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Show oo Railroad Executives and Employes Differ WASHINGTON, .March 3. Railroad executives and employes differed widely wide-ly before the interstate commorce commission as to the methods to be employ ed In determining the roads' ' valuation on which an annual net re- Wa turn of five and one half .per cent is ml guaranteed for two years by the trans- Sj portation act. v w Congress has made it Imperative JH that nn immediate valuation be made, flj A. P. Thom, general counsel for the 3B association of railway executives, said. tB Property investment accounts and ma- jfl terial and supply accounts, ho declared H to be th.e minimum conservative fig- ures now susceptible to use. Data be- Kj Ing gathered by the commission is im- j possible, he said, and should not be mi considered at present. |