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Show 1 drastic action to increase street car fares generally throughout the country on the ground that the federal government should not shoulder the financial responsibilities re-sponsibilities for thousands of utility projects whose needs and nature of service ser-vice are best known locally. Persistent reports that President Wilson Wil-son might take over street car lines generally gen-erally and turn over their operation to the railroad administration were discredited discred-ited specifically today by 'high officials: - STREET CAR MEN ABE -GIVEN JAGE RAISE War Board Announces Its Awards to Employees in Several Cities. WASHINGTON, Auk. 1. Tho national war lahor board today announced awards to street railrond trainmen employed In several cities, or wukcs rmiKlnK from AS to 5u cents an hour. Anions tlio awnnhs was one of 3S to -II cents an hour for trainmen of t he Omaha i- Council Bluffs - railway company, retroactive to July 17. In some controversies between the men and companies which had threatened to tie up street railways wero ad.iusicd by the awards. Other street railway men Included mntormen and conductorn In Chicago, I droit. Cleveland, isow i u-leans. Schenectady. Rochester, Huffalo, Newark, Trent on, Keriuitou and Kant St. I , oil Is. Tim board announced that It had nvi otninended to the president thai ypijcial lobulation be enacted by niirosn to en-ii en-ii bio some es ecu live agency of the federal fed-eral ptv.Miinii'iit (o consider the financial conditions of the Mrcet railroads of the country and raise tares in each casg In I which circumstances require It. I The war finance corpora t ion. with an nvallablr fund of $,",ttn,iioO,ifin to lend war Indus t rles. la prepared to wive llna net til assistance to some of the eonipanns for who-e employees higher waes were ordered. The corpora 1 1nn Insists, however, t h.'l companies" credit lie K""d and that adequate ade-quate security I"' I'lirnished. MreHnrs of (he war tlnance enrpora-t enrpora-t Ion, however, are aid In be willing to Invest Ik:i I e applications from companies wit h Impaired cre,'t and to recommend Informally to stale v local public .service cotmrilMMlonH thai fare Increases for thn ruiiw.'WM be allowed. II was to stimulate this local reHponslblllt v for local prohlems ilia I I 'resident Wilson, Secretary ,Mc-Ad'tn ,Mc-Ad'tn ;i ml the war finance corporations recently isiuied statcnenls uiuln puldlf service bod lei- In e p.-iht , couahb-i a lion of appllcatloos of ulllllles for rale ad- a ucna. I'rnsllent Wilson h u ndeisl nnt to bae ilecllned lo act receiilly on a an i: r.eai hoi of the war labor hoard that he take some |