The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-06-24
Inside
Washington

Special TO Central Press
WASHINGTON - There is
a strengthening belief on Cap
itol Hill that Congress may do
nothing about the threatened
governmental deficit for the
1850 fiscal year.
A high Democratic leader
who has been pressing for ac-
ton on President Truman's
our-billion-dollar tax increase
request commented, There
seems to be little enthusiasm
in Congress for increasing
taxes"
The leader who is close to
the White House, indicated he
did not believe there would be
any effective cut in the presi-
dents 42-billion-dollar budget,
and that Congress might adj
journ without doing anything
at all about the deficit.
In that event, ne pointed out,
if expenditures exceed reve-
nues, the government will have
to engage in deficit financing
during the next fiscal year, be-
ginning July /. This would in
crease the monumental 25l-bil-
lion-dollar public debt.
Mr.. Truman forecast a deficit
of 500 to 700 million dollars,
but congressional tax experts
have predicted it might go as
high as three billion dollars.
One out, short of higher taxes
or decreased spending, remains.
Congress could adopt the pro-
posal of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills
(R), Arkansas, requiring cor
porations to speed up their tax
payments. This would bring in
4.6 to 4.8 billion dollars to pro-
vide temporary relief.
When the Berlin Air Lift is
finally stopped, it will save ev-
cry man, woman and child in
the United States about a dol
lar a month. In addition, the
end of Operation Vittles" will
mean that:
1.-The Military Air Trans
port Service, from which hun
dreds of planes were siphoned
from the very start of the OPP
Grafton, will get enough planes
back to re-establish in full its
postwar routes in the Pacific
and Continental Divisions.
2-The Navy will get back
the 20 tankers diverted from
regular operations to the "Sea
Lift" which delivered a total
of 12l million gallons of gaso-
line to the Air Lift.
3-Marine and Navy officers,
men and planes reassigned from
the Pacific will go back to their
posts, strengthening the United
States in the vital Far East.
4-The Army and Air Force,
both calling loudly for trained
men, will be able to take hun
dreds of Air Lift personnel for
replacement in combat and
training units.
High ranking officers in all
three services agree that the
Berlin blockade, possibly de-
signed to weaken the Allies, has
had the exact opposite effect
on American armed forces.
Americas top aviation de-
signers r working on a super
sonic fighter plane with a rev.
dictionary adjustable" wing
that may conquer the problems
of flying faster than sound.
The United States, in two
short years starting from
scratch, has learned enough
about %supersonic flight to be
able to build a vast force of
war planes if an emergency
arises, but
The toughest knot to be un-
raveled was how to land a SUI
personic plane, which had to
have s%weptback wings to fly
faster than sound, without spin
ming in at low landing speeds.
The answer is a wing built
around a spar which runs from
wingtip to wingtip. The pilot
will be able by push button"
methods to sweep the wings
back for high speed and for
ward for safe landings.
The wings also will be adjust
able upward to provide a great
er bite" in the thin air of high
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