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Wednesday, June 13, 1945
Full Text of Secretary Morgenthau’s
Statement to the Press on June 7, 1945
“In discussing the Seventh War Loan
today, Secretary Morgenthau announced
that war expenditures during the month
of May reached an all-time high of
$8,188,000,000, including expenditures of
Government corporations for war activ
ities. Moreover, the Secretary said there
would be no reduction in the Treasury’s
cash requirements for the next few
months, even though we have shifted
from a two-front war to a one-front war.
Expenditures during the next four
months are estimated to exceed revenue
by $17,000,000,000. The Secretary said
this is about the same amount by which
expenditures exceeded revenue in the
four months ended May 31, a period
when the war in Europe reached its cli
max.
“The Secretary said that the Treas
ury’s estimate allows for all cut-backs
in the war program which will have any
effect on expenditures during the next
four months.
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“Secretary Morgenthau called atten
tion to the fact that the goal of the Sev
enth War Loan, which is $14,000,000,000,
is the minimum which must be raised to
meet the Treasury’s needs. The Japanese
people, said the Secretary, are being
asked by their leaders to make a desper
ate effort to avert defeat. We are more
fortunate in that we are being asked for
means to achieve victory.
“The Secretary said that cut-backs in
the war program made possible by the
defeat of Germany will eventually re
sult in reduced expenditures, but the full
effect will not be reflected in expendi
tures for several months. He pointed out
that substantial payments will be neces
sary to wind up old contracts. The Secre
tary also said that unforeseen develop
ments on the war fronts might require
emergency shifts in the war program. If
these occur, expenditures might be en
larged above present estimates, but he
emphasized that the administration is
determined to keep military expendi
tures as low as possible consistent with
achieving victory quickly and with a
minimum of human cost.”
We’d like to meet a woman who does
not smoke, drink or flirt—but for the
life of us we can’t figure out why.
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Commenting on a performance of the
Metropolitan Opera in Philadelphia, the
“Evening Bulletin” stated: “Mrs..
of Atlantic City, who never misses a
Metropolitan here, will wear a string of
pearls, pearl earrings, and a long ermine
coat.” And it was a cold night!
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
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By BOBBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD—Tip for Bruce
: Cabot’s pals from overseas plan
ning a Hollywood trip: The actor
has leased the 14-room house over
! looking Sunset boulevard that was
; the late Pauline Frederick’s. Nice
! thing to know in a town where it’s
as hard to find a room as to find
a carton of your favorite c’gar
ettes, and vice versa.
One of the rooms is reserved
for trophies brought back or be
ing shipped from North Africa
J (where Lt. Cabot served as an op
erations officer with the Air
Force) but if you’re tired and the
I joint is crowded you probably
won’t mind sleeping around a few
spears, dancing girl’s silver ank
lets, Arab shawls, knives and the
like.
But you’d better make your
! reservation early. The first gang
| is already headed for the “Cabot
hotel” from the east. Why 14
rooms for an unattached male?
“It was the only house I could
find,” he said. “I stayed with Er
rol Flynn until I got it.”
Gone for nearly two years,
Cabot is now on the inactive list,
subject to recall if needed. “But
I don’t expect I’ll be called,” he
grinned, “unless somebody in
vades Paramount.”
This is where Cabot has resum
ed his career—as a heavy, of
course—in the Alan Ladd film,
“Salty O’Rourke.” He has never
| really been “off the screen,” in as
much as his last film prior to join
| ing up, “The Desert Song,” was
i released only last year.
Interesting sidelight: While
! Casablanca he found, bore no re
semblance whatever to the town
of the Bogart-Bergman film, the
sand of the Riff country of “Des
ert Song” were very similar to
those of the movie. “Just as san
dy,” he observed. Natives did a
fair business escorting GIs, for a
fee, to the Moroccan house “where
Gary Cooper slept” while making
“Beau Geste” —a trip Bruce
passed up for various reasons,
among them the sure knowledge
that “Beau Geste” was filmed in
Arizona.
After these months away Cabot
finds Hollywood “looks good” and
is unchanged except for a few
new faces. “And my wardrobe, he
added not without bitterness.
“Three thousand dollars worth of
clothes I left in storage — and
moths got into all of ’em.”
By coincidence Cabot’s Filipino
houseboy received a discharge
from military service simultane
ously with the actor, but the house
still can put a service star in the
window—for Cabot’s pet Boxer,
now on active duty in the war.
Which reminds us:—A while
back the Army put out a call for
I more dogs needed for war train
i ing, but Hollywood already had
j anticipated the demand. Producer
Jap Engineering Weak 114
Held One Reason For
U. S. Success
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HONOLULU— (/P) — “The fi
time we had a look at their er
neering, we knew the Japan
would lose the war.”
Thus two American Army a>
tion engineers expressed, in an
terview, their professional c
tempt for the enemy.
Said Lt. Col. Herbert E. BVo
Jr., St. Paul, Minn., and Mi
James R. Evans, of Enterpi
Ore., commanding officer and
ecutive officer respectively of
of the aviation enginering bai
ions which has been building
land airdromes for the Sev<
Army Air Force throughout
Central and Western Pacific:
“The Japanese lack imagirn
and resourcefulness; they <
I match American equipment
ingenuity; they have no engir
I ing brains. All they can do is
i tate. Their motorized equip]
i w^s copied from American
| British machines, models tba
| came obsolete with us se
years ago.”
Evans said that although
Japanese equipment was inf
some was unnecessarily g<
Jap shell cases, for exa:
“They’re beautiful, carefully
chined,” Evans said. “In
, they’re over-machined for
j purpose—so good we used
| for truck bearings and as
stock.”
The engineers said the Jap
had no bulldozers or heavy «
i ment whatever, but used hur
j of men with picks, shovelj
baskets to accomplish in a r
of days what one Americar
big tractor could do within
minutes.
“Some of th« work is «
pitiful,” said Brown. “Inst«
using rollers and graders tc
an airstrip, for instance,
would march soldiers bac
forth to tramp it down.
“Japanese airfields are bi
hand, like fine masonry. Bi
may be three inches thick
point and three feet thick
other. We have to rebuild ’
“On Kwajalein, we found
crete runway four inches
It looked good. But it has i
and the concrete was of poc
ity—must have been pour<
wet.”
In the production of rice,
iana leads all other state
nearly one-half of the tota
in the United States.
W. R. Frank just was fini
feature called “A Girl, a E
a Dog” which deals with tl
subject. Herb Kline youn;
tor who made those fine d<
taries on the war in Eun
Ihe picture with- full coo
of the services, and it wa
time to boost canine recru