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Show COIf LWS FILED Di FRUIT RATES WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 Public service commissions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho today filed complaints com-plaints with the interstate commerco commission attacking the 25 per cent Increase in freight and ten per cent I increase in express rates as applying fl to fruit, vegetables, berries and fisb jH shipped from the northwest. The rates aro declared to bo dis- i fl criminatory and unauthorized under tho law by which the government as-sumcd as-sumcd control of tho utilities. The commission is asked to set aside the vM rates and establish new rates not greater than formerly prevailed. |