Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-11-19
STEALING THE STARS

STEALING THE STARS
Washington is full of movie moguls
all worried about the fact that their
big stars are leaving them. Trou-
BILE is the $25, 900 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 ms and outs of the new in
come ceiling are difficult. But in
brief, here is how it affects Holly
wood. The total salary which can
be paid under the new ruling is
$67 900, which, when tax deductions
are made, gives net income of
$4,000. 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 OUTLAWS.
This is what gripes the movie
stars. Some of them have been
getting salaries running up into the
5000, 000s, so to come down to $67 1000
is quite plop.
Furthermore, movie contracts are
for one picture, with an option TAX
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 don't hear much about them
and their names don't get into the
headlines, but some of the boys do
ing great jobs in Egypt are the tank
repair crews of the U. S. ordnance
corps.
When a tank is damaged in ac-
ton on the Egyptian front, an Amer
lean crew goes out at night with
big auto-transport truck, not unlike
those which used to carry passenger
cars from Detroit to retail auto deal
ers. 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
Fortnight 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 Secretary of
War Stimson pointing out that there
were two army environments in Ore
gon, that it might be an excellent
thing for the nations food supply
and for national cooperation gen
orally if some of the soldiers were
given furloughs and allowed to help
Oregon farmers with their crops.
Secretary of War Stimson wrote
back rather taftly that soldiers of
the U. S. army had to work at war,
and that the idea was preposterous.
A little later Senator McNary no
ticed newspaper accounts of the way
American soldiers in England had
taken time to help English farmers
harvest crops. So he wrote Slim
son again
''The work of our men in training
for war must be shot to pieces in
England" McNary said, Sin 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 har-
vest fields, they were doing it on
their own time. But he welcomed
no 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 nation
al committee will be appointed to a
Latin-American diplomatic post only
over his dead body.
The President, always an Opt
mist, will make one more attempt
to bring the ALL and CLIO together
by inviting Bill Green and Phil Muir
ray to the White House. Labor 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 communicates
are short and sweet. In the navy
department press section, answer
ing queries from newspaper offices,
are two vnI1no officers I.ia11t Short