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Show NO ADVANCE IN FREIGHT RATES Washington, Aug. 7. Proposed ad- j ' vances in class freight rates by rail- I H ways operating between the Misslssip- J H pi and Missouri rivers, which were Ij jH to have becomo active on October IS, L H 1911, were suspended by the inter- IH state commerce commission today uu- H til December 30. 'JH The suspension affects all class H rales from Atlantic seaboard points H to Kansas City, Omaha and other lH Missouri river transfers. The iin- IH creases proposed average about nlno H cents a hundred pounds on freight of jH the first class. H The rates attacked are substantial- I I iH ly the same as those complained of !ti in the well-known Burnham-Hanna- ' 'H Munger- case. In 190S the commis- i 'H sion issued nn order in that proceed- j jH ing, reducing tho rates on first class ijH freight from 60 cents to 51 cents a , jH hundred pounds and making propor- I 'jH tlonate reductions on freight of other H classes, ho railroads contested the H order, which was effective for two , H ears from November 1Q, 1908. In H October, 1910, the United States su- H promc court sustained the commis- ijH slon's order and the lower rates were H made effective immediately. Thoy con- f H tlnuod in effect for only fourteen days " H when, on expiration of the two years j jH life of tho order, the railroads again r j aaaam advanced them. ' . H Tho advances wero suspended and ; H the case will bo heard probably aariy iBaBBm |