Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1936, Page 6

PICK-UP FREIGHT TOSTART AT ONCE Court Refuses Temporarily Truckers’ Plea to Stay Rates. A statutory three-judge court spe- cially convened to consider the peti- tion of the American Trucking Asso- ciations, Inc., for an injunction con- cerning six major railroads and two | steamship companies from operating & “pick-up and delivery service,” today refused to stay temporarily rates of the service, which will become effec- tive Monday. This means that the door-to-door service will be begun throughout the East Sunday midnight. Within 10 days the court will de- cide whether an interlocutory in- Junction should be granted, As- sociate Justice D. Lawrence Groner, who presided, told the litigants. Rates Set by I C. C. ‘The new rates, which constitute official approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission of the “pick- up and delivery system,” were ap- | proved October 30 and provide a mini- mum charge of 45 cents a 100 pounds | with a rebate of 5 cents if either the | consignor or consignee does not avail himself of the door-to-door service. | The rates apply to the so-called *“official classification territory,” com- prising all of the country east of the Mississippi and north of the| Ohio and Potomac Rivers. | Defendants in the truckers' suit are the I. C. C, the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, New York Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western Railroads; the Eastern Steamship Lines and the Clyde-Mal- lory Lines. The truckers asked the court to compel the I. C. C. to cancel its order of October 30 and the proposed rates and to enjoin the carriers from opera- ting under the rates. They contend that the commission handed the raflroads a competitive plum by permitting them to furnish trucking service and absorb the charge in the regular rail tariffs. The railroads and steamship com- | panies should be compelled by the I.| C. C. to comply with the regulations of the motor carrier act of 1935 if they are going into the trucking busi- ness, the complainant told the court. | If the rail carriers are allowed to operate without obtaining certificates of public convenience and necessity | from the I C. C. under the motor | carrier act, they will be able to avoid | requirements concerning insurance, safety and labor, with which the truckers have to comply, it was as- serted. Roads Fear Big Loss. Counsel for the railroads argued | that the ““pick-up and delivery system” | has been in operation for some time and that to ban it by court order would cost them many millions of | dollars. | More than a dozen shipping in- terests and trade associations in- | tervened in the suit on the side of | the railroads, contending that an in- Junction would cost them in the| neighborhood of $15,000,000 a year, | Besides Justice Groner, who is of | the United States Court of Appeals bench, the court was composed of Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat and| Justice Jennings Bailey of the District | Court. ENVOY OF ECUADOR | T0 LECTURE AT 6. W., Ambassador Named to Univer-| sity Faculty by President Marvin. Capt. Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ambassa- dor from Ecuador, has been named | to the faculty of the George Wash-| ington University as professional lec- ! turer in international law, it is an- nounced today by President Cloyd H. Marvin. i Capt. Alfaro has had a long and distinguished career in the diplomati service of his country and has been member of the faculty of the Military Academy at Quito. He has repre- sented Ecuador at many important international conclaves such as the Pan-American Conferences, and is vice | chairman of the Board of Governors of | the Pan-American Union. ‘ His long acquaintance with the United States dates from his student | days at West Point. Prior to attend- | ing the United States Military Acad. | emy, he was a student at the National | College at Guayaquil and the Military Academy at Quito. | Capt. Alfaro’s appointment to the | faculty relates to the development of | the work of the university's center of | inter-American studies. TWO SENTENCED Plead Guilty to Robbing Virginia Hitch-Hikers. ROCKY MOUNT, Va., November 14 (#).—George Barr and Dallas Til- ley were given eight years each in the penitentiary yesterday when they Ppleaded guilty in Franklin County Cir- cuit Court to charges of robbing two Salem hitch-hikers of their clothes October 14. Darr and Tilley were brought here from North Carolina. Blake Smiley and Henry Willard were stripped of their clothes and per- sonal belongings on the road between here and Martinsville after they had been given a ride. 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