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Show j PUBLISHERS OPEN FIGHT TO STOP RATE ADVANCE WASHINGTON. July 31. In a brief filed with the inter- j I state commerce commission to-1 j i day, the National Publishers association of New York op- j ; posed the application of the , American Railway Express j company for an increase of 40 j per cent in the rates on the transportation of periodicals. The association asked that the application of the express company com-pany for a reclassification of periodicals be denied and that i any increase of express rates on magazines and periodicals be ! hmited to not more than 25 or 30 per cent. t |