The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
 INLAND WATERWAYS. HERE ON THURSDAY.
General w. D. Connor Will h. Spect Rivers of Alabama With Leading Men of
 Alabama Cities

Gen. w. D. Connor, new di- rector-general of the nations inland waterways, will arrive in Birmingham over the Louis vile and Nashville at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning.
 He comes for the purpose of making an inspection of the Warrior river with it's improve ments and will wind up his tour of inspection at the port of Mobile.
 It will be his first trip to Alabama since he was placed in charge of the nations inland streams. He has mani fested the greatest interest lin the Warrior river scheme of development and already promised his utmost effort in that direction Arriving here Thursday morning he will be met by Henry T. DeBardeleben, manager of Warrior river transporta- : ton. and will proceed at once to Port of Birmingham, where he will spend a portion of the day. The rest of the day will be given over to an inspection of the Port of Cordova.
 He will be entertained Thursday evening at the Southern Club, where he will meet a number of men inter ested in Alabama waterway develop ment and will make a talk to them. Accompanying the general to Port of Birmingham will be Mir. DeBardele- ben. George Gordon Crawford, R. A Brown. Murray Brown. J. Frank Rush ton. w. D. Nesbitt, W. 5. Allen. Mai. Earle North, engineer in charge | of the Mobile division. will arrive in Birmingham Wednesday evening ana accompany the party on its trips. OTHER PORTS ] Half of Friday will be given to ln- | spection of the port terminals at Tus- | caloosa and the party will go thence tc | Eutaw and from there in automobiles l to Demopolis Friday afternoon. Al 1 Demopolis arrangements to entertain l General Connor are being made by MT l Steinhart, president of the DemopoliS l Chamber of Commerce. General Con | nor will see the beginnings of 'por' l at Demopolis and the citizens there | will tell him in detail of their proffe' l to meet the government half way 1T | the building of terminals.
 The party will leave Demopolis Fri | day evening at o'clock for Selma l where they will arrive at 10 o'clock | They will give half a day to inspection
 of the river at Selma and will be en
 tertained by the Selma Chamber
 Commerce. Secretary Richards Of tha 1 body is in charge of the arrangemnts Al Selma General Connor and part' will be joined by Maj. w. A. Johnson 1 of Mobile engineer in charge of Ala 1 hama inland waterways. who will ac | company them to Montgomery where | they will spend Saturday afternoon | They will leave Montgomery Saturday | evening and arrive in Mobile Sunday | morning.
 MONTGOMERY MEETING Richard Hobbie and Clayton Tulh' | are in charge of arrangements for re | ception and entertainment of thu | party at Montgomery.
 O. l.. Baum, general manager of th' | Chamber of Commerce. and w. D
 Nesbitt are arranging for the Thurs
 day night entertainment of Genera 1 Connor in this city.
 Extreme Interest will greet thu
 coming of General Connor, not only be
 cause it will be his first inspection o
 the Alabama waterways. but becaus
 his visit is also expected to lend i'm
 petus to the campaign for the stat
 port aid amendment and the count,
 aid amendment to be voted in NoVem
 ber.