Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1929, Page 23

NEW YORK SHIPPERS PROTEST RATE RULE I. C. C. Asked to Change Ver- dict so Vessels May Com- pete With Railways. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 2.—Modifica- tion of three of the findings of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Southwestern rate cases, decided some months ago, is asked for in a brief which was to be filed with the com- mission today by the Merchants' Asso- ciation and the Shippers’ Conference on the ground that it will affect not only coastal steamship lines and North Atlantic ports, but Eastern merchants as well. ‘The brief, which is written by Wil- liam H. Chandler, manager of the Mer- chants’ Traffic Bureau, regulated steamship lines now plying between the Southwest and New York and other North Atlantic ports can- not continue to prosper unless the orders are modified. It further holds, under the commission’s findings, the rates from North Atlantic ports and Atlantic seaboard territory to gulf ports and to the Southwest have been tied up so that no change can be made awithout the consent of all-rail lines, irrespective of territory or origin. or destination and that the effect will be to deprive Eastern merchants of their business in the Southwest. Seclion 500 Cited. Section 500 of the transportation Ret, which imposes on the commission the duty of fostering water as well as rail transportation, is cited in support of the contentions. transportation cannot be fostered if control of rates, which means, as every- knows, control of the business of ter carriers, is placed in the hands of the railroads.” In seeking a modification of finding 12, relating to non-concurring tariffs, the brief says: “There has always been hostility on the part of rail lines toward water contends that | competitors. If the commission throws control of the ocean and rail rates in the hands of the competitors of the ocean lines only one result can follow. This matter of publication is of vital importance to the ocean and rail routes and the Eastern shippers. These tariffs have been in effect for many years. If they are illegal now they were illegal lv}\:‘hen the commission first accepted em.” Hamstrung by Red Tape. The brief adds that it is inconceiv- able how ocean lines serving North At- lantic ports can hope to secure traffic in competition with the unregulated lines “if they are hamstrung by the red tape method of changing rates through conferences among different railroad committees, which as the rec- ord shows is nothing but a short pro- cedure.” The further contention is made that the whole competitive relationship be- | tween North Atlantic_seaboard terri- | tory and the Central West will be dis- | rupted if the orders of the commission | are made effective. In respect to the proposal to apply a railroad mileage scale to ocean rates, disregarding competition of lines not subject to the commission’s jurisdiction and the increase in port<to-port rates, the brief says: “The increase in rates suggested by the commission from North Atlantic to | Gulf ports is without any justification | except possibly that to eonform with a mileage scale laid down for transporta- tion under substantially different condi- tions, and the commission should elimi- nate from its finding any necessity for increasing the port-to-port rates or any approval of such increases, “Unregulated steamship lines are making rates lower than those carried by_the regulated lines for the purpose WATCH NDC\DCK REPAIRING ClocksCa ed For- De Guaranteed Delivered - 615-15™ Stveel MAIN 7108 | Next bo Keithis Ladies! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BRIDE OF VIOLINIST. Miss Manheim and Toscha Seidel United in Matrimony. NEW YORK, January 2 (#).—Miss Estelle Manheim, daughter of Mrs. Henry Manheim of San Francisco, was married last night to Toscha Seidel, violinist. The ceremony, which was performed by Dr. Abraham L. Feinberg, was at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mischa Elman. The bride was attended by her cousin, Miss Rose Etta Kahn of 8an Francisco. After a wedding trip to Bermuda Mr. and Mrs. Seidel will live in Pleasant- ville, N. Y. of securing the business. If the sub- stantially increased rates prescribed by the commission from North Atlantic to Gulf ports are required to be main- tained by the regulated lines under the penalty of substantially decreasing rates to interior Texas points, if the port rates are not maintained, it can have no other effect than to deprive the regulated lines of a substantial part, if not all, of their port-to-port traffic.” City in Mexico Reports 10,000 Cases Within Its Boundaries. MEXICO CITY, January 2 (#).—A Monterrey dispatch to El Universal to- day said that an alarming spread of grippe had prompted the city and sani- tary authorities to take extreme meas- ures to prevent further ravages, includ- ing the placing of a ban on handshak- ing, poster announcing the ban on handshaking and other preventative measures were pasted up throughout the city. Ten thousand cases of grippe have been reported in Monterrey alone. Dinner to Honor Knight. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., January 2—Al- exandria Post, No. 24, American Legion, will give a dinner at the George Mason Hotel Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock in honor of Postmaster F. Clinton Knight, past department commander of the American Legion in Virginia. e wmen. | DANDRUFF HOUSATONIC, Mass. (#).—Sundry more or less useful domestic animals, AN\) FALLING HAIR including a pig, were offered for prizes P 3 at a card party here. 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