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Show $39,000,000 RAIL 9 DEFICIT DURING MAY m WASHINGTON, July 3 Tho do- HB fliit incut red In operation of rail- jB londs vni del ki eminent contiol dur H lug thu month of May amounted ,to H $39,000,000 net operating Income to- B tilling $38,630,000, compared with B tho rental obligation of tho govern- jH iiiunt to tho iiilliomlH for Mny of H $; 7, 126,00(1. acroidlng to unomclnt W flguies of mill nail earnings for thu iH month tiiado public )estcrday by tho H huiciiu of nillway economics, H Thu May deficit, however, showi'd H a decrease fiom tho avcrago month- H ly dutlclt of $13,600,000 Incurred jH during tho flist four months of 1919 H The total deficit for tho first flvo H months of the year was shown to'Vt H $213,000,000, not Including "minor H openses" of the lallioad ndnilnlitr.i- H Computed with not operating In- W como In Mny last year, a doci-etiAO nf W $33,3G9,000 or 46.41 per cent, w-js H shown this year, although gross np- H elating revenues Increasod f.'ont $373,297,000 to $407,942,000 or 9 2 H per cent. Tho disproportionate in- W ci vase In operating expenses fiol.i W $282,791,000 to $350,861,000 or H moi o than $68,000,000 caused the H decreaBo In net rovenues. W While the vol u mo In freight traf- m flo last May was shown to bo 11 m per cent below tho high volume in m May, 1918, It was estimated to hava H been only one third of one per cent H less than the average volume for Mar H during the three year period of oper- H atlon prior to government control. H Passenger traffic last May wan ' H shown to bo 30 per cent In exceu of H the average traffic during that per- H lod, yielding 70 per cent greater sur- H enues wlthCtho high passenger rate H put Into effect during the perlo 1 of H government coutrol. H An Increase of 70 per cent la tho H baijlc cost or operation during th H first five months of 1915 compared H with the average for tho correspond H Ing period during tko three year per- H iod, yielding 70 per cent greater rev- H Tho avorage dally operating expens H es for May decreased a little, moro H than $112,000 from tho January . B dally avcrago of $11,628,000, nccorl- H Ing to tho flguros. H |