The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
DEBARDELEBEN AND
 BRENT WILL CONFER ON WARRIOR SYSTEM
Mallory Line Will Put New Rates Into Effect Which Will Put Mobile on Par With
 New Orleans

Mobile, June -tSpeciaD-Thco- dore Brent of New Orleans, and H. T. DePardeleben, of Birmingham, officials of the Mississippi-T Warrior svsts m, will come to Mobile next week to confer with local business men regarding thc matter of publishing rates via the Large line from Mississippi river points to Mobile, question which has been agitated here since the barge line has been established.
 Announcement that the barge line officials would come here was made today by R. G. Cobb, traffic manager of the chamber of commerce, who had a conversation with MT. Brent by long distance telephone Thursday afternoon regarding the matter. MT. Brent stat ed that Ire would make an effort to be here Friday, June 10, and that he and Mr. DeBardeleben would confer with local shippers at that time.
 The request that the barge line off, cials come to Mobile to talk over this proposition was made by Mobile in- terests following recent discussions Of .his question. 1t is claimed that Mo- bile is being discriminated against 4n favor of New Orleans in that New Or leans has a rate from Warrior river points while Mobile has not been given one from Mississippi river points.
 Necessity of Rates
 The necessity of getting these rates is growing, especially in view of the expected rail rate raises contained in the Mississippi valley case, now before the interstate commerce commission. These raises will be so great that Mo- ' bile must use tile Mississippi river, is IS predicted, and special effort to se- cure rates is being made in view of , this situation. Several strong commit tees have been named by the Mobile chamber of commerce in the past sev- eral months to see what could be done to remove the discrimination against Mobile, but their efforts have brought no results.
 The reduced rates from interior cas- tern points to Mobile steamship line will be put into effect on five days notice if the interstate commerce com mission has no objection, according to word received here today from the New York office of the company. The tele- gram sent to R. G. Cobb, traffic man. ager of the chamber of commerce. stated that request that the line be allowed to publish the rates upon five days notice, was filed with the commission last Tuesday and a reply is expected this week.
 Tariffs Now Ready
 It was stated that the tariffs are now ready. ~These rates will repre- sent considerable reduction from eastern points to Mobile, giving this port practically the same rate as ap- plies to New Orleans from that terri tory. At present the rates via the Mallory line from interior points to ok se l., ,s--l. I. but the new tariffs are considerably lower than the rail charges. An effort has been under way for the past sever- al months to secure these rates. The telegram from New York stated that the steamer Connoton and the Lake ' FreNand are loaded and will sail for Mobile as soon as crews can be se- cured. There has been no boat from New York since May I, Mallory off cials claiming that they have been un- ablerto move the vessels on account of the marine workers strike.