorrow night at the Central Y, M.! C. A. The program is under the direction of Loren Dietz, president, and D. W. Moffett, party committee chairman,

the Nazis are very wa.y of attack-

{ ed.

Nazis know this themselves is indicated by the fact that they are concentrating all their efforts today in building fighters rather than bombers. 3 According to re- BRPeE liable infoma- Mr. Ghali tion here, four fighters are being built in Germany today to every one bomber—a fact which, incidentally, indicates that the Nazi talk of offensive reprisals is so much’ bluff. Germany’s fighter strength in west and northwest Germany is estimated at 2000 planes although naturally only a fraction of these can be put in the air ‘at the But even this number has proved insufficient against the American Flying Fortresses which

ing even when they are not escort-

Next to fighters, the Nazis place] their hopes—or rather did—in their “flak towers.” Practically every German town threatened by bombing has its protective flak tower— a massive concrete construction some 50 meters high and 50 meters broad, (163 by 163 feet), manned by a garrison 200 strong. On the | upper platforms of these towers are ! installed the most powerful antiaircraft guns that Germany possesses. The ground floors serve as air raid shelters for civilians... Six months ago, the Nazis expected wonders of these concrete monsters because of their invulnerability to air attack. Today they are sadly disillusioned.

Towers. a Failure

For these special towers have achieved little more {han their ordinary flak—that is practically nothing at all. Apart from trying to bring down allied planes, the Nazis have done their best to provide their people; with adequate shelter prectection. But their efforts have been greatly hampered by lack of materials, especially concrete. Travelers from Germany do not try to conceal the inadequacy of German air raid;

BEAUTY BY

A new kind o beauty.

long-lasting.

shelters in the Ruhr, both in number and in the protection they afford. Their admissions have recently been confirmed by Reichmarshal Hermann Goering himself who has ordered the digging: of trenches in the public squares and avenues of almost all of the bombed towns. There is no doubt that the Germans today find greater security in open-air trenches than in converted cellars beneath five-storied buildings which, if hit, are likely to bury them alive,

Another Nazi disillusionment has

been the small effect of their efforts to camouflage targets by building

dummies beside them or concealing them beneath giant nets. In Berlin, 'a famous avenue has been

camouflaged this way for several months. canal has been built a few kilo‘meters away from the real one. But American and royal air force pilots

In * Hamburg, a dummy

are no fools. Morale Worries Today, the Nazis seem less con-

cerned with their direct defense

weapons than what they describe as “the passive powers of defense” of the populations of bombed regions. Only yesterday the Westfatische Landeseiztung bluntly stated that the attitude of the civilian population was more important than any military defenses while the party organ Voelkischer Beobachter wrote: “There are two possibilities of a decision in this bomb terror war —either the people's morale will crack or hatred will rise in them demanding reprisals as the only possible amends for all they have endured. Such statements in the inspired Nazi press tell a whole heap. They indicate that the Nazis realize that with their military defenses they are powerless to keep the allied bombers off. They suggest that

the greatest weakness in the Nazi defenses lies not in their fighters, flak, and so forth but in the in-

ability of their people to stand the

ever increasing fury of the ellied attack. The Nazi press today is staging a “pepe” campaign which far

transcends anything Nazi propagandists have done hefore. Taking their cue from the Voel-

kischer Beobachter, Nazi editorialists

and commentators are seeking to revive the Germans’ scared and dejected spirits by instilling into them

Alert. Alive.

fanatical hatred of allied airmen, simultaneously holding out promise | of revenge. To do this they are now taking an entirely new line, publicizing rather than concealing the damage caused by allied raids—to civilian targets only, of course. Newspapermen who have been invited to visit -devastated residential quarters, write up their experiences in most vivid terms. The “International” press conference now being held in Vienna is accompanied by an exhibition of photographs of bombed dwelling houses and works of art. Nazi radio commentators complete the work with eyewitness accounts of the havoc and suffering caused by “barbarian” airmen whose sole object, so they declare, is the terrorization of the civilian population.

“Secret Weapons”

So far as reprisals are concerned, the Nazis are placing even greater emphasis on their secret weapons. These, they tell the people daily, are increasing in quantity and efficiancy but are purposely being held back against the “appointed hour.” As added spice to this secret weapon, the Nazi press writes of their “legendary” invention designed by Eric Muller, who works day and night in the subterranean laboratory to which only Der Fuehrer, G cring and sometimes armaments Minister Albert Speer have access. It would seem clear that the main purpose of all these reprisal promises and hints of secret weapons is to brace the German people in their hour of trial. But is this the only purpose? Even the dumbest Gerad must have difficulty in swallowing forever the Nazi bluff—if it is only a bluff. As for the Nazi propagandists themselves, they must realize that they cannot go on deceiving indefinitely without incurring that very danger which they are so anxious to avoid—the collapse of German morale, ! - Doubtless, the Nazis have today enough planes in store to launch a large-scale reprisals offensive. For the last few months, their losses have been comparatively small and their production, although crippled, has kept going. To estimate the number of bombers that Germany could put into the air today is extremely difficult. Experts here do not wish to commit themselves to anything more definite than “several thousands.” The present inactivity of the Luftwaffe has definitely led some observers here to wonder if Goering is not saving up for a retaliatory blow against the British isles. The same observers do not completely discard the possibility that the Nazis have some secret weapon up

their sleeves.

Radiantly young. ‘And happily,

New Anesthesia. "Reported by Baltimon Doctors.

. By Science Service CHICAGO, June 28.—A simple test which adds to the safety of continuous caudal anesthesia, th

is announced by Dr. Nathan Block and Dr. Morris Rostein, of Sinal hospital, Baltimore; in the forthe coming issue of the Journal of the

method, developed by Dr. W. B, Edwards and Dr. R. A. Hingson, of the U. S. Public Health Service, a pain-killing chemical is dropped into the caudal canal near the base of the spine. This produces a local anesthetic effect somewhat like tha gas. The anesthesia is limited to leaving the mother conscio comfortable.

-Danger Can Be Avoided Although some thousand mothers

with this new style of anesthesia, there is danger of the anesthiptio getting into the spinal canal d of the caudal canal. If this hape pens, the mother may die. The danger can be avoided, the

a salt solution before the anesthetio and determining the rate at which the salt solution flows into the body. drops per minute after three mine

injected into the spinal canal. they found from tests under iden

tion will flow into the spinal canal at a rate almost too fast to Pui averaging about 230 drops per mine ute. In most of the cases they studied, the solution flowed into the caudal space at a rate between 80 and 110 drops per minute.

anesthetic method in 100 childe births and 11 obstetric surgical procedures. test was done in the last 69 cases,

ORIENTAL SHRINE SCHEDULES PICNIC

The annual picnic of the Ladies of the Oriental Shrine of North

Wednesday at Brookside park. Ree freshments will be furnished by the court. Mrs. Ruthanne Musterpaugh {is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Birk, Mrs. W. O. Jones and Craig. Mrs. Andra Clinton is high priestess.

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new method of painless childbirth,

American Medical association here,

In this new childbirth anesthesia

given for pulling a tooth without

ules, the needle has probably been Contrary to their expectations; i

tical conditions that the salt solu-

the nerves affected in er 2

have now had their babies safely =

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Baltimore doctors find, by injecting 4

If it flows faster than 150

They. report success with the

The preliminary sal§

America will be held at 11 a m,