The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-31
MOBILE

Mobile, July 30.-(Special. 1T B. Kel- ley, acetylene wilder, employed by the Chckasaw Shipbuilding and Car Com pany, sustained injuries considered as fatal when he fell fifty feet from lad der while working on hull No. at the plant today. Kelley was ascending the ladder after a negro who dropped pipe fiange which struck Kelley's head. He fell striking some scaffolding and q pipe before hitting the ground. His skull was fractured and he was injured severely in other ways. Two men have been killed while working on this hull.
 The steamer Ensley City. third ves- sel built by the Chickasaw Company, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, sailed from Mobile today for Rotterdam, Holland, carrying cargo of steel products from the Bir- mingham mineral district and drawing twenty-eight feet of water. MT Graf ford went as far as Fort Morgan on the vessel, returning to the city by tug. It is the first trip he has made on a Chickasaw built vessel.
 Dockage charges for vessels loading al the piers of the Mobile and Ohio Rail-
 
 first time in the history of the port, under a published tariff made public to- day by the railroad company, the scale of charges ranging from $50 to S1OO for berthing space for each vessel for pe- riod of approximately fifteen days to load or discharge cargo. Although a hearing on the matter was held by subcommittee of the rate body at New Orleans on Monday the charges were published four days previous to this, ac- cording to Chamber of Commerce offf- cials following the receipt today by the traffic bureau of the chamber of copy of the tariff.
 After lengthy discussion the county board Of revenue and road commission CTS in special session this morning. cut the acreage assessment of the Chicka- saw Land Company, subsidiary of the Chickasaw shipbuilding and Car Com pany, from S545.3 as fixed by Tax Ad- ulster Thomas H. Hallwell to s59o, ,9S2, 20. or a reduction of s154,9SSS0. This assess ment on the lands. plus the improve ment on the property which remain un- changed totaled g cos 2s2.20.
 Rumors that the American Sugar Re lining Company would he one of several bidders for the Fred T. Ley plant at Frascati were current today in Moblle. following announcement yesterday that soon advertise for bds on the property the Emergency Fleet Corporation would here Should this company acquire the site it is believed. that it would be used as a refining plant for the raw Cuban product which could be brought here at a low transportation cost, it is said. Low distributor rates on domestic sugar out of Mobile have also been recently secured. and there has been considerably discussion in local business circles for the past several months over the pos sihlity of the location of such plant, or plants. in this city similar to those operated in New Orleans.
 Tom Crow, a seaman, on the steamer Lakeville, which arrived in port today from Matanzas Cuba, committed suicide by jumping into the sea Thursday morn ing at about il clock, according to the report made by the master of the vessel to local officials immediately after the arrival of the ship here. Crow, who was 34 years of age, was native of New York. All efforts to save the man after he leaped overheard were unavailing.