The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-05
WHITE TO RESIST TRADE BAR MOVE.
Alabama Attorney General To Fight For Interest Of
 Port Of Mobile
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD !

Hugh White, special assistant>at- torney general, left tonight for Mo- bile. Hc>will proceed to Hattiesburs Thursday to attend a hearing which it is stated, seriously involves the shipping interests of Mobile.
 The Mississippi railroad commits sion on that date will hear from the interstate commission a case in which a decision adverse to the wishes of the Alabama commission will affect the trade of Mobile with the west by eliminating the trackage rights Of the Mississippi Central railroad over the line of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern railroad into Mobile. Mir. White will present a petition seeking leave for the Alabama public service commission to intervene in the case to protect the interests of Mobile.
 The brief prepared for submission by Mir. White in the case called at- tention to the development of the port of Mobile authorized by the re- cent legislature and urged tHfs as a reason against erecting any trade barrier detrimental to Mobile. The petition stated on this subject:
 Under section s3 of the constitu tion of Alabama, as amended by the amendment adopted at the November election in 1922, and under the act of the legislature of Alabama approved September IS, 1923, enacted pursu- ant to and to give effect to said Section 93 of the constitution of Ala bama as amended, the state of Ala bama has entered upon the work of developing, constructing, maintain ing and operating greatly improved harbor and seaport facilities at the port of Mobile and has provid@l for said purposes for an expenditure or aS much as s1o,000, 900 for the pur- pose of improving and enlarglng said facilities in the interest of aiding and increasing commerce, intrastate, interstate and foreign import and eX- port, into, out of and through the said port of Mobile, which said inn proved port facilities petitioner. ayers will be of great value to and will greatly facilitate all such commerce aforesaid. And petitioner ayers that it is not in the public interest, but, on the contrary, that it will be op- posed to the public interest of the state of Alabama and of all such commerce aforesaid, for the inter- state commerce commission to take any such action in this proceeding as is reasonably calculated to erect any barrier in the way of the free flow of all such commerce, sate, Interstate and foreign, into out of, and through such port of Mobile; and petitioner ouOulAtS liidI IL lS III IIlC PuOilS 1hNOA- est and in the interest of all such commerce that such action as Is taken by the interstate commerce commits sion in this cause should be taken so as fully to protect the interests of said port of Mobile and so as to pro- vide for the free flow of all such commerce into, out Of and through said port of Mobile.
 Gov. w. W Brandon today parole,t Crawford Gillespie, sentenced fro1l Tuscaloosa county September 1c, 1921, on charge of burglary and grand larceny and aiding a prisoner to escape, and who received a sen tence of one to two years on one charge avd two to three years on another. The governor granted full pardon. with restoration of civil rights, to Dave Coplon, sentenced from Jefferson county on charges of burglary and grand larceny and buy ing and concealing stolen property Coplon was sentenced for seven years in 1915, and paroled in 1917.