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Show HINES POINTS OUT NEED OF RAILROAD FUNDS WASHINGTON, June 3 Only by i creased rates can the government con trolled railroads meet operating ex penses. Director General Hines of tho liuiioau BUiniuisvi ai ion oua uuu in .house appropriations committee He I is opposed to any mtn ase at this time, however, because it might advance ad-vance the cost of necessities of life Mr Hines who appeared to ask for ! $1,200,000,000 additional for the railroad rail-road administration's revolving fund for the remainder of this calendar year, declared that while wages of railroad rail-road employes had been increased 51 to 52 per cent during government con trol, they now were only "reasonable and fair." He added that he could see no prospect of reducing them. |