Show I 1 news N s review of current events the world over president ilent returns from vacation to face critical test of his administration policies as foes stand firm on prevailing wage clause by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 lV estern newspaper union RESIDENT ROOSEVELT ended his PTa PRESIDENT vacation catlon at hyde park and left for or washington where his administration faces serious trouble involving the grestl prestige ge of the white house capitol nill nil Is full of lively curiosity over the presidents program and whether he will fight the present congressional defiance of his leadership and go before the people with one ot of his famed fireside talks or whether he will gree to a compromise sen gen wagner mr roosevelt at the end of his second year in office faces a predicate in his relations to congress similar to that which confronted sir mr hoover in 1931 unless he regains control his entire program Is likely to bog down the boht hinges on the work relief program the first item in the presidents budget message and the principal mainstay of his program secret conferences at which slices of pork were reported to have been dangled before the avid eyes of revolting senators tena tors were said to alre been held A few supporters of the mccarran prevailing wage rit which wrecked the bill and forced its to the appropriations committee were said to be wavering under the pressure senator robert F r wagner who voted for the amendments amendment act td ad as peacemaker lie he intimated the possibility of a compromise by paying more than the so called security wage of 50 a month but still lower than the prevailing rates other leaders declared they would not budge from their positions secretary ickes has been no help to the president in queuing quelling the revolt in his recent testimony ickes was reluctant to tell a senate committee about allocation of for a naval shipbuilding program the senators finally pried out information which would indicate that the navy and the speculators knew all about the appropriation but none of the members of 0 congress knew about it the money coney was to be spent at executive discretion and senators feel this does not auger well for the proposal to hand to sir mr rosevelt unlimited power in spending the proposed five billion dollar appropriation since next year will bring another presidential election a third of the senators lena tors will be up for reelection election re and all of the house members they are watching closely the present situation because if the president Is slipping g they want their own records back home in good order M has sent more italian troops to east africa making that have been dispatched for the possible war with the empire of ethiopia with the latest contingent went gen Rudolfo Graziani who kho will be in command of the expeditionary do nary army the soldiers were given i fine send off at naples crown prince humbert being present mussolini has set european governments buzzing in a speech in which he be roared de defiance flance nt at italis foes asserting that tie he could put eight million krmek men in the geld field it necessary newspapers during the past few weeks have bave openly referred to the possibility of t a war between italy and germany over austria and it was thought that 0 duces speech was made to impress upon the nazis that he was prepared to defend brenner pass although a part of the troops are being used in ethiopia britain Is keeping a close watch on ethiopian developments sir john elmon foreign secretary told the house of f commons simon said that the agreement of 1908 1903 between italy france and great britain to preserve the political ind and territorial status quo in ethiopia Is in force and that britain has drawn italis attention to this fact ile he added that the whole trouble Is over the frontier between ethiopia and italian Soma liland which has never been prop irly defined HE blue eagle lost another tall tail THE treather Tf feather eather the other day when federal judge at wilmington del held that the collective bargaining provision of NIRA Is unconstitutional when applied to companies not dot engaged to in interstate commerce the ad adminis mints and organized labor immediately joined in a fl fight bt to preserve the validity of section 7 A find and announced that an immediate appeal would be taken before the united states supreme I 1 court the wagner labor relations bill making section 7 A the law of the land and outlawing company unions may have to be revised if judge Is upheld by the high court bourl the ruling also gives support to opposition now forming in congress against extension of unless it Is reorganized judge ruling was on an injunction suit brought by the government against the weirton steel company to enjoin the steel firm from alleged violations of section 7 A of NIRA and the labor section of the fair com coin petition code of the iron and steel industry ile he upheld the right of employees to form company unions for or collective bargaining thus upsetting the claim of the amalgamated association of iron steel and tin workers that the company intimidated employees and dominated the company union the court held that the company Is primarily engaged in state not interstate commerce which congress Is not empowered to regulate judge stated power to enact section 7 A was not conferred upon congress by the general welfare recital in the preamble of the constitution nor by the welfare clause article 1 section 8 of the constitution ution unless the supreme court reverses judge the decision will prevent the new deal from interfering with employee employer relationships of a vast majority of american business new deal policies received another jolt the same day when judge charles L dawson on application of 35 west ern kentucky coal operators issued a writ enjoining the government from enforcing the bituminous coal code reaffirming an earlier decision that the national industrial recovery act was unconstitutional judge dawson declared that the coal mining is an intrastate tra state business and beyond the power of congress to regulate ne he had previously issued a temporary writ on petition of the operators on the ground of invalidity of the code but the court of appeal remanded the case for a finding of tact on the question of irreparable injury when the government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen said judge dawson who labeled as fallacious the government lawyers contention that gains resulting from the coal code should offset losses F FEDERAL JUDGE W L I 1 GRUBB of alabama gave the new deal a sharp rap that threatens the great electric power development in the tennessee valley talley ile he ruled that the tennessee valley authority has no legal authority to dispose of surplus power generated at hydroelectric hydro electric plants on the tennessee river the administration Is depending on this enterprise to bring abbat the lowering of private power plant rates and it was believed there would be an immediate appeal from the decision in washington especial note was taken of the fact that judge grubb made permanent an injunction restraining 14 north alabama cities and towns from negotiating with the public works administration for loans to build electric distribution systems there was speculation as to what effect it if any this might have nationally on policy of giving financial encouragement to municipal power developments troubles continue to rock I 1 INTERNAL cuba and president carlos mendl regime appears tottering manuet manuel despaigne Desp algne the only member of mendl cabinet who was as Q in office has resign resigned ed as secretary of the treasury completing the rout of the ministry brought about by the school strike and twelve assistant cabinet secretaries have also deserted the administration the cabinet resignations began over differences carlos mendieta of opinion as to how to deal with the strike of several hundred thousand students and teachers which has developed into a national movement to oust the mendieta Mend leta administration comma led labor organizations are ready to throw their strength behind a revolutionary lutio nary general and the situation Is becoming critical although armed forces are being held in readiness to quell disorders there Is some doubt as to their loyalty to the president col fulgencio Fulgen clo batista army chief of staff was reported ready to throw his support to dr carlos manuel banuel tie do la cruz for president it if the mendl eta government falls but leaders of the noti antl mendieta movement have indicated batestas batistas Catl Bat stas istas choice would not be acceptable to them terrorism continues rampant bombing has become general railroads have been blown up and havana has suffered considerable damage to property possibilities of a merger of democrats with republicans in fighting for repent repeal of the pink slip or income tax publicity section of the 1934 revenue act was seen as representative bell missouri pleaded for immediate passage of his bis bill eUmina eliminating ting the publicity provi provision slon not only Is there tear fear on the part pan of the people of the country on account of gangsters and racketeers bell asserted but there also la Is concern among business men because their competitors will have the opportunity ot of nosing into their secret flies files A SWEEPING investigation of aana and charges of graft and corruption was started by the senate when it passed the nye mccarran resolution tor for a finance committee inquiry after a series of floor conferences between the sponsors administration loaders leaders liberal democrats and western ives sponsors of the bill originally demanded a special committee to investigate vesti gate NIIA but finally agreed to the finance committee handling the inquiry since the finance committee Is headed beaded by senator pat harrlson harrison administration follower this way nay mean lettle however it Is understood that harrison lson agreed that counsel and professional fess ional lonal investigators be employed and also yielded to demands that the committee confer with mccarran and nye in planning the investigation it if harrlson harrison attempts to whitewash the NIU it Is rumored that nye will take the floor to demand that the inquiry be placed in the bands of the judiciary committee trounced THE irrepressible nuey huey long announced in baton rouge that he will be a candidate for governor of louisiana in 1930 that may be just more kingfish conversation however it Is known that long has not preferred the office he now holds and there Is some possibility that he may seek the chief executives chair of his state when asked what would become of his candidacy tor for the presidency he be said mid that being elected governor and being a candidate tor for president would not interfere with each other not to accept the D determined mccarran federation of labor prevailing wage amendment the administration forces in the senate sent the work relief bill back to the committee what will happen now dow to the presidents big program Is problematical 2 senator byrnes of south carolina one S A of the administration men declared the measure had met its death insisting he was expressing his own be senator huey ilif and not talking long 9 for the president byrnes said there Is no prospect of reviving the works program and the committee probably will do nothing about it the president stated that it if the mccarran amendment were adopted he would not sign the bill byrnes said the senate adopted it therefore so as far as the works part Is concerned the bill Is gone lie ile expressed the thought the committee would report out an appropriation of or to carry out the present relief program for six months or a year adoption of the mccarran Uc Carran amendment by the senate was brought about only after a hard fight and by means of a rather tricky shifting of pairs in which bluey long took a leading part it won by a margin of one vote whereupon senator robinson democratic leader moved that the bill be sent back to the committee this was done senator glass expressing the hope that the committee would report out a bill that will not be quite so controversial senator long who loses no opportunity to pester the administration and to display his political shrewdness has started a movement tor for the specification of of the work relief measures total for the purpose of highway construction highway commissions in every state were asked by him to indorse this plan long said he had discussed it with some other senators and that they liked it HA HITLER has been C chancellor forced to abandon his intensive campaign against the jews economic pressure has caused der fuehrer to give up public manifestations of his cherished anti semitic policy speeches at a meeting of 0 political leaders and nazi party members indicated boycotts foreign exchange difficulties and other troubles cannot be risked by the retch at the present moment HE after fifteen years under T THE league of nations rule returned to germany baron pompeo italian chairman of the leagues league ts committee took over the reins from col geoffrey knox british chairman n of the territorial governing commission the next day aloisa formally surrendered the to germany and the german flag was hoisted over the territory te r for the first time since the world war celebrating ELE BRATING the seventeenth anniversary C celebrating niver sary of the establishment of its army of men soviet russia renewed its defiance de flance of imperialistic nations all over the country there were fetes and the speakers took occasion not only to glorify the red bed warriors but also to attack germany and japan chancellor KURT NIGG of austria paid a visit to ramsay macdonald british prime alu ister and was told that while BrI britain brinoli toli Is all for maintaining the lie independence of austria return of the Haps burgs in austria anil and more british loans were strictly tabooed tabo oed incidentally britain hinted that austria might be a ditth more popular it if it were ere a little 1 ip afim rough with the socialists aud and trade unionists austria saw the light and gave a imir promise to be a 11 litile gentler everything was very friendly but the austrians Aust lans rians calne caine to bondol loi ilni without invitation and little erfort unmade to conceal olli clil al Mi lains cepl ing that they would rattler iiii y ha staged at home |