F. S. A. No. 24238, AcetonE CYANHYDRIN from Houston, Tex., to KnoxVILLE, TENN., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain for the transportation of acetone cyanhydrin and ethylene, cyanhydrin, tank-car load rates made percentages of the first-class rate prescribed or approved from and to the same points in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24240, Heating or Cooking Apparatus From ChattanOOGA, TENN., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Central of Gerogia Railway Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Rates,rom and to Pacific Coast Territory, 192 I. C. C. 153, 196 I. C. C. 197, and 210 I. C. C. 575, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, on heating or cooking apparatus to Pacific coast territory and intermediate points, carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24241, SYNTHETIC RUBBER FROM TEXAS AND LOUISIANA TO DavenPORT, Iowa, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595 and others. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Baytown, Borger, Houston, and Port Neches, Tex., Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, and North Baton Rouge, La., 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.

F. S. A. No. 24242, Grain from Emmetsburg to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, filed by L. E. Kipp, agent, for carriers parties to Grain and Grain Products from Points in Iowa, 245 I. C. C. 783. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief in the cited proceeding amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, for the transportation of soybeans, grain, and grain products, a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24243, NATIVE LOGS TO Altavista, Va., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for and on behalf of Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Frankfort, Ky., a rate the same as over direct route, constructed in relation to the joint-line scale prescribed in Farris Hardwood Lbr. Co. v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 178 I. C. C. 671.

F. S. A. No. 24244, PIPE FITTINGS TO OFFICIAL TERRITORY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 971. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Various Commodities from South to North, 251 I. C. C. 627, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, from Pell City, Ala., and points grouped therewith to points in official (including Illinois) territory, Ohio River crossings, and Virginia cities, on pipe fittings, copper, brass, bronze, iron or steel, less-than-carload rates made percentages of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24245, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, TO DALLAS, TEX., filed by Ira D. Dodge, agent, for the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided June 21, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted on conditions, to maintain from Galveston, Houston, and Texas City, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24246, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, NEW ORLEANS, LA., TO POINTS IN TEXAS, filed by Ira D. Dodge, agent, for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided July 12, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief, Export and Import Rates from and to Gulf Ports, 227 I. C. C. 61, and Commodities Between New Orleans and Texas, 248 I. C. C. 331, amended to include authority to establish and maintain over applicants' routes in-bound coastwise rates proposed in the application.

F. S. A. No. 24248, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO SYRACUSE, N. Y., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 10, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Daingerfield, McCrossin, and Lone Star, Tex., to Syracuse, N. Y., carload rates constructed on basis of 15.6 percent of first-class rates prescribed or approved in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24255, Sugar From Gulf and South AtlaNTIC PORTS, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent W. P. Emerson, Jr.'s tariff I. C. C. No. 380. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from New Orleans and other points in Louisiana and Gulfport, Miss., Mobile, Ala., Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla., Charleston, S. C., Savannah, and Port Wentworth, Ga., to points in Alabama and Georgia described in the application, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24257, PHOSPHATE ROCK FROM FLORIDA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company's tariff I. C. C. No. B-3160 and Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company's tariff I. C. C. No. A-8138. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Bartow, Fla., and points grouped therewith to Memphis, Tenn., and Hattiesburg, Miss., carload rates the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24260, FORMALDEHYDE FROM THE SOUTHWEST TO OFFICIAL AND SOUTHERN TERRITORIES, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3752. Decided June 21, 1949. Long-and-shorthaul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Kingsport and Knoxville, Tenn., and specified destinations in official territory, tank-car load rates constructed 30 percent of first-class rates prescribed in Consolidated Southwestern Cases, 205 I. C. C. 601 and 211 I. C. C. 575, plus subsequently authorized general increases. F. S. A. No. 24261, SULPHUR TO MOBILE, ALA., AND EAST MOSS POINT, Miss., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3543. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Port Sulphur, La., Bellaire and other specified points in Texas, a carload rate the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24262, ALUMINUM SULPHATE FROM BASTROP, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3595. Decided June 27, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Pensacola, Fla., Vicksburg, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and other specified points in Florida and Mississippi, carload rates constructed on basis of a percentage of constructive first-class rates.

F. S. A. No. 24263, Cotton From Baltimore, Md., to THE SOUTH, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for Baltimore Steam Packet Company and carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 754. Decided June 27, 1949. Longand-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over water-rail routes, to points in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, carload rates made with relation to allrail rates.

F. S. A. No. 24264, BRICK, Denver and GOLDEN, COLO., to Pampa, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for The Colorado and Southern Railway Company and other carriers. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted on conditions, to maintain carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24265, PIG IRON FROM TEXAS TO INDIANA AND MICHIGAN, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3752. Decided June 17, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain

from Daingerfield, Lone Star and McCrossin, Tex., to Michigan City and Richmond, Ind., Vassar, and Ypsilanti, Mich., carload rates made arbitraries over rates from the Texas origins to St. Louis, Mo.

F. S. A. No. 24267, FERRO-SILICON FROM Calvert, Ky., TO ALABAMA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Illinois Central Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to establish and maintain over specified circuitous routes to Birmingham, Bessemer, Ensley, and Fairfield, Ala., a carload rate the same as over direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24268, SULPHURIC ACID TO MACON and Mead, Ga., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1029. Decided July 6, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes from Baton Rouge and North Baton Rouge, La., to Macon and Mead, Ga., and from Newport News and Pulaski, Va., to Mead, Ga., carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24269, COAL TO ROCHESTER, N. Y., filed by The Pennsylvania Railroad Company for itself, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, and The New York Central Railroad Company. Decided June 24, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Indiana, Pa., and other stations in Pennsylvania on the Indiana Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad to Rochester and specified points grouped therewith, rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24270, WIRE CLOTH, IRON OR STEEL, TO LOUISIANA AND TEXAS, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3443, 3647, 3690, 3700, and 3758, and Agent L. E. Kipp's I. C. C. No. A-3550. Decided July 1, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Iron and Steel to Texas Ports, 226 I. C. C. 298 and 229 I. C. C. 199, amended to include authority to maintain on wire cloth, iron or steel, one-half inch mesh or over, from points in western and southwestern territories and adjacent origins, carload rates the same as on fencing wire, woven or welded.

F. S. A. No. 24272, PHOSPHATE ROCK FROM FLORIDA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Bartow, Fla., and points grouped therewith to Mobile, Ala., and Macon, Ga., carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24275, CEMENT FROM SPOCARI TO CORDELE, ALA., filed by the Southern Railway Company for itself and on behalf of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company. Decided July 1, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over applicants' circuitous route a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24281, Sugar from Gulf Ports to Birmingham, ALA., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Columbus and Greenville Railway Company and other carriers. Decided June 23, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from New Orleans, Three Oaks, Gramercy, and Reserve, La., to Birmingham, Ala., and points grouped therewith, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24283, Pulpboard FROM PANAMA CITY, FLA., TO CROYDON, PA., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 1018. Decided June 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Pulpboard from Southern Ports to Eastern Ports, 274 I. C. C. 97, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, a carload commodity rate constructed on basis of a differential of 6 cents per 100 pounds over the contemporaneous watertruck rate.

F. S. A. No. 24285, Crude and REFINED SULPHUR, FROM TEXAS TO THE SOUTH, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3571 and 3803. Decided July 1, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain carload rates from Boling, Houston Long Point, and Newgulf, Tex., to points in southern territory the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24287, CEMENT FROM KINGSPORT AND KNOXVILLE, TENN., filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company and other carriers. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Southern Cement Rates, 132 I. C. C. 427, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, to certain points in West Virginia on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, carload rates the same as the lowest rates that may be constructed over any line or route on the basis prescribed in Southern Cement Rates, supra.

F. S. A. No. 24290, ANHYDROUS AMMONIA TO EWING, ALA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3746. Decided July 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from El Dorado, Ark., Military, Kans., Etter, Tex., Sterlington, Lake Charles, and West Lake Charles, La., tank-car load rates the same as in effect to Gadsden, Ala. F. S. A. No. 24291, COKE FROM ALABAMA TO GEORGIA, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company. Decided July 20, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on coke and related articles from Birmingham, Ala., and points grouped therewith to Canton, Holly Springs, and Woodstock, Ga., a carload rate the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24292, WASHING MACHINE LEGS TO FAIRFIELD, Iowa, filed by B. T. Jones, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 4041. Decided July 12, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on washing-machine legs, iron or steel, and blanks, stampings, and unfinished shapes, iron or steel, from Toledo, Ohio, to Fairfield, Iowa, carload rates the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. Nos. 24298, 24347, and 24353, Commodity Rates from and to POINTS IN KENTUCKY, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Consolidated Freight Classification No. 18, Agent Robert E. Boyle, Jr.'s I. C. C. No. 106. Decided September 2, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain between Deane, Fies, and Sapphire, Ky., and interstate points, carload and less-than-carload commodity rates the same as from or to adjacent points.

F. S. A. No. 24300, SUGAR FROM LOUISIANA TO PARIS, TEX., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3662. Decided July 8, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on beet or cane sugar from New Orleans, Reserve, and other specified points in Louisiana, carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24303, PHOSPHATE OF SODA FROM TRUNK LINE TERRITORY TO THE WEST, filed by C. W. Boin, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. A-850 and Agent B. T. Jones' tariff I. C. C. No. 4041. Decided July 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over circuitous routes on phosphate of soda, di-sodium phosphate and tri-sodium phosphate from North Claymont, Del., Baltimore, Md., Trenton, Mich., Carteret and Grasselli, N. J., Chester, Marcus Hook, and Morrisville, Pa., to Leavenworth and Topeka, Kans., Kansas City, Mo.-Kans., St. Joseph, Mo., Beatrice, Lincoln, and Omaha, Nebr., carload rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24304, COKE FROM SEABOARD, N. J., TO THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT, filed by Roy S. Kern, agent, for the Erie Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided July 20, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to

maintain on coke and related articles to Bessemer and Duquesne, Pa., and other specified points in the Pittsburgh, Pa., group, a rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24308, MACHINES, HOUSEHOLD LAUNDRY, FROM FAIRFIELD, IOWA, TO FORT SMITH, ARK., AND OKLAHOMA, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I, C. C. Nos. 3708 and 3738. Decided July 29, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain commodity rates to Oklahoma points, constructed on basis of 45 percent of the revised Docket 13535 first-class scale; and to Fort Smith, the same as over the direct route. F. S. A. No. 24309, CEMENT TO MONTANA, filed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company for itself and other carriers parties to its tariff I. C. C. No. 5154. Decided July 12, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief, Western Cement Rates, 213 I. C. C. 611, amended to include authority to maintain, on conditions, from Devil's Slide, Utah, and Laramie, Wyo., carload rates constructed on basis of scale IV prescribed in Western Cement Rates, 48 I. C. C. 201 and supplemental reports, plus subsequently authorized general increases.

F. S. A. No. 24311, GROUND PHOSPHATE ROCK FROM JACKSONVILLE, FLA., TO THE SOUTH, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 976 and 1085. Decided July 20, 1949. Long-andshort-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain to Ohio and Mississippi River crossings and specified points in southern territory, carload rates the same as from Bartow, Fla.

F. S. A. No. 24313, PHOSPHATE ROCK TO THE SOUTHWEST, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariff I. C. C. No. 3703. Decided July 28, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Cokeville, Wyo., and Conda, Fort Hall, Georgetown, McCammon, Montpelier, and Soda Springs, Idaho, to specified points in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, carload group rates the same as over the direct routes.

F. S. A. No. 24314, FREIGHT, ALL KINDS, TO LAFAYETTE AND LAKE CHARLES, LA., filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company and other carriers. Decided July 13, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill., over applicants' route by way of Red River and Fort Worth, Tex., a carload rate the same as over the direct route.

F. S. A. No. 24315, Coal to Alexandria and Potomac Yard, Va., filed by The Virginian Railway Company for itself and other carriers. Decided July 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain on coal and coal briquets from mines and stations in the New River and Kanawhs, W. Va., districts, carload rates the same as over competing routes.

F. S. A. No. 24316, PEACHES TO EASTERN Territory, filed by J. G. Kerr, agent, for carriers parties to Agent C. A. Spaninger's tariff I. C. C. No. 932. Decided July 14, 1949. Long-and-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain over all-rail routes from points in the Southeast to points in trunk-line and New England territories presently named in above tariff, carload rates based 36 percent of constructive first-class rates determined in accordance with finding 17 of the southern class rate investigation.

F. S. A. No. 24318, BAGS TO POINTS IN WESTERN TRUNK LINE AND ILLINOIS FREIGHT ASSOCIATION TERRITORIES, filed by D. Q. Marsh, agent, for carriers parties to his tariffs I. C. C. Nos. 3595 and 3752. Decided July 22, 1949. Longand-short-haul relief granted, on conditions, to maintain from Lake Charles, La., Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, Port Arthur, and Texas City, Tex., carlosd rates the same as from New Orleans, La.