Show PERMITS RAILROADS TO INCREASE RATES Interstate Commerce Commission Issues rormal Orders Making Grant of August 1 Effective. WASHINGTON Dec 12 Formal orders or-ders isued bv the interstate commerce eoaunisMon enable the railroads in Cen tral Freight association territory to res J he the a per cant advaa e in car ta a fre ght rates granted to them bv the commission in Its decision of ogust 1 The lines are authorised to pot into effect on fi -a davs notire joint through rates for tie transportation of treight between points in Cantrcl Freight association territory and points in western southwestern and southeast ern territories which shall ha in excess of the existing joint through rate onlv to the extent that rnav ba necessary to allow lines operating within Central Freirht association temtorv an increase cot in axcees of o per cent above the customarv divisions which the lines in Central JVeaght association territory have heretofore received for the trans portation of traffic under such rates to and from Mississippi river or Ohio river crossings. The orders stipulate that no In creased rates shall be established upon commodities as to which increased rates w th n Central Freight association ter-ntorv ter-ntorv were not authonaed bv tho com mission |