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Show FARLEY TO URGE SILVER-BUYING A. 8. Brown, Democratic national na-tional committeeman, aid Thursday Thurs-day he had the promise of Postmaster Post-master General Farley that the latter lat-ter personally would urge upon President Roosevelt continuation of ' the 77.57-cent price for newly mined domestic ailver. A long distance telephone conver- Farley that he would confer with Senator Elbert D. Thomas to ob-- ob-- tain data en the importance of the ailver industry to agriculture, business busi-ness and labor. "From my conversation, I believe Farley and. Senator Thomas will call upon the president to urge issuance is-suance of a new silver proclamation proclama-tion before the old on expire Friday Fri-day midnight," Mr. Brown aaid. ' The converaation resulted after Stephen Early, a White House aec- retary, announced the silver situation situa-tion "doe not demand a proclamation." proclama-tion." The Idaho atate chamber of commerce com-merce Thursday had, joined the Salt Lake City chamber in urging continuance of the preaent ailver price. NEW CASES of communicable disease decreased during Chriatma wxk, mlth lh jlngi. c.pl.nn nf mumpa, according to the weekly report re-port of Dr. William M. McKay, head Of the division of communicable disease dis-ease control for the atate board of health. Largest decreaaea were In chlckenpox, measlea and whooping cough. New cases of pneumonia and acarlet fever remained approximately approximate-ly the asm a in the previous week. |