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Show ATLANTIC SOUTHERN STOPS OPERATING Council Bluffs. Ia., Nov 16 The Jl owners of the Atlantic Southern rail- j Bpsi-l road, a line 35 miles long extendkn;-; Rp'I from Atlantic to Vlllisca, Iowa , and llifel having five small towns on the line, jP'sS te given public notice of their in- 'm tentlon to cease operating the line WA 'M December 31, this year, claiming they fFi have been operating the road at a L-Ztl loss. This is the railroad which for- t '-.Vl mer Secretary of the Treasury Les- I' lie M. Shaw and a syndicate spent j fcjltl nearly two years in trying to secure and failed after having forfeited sev- ML eral large cash options to the courts. HSl The road was built and financed by flw farmers and others who expended Epfl over MOO.OfiO In its construction. WrM These people and patrons in tbi ETl towns along the road are preparinj W-'m to enter a protest to the railroad com- I mission of Iowa and to the interstat g: commerce commission against the K; closing down of the line I I |