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Show RAILWAYS ORDERED TO APPEAR DEC. 28 Interstate Commerce Commission Takes Action to Alleviate the Car Shortage. WASHINGTON, Dec 22. An order was issued by the interstate commerce commission today requiring the railroads to show cause n't a hearing here December Decem-ber 28, why they should not return at once to their owners, without diversion or misuse, all foreign coal and refrigerator refrig-erator ears immediately after unload-in: unload-in: at their destination. The commission s order follows no announcement yesterday by the American Ameri-can Kail way association 's car service department that eiyht of the lare rnil-wavs. rnil-wavs. seven of them in the east, had failed to comply with its instruction-i to deliver a designated excess of box ears to southern an. I western connections above the number of such cars received. The ear service commission has established estab-lished headquarters here, and for weeks has been working in co-operation with officials of the interstate commerce commission to relieve the almost nationwide nation-wide car shortage. |