Arizona republican., 1918-05-22
ALL PRESIDENTS IF RAILWAYS RELIEVED
 OFFICE BY M 'ADOO
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 WASHINGTON. May 21.-Every railroad president in the United States was relieved from active duty as cx- ecutive manager of his road today by Director General McAdoo, who will ap- point q federal director for each road, responsible only to the railroad admin istration. In many cases the president of the road may be named federal di- rector.
 Will Safeguard Interests
 To safeguard the interest of stOcks holders and maintain the individuality of each railway. federal directors, whenever possible. will be appointed from among the operating officers of nounced. This will avoid disrupting any roads working organization un- necessarily.
 New Operating Districts
 As another step in the reorganization Of railroad management the director general ordered the creation of two new operating districts-the Allegheny region, consisting of the principal trunk lines east of Pittsburg, excluding the New York Central, managed by C. H. Markham, now regional director for the south. and the Pocahontas district consisting of the east and west trunk lines terminating at Hampton Roads.
 New Regional Directors
 Regional directors of the Pocahontas district and for the southern district to succeed Mir. Markham will be ap- painted soon.
 A. II. Smith of New York, will con- tinue 10 act as regional director for that part of the east not included in the new Allegheny district and dis trict directors will be named to serve under him as supervisors of roads in New England and for the section be- tween Pittsburg and the Mississippi river, and north of the Ohio river.
 Other smaller operating districts will be created from time to time in the southern and western regions, now operated as units by regional directors of the railroad administration.
 c. W. Huntington Goes
 The first act of the director general today in executing this new policy was the removal of c. W. Huntington, pres ident of the Nirginian railway as chief operating officer, on the charge that he failed to carry out promptly the rail- road administration instructions re- garding the repair and maintenane of his line.
 It was explained tonight that a large proportion of present railway presi- dents will be named to manage their own properties, particularly whenever the president actually IS the most ac- tive operating officer. but in all these cases the presidents will be required to resign their official positions with the companies, "and to become exclusive representatives of the United States railroad administrations"
 Paid by Uncle Sam
 Consequently their salaries will be paid by the government, and they can receive no pay from the railway cor poration. As an indication of what salaries they may expect, it became known tonight that most of Mir Me Adoo's principal assistants of the rail road administration will receive more than $l5,000 a year. For most of them this is much less than they received as executives under private manage ment. In this connection, it was noted that Mir. McAdoo as secretary of tn, treasury, receives the usual cabine members salary of si2.500 a year anC Is paid nothing as director general O railroads.