Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-08-08 | Page 1 | ICC Head Urges Meet to Eye Geneva Rates

Ice Mead Head Urges Meet To Eye G Geneva Rates DENVER Aug 8 UP UP In In Interstate commerce commission Chairman Clyde B. B Aitchison recommended recommended recommended rec rec- Friday that a hearing on freight rate reductions in shipment ship ship- ment meat of steel from Geneva Utah steel mill to the west coast be held in iii San Francisco late this year 4 A A. prehearing discussion on the ther r rates tes ended here hero Thursday Colorado Colo Cob rado steel interests ts headed by the Colorado Fuel Fel uel Iron Corp objected ob ob- I to the reduction of of- rates on shipments to the Pacific coast Last April freight rat rates were re reduced reduced reduced re- re 22 cents per hundred pounds but nit the IC 10 C has never given a final in the matter k Scope of the Denver meeting was broadened when A A. I. I L. L Reed of ot Dallas representing Sheffield Steel Corp and Joseph C. C Cooper representing representing rep rep- resenting Bethlehem Ste Steel l Corp ul asked ed investigators to to review freight rates ratha on throughout the nation John EHe jot ot San Fan Fan- cisco spokesman for Union Pacific Pad Pad- ic Great North Great North em ern and Rio Grande railroads immediately im im- im mediately objected T. T 1 K McCarthy attorney for Henry J. J Kaiser joined in the objections ob ob- ob- ob He said Mid his client desired that the pr present ent freight rates mattel mattar matter mat mat- tel tar be settled as M soon as possible