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Show WALKER NINES OEMS POST AS RAIL HEAD Resignation Accepted by President Presi-dent Wilson Effective on May 15 DIRECTOR GENERAL TO PRACTISE LAW Wilson Praises Retiring Official Offi-cial for Services Rendered to Government WASHINGTON. April 24. Walker D. Ilines, director-general of railroads, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by President Wilson, effective May 15. Much work in liquidating the affairs af-fairs of the railroad administration will .remain after May 15 and Max Thelen, in charge of the claims department, de-partment, is understood to be Mr. Hincs' choice for a successor. It was said today at the White House that name his own successor. It was understood that the director-' general desired to return to the practice prac-tice of law Jn New York when the railroads wer returned to private con? trol March 1 and that he. had consented consent-ed to remain only until the task of llqudM.ion was well under way. In accepting Mr. nines' resignation the president wrote that he could not Jet Ukj djreclor-geiurai; reWre -w'Uhoiif tolling" hint" how'tro lfad '"personalty-valued '"personalty-valued and admired the quite unusual services you have rendered the gov eminent and the country." Mr Hines has served with the railroad rail-road administration since its creation in December, 1917, when the railroads of the country were taken over. He was appointed then as assistant director-general and when Mr. Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo retired to private life on January Janu-ary 1, 1919, Mr. Hines was made director-general. |