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Show GOVERNOR SPRY ON FREIGHT RATES Denver, Colo., March C The Den-' ver Chamber of Commerce, at its weekly luncheon today, took initial action in a plan which aims to bring about a complete and permanent readjustment re-adjustment of the freight rate situation situa-tion in the trans.Missi3sippl territory. territo-ry. Governor Spry of Utah, who was here early this week, discussed the proposition and gave the. assurance that Salt Lake would co-operate in the plan outlined today. In fact, Governor Spry helped to inspire the stand taken at the luncheon. The movement is the most comprehensive compre-hensive ever undertaken bv a western west-ern city. It is local only in its conception, con-ception, as success of the plan tentatively tenta-tively outlined at the meeting means a solution of the transportation problems prob-lems with which every commercial point in which the west has been struggling for years. This, it is proposed, shall be brought about through the concerted efforts of every city in the region affected, af-fected, with the co-operation of the railroads and the sanction of the interstate in-terstate commerce commissi President W, A. Hover or the Denver Den-ver Transportation bureau, formerly the Colorado Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, and former United States Sena-tor Sena-tor Thomas M. Patterson were the principal speakers at the meeting which was devoted exclusively to freight rate discussion. At its conclusion con-clusion a committee composed or Senator Patterson, Chairman Si Rudd Hardesty, D. C. Dodge, G. H. Denton. J. P. Dunn, W. A. Hover and A. B. Trott was appointed by Vice President Presi-dent F. P. Johnson to formulate a plan to put the movement into action. |