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Show REFUSE PRIMARY WHEAT SALE IN WEST PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11. Dispatches to Portland from Washington today stated that Food Administrator Hoover has advised ad-vised Senator Charles McNary of Oregon that the administration will not grant the request of northwestern grain men for a primary market in Portland or Seattle. Se-attle. Northwestern grain men recently asked the government to establish a northwestern northwest-ern primary market, because they estimated esti-mated they would lose money if they granted the government's request and sold wheat at Chicago prices. To sell at Chicago Chi-cago prices, it was claimed, meant freight had to be paid to Chicago, whether the wheat was shipped there or not. Mr. Hoover asserted that if Portland was made a primary market northwest wheat would flow here insrend of to Chicago Chi-cago and then would have to he whipped back to the Mississippi valley, thus accumulating accu-mulating a 60-cent differential In freight rates. |