Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-28

1 .,.or noedful and desirable purposes pnl. pnootod with the prosecution Of the kar: u,ood,ou, Wilson mcident of the United States under aI 1,v virtue of the powers vested ill i,u n bv py inc foregoing reso]uHons and " 4stute and by virtue of all other pow .a thoreto me enabling, de hereby, EhSoupb Newton D. Baker. secretary z var take possession and assume IontIol at 12 o'clock noon on the 2Sth sov of December, 1917, of each and s,orv system of transportation and so annrrtenances thereof located 1to,lv or in part within the bounda- ';os of the continental United States nd nd consisting of railroads, and owned = controlled systems of coastwlse and n,and transportation, engaged in gen sral transportation, whether operated N steam or electric power, including Piso terminals. terminal companies md terminal associations, sleeping md narlor cars, private cars and prl- ate ears and private car lines, eleva- hrs warehouses, telegraph and tele- Sh.,ne lines, and all other requirement |nd appurtenances commonly used Inon or operated as a part of such Ea;l ar combined rail mad water sys- [oms of transportation-to the end hat such systems of transportation e utilized for the transfer and trans kortation of troops, war material and |nuipment to the exclusion so far as nay he necessary of all other traffic herecn; and that so far as such ex- Elusive use be not necessary or de- Eirable, such systems of traDspCrta- ion be operated and utilized in the erformance of such other services as he national interest may require and |f the usual and ordinary business and uties of common carriers.
 McAdoo in Charge.
 It is hereby directed that the pos ession. control, operation and utiliza- on of such transportation systems ereby by me undertaken shall be ex rcised by and through William G. Me doo, who is hereby appointed and esignated director general of rail pads Said director may perform the uties imposed upon him, so long and such extent as he shall determine, trough the board of directors, re- eiyers, officers and employees of said Estems of transportation. Until and keept so far as said director shall rom time to time by general or spe- iaf orders otherwise provide, the bard of directors, receivers. officers nd employees of the various transpor- bsi0n systems shall continue the op- ration thereof in the usual and ordi- ary course of the business of common Rrriers, in the names of their respec- I've companies.
 Until and except so far as director ball from time to time, otherwise by eneral or special orders determine, leh systems of transportation shall main subject to all existing statutes nd orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission and to all statutes and Eders of regulating commissions of pes various state in which said sys- m or any part thereof may be situ- ed. But any orders. general or spe- al hereafter made by said director. ball have paramount authority and
 obeyed as such.
 Nothing herein shall be construed
 now affecting the possession. op- dtlon and control of street railway assenger railways, including rail- avs commonly called interurbans, neither such railways be or be not Wned or controlled by such railroad pmpanles or systems. By subsequent oer and proclamation, if and when
 snail be found necessary or desir- ple, possession, control or operation ay pc taken of all or any part' of leh street railway systems, including aoWays and tunnels, and by subse- lent order and proclamation, posses oh' control and operation in whole or
 part may also be relinquished to eSoWners thareof of any part of the