Show BATTLE IS OPENED ON FREIGHT HATES TWENTY STATES JOIN FORCES FORCE IN MOVEMENT TO LOWER RATES high rates Pro prohibit lIbIt producer from marketing prodoc Pro duc above the cost of production owing to cost of distribution business find and financial conditions lit in states nerved by tile the tenth federal reserve bank kansas city are arc dr deplorable duo due to high cost of production mill and of agricultural ri products and prevailing low prices A E B chairman of the fedora federal reserva bank tit at kansas CRY city told tho interstate commerce commis ann monday lit in hearings on freight rules ites on oil grain products and liay hay the against present pro sent rates was maile made ly by tile kansas state railroad commission joined by twenty othor g and various grain producers producers tire are to sell their pro products duvis above the cost of production pi und and distribution mr said ald kate expert sr statistic statisticians lans will econ enlists were on hand to testify before tile tho interstate commerce As aa to tile lie necessity for reductions in freight intes oil grain products find tiny liay in ili tile the Ar western estern states in ili the case scheduled for lle days of hearings twenty states th through rough their railroad lull road commissions linae joined wf etli organizations izat ions ro presenting grain producers stock exchanges and grain it di illers us well as ninny many western bankers in urging reductions on the ground that pro present sprit batem lire fire too high for producers to realize a rt reasonable profit they ohp also deblare that grain and tiny ha prices have come down to prewar prices and therefore should be accorded prewar freight rates the hearings will be before commas aloner lewis brie as it is 8 understood will be dispensed with and argument asked for immediately after tile the hearings the commission it II Is known Is to lose loje no time in deciding whether the present alleged emergency in the grain industry justifies the reductions asked |