Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-07-07 | Page 6 | W. P. Adds Six New Directors

WI W P PI ADDS SIX NEW DIRECTORS DIRECTOR Membership of Board to toBe t Be 19 Other R II R R II Officials SAN FRANCISCO July By 7 7 BiTh The Tho Associated The Press Pres West West- ost ern em Pacific railroad company Tuesday added six alx lx noted business executives to Its It board of ot directors director tore tors the tho th list ll t includIng Winthrop Aldrich law brother of or John JohnD JohnD D Rockefeller Jr Hll 3 Arthur Curtis Curtit James Jame Thomas Thoma M Id SchumAcher James E B E Gorman And Lyman Rhode Rhodes Mr Aldrich will nut represent th the tho Rockefeller holdings In the th corn com compAny pAny Mr Sir James Is In holder or of f a largo large Interest In the company Mr aIr Holden is 18 1 president pr of ot the th Chicano Chicago Burlington Jb Q and Mr Gorman German Is I president of ot the th Chicago Rock Island Ic Pacific Mr Jr Rhodes Is a I vice pr of oC oti the Equitable Trust company ot of ol i l New ow York Mr Schumacher Is a former vice vie president or of o the South South- Southern I Irn em Pacific company lea bating that position to assume tho th chairman chairman- chairmanship chairmanship ship ot of the th Western Pacific ex- ex executive committee The Tho additions addition Increased membership of or the boar from Crom 15 to 19 1 r resignations making making- Way wa for fop the tho rig new to be included In the new maximum number Mr Schumacher announced that the change would mean the th de- de de of ot the company's company compans property prop prop- properly property erty erly In California and IncidentallY the tho th territory It serves ell serve No 0 change chances In the executive or operating personnel are ar contemplated contemplated plated he said The Th changes change In the board or of director Schumacher said enid were i made with th the tho desir desire to operation I operation co-operation with the Ih eastern con con- connection connection of ot the tho Western Pacific and Denver Den Rio Grande and an strengthen the th position po ot of the Western P Pacific and enable that company to compete compel more mor lively In California under the tho laws law of ot which the corporation were ere formed and other territory served by the th road Consolidation of the West Western rn Pacific with lIh the th Denver lUo 1110 Grands Grando and nd Missouri Pacific Is 1 reported to be under way The I changes chine may IMY also bring a tight fight for tor entry of ot the Western Pacific Into the Klamath Falls Fall Jall territory Ie In tn the opinion of ot railroad men hers here