Evening star., 1935-04-09
COUNCIL. APPROVES
n. R. A. EXTENSION
Senate Finance Committee
Hears Commerce Unit
Voice Code Views.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Extension of the N. r. A. with some
notifications was recommended TO
the Senate Finance Committee today
by the Business Planning and Ad-
visory Council of the Commerce De-
partment.
The councils views were presented
to the committee by Henry P. Ken
dali, chairman, a cotton manufac-
turer.
He recommended that the President
should have authority to cancel out
right an ertire code, but no power to
modify codes except with the consent
OF the industry.
Where a code was cancelled, the
President would have authority to i'm
pose a limited code governing hours
and wages.
With developments pointing toward
an early Supreme Court test of
N. r. AS constitutionality, the Sen
ate yesterday refused to consider the
Black 30-hour week bill
Couzens Leads Opposition.
Senator Couzens, Republican. of
Michigan, who voted for the 30-hour
week two years ago. led the opposition
to taking up the measure with the as
sertion the Senate should wait for
consideration of legislation to extend
the recovery law.
The bills author, Senator Black,
Democrat, of Alabama, replied that
there should be law limiting the
work week to 80 hours, Regardless of
r1rLo 1ornonnd RI N Put nYlU
20 Senators-6 Republicans, 13 DEM
ocratS and La Toilette, the lone Pro-
gressive-voted with him. Fifty-six
voted against the proposal to consider
the bill.
Several of those who voted against
Black-Senator Barkley, Democrat, of
Kentucky, and McKellar, Democrat,
Of Tennessee, among them-explained
their ballots were not to be interpreted
as vote against the bill itself.
Meanwhile, an appeal was filed In
the Supreme Court in the Schechter
poultry case. 1t is this case which the
Government hopes will furnish the
basis for test of N. r. AS constitu-
tionalty at this term of court.
Afterward, the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals asked the high court for
instructions in an effort to speed up q
decision on N. r. A.
In a case involving the oil code, the
Circuit Court pointed out that the
recovery act, unless extended, eX-
pires June Is. 1t asked the Supreme
Court for the answers to several ques-
tions. Among them were whether the
standards for the control of produc-
ton of petroleum are sufficiently de.
fined in the recovery act.
The ninth circuit said it had
adopted this procedure to avoid the
delay which would attend the usual
legal routine.
Theater Revolt Threatened.
Independent moving picture theater
owners openly warned the Senate
Finance Committee yesterday they
would revolt against the recovery Law
unless the code for the movie in
dustry was revised to break the domi-
nant power they said it gives the big
film producers.
Theirs was the story which has
been dinned into the committees ears
for days-oppression by the majority
OF the industry. But the committee
got a fresh complaint from a New
York inventor-that N. r. A. permit
ted an old industry to throttle a small,
new one.
An inventor, Crosby Field, testified
that the ice industry, intrenched be-
hind the N. r. A. code, was blocking
development of new and better way
to make Ice. Public response to the
invention was most favorable" he
said, but the established ice COM
panies had fought it through "organ-
lied terrorism on the part Of the ice
code authorities"