The Archive · 1939

London, Dee. 31

It was oMclally announced today that Imam Yahla_of Yemen has appointed his son Saifel Inlem Hussein to represent him at the Round Table Conference on the Arab-Jewish question Havas.

Reduced W.P.A. appropriations gen~ erally are expected for next year, assuming that the current business apium holds its own. But there will be "larger national defence appro-nations, possibly as much as U.S. $300,000,000 added to the now normal 1U.S.$1,000,000,000 a year expenditure lurider' the Toosevelt regime. The farm problem probably will require more money. is likely that aly funds saved on smaller relief rolls in. the next eighteen months or so will be absord-Jed by new spending in other direeions. But the business upturn means thay more people will make more money and, therefore, will pay more taxes even at the present rates than when business is sliding down-nil. That isa major factor in Administration hopes to revise the de-Melt downward in the next fiscal yea. JAnd- Congress, which meets "next week, or the Administration, may propose new taxes to reduce the defier sill further.—United Press.

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