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Show VETERANS ARE GIVEN RATES TO REUNION McAdoo Makes Special Ruling in Case of Grizzled Warriors of Confederacy. WASIIIXGTTOX, March 1. Director General McAdoo has decided that the confederate veterans shall have special rates and no interference of transportation transporta-tion to their reunion this summer at Tulsa, Okla.. and that the Grand Army of the Republic shall have the same for its meeting at Portland, Ore. Because of the congested condition of the railroads and also as a war measure mea-sure there was some probability that transportation facilities and rates mieht be denied to these special trains. The situation has cleared, however, and is expected to clear further before the reunions re-unions are held, so Director General McAdoo decided todav be could promise prom-ise train facilities and special rates of 1 cent a mile. |