| Show OR W W washington D C CAPITAL char CHAFF F bernard baruch who has been commuting from new york whenever the president desired hi his services in washington Is now looking tor for permanent quarters in washington librarian of congress arc archibald hebald MacL macleish elsh 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 ga gave up a 15 job to come here althans Al nothing retorted mrs atwill 1 I gave up a 50 hus husband bandl once when mrs atwill was asked it she regret divorcing macarthur thus losing the limelight of 0 a great hero she replied which is the greater figure josephine or marle marie louise STEALING THE STARS washington Is full of movie moguls a all N worried about the fact that their big stars are leaving them trouble is the 25 ceiling on incomes hollywood stars figure this is an opportunity to jump their contracts and everybody is now out stealing each ach others stars or trying to the ins and outs cuts of the new income ceiling are difficult but in brief here 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 inc income ome 0 of 25 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 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 of them them nave have been getting salaries running up into the so to come down to is quite a plop furthermore movie contracts are for one picture with an option taken on the next and then the next so W with ith the companies unable to pay high salaries sa barles the options on their stars are automatically broken HEROES WITHOUT HEADLINES you dont hear 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 cars from detroit to retail auto dealers 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 U S SOLDIERS U S FARMERS forthright sen charley mcnary comes from oregon where the farmers have had a lot ot of brou trou trouble ble this year getting men t to 0 PC pick I 1 k their fruit and harvest their wheat t so mcleary mcnary wrote to secretary ot of war stimson pointing out 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 if some ot of the soldiers were given furloughs furroughs and allowed to help oregon farmers with their crops secretary ol of war stimson wrote back rather tartly that soldiers of the U S army had bad to work at war and that the idea was preposterous A little later senator mcnary noticed newspaper accounts ot of the way american soldiers in england had taken time to help english farmers harvest crops so he wrote son again the work ol of our men in training for or war must be shot to pieces in england mcnary said in view 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 co more suggestions about helping farmers here at home MERRY 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 mur ray 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 retrain 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 young officers short and sweet |
