The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-01


 petition for depot at Freemanville. Southern railway, petition to rerout trains over Alabama Great Souther
 tracks between Birmingham and Besss
 mer and to use depot of Alabama Grea
 Southern railway at Bessemer
 Central of Georgia railway, petition t
 substitute umbrella shed for depot a ] Gamer.
 Jackson County Telephone company, pc I tition for readjustment of telephone rate at Scottsboro
 Ensley Southern railway, petition { abandon that part of it's line lying wes of eastern bank of Locust fork of thu l Warrior river to Maxine.
 l SALARY PAYMENT REFUSED 1 Because of a dispute as to the salary of A. H. Aston, state supernumerary l judge during the term which began Jan
 uary 15, the state auditor Wednesday l declined to issue Judge Alston's warrant 1 for January and announced that the pay ment of the money would be held up pending a decision of the attorney gem eral as to whether the salary shall be l $4OO0 or S30o0
 l M. c. Algood, state auditor, has re- quested William l.. Martin, attorney gen. eral, for an opinion but it has not been prepared. It is probable that the de- cision of the supreme court in the man | damus cases brought against the gov- 1 ernOr VIII nave some bearing on the AIS ton case and that the opinion is being
 held up by the attorney general pending
 action by the supreme court. 1 Judge Aston in the past has drawn $400a I a year and the law creating his office
 provides that he shall receive this sal ary, but the legislature in passing the general appropriation bill in 1915 made
 his salary 5000 year for the term be- ginning January 15, 1917. Judge Aston l contends that he can collect the salary | even though there be no provision for l the full amount in the appropriation bill. 1 A decision in this case will have bearing | on other cases in the past where the ap- l proprition bill did not provide full sal aries for state employees.
 l Auditor Allgood informed Judge Aston | that he would be forced to hold up the
 warrant until some understanding had | been reached about the salary. REGISTRAR NAMED | H. P Walker of Tuscaloosa was ap- l pointed registrar of Tuscaloosa coun- 1 ty by Governor Henderson following | the approval of the selection by the state registration commission com posed of the governor auditor and commissioner of agriculture TO HEAR GERARD CASES | Nine cases involving the condemna- 1 tion of liquor valued at $250,000 which was seized in the raids in Russell | county last year will be submitted to l the supreme court on briefs Thursday
 In the circuit court of Russell county | the liquor was condemned and the | sheriff was ordered to destroy it. Exe- cution of the judgments was delayed l pending the appeals.
 | Attorneys for persons who claim the liquors have prepared briefs in sup 1 port of the contention that it should not be destroyed and the state will | be given. time by the court to prepare 1 briefs in reply to those of the de- l fendants
 | WILL PAY TEACHERS l Governor Henderson and William F. l Feagin. state superintendent of edu- l cation, held a conference Wednesday | on the subject of paying the public i school teachers the amounts now due l them. It is probable that warrants
 for the money will be sent out during l the next few days
 | About $375,000 is due the teachers now $325,000 being for public schools, I $14,250 for county high schols, S3375 1 for state agricultural schools, $32, 900 | for normal schools and the remainder l for miscellaneous schools
 Warrants for the salaries of state 1 officials and employees were issued and distributed by the state auditor | Wednesday,
 MONTGOMERY POLICE REPORT l During the last calendar year, $40 cases were handled by the Montgom- l cry police department. according to l the annual report of the secretary of l the board of public safety. Total fines amounted to $10,2S0, while the value l of goods recovered through activities of the police department was 1 S33.S25.43.
 PROCLAMATION ISSUED | Governor Henderson issued a proc l lamation to citizens of Alabama 1 Wednesday urging them to attend Sunday school on February II, which has been set apart as Come to Sunday l School Day. in Alabama, Georgia,
 South Carolina, Mississippi and Arkan- l sas, and to lend their moral assis- 1 tance to persons who are conductine | the Sunday schools
 l Come-to- o-SundaySchool Day was l designated by the Alabama Sunday l School association and schools of all | denominations are being urged to ob- ] serve it and to see that as many per 1 sons as possible present on that day. | Governor Henderson's proclama tion ] called "upon all Alabamians. as well i as visitors in our midst, to attend | Sunday school in the church of their 1 choice on February n, 1917, that thos
 engaged in conducting these schools 1 shall receive proper encouragement and find their work in the service of l their God prospering."
 I PAROLE AMENDED | Governor Henderson issued an order | Wednesday amending a recent parole ] of John Cross of Shelby county so as
 to explain further his reasons for re- l lieving Cross of a $50 fine and hard | labor sentence for violations of the I prohibition laws. Governor Henderson l said Cross had reformed since the cases were brought against him and 1 only recently had lost leg from dis l ease. He didn't think it for the best interests of the county and Cross to
 force him to complete the hard labor I sentence.
 1 A German chemist produced a tenn 1 perature of 13,500 degrees through ex- | periments with liquid air under pres {; sure, or $500 degrees hotter than the
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