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means weighing them on the East Erie scales which are inspected every three months and checked with a weigh car. So today we weighed #1 and #3 fully loaded on the East Erie and found the weights OK without changing anything! Now the B&M wants to send one of their men and a brotherhood man over here to witness said weighing. Credit still is unreleased!

6.) Jack Hause arrived today and Whitey called me in to meet him. I fell hard for him - he has "it" all right. Whitey tells me he has a doctor of engineering degree from Purdue also - and in transportation. Hes a bachelor, a nice looking boy with a winning smile and a fine personality. I think Whitey "has something" in him. Whitey proceeded to tell me Jack will spend several months in the Loco. Div. then a course of sprouts with Jack Hume in Schdy and about a year from now he'll come back to us here -- "Will you be ready for him then?" Whitey asked me. This was the first intimation in some time that the Shapter move is still on.

Later Whitey and I had quite a talk alone:

a.) Whitney said Shap had asked today if he intended to carry out his plan and Whitey assured him he did. He said Shap was very much calmed down this time however and when he gets back from a trip to Butte, Whitey is going to have another talk with him.

b.) I said Shap was a good man - had brought in a lot of business lately. Whitey said that was no credit to Shap - the locomotives had been "given away."

c.) Whitey says Perry Egbert is angling for Lynch for his assistant and he thinks Lynch will go.