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Show HINES CALLS MEETING OF RAILWAY HEADS WASHINGTON, March 6. Director General Hines today determined to call a conference of leading bankers -and railway rail-way corporation representatives in Washington Wash-ington next Tuesday to discuss possible solutions of the problem created by the failure of congress to appropriate funds for the railroad administration. The persons to be invited have not been selected. se-lected. While regarding- it as probable that no j definite decision would be reached, offi- clals believed the meeting might result in further negotiations with bankers. Reports reached Washington today that several bankers had discussed the advisability of establishing a bankers' pool to lend as much as $100,000,000 to railroad interests. This plan, however, has not been presented to the railroad administration, it is said. |