Show NORTHWEST COMBATS HIGH LUMBER RATES PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 12. Attorneys Attor-neys and traffic managers of lumber producing interests planned to leavo today for Omaha to participate In a hearing beginning Tuesday before the interstate commerce commission examiner ex-aminer inolvlng a complaint alleging alleg-ing that lumber products from Oregon Ore-gon and Washington moved to Omaha and Kansas 1 ity are el Iscrlmlnated against in comparison with rates to St. Paul and Minneapolis. The differential dif-ferential is said to bp seven cents a hundred pounds. The Chicago & Northwestern and connecting railroads rail-roads are tho defendants. Before the rato increase of last August tho differential dif-ferential was two cents less. |