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Show I O JUL liULRalJlLBJ All Transportation Facilities j to Be Operated Under Central Cen-tral Executive Direction. COMMITTEE OF SEVEN) Heads of Big Roads Named to Handle Troops, Supplies and Commodities. WASHINGTON, April 12. National transportation facilities of the princi- pal railroads of the United States during dur-ing the war will be merged voluntarily volun-tarily and operated under the general direction of a central executive committee com-mittee of seven, co-operating closoly with the government in handling troops, military supplies and general commodities. This committee consists of Fairfax Harrison of tho Southern, chairman; Howard Eliott of tho New Haven; Samuel Rhea of the Pennsylvania; Hale Holden of the Burlington, and Julius Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific, all named yesterday at a meeting meet-ing of railroad heads here, when the plan was devised; Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio and chairman of the Council of Nation-of Nation-of Defense's Advisory Commission, ex-officio ex-officio member and one other to be appointed by the interstate commerce commission. |