The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-09
Circuit Judges Apparently Reelected With Possible
 Exception Smith and Aird
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probate judge, sheriff and county clerk. For sheriff the East Lake box gave Charlie Jones. 7S; Shirley 12S; and Vines, 97. For probate judge it gave Arnold. 30; Stiles. S2; Waldrop, 176; and for clerk of the circuit court Merrell, 76; Morrow, 164. and oBarr, 65.
 At that hour the first four pre- cincts reporting showed for pro- bate judge: Arnold, 92; Stiles, 1884; Waldrop, 191. For circuit clerk; Merrell, 124; Morrow, 262; O'Barr, sS.
 Five boxes for sheriff gave Char lie Jones. 19O; J. E. Jones, 67; Shir- ley. 2S6; sugg. 5s; Vines. 1eS.
 Three boxes gave for county board of education: Lacey, 5s; Lips comb, 52; Moore, 1Os;S Wilson, 1o6. Moore and Wilson carried all three of the boxes.
 In the first two boxes for legis- lature Terry had fl. Mrs. Cory and Nat Barker had 26 each; Scott, 25; Benners. "A; Fite, 19; Ross, 19; Dickinson, 15.
 At 10:30 reports came to The Age Herald from two of the downtown boxes that Shirley and Charlie Jones were running neck and neck for sheriff.
 At II o'clock Woodlawn 34-1 re- ported on probate judge showing Arnold, 51; Stiles, 96; Waldrop, 27.
 For state senate: Shannan and Woodward box showed Brown, 23: Dinsmore, 4; Petters, IA; Sims, IS.
 For solicitor; the same boxes gave Address, 16; Davis, 20; Williams, 22.
 On the judgeships the first three Fort, 142; Hammil, 20; Boyd, IS; Stewart, 4O Abercrombie, Al; Ed wards, 25; Hail, 65: Smith, 42; Stig- gins, 8: Drake, 57 Evans, 9s; Afford, 6S; Greene, 112; Aird, 40; Allen, 34; Snyder, S4.
 Difficulties of Officers.
 The demand for election news last night was much less keen than usual, Every voter who had spent from five to 20 minutes marking his own ballot seemed to realize what a tre- mendous task was faced by the elec- tion officers and that in most of the precincts these officers would have to spend the entire night counting ballots and footing up their totals.
 At Il o'clock the first five boxes for probate judge gave: Arnold, 147; Stiles. 2S0; Waldrop, 21S.
 At 1130 West End 9-6 and Hoff- man reported and next came Sayre- ton 46-2. Lee and Morgan main. tained their leads in these boxes. Judge Anderson was going better than two to one. Walker, Fort, Boyd led in the judgeship.
 oN q fore midnight. These boxes made little change in the way things were running. At that hour nine boxes in the sheriff's race showed Charlie Jones, 316; Shirley, 4O2; Vines, 2S3. Joe c. Hail was still leading Aber- crombie and Smith, and with seven boxes Roger Snyder was leading Aird and Allen.
 Brewer in six precincts bad strong lead for the senate with Sims. Arnold and Stiles were way in the lead in the first nine boxes.
 In nine boxes for sheriff Jones. S16; Shirley, 40e Vines. 2Ss
 Pratt City gave Lipscomb and Ia- cey such a large vote their totals were swollen so that in seven boxes this race for board of education stood; Lacey. S14; Lipscomb, 273. Moore, 352; Wilson, 371.
 At midnight the reports beran to come in more rapidly.
 WHY GERMAN sHIPYARDs ARE
 BUSY
 From the Nations Business.
 German shipbuilding has from time to time had some attention from the shipbuilding yards of other countries; for the German wards have been busy.
 Like many other things German. the impulse which has caused ship- construction to go forward in Ger many has come from the German government. As source of direc- tions for industry and commerce the present German government is not recosnizably different from the old regime. So 1t fell out that when the government compensated owners for the merchant ships they had to surrender under the treaty of Yer sailies it attached String" to the payments. The string meant that 90 per cent of the amount had to be used Tor construction of new ships in German yards.
 To be sure, the ship owners in- sist that the 12,000. .o0o, 900 depreci- ated marks they got do not nearly cover their losses. that they could have more cheaply purchased ton mage abroad. and that they are not especially anxious to have new ships delivered to them at this par ticular juncture. Such protests. ap- pear to go for naught. At any rate. 1 the German yards keep merrily at their Job of building new steamers.