The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-17
THE NEWS NV BRIEF

1 night in circuit court at Murfreesboro
 Cook has stood five previous trails for the
 murder of his wife, Maggie F. Cook, who was kiiiled at the same time as her niece
 Washington January 16.-The bill
 drafted by the treasury department to au- I thoriza credits of $150.eco000 for food re- | lief in Europe was introduced today by 1 Chairnan Fordney of the House ways and means committee. Action on the measure by the committee is plannedSfor next Monday.
 I Kansas City. Mo, January 16.-Follow- 1 ing the testimony of witnesses today that | the federal disciplinary barracks at Fort l Levenworth. Kansas, was governed Dy
 "societ" committee with the approval of the officers in charge, Judge John S.
 Pollock of the Kansas City, Kansas, fed eraI court today ordered an investigation | of the barracks.
 l Baltimore, January 16.--With whisky valued at $5500N GOO by it's owners, the ship 1 ping board steamer Lake Ellerslie, the l third and last of Baltimore's liquor ships, | sailed for Nassau, Bahama Islands today. On board the ship were 34.667 cases or l whisky and wine and 1860 barrels oi liouor just removed from bond.
 New Fork, January lb.-A teleSrdpIat@ request was sent to the University Of llil- | nois tonight for the dispatch by airplane | of an anti-toxin the institution IS salu
 to have. tha. Dr. John Riegelman. Bronx me Heal examiner believed would save l the lives of Angelo and Dominick Del bene. victims of germ-laden olives. Both | are dangerously i'll in the hospitals, Angelo not being expected to live 24 hours Within the last week MT. and Mrs Paul f.-.- after eating olives. The men in the nos pital are brothers of Paul Delbene. Tolxio Thursday. January 15.-The Japanese government, according to 1 the newspapers, today sent instructions 1 last evening to Yukichi Obata, the min ister to China. to notify the Picking government that Japan, having sue ceeded to Germanys rights in shan tung on January 10 by virtue of the treaty of peace. was ready now to ne- gotiate at any time for their return. Paris. January 16-Of the 474 per sons aboard the steamer Afrique which foundered Sunday morning in the Bay of Biscay only 49 escaped so far as known.
 Nashville. January 1s-W. L. May bother. federal manager of the Nash vlle, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail- way. the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road and other roads. was run down by an automobile last night in front of the Union Station. sustaining broken rib and minor injuries.
 Nashville, January 16.-The tailor shop of Andrew Johnson in Greenville, one of the most famous structures in Tennessee. is to be moved to the court house grounds there, and the lot on which it has stood for the past three generations is to be used for building purposes.
 Chicago, January 16.-Reginald De- Koven, American operatic composer of musical scores and conductor, died hert early today of apoplexy.
 Jacksonville. Fla, January 1s.-Prof Newell L. Sims of the University of Florida resigned today after raid on his home at Gainesville, in which. &C., cording to department of justice opera lives. radical literature was found If was said, however, Professor Sims had violated no laws.
 Washington, January 1s.-House and Ssnate conferees on the railroad bill to- day discussed with the legislative com
 mittee of the interstate commerce com
 mittee the rate making section of tho
 Cummins bill After the conference
 adjourned announcement was made that
 no final conclusions had been reached.
 Richmon Va, January 16.-C. c.
 Vaughan of Franklin was this after
 noon elected president of the Virginia
 Good Roads Association at the annual
 convention. R. H. Angsll, Roanoke.
 was elected vice president. and D. E.
 Ryland, Lynchburg. secretary y-treas
 urer.
 Richmond. Va. January 16.-To find