Show I 1 U 0 R W div washington D 0 CAPITAL CHAFF bernard baruch who has h a be been commuting from new york whenever the president desired his services in washington is now looking for permanent quarters in washington librarian ot at congress A archibald macleish has rented the old robert E lee house in alexandria suburb 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 ex wife of both general macarthur and actor atwill but the banker balked at the rent 1 I cant pay that much he said 1 I gave up a job to come here ril n athing retorted mrs atwill 1 I gave up a husbandly hus bandl bandt once when mrs atwill was asked if she regret divorcing macarthur thus losing the lim limelight elight of a greathern grea great thero hero she replied which is the greater figure josephine or marie louise 0 STEALING THE STARS washington Is full of movie movie moguls all ail worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them trouble is 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 ins and outs cuts of the new income ceiling are difficult but in brief here is is how it affects hollywood the total salary which can be paid under the new ruling is which when tax deductions are made gives a net income ol of certain other deductions also are allowable but thi treasury regulation specifically stif s that additional money to care for these deductions cannot be paid out by 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 lo is quite a plop furthermore movie contracts are for one picture with an option taken on an 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 don dont t hear bear much about them and their names dont get into the headlines but some of the boys doing great jobs in egypt are the tank repair crews 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 as cars from retail tuto auto dealers they load the crippled tank on board haul it behind the lines where mobile machine shops have been sot set up and in almost no time it is repaired 0 U S SOLDIERS U S F FARMERS arbil C RS 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 mcnary wrote to se secretary detary of war stimson pointing out chat that there were two army cantonments canton ments in oregon that it might be an excellent thing for the nations food supply and for national operation cooperation co generally er illy if some of the soldiers were given furloughs furroughs and allowed to help oregon farmers with their crops secretary of war St stimson irison wrote back rather tartly that soldiers of the U S army had to work at war and that the idea was preposterous A little later senator mcnary noticed newspaper accounts of the way american soldiers in england had taken time to help english farmers harvest crops so co he wrote stimson again the work of our men in training for war must be shot to pieces in E england mcnary said in view ot of the fact that american soldiers are working in the harvest fields the secretary of war replied a little lamely that if american troops in england were working in the harvest fields they were doing it on their own time but he welcomed no more suggestions about helping farmers here at home 0 BIERRY GO ROUND undersecretary of state welles has made it clear that chairman ed flynn of the democratic national committee will be appointed to a latin american diplomatic post only over his dead body the president always an optimist will make one more attempt to bring the and CIO together by inviting bill green and phil murray to the white house labor leaders 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 short and sweet in the navy departments press section answering queries from newspaper offices are two youn young g officers short and aid sweet |