The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-17
CARRIERS MAKING
 A STUBBORN FIGHT
 ON RATE REDUCTION
Witnesses Testify in Hearing at Tuscaloosa Before the Special
 Examiner

Tuscaloosa, January 16.-(Special 1.-The carriers have made a stubborn resistance to the application of the Tuscaloosa the freight rates as compared with those of Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham
 at the hearing before Examiner Gibson of the interstate commerce commission in the government building here Mir. Delaney of the Louisville and Nashville testified as to the amount of freight that had been received over the Warrior river by the Tuscaloosa merchants and com pared it with that which had been re- ceived over the Alabama river at Mont gomery. The carriers have placed their whole case on a comparison between Montgomery on the Alabama, which is only navigable @ part of the year, with Tuscaloosa on the Warrior, which is nav igable the whole year round In prepara- ton for this case the Louisville and Nashville railroad have had a man at the landing every time a boat came ts Riverview, that he could check freight coming in and this information was used at the hearing through Mr. Dulaney. 
 Judge Grubb of the United States dis
 trict court has handed down decision
 affirming the decision of Referee Walter
 Smith of Tuscaloosa, who declined to ac-
 cept the election of M H. Ivy as trus-
 tee of the bankrupt Pinson and Geiger
 Land corporation. A meeting of the
 creditors was called here, but Judge
 Grubb granted a continuance of 20 days
 to allow the interested parties more time
 and Referee Smith set the hearing for
 February 5. The bankruptcy case of the
 Pinson and Geiger land corporation, who filed petition sometime ago with liabili-
 ties at s400,0O0 and assets at 11,000 acres
 of land, is the largest case that has ever
 been handled in the Tuscaloosa bank ruptcy court.
 The new board of revenue of Tusca-
 loosa county was sworn in yesterday
 morning and immediately began the con-
 sideration of large amount of work
 that is before them in taking up the
 work of the board of county commission
 CTS and the board of public works Judge
 Messrs. w. F. Fitts, A. Parker Patton |
 board. The board of county commits sioners met yesterday morning and Judge
 Brandon was sworn in by Judge H. B.
 Foster as probate judge and chairman of
 the board of revenue.
 Rev. George Eaves, a secretary of the
 Anti Tuberculosis league of Alabama de-
 livered an address at the monthly meet
 ing of the Tuscaloosa Board of Trade
 last evening. Dr. Eaves comes to Tusca-
 loosa on the invitation of Hon. Frank s.
 Moody of the local Ant-Tuberculosis as- sociation and a large number were pres ent. Another matter that was taken up
 last night was the election of members to attend the meeting of the Alabama Chamber of Commerce. Hon. Leon G. Brooks received a delayed message from Governor Henderson asking for full at tendance at the meeting in Montgomery on January Is, at which time an organi- Zation will be perfected. The delegates
 will be named by the board of directors 2:30 o'clock in the school auditorium.
 Mrs. DuPont Thompson will talk on Food, It's Relation to Health, Morals and Efficiency" The public is invited The Norwood Needlecraft club will meet
 this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs.
 north.
 There will be a regular meeting of the Alabama division, 117, at Maccabee tenn
 pie this afternoon at 2:SO o'clock. full attendance is requested for the first
 meeting under the new officers.
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