Show OER WEA RATE ON DENIED IN CALIFORNIA Oo Complaint plaint of Grows Grow- Grow s Against Car Car- Irs flers ers Dismissed WASHINGTON ASHINGTON July 13 is AP APes Alon AP- AP jutes es on grapes peaches apricots Ear fears ars plums nad cherries from Cal Cal- ornia to all por portions lons of ot the he United tates States lying eastward were held to Ir and reasonable today by the Interstate commerce commission Complaints of California fruit rowers roWerS In which the California Sowers commission and various trade tade organizations In the state joined joi d in seeking arate aerate reduction were were ere dismissed L The rates on the deciduous fruits named were alleged In n the complaint corn corn- pl plaint to b be as co compared pared with the rates on apples From From California to the Mississippi sippi sipi valley and all points points' east rai railroads oads now make a rate of ot per pounds on the types of fruits r ts considered while to Western Vestern territory of ot which Denver is the central point the existing rate is isM M 62 Th The C California demand was or iJ I rate ot of to apply both t to Denver territory and the balance balance bal hal ance of ot the United States The IThe The commission said Us its Investigation gation g showed that the deciduous here under consideration are arem m moving ning vIng freely under the present ra rates s and that tha the vo volume of af movement move move- ment rient has Increased greatly during recent years the commission agreed that luring juring 1923 the California producers encountered n an unfavorable finan- finan dial return their th situation was lit lit- affected by railroad r rates tes I B I |