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Show PASSENGER TRAINS REDUCED MARCH 17 WASHINGTON. March 4. Passenger Passen-ger train schedules between St. Louis and Chicago were ordered re -arranged today by Director-General McAdoo to I reduce from 15 to 9 the number of I trains daily each way effective March 17. Competing trains at approximately the same hours will bo eliminated and railroad officials give assurance that the public will not be seriously Inconvenienced. Incon-venienced. It is estimated that the new schedules will save 9,538 tons of coal a month. Freight traffic also will be improved. Railroad tickets will be good on any line. Further removal of. competitive com-petitive trains west of the Mississippi j is expected soon. |