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'President Runs Into OppositionNational GuardRequest ProtestedContinued from S*t* tin#that may come under our protec-jtion due to the events in Europe,; it can readily be seen that, the guard and the reserve would be needed at home.'’For TrainingWhile the controversy raged among Senate members, Secretarv Woodring announced that tt War Department had no uv! national debt limit - now $45,000.- It iGr, .f recommending at this|00lt; “e entiml.” 'time that the Guardsmen be sum- Quiz Morgen thau moned to active duty. j Republicans questioned Morin a formal statement. Wood* genthau regarding government ring said the War i nartment had finances Rep; Mcl^an (JR., N, J ) recommended that the PreaidentM l sed the view that the tax request the authority. He added: bill was a “vehicle” to finance orIt is not the intention of the iinary pea time expenditures asinA V * • * * w V • - » --r • * -w - - - -war Department at this time to well as extraordinary defense1recommend that the National 'pending.Guard, wholly or partially, be Morgenthau agreed that part ofcalled into active service. As a the revenue was to go to pay or- «matted of fact, the Department dinary as well as extraordinary, ,iis now pressing arrangements to1 expenses of the War and Nav.\ avoid such a necessity. Departments, but he said he nBut, should it later become muldn’t‘ draw the line between-pnecessary to call out the Guard such expenditures. hthe initial purpose of such action The secretary estimated that the a would be to permit the field train Treasury s borrowing power ins, seasoning and building up ofj wou)d blt;1 exhausted next Feb 2H tthe troops, such as is now being lf ;idd:t„na! revf, OI a d( M , given the regular Army; all of 1|mjt ,n(T,,a„ wer, not provid*d I ms to be accomplished against,^ dirt„(J 1hf4t th* d^fiat for:pfs?,n:4|tv .of a .more sor;nu^.t. # t * ' ' 4 , , aemergency. A minimum of several hp f:s^] ™*r*^:'n* TfT «,ly r months would be required for this 1 ,w°u ? h |:,'703 000'0nf) Dan'\hpurpose” j *** Beil, unaersecretarv of the1‘Incredible Events’ * T5V?ur'V: ;‘, i ’V ’ '|,M a.. ... t May 25 was. $42,78 V.000,000.The President’s recommends* \ Nest *•;«*'tj0rwe nlt;t ons would increase the current Rep. Treadwav (R, Mass)!?arms program to more than $4,- wanted t() know whether eongre^-U 300,000,000. Besides laying em- .10nal lraders and trf,a,ur (ffi. *phas s on planes and other me- naK wufk lt;m U;e b „chanical equipment, which ares.. ,7* * ... t* . !, had given thought to rutting Fed* tiplaying such a par t in the in- , ,f*, ., f, , eral expenditures He suggested bcredible events. the President , , , g ithat m times of emergency every*:e outlined a vast program of ex.- , , . *, 7 ,pending factories and other mili-jlur fJ)S ‘’A T *tarv production facilitiw, and of Morgenthau replied that __ _ ____training out people, and espe 'T tion for the naunnal defense liec allv our young people, for em- * ' . . ' spoke before the Internationalplovment in industry and in .' TPT?w k iT- w,tn jIndies Garment Workersf n the Arm or.d Nav l: , ’ *perd Ship ( (instructionIn 1 ne with reports that 1,000**1 secretary opposed using With Ita! evidently ‘enteringf i i er - ms would bo thus tram* an $*. 1 !*”* wm.imm* .«*♦ abil:- l?1 j^e verge of war i Ameri-ed, he told the legislators: ition fund to f.nance defon5se he- r in largo numbers leaving the“It i? imperative that we make I ^ ^ 3 that be-1 MedUerranean area *he Stato De*full and effective use of the rmgh* (longg to th° Pf,°r v and should.partment cautioned all belliger-f capacities that ii* in our pop. preserved for some great ents to refrain from molesting the Illation.” emergency‘liner Washington, now en routeI add bon the President re Other defense development- !from New 5rork to pick up Amen-lt;1 •* to call lntn 'PP'ovr \aval Bill a! I, . . }» ■ er v i c such portion of she „ Spm.lat.on • at lt;hr f ,rd Motor 1 ^bon. Portugal f e w .* P .• !N. t onal Guard as mav be deem- h thiwhnPf#, fu]!v I:«hted. expansion of the air services was night and the American flag* “f \ o main am our po- arouse(| when Edsel Ford, presi-(prominently displaced* ; f to sa.f- dent nf the company, conferred? The drive to speed-up naval' ; 1 toe national dcfenhe, tnis to wj^ Secretary Morgenthau and construction was emphasizedinclude authority to call into ac*; the Government’s airplane engine j anew when two shipbuilders thet.ve seiMcc the necessary reserve expert, Dr. (ieorge Jackson Mead. Hath Iron Works of Bath. Me..P^^une], ^ It was learned that Ford would and the Federal Shipbuilding andI he National Guard numbers report to Mead later on some “na»' Drvdock Co of Kearne*., N. J , — 40,000 men. and the President tional defense problem/’ Henry offered to build 1030-ton destroy-now can call it out only with the Ford said recently that hi; com- ers in 18 months, as contrasted eoi o-nt of the state governors, pany could produce 1000 planes with 24 months stipulated in ex* Oi'.eral George C. Marshall, a day m an emergency pst ng contracts for aucH craft.Arm-- chief of staff, told a con- A Senate - House conference Anticipating an immediate in-1grc1 ^ onal committee two weeks committee cleared the wa for:crease of 15 000 in the regularago mat he believed mobilization congressional action nextlArmjs strength, the War Depart-of 131e Guard should he avoidedon a $1,474,000,728 naval ment announced tne formation of f*s long as possible because lt appropriations bill Senator a new • 'streamlined” division atwould draw the men away from Byrnrs (I) S c 1 -ad that Ho ise Fort Benning. Ga, It is the sixththeir civilian jobs committee members, alter fight- such unit n * * \ my.The President «iv« no snedfh ‘nK a ’ am#‘-.dmrnU. John M Ci-'v.,b , the FMpralbreakdown as to how the morr S*’^ 7 '»'• /«mrn.tto.v work - rommi ■ hm-t«d thatthan a billion dollar,1 would lU T.'/ fnooh,li *\ perfnnel an1 ^cnrmt a , -otal '50.000 above the amount records be made available lm-»• , ,/ , n. rni/ an voted by the Senate This addi mediately to national defense 0*. ' 1 M *n other officials; tion, which had been approved ordinators. The rolls, officials'' 10 ^ -o appcd. efore ■ '»* g?e* pr»n iou-,jy h\ the House but re- said, enumerated thouaaiuis ofaiona comiTiittees However, the jected by the Senate, is to estab-1 skilled works and hundreds ofjnow program was reported autho- Hsh a naval re-i-arch laboratory at projects w hich could be fitted in * j1 ita 1 k civ to total about $ 1,3 lt;.,* Bclt ’ inc. Md to the defense program T h * * s000,000, including outright appro-1 In a speech at New' York Fri-(emphasized that any service bvj priations and authorizations tojday night, Adolf A Berle, assist-jsuch workers would be on a pureenter into contracts. ♦ ■* 1 v •? ^ v- ... • that }ly ’ b.,.lt; hange lax Bill ? la on: »'o oper;i u* t vuKing the President Roosevelt fluked (:vOf this it was said, about t7o0.- m.tcr ?ne run smooth A\ gross to authorize heads of G000,000 would no to the Army sa- 'ni' t?*at no search On sociai eminent agencies to employ .and $075,000,000 to the Navw. Ishould be ’ perm.1 fed to m- ’standing experts at $1 a year rThere were indications that the thr steady flow of produc hng the present emergenpending tax bill, designed to ] raise some $3,800,000,000 m the next five years for defense, might i be increased in view of the President's message. Chairman Harrison (D. Miss.) of the Senate finance committee said the messagewould have to be considered in working on the tax bill, althbe added that investigation nshow the revenue provided forin the measure would not have to he increased. \Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau appeared before the House ways and means committee I to contend that the public wanted ( to be taxed for defense, and that both taxes and an increase in the
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