Evening star. [volume], October 15, 1939, Page A-10, Image 10

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War and Trade Rise
Expected to Cut
Deficit a Little
Figure Less Than
$3,426,343,200 Forecast
Last January Is Due
By the Associated Press.
Long official huddling over Uncle
Bam s budget has produced the
opinion that the war and the busi
ness upswing will cut the deficit a
little this year, maybe a lot next
fiscal year.
President Roosevelt's annual fall
“budget summation,” to be issued in
a few weeks, is authoritatively ex
pected to estimate that the deficit
for the fiscal year ending next June
30 will be a little less than the
$3,426,343,200 he predicted last Janu
ary. He won’t guess on the outlook
for the following fiscal year until his
regular budget message to Congress
in January.
The sharp business improvement
©f the late summer arrived too late
to change this year's figures much.
On the spending side, only relief
could change very radically, and
Col. F. C. Harrington, the W. P. A.
chief, has warned that the potential
war boom is not likely to affect relief
costs much for the present.
Savings Offset.
If farm prices resume the spurt
they had at the outbreak of the war,
they could, In time, materially re
duce agricultural benefits paid out
of the Treasury, but benefit commit
ments for this year are already out.
Furthermore, there are offsets for
Whatever little savings may be made
on the anticipated $9,095,663,200 of
spending this fiscal year. The first
of these is the estimated $140,000,000
extra cost involved in enlarging
Army, Navy and Coast Guard per
sonnel under the President's emer
gency proclamation.
However, the revenue picture is a
little brighter than it was last Janu
ary when this fiscal year’s income
was estimated at $5,669,320,000. It
is known that the Treasury figured
that revenue on a conservative basis,
and business indices show trade has
improved materially in the last few
months.
Higher trade immediately im
proves revenues from the various
manufacturing excises — gasoline,
automobiles, radios, refrigerators,
oil, liquor and tobacco.
Slow to Reflect Conditions.
Income tax revenues, however, are
Blow to reflect changed business con
ditions. Until next March, the
Treasury still will be collecting in
come taxes based on what people
earned in the calendar year 1938. a
relatively poor business year. In
March and June, before the cur
rent fiscal year ends, the first two
installments will be collected based
on 1939 income and revenue from
this source may be larger than was
expected.
The budget improvements poten
tial in a “war boom”—if it actually
develops—might, however, mass to
gether in the next fiscal year to
erase or at least radically reduce
the annual deficit.
Revenues during a boom would
necessarily rise. Relief costs and
agricultural benefits would drop—
as much as $2,000,000,000 if the boom
was big enough. Some costs would
continue to rise, particularly those
for national defense and for pur
chasing supplies whose prices prob
ably would rise.
Essary Says Americans
Are Firm Against War
By th« Associated Press.
WHITEFIELD, N. H„ Oct. 14.—A
prediction that Americans of the
present generation never would con
sent to engage In another foreign
war was offered tonight by J. Fred
Essary, chief of the Baltimore Sun’s
Washington bureau.
Americans will remain firm in that
Stand—‘ embargo or no embargo,
neutrality or no neutrality"—the
newspaperman told 400 bankers and
guests at the 20th fall meeting of
the New Hampshire Bankers’ Asso
ciation and the Savings Bank Asso
ciation of New Hampshire.
Mr. Essary advocated that the
United States arm to the point that
no other nation would trifle with it.
He expressed belief the Senate would
repeal the present embargo on arms,
but described the outcome of action
on control of ships and credits as a
“toss-up.”
Commenting on the domestic po
litical situation, he said the Demo
crats feared they could not win in
1940 with or without President
Roosevelt and that the Repub
licans feared being too conservative
or too radical for the voters. The
Republicans, he added, had no fixed
reason for gaining over the Demo
crats at the moment.
La Farge, Author, Weds
Miss Consuelo Baca
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Oliver La
Farge, author and authority on
American Indians, was married to
day to Miss Consuelo Baca, socially
prominent literary agent.
Mr. La Farge's Navajo novel, “The
Laughing Boy,” won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1930. He is president of
the American Association on In
dian Affairs.
Miss Baca is the daughter of
Mrs. Marguerite P. Baca of Santa
Fe, N. Mex., who served two terms
as Secretary of State of New Mex
ico, and the late Jose Baca, a for
mer Lieutenant Governor of the
State.
U. S. #0 Restore
Pony Express
Routes to V/est
By the Auocitted Press.
Secretary Ickes said yesterday the
Interior Department would restore
the old Pony Express route in Utah
and Nevada.
■Die work, he said, would be under
taken jointly by Civilian Conserva
tion Corps camps set up by the
Grazing Service and the Utah Pio
neer Trails and Landmarks Associa
tion. The route would extend from
Simpson Springs, Utah, to the Utah
Nevada border and include the old
Pony Express station at Simpson
Springs.
In addition to preserving historic
points made famous by hard-riding
mail carriers of pioneer days, Sec
retary Ickes said reconditioning of
the old route would Improve facili
ties for movement of livestock to
and from winter ranges.
A.
SITE OF AUTO SHOW—With thousands of visitors expected,
Riverside Stadium, Twenty-sixth and D streets N.W, is being
decorated for the annual display of the newest designs in motors.
The exhibit will be open October 21-28. —Star Staff Photo.
Representative Bolles Reveals
Night Assault by Robber
Bandit Flees After
Exchange of Blows;
Had $200 in Pocket
Representative Stephen Bolles,
Republican, of Wisconsin, disclosed
at the Capitol yesterday an uniden
tified colored man assaulted and
attempted to rob him Tuesday night
in the vicinity of Twelfth and E.
streets, N. W. He displayed a bruised
cheek and two bruised knuckles re
sulting from the encounter.
Mr. Bolles, a member of the police
and fire subcommittee of the House
District Committee, said he had
made no report of the incident to
the police department, but intended
to call it to the attention of Supt.
Ernest W. Brown.
His assailant, according to Mr.
Bolles, leaped out from the rear
of a parked automobile, grabbed
his coat with one hand and struck
him in the face with the other. He
said he returned the blow and his
assailant fell to the sidewalk and
jumped up and ran as he started
to make use of a cane he was car
rying. At the time Mr. Bolles said
he had about $200 in his pocket
book.
Several years ago another mem
REPRESENTATIVE BOLLES.
—A. P. Photo.
ber of the House District Commit
tee—Representative William T.
Schulte, Democrat, of Indiana—was
held up and robbed by two armed
bandits. As a result he introduced
a bill prescribing a mandatory 10
year jail sentence for armed rob
beries.
Blame Miami Freshmen
OXFORD, Ohio, Oct. 14 (JP).—
They can dedicate the new town
hall now. The 400-pound corner
stone, which disappeared as offi
cials prepared the ceremonies,
turned up today in a patch of weeds
4 miles from its appointed spot.
Police were inclined to place re
sponsibility for the disappearance
on some Miami University fresh
men who were fined last month for
trying to paint their class numerals
on the village water tower.
Wallace Asks Scientists
Tell Truth on 'Racism'
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Henry A.
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture,
tonight told a committee for Dem
ocracy and Intellectual Freedom
that the first duty of the scientist
is to "disseminate the truth about
this all-important question—rac
ism.”
“For the combatting of 'racism'
before it sinks its poison fangs deep
in our body politic, the scientist has
both a special motive and a special
responsibility,” he said. "His motive
comes from the fact that when per
sonal liberty disappears, scientific
liberty also disappears. His respon
sibility comes from the fact that only
he can give the people the truth.”
Mr. Wallace spoke in the Hall of
Science and Education at the New
York World's Fair.
Capital to Be Host
To Gen. Summerall
Washington will be host to Gen.
Charles P. Summerall, former chief
of staff of the Army, when he at
tends the biennial conference of
Supreme Scottish Rite Masons, to
morrow through Friday. The con
ference is being held in the Scottish
Rite Temple located at Sixteenth
and S streets N.W.
The retired officer is president of
the Citadel, military college of South
Carolina, a thirty-third degree Ma
son and especially Interested in
Scottish Rite work, being the past
master of the Pythagorean Lodge
in his present home, Charles
ton. s. c.
Men Over 40 to Be Hired
Under Rochester Plan
B» the Associated Press.
ROCHESTER. N. Y., Oct. 14 —
Thirty-six Rochester industries, co
operating to eliminate discrimina
tion against middie-aged workers,
announced today a new hiring policy
based on the proportions of employ
able population under and over 40
years of age.
The plan of the industrial group,
which employs more than 35,000,
was made public through a Joint
New York State Legislative Commit
tee set up in 1938 to study unem
ployment as it affects those over 40.
Assemblyman James J. Wadsworth,
chairman of the committee, asserted
its general adoption could be ex
pected to eliminate discrimination
against older employables.
He said the objective of the plan
was to "maintain a proper age bal
ance between employes in industry
and employables in the city of
Rochester.”
If it is found that 40 per cent of
the total employables are over the
age of 40, he explained, and 60 per
cent are under 40, these industries
will attempt to keep the same per
centages employed.
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