Show 0 W am washington D C CAPITAL CHAFF bernard baruch who has been commuting from new york when ever the president desired his services in washington Is now looking for permanent quarters in washington librarian of congress archibald MacL macleish elsh has rented the old robert E lee house in alexandria saburd of washington when a new york banker came to washington on a government job he wanted to rent a georgetown home belonging to mrs lionel atwill exzile ex wife of both general macarthur and actor atwill but the banker balked at the rent 1 I cant pay that much ho he said 1 I gave dave up a job to come here nothing retorted mrs atwill 1 I gave gave up a 11 hus husband bandill once when mrs atwill was asked it she regret divorcing macarthur thus losing the limelight of a great hero she replied which I 1 is athe the greater figure josep josephine h file or marle marie louise 4 STEALING THE STARS washington is full of movie moguls all worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them trouble is tho the ceiling on incomes hollywood stars figure this is an opportunity to jump their contracts and everybody is now out stealing each others stars or trying to the ins and outs cuts of the new income celline ceiling are difficult but in brief here is how it affects hollywood w the total salary which can be an ld under the new ruling is which when tax deductions are made gives a net income oi of certain other deductions also are allowable buethe but the treasury regulation specifically states that additional money to care for these deductions cannot be paid out by the companies if they do P pay ay them the government may require them to make good the milt outlays this is what gripes the movie stars some of them have been getting salaries running up into the IS so to come down to is quite a plop furthermore movie contracts are tor for one picture with adoption an option taken on the next and then the next so with thil the companies unable to pay high salaries the options on their stars are automatically broken 4 HE ROE S WITHOUT HEADLINES you dont hear much about them an and d their names dont get into the headlines lead lines but some of the boys dong ing great jobs in egypt are the tank fank repair crews crewson of the U S ordnance corps when a tank is damaged in action on the egyptian front an american crew goes out at night with a big auto transport truck not unlike those which used to carry passenger cars from detroit to tord retail tall aiato dealers r they load the crippled tank on board haul it behind the lines where mobile machine shops have been set up and in almost no time it is repaired V S SOLDIERS U S FA FARMERS it al r ars forthright seri sen charley man mcnary ary comes from oregon where the farmers have had a lot of trouble this year getting men to pick their fruit and harvest harve st their wheat so 80 mcnary wrote to secretary of war stimson pointing out that there were two in oregon that it might be an excellent thing for the nations food supply and for national co operation cooperation ge generally if some of the soldiers were given furloughs furroughs and allowed to help oregon farmers with their crops secretary of war stimson wrote back b ack rather tartly that soldiers of 0 the U S army had to work at war and eat that the idea was preposterous A little later senator mcnary noticed newspaper ew saper accounts of the way american soldiers in england had taken time to help english farmers harvest crops so he wrote stimson again the work of our men in training for war must be shot ahot to pieces in england mcnary said in ill view of the fact that at american soldiers are working in the harvest fields the secretary of war replied a little lamely that it if american tro troops aps ops in england Eng landwere nvere working in the h harvest a r fields they were doing it on their own time but he w welcomed no more suggestions about helping tanners farmers here at home v GO ROUND unde undersecretary rs secretary ecret ary of state welles has made it clear that chairman ed flynn of 0 the democratic national committee willbe will be appointed to a latin american diplomatic post only over his dead body the president always an optimist will make one mote more attempt to bring the AFT and CIO together by inviting bill green and phil mur ray to the white house labor lead ers say privately however that there will be no agreement both sides will patch up h a jurisdictional truce and agree to refrain from membership raids for the duration buratto n navy department are short and sweet in the navy departments press section answering queries from newspaper are two young officers liebi sh short oil and sweet |