Show TV TVA IVA A DECISION STILL WAITS IN HIGH COURT Supreme Bench Will Pass Pass' on Validity of Security Act ct By Associated Press WASHINGTON V Feb 3 3 The supreme court concluded delivering opinions today without passing on the constitutionality constitutionality constitutionality of TV TVA A. A That made I next Monday the earliest possible possible possible pos pos- sible date for delivering the long-awaited long decision I The court in an hour and a half session before hearing arguments on other matters did agree to pass on the constitutionality of another new deal law the law the securities act In a decision having International ramifications the tho supreme court ruled that federal courts have jurisdiction jur- jur to try a damage suit filed I by jy a subject s of the Netherlands for Injuries alleged to have been suffered suffered suf suf- while a seaman on a Norwegian Norwegian Norwegian gian vessel now owned by a Japanese Japanese Jap- Jap anese inese corporation Reverses Circuit Court By a unanimous vote the court in an opinion by Chief Justice Hughes reversed the action of the ninth circuit court of appeals and the federal district court for WashIngton WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington state in dismissing the suit Further proceedings will be necessary necessary necessary sary in lower courts Van der now a r resident of Portland Ore filed the suit He contended he was yas injured by falling faIling down a hatchway on a vessel owned by B. B Nielsen Co of Haude- Haude sund Norway during a trip round p from Portland to the Orient in 1922 Rule on The supreme court ruled that kid kid- naping of an officer to avoid arrest constitutes a violation of the Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- ber bergh h law The Tho ruling was on an fin appeal by Arthur Gooch sentenced to die for ass assisting sting in two police officers at Paris Texas and transporting transporting transporting trans trans- porting th them m into Oklahoma I IThe The unanimous opinion delivered I by Justice was the first the tho high tribunal has handed down I concerning the Lindbergh law In an opinion further clarifying the relationship between the federal and state governments the supreme court held that Maryland may tax taC preferred stock of the Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more National bank owned by the Reconstruction Finance corporation The unanimous decision applicable ble bie in all states was delivered by Justice Cardozo Maryland's highest tribunal the court of appeals had held the stock was subject to state X 7 State tax commissi t contended to the li supreme ie co court that court that rt-that that the R. R F. F C. C did not perform an essential governmental function and hence its of stock should be taxed It crt cannot be denied they said that the mere lending of money to industry has heretofore been exclusively ex ex- elusively a n private ate and not a public function much less a function of the federal government Asserting that no state may tax tho property or instrumentalities of the United States the bank con- con Continued d on Page Two Column Three j DECISION ON TVA TV A AGAIN DELAYED Continued from P Par g Ont One tended the R. R F. F C is Js an arm or department of at the federal government government government govern govern- ment and Is an nn appropriate instrumentality Instrumentality mentality to acquire property for lor forand forand lorand and on behalf of ot the tho federal govern government ment As a friend of ot the cou court the R. R F. F C. C had contended In the absence of ot consent by congress property acquired and held by jy the Reconstruction Finance corporation cor- cor a a. corporate instrumental instrumental- ity ty of at the tho United States in the per per- of ot governmental government J tunc- tunc lons is not subject to state taxa taXa- i tion I The stock was purchased by the R. R F. F C. C to aid in establishing the tho bank pursuant t to a plan of reorganization reorganization reorganization of the Baltimore Trust company which did not resume business after tho 1033 1933 bank bank holiday |