Show I fP 7 OR W ON r Washington D. D C. C t CAPITAL CHAFF Bernard Baruch who has been commuting from New York whenever when when- ever the President desired his services services services ices in Washington is now looking for permanent quarters in hi Washington Washing Washing- ton Librarian rian of Congress Archibald MacLeish has rented the old Robert RobertE E E. E Lee house in hi Alexandria suburb of Washington When a New York banker came cameto cameto cameto to Washington on a government job he wanted to rent a Georgetown home belonging to Mrs Lionel Atwill Atwill Atwill At At- will e wife ex-wife of both General MacArthur MacArthur Mac Mac- Arthur and actor Atwill But the banker banke balked at the rent I cant can't pay that much he said I gave up a job to come here nothing retorted Mrs Atwill Atwill At At- will I gave up a husband Once when Mrs Atwill was asked if it she didn't regret divorcing MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur thus losing the limelight of ofa a great hero she replied Which is the greater figure Josephine figure Josephine or Marie Louise STEALING THE STARS Washington is full of movie moguls all worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them Trouble Trouble Trou Trou- ble is the ceiling on incomes Hollywood stars figure this is an opportunity to jump their contracts and everybody is now out stealing each others other's stars stars stars-or or trying to The ins and outs of the new income income income in in- come ceiling are difficult But in brief here is how it affects Holly Holly- wood The total salary which can be paid under the new ruling is which when tax deductions are made gives a net income of Certain other deductions also are allowable but the treasury regulation specifically states that additional money to care for these deductions cannot be paid out by bythe bythe bythe the companies If they do pay them the government may require them to make good the outlays This is what gripes the movie stars Some of them have been getting salaries running up into the so to come down to is quite a plop Furthermore movie contracts are for lor one picture with an option taken taken tak take en on the next and then the next So with the companies unable to pay high salaries the options on their stars are automatically broken HEROES WITHOUT HEADLINES You dont don't hear much about them and their names dont don't get into the headlines but some of the boys doing doing doing do do- ing great jobs in Egypt are the tank repair crews of the U. U S S. S ordnance corps When a tank is damaged in action action ac ac- ac tion on the Egyptian front an American American Amer Amer- ican crew goes out at night with a abig abig abig big transport auto truck not unlike those which used to carry passenger cars from Detroit to retail auto deal deal- ers They load the crippled tank on onboard onboard onboard board haul it behind the lines where mobile machine shops have been set up and In almost no time it is repaired U. U S. S SOLDIERS U. U. U S. S FARMERS Forthright Sen Charley McNary comes from Oregon where the farmers have had a lot of trouble this year getting men to pick their fruit and harvest their wheat So So McNary wrote to Secretary of at War Stimson pointing out that there were two army cantonments in Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon that it might be an excellent thing for the nations nation's food supply and for national operation co-operation generally generally gen gen- if some of the soldiers were given furloughs and allowed to help Oregon farmers with their crops Secretary of War Stimson wrote back rather tartly that soldiers of the U U. S S. S army had to work at war and ond that the idea was preposterous A little later Senator McNary noticed noticed no no- tied newspaper accounts of the way American soldiers in England had taken time to help English farmers harvest crops So he wrote Stimson Stirn Stimson son again The work of our men In training for war must be shot to pieces In England McNary said in view of ot the fact that American soldiers are working in the harvest fields II The secretary of war replied a n little lamely that if American troops in England were working in the harvest harvest harvest har har- vest fields they were doing It on their own time But he welcomed no more suggestions about helping farmers here at home ROUND MERRY Undersecretary of State Welles has made it clear that Chairman Ed Flynn of the Democratic national nation nation- al committee will be appointed to a Q Latin American diplomatic post only over his dead body The President always an optimist optimist mist will make one more attempt to bring the and CIO together by inviting Bill Green Green and and Phil Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray to the White House Labor leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers say privately however that there will be no agreement Both sides will patch up a jurisdictional truce and agree to refrain from membership raids for the duration Navy department are arc short and sweet In the navy departments department's press section answerIng answering answer answer- Ing queries from newspaper offices are two young officers Short and Sweet |