The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-12-08
LIQUOR
IN SAME OLD WAY
No Change Made In Express
Business At Chattanooga
LIQUOR FIRMS RETURN
Resident of Suburb of Chattanooga Is
Looking For Missing Nephew.
Chattanooga VIII Have Wire
less Station.

Chattanooga, december s-(Speclal)-
Recent enactments of the United States
government regulating the handling OF
liquor shipments. effective January
next. will make no change in the opera
lions of the Southern Express company,
because the ground is already covered by
rules and regulations of the shipping
concern itself. The penal laws OF the
United States on the subject Of shipping
liquors are embodied in three sections.
One provides that II any officer or agent
of a railroad, express or other common
carrier company causes consignment
of liquor to be delivered to other than
the party to whom consigned, unless by
written order of the consignee. he shall
be liable to a fine of not more than 5000,
imprisonment of not more than two years
or both Another is to the effect that any
such officer or agent who collects pur-
chase price of liquor, or in any way acts
as agent for the liquor consignor, shall
be fined not more than $50o0 A third says
| that any person shipping liquor without
outside labels showing nature Of the con-
tents shall be fined not more than 5000
and the liquor be confiscated All these
apply to liquor territory. or place subject
to the jurisdiction thereof.
| Word comes from Cincinnati that
score or more of the liquor dealers who
| moved to that city are planning to return.
In accordance with a recent decision
there is nothing to prevent a dealer doing
business with Chattanooga as his head
quarters, provided he sends all the whisky
out of the state. A large whisky con-
Germ in Cincinnati makes the following
statement:
"stnce our shipments out Of Chatta-
nooea into Alabama, Georgia and other
southern states are interstate commerce,
they cannot be interfered with by state
laws. We will continue to operate our
Cincinnati house fdf shipping our liquor
into Tennessee, but have reopened our
Chattanooga branch to ship out of Ten
| nessee."
Mayor THOMPSON has gone to New
York. the purpose of which Is to interest
some of the large insurance companies
with which the mayor has been intimately
| connected, in the local bonds. and to Sc
| cure a larger premium at succeeding
| bond sales. Many of them have made
] large purchases of paving bonds from
| other large cities. and none of them with
as high rate of interest as the Chatta-
nooga paper.
James Williamson of st. Elmo Is trying
| TO locate the whereabouts of his nephew,
| Erastus Flynn, or Erastus Travis. as
| the young man may call himself. Young
| Flynn is the only son and heir or Jack
| E,lvnn. who died In Nashville few days
ago leaving property valued at $4,000.
| Tt was stated in the Nashville papers
| that Mr.. Flynn had no kin, but Mr.. Will
liamson says the ex-engineer Is survived
by a son. Many years ago, according to
| Mr. Williamson, Jack Flynn and his
| wife separated. she taking with her their
| young son. Erastus. In time divorce
was secured, and Mrs. Flynn married
| Charles Travis. When Mr.. Williamson
last heard of young Flynn, who is his
| nephew. he was in Washington. ID. C..
| That was two years ago. and the Chat
tanoogan is now trying to locate the
| young man so that he can lay claim TO
his fathers estate. 1t is possible that
Flynn has adopted the name OF his
mothers second husband, Travis, and
| a search under that name will also be
made. Mrs. Travis is now thought to be
a resident OF Los Angeles.
When magistrate or other Official Is
convicted of some malfeasance in office
and the judgment carries with It disquali-