granted, on conditions, to maintain for the transportation of vegetables, fresh or green, or melons, other than cold pack, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24152, CITRUS FRUIT SEED OIL. BETWEEN BORDER TERRITORY AND THE EAST, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. W. Boin's tariff I. C. C. No. A-726. Decided May 5, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Commodity Rates Between Border Territory and the East, 248 I. C. C. 37, amended to include authority to maintain carload rates on basis of 27 percent of constructive first-class rates in effect March 27, 1938.

F. S. A. No. 24153, Sewing MACHINES FROM JACKSON, MISS., TO PACIFIC Coast, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company and other carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 1521 and 1524. Decided May 10, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain for the transportation of sewing machines and parts thereof over circuitous routes, carload rates the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24158, SCRAP PAPER FROM SOUTHERN TERRITORY, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1082. Decided May 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on paper, scrap or waste, to points in official (including Illinois) territory, also Louisville, Ky., carload rates based on 110 percent of 22.5 percent of appendix E first-class scale of rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 164 I. C. C. 314 and 171 I. C. C. 481, increased 10 percent, and subject to further increases the same as authorized in general rate increase proceedings.

F. S. A. No. 24160, PASSENGER FARES ON THE CHICAGO TERMINAL DIVISION, filed by the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Decided May 10, 1949. Aggregate-of-intermediates relief granted, on conditions, to establish one-way passenger fares between stations in Illinois on the Chicago Terminal Division of the Illinois Central Railroad, on the one hand, and Washington Park Race Course, Ill., on the other, constructed on the basis prescribed or approved in Increased Coach Fares on Western Railroads, 269 I. C. C. 632.

F. S. A. No. 24164, BAGGING FROM NEW ENGLAND TO THE WEST, filed by I. N. Doe, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 545. Decided May 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on cotton sheeting bagging from North Adams, Mass., to Kansas City, Mo., and from Pontiac, R. I., to Kansas City and North Kansas City, Mo., over circuitous routes, carload rates the same as over direct and competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24170, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM PANOMA, ОKLA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3510, 3585, 3651, and 3723. Decided May 3, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Panoma to destinations in western trunk-line, Illinois, official, and southwestern territories, carload rates the same as from the Tulsa, Okla., group.

F. S. A. No. 24172, BARITE FROM BARITE, IDAHо, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3703 and Agent L. E. Kipp's tariff I. C. C. No. A-3560. Decided May 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to destinations in southwestern and western trunk-line territories, carload rates on barite on basis of a scale.

F. S. A. No. 24175, ACETONE AND RELATED ARTICLES FROM BISHOP, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3721. Decided May 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified points in Indiana, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, carload commodity rates in relation to commodity rates on like property from Houston, Tex., to the same destinations.

F. S. A. No. 24176, DENATURED ALCOHOL AND RELATED ARTICLES FROM SOUTHWEST TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3721. Decided May 11, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on denatured alcohol, methanol, proprietary antifreeze preparations and other related articles over circuitous routes from points in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas to specified points in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, carload rates the same as those concurrently in effect on like property over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24177, MOTOR VEHICLES FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO HOUSTON, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3700. Decided May 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over indirect routes, carload commodity rate from Allentown and East Penn Junction, Pa., the same as over the direct route based 45 percent of the first-class rate prescribed or approved in Class Rate Investigation, 1939, 262 I. C. C. 447, plus general increases authorized since June 30, 1946.

F. S. A. No. 24178, POTATOES AND ONIONS FROM TEXAS TO LOUISIANA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3649. Decided May 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from specified Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway stations in Texas to named points in Louisiana on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24180, BATTERY BOXES BETWEEN BORDER TERRITORY AND THE EAST, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. W. Boin's tariff I. C. C. No. A-726. Decided May 5, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Commodity Rates Between Border Territory and the East, 248 I. C. C. 37, amended to include authority to maintain carload rates on basis of 35 percent of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24184, FIREBRICK AND RELATED ARTICLES FROM ALSEY, ILL., TO THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3586. Decided May 10, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Brick in the Southwest, 209 I. C. C. 523, amended to include authority to maintain carload rates made 3 cents per 100 pounds over rates from Whitehall, Ill., to destinations in Arkansas, Louisiana (west of the Mississippi River), Oklahoma, and Texas.

F. S. A. No. 24187, BOTTLE CARRYING CARTONS FROM THE EAST TO BORDER TERRITORY, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. W. Boin's tariff I. C. C. No. A-726 and Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 668. Decided May 5, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Commodity Rates Between Border Territory and the East, 248 I. C. C. 37, amended to include authority to maintain on bottle-carrying cartons, including necessary handles, carload rates on basis of 27.5 percent of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24188, KYANITE FROM CLOVER, S. C., TO NEWELL, W. Va., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C No. 979. Decided May 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Newell, W. Va., a carload rate the same as on like property to East Liverpool, Ohio.

F. S. A. No. 24189, PIG IRON FROM SOUTH ATLANTIC PORTS TO ALABAMA, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1048. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Jacksonville, Fla., Charleston, S. C., Wilmington, N. C., Brunswick, Port Wentworth, and Savannah, Ga., to Attalla and Gadsden, Ala., import carload rates the same over circuitous routes as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24190, ACIDS AND CHEMICALS FROM SOUTHWEST TO BURLINGTON, N. C., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided May 10, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over additional routes from Houston and Texas City, Tex., to Burlington, N. C., on acid, acetic, glacial or liquid, and acetic anhydride, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24191, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS FROM SUN SPUR, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3585 and others. Decided May 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Petroleum Products to Mississippi River Crossings, 256 I. C. C. 591, amended to include authority to maintain from Sun Spur, La., to destinations in Arkansas, carload rates the same as from refining points in the Shreveport group.

F. S. A. No. 24193, METHANOL FROM THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3721. Decided May 11, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Houston and Texas City, Tex., to Memphis and Nashville, Tenn., and from Houston, Orange, Port Arthur, Texas City, and Winnie, Tex., to St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill., carload rates the same on methanol as currently in effect on denatured alcohol and related articles from and to the same points.

F. S. A. No. 24194, PHOSPHATIC CLAY FROM FLORIDA TO SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3838. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Dunnellon, Fla., and other points in the hard-rock district of Florida, to destinations in Arkansas, Louisiana (west of the Mississippi River), southern Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, and in New Mexico on the Texas-New Mexico Railway, carload rates constructed on basis prescribed or approved in Kellogg Co. v. Abilene & S. Ry. Co., 273 I. C. C. 311.

F. S. A. No. 24198, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, TO Lafayette and LAKE CHARLES, La., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3740. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from East St. Louis, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo., carload rates the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24199, CAUSTIC SODA FROM CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX., TO ILLINOIS AND IOWA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided May 18, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over defined circuitous routes to Burlington and Clinton, Iowa, Chicago, Decatur, Joliet, and Streator, Ill., carload rates the same as over direct and competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24200, SULPHURIC ACID FROM ANDERSON, S. C., TO ALABAMA CITY, ALA., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1029. Decided May 20, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on condition, to maintain over circuitous routes, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24202, GLYCERINE FROM DALLAS AND HOUSTON, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided May 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified destinations in Illinois and western trunk-line territories, carload rates constructed on basis of 25 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24204, FERTILIzer to WashiNGTON, N. C., filed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Decided May 25, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over the circuitous line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company from Norfolk, Pinners Point, and Portsmouth, Va., a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24205, LIME FROM Carlton, COLO., TO THE WEST, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. A-3399. Decided May

17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Lime in the West, 222 I. C. C. 653, amended to include authority to maintain to destinations in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, southwestern South Dakota, and southeastern Wyoming, carload rates the same as formerly in effect from Lime Rock, Colo.

F. S. A. No. 24209, ACETALdehyde to SEIPLE, Pa., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3752. Decided May 18, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on acetaldehyde from Bishop, Houston, Texas City, and Winnie, Tex., and Tallant, Okla., tank-car load commodity rates made 30 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24211, SLAG FROM ALABAMA TO MEMPHIS, TENN., filed by Illinois Central Railroad Company. Decided May 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Birmingham, Ensley, Pratt City, Thomas, and Woodward, Ala., carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24213, PHOSPHATIC CLAY FROM FLORIDA TO OFFICIAL AND WESTERN TRUNK LINE TERRITORIES, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to supplement No. 32 to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 940. Decided May 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Dunnellon, Fla., and other points in the hard-rock district of Florida, carload rates constructed on basis prescribed or approved in Kellogg Co. v. Abilene & S. Ry. Co., 273 I. C. C. 311.

F. S. A. No. 24217, SYNTHETIC Rubber from Texas and Louisiana tO THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for and on behalf of carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595 and others. Decided June 7, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Houston, Tex., Lake Charles, and Baton Rouge, La., and other producing points in Texas and Louisiana to Springfield and Sikeston, Mo., Helena, Ark., and Lawton, Okla., carload rates constructed on basis approximating 22 percent of first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24218, SUGAR, INTERMOUNTAIN TERRITORY TO OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. A-3664 and Agent D. Q. Marsh's tariff I. C. C. No. 3529. Decided June 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Sugar to Texas, 210 I. C. C. 675, and Sugar to East Texas, 246 I. C. C. 1, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, carload rates 2 cents less than rates in effect June 30, 1946, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24220, ILMENITE ORE FROM MELBOURNE, FLA., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 979. Decided June 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload commodity rates to West Chicago, Ill., Newark and WoodRidge, N. J., constructed on basis of 16.7 percent of the appendix E scale of firstclass rates prescribed in Eastern Class Rate Investigation, 171 I. C. C. 481, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24221, MEAT MEAL FROM SOUTHWEST TO ILLINOis, Kansas, and MISSOURI, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3817. Decided June 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on con

ditions, to maintain on meat meal, feeding tankage, or dried meat scraps, accorded transit at Dallas, Fort Worth or San Antonio, Tex., from points in Arkansas, Louisiana (west of the Mississippi River), Oklahoma, and Texas, carload distance commodity rates.

F. S. A. No. 24223, Canned Vegetables from TEXAS TO OKLAHOMA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company and other carriers. Decided June 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes from Lubbock and Plainview, Tex., to Bartlesville and Tulsa, Okla., carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24224, Pig Iron from McCroSSIN, TEX., TO TRUNK LINE TERRITORY, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company and other carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No.3752. Decided May 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on condition, to maintain over additional routes to specified points in trunk-line territory, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24225, KYANITE FROM CLOVER, S. C., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 979. Decided May 27, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Allegany and Frostburg, Md., and Lansdale, Pa., carload commodity rates constructed in relation to rates on like property from Cullen, Va., to the same destinations.

F. S. A. No. 24227, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS TO AUGUSTA, GA., filed by Roy Pope, agent, for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided June 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Gasoline and Kerosene to Augusta, Ga., 234 I. C. C. 43, amended to include authority to maintain on gasoline, kerosene, and other specified petroleum products from Savannah and Port Wentworth, Ga., to Augusta and South Augusta, Ga., a carload rate the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24228, PIG IRON FROM MCCROSSIN, TEX., TO MISSOURI, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3599. Decided May 26, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to specified points in Missouri, carload commodity rates the same as in effect over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24230, LIMESTONE FROM GIANT, S, C., TO GEORGIA, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 998. Decided June 9, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload rates to specified points in Georgia, the same as from Pregnall, S. C., described in Sand and Gravel in Southern Territory, 234 I. C. C. 433.

F. S. A. Nos. 24232 and 24233, SCRAP IRON OR STEEL FROM SOUTH TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by Roy Pope, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 950. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from points in the South to (a) Middletown, Ohio, the lowest rates that may be constructed over any route on the basis approved in American Steel Abrasives Co. v. Aberdeen & R. R. Co., 269 I. C. C. 525, and (b) to points in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia included in the Pittsburgh, Pa., group, carload rates the same as to Pittsburgh.

F. S. A. No. 24236, CEMENT FROM KINGSPORT, TENN., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Southern Railway Company and other carriers. Decided August 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Southern Cement Rates, 132 I. C. C. 427, amended to include authority to maintain on conditions, over circuitous route to Lynchburg, Va., and other stations on the Southern Railway grouped therewith, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.