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Show NORTHWEST DEMANDS DECREASE IN RATES PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 17 Sub- stantiai reductions in transcontinental ' rail rates to enable Western products to move to Eastern markets were rec-J om mended to th railroads and to the interstate commerce commission by ' tho public service commissions of Idaho. Oregon and Washington, meet- i ing In Joint session here Wednesday The recommendations were embodied ' In messages adrdesd to th head-j quarters of all transcontinental roads and to the Interstate commerce cm-minsion. cm-minsion. Necessity for the reduction, was said by the three commissions In their messages to have resulted from I a lessening of the movement of lumtr. ' apples and other products of Northwest states eastward since railroad rates ' were increased lust summer. j |