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Show .. THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE TWO Review of the istory- Ma President Returns From Vacation to Face Critical Test of His Administration Policies as Foes Stand Firm on Prevailing Wage Clause. By EDWARD W. PICKARD @,Western Newspaper Union. RESIDENT ROOSEYELT Phis vaention at Hyde !Park end~d and .k!ft for Washington where his admlnistra tion faces serlou" trouble, involYing the prestige of tlle :Vhite House. Capitol Hill is full of lively curiosity over the President's program, and whether he will fight the present congressional defiance of his leadership and go before the people with one of his Sen. Wagner famed fireside talks, or whether he will agree to a compromise. 1\Ir. Uoosevelt at the end of his second year in office faces a predicate ln his relations to congress similar to that which confronted Mr. Hoover in 1031. Unless he regains control his entire program is lil.:ely to bog down. The :fight binges on the $4.S80,000,000 work-relief program, the first Item in the Prt'shlent's budget message and the principal mainstay of his program. Secret conferences at which slices of porlt were reported to have been dangled before the avid eyes of revolting senators ~ere said to have been hold. A few supporters of the McCarran prevailing wage amendment which wrecked the bill and forced its recommission to the appropriations commit· tee were said to be wavering under the pressure. Senator Robert F. Wagner, who voted for the amendment. acted as peacemaker. He intimated the possibility of a compromise by paying more than the socalled 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 quelllng the revolt. In his recent testimony, Ickes was reluctant to tell a senate committee about al1ocation of $238,000.000 for a naval shipbuilding program. r.rhe senator finally pried out information which would indicate that the navy and the speculators knew all about the appropriation, but none of the members of congress knew about it. The money was to be spent at executive discretion. and senators t'ee1 this does not auger we1J for the proposal to hand Mr. Roosevelt unlimited power in spending the proposed $5,000,000,000 appropriation. Since next year will bring another PresJdentlal election, a third of the senators will be up for re-election, and all of the house members. They are watching closely the present situation because. if the Presi· dent is slipping, they want their own record back home in good order. bas sent 5,000 more M USSOLINI rtalian troops to east Africa, making 10,000 that have been dis· patched for the possible war with the empire of Ethiopia. \Vlth the latest contingent went Gen. Rudolfo Graziani. who will be ln command of the expeditionary army. The soldiers were given a fine send-off at Naples. Crown Prince Humbert being present. Mussolinl bas set European gov· ernments buzzing in a speech in whicb he roared defiance at Italy's foes, asserting that he could put eight million armed men In the field if necessary. );ewspapers during the past fe'v weeks have openly referred to the possihi1 ity of a war betwPPn Italy nnrt <1<'rmnny over • I Midvale, Utah, Fliday, March 8, 1935 g Events • the 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 codes should offset losses. troubles continue to 11\"TERNAL rock Cuba, and President Carlos Austria, and lt was thought that Mendieta's regime appears tottering. Manuel Despaigne, the only press upon the Nazis that he was member of Mendiprepared to defend Brenner pass, eta's cabinet who although a part of the troops a"re was in office, has being used in Ethiopia. resigned as secreBritain is keeping a close watch tary, completing the on Ethiopian developments, Sir rout of the minisJ"ohn s;mon, foreign secretary, told try brought about the house of commons. Simon said by the school stril~e. that the agreement of 1908 between And twelve assistItaly, France and Great Britain ant cabinet secreto preserve the political and territaries have also detorial status ln Ethiopia still is in serted the adminisforce and that Britain has drawn tration. Carlos Italy's attention to this fact. He The cabinet resMendieta added, that the whole trouble Is tgnations began over the frontier between Ethiopia over differences of opinion as to proand Italian Somaliland, which bas posed methods of dealing with the never been properly defined. strike of several hundred thousand students and teachers which bas deHE Blue Eagle lost another tail veloped Into a national movement to feather -the other day, when oust the Mendieta administration. E ederal Judge Nields at \Vilming- Communist-led labor organizations ton, Del., held that the collective are ready to throw their strength bargaining provision of NIRA Is un- behind a revolutionary general constitutional when applied to com- strike, and the situation is becompanies not engaged in Interstate ing critical. Although armed forces commerce. The administration and are being held in readiness to quell organized labor Immediately jofned disorders, there is some doubt as in a fight to preserve the vaHdity to their loyalty to the president. Fulgencio Batista, army of Section 7-A, and announced that Col. cbiet ot staff, was reported ready an Immediate appeal would be talten before the Unl ted States Su- to throw his support to Dr. Carlos Manuel de la Cruz for president lf preme court. The 'Vagner labor relations bilJ the Mendieta government falls, but making Section 7-A the law of the leaders of the antl-Mendieta moveland and outlawing company unions ment have Indicated Batista's choice may have to be revised. If Judge would not be acceptable to them. Terrorism continues rampant. Nields is upheld by the high court. Bombing has become general, railThe ruling also gives support to roads have been blown up, anrt opposition now forming in congress Havana ... bas suffered considerable against extension of NRA unless lt damage to property. Is reorganized. Judge -~.Tields' ruling was on an EDERAL JUDGE W. I. GRUBB injunction suit brought by the gov· of Alabama gave the New Deal a ernment against the Weirton Steel sharp rap that threatens the great Company to enjoin the steel firm electric power development in the from alleged violations of Section Tennessee valley. He ruled that the 7-A of NIRA and the labor section Tennessee Valley Authority has no of the fair competition code of legal authority to dispose of surthe Iron and steel Industry. He plus power generated at bydro-eJec· uph_e ld the right of employees to tric plants on the Tennessee river. form company unions for collective The administration is depending on bargaining, thns upsetting the this enterprise to bring about the claim of the Amalgamated Associa- lowering of private power plant tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Work- rates, and it was believed there ers, that the company Intimidated would be an immediate appeal trom employees and domlnated the com- the decision. pany union. The court held that In Washington especla1 note was thP company ls prlmarlly engaged taken of the fact that Judge Grubb In state, not Interstate commerce, made permanent an injunction r~ which congress is not empowered straining 14 north Alabama cities to regulate. Judge Nields stated: and towns from negotiating with "Power to enact Section 7-A was the Public \Vorks administration not conferred upon congress by for loans to build electric distributhe •general welfare' recital In the tion systems. preamble of the Constitution, nor by the welfare clause, Article 1, ETERML.rED not to accept the Section 8, of the Constitution.'' McCarran-Federation of Labor Unless the Supreme court re- prevailing wage amendment, the adverses Judge Nlelds, the decision ministration forces in the senate will prevent the New Deal from sent the work reInterfering with employee-employer Lief bill back to the relationships of a vast majority of committee. W h a t American business. will happen now to New Deal policies received anthe President's b!g other jolt the same day when program is probJudge Charles L. Dawson on applilematical. Senator cation of 35 western Kentucky coal Byrnes of South operators Issued a writ enjolnln~ Carolina, ore of the the bituminous coal code. reaffirm administration men. lng an earlier decision that the declared the measnational industrial recovery act was ure had met lts unconstitutional. Judge Dawson aedeath. clared that the coal mining Is an Senator Huey Insisting he was Intrastate business. and beyond the Long expressing his own power of congress to regulate. belief and not talking for the PreslHe had previously Issued a tem· oen t, Byrnes said, •'There is no porary writ on petition of the op· prospect" of reviving the works proerators on the ground of invalidity gram and ''The committee probably of the code, but the court ot appeal will do nothing about it." remanded the case for a finding "The President stated that if the of fact on the question of Irre- McCarran amendment were ~dopt· parable Injury. "When the gov- ed be would not sign the bill," ernment unconstitutionally inter- Byrnes said. ..The senate adopted feres with the right of a citizen to it, therefore, so far as the worl\:S do business in his own way, then part is concerned, the bill is gone." II Duce's speech was made to im- T F D ' 0 He expressed the thought the committee would report out an appropriation of $880,000,000 or $1.880,000,000 to carry out the pres· ent relief program for six months or a year. The general opinion ln \Vashtngton seemed to be that the latter part of Byrnes' statement was cort·ect, and that the committee would delay reporting the public works part of the bill until the states and munlcipaiHies which would largely benefit from it could bring ~ressure to bear on their senators. Adoption of the McCarran amendment by the senate wa.. brought about only after a hard fight and by means of a rather tricky shifting of pairs in which Huey Long took a leading part. It won by a margin of one vote• . whereupon Senli.tor 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 bi11 "that will not be quite so controversial." Senator Long, who loses no OP· portunity to pester the administration and to dlgplay his political shrewdness, has started a movement for the specification of $2,500•. 000,000 of the work relief measure's 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 tt with some other senators and that they liked ft. L Weelr tors be employed, and also yielded to demands that the committee confer with McCarran and Nye in planning the investigation. If Harrison attempts to ••whitewash" the NRA. it is rumored that Nye wl11 take the floor to demand that the inquiry be placed in the hands or the Ju· diciary committee. BE irrepressible Huey Long anT nounced in Baton Rouge that he will be a candidate for governor of Louisiana In 19~6. That may 'be jnst more Kingfisb conversation. However, It is lmown that Long ha.~ not preferred the office he now holds, and there is some possibility that he may seek the chief executive's chair of his state. hen asked what would become of his candidacy for the Presidency, he said that being elected governor and being a candidate for President would not interfere with each other. Saarland after fifteen years T HE under League of Nations rule returned to Germany. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italian chairman of the League's Saar committee, took over the reins from Col. Geoffrey Knox, British chairman of the territorial governing commission. The next day, Aloisi formally surrendered the Saar to Germany. and the German flag was hoisted over the terri tory for the first time since the \VorJd war. e RA .. "CELLOR HITLER has been forced to abandon his intensive campaign against the Jews. F1coSWEEPI~G Investigation of nomic pressure has caused Der J.ffiA and charges of graft and Fuehrer to give up public manifestacorruption was started by the sen- tions of hi~ cherished anti-Semitic ate, when it passed the _. ·y~:\IcCnr policy, speeches at a meettn~ of poran resolution for a finance commit- litical leaders and Nazi pnrt:v memtee lnq uiry after a series of floor bers indicated. Boycotts. foreign exconferences between the sponsors, change difficulties and other trouadministration leaders, liberal Dem- bles cannot be risked by the reich at ocrats, and western progressives. the present moment. Sponsors of the bill ori~inally demanded a special committee to InELEBRATING the seventeenth vestigate NRA, but finally agreed anniversary of the establishto the finance committee handling ment of tts army of 900.000 men, the inquiry. Sinee the finance com- Soviet Russia renewed its defiance mittee is headed by Senator Pat Har· of ''imperialistic" nations. All over rison, administration fol: 1wer, this the country there were fetes, and may mean little. llowever it ts un- the spflal{ers took occasion not only derstood that Harrison agreed that to glorify the Red warriors but also counsel and professional investiga- to attack Germany and Jnpnn. A C "Bootleggers" in Ivory Risk Lives in Unlawful ~ut Lucrative Business The precious white gold of Kenya-elephant's tusks-is protected by government regulations in South Africa, and, like all lucrative trades, has Its unlawful and bootlegging ch:mnels. It is for this treasure that natives risk their lives and penetrate the ta11 grass jungles and forest of the interior, tumbling elephants by the thousands in the dus~ The tusk hunters are divided into two groups, according to a representative of the American Express company - the killers and dead Ivory gatherers, the latter Industry being the great mystery to the white man. "Deao Ivory" Is supposed to be derived from dead elephants or skeletons and though 2,000 ele· phants die a natural ueath every year in the jungles and forests of Africa, it Is an astonishing fact that few ever discovered a dead ele· phant. The natives declare that elephants have a secret death place. and are highly superstitious In r~ vealing elephants' cemeteries. It is from these mysterious cemeter1es, which the dying elephant Is said to stagger to, that the illicit traffic In i ,-ory goes on. Many Zulu tribesmen, who lie in the deep grass or attack a lone elephant in their crescent moon formation, use the mystic cemetery source as a blind. HoweYer, not only do the natives believe in the Ivory Heaven, bur big game hunters are human enong-l1 to hope that some day they will discover an ivory hoard. The tusks which are of priceless value comprise the upper Incisor tooth grown to enormous proportions, the lower balf or three-quarters being solid Federal Officers' Oaths There are so many federal officers few are required to take any oatb at all. The Constitution states the form of the President's oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I wiD faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."' The Vice President takes a stmtlar oath, although not specifically required to by the Constitution. Senators and representative,. are required by Article VI to be "bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." No form of the oath ts given ; it customarily follows that foJ the President.-Cleveland · Plain Dealer. Tin Is Not Cheap References to tin through such common expressions as tin lizzles.. tinny voices and tin-horn sports have made tts name synon_ymous with cheapness. But It Is not cheap. In fact it is virtually a semi-precious metal. lt costs twice as much as aluminum, six times os much as copper. 13 times os much as lead and 37 times as much as steeL-colliPr's '"Pf'ldv |