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Show 1 M ADOO URGED I TO CHANGE RATES New Rates Threaten Many Shippers and Industries With Commercial Annihilation." WASHINGTON. June 6. Postponement Postpone-ment of the new freight and passenger passen-ger rates, or modification to remove injustices and discriminations which threaten many shippers and Industries with "commercial annihilation," was urged upon Director-General McAdoo by a member of the National Association Associa-tion of Railway and Utilities Commis-iioners. Commis-iioners. Mr. McAdoo was asked either 'o make state commissions his agents In bringing about necessary readjustments readjust-ments in rates or to require railroads to submit to the authority exercised by state commissions before government operation started in matters of rate and police regulations. ! M nn |