. 3 - 'AxAoMtr-. ^ . XS^ l<fl(^f. b . 1-.. i ^ i. The proposal to limit business profits to six per cent looks like a more inLuediate possibility than was indicated yesterday -inure actual, nearer at nand. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau disclosed today that experts of the Treasury have already started drafting the plan-viherety no corporation will be allowed to retain more XXiiX than six ^jer cent of profit. Anything above that v/ould be taAen by the government in the form of taxation. This - for the duration of the v;ar emergency. Secretary iAorgenthau| suggested the six percent limitation yesterday in a statement to a congressional committee. Today he indicated the scneme v.as being made ready to be presented to Congress. A staff of ex erts is working out the details ’'So that if and when Congress wants it,” said the Secretary, "Vue will have it ready in legal form.” He justified the idea by saying that the profit motive should be removed flora war. ’’Eliminate it completely, were his words. To w'iiich one may reraarx that the six per cent limitation of profits certainly would eliaunate the motive and the profit. It is.. i I wuuld meiin, ul cours©, tiicit/ you ini^ht j Q cik © l0ss profit thcui six per, or you aii^ht incur losses. You might lose twenty per cent un your Investment, but you wouldn’t be allov«ed to gain more than SIX . Secretary lAorgenthau recalled that in the last war - ”A lot of people stayed home eind made a lot of money,” as he expressed it. ’’That’s no way to have morale and unity,” he added. ”iio one should get a special advantage.” He pointed out that hundreds of thousands of men in the army are getting only a dollar a day. \ He was as^ed whether he thought big business would go I j li I 4 along with tne six per cent plan, and he responded - Yes. ”I think”, i saia he, ”that ^ big business is as patriotic as anyone and I think tney will cooperate.” He said the ^iruflt limitation Jian -.vould be made as fair “s possible. "Ho,/ever," he added, "somebody has got to be hurt. We cannot live as vne have been living, : I a gxy PER CENT - 3 We cannot continue to live the way we have anri still be the arsenal of Democracy," said he. The Secretary of the Treasury revealed that he has had the six per cent plan In ralnd for some months, and explained why he Is presenting It right.now. "The complacency of this co^antry called for something like this from me*," he said. u! 1 I m iifi VI LQ H I don’t often quote a news dispatch verbatim, word for word, but I certainly can’t match the eloquence of the lolloping United Press bulletin. It reads:- ’’Boston, September twenty- fifth. Sing it from tne house-tops: shout it from the storm cellars, tell everyoody from the fabulous land of Flatbush to r' Frisco’s Golden Gates - the Dodgers are champions v>ell, since I’m not so good at singing from the house- D*?!: tops or shouting from tne storm cellars, I can only relate prosly that the Dodgers today beat the Boston Braves, six to nothing. while the Cards were losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of three to one. So Brootclyn’s beloved Bums clinched the pennant. YWW AIL tney have to do now is beat the I'lew Yoric Yankees. wait to see how beloved the Bams turn out to be after the World Series. I i fi 0 kv TNUSQES An important question of protocol was settle! today. witi! tne visit of tne Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Washington, fiB How were they to be addressed? The Duke, of course, as a Eoyal Prince of England 'ind a former King - Emperor of the British Empire, is entitled to the honorific -• ”'lour Royal highness^’ But, wnat about the Duchess - the American woman whom British Court usage has never admitted to the Royal rank of her husband? There has been a lot of argument aooUt this. Some have insisted | that she too be called - ”Your Roybal Highness”, Some argued for the less stately address - ”Your Highness”, So what happened 1 n V i ashing ton today? The matter was squarely up to George T. Summerlin, Chief of Protocol of the State Department. He»s an expert on all such matters of propriety, and he it was who greeted the Duke and Duchess upon tneir arrival. So what did ne say? Naturally he addressed tne Du« as "Xour Royal Highness", lo the for.ner Wallis V.arfleld, he said "Duchess". So tne dialogue might go Lite tnls:- "I'm delighted to mate tne acquaintance Of Your Royal Highness, and I»m happy to meet you uuchess”. AijiJSQBS - k I am sorry to say that tae Washington throng that greeted the I'amous couple upon taeir arrival were not such experts on matters of protocol. They nailed the Duice aai and the Dueness in tne same way, each with the same kind of protocol. ”fliya Eddie?” ihey shouted:\”aiya Wally?” which was not at all in the correct style of a royal court. The Windsors paid a visit to tne White House, and were nearlv half an hour wltn President Roosevelt. It nad been on the schedule for them to have luncheon at the White House, but that was cancelled at the last moment - because of the death of Mrs. Roosevelt’s brother* Hall Roosevelt, who died last night, A had been quite a person, a World War veteran, an engineer of travel and adventure^ A. ^ ^ The Duke and Duchess made a series of calls in the J^ational Capital. This afternoon he was greeted by the gentlemen of the press, while the woman’s press Club entertained theuuchess for tea at the Hew Willard. In point of business, tne Duke in ^asnington is taixi^gn talking over affairs connected with the shipping shortage, as this pertains to the Bahama Islan.is - of which he is Governor. movies In tne movie investigation, a sprightly It-m was introdu-' by Sarry Warner, of Warner Brotaers. One of the motion pictures described as war propaganda Is the feature of a couple of years ago - ’’Confessions Of a Nazi Spy”, And one of the isolationist Senators on the committee investigating Hollywood war propaganda is Spnc tor Nye. So that made it interesting when harry Warner testified today that Sen^itor Nye had seen ’’Confessions Of A Nazi praised Spy”., had attended a preview of the picture - and had prpaixsd A it highly. The Senator was quoted as giving the rollowing opinion:- ”The picture is exceedingly good”said he, ^The plot may or may not be exaggerated, but it is be one xhat ought to be seen by every patriotic American”. So what nas tne Senator to say to that? He was queried In Boston today and responded that doesn’t remember clearly A bu^may have endorsed tne :11m. "If ibe picture is the one A recall,” said ne, "it was a very powerful message on avoiding war”. ed All of which leaves thiners in a paradoxical state indeed "Confessions of a Nazi Spy” Is Indicted as war propaganda, and SEIES- m At the New York spy trial a secret was disclosed today. though it will hardly come as a secret to a lot of people in this country - especially United States Army and Navy fliers. We are informed that the Nazi Air Force got the idea of dive bombing from the United States. Well, if that*s a secret - so is the fact that this program has something to do with Blue Sunoco Testimony at the trial was to the effect that American dive bombiiig tactcs were transmitted to Nazi Germany by Udet - that same Brnest Udet who was so well known in American aviation circles, and who now is one of the heads of the Nazi Air Corps I i m NEUTHALITY A bill to rep^^sl the Neutrality Law was introduced in the i3enate today, iind the sponsor of the repeal proposal is Senator iicKellar of Tennessee. ”We made a mistake in passing the law,” he declared. contended that the statute fon conflicts with the traditional American policy of freedom of the seas, and therefore should be abolished. WAR Tne war news is brief tonight. Moscow/ and Berlin unite in telling of violent fighting in the siege of Leningrad. Tne Soviets claim that what tney call "The Peoples* Army”, scored a brilliant victory, driving the blitzkrieg forces back six miles. Berlin counters v.ith the statement that Nazi unites have fought their way tnrough the inner defenses and are battling the suburbs of the second largest Soviet city. There’s ♦ little new concerning the encirclement east of Kiev. Berlin claims that the Soviet counter-attacks have failed, and that tne great Soviet forces in the trap are being subjugated with heavy fignting. One significant thing may be a German drive into the Crimea. Tnat, it would appear, has begun - with Nazi forces pushing througn tne narrow neck of land into the great peninsula tnat extends almost to the region of tne Caucasus, The most striking of war news today comes from Serbia, the Balkan country conquered by the Nazis last spring. All sides agree in telling of na renewed iiostilities - with Serbian irregular; III I WAK - figntlng against tae Hitler forces./ i^erlin speaks of a chase of what it calls ’’bandits”. Other sources picture a virtual iiwiiirfix insurrection by tne fierce Bc^l^an mountaineers - battling in tneir mountains. The Hermans and Italians have been compelled to send large forces into Serbia to keep the ltd on. a^lH'.RICAN FDLr^hS i«‘i Oiii ijondoti coiiies c^ story of six Aiiij.ican uVii iators v^ao been .ls.a-oSjd irom tne hoyal air force, ihey joined tne ft.ii.F., and to k the course of riyino in England. They ^.ere trained right up to the minute in the tactics of air battiej and k«e.e yualitied to fl^^ iitt warplanes in raids against the hazis—but i'lo. They refused They said - nothing doing. Why? »»hat was the trouble? Toaay’s acc^.-unt from London explains that five of tne SIX American an aviators objected - because the pay was too low. ..ages in the o.A.f. amoun-t to tnirteen shillings and six .ence a day - about two dollars and seventy-five cents. And five of the six American pilots said tney wouldn t fight and f y for that Aind of money . Tney stated that in the United btates ■p.'vr. R i, F service told them they*d persons who interviewed them for . .j ' hopn offered two hundred and ^et a lot more. One said ne had itated that he had been informed fifty dollars a month, iinother s sixty dollars a raonth. Eo that the -.ay would be two hundred and that's the kind of 9 jay the warriors wanted, and they weren ill - li! t,vlK;RICAi\i FLiEhb-<^ going to De heroes ul the SKy for any two dollars and seventy five cents a aay. That was the case with five of the six. What about the other? The London story puts it succinctly in these words: '•He was afraid and didn*t want to fight.” So they have all now been dismissed and will be sent bacic to the United States. The British are confronted with a dile.iima - because the six aviators, in the course of training, have learned, a lot of confidential things about the British air Force. They have been v/arned that if they disclose any secret informauiua when they get bacK home, they'll be liable to punishment under the X Espionage Law of the United States 1 CATS If you happen to have some xaif goldfish, and you want soma cats that won*t so after the fish — here^s your chance* Just apply to Christopher W. Coates, director of the old New York aquarium. That familiar institution is passing out of existence. The lish are being given away to other aquaria, and director Coates is loorilng for someone who wants the non-fish- cating ca_ts. It appears tnat in times gone by, the New lork Aquarium was bothered by a plague of huge rats - ferocious rodents that preyed on the fish in the tank:s. They made a specialty of eating those rare specimens - precious members of the finny tribe brought from far off waters of the tropics. So the Director decided he’d get some cats. The only trouble with the idea was that cats don’t catch rats - at least not tne big fighting variety that infested the Aquarium. Those critters were more liltely to devour the cat. And, o other nand, cats lilce fish, as is well icnown. So the prospects , appeared to be - that ^ cat^would on±f join the ratJ ^ ttia fish. A Director Coates, however, is an ingenious Aquarium expert. Be solved the problem by getting a mountain wildcat - ■ IT; guaranteed to whip ten times his eight in rats. This mountain A wildcat he bred with Lena, a common house cat of the mouse- chasine kind. The progeny combined the best qualities of both. They were a feline brano. of rougn on rats. dowever, there was no guarantee tnat they wouldn’t eat tne lish. That was a problem for director Coates to solve i^e didf devised a course of education for Lena, the mama hous ‘IS it cat, She simply loved fish - every aay »as Friday for Lena The Director cured her of that by giving her an opportunity to enjoy what appeared to be the biggest fish Friday dish she ever had. He gave her a chance at the electric eel; Lena tried to take a bite out of the electric eel and the shock just about blasted her out of the tarft. One taste of electric eel was enough. Thereafter, when Lena saw anything swimming she'd turn tail and run. Not only that, she t»ugnt he to hate fish. She just showed them the electric eel kittens that she had by the mountain wildcat, ^“1 rCATS - AS a result of all this sliillful genetics, Director Coates produced a race of cats guaranteed to destroy rats and let toe fish alone. The only trouble now i^that, having developed the remarkable felines, he doesn*t know what to do with them. -J y -^jgXW. w'<z^'fia-e-c.r->jz— \/j=jLQ y n E I I I