| Show TIlE THE DAILY ILY WASHINGTON Merry Go Round Trade Mark Marlc MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON For For gross stupidity Wall Van Wallstreet's streets street's frenzied campaign against the stock market control bill surpasses anything Washington Washing Washing- ton on has witnessed in years If you took seriously the shudder-and-hor- shudder nor act of the money easy boys you would never realize that that that- The country has bas gone through four years of bank and stock exchange scandals That millions of investors have been impoverished impoverished as a result That 1934 a 1934 a congressional election year year year- finds no class in greater popular disfavor than the he broker and banker To Wall VaU street apparently these facts have bave baveno no bearing on the legislative situation All the traditional bugaboos are being exploited S On the day Roosevelt reiterated his determination determination deter- deter to enact stock exchange control legislation legislation legis- legis lation the Wall Vall streeters trotted out a tale that the he president had disowned such a plan Simultaneous announcement came from Wall VaU Wallstreet street that a group of influential brokers was planning to call on the president to postpone action until next session Then the stock exchange announced a list of new reform rules This dr drew w a big laugh on Capitol Hill Huh snorted spoken blunt-spoken Senator Fletcher chairman of the senate banking committee com corn those rules dont don't mean anything They can adopt them today and repeal them tomor- tomor row ow Woodring and the Generals The drive to oust Harry Woodring as assistant as as- war secretary is becoming more intense Spearhead of the drive is the general staff and its ts chief general Douglas MacArthur General staff taff officers have laid down an ultimatum that Harry larry Woodring goes out There is no accusation of graft or dishon dishon- esty sty But a charge that he was cras too genial with some ome of his lobbying friends from Kansas Also he le has been so indiscreet as to shout from the housetops that t the e present r recovery overy agencies are exactly what the army wants for the mobilization tion ion cf industry in wartime So the high officers of- of are sore So also is S Secretary Dern But Woodring is fighting back tooth and nail Apparently the last thing he wants to todo todo todo do is go back to Kansas but it looks very much muchas as if that is where he is going Yachts and Polo The N R A consumers' consumers advisory board is daily dany proving its value to those interested in buying buying buy- buy ing ng steam yachts and villas on the Riviera It is headed by Mary Harriman Rumsey a gracious charming lady inheritor of the Harriman Harriman Harriman Har Har- riman millions and one who has seldom had hado to o worry about the price of anything Assisting her are Miss Belle Sherwin heir to the Shervin Sherwin Sherwin Sher- Sher win vin paint fortune Emily Newell Blair author Mrs Hugh Johnsoh Johnson wife of the creator of the Blue Eagle and Grace Morrison Poole of the Federation of Women's Clubs The latest addition to help protect the consumer con- con umer sumer is Mrs Jock Whitney famous for her polo-playing polo husband the Whitney millions and the Virginia stable of thoroughbred hunt hunt- ers Mrs Whitney lately conferred with Dexter Dex- Dex ter er Keezer the brains of the consumers' consumers board regarding her new v duties I fir think Mrs Whitney will render valuable service announced Dr Keezer Note Note Meanwhile Meanwhile terrific pressure in and out of the government is being against the consumers' consumers counsel of the A A A which has put up a heroic fight to protect the int interests rests of the American public Between N R A relief for or industry and A AAA A A relief of agriculture the consumer soon will find nd that this world was not modeled for him Mystery 1 in Treasury If Sec Secretary Henry Jr doesn't watch vatch hi his step in in the treasury he is soon going to o be th the subject of a decidedly bitter atta attack k by y senate Progressives They resented deeply his his' ouster uster of Professor sor Harold HaroId N. N Groves Wisconsin Progressive and a a brilliant adviser on taxation Morgen- Morgen thaus thau's attempt to install Earle Bailie Wall street banker and foreign bond promoter as his financial financial financial finan finan- cial adviser in the treasury they thwarted by threat of attack S S SNow Now Henry has just made another appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment that has revived suspicion E. E B. B Prettyman Pretty- Pretty man general counsel of at the internal revenue bureau rated by the Progressives as one of t the e most courageous and competent men in the treasury service was without explanation re removed removed re- re moved by In his place he nominated nom nom- mated Robert Jackson Jamestown Jamestown Jamestown James James- a year old town N. N Y lawyer S S S I Senator Couzens and other Progressives say bluntly they dont don't like ilke the look of treasury II matters Too much mystery They are determined determined determined deter deter- mined to find o out t what it is all even about about even if I they hey have to speak out about bout Mr on the senate floor I |
