Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 20

B4 - " RAIL CHIEFS 0.K. * 4-SYSTEM MERGER Details Withheld Until Plan oH; Eastern Executives Reaches I. C. C. w ni of u By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 2 —Executives ©f leading Fastern railroads vesterday announced their agreement on details & of a plan for merging lines in this territory into four major systems. The proposal_will be submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, whose approval is necessary before it €an become effective. Ending eight years of negitiation, the presidents of Pennsylvania, New York | Central, Baltimore & Ohlo and Chesa- peake ‘& Ohlo-Nickel Plate group | moothed out troublesome points which had been standing in the way of ale final decision on the plan announced |t at_the White House last December v It was said the settlements reached |s t become public until the doc- | as in the commission's hands. |t v 3t would umen Trackage Rights Problem. | One of the problems had been wheth er Pennsylvania should have trackag rights over the Nickel Plate along the South Shore of Lake Erie, New York Central being the objector to such an Arrangement Neither was it announced whether the diffculties were solved without the ald of the arbitrators appointed last, Winter. but it was believed that the exccutives had to come to their set-| tlement without such aid | The general consolidation plan, as outlined in the Winter. provided for the following gToupings ! To the New York Central—Lacka- | wanna and direct connection with the | Virginian at_tidewater { To the Pennsylvania—Wabash, the Detroit. Toledo & Ironton and Norfolk | & Western To the Baltimore & Ohio—Ann Ar- bor. gReading. Central of New Jereey.| Wesfbrn Maryland, the Buffalo. Roch- ester & Pittsburgh, Buffalo & Susque- hanna. Lehigh & Hudson River and Chicago & Alton. | To the Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate—Erie. Bessemer & Lake Erie, Pere Marquette, Wheeling & Lake Erie. Chi- cago & Eastern Illinois and Lehigh Valley. giving the Pennsylvania certain trackage rights over the Lehigh. No disposition was made of the Vir- ginian. Properties Acquired. ‘The four principal roads have already acquired control, either directly or indi- rectly. of most of the properties neces- sary to ccmplete the proposed redistri- bution. Many financial details must &till be settled, including adjustments to mirer stockholders of the yarious roads to be merged E By_uniting into four strong systems the Fastern railroads have long ccn- tended that substantial operating econ- | omies could be effected and that the rail transportation service could be im- proved. They nevertheless found it difficult to reach an agreement on how | the smaller lines should be allocated and it was this point that caused most | of the delay. : Under the new arrangement, Penn- evlvania's mileage would be about 16,- 900. New York Central's 13,300, C. & O.- Nickel Plate's 12,900 and Baitimore & ©Ohio’s 11 Yest conference. the second | was attended by Patrick | Crowley, president: A. H. Harris, chair- man of the Pinance Committee, and Clyde Brown, ccunsel of the New York Central Railroad: Dzniel Willard, pres- ident. and George Shriver. executive vice president of the Baltimore & Ohio: J. J. Bernet. president of the Chesa- | peake & Ohio-Nickel Plate System: W. W. Atterbury. president, snd other offi- cials of the Pennsylvania. PUTURE OF VIRGINIAN. Joint Operation by Pennsylvania and C. & O. Indicated. By the Associated Press. Joint operation by the Pennsylvania and Chesapeake & Ohio was indicated | in railroad circles here last night as the probable disposition of the Virginian | Railway under the consolidation plan of | Eastern carriers. { Reports have been current for some time that this would be the disposition ! of the carrier reaching from the heart | of the West Virginia coal fields to the port at Norfolk | Tt was said here that no consolida- tion plan in the East could omit oper- | ation of the Virginian. RATE DECISION WATCHED. L. C. C. Verdict on Carriers' Plea Due in Two Weeks. A decision by the Interstate Com- merce Commission on the plea of the ¥ailroads for a 15 per cent freight rate increase is expected by October 17, as the commission today pursued its study of the transcript taken in the two- month hearing which ended Wednesday. Moving with speed. Chairman Brain- erd yesterday called the other 16 mem- bers of the commission into executive session for discussion of the matter and another conference was on today. That the commission members have divergent ideas as to what should be done was indicated in the closing days of the hearing. Several Decisions Possible. Commissioner Farrell during final | arguments for the railroads said he had | read daily abstracts of the testimony | and nowhere had he been able to find | the railroads had refuted statements of | shippers that an incrense would drive | freight to trucks and water lines. Oth- | er commissioners asked questions and made statements which led to the con- clusion they were in doubt as to what | should be done. | Several decisions are possible. Be- | sides a flat refusel or full granting of | the demand the commission may grant | part of the increase asked. It may | grant increases -on some classes of | freight and not on others and it may | act subject to congressional approval. | Another, Long Task Faced. Meanwhile. the commission faces the | prospect of entering on another lengthy | task as soon as the rate question is, disposed of. i The announcement in New York that the railroads had agreed on the four- | system consolidation plan that has been hanging fire since December means that when it is laid before the commission for actic). another series of hearings | will be h-'d at which every interest in- volved will get a chance to present their views. * 1 Assigned to 14th Brigade. Brig. Gen. John H. Hughes, recently | promoted, has been relievid from duty with the 18th Infantry at Fort Hamil- ton, N. Y. and assigned to the com- mand of the 14th Brigade, with station at_Fort Snelling, Minn - SLIP COVERS s cuentons. $13.50 Feather i linen and 5 straight Free samples. Subscribe Today It costs cnly about 14 cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best néwspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- 1 ng. Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. ~“Science Discovery of “Emotion Pilse” Announced.” Discovery of an “emotion pulse”—the ‘hronaxie of the vestibular nerve—is nnouncad in the Journal of the French Academy of Sciences. The vestibular nerve is associated vith the sense of equilibrium. The chro- axie of a nerve is the ratio between the strengen and minimum duration | f an electrical impulse which will stim- late it. In experiments reported by M. Georges Bourguignon it was shown that human beings appear to be divided into ply differentiat>d classes—those of low and those of high vestibular chro- naxie. The “lows” are highly emotional. The “highs” display little emotion. Bourguignon followed up his discov- ery among the insane. Working with a uporous class, he found the lowest ves- tibular chronaxie among them was 40 times that of the smallest and 22 times that of the greatest among the normal | person _tested. times the lowest and 60 times the high- The highest was 120 st among normals. There were varia- ions from day to day, an increase in estibular chronaxie ays being as- ociated with an increase in stupor. Among highly excitable maniacs the | elations were almost exactly the re- erse. The more they were excited the {1ower was the vestibular chronaxie. ‘Before the war the United States paid but little sttention to the export- ing of her coal. You’ll Want of the New THE EVENING MEDALS AE IEN Government Recognizes Sac- rifice of Yellow Fever Compaign Volunteers. With the forwarding of gold medals yesterday, the Government made full | recognition of the heroism of Walter | Reed and his associates in their war on yeljow fever, although 30 years have passed and at least five of the awards, including that of Reed himself, were posthumous. In carefully prepared peckages, | awards voted two years ago by Congress | were dispatched to survivors of Reed's volunteers and to the heirs of others. | _'They consisted of a gold medal with | the name of the recipient on one side | and the words ‘“conquest of yellow fever” on the back. Congress also awarded a number of the volunteers pefions of $125 a month. ] Other Names Honored. In addition to that of Maj. Reed, | the posthumous awards were for Maj | James Carroll, survived by his widow, | St. Petersburg. Fla.: Jesse W. Lazear's widow, Berkeley, Calif.: Edward Weath- | erwalk's widow, Pompton Lakes, N. J.: Warren G. Jernega widow, whose Lots House Pajamas —Pajamas to be smart must be gay — as these are—in broadcloth, new rayon silk prints, crepe, pengee. Sleeping p a - iamas with long sleeves; broad- cloth nelette. Regular and extra sizes, Falais Royal— Third Floor. cr flan- STAR, WASHINGTON, C., and Willlam H. Dean, present ad- dress unknown, born in Holland, Ohio, enlisted in Grand Rapids. Other medals went to Aristides Agra- monte, former professor in the Medi- cal School, University of Havana. who died recently; John H. rus, El N. Y.; John R. Bullard, Cuba; A. W. Covington, Cohocton, N. W. Forbes, Min; 3 John R. Kissinger, Huntington, Ind.; 'John J. Moran, Mexico City: Wil- ngeles; Charles G. or. R . Virginia; | Thomas M. England, Washington, D. C., and James Hildebrand, Atlanta. ‘Those who received pensions also were Hanann, Kissinger, Olsen, Sonn- tag, West, Hildebrand, Andrus, Coving- ton, Forbes, Folk, the widow of Pvt. Weatherwalks, Bul- lard. Agramonte, Cooke and Moran. | ‘The yellow fever war was carried ity of Havana. Through the courage D. . C., FRIDAY, Can Be Adopted. Becretary of Commerce Lamont to- of Reed and his helpers, who time after largely one “for legislative rather than time exposed themselves to bites, the Administrative action.” mosquito was proved to be the fever carrier. e Held to U. S. Grand Jury. COLUMBUS. Ohio. October 3 (#).— Edward F. Young, Samuel Aaron and Russell H. Journee, all of Wilmington, Advocated Control. anti-trust laws. AUTHORITYLACKING FOR COAL CONTROL ¢, Lamont Declares Legislation Needed Before Such Plan 1931. industry to the benefit of both op- erators and miners, The main feature of the Morrow plan covered the purchase of reserve coal lands by the Government as & means :‘r controlling unnecessary overproduc- lon, Working en Problem. Baying he did not believe the indus- try as & whole would subscribe to such a plan, Secretary Lamont added the opinfon that no plan as yet suggested would meet the situation. To that end, he said, the Commerce Department, in co-operation with Af.pfopfllu officials of the Government, is actively working on the problem. Meanwhile, department officials are watching with interest developments on another sugegstion for interstate con- | trol of the industry by the several pro. ducing States, including Pennsyivania, | | day expressed the opinion that the Fed- | West Virginia, Ohlo, Kentucky and Il- | eral Government was without authority to carry out a program of controlling production operations in the soft coal or any other industry. Advocating co-operation among op- on between 1900 and 1902 in the vicin- | érafors toward such an end, Sccretary | Lamont said the question seemed to be | linots, in which the Governors of these | States are said to be interested. 'SISTERS WATCH ASVTRAIN | KILLS GIRL AT ARDWICK | By Btaff Correspondent of The Btar. [ ARDWICK, Md., October 2.—As her | _He suggested the possibility of enact- ' two sisters looked on, Mildred Lytes, 16- | ment of legislation which would per- year-old colored girl of Ardwick, was ! mit the organization of operators to|run down and killed by a Pennsylvania control their own industry without in- | Railroad train near the signal light fringing on the basic principles of the | here last night. | The three girls were walking down | Dil, weie held 't thie UHIteR Biates mfio\'ernmznl regulation was suggested ' the tracks with their backs to the ap- grand jury here today on automobile theft charges after they wrecked a car alleged to have been stolen. To the Frenchman savings are as necessary as earnings. Secretary Lamont and Secretary of Labor Doak at & conference of coal op- e:atives here several months ago. was made by J. A. Morrow, president | of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., one of the | Constable Raymond Coomes, and Justice largest producers of soft coal in the of the Peace Louis Gundiing will con- coun It a8 & means of stabilizing th proaching train, which they believed to | be on another track. The sisters leaped to safety, but could not help Mildred. The accident was investigated by duct an inquest tonight. CATHOLE WONEN DRE vention of National Council. tomorrow in the Mayflower Hotel. Washington. She explained the tending as mere visitors. - o'clock. Sunday. will be conducted tomorow. Formal sessions will committees studying social, and religious problems relating family life. | tend “the committee meetings. The commjttee chairmen are: Education Committ del, Houston, girl: welfare GATES ARRIVE 100 Are Here for Annual Con- More than a hundred women today | constituted the advance guard of the annual convention of the National Council of Catholic Women, to convene | ing allowances of Colombian citizens Registration was conducted under the | direction of Mrs. Harry Surguy, presi- | 7" dent of the Catholic Big Sisters of | /0, tration list probably would exceed 500 shortly, with some 500 other women at- Dr. Anne N. Nicholson, Washington, Family Mrs. C. B. Men- Mrs, Wil- liam J. Holz, Omaha, parent-teacher as- sociations; Mrs. H, kima, Wash., adu! 3 J. Keyser, Milwaukee, religious educa- tion; Mrs. M. J. O'Fallon, Denver, fm- migration; Mrs. George U. Mclntyre, Chic industrial problems; Miss An- na Dill Gamble, York, Pa., representa- tion; Mrs. A. 8. 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