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Show NEW COMMITTEE ON FREIGHT TARIFF A new committee has been appointed, appoint-ed, whose duties begin today, to take charge of certain traffic work on the federal controlled roads of the west for the purpose of relieving as much lost motion as possible, to facilitate the handling of traffic on the railroads and to render assistance to shippers in getting their goods handled as quickly as possible The committee is com- i posed of three members and will be known as the San Francisco freight traffic committee, the headquarters being in San Francisco ;Thls information was telegraphed I today Io the headquarters office of the Salt Lnke division of the Southern Pacific company, the message being as follows: "Beginning on June 1 all freight traffic matters tor the federal controlled con-trolled railroads in the states of California, Cali-fornia, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, also New Mexico west of Albuquerque and Demlng, will be handled by a joint committee of three known as tin San Francisco freight traffic committee " This is the announcement from A. C Johnson, chairman of the western regional traffic committee of Chicago. W, G. Barnwell, assistant freight traffic traf-fic manager of the Santa Fe. is chairman chair-man of the above committee, and Ihe other members are G. W Luce, freight traffic manager of the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, and II. K. Save, traffic manager of the Western Pacific, and S. W. I Gomph, agent of the Pacific freight tariff bureau is secretary. This committee." said Chairman Barnwell today, "will have jurisdiction over all freight traffic matters on federal fed-eral controlled roads in the territory I named. And its headquarters will be 1 64 Pino street, San Francisco, and I made up of representatives of Pacific coast carriers. "The committee will be at all times ! in direct touch with the situation in this t rritory and will give help on all traffic questions that may arise from j time to time. It will consider traffic! problems and assist in prompt and satisfactory sat-isfactory handling of shipments to the end that the carriers may be able to render the most efficient service dur- ! ing the emergency condition that we are all facing during the war. ' The Pacific freight traffic bureau j will continue as the tariff publishing agency of the carriers in this district." j |