| Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND MERRY GO ROUND GO Trade Mark Merk By Drew Pearson and Robert S 8 S. S Allen Authors Authon of Washington Round Oo and nd Moro Mora Go W WASHINGTON General WASHINGTON G General meral Hugh Johnson has definitely fixed the date for his retire retire- ment He will await the reconvening of or congress face the attacks attacks if if any that any that members of that body have been whispering about and then step out His old office with Barney Baruch redecorated and refurnished is is all ready for his return Johnson will leave voluntarily His relations relations relations rela rela- with the president are now of the very best in fact better than they have ever been This is the result of a long private talk the two men had in New York a few weeks ago There was a recent occasion however when Johnson was ready to call quits The storm broke when the president turned the administration administration adminis adminis- of the oil code over to Secretary Ickes Johnson had borne the brunt of the terrific terrific terrific ter ter- struggle in writing the oil code So when the president turned its administration over to another man and placed on the oil planning committee men who vrho h had fought Johnson in inthe inthe inthe the code negotiations negotiations- he felt feIt he had lost Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's confidence With characteristic bluntness he went to the White House proffered his resignation The president wouldn't hear henr of it He patted patted patted pat pat- ted Johnson on the b back kidded him a little insisted that he withdraw withdraw- the resignation V VANISHED ANIS ED HERO The fate of General Italo Ialo Balbo BalbO Balb famous flier recently lionized by Washington is one of the chief subjects of discussion in the diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic corps His name has disappeared from the Italian press as if by a mysterious order Not only has his name vanished but he makes the rarest appearances in public life When the French government sent a parliamentary par par- mission to Ital Italy recently Balbo was supposed to guide the members through the time Italian air ministry Two hours before the visit a curt eurt announcement stated th that General Balbo was not appearing but that his place wot would d be taken by his assistant It is is traditional that Mussolini never lets anyone crowd him from the limelight WON VON AND LOST r Jim Davis is back from his court ordeal telling everyone why the N R A cant can't possibly go over I II know all about the N R A Ar A. says Jim I found out about it when I was running the box board industry for the members of the industry in in- in- in themselves I made money for them too But you cant can't make the small takes wages off his awn own salary and put on an another another another an- an other shipping clerk at 15 5 a week i instead The Blue Eagle is on its last gas gasp Jim has now been away from the senate for more than six months during which time he lost an appendix and won a lawsuit SECRETARY ROOSEVELT It is not i for the president to be his own own secretary of state F. F D. D JR E however however however how how- ever has his eyes on the treasury Secret Secretary t Woodin one neof of Ro Roosevelt's sevelt's warmest warmest warmest warm warm- est friends friends is is little more mor than a figurehead When in Washington he sits in on financial conferences but he carries little weight This due is to two reasons 1 Woodin is not a financier 2 his health is precarious The president does not want to burden burde him Undersecretary Dean Acheson able lawyer hard worker is carrying carrying- the full burden of di directing directing directing di- di the administrative functions functions' of the de de- de- de In Ir addition he heis is conducting British war debt negotiations U But Acheson to too is no q financier He takes ho no o step tep with without ut first consulting consulting con con- con con- suiting the White House What it all comes down to is that the president president dent is his own secretary of the tr treasury This situ situation tion is being e exploited by bulky bulky- conservative Jesse Jones chairman of the R. R F. F C. C Jones wanted to be secretary of the treasury last February Time and events vents have only whetted his appetite With Wo Woodin din playing only a nominal role Jesses Jesse's persistence gets results An example of this happened in regard to frozen bank de deposit deposit deposit de- de posit liquidation The original plan featured the treasury as the big factor in liquidation The R. R F. F C. C was to be merely a collaborating agency Woodin urged by friends to keep the conservative J Jones ones out of the plan assured them all was fixed I told Jesse Woodin said that he didn't have the right attitude toward this problem that he didn't belong in it and that if he was given a part he would be gagged and muzzled When the vas announced it was wa Jones who was in Woodin who was out ROUND MERRY Mrs James Roosevelt mother of the president president dent made a great hit with capital dressmakers ers during her lier rec recent nt visit Going into a shop owned by a fashionable Chicago sports woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man man she ordered two ev evenings gowns The place vas was immediately jammed e o Bolivian Minister Enrique Finot has the most unusual un bar in in the the capital It is is' decorated decorated dec dec- orated with rare eighteenth century French hunting prints e Cotton growers who plowed under a portion of their crop are arc being advised by the agriculture ture department to replace it with lespedeza de deza a a n. form of quick growing hay 0 8 0 a When the late Peter Angustus Augustus Jay was minister to Rumania he received orders orders' ap appointing appointing appointing ap- ap pointing him ambassador to Argentina While at the station to see him bim off Jan Bratianu many times premier whispered Excellency where is this place place place-Arg place Argentina Argentina Later Jay in his inimitable stutter would say And the sm m of them used to think it was an i Copyright 1933 1133 b br by United Feature Future Syndicate Inc |
