100 should be given control over commercial aviation, says New York mayor. Washington, D.C., April 12. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, of New York City, advocated enactment of the McCarran Bill to transfer control over commercial aviation from the Department of Commerce to the Interstate Commerce Commission, as he appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee today. Here we see Mayor La Guardia (center) with Senator Harry S. Truman, (left) chairman of the Committee; and Capt. David L. Benoke, President of the Airline Pilots Association, 4/12/1937