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British War Budget 0f $9,334,500,000 Lists New Taxes Wholesale Sales Levy And Higher Postage Rates Included By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 23.— Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, today announced a new war budget of £2,667,000,000 ($9,334,500,000) for the 1940-41 fiscal year, which began April 1, and im- posed a host of new levies which he asked the p\xbhc to accept “for the sake of victo The new taxes ranged from a wholesale sales tax to increased postage rates. Sir John told the House Britain’s war expenses for the first seven months of the European conflict totaled £905,000,000 (about $3,167,- 000,000) and said this indicated an annual war expenditure rate of| about £1,500,000,000 (about $5,250,- 000,000), which, however, was rising. From new sources, the chancellar said, he hoped to boost revenue by 2101.000.000 to a total of £1,234,000,- 000, leaving a £1,433,000,00 deficit to be found by borrowing. (The Brit- ish pound currently is worth about $3.50.) Rates Not Yet Fixed. The proposed new “purchase” levy would be applied on sales from wholesalers to retailers and fitted by the government into a plan for | “transforming our whole economy,” | Sir John said. | He explained the revolutionary tax would be applied at rates yet to be determined and would “reduce the demand for supplies and con- serve manpower.” Sir John said he would resort both to direct and indirect levies. He re- minded the nation that the income- tax rate beginning April 1 would be 7'2 shillings in the pound (3712 per cent) as had been announced at the time of his emergency war budget &oon after the confiict began. The chancellor announced an in- crease of 1 penny a pint (about 1% | cents) in the tax on beer, 3 pence | (about 5 cents) an ounce in the to- | bacco duty and an increase of the ordinary letter rate from 1 pence half penny (about 2 cents) to 2 pence half-penny (about 3 cents). Explorer, 30, Tells of Trip Over Burma Road in a Flivver Nicol Smith, world rambler, shown here with a giraffe’s head at the home of his mother-in-law. By JOHN J. DALY. Nicol Smith, youthful explorer, who at 30 has probably been in more lands than any other man on earth, is in Washington after his latest exploit in China—a round trip in a flivver the length of the Burma road. ‘What's more, this young rover has a book—“Burman Road"— which has struck the best-seller lists. In the home of his mother-in- Inland telephone charges will be in- creased 15 per cent. Estimate of Yields. He estimated the beer tax increase would produce £18,000,000 in a full | year and the postal rate increase, in- | cluding an increase on foreign | postage of a half penny, would pro- duce £10,000,000 this year and £11,- | 000.000 in a full fiscal year. The cost of a bottle of whisky was increased by 1 shilling 9 pence la- penny., To strike a balance for the 1939-40 year, Sir John said, the government was forced to borrow £768,000,000 (about $2,698,000,000). He warned that war profiteering | would not be tolerated, declaring Parliament would know how to deal | with “the citizen who seeks by clear- | ly artificial arrangements to escape paying his proper sh"tre of the heavy burden of taxation.” Sir John said that the po&t-\\ar‘ emergence of a “minority of in-| dividuals whom the war had brought | nothing but colossal fortunes” would be a situation which the House | “could not pass by without effective | and appropriate action.” As he ended that sentence, Laborite member yelled *“you last time.” New Ships Undergoing Trials. Hector C. Bywater, noted naval authority, wrote in the London News Chronicle that Britain's five new | battleships are “now undergoing | trials” and that they would be “the largest, the most powerfully-armed and the most strongly-protected” battleships in the world. | An official statement was issued | declaring that Germany had suf-| fered 24 warship “casualties™ since | the start of the war, not counting| a large number of submarines, com- pared with only 18 British v&arsmpsl sunk, including five submarines and | the armed merchant cruiser Rawal- pindi. The Air Ministry announced that anti-aircraft batteries and fighter planes last night beat off German planes that flew over the estuaries of the Thames and Humber, appar- ently in an attempt to sow mines in the pathway of British shipping. Britain's Biggest Battleships. Mr. Bywater gave the most com- plete details of the five new battle- ships yet announced. Mr. Churchill on February 27 had said that the 35.000-ton craft would join the fleet soon. They are the King George V, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Jellicoe and the Beatty. “They are the largest battleships ever built in this country,” said Mr. Bywater, “and are exceeded in size only by the Lion and the Teme- raire and two others not yet named which still are under construction and will displace at least 40,000 | tons.” The five new floating fortresses mount ten 14-inch guns in two quadruple turrets, and one twin tur- ret, sixteen 5.25-inch guns and many lighter ones. Each ship will carry three aircraft and 1,500 officers and men. They will have a speed of 30 knots, as compared with the 23 of the battleship Nelson, a 33,950-ton ship. Cpompletion of these ships will raise Britain’s capital ship strength to 19 and leave at least four more building. The British statement on the war’s naval “casualties” followed by one day a German “unofficial” an- nouncement that in 12 days of Scandinavian action Britain had lose 5 cruisers, 10 destroyers and 8 submarines sunk and 1 cruiser beacher, and suffered severe damage to 4 battleships, 7 battle and heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser and 1 air- plane carrier. The British summary stated that of 15 capital ships completed prior to the war only the battleship Royal ©Oak had been lost. The Courageous was said to be the only one of seven aircraft carries lost. Britain has lost no cruisers, her other losses being 10 destroyers of a a| did SPECIAL NOTICES. modest L_prices. .n your jome; ‘modes Star. _ 23% mnm-nm E AND FIXTURES FOR Dealers requested not t e A0 apply. 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At| | Kumming, the adventurer joined forces with Paul Meyer, the Ameri- can consul, and with a native boy |as companion they went off on | Burma road. Signed Up for Lecture Tour. That sounds mighty simple in the telling, but it's only the beginning of the tale that Nico Smith has to entire story is not told. To do the whole trip justice, Mr. Smith—aside from signed up with the lecture agent of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a man named W. Colston Leigh of New York. This resulted in a tour of | the United States and Canada in which the explorer visited 38 States and the principal cities in the north country. Like a glimpse into a lost world, Mr. Smith gives his hearers—and they are always eager for more— little insight into an exotic land of which there is no counterpart on this side of the globe. He tells the sinister story of the city of Kochiu, whose gates are closed to the curious outsider, where there are no women or children—only tin miners. And tell—a tale that takes a book of 333 | pages to recount, and even then Lhe’mlst i astangefichara oter Ao his writings— | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940, mounted —Star Staff Photo. now that the fighting iorces in Eu- | rope find themselves sorely in need of tin the city is liable to become part of the general land grab, ac- cording to Mr. Smith. It would naturally go, of course, to Japan. Wife Helped. Opium dealers, pirates who come from a long line of pirates, mur- derers and witch doctors of various kinds figure in the narrative that | Nicol Smith tells as he sits in front | of the fireplace in the home of his! €'s mother out on Reservoir road. | Smith has accompanied her | husband on most of his trips—and gave him a helping hand in gath- ering much of his material, he ad-| mitted. They have been married now two years and hope to set up a new Born in San Francisco, son of the oil magnate, Robert Hays Smith, the boy Nicol got started on his world ramblings when he was just | out of high school. Then he went to Europe and paddled his way down the beautiful blue Danube, the entire length of it. Next year he| had himself hoisted over the cliffs of the Pindus Mountains—and he swam the Hellespont. Touch and Go. From that time on it was touch and go with Nicol Smith. He has| been to the colony at Devils Island, | through the wilds of Dutch Guiana | and has explored the Island of | Hainan. What he likes best, though, are the experiences he had from the time he hit Haiphong, the port o(\ entry in North Indo-China, where | began the trek of the Burma road. Strange, too, in Canton, Mr. Smith helped mightily in making the whole trip successful. This was a Langyal named Wang Yal—a hlgh\ religious man—who was on his way to Hong Kong to buy silks and brocades for the coronation of the young Emperor recently crowned. The Langyal, it developed, had been | schooled in England and spoke better American than most New Yorkers. “Some time, if I can find time,” Mr. Smith said yesterday, “I'd like to sit down and tell you all about that trip along the Burma road— but the best I can do is invite you to one of my lectures.” Last night the explorer talked be- fore members of the Women’s Na- tional Press Club. This evening he will be the guest of Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor at an informal talk be- fore a private club. pre-war fleet of 185, the statement | said. The German casualties, as listed by Britain, have been both of the Reich’s two 26,000-ton battleships, two of her three pocket battleships. both of two heavy cruisers, all six 6-inch gun cruisers with which she !started the war and 12 surface and torpedo craft. The battleship Scharnhorst was reported damaged by the Renown and the sister ship Gneisenau was reported sunk off Oslo. The pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled and the Admiral Scheer tor- pedoed, the statement said. Ger- many has acknowledged loss of the heavy cruiser Blucher and the other one was torpedoed in December, the British say. The Germans acknowledge loss of the 6,000-ton Karlsruhe, another was kit by a torpedo in December, and still another was sunk, according to the British statement. British air- craft were said to have sunk another light cruiser off Bergen and hit an- other with a heavy bomb. The re- maining vessel of the 6-inch gun class, the Emden, was reported sunk by the Norwegians. Germany had 45 surface and tor- pedo craft at the start of the war. of which only 22 were modern de- stroyers, the British statement said, adding that the German high com- mand in March said that two de- stroyers were lost. The British say eight modern destroyers were sunk at Narvik, one bombed at Trond- heim April 4, and another probably hit in the same raid. Dent in U-Boat Fleet. Britain claims to have made a big dent in the fleet of 70 submarines with which London estimates Ger- many started the war. In addition, BETTER DEAL ON PoNTIAC SIX—EIGHT—TORPEDO H. J. BROWN PONTIAC, Inc. Rosstyn, Vo' (ust Aoron Koy Bridse) FIRE ESCAPES FRED S. GICHNER ‘FALSE ’I‘EE‘I‘H §EPAIRED o HILE ¥ oot ne:’ '{" B 001, evtors Bide.. 805 14th st B MU 802 IRON WORKS, INC. RE. 2420 Britain says that 26 German trans- ports and supply ships have been sunk or scuttled and 10 more hit by torpedoes and probably sunk. An_informed naval source said the British submarines Sea Lion, Snapper and Sunfish, which recently returned home, had sunk 9 and pos- sibly 10 German ships totaling be- tween 35000 and 45000 tons, in- cluding some troopships. 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McNutt Denies Getting |Government Aid Is Sign of Weakness West, He Says, Was Built With Federal Help as a ‘Co-operative’ Enterprise By the Associated Press, GUTHRIE, Okla., April 23.—Fed- eral Security Administrator McNutt said last night that “it is not an indication of weakness to accom- plish through government what in- dividuals are incapable of accom- plishing alone.” In an address prepared for the 51st celebration of the Guthrie land run of '89 he said: “I believe the eighty-niners’ and the people of Oklahoma ever since have been fully aware of the rela- tion between politics and eco- nomics. * * * And it never occurred to these two-fisted pioneers to ex- pect anything more than every democratic government owes to its citizens.” Mr. McNutt, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination if Mr. Roosevelt does not run, as- serted that “while the people of Oklahoma do not forget, there are those in some parts of this country whose memory of history is de- fective. “These people have forgotten completely the role which the Gov- ernment has played in the develop- ment of a great empire on this continent. “They don't know that this busi- ness of conquering the West and building railroads and developing natural resources is a big job—so big that the hardiest of pioneers had to have the good sense to do it as a co-operative enterprise. * * * “These rugged, modern individ- ualists today talk as though every- body who came out West bought and paid for his own land—at $500 an acre, 1929 prices—and proceeded at once to get rich. No subsidies, no benefits, no Government assist- ance! Just a hardy, rugged group of pioneers, fortune single-handed and develop- ing the wealth of the country as an individual, private enterprise. “Their theory implies that all the transportation facilities of the West were the heroic achievements of in- dividual men, working alone. * * “With such quaint and naive no- tions, men now conclude that the Nation has gone soft. Americans, they say, have lost their hardihood and spunk because they ask the Government | to help them stop the winds from | | blowing their lands clear to the Gulf of Mexico. They think we've lost our heroic qualties because we think it right for the Government to help us plant a few billion trees to create shelter belts. “The one thing they don’t seem to grasp is that the real genius of | the American people has always consisted largely in their ability to co-operate, and that Government is the greatest co-operative enter- | prise ever devised by the mind of men.” Plasterer Is lnj;;i In 20-Foot Fall on Job Wilbert Beuchling, 24, of 1629 Ben- ning road N.E., was in serious condi- tion today in Emergency Hospital with spine injuries received in a fall here yesterday. Mr. Beuchling, a plasterer, was working on the new municipal center | when he fell from a ladder, 20 feet: into the basement. Aachen, 6388 tons; Altona, 53892 tons; Hein Hoyer, 5,836 tons; Bock- enheim, 4902 tons; Martin Hendrik Fisser, 4,879 tons, and Frieljnhaus, 4339 tons. British merchant losses during the last week were said to be limited to the Swainby, 4935 tons; Mersey, 1,037 tons, and Hawnby, 5,380. These sinkings, it was said, brought the total British losses for the war to 672,778 tons. In last night's fighting off the Thames and Humber estuaries searchlights swept the sky over this strategic southeast coast and ground batteries thundered. Flashes, as of exploding bombs, were seen at sea. When the noise of battle died down souvenir hunters went out to pick up shell fragments along the coast. German bombers also were re- ported to have tried to raid the Orkney and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, but were said to have been driven off by pursuit planes before any bombs were dropped. Sir Charles Craven, a prominent figure in the armaments industry, has been named a full-time civil member of the British Air Council for development and production, the Air Ministry announced last night. At the same time, a communique from 10 Downing Street announced appointment of vice chiefs to “re- lieve the strain” on chiefs of the three fighting staffs who are on a 24-hour basis. The new chiefs, who will be mem- bers of the board of the Admiralty, the Army Council and the Air Council, respectively, are: Naval, Vice Admiral Tom S. V. Phillips; Imperial General Staff, Sir John G. Dill; Air Staff, Air Marshal R. E. C. Peirse. MILLINERY and HAT BLOCKERS BACHRACH 733 11th St. This year’s says see your Buick dealer fiLst each one making his|; these Wall Street frontiers- | ponte” of present "Giants of Journalism’ Being Developed, Col. Knox Says Complexities of Current Publishing Problems Cited in Speech By the Assoctated Press, NEW YORK, April 28.—Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, expressed a belief today that “glants of journalism” would evolve from the complexities of cur- rent publishing problems. They will be men who are “living specimens of the survival of the fittest,” able to “whip the problems that beset them,” he declared in a speech prepared for a luncheon meeting of the National Newspaper Promotion Association. Editorial and business executives of newspapers throughout the United States and Canada met for conven- tions of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Pro- motion Association. McLean Re-elected. Robert McLean of the Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin today was re- elected president of the Associated Press by the Board of Directors. It is his second term. The board, meeting with eight newly elected members, renamed E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as first vice presi- dent and Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram as second | vice president. Other officers re-elected were: Kent Cooper, general manager of tha Associated Press, as secretary; Lloyd Stratton, assistant secretary; L. F. Curtis, treasurer. named W. J. Mc- tant general man- ager, as another assistant secretary. Cites World Changes. Describing the newspaperman of tomorrow, Col. Knox said: “Born during or at the close of the World War, nurtured on the vears of great prosperity and great poverty, witnesses to widespread un- emplovment, to mad-minded dicta- tors, to changes wrought by swift technological developments — what else but giants of spirit, of body, of mind can lead?” A mechanical revolution “pointing either to entirely new methods of production or to astonishing refine- | practices” con- fronts the publishing industry, Col Knox said. It probably won’t occur bears watching Offset printing and facsimile were among infant processes which he mentioned, saving they might some day make great strides McLean annocunced a poll of | the A. P. membership indi- | cated a majority favored liber- | alizing the policy regarding broad- | casting of the news report. “This is a clear expression of the wishes of the membership to make every effort to develop the advan- tages of this field,” Mr. McLean said. Gaylord Elected. E. K. Gaylord of the Oklahoma | City Oklahoman was elected to a | three-year term on the A. P. Board yesterday, and the following were re-elected for a similar term: Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer; John Cowles, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution, and J. R. Knowland, | Oakland (Calif.) Tribune. Houston Harte, San Angelo (Tex.) Standard, was re-elected for a three- SEE CAPITAL FROM AIR—Senator Guy M. Gillette, left, and Mrs, Randolph Blinn, vice chairman of the Women’s Advisory Committee of the New York World’s Fair, shown at Washing- ton Airport just before they boarded a plane with more than a dozen local women for a special air sightséeing tour of Wash- ington. Norris Fears T. V. A. WouldBe 'Spy’ Victim Under Civil Service ‘Power Trust’ Agents Could Get Jobs There and Sabotage Work, He Says Spies of the “power trust” could get jobs in the Tennessee Valley Authority and have access to the records, if the force there were put‘ under the competitive civil service, | Senator Norris, Independent, of Ne- | braska today told the Senate Civil Service Committee. The Nebraska veteran, author of | the T. V. A. Act, appeared before the committee to urge that the Au- thority—at least during the period | overnight, he added, but its advance | Of construction—be permitted to re- tain its independent personnel ma- chinery instead of coming under the | provisions of the Ramspeck -civil service extension bill, which would make thousands of exempt positions eligible for civil service status. Senator Norris was warm in his praise of the T. V. A. personnel set- up, declaring that the Authority “is | | the only organization in the United ! States that has the idea of civil| service running from top to bottom. | It is better civil service than is pro- | vided by law.” Explains His Fear. His reference was to the fact that | members of the T. V. A. Board must believe in the “wisdom and feasibility” of the act, there is a prohibition against politi- cal considerations figuring in ap- pointments or promotions of the staff by the board, with removal the penalty for violation. Explaining that he expected to see the construction period last three | years, the Senator said: “We ought not to make it possible year term to represent newspapers | for a spy of what I have demon- with less than 50,000 circuiation. E. H. Butler, Buffalo News, was elected New York State director for the unexpired term of Frank Gan- nett of the Rochester Times-Union, | resigned. Harry J. Grant, Milwaukee Jour- nal, was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick E. 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A. affairs and Senator Mead, Democrat, of New York, got a laugh by asking Senator Norris “to turn | over in your mind the names of some of the candidates who have been suggested,” when answering the question. “Even though it were an adverse administration, I cannot conceive of any President violating the law as he would be by trying to put in and that; be | Workers.” —=Star Staft Photo. a board member who did not believe | in the wisdom and feasibility of the act, and I cannot conceive of the Senate confirming such an appoint- | ment,” Senator Norris said. Senator Mead said it would be to the interest of T. V. A. employes to have civil service status when the work there ran out, so they could transfer elsewhere in the Govern- | ment, peinting out they would have | Sen- | ator Norris said he would have no | had long service by that time. objection to amending the law to provide for that. D. C. 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