Show THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY ROUND MERRY GO ROUND Tr Trade de Slack Mark By Drew Pearson and Robert S. S Allen Authors Authora of or W Merry Oo an Moro More Merry Round Merry und W WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Jesse Isidor Straus is going oin to resign as ambassador to France Behind this determination are arc two potent factors The first Is the N R A code and the way it has hit Macys Macy's department store of or which Straus is the guiding genius He is needed back in New York The second is Straus Straus' personal dislike for forthe forthe the role of ambassador After a n li lifetime of business business business busi busi- ness activity Paris pink teas and have havo proven very boring indeed Also it is not the most propitious time in inthe inthe inthe the World orld to be ambassador to France War Var debts rankle So do wine quotas tariffs and the jumping-jack jumping dollar So Straus who had always wanted to be secretary of commerce and took Paris as an afterthought is now throwing up the second most prized plum in the American l diplomatic service 1 One of the worlds world's few remaining absolute sovereigns may visit the U. U S. S A. A AThe The Thc Shah of Persia is reported to have a yen to come this wa way He is being urged by Gaffar Khan Djalal Persian minister here to visit Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington when the Shah goes to see his royal roal colleague the thc king of Egypt The Shahs Shah's ad advisers advisers ad- ad have been telling him that the Alazar main street of Teheran is more beautiful than the Champs or Fifth avenue but the Shah wants to see for himself Louey Loucy Howe will do the chief chie ghost writIng writing writ- writ Ing lag for the new book Roosevelt is publishing The volume will be bc chief chiefly Roosevelt's speeches plus an introduction which introdUction which clion-which which will be Loucy's Louey's special job The state department tried to smile at re reports reports reports re- re ports of or Spain's sending a cruiser to Cuba but none of the career boys felt very happy about it Even so the state sUite department has progressed progressed progressed pro pro- gressed a long way from the time in 1927 when Undersecretary Joe Grew nearly fell over backward backward backward back back- ward when informed the British were sending two cruisers to Nicaragua Old Henry father of the acting secretary of the thc treasury holds court every noon in one of Wall Vall streets street's luncheon clubs Uncle Henry sits at a table near the center of the dining room and some of the biggest figures in the street pa pay tribute as they pass Young Henry is doing his best to get comfortable com corn in the treasury department but is having having haying hav hay ing a hard time One difficulty is that to him the financial game is absolutely new Another Another Another An An- other is nervousness He hasn't yet lived down his bad getaway when he declared a press censorship The barrage of or 5 big business against Rex Tugwell now leading member of the brain trust is continuing The strategy is to brand him hima a red red and in the end it may work The fact is however that Tugwell is no rio redder than his chief Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Vallace or many others to whom Roosevelt chiefly turns for advice Former French Ambassador Claudel while vacationing in Paris once sent a secret code cable to the embassy which when decoded read Please rush my check pants with the black seam SPY SYNDICATE The war and navy departments were in touch with with- French officials before the arrest of the alleged American spies in Paris recently Their interest was in the belief that the Americans were a part though part though a very small of international be believed believed be- be part part part-of a large spy syndicate lie ed to have two representatives in Washing Washing- ton One of the latter has diplomatic connections connections con con- with a small European government and has been under surveillance for some time The syndicate sells its information to any country country country coun coun- try that will pay for it There is a lot of opposition within army circles to Colonel Charles Burnett as a far eastern eastern east east- em ern specialist in military intelligence His wife has received several prizes from the Japanese government for writing Japanese poetry Louis Little recently made a brigadier general general general gen gen- eral in the ma marine ine corps has done more than any other recent marine to win Haitian friend friend- ship Louis started the natives playing footbalL foot foot- ball Bureau of agricultural economics economics' statistics show that wille farm real estate taxes showed an average decline of 22 per cent between 32 1929 the average value of agricultural lands landsI I decreased 37 per cent In relation to value taxes rose 24 per cent t There has been much fanfare about the number number number num num- ber of national banks that have obtained government government government gov gov- funds to enable them to meet the liquidity requirements of the deposit guarantee guaran guaran- tee act operative January 1 Nonmember state banks also have not been overlooked Under the direction of the R. R F. F C. C member Harvey Couch head of a special committee ap appointed appointed appointed ap- ap pointed for the purpose of these institutions institutions institutions have been quietly assisted They received a total of NEW V USE Enacted three decades ago strictly as a revenue revenue revenue rev rev- measure department of justice records now show that the federal income tax law has become the governments government's most potent weapon in dealing with the big shots of the underworld What the murder smuggling bootlegging and other criminal laws were not able to do the income tax law accomplished While the law has been efficacious in this field the government has yet to score conviction against a wealthy income tax dodger Copyright 1933 1133 by United Untied Feature Syndicate Inc |