The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
City News In Brief

c. N Avery, state highway commits
 sioner of Texas, was in Birmingham yesterday on a combined business and pleasure trip. Mir Avery was formerly resident of Birmingham.
 The highway commissioner is in charge of the expenditure os si0o, ,00o. 900 for high ways in different parts of Texas. He expressed himself as delighted with the progress of Birmingham and congratu- | lated the people of Alabama on their recent sanctioning of a bond issue of
 s25. 900 900 for good roads purposes. Efforts are being made to secure MT. Avery as a speaker before the Civic Forum at an early date.
 | Fifty-five old cases which have been on the dockets of the criminal division | of the circuit court for many months were disposed of yesterday by Judge l Dan A. Greene. In many of these cases | the defendants have been convicted and are serving long terms in the peniten- | tiary others have died and these cases | were dismissed. Approximately fifty | writs of rearrest were ordered issued | in an effort to apprehend defendants who have been at large since the crime for which they are wanted was | committed.
 l l.. Sevier, president of the Alabama | Manufacturers Association, returned 1 Friday from trip in South Alabama, | where he visited four counties in in terest of the association. MT. Sevier states that much interest in the work | of the Alabama Manufacturers Asso- citation was shown by business men F. tfAo c 1 tied. and that many new members were added to the associations roll. 1 Thomas Holmes. a young man of i Jasper, plead guilty to the violation | of the Mann white slave act in the | United States court yesterday ana was sentenced to serve thirty days in 1afi
 Holmes has been in jail since January on the same charge.
 i a woman from Kentucky to Jasper in violation of the federal white slave law.
 Charles Jones of the Birmingham Traffic Bureau will attend the meeting | of the southern traffic managers to be held in Atlanta next Tuesday. He is of the opinion that this conference to
 which he has been invited will have to tdo with the meeting on the following day of the consolidated classification com mittee. which will take up the matter
 of reclassifying freight rates in south
 eastern territory.
 Members of the Alabama council, No 5s2 United Commercial Travellers, have launched a series of dances for the mem hership of the council The first of the affairs will be held Friday, August 27 and on each fourth Friday thereafter.
 These dances will be held on the rooi
 of the Jefferson County Bank Bldg Al the first of these dances. the entire mem.
 bership of Council l72 will be the guest; fl of Coucil 5S2.
 B. F. Yoakum, former head of ths
 Frisco system, left Birmingham Friday
 after spending two days as the guest ol Walter Moore, coal operator. My
 Yoalxum visited several points in thu mining section and other fields of in dustry while here. He has manifested much interest in the Birmingham dis Itrict for several years and pays inter tmittent visits to this section. | Permit was given yesterday by the city building inspector to erect a $15. 900 apartment house at Thirty-secont street and Twelfth avenue, Norwood
 The building will be erected by l. H
 Smith.