The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-30

Washington, Dec. 30-One of the worlds few remaining abso- lute sovereigns may visit the U. s. A. The Shah of Per- sia is reported to have a yen to come this way. He is being urged by Gaffar Khan Djalal, Persian minister here, to visit Washing ton when the Shah goes to see his royal colleague, the King of Egypt. The Shah's advisers have been telling -him that the Alazar, main street of Teherah,, is more beautiful than the Champ Elysees or Fifth avenue, but the Shah wants to see for himself. .Louey Howe VIII do the chief ghost writing for the new book Roosevelt is pub- fishing. The volume will be chiefly Roosevelt's speeches plus an roduction-which will be Louey's special job.
 A FORGED SMILE
 The state department tried to smile at reports of Spain's send ing a cruiser to Cuba, but none of the career boys felt very HdDpy aUOuI A1NSA oO SAsO state department has progressed long way from the time in 1927 when Under Secretary Joe Grew nearly fell over backward when informed the British were sending two cruisers to Nicara- qua. Old Henry Morgen- thau, father the acting secretary of the treasury, holds court every noon in one of Wall streets luncheon clubs. Uncle Henry" sits at table near the center of the dining-room and some of the biggest figures in the street pay tribute as they pass. Young Henry is doing his best to get comfortable in the treasury department but is hav- ing a hard time. One dtffi- culty is that to him the financial game is absolutely new. Another is nervousness. He hasn't yet lived down his bad getaway when he declared a press cen sorship. The barrage of Big Business against Rex Tugwell, now leading member of the Brain Trust, is continuing. . The strategy, is to brand him a red, and in the end it may work. The fact is, however, that Tugwell is no redder than his chief, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, or many others to whom Roosevelt chiefly turns for advice. Former French Ambassador Claudel, while vaca- tioning in Paris, once sent a secret code cable to the em- bassy, which when decoded, read: Please rush my check pants with the black seam."
 SPY SYNDICATE
 The war and navy departments were in touch with French off, cials before the arrest of the alleged American spies in Paris recently. Their interest was in the belief that the Americans were a part though Q very small part-of large interna- tional spy syndicate believed to have two representatives, In Washington. one or the latter has diplomatic connec- tions with a small European gov- ernment and has been under sur. veillance for some time. The syndicate sells it's informa- tion to any country that will pay for it. There is @ lot of opposition within army circles to Colonel Charles Burnett as a far eastern specialist in military intelligence. His wife has rec ceived several prizes from the Japanese government for writ ing Japanese poetry. Louis Little, recently made a briga- dier general in the marine corps, has done more than any other marine to win Haitian friend- ship. Louis started the na- tives playing football. Oklahoma's Representative Me- Clintic is known as "Rivet" to colleagues, because of his insist ence that the rivets of the ill- fated dirigible, the Akron, be in- dividually examined.
 FARM REAL ESTATE
 Bureau of agricultural eco- monies statistics show that while farm real estate taxes showed an average decline of 22 per cent