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Show fiTl ) h U I H i ! ' I B wti n Mi u Bill Reported Favorably to the House Effort to Attain Highest Efficiency. WASHINGTON. May 21. Favorable report on the administration bill to give the president broad powers as to preferential shipments of food, munitions muni-tions and other war trafilc was made today to the house. The report says the bill is "germane to the earnest effort wo are making to utilize to the highest state of efficiency ef-ficiency during tho war the transportation transpor-tation facilities of the country and to promote tho efforts of the administration administra-tion to carry on the war by requiring preferential shipments of all freight which, in the Judgment of the president, presi-dent, is essential to the public security and defense " The section as to movements of transportation, tho report explains, "has no reference, as has been erroneously erron-eously stated In some quarters, to any disputes between carriers and their employes." "Fortunately," it adds, "there Is a truce on that subject during tho war." |