Show I 1 1 C C REJECTS BE BUS MERGER PROPOSAL asserting that thai competition between transcontinental lius bus lines would be restrained it tile the proposed fir 0 posed merger between trall araj ways a subsidiary ot of tile the burlington railroad aAl road and the interstate transit branst lines a subs dary ot of tile the union c and northwestern rall kaill loads iu 91 were J edward davey chief section of 0 finance bureau ot at motor carriers interstate commerce corm assion oil nil saturday Salu Satu iday filed with the commission ton a 0 report recommending that the proposed merger be ba prohibited both companies operate motor buses between chicago and me ine pac me coast under tinder a contract entered into in january 1937 it was waa pro pos f it subject to interstate commeree commerce approval to merge the two companies into one large operation I 1 burlington Trail ways is a part ot of the national Trail ways a nationwide association ot of independent motor bus bug operators which tile the report Ind indicates cates provides the principal competition with arh the greyhound bus system the proposed absorption into hito the interstate tran st lines of the burlington according to mr air davey would not be in the public interest |