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Show PASSENGER SERVICE CURTAILED. Scores of Trains on Competing Lines to Be Eliminated. Washington. Passenger train service serv-ice in the west will be reduced one-third one-third or more by rearrangement of schedules to be announced shortly by Director-General McAdoo. Scores of trains on competing lines leaving and arriving at terminals about the same time will be eliminated Unnecessary trains on manv western lines are to be taken oft and the locomotives loco-motives and crews used for essential freight service. There is no thought however, of making a few western hues the principal passenger curries as contemplated in the east. Officials also stated that the reduction in schedules will not result in any serious inconvenience incon-venience to passengers. |