and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified destinations in western trunk-line, official, and southern territories by way of routes through East St. Louis and Peoria, Ill., Natchez, Miss., and St. Louis, Mo., carload rates the same as over direct routes constructed on basis of 30 percent of revised southwestern first-class rates plus increases.

F. S. A. No. 24355, PETROLEum and PetrOLEUM PRODUCts to Dunlap, Ky., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3802. Decided August 5, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from points in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, carload rates the same to Dunlap, Ky., on the Norfolk and Western Railway as to Grundy, Va.

F. S. A. No. 24357, DENATURED ALCOHOL AND RELATED ARTICLES FROM WINNIE, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3721. Decided August 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to points in central territory, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24362, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO BETTENDORF, Iowa, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3599. Decided August 5, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Daingerfield and McCrossin, Tex., to Bettendorf, Iowa, carload rates made arbitraries over rates from the Texas origins to St. Louis, Mo.

F. S. A. No. 24363, WROUGHT IRON PIPE AND RELATED ARTICLES FROM COATESVILLE, PA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for and on behalf of carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3748. Decided August 15, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief, Wrought Pipe to the Southwest, 251 I. C. C. 405, amended to include carload rates from Coatesville, Pa., the same as from Conshohocken, Pa. F. S. A. No. 24367, SYNTHETIC RUBBER FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3595 and 3752. Decided August 16, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Baytown, Borger, Houston, and Port Neches, Tex., and Lake Charles, La., to Batavia, Pawling, and Troy, N. Y., and Doylestown, Pa., carload rates constructed on the basis of 36 percent of the appendix E scale of first-class rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 164 I. C. C. 314 and supplemental reports, plus authorized general increases.

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F. S. A. No. 24370, CATALOGS FROM CHICAGO, ILL., TO THE SOUTHWEST, by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3624 and other tariffs. Decided August 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload commodity rates constructed on basis of percentages of first-class rates to specified points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

F. S. A. No. 24372, LIQUID CAUSTIC SODA TO FEDERAL AND HARTFORD, ILL., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 976. Decided August 11, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Huntsville and Huntsville Arsenal, Ala., a tankcar load rate the same as in effect over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24374, SAND AND GRAVEL IN SOUTHERN TERRITORY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for and on behalf of carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 998. Decided August 12, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Sand and Gravel in Southern Territory, 234 I. C. C. 433, amended to include authority to maintain between specified points in southern territory and from specified points in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana to the South, carload rates constructed on the bases of single- and joint-line scales.

F. S. A. No. 24377, LUMBER FROM MURPHY, N. C., TO THE EAST, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company and other carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 621. Decided August 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, North Carolina Pine Assn. v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 85 I. C. C. 270, 107 I. C. C. 190, and 229 I. C. C. 130, amended to include authority to maintain over existing routes in connection with the Louisville and Nashville as originating carrier, carload rates the same as those in connection with the Southern Railway Company as originating carrier.

F. S. A. No. 24379, ETHYL CHLORIDE FROM TEXAS TO CARNEY'S POINT, N. J., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided August 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Houston, Texas City, and Velasco, Tex., to Carney's Point, N. J., carload rates on basis of 40 percent of 110 percent of the eastern first-class rate scale, plus 1 cent per 100 pounds, and general increases authorized since June 30, 1946.

F. S. A. No. 24380, PETROLEUM FROM BARNSDALL, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3585 and others. Decided August 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to points in Illinois, official, southern, southwestern, and western trunk-line territories and adjacent points, carload rates constructed on the same bases as from Louisiana producing or refining points in the Houston, Tex., group.

F. S. A. No. 24381, BITUMINOUS COAL TO WESTERN TRUNK LINE POINTS, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3763. Decided August 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Bituminous Coal to Kansas and Nebraska, 192 I. C. C. 347 and 266 I. C. C. 467, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, from Henryetta, Okla., and group and Judy, Okla., to points in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa, carload rates constructed on bases prescribed in Midwest Coal Traffic Bureau v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co., 274 I. C. C. 33.

F. S. A. No. 24383, Freight, All Kinds, TO THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3740. Decided August 12, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill., carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24387, PETROLEUM FROM DUBACH AND HILLY, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3585 and others. Decided August 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to points in official, southern, southwestern, and western trunk-line territories and adjacent points, carload rates constructed on the same bases as from Louisiana producing or refining points in the Shreveport, La., group.

F. S. A. No. 24388, PETROLEUM FROM IDA, La., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3585 and others. Decided August 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to points in Illinois, southwestern, and western trunk-line territories and adjacent points, carload rates constructed on the same bases as from Louisiana producing or refining points in the Shreveport, La., group.

F. S. A. No. 24392, SYNTHETIC RUBBER TO MOUND CITY AND ORDILL, ILL., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3595 and 3752. Decided August 16, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Baytown, Borger, Houston, Port Neches, Tex., and Lake Charles, La., carload rates constructed on basis of 36 percent of the appendix E scale first-class rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 164 I. C. C. 314 and supplemental reports, plus authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24395, LUMBER TO POINT COMFORT, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3261 and Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 934. Decided August 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from western trunk-line and southern territories, carload rates the same as concurrently in effect to Port Lavaca, Tex. F. S. A. No. 24396, PREFABRICATED HOUSES FROM TULSA, OKLA., TO SUPERIOR, NEBR., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3708. Decided August 16, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on condi tions, to maintain over specified routes, carload rate constructed on a defined relation to first-class rates in effect August 21, 1947.

F. S. A. No. 24397, PIG IRON FROM CHATTANOOGA AND ROCKWOOD, TENN., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1136. Decided August 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Pig Iron From Alabama and Tennessee, 227 I. C. C. 631, amended to include authority to maintain over circuitous routes to specified destinations in official territory, carload rates the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24402, ALUMINA FROM BATON ROUGE, LA., TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent W. P. Emerson, Jr.'s tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 376 and 378. Decided August 25, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on alumina, calcined or hydrated, from Baton Route and North Baton Rouge, La., to specified points in official territory, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24403, NEWSPRINT PAPER FROM ONTARIO TO CENTRAL TERRITORY, filed by B. T. Jones, agent, for carriers parties to Canadian Pacific Railway Company's tariff I. C. C. No. E-2550 and Canadian National Railway Company's tariff I. C. C. No. E-447. Decided August 26, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Fort William, West Fort William, and Port Arthur, Ontario, to specified points in Michigan and Ohio via Detroit gateway, carload rates the same as over competing routes through Duluth.

F. S. A. No. 24404, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM NEW MEXICO TO TEXAS, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for the Texas-New Mexico Railway Company and other carriers. Decided August 18, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Petroleum Products in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, 245 I. C. C. 504, amended to include authority to establish and maintain, on conditions, carload rates from Jal, Maypens, Eunice, Warren, and Hobbs, N. Mex.

F. S. A. No. 24406, LIMESTONE FROM GIANT, S. C., TO SOUTH CAROLINA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided August 30, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified points in South Carolina, carload rates the same as from Pregnall, S. C., described in Sand and Gravel in Southern Territory, 234 I. C. C. 433.

F. S. A. No. 24412, COKE TO CEICO, OHIO, filed by The New York Central Railroad Company. Decided August 22, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload rate of $2.15 per ton of 2,000 pounds plus increases authorized since December 28, 1948, on coke, coke breeze, and coke dust from Buffalo, East Buffalo, and Harriet, N. Y., over the line of the New York Central Railroad direct.

F. S. A. No. 24414, HEATER AND TANK PARTS FROM SPARROWS POINT, Md., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3700. Decided August 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over additional routes to Houston, Tex., a carload rate the same as over the direct route constructed on the basis prescribed in Rheem Mfg. Co. v Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co., 273 I. C. C. 185.

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F. S. A. No. 24417, SYNTHETIC RUBBER TO MOLINE, ILL., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3595 and 3752. Decided August 19, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Baytown, Borger, Houston, Port Neches, Tex., and Lake Charles, La., carload rates constructed on basis of 36 percent of the appendix E scale first-class rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 164 I. C. C. 314 and supplemental reports, plus authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24418, CEMENT AND RELATED ARTICLES TO TEXAS, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for The Texas and Pacific Railway Company and other carriers. Decided August 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Cement in the Southwest, 210 I. C. C. 173 and 214 I. C. C. 77, amended to include authority to maintain over additional routes from St. Louis, Kansas City, and Hannibal, Mo., East St. Louis, Ill., and Superior, Nebr., to specified points in Texas, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24419, WROUGHT IRON PIPE AND FITTINGS BETWEEN JAL, N. MEX., AND SOUTHWEST, filed by Ira D. Dodge, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 629 and 697. Decided August 30, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief, Iron Pipe Between Texas and Shreveport Groups, 272 I. C. C. 796, amended to include authority to maintain carload rates constructed on the same basis between Jal, N. Mex., and stations in the Southwest.

F. S. A. Nos. 24424 and 24425, FORMALDEHYDE FROM WINNIE, TEX., TO THE EAST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided August 18, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Deep Run Spur, Va., and specified destinations in official territory, tank-car load commodity rates the same as over existing lines or routes. F. S. A. No. 24428, ALL FREIGHT FROM MILWAUKEE, WIS., TO THE EAST, filed by B. T. Jones, agent, for the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company, and other carriers. Decided August 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes from Milwaukee and Racine, Wis., carload rates the same as over direct routes and to maintain higher rates from Barrington, Ill.

F. S. A. No. 24432, RESIDUAL FUEL OIL FROM NEW ORLEANS, La., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for Birmingham Southern Railroad Company and others. Decided August 25, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous route to specified destinations on the Birmingham Southern Railroad, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24433, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM KANSAS, MISSOURI, AND OKLAHOMA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3585. Decided August 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Petroleum Products Between Kans., Okla., Ark., Mo., Colo., 245 I. C. C. 617, amended to include authority to maintain to specified destinations in Arkansas, carload rates constructed on same basis as to other Arkansas destinations.

F. S. A. No. 24436, CITRUS FRUIT FROM LOUISIANA TO THE SOUTH, filed by W. P. Emerson, Jr., agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 385. Decided September 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from specified origins on the New Orleans and Lower Coast Railroad, carload rates constructed on basis of 8 cents per 100 pounds higher than rates on like property from New Orleans, La.

F. S. A. No. 24442, SCRAP PULPBOARD FROM CROSSETT, ARK., TO DALLAS, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3648. Decided September 15, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes, carload rate the same as currently in effect over the short tariff line or route.

F. S. A. No. 24444, COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OIL FROM ARKANSAS TO GARLAND, TEX., filed by the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company for itself and on behalf of carriers parties to its tariff I. C. C. No. A-9874. Decided September 22, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes from Arkadelphia, Camden, Hope, Pine Bluff, and Texarkana, Ark., when accorded transit at Memphis, Tenn., carload rates the same as over short tariff routes.

F. S. A. No. 24448, SULPHURIC ACID FROM ST. LOUIS, Mo., AND EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL., To Calvert, Ky., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Decided September 15, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes tank-car load rates the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24449, CANNED OYSTERS AND SHRIMP FROM SOUTH ATLANTIC PORTS TO THE WEST, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 974. Decided September 14, 1949. Longand-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on canned oysters and shrimp over circuitous routes from Brunswick, Port Wentworth, and Savannah, Ga., Jacksonville and Fernandina, Fla., Beaufort, Charleston, and Port Royal, S. C., to Atchison, Kansas City, and Leavenworth, Kans., Columbia, Kansas City, Sedalia, and St. Joseph, Mo., carload rates the same as over the direct routes. F. S. A. No. 24450, PEANUTS FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO CHICAGO, ILL., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3835. Decided September 16, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on peanuts, raw, shelled, not salted, in bags, barrels or boxes, minimum weight 50,000 pounds, from groups in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, truck-competitive carload commodity rates proposed in the application.

F. S. A. Nos. 24454, 24456, and 24457, BITUMINOUS COAL TO SEAT PLEASANT, MD., filed by The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, The Virginian Railway Company, and the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, respectively, for themselves and on behalf of The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, the East Washington Railway Company, and the Southern Railway Company. Decided September 19, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on coal and coal briquets from mines in Virginia and West Virginia, carload rates the same as to Washington, D. C.

F. S. A. No. 24465, PEANUTS FROM THE SOUTH TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 887. Decided September 16, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Peanuts from the South to Official Territory, 245 I. C. C. 83, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, from points in the South to Chicago, Ill., and other points in Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, also St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charleston, W. Va., truck-competitive carload commodity rates on peanuts, raw, shelled, not salted, in bags, barrels, or boxes, minimum weight 50,000 pounds, constructed on the basis proposed in the application.

F. S. A. No. 24468, COAL TO HARRISONBURG, VA., filed by Norfolk and Western Railway Company for itself and the Southern Railway Company. Decided September 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky mines in groups 3, 4, 5, and 6 on Norfolk and Western Railway, rates the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24469, PIG IRON FROM CHICAGO, ILL., TO WINONA, MINN., filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for the Chicago Great Western Railway Company. Decided September 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Chicago and points grouped therewith, for the transportation of pig iron and iron briquets, a carload rate the same as over competing routes.