COMMITTEE REPORTS

1948-49

Advisory Committee on Examinations for Admission to Practice Before the I. C. C.

During the past year the members of this Committee were requested to submit additional suggestions and questions for consideration in the preparation and examination of candidates for permission to practice before the Commission. This request was promptly complied with by members of our Committee.

As this work is necessarily confidential in nature, no further report seems necessary.

NUEL D. BELNAP,
ROBERT H. BIERMA,
WILMER A. HILL,
ERLE J. ZOLL, JR.,

C. R. HILLYER, Chairman.

9-12-49

Memorials

The Committee on Memorials respectfully submits below the names of those of our members for whom Life's Record has been closed since our last annual report was published. So far as the data has been avail able, biographical sketches are given.

9-15-49

GEORGE BOULINEAU

ROBERT N. BURCHMORE
HENRY D. BOYNTON

T. C. BURWELL

LLOYD B. HUGHES

HENRY R. MONTECINO

E. GEORGE SIEDLE

I. T. WILLIAMS

EDWARD H. DEGROOT, JR., Chairman.

Will G. Akers, Attorney at Law for forty years in Little Rock, Ark., and a charter member of the Practitioners' Association, died in that city on January 5, 1949. He was born in Little Rock July 24, 1886, and educated in the Little Rock Public Schools, at Fort Steel Academy, and the Arkansas University Extension Law School. Mr. Akers was an active member of Central Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, an Elder therein, and a teacher in its Sunday School, besides being a prominent member of several of its committees. He was also a member of United Commercial Travelers; Kiwanis, several committees; the Chamber of Commerce, etc. Mr. Akers is survived by his wife, Mrs. Agnes Miller Akers; two sons, Bill and Richard; and a daughter, Ellen.

Joseph J. Brannick, Assistant Traffic Manager, The Linen Thread Co., Inc., Patterson, N. J., died of Hodgkins Disease at Totowa Borough, N. J., on October 31, 1948. Mr. Brannick was born at Paterson, N. J., June 17, 1910. He had been connected with The Linen Thread Company since March 11, 1926, serving in various capacities in mill and mill office. The position which he held at the time of his death was that of assistant traffic manager, as above stated. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary F. Brannick.

Ralph H. Cahouet, Attorney for the New England Motor Rate Bureau, Inc., of Boston, and other motor carrier associations, died on August 14, 1949. Born in Westfield, Mass. November 11, 1894, he attended Williston Academy, and received his law degree from the University of Maine, in 1918. He also studied law at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, and Boston College. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1920. He was, at the time of his death, chairman of District No. 1 Chapter. Mr. Cahouet was New England Regional Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board during the days of the N. R. A. He was General Counsel and General Manager for the Employers Group of Motor Freight Carriers of Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Boston Bar Association, past president of the Boston Trade Association of Executives, and served as Trustee of Derby Academy in Hingham, Mass., from 1942 to 1945. He was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Town of Cohasset from 1943 to 1945. Mr. Cahouet was also a member of the law firm of Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes and Morton of Boston, and had many individual clients. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Cahouet; four sons, Ralph, Jr.; John J.; Francis V.; and James W.; a daughter, Miss Mary Cahouet, all of Cohasset; and a sister, Miss Stella Cahouet, of New Bedford, Mass.

Dennis C. Callon, traffic manager both of the Mississippi Cottonseed Crushers Association, and the National Cottonseed Products Company, Meridian, Miss., died in that city on October 30, 1948, following an illness of several weeks. Mr. Callon was born December 28, 1886, in Jacksonville, Ill., and removed with his parents at an early age to Clover Hill Plantation, near Natchez. He attended Jefferson Military College at Washington, Miss., and was graduated therefrom with honors. He made his home in Meridian from 1911 until his death, being first employed by the Q. & C. Railroad Company. Later, he became associated with the Mississippi Cottonseed Crushers Association, in its traffic department, and for many years practiced before the Mississippi Public Service Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Callon was a member of the First Baptist Church of Meridian, and active in religious, civic and political affairs. He was past president and one of the present directors of the Meridian Traffic and Transportation Club. Surviving Mr. Callon are his wife, Mrs. Olive Lloyd Callon; a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Pickens of Aberdeen; a sister, Mrs. Joseph N. Stone, of Natchez; a brother, Tom Callon of Natchez; six nephews and four nieces.

Clarence Frederick Carey, Executive Director, Darling Freight, Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., died suddenly at his home in that city on December 23, 1948, of a heart attack. He was born at Manistique, Mich., September 7, 1887, the family later moving to Escanaba, where the father had his law offices. Mr. Carey received his primary education at Escanaba, and then attended Michigan College of Mines at Houghton, and the University of Michigan Law School. In 1908 he went to Careywood, Idaho, where he managed some of his father's properties. He lived in the West until 1925 when he removed to Royal Oak, Mich., establishing himself as a public relations counsellor. In 1937 he became editor of Michigan Trucking News. He left Royal Oak for Akron, Ohio, where for four years he was manager of selective service at Goodyear Aircraft Corporation. He suffered his first heart attack in 1946, and returning to Michigan, located at Grand Rapids. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, executive secretary of the Michigan Highway Freight Association, and secretary of the Code Authority. He was also the author of several books on Patents and Patent Law. Mr. Carey was married in 1909 to Miss Maude Curran, who survives him. Also surviving are four daughters: Mrs. Joseph M. Haviland and Miss Dorothy Carey of Grand Rapids; Mrs. James M. Hughes of Latrobe, Pa.; and Mrs. Charles B. Pearson of East Lansing, Mich. Mrs. Norbert W. Webber, a sister, resides in Oak Park, Ill.

John I. Cosgrove, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, member of the law firm of Cosgrove and Bailey, President of The Hibernian Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and Vice-President of Logan-Robinson Fertilizer Co., all located in Charleston, S. C., died on October 1, 1948, as the result of a heart attack suffered two days previously. He received his earlier education in the local schools of his native city, and his B. S. degree from the College of Charleston. Later he was graduated from Georgetown University of Washington, D. C., with his LL. B. Mr. Cosgrove was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, the Charleston Country Club, The Hibernian Society, The American Bar Association and the Bar Associations of the State of South Carolina and of Charleston County. He was also a member of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Cosgrove was active in all community enterprises. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Genevieve C. Cosgrove, and two daughters, Mrs. Francis M. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Walter A. Renkin, Jr.

Frank S. Davis, Manager of the Maritime Association of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, died at his home in Needham, Mass., on May 18, 1949. His death was the result of injuries received a month previously, when he was caught between two automobiles. He was born January 13, 1870, and educated in the schools of Melrose, Mass., and Boston. At the time of his death he was Vice President at Large of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association and New England Representative on the Projects Committee of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress. He

had previously served a six-year term on the original Boston Port Authority. In 1910 he was appointed Chief of Tariff Bureau by the principal New England lines, including the Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New England Steamship Line, New Haven Railroad, and others, and organized the Joint Tariff Bureau for these carriers. In 1915, when the New Haven-Boston & Maine merger was dissolved, he was appointed General Western Freight and Passenger Agent of the New Haven system with headquarters in Pittsburgh. Under Federal control of the railroads, Mr. Davis was Assistant Manager of Inland Traffic, U. S. Navy Department, and while engaged in this work was promoted by the Railroad Administration to Tariff Publishing Agent for all carriers in New England and Trunk Line territories, occupying this position until his appointment as first above indicated. Mr. Davis was a member of the Christian Science Church, and a charter member of the Association of I. C. C. Practitioners. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Newhall Davis; two daughters, Mrs. Constance Gundelfinger and Mrs. Marjorie D. Luty; and two grand daughters, Miss Marjorie Luty, and Mrs. Dana Pratt.

Roscoe James Doss, Vice President in charge of Traffic, Atlantic Coast Line, died of a heart attack on Sunday, June 26, 1949, at his home in Wilmington, N. C. Interment was at Canton, Ga., where he was born on March 30, 1884. Mr. Doss was graduated from Etowah Military Institute, and was in railroad service 49 years-36 of these years with the Atlantic Coast Line. He began his railroad career with the Atlantic, Knoxville & Northern Railroad, now part of the Louisville & Nashville, in 1900, and joined the Atlantic Coast Line in 1913 as chief rate clerk at Savannah, Ga. Transferred to Wilmington three years later, Mr. Doss held the following named positions with the latter company: Assistant to the General Freight Agent from 1916 until the ACL was taken over by the Government. During the period of Federal Control he was with the Southern Rate Commission of the U. S. Railroad Administration. He was Assistant General Freight Agent from 1920 to 1926; General Freight Agent 1926 to 1930; Assistant Freight Traffic Manager 1930 to 1935; Freight Traffic Manager 1935 to 1940; General Freight Traffic Manager 1940 to 1941, and General Traffic Manager from 1941 to 1942, when he was appointed Vice President in charge of Traffic. Mr. Doss also held positions with railroads affiliated with the Atlantic Coast Line, including Vice President of the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway; Traffic Manager, Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railway; Traffic Manager, Rockingham Railroad; and Director and Traffic Manager of the East Carolina Railway. He was a member of the Cape Fear Club, the Cape Fear Country Club, Carolina Yacht Club, Surf Club, and the New York Traffic Club. In religion, Mr. Doss was a Baptist, and in politics, a Democrat. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucy Humphreys Doss; three brothers, L. L. Doss of Wilmington, George A. Doss of Canton, Ga., and T. E. Doss of Nashville, Tenn.; also by three sisters, Miss Inez Doss of Canton, Mrs. James Rule, of Nashville, and Mrs. Edward P. Hill, of Prestonsburg, Ky.

Harold Payson Felton, of New York, N. Y., died of a heart attack in that city on January 18, 1948. Mr. Felton was born on October 20, 1908 in Norton, Massachusetts, and received his higher education at Harvard University, New York University Law School, and the Traffic Managers' Institute of New York City. He was a reporter on the Albany, N. Y. Evening News, and later was Manager of the Commercial Credit Company of Boston. During World War II he was on special work for the British, and then employed by the Government on a study of War Transportation Costs. He also served in the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Howard University. Mr. Felton was a member of the Unitarian Church. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Amy Felton Case, and a nephew, Allen Case, the Fifth, both of Baltimore, Maryland.

Herbert P. Friedman, President and Manager of Interstate Tank Car Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia, died in that city of heart failure on October 31, 1948. He was born in Norfolk July 18, 1881, and educated in Xavier Brothers School of Norfolk. Mr. Friedman served as a clerk on the Atlantic & Danville Railway at an early age, and later became Division Traffic Manager of the Southern Railway. His next position was that of traffic manager for Portsmouth Cotton Oil Company, following which he was elected to the position first above indicated, and which he held at the time of his demise. He was a member of Ohef Sholem, the Masonic fraternity, and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Traffic Club, being a past president of the latter. Mr. Friedman is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen R. Friedman, a son, Herbert P. Friedman, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Annette Freeman.

William E. Hall, Assistant to Traffic Manager, The Texas Company, New York, died suddenly of coronary sclerosis at his home in Mt. Vernon, N. Y., December 31, 1948. He was born in Italy, Texas, November 15, 1894, and educated in the grammar schools of that State. After a brief period in train service on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, he entered the traffic department of The Texas Company at Houston, Tex., April 1, 1922. Transferred to New York in the Spring of 1929, he continued with this department until his death. From October 1942 until July 1945, his services were loaned to the Petroleum Industry Committee appointed by the Petroleum Administrator for war. He was Assistant Traffic Manager of District No. 1, and later Transportation Manager, with headquarters in New York.

Mr. Hall was a member of the Methodist Church and the Traffic Club of New York. His outside interest in organizations was confined to leadership in various youth movements in his community. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ono Lee Hall, and a son, Howard.

Edwin D. Hedstrom, Traffic Manager, Pabst Brewing Company, Chicago, died at his home in Riverside, Ill., on April 15, 1948, of diabetes. He was born in Wyoming, Ill., on January 15, 1899 and educated in the