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Show IDAHO MAYORS SEEK LOWER FREIGHT Conference Formed to . Seek Emergency Rates to Aw! Fanner. - BOISK. Idaho, July Jl Launch-In Launch-In a a concerted effort toward affecting; af-fecting; lower fralfht ratea for Idaho product a. mayors and rpre-arntarlvaa rpre-arntarlvaa of thirteen Idaho cltlaa yeatarday formed tha Southern Idaho Mayor conference and pan tad rraolutlana to eaak emer-acy emer-acy fraifht rate that will an-abla an-abla farmara of tha state "to paea the Pak of itJI" Tha maatln waa held In tha city hall. - Aasortlnr that ha atronaly fa-rora fa-rora tha movamant. Senator William Will-iam V. Borah who attended lb maatlna;, axpraaaad tha hop that th orsanlaatlon become a permanent one and told tha fathering that tha plaa eemed to b aaceedlna ly wlee. In a ahort talk at th afternoon, Senator Borah advocated th reopening re-opening of foreign market to th American farmers. and dclard that tn this lts th aoluiloa for ultimata relief. ' Among thoaa In attndanea war Oovernor C. C. Moore. Mayer B- B. Sherman of Bolae, who waa aelect-ad aelect-ad aa proaldant of tha body; B. M. Hweeley, president of th public u i III ties commiaalon: Mavor Hhad Hodgin of Twin- Falta; Mayor lu-gn lu-gn Emerson of Nam pa. Mayor E. T Peck of Black foot. Mayor O- Baa Itoaa of Pocatello. Mllo Thompson of Bole and Edward Smith, Boiaa city commissioner. Cop lea of tha reaotution, together with a personal latter aettlng farth that tha attitude of tha conference la one of friendly cooperation rather rath-er than antagonlom, will be ant ts H. M. Adama, vice president of th I'filoa Pacific, In charge of traffic. |