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TRADEPAGT R, BY .5 POSSBLE N. R. A. Decision Did Not Close Door to All Regu- latory Power. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Transformation of many of the groups operating heretofore under codes into trade associations of a vol- untary character, which would receive certain benefits bestowed by the Fed- eral Government in return for the maintenance of certain standards of minimum wages or hours, is entirely within the constitutional rights of the Federal Government and the trade organfaations. The impression that the Federal ‘Government is without power to exer- cise a far-reaching influence on na- tional commerce or that industries and businesses which have been aided by codes are now powerless is not borne out by the words of the Suprerie Court in various decisions under the ‘very commerce clause which was the subject of recent judgment by the court in the Schechter case. In an opinion, 8 to 1, Tendered on March 12, 1933, in the Appalachian coal case, the Supreme. Court went farther in defining what could be done by voluntary action toward sta- bilizing market conditions than in any previous case. Co-operative Effect Upheld. In the light of the probiem created by the necessary dissolution of the old N. R. A, the following words of the Supreme Court take on new sig- nificance because they seem to apply to some of the situations now arising: “A co-operative enterprise, other- wise free from objection, which car- ries with it no monopolistic menace is not to be condemned as an undue restraint merely because it may effect a change in market conditions, where the change would be in mitigation of recognized evils and would not im- pair, but rather foster, fair competitive opportunities, “Volvatary action to rescue and preserve these opportunities, and thus aid in relieving a depressed industry and in reviving commerce by placing competition upon a sounder basis, may be more efficacious than an attempt to provide remedies through legal processes. « “The fact that the correction of may tend to stabilize a busi- ness, or to produce fairer price levels, does not mean that the abuses should @0 uncorrected or that co-operative endeavor to correct them necessarily oonstitutes an unreasonable restraint df trade. The intelligent conduct of eommerce through the acquisition of full information of all relevant facts may properly be sought by the co- dperation of all those engaged in trade, althought stabilization of trade id more reasonable prices may be the result. 5 Consonant With Interest. : “Putting an end to injurious prac- fices, and the consequent improvement @ the competitive position of a group | producers is not a less worthy aim d may be entirely consonant with public interest, where the group ust still meet effective contpetition a fair market and neither- seeks Bor is able to effect a domination of What the foregoing probably would rmit, for example, is a concerted ort by producers to eliminate price-. utting below cost or the use of the -leader in retail trade. It eould mean elimination by agreement of certain things that might be classed, as the court phrases it, as “recognized evils” And yet not interfere with competition. | If various trade groups believe that stabilization of prices and marketing conditions is an advantage to them | and deserves immunity from prosecu- | tion under the Sherman law or Clay- | ton act, there is nothing to prevent the Federal Government from enter- ing into agreements with such code groups permitting such stabilization, but, at the same time, requiring cer- tain standards of a social character to be maintained. A Right Still Exists. -The administration has had hun- dreds of plans submitted to it and, in due time, a policy will be evolved, but it would be unfortunate for any im- pression to grow that the Federal Gov- ernment has suddenly lost its power to reguiate commerce among the States simply because it has been deprived of the right to do so by coercion or by the fixing of penalties or by reaching into intrastate commerce over which 1t has no primary control at all. Whatever influence the Federal Government desires to exercise over national commerce can be very ex- tensively wielded if, first, the new laws that are to take the place of the N.R. A. are careful to set forth stand- ards and rules for the guidance of executive bureaus and, second, if the Federal Government, recognizing the emergency as a period of expediency and not a means of introducing per- manent changes, were to blend togeth- er all its constitutional functions in an effort to promote recovery irre- spective of “reform.” The Federal Congress has the right to approve compacts entered into among the States, whether the num- ber of States signing a compact is 2 or 48. In thoss compacts may be writ- ten social standards. But here, too, the Constitution does not permit arbi- trary or capricious action. It is gen- erally believed, however, that & min- imum wage law or a law regulating maximum hours would probably be upheld. The field of experimentation by law to achieve recovery has by no means been abolished by the Supreme Court's decision, * even though the formula used by the New Deal has been found illegal. Voluntary action by trade groups, interstate compacts and enlargement of the authority of the Federal Trade Commission are but # few of the “ways out” of the present constitutional dilemma. (Copyright, 1935.) _ PRINCESS UNDER KNIFE Thyroid Gland Operation Per- formed on King’s Daughter. LONDON, June 4 (#)—The princess royal, only daughter of King George Mary, underwent & thyrold What’s What | Behind News In Capital Roosevelt Conjures Up Own Strategy on N. R. A. Reaction. BY PAUL MALLON. N THE outer rim of the inner O circle are several influential * New Deal lawyers currently mumbling behind their hands against President Roosevelt's sweeping conception of the Supreme Court decision. They blame it on Mr. Richberg. They say he is acting as personal attorney general to the President in this matter, that he selected the lost case and now feels all is lost. What they want to do is to act as if nothing had happened, give the court decision the narrowest pos- sible legal interpretation and rush on. They object to having the whole New Deal thrown into a constitutional fight. These assertions are mot ezactly treasonous. The grumblers are ‘merely trying to get to the presi- dential ear. When they do they will find that Mr. Roosevelt fan- cies himself as deing something of a lawyer, that he made this deci- sion largely himself and intends to stick to it if he can get suficient public opinion behind him, ‘What the lawyers do not realize is that there is more than law in- volved in the issue. Mr. Roosevelt is turning the fight from the New Deal itself to the right to have a New Deal. Agreed From Start. One of the justices of the Supreme Court has confided to a friend that there was never any important dif- ference of N. R. A. opinion among his associates from the start. They were unanimous in their viewpoint from the beginning of their discus- sion in chambers. There is nothing in the story now | going around on the inside here that | a majority of the court had great diffi- culty persuading the minority to joln witn it in order to avoid a split de- cision on such an important issue. The fact is the court spent less time composing its opinion in this case (flve weeks) than it ordinarily does on important cases (average time siz weeks). ‘The time element alone is sufficient proof that there could not possibly have been any important disagree- ment among the justices. The trilumphal re-entry of Gen. Johnson into Washington was not as triumphal as advertised. It appears that the White House heard about its private invitation to the general from newspaper men al- most & sabn &s the general yegeived Apparently there is & leak in the general’s organization. His staff is not so huge as to leave any doubt in the mind of the administrajion as to the identity of the person who let out the news. Just One of Many. ! That would not have made much difference had not the impression been conveyed generally that Messrs. Roose- velt and Richberg were so confused they were recalling the general they had exiled in order to get straightened | out. This press interpretation was too much for the White House, It| immediately made the point clear that the general was one of dozens of persons called into consultation. One New Deal lawyer has already been quietly dropped by the N. R. A.| because he gave oui a proposed mb-l stitute N, R. A, bill. It appears that the bill included only his own idea of what the President should do, but his official standing conveyed the erroneous ' impression that such a measure was cfficially under con- sideration. His superiors in N. R. A, thought that he overstepped himself and invited him to step out. The subsurface moves for currency stabilization are moving forward slightly again. A recognized authority of the New Deal recently asserted that contacts should be established among the principal countries on an informal basis shortly with a view to reaching an international currency stabilization agreement before a general confer- ence is attempted. His off-the-record assertion has now been transmitted unofficially to the capitals of Europe. ‘That was the purpose of it. Ask for Invitation. The official view here is that the first official approach should come from abroad, and our officials are try- ing to inspire such an approach. They cannot expect much success | Posi until the outcome of France’s existing gold predicament is determined. The White House has asked the Labor Department to compile all reports on wage-cutting and hour changes. This data will be used publicly to justify the administra~ tion stand. Unless employers want to help the New Deal get the N. R. A. back on its feet, they had detter delay wage-cutting and hour ez- tension. ‘The Republicans have dug up and are to use a Mr. Roosevelt made when he was Gover- nor of New York, deploring the growth of Federal power. (Copyright. 1035.) JAILED FOR LOGIC Indian Forges Judge's lh'no, but THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 4 1935. TOWARD PASSAGE Senate Forced to Yield to House Conferees—Total Is $40,548,000. BY J. A. O'LEARY. A $40,548,000 District appropriation bill for the year July 1, with the Federal share remaining at the present basic figure of $5,700,000, is heading toward final passage fol- lowing an agreement late yesterday in which the Senate conferees again had to give way to the House on most major questions. The Senate had voted for a school building program, a substantial addi- tion to the police force and essential public health and hospital amend- ments, which raised the total of the bill six weeks ago to $42,785,000. And, recognizing the plea of local citizens for a return to a more equitable pay- ment by the United States toward the expenses of its Capital, the Senate also had raised the Federal lump sum to $8,317,500 to meet the greater part of these added improvements. In conference, however, history re- peated itself. The House conferees insisted it would have to be the House figure on the Federal payment, and the Senate group, having kept the bill in conference for more than a month, once more had to yleld late yesterday on this issue, as they have had to do in all but a few instances since the lump sum practice began more than a decade ago. Senate Loses Increase. The Senate also lost a large part of the $3,452,215 it had added to the House bill for municipal improve- ments, but this was inevitable, since $2,617,500 of those improvements were to have been met by the larger lump sum. With the lump sum increase lost, the District would have been ‘*in no position to finance the Senate amendments that were abandoned. ‘While the District’s obligations for the coming year as the appropriation bill now stands may run slightly above anticipated revenue collections, Dis-. trict Auditor D. J. Donovan expressed the belief today the variation would not be sufficient to affect the present tax rate. When the budget was submitted to Congress in January, totaling $40,- 374,822, it was estimated that if the Federal share remained at $5,700,000 District revenues would come within $300 of meeting the remainder of the total. In other words, the city would bhave had substantially a balanced budget. Since that time, deficiencies and supplemental items for the re- mainder of the current year have been submitted to Congress to the amount of $500,000. Of this amount, about $150,000 represents deficiencies that were not taken into account in esti- mating the balanced budget in Jan- uary. In addition, the new 1936 bill as it now stands exceeds the budget estimates by $173,178. It would ap- pear, therefore, that District obliga- tions for the coming year may run $323,000 above estimated revenue | receipts. Revenue May Fluctuate, Distriat officials did not regard this as a difference sufficient to cause any immediate concern, pointing out that actusl revenue collections may fluctu- ate above advance estimates. * When the final conference was held yesterday, after a recess of several | weeks, and the lump sum question was being discussed, Ilepresentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, is un- derstood to have suggested that if any change were proposed, and the House had a chance to vote on it, it would do away entirely with the Federal con- tribution. Besides the Federal share, there were two other main issues remaining to be settled when the conferees met yesterday—character education in the schools and much-needed increased | maintenance for Gallinger Hospital. The House yielded and left in the $87,540 for continuing character edu- cation for another year, but on Gal- linger Hospital the Senate did not fare 30 well, losing $146,242 of the in- crease in the Senate bill and retain- ing an increase of only $17,300. Three School Increases Retained. One of the major cuts ths con- ferees made was in school ouildings and grounds. The Senate had put in & program of 16 projecis, but lost 13 of them in conference. The three Senate increases retained were: For completing and improving the grounds of Woodrow Wilson High School, $70,000; ior improvements at Armstrong High School, $70,000, and for purchase of additional ind at Phelps Vocational School, $55,000. Four other building and ground items in the original House bill remain, namely: For an eight-room buiiding on the old John F. Cook site, $110,- 000; an addition to the Eliot Junior High School, 10 class rooms and gym- nasium, $175,000; eight-room addi- tion to Randall Junior High, $100,000, and beginning an addition to Ana- costia Junior High, for senior high purposes, $250,000. The origina: House bill allowed only $635,000 for these last-mentioned items. The Senate program would have raised the build- ing program to $2,250,000. The con- ference agreement leaves $830,00 for buildings and grounds. The Police Department will get 35° additional policemen, a compromise. The House bill contained no increase, 'nu; the Senate voted for 141 new lons. . The Senate lost most of the increase it had made for the Health Depart- ment to broaden thé program of pre- vention of disease, For Heaith De- partment salaries an increase of $61,240 was eliminated, while in- creases aggregating about $17,000 were allowed for contagious disease work, clinics and school hygiene. Two Amendments Lest, 0.G.BILL HEADED | January recommendations of the Budget Bureau. The library increases were: For personal services, $9,680; for miscellaneous expenses, $10,000, and for maintenance of the new George- town branch, $2,625. ‘The library amendments were pre- sented to the Senate Committee two months ago by Dr. George F. Bower- man, librarian. Part of the personal service amendment makes provision for the position of chief of the music division, which heretofore was made possible by privaté subscription. 3 ‘There are three legislative provi which the House conferees will fake back to the House for further action, where it is expected they will be adopted with amendments. One of these is the limitation de- signed to have the District's printing done at the Government Printing Of- fice. It will be revised to preserve the printing activities at the District Re- formatory and to allow the continued use of duplicating machinery at the District Building. Tuition Still Is Issue. Another 1s.the question of admitting free non-resident pupils to the public schools. The House sought to prevent any further non-resident enrollments without tujtion. The Senate struek that out and provided that officers and men of the military services and Government employes could send their children to District schools ‘without | tuition. It is expected this will be | accepted with minor changes. The third legisiative clause relates | to travel allowances for consultants in | the schools and goes back to the House tarl:nmlemh vote because it is in new 3 The measure also retains the pro- viso to prevent the Utilities Commis- | sion from ordering installation of me- ters on taxicabs, but also is intended | to require the commission to make the rates and sones for taxicabs uni- form. lll!‘.l Refleets Salary Hikes. While the total of the bill is sub- stantially higher than appropriations for the current year, s large part of for current year passed session it amounted to $36,584,677, but Congress later restored the second 5 per cent of the pay cut in the inde- pendent offices act, which brought current District appropriations up to $38,097,524.94, and two months ago the last § per cent of the pay cut was restored, bringing the total of current expenditures still nearer to the total of the bill for next year. There are also deficiency items pending in Con- gress now for the current fiscal year. Among the important Senate amend- ments retained in conference was the $50,000 increase for assessment and permit sewer construction, making $200,000 available for that purpose. This type of sewer work is essential to new housing developments. Under the heading of public wel- fare, the Senate succeeded in obtain- ing compromises on increases for fighting tuberculosis and other hos- pital activities. The final results on public welfare are: For personal services, Weifare Board, a $2,850 increase; maintenance at District Jail,_$1,500 increase; per- sonal services at the Reformatory, $17,760 increase; for maintenance at the Reformatory, s $10,000 Senate amendment was lost; the House agreed to make immediately n:!hbh the Under the gasoline tax paving fund, | LT of $36.500, an which is available only for street and bfidge projects, the Senate conferees lost two amendments. One was the $125,000 which would have allowed the city to buy materials and use emergency relief workers on street provements. The other was the $15,000 to draw plans for a new For personal services at the Tuber- culosis Hospital, the House yielded on a Senate increase of $8,900; for per- sonal services at the 'y 2 - promise figure of $77,410 was inserted, an increase of about $12,000; for sup- plies at the sanatorium, & compromise on $67,000, an increase of $32,000, and for furniture at the same institu- tion, s $10,000 increase. - . 1FLOOD DEAD REACH - i $238,250, which the House had elimi- nated from the budget. A group of city officials, headed by Auditor D. J. Donovan, conferred yes- terday with the Senate and House managers on the need for additional money to enable the District incin- erators to dispose of the commercial and apartment house refuse, recently banned from open dumps in nearby Virginia. It was not possible under the rules for the conferees to go above the figures that were already in the bill, but Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, chairman of the District Subcommittee on Appro- priations, pointed out there will be another deficiency bill before Con- gress adjourns. It could be consid- ered when that bill comes up. The Fire Department was fortunate in conference. The House agreed to leave In the following Senate amend- ments: For house and furnishings for 8 new truck company on District- owned land at Fourteenth street and Rhode Tsland avenue northeast, $77,- 241; for new apparatus, $34,500, in- stead of $18,500, and for purchase of hose, an increase of $14,500. For the Community Center Depart~ ment of the schoois, a comproniise of voted for $44,811, and the Senate for $75,000. $420,950 for Scheol Repairs. For repairs to school buildings, the Senate figure of $420,950, an increase of $10,000, was approved. The Sen- ate, however, lost & $15,000 amend- ment to re-equip Shaw Junior: High. School. Several small increases were allowed for special school purposes. Other small Senate items on which the House yielded were: Plumbing division, $2,000 increase; Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, $2,500 in- crease; office of weights and meas- ures, $8,200 increase; municipal architect’s office, $1,800 increase. The Senate, however, had to yield to the House by dropping s/ $25,000 increase for personnel in the Public Utilities Commission, Senate increases of $11,520 for personmel and $2,500 for expenses in Recorder of Deeds Office were re- tained. The item for rent for that office was placed at a compromise figure of $12,600. OIL FIRM RAISES PAY Tennessee Standard Oil Unit An- nounces Wage Boost. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, June 4 {P).—An increase in the wage or sal- ary of every employe of the Ten- nessee division of the Standard Oil Co. of Loulsiana receiving $5,000 or less & year was announced yesterday following & meeting of division offi- clals, effective as of June 1. The increase partially restored the employes’ wage cut effected in July, 1932, when they were shifted from a six to a five day week, with a propor- tionate reduction in pay. This was the only cut ordered during the course of the depression. . DIES OF ENCEPHALITIS CHICAGO, June 4 (#).—Shirley Strattan, 11, who developed enceph- covering from measles last week, died yesterday in suburban Evanston Hos- pital after 36 hours in the “iron Jung,” respirator. Shirley was placed in the % Considers private bills. ‘Military Committee congiders T. V. A. amendments. TOMORROW. Oontinues debate on public utility holding company bill. ‘Commerce $50,000 was allowed. The House had | alitis, or sleeping sickness, while re- | g 7828000 SOUGHT |POWER LINES JAM Jpper: A bridal party in Ottawa, Kans., forced tc travel by boat for the ceremony because of the recent heavy floods. —Wide World Photo. Lower: Man marooned at a mill in Arapahoe, Nebr., for two days as result of the Republican River flood 1s shown crawling along a cable that was stretched from the mill to shore. —A. P. Wirephoto. 500 IN. MIDWEST, VALLEY OF MEXICO (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) Booneville, Jefferson City, Chillicothe, 8t. Charles and Tuscumbia. At Pat- tonsburg, 17,000 acres of land were under water. The Missouri River at Booneville was 5 feet above flood stage, its high- est mark since 1902. The Grand River was 11 feet above flood stage at Chillicothe. Highway traffic in all three States was badly disrupted. Trains were far behind schedule in many instances. Some railroads were using rails of their competitors to avcid flood see- tions. The Rock Island has no service west, of McFarland, Kans,, on its Den- ver line. Busses running from Kansas City to Denver have been rerouted through Omaha. . CREST HITS MANHATTAN. Worst Inundation in Histery Maroons Some Residents. MANHATTAN, Kans., June 4 (#).— The worst flood in Manhattan's his- tory, exceeding that of 1903, had the town in its grip this morning. | Water from the Blue and the Kaw | surrounded approximately a third of | the houses in this city of 10,000. | Refugees were camped in the city park. All the city’s main business dis- | trict was in the flooded area. The Kansas State College campus, | on high ground in the northwest sec- | | tion of town, was safely out of the iflmd zone. Eight hundred delegates | to & State 4-H round-up were quar- | tered there. All drinking water is being boiled. At the State I. O. O. F. Home, about 5 miles west of town, 95 men, 30 women and 46 children are ma- rooned on the second floor. water is being taken them by boat. The food supply is adequate and the home building is a substantial brick structure and in no danger. | _The crest of the flood came in un- expectedly early today. Soldiers from Fort Riley aided in rescue work, tak- ing some people in the lower part of fown off the roofs of small homes, RED CROSS THANKED. Gov. Cochran Expresses Appreciation for Airplane Aid. Describing the flood in Nebraska as the worst ever to strike his State, Gov. Roy L. Cochran yesterday called on Rear Admiral Carv T. Grayson, chairman of the American Red Cross, to express his appreciation for the aid given the disaster-stricken Ne- braskans by the Red Cross. Gov. Cochran toid Admiral Gray- son all possible was being donc for the sufferers and thanked him for rushing aid by airplane as soon as the news reached national headquar- ters. He said rain is still faling in the State and that new rises iu the swollen rivers are expected. et ROOSEVELT NOMINATES NEARBY POSTMASTERS G. L. Edmunds Named for Rock- ville—Several Named in Virginia. George L. Edmunds, a Democrat, to- cay was nominated by President WOMAN’S INFATUATION WITH MINISTER AIRED Two With Husband Join in Pray- ers Prior to Start of Alien- ation Suit. CAMDEN, . J., June 4—How she prayed that her infatustion with a ¢l would be destroyed—with 10 SURVEY NATION elief Application Maps-10-Year Job—Fund * Would Last One Year. mapping the United States and its possessions. The Geological Survey, a divisk department, applied for $7,828,- ‘work-relief ioney to the venture one in conformity with its requirements. Treasury Asks $964,000. ‘The Geological Survey’s proposal was the largest in a batch of applications, totaling $12,776,200, announced by the Applications Division. ‘The Treasury requested $964,000 for & study of Federal tax collections and an analysis of State and local debts from 1930 to 1935. Reduction of tax conflicts between the Federal and | State Governments was described as one aim. A request for $535,000 to survey and map grazing lands in Far-Western States was received from the Interior Department, and the Navy Depart- ment asked $1,544,200 for 21 base n - projects in California, A flood-control project.in Louisiana, estimated to cost $1,825,000, was pro- posed by the War Department. President Roosevelt’s Allotment Ad- visory Committee, at its fourth meet- ing yesterday, decided that projects proposed from now on must involve a “lowering of the ratio of material costs to labor costs.” 21 Projects Recommended. It was explained that some of the | $1,260,000,000 of proposals which the | committee already has approved will | require comparatively high outlays for | materials and equipment, bringing | their cost per person employed above the $1,100 average that the President has to spend. At the conclusion of its session the | committee announced it had recom- | mended only 21 projects, totaling $13,629,700, and that these and other recommendations in the future would be kept secret until Mr. Roosevelt had an opportunity to pass upon them. The White House has given final approval to $683,622,500 of projects so far. ‘The committee considered a sugges- tion that the present age limit for members of the Civilian Conservation Corps—18 to 28 years—be raised and that more single men be enrolled. | Robert Fechner, director of the C. C. C, told the group it would be difficult to enlist 300,000 additional recruits frem relief families, as planned, unless the enlistment re- quirements were modified. —_— REVISED CONSTITUTION URGED BY LEGISLATOR Representative Young of Cleve- | land Says Change Should Be Made to Fit Times. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, June 4.—Representa- tive Stephen M. Young, Democrat, of | Cleveland, said last night in an ad- dress the Constitution of the United States should be revised as a result of the Supreme Court's decision on the | N.R. A. His address was broadcast by a local station. Amendments should be adopted “to provide a Constitution to fit 1935 and this great industrial period. Per- sonally, I favor a Constitutional Con- vention,” said Young. ‘The National Recovery Administra- tion could be revised, he said, to con- form to the Supreme Court’s deci- sion. “You may depend on it” Young continued, “we shall profit by the ex- perience of two years. We shall re- tain for industry all beneficial fea- tures of the national industrial recov- ery act. We will not return to a do- nothing policy and permit chiselers, racketeers and greedy profiteers to re- vert to their practices.” “Three O'Clock in the Morning.” In spite of the comparatively small amount of traffic between the hours of 1and 6 am,, a great many crashes occur. Usually they are ‘the bad ones, too. If you don't believe it ask your police—or even your milkman. ‘There are reasons, of course. The cars are out they fall to watch inter- sections; or they are careless in ob- serving light changes or boulevard stops. Now when two drivers ap- CHEVY CHASE DAKS Parks Chief Sees Situation Becoming Worse as Trees Grow. ' Willow oak trees, planted recently to beautify Chevy Chase Circle at Con~ necticut avenue and the District line, now are being crowded by power cables and other wires attached to street car poles at the east and west sides of the circle, and the condition promises to become increasingly worse. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, revealed this fact today after an inspection by landscape architects of the National Park Service, Interior t. The willow oaks are on the rim of the circle and the power lines follow the street car lines. Witfle the trees are not being serl- ously hampered just- now, the park chief sees the condition becoming seri- ously menacing as they grow taller and are impeded by the heavy cables. Some think that the powerful electric wires will have an effect upon them, particularly in times of storm, when the branches of the trees will be blown against the cables and electricity may leak out, damaging them. Mr. Finnan said that in about two years the con- dition will become bad. The Public Utilities Commission has under consideration a plan whereby street cars out Connecticut avenue may be eliminated and busses substi- tuted along that heavily traveled high- way. If this occurs then the trolley poles, with their accompanying cables and wires, would come down, officials said. This would be a solution of the problem. Officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co., said today that they have “no wires across Chevy Chase Circle.” Authorities of the Capital Transit Co. conceded that they have two power cables on the east side of the circle, attached to the trolley poles, and one cable on the west side, also attached to poles. All three cables, they said, supply power to the street cars that operate out to Chevy Chase Lake. Mr. Finnan said today that he pro- poses to negotiate with the owners of the cables to see if they can be re- moved. The contractor is now finishing up work on the fountain in Chevy Chase Circle and Mr. Finnan explained today that some sandstone is being replaced. ~ As soon as the Federal Guvernment officially accepts the work, he said, the park authorities will turn on the fountain, . —_— N.R. A. EDICT KEEPS KENNEDY AT POST Securities Commission Chief De- cides to Stay Until Situa- tion Is Clarified. By the Associated Press. The Supreme Court's invalidation of N. R. A. has led Chairman Joseph P. Commission to defer his tentative plans for re- signing soon. Kennedy had nothing to say today on the matter, but associates asserted the chairman believed the general sit- uation was too indecisive for him to make any plans for leaving. He was said to have decided tentatively on a further stay of six months or a year. Although President Roosevelt has contended that the N. R. A. decision, oy implication, raised doubts of the constitutionality of the securities act and the securities and exchange act, which the commission administers, commission members th lves have expressed no worry that their work | would not survive court tests. But Kennedy was represented as | feeling that retirement would not be | & suitable move until the situation is more settled. S Commission experts express the be- lief that N. R. A. constitutional dif= | ficulties do not touch the Securities Commission directly. They hold that the Government has extensive power to govern what goes in the mails or crosses State lines, and that there are few security operations which do not involve interstate movement. There is an expectation, however, | that the N. R. A. decision may accel- | erate test cases on some parts of the law—for example, as to whether a cor- poration official who makes money in security operations in the shares of his corporation must return such profit to the corporation. The power of the commission to re- quire publication of salaries and some other data also may be questioned. More than a hundred corporations al- ready have asked that such informa- tion be kept confidential. T. V. A. LEGISLATION SNAGGED IN HOUSE Byrns Tries to Break Jam, but Committeemen Are A Adamant. By the Associated Press. House leaders today virtually abane doned any hopes of getting the Mili« tary Committee to approve the Ten- nessee Valley Authority amendments that have been lying on the commit~ tee table 10 days. Speaker Byrns disclosed that he had been doing a bit of private campaign- ing for the legislation, which swept through the Senate easily, but he said committee members had informed him of an apparently unbreakable impasse. “Personally, I'd like to see some biil passed,” he said. “I've been doing what I can to get T. V. A. off the table, and I hope if that can’t be done- we can get up some sort of bill will meet general approval.” Failure to obtain House action the amendments will not wholly g i ¥ & newsman asked. “I did not,” he repl