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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
D. R. ASKS BIG
CUT IN SPENDING
Continued From Page One)
on that date, together with an in.
crease of 1882. 0O0, 900 in receipts.
Defense Not Cut

crease OIL 9ooA,OUU,UUO IN recelpLS.
Defense Not Cut
The bulky budget listed a total
contemplated expenditure Of 1884,
000, 900, with cuts in almost every
major item except national defense.
Against this outgo, the President
set estimated receipts of s. ,54S, O00,-
900 to be derived from the tax laws
as they stand. These receipts, he
forecast, would be increased by
$500, 000, 900 through blanketing into
the treasury capital assets which
various government corporations
no longer need. These assets, when
paid out to the corporations, were
a part Of the deficits Of former
years. Through this process, the
President expected receipts to como
to a grand total of $6,248, 00O, 900.
The last figure he deducted from
the estimated total expenditures to
arrive at a figure of s2,176, 900, 900
for the 1911 deficit. But at the same
time, he called upon congress to
enact new taxes which would yield
$3.50, DOC, 900 to cover the increased
cost of national defense. If con-
gress complies, he noted, the ret
deficit will be reduced by that
amount, to a total of 81, ZIG, 900, 900.
This would compare with an esti-
mated net deficit of 1898, 900, 900
for the current year, and would be
the smallest since 1888, when the
figure was 81, 1874, 900, 900.
Guiding Policy
The Presidents guiding policy in
drawing up the budget, he told
congress, was this:
we should count upon a natural
increase in receipts from current
taxes and a decrease in emergency
expenditures, and we should try to
offset the unavoidable increase in
expenditures for national defense by
special tax receipts, and hope, thus,
to secure, for the overall picture,
a gradual tapering off, rather than
an abrupt cessation of the deficit"
Generally" he said at another
point, 1--WE are prepared to move
forward on reduced rations."
Since the economy VS.. fedeyal
spending is rated one of the SEES
lsion's most controversial issues, the
budget aroused intense interest and
searching scrutiny at the CAPITOL.
The interest, however, was not ap.
parent on the floor of either house
as the budget was presented.
Reading clerks droned the mes.
sage off to both chambers, while
the members retired in many cases
to the cloak rooms to examine ex.
ira copies of the message and it's at
tached tables in armchair. and
cigar comfort,
Taft Promises Answer
Senator Taft (R-Ohio),4 "a presiden.
tial candidate who has been war.
ring with the President about the
budget for weeks, promised an
answer in a speech at Chicago to-.
morrow night-one which he said
would use no "glib generalities."
New Deal supporters thought the
message satisfactory or more than
satisfactory. Rep. Rayburn Of Tex
as, the democratic floor leader,
called it "a sane message and ex-
pressed the hope that congress
would "stand by these recommended
tions." Senator Byrnes (D-SC) said
the proposals constitute a long step
toward a balanced budget" He
termed it "an economy message"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
thompson GIVEN
new BUREAU JOB
r,,retary To Governor Hoey
Is Appointed To Succeed
Bill Sharpe

,r1cH. Jan. - Up - Bill
submitted his resignation to-
:harpe manager of the State News
Jay a, and will be succeeded ID by
s9s'' to Governor H0ey'
,re,s resignation will become
sn'. ro February rs, and je plans
snsage in newspaper work in
70 sDa or.salem. Thompson, a former
Nlpss nor man, will resign his post
ne" sore.arv between February Is
md March l.
announcement was made as
!. w who will be the new secretary to
uorsrnor Hoey. AS manager OF the
bureau, Thompson will re-
New tbe same salary that he now
~ naid-s4,5OO a year.
s,orne held an editorial post with
winston.Salem Journal Sentinel
Nv before coming to Raleigh to
's5 The bureau. Thompson resign
:, 1886 as a reporter for tho
News and Observer of Raleigh 10
ssrdle publicity for Governor
nas,,s campaign, and was appoint
~ secretary after Hoey's election.
IN statement announcing the re.
.an.tions, Governor Hoey praised
the work of Thompson and Sharpe.
Of is needless for me to say that
, ..,ro- TO lose the valuable services
# Mr., Thompson, but I realize the
..,or+ance of the work he is to take
m for the state and 7 know of his
trs Qualifications said the Gov
ernor.
q would not let this occasion pass
ri,holt paying tribute to MI.
Thompson and express my apprecia-
linn of his untiring work with me
and for me and the state since I
have been governor.
I'm this connection, I should also
like to express appreciation of the
whole stale to Mr.. Sharpe for the
very wonderful service which
has rendered and express my regret
that he decided to leave the states
seryic, for private employment. His
work has been commended far and
wide. and has met the full approval
of those associated with him."
R. Bruce Etheridge, director of
The Department of Conservation and
Development, also praised Sharpe
Through the operation of
Sharpe's office, there is no doubt
that the nation has been made more
conscious of the tourist, industrial
and investment opportunities of the
state" Etheridge said. This result
has undoubtedly been translated in
real dollars and cents values. He
has beer an important factor in TIE
progress the state has
made in the last few years.
Sharpe did not disclose the nature
Of the newspaper work in which he
will engage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
FINNISH PATROLS
CUT INTO RUSSIA
Continued From Page One)

(The newspaper Social Demokraten
at Stockholm declared Finnish planes
flew over Leningrad yesterday, drop
ping thousands of leaflets in the Rus
sian language declaring the Firms
were fighting only to defend their
independence. The newspaper said
pamphlets also were scattered over
Soviet lines on the Karelian 18th.
mus.)
press dispatches at Copenhagen
reported further that Finnish bomb
ers attacked and partly destroyed the
new Russian air bases on the islands
Of Dagoe and Oesel, off the coast of
Estonia near the southern side of
the entrance to the Gulf Of Finland.
Estonia last fall gave the U. S. S. R.
the right to fortify these islands. The
newspaper Aftenavis specialized that
the Firms might have used new Eng.
fish and italian planes on these
raids.)
Helsinki officials said Red army
planes bombed Hanko, Finland's
Gibraltar Of the Baltic" twice to-
day. Two bombers inflicted slight
damage during the morning and a
larger number of raiders dropped be-
tween 40 and so incendiary bombs
in the afternoon. No loss of life
was reportd.
Today's raids followed air attacks
which a general staff communicate
said the Russian airmen directed yes
terday at the southwestern naval
base and the nearby Turku district.
On other fronts the communicate
said that Finnish troops had repuls'
ed a Red army attempt to recapture
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
SEWER JOB
WILL START SOON
Continued From Page One)

and auditorium through the RFC
and he expected the necessary
funds to be made available 500
The municipal auditorium will
seat approximately 800 persons and
will be "ample for any size con-
vention,' Mayor Fergus stated.
II feel that the two projects are
not only invaluable assets to Caro-
lima Beach, but to the city Of Will
mington as WELL" the resort mayor
asserted.
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| T OF FLINT'S
RETURN DELAYED
Continued From Page One)

aaugesund a German prize crew
which had taken her to Murmansk,
Russia, and then sought to take
her down the Norwegian coast to
Germany as a prize.
In charge Of the same American
crew which operated her during her
wandering through northern waters,
the City of Flint had been sched-
uled to leave Narvik yesterday
with a cargo of iron ores
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
MARION L. WINNER
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Continued From Page One)

Of Carolina Beach, and Mrs. lone
Bell, of Carolina Beach.
Five sons, M. S. Winner, Of
Hampton, Va, B. l.. Winner, Of
Wallace, ]. Walter Winner, OF Fort
Fisher, Fred Winner, Of Wallace,
and Carl Winner, Of Carolina
Beach; one sister, Mrs. Elmer
Bache, of Kansas; and one BROTH
er, J. M. Winner, Of Carolina
Beach.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05

a strong position northeast of Lake
Ladoga while activity was reported
quiet" on the Karelian isthmus.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05

The best place TO regain the road
when your right front wheel runs
off the edge into a soft shoulder
is at a point where the road and
shoulder are at approximately the
same level.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
WHAT TO DO FOR
THE ITCH (scabies

aellef from itch, or that condition
nuoyn as scabies, scratches, camp itch
sn !.year itch, Is quickly had with
MA, psvlos Sanative Wash" a liquid sui
puur solution which destroys those itch
s ss. Which it contacts, thus easing
ANA anery, tormenting itching. Coo at
bss druggist or postpaid direct. Money
p paCs u not relieved. Owens q Minor,
'icnnond, Va. (adv.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-05
WEATHER
Continued From Page One)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-R-Weath-
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending 8 p.
M, in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10

81 have come to Texas bearing gifts
rich gifts-not few of them
and you never thought of calling me
a carpet-bagger." He related also
how he went into Texas and pulled
the oil industry out of mess that
you yourself had created"
This is pretty terrible.
Kowtow to POoh-Bahs.
The federal government has no
money that it doesn't take out of
the states. If they were permitted
to exercise their own taxing and
spending power, they could control
both by their own votes.
By permitting the federal govern
ment to do it for them, state Off
Gals escape their own responsible
ties but they surrender their own
authorities. They have to come kow-
towing to unelected federal and
Ickensian Pooh-Bahs to get back
their own, and then have to suffer
the impertinence and political whip
cracking of those same political
taskmasters, who remind them
threateningly of the "rich gifts the
bureaucrats "come bearing'-which
they do like the Greeks.
This kind of thing is perilously
close to being a kind of personal
political extortion. 1t reveals the
peril to local self-government from
federal assumption of local rights
and responsibilities and from lump
sum appropriations by billions to ap-
pointed officers without legislative
ALLEGATION.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
TAUSSIG OMITTED ONE

Rear Admiral Joseph K Taussig's
remark that war with Japan is in
evitable" wasn't the only bombshell
in his sensational speech before the
senate naval affairs committee.
There was another that-at the last
minute-he didn't fire.
Halfway in his manuscript, imme-
diately following the paragraph
warning that the consequences Of
modern warfare are so far-reaching
that the overthrow of our form of
government" is not improbable, was
this startling statement:
''Our financial structure, none too
sound at present on account of the
huge public debt, cannot stand such
a strain"
Taussig skipped this hot dig at
the New Deal when he read his pre-
pared paper, but newsmen didn't
know it because no copies Of the
speech were distributed. A MEM
Der of the committee, who later hap
pened to glance through the manu-
script, discovered the interesting
omission scratched out in pencil by
Taussig.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
GEN e RAJ
JOH N SON
...y!!..dHc.'':'
ICKEs BEARS GIFTS

lChES BEARS gifts
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS calls
the running row between Secretary
Ickes and myself racket, saying
There's fees in them thar fe-uds."
This is only partly true. The ''fe-
I'D" never gets as hot as the blood
thirstier fans like, for two reasons,
~ I like the secretary; (2) while I
abominate his oratorical and other
misgivings, I think he is by so far
the best secretary of the interior
that we have had that there isn't
any runner-up.
That does not mean that cannot
comment on some of Donald Ducks
quackier utterances. He frequently
goes to Chicago to tell that city
what boon he has been to it by
giving it a subway" and the great
est sewage disposal plant in the
world"
'Carpetbagger' in Texas.
The original Texas Garnerite,
Anon Carter, called him a carpet
bagger." In the manner of his WOO
ing of Chicago, Mr.. Ickes replied:
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10

with more cars on the roads the
accident toll naturally mounts, even
though the percentage rate might be
slightly lower.
I'm addition, boys and girls flock
into the streets when the weather
becomes warm. Skaters and bike
riders cause the toll to climb. Pc
destrians are more numerous.
"But, psychology also plays q
part. Popped up by the fire Of spring
the average driver will take more
chances, he'll cut things pretty close
at tmes."
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
Motorists Take More Chances in Fine, Spring Weather

hazardous. OF course, it is at such
times that drivers are most careful.
"Then, with springs warmer
weather." he continued, when road
surfaces are safer, it seems that
serious accidents and death tolls
mount.
"Two factors undoubtedly are re-
sponsible: The gamblers percent
age and the drivers psychology.
Greater use Of the highways
comes with more open weather and
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10

CHICAGO. = Spring not only
causes lambs to gambol in the
meadows-but it seems to make mo-
florists gamble on the highways, &C
cording to Taylor G. Soper, execu-
tive secretary Of the Illinois Road
Builders association.
He pointed to accident reports
which, in general, show high totals
for property damage but low totals
for fatal accidents during the win
tar when driving conditions are most
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10

IN 1914, Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
1 sistant secretary of the navy, was
riding the venerable destroyer Pat
terson up the coast of Maine. He
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10

said to young
Lieut.. Stark
at the helm,
May I re-
lieye Won for
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
Navy Commander
Has Talked Back
To His Big Chief

while? 1 am an experienced navi-
gator and I know this coast" The
young lieutenant replied, II am in
command here and responsible for
the ship. I doubt your authority to
supersede me. If you can offer any
helpful suggestions I should be glad
to hear them"
1t was said that Mr.. Roosevelt
liked that kind of sea talk. At any
rate, last August, he jumped Adm.
Harold R. Stark over 81 others who
outranked him, to make him chief
of naval operations, No. post in the
navy. White-haired and professori-
al, Admiral Stark continues before
the senate committee on naval af-
fairs his advocacy of an adequate
navy, this time pointing up his argu-
ment with reference to Japan's
eight new dreadnaughts, supposedly
under way.
Admiral Stark commands a force
of ITO, 900 men, IL 900 officers, Is, 900
marines, $50 ships and 1000 fiiers.
Two of his outstanding policies are
belief that the navy should control
and operate its own air fleet, and
disbelief in "attrition" warfare. In
other words he thinks the navy
should be always in instant readi-
ness for quick, hard hitting. His
technical attainments advanced him
in his earlier years and in later
years his frank and outspoken
Foundations Of broad navy policy.
He is regarded by close observers
of naval affairs as fortunate COM
bination Of the "activitist" tradition
and studious and informed hmowl-
edge in the overlapping zone Of ma
val and foreign policy. This be-
comes important in the latter-day
urgency and delicacy Of information
n Affairs.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
TIN AND RUBBER SUPPLIES

Several years ago Mr.. B. M. Ba-
ruch, on the basis of his World war
experience in economic warfare, be-
need for accommodating reserve sup
plies of tin and rubber-materials
absolutely necessary for our defense
which at present come from half
way round the world-sources which
may possibly be threatened if the
war spreads.
These sources are in British,
French and Dutch hands. A little
later when our supplies of cotton
began to pile up threateningly, he
advocated trading surplus cotton,
which those three countries need
and do not produce, for their sur
plus rubber and tin.
Chance for Barter.
Now the British and French are
becoming increasingly dependent on
us as base of supplies. Our laws
prohibit our selling to them except
for cash. There is a great COM
motion among our interventionists to
relax these laws sooner or later to
buy for us stake in the war. That
is going to be difficult bill of goods
to sell to the American people. We
did that once before.
But are there not here the mutual
elements Of accommodation?
Our government can deal with the
problem Of paying for great reserves
Of tin and rubber in one Of several
ways. It can ship them cotton con-
trolled by our government, or it can
advance them credits to purchase
other munitions against shipment
here Of tin and rubber in equal
value.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-05-10
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


NEW YORK. - We heard that
~ Wendell L. Willlkie had 800 invi-
tations to make public addresses.
Across his big desk, which in
Wendell WiIIkie GUS on Sisarray
Has Pep 'ApIenfy m kes q
And Plenty to Do news aPe
home, we asked Mr.. Winkie about
it. The report was all wrong. The
number is something over 1000.
Also in the ruck were enough pleas
for magazine and syndicate articles
to give Mr.. Willlxie writer's cramp
for the rest Of his life, If he took on
even one-tenth of them.
Mr.. WilIkie, built like q guard,
works like an end or a halfback.
The range and agility of his mind
is such that he might be swing
man, either in the line or the back
field. On his desk was q new
book, the life of the Elder Pitt, about
which he is writing a review; also
a litter of papers having to do with
pretty nearly everything from kant
to kilowatts.
An hours conversation covered q
similar range. He talked rapidly
and vehemently, saving and ham-
mering with his extended palm,
when he told how the Common
wealth & Southern forced down
rates, or challenged what he terms
the unfair iva bookkeeping; maxi
ing hesitant or cropping gestures
when he touched on the intangibles
Of social origins and inducements.
He is like that-assured and vehe-
ment on what he knows and thought
full and explorative on what he
merely thinks.
He doesn't want to kill the Sc
curities and Exchange commission.
He would merely put it under sound
democratic controls.
Mr.. Willkie has tremendous gusto
and live, Intellectual curiosity. He
says all this talk of nominating him
for President is incidental to the fact
that he made rock-and-sock battle
on something he knew about-some-
thing which happened to be impor-
tant and which perhaps helped to
clarity certain basic issues. He says
he never spent dime on a personal
build-up and never will. Almost his
strongest emphasis was reserved for
his observation that the run-ofthe-
mill citizen is lot brighter than
he's supposed to be, and that therein
lies the hope for our continuing de-
mocracy. Out of its context, that
might sound like the old homespun
Indiana political hokum, but that's
the last thing you could tag Mr..
Willkie with.
YAr 1n,z E-.-,-1:-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-21
TODAY'S sport PARADE

would be beaten why didn't he make
it real Merchants and Citizens
Handicap and insist that he carry
Saratoga Merchant or Citizen as
excess baggage? 1t would be novel
to say the least, to see a hardware
merchant or real estate dealer
hanging on for dear life as Challe-
don tore down the stretch.
Just why Challedon should be Civ
en- 135 pounds in this stake and
George E. Widener's Eight Thirty
let off with l27 is a bit of a mys-
terry. The only time the two horses
ever met was in the Massachusetts
Handicap and Eight Thirty ran
first to Challedon's third. Since
then, of course. Challedon has won
the Hollywood Gold Cup in track
record time and Eight Thirty taken
licking in the Saratoga Handicap
Challedon isn't the first stand
out horse to take weight beating.
1t was lead in the saddle that forced
Discovery into retirement. When
Discovery quit they were piling so
much metal on him that a pockey
had to be member in good stand
ing of the United Mine Workers
union to be eligible to ride him
Man OWar was retired after bis
three-year-old campaign but be
was carrying 1873 at the finish. An
other year or two of racing and
he probably would have staggered
down the stretch with a safe. q
couple of four poster beds. and a
coop of chickens on his back.
Some of the great horses escaped
too severe poundage Examinator's
top impost was 1877. But he carried
that only once. Seabiscuit's top
was 1873, and Sun Beau hoisted as
much as 1872 on but one occasion.
Gallant Fox was never burdened
with more than 126 and Collins top
was 127.
Speaking for myself. my top
weight was 1877, and did l develop
the staggers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-21
BY HENRY McLEMORE-

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. UP)-M,
wits are of rummage sale caiibrt
] know. but even so they are SHARP
enough to detect that the handicap
system in horse racing doesn't have
a hand-in- glove relationship with
the turf mems talk about the i'm
provement of breed.
What's the use of improving the
breed and developing a fine. out
standing horse if. the moment he
proves himself as such, you pack
his saddle with so much lead he
is dragged down to the level of in
ferior thoroughbreds?
For an example, take w. L
BranD's Maryland bred star. Chal-
ledon. He is to thoroughbreds run
ming today what Brenda Frazier is
to glamor girls. Bing Crosby is to
crooners, and cherrystone is to
clans. In short he is the No.
critter. and if the racing secretaries
of the various tracks would leave
him alone he wouldn't lose any more
races than Jesse Owens would at
an Elks picnic.
But every time Challedon goes to
the post these days he is assigned
so much weight it makes you won-
der why the secretaries don't go
the whole way and put Oliver
Hardy or Paul Whiteman on him as
jockey forge him saddle from
Bethlehem steel. and send the
Marx Brothers along as observers
Maybe they will do something like
this before the year is out. They'll
have to If they are absolutely de-
termined to slow him down to where
he doesn't have any more speed
than his rivals.
The latest burden assigned to
Challedon is 135 pounds for the Mer-
chants and Citizens Handicap to be
run at Saratoga on Saturday. This
is q full eight pounds more than
any of his rivals will be asked to
lug on the mile and three-six-
teenths journey. If Saratoqa's han
dicapper John p. Campbell wanted
to be real sure that Challedon
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-21
Corbett Shows He
Still Has Life

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 81. CUP)-
There's life in the old boy yet, ever
if Young Corbett III, former world
welterweight champion, is approach
ing the age of 36 when he will
automatically be barred from Cali
fornia's rings.
Young" Corbett mauled Sheik
Rangel, a 21-year-old middleweight,
for 10 rounds to win decision from
Referee Fred Bottaro before. $500
fans in an outdoor fight here last
night. Corbett, who had difficult
ty an making a weight within y
pounds of his opponent, as required
by state rules. didn't show the speed
of former days, but he was cagey
enough to punish Rangel for eight
of the ten rounds. One round was
even.