The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
HAMILTON NAMES COMMITTEES FOR NEW BAR BOARD
' Birmingham Man Is On \ Executive Board As An
 nOunced By President
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU - THE AGE-HERAlD

SrATE CAPITAL BUREAU t THE AGE-HERALD ! if. Montgomery, Aia., Jan. i6 ] Executive and other committees of the state bar commission have been named by Claude Hamilton of Green vile, recently elected prs >;iue.lt of this body, created by the legislature of 1923 President Hamilton is ex-officio chair man of the executive committee and the other members of the committee ap- pointed by him follow: T. J. Judge of Birmingham, N. R. Lee of Mobile, J. Kelly Dixon of Talladega, Bernard Harwood of Tuscaloosa and John A. Lusk of Guntersville.
 The committee on admission of prac- tice law is composed of R. H. Powell of Tuskegee, chairman; and B. Deg Waddell of Scale, A. J. Harris of De- catur, R. A. Cooper of Jasl T and T. J. Bedsole of Grove Hill.
 The education and schoo lcommittee is composed of J. Render Thomas of Montgomery, chairman, and l.. F. Ger aid of Clanto., l.. L.. raXon of Colum- Huey of Enterprise.
 The committee on consolidation with the Alabama State Bar association is composed of John H. Peach, Sheffield chairman; Henry F. Reese of Scale, k. w. Hare of Monroeville, John II. Dis que of Gadsden and $. l.. Thompson.
 Road Forces Changed.
 Changes in the personnel of the resi- dent engineer force were announced Wednesday by G. N. Mitcham, division engineer of the Third division, state highway departmnet.
 1Nho rncition of racidapt nn the Opelika- -Waverly road project in Lee county has been accepted by o. w.. Tidwell, formerly employed by the Ala bama Power company. He fills the va cancy caused by the transfer of c. B. Moore to the position of resident en- gineer and the Reese Ferry bridge project over the Alabmaa river, this bridge being part of the link between Montgomery and Prattville.
 J. F. Ross, formerly employed as resident engineer on federal aid proj- ect 112-A in Crenshaw county, has designed and accepted the position of bounty engineer of Crenshaw county. w. J. Cornell has been appointed to succeed Mir. Ross as resident engineer of the project, which is road from Mount Pleasant church through Lu- verne to Brantley.
 Mir. Mitcham will leave Wednesday afternoon for Opelika, where he will This week, accompanied l. H. H. Houk, bridge engineer of the United States bureau of roads, he inspected in Crenshaw county the bridge over the Mount Pleasant-Brantley project.
 Mail Service Improved.
 ! A n:arhed improvement of mail serv- ice to offices in the capitol was com mented upon at the meeting of the governors cabinet held Wednesday morning with Gov. w. W. Brandon presiding.
 ssIt was stated at the meeting that the buildings housing the Girls Indus trial school at Birmingham were i'm proved. Suitable progress was report ed in the matter of correcting wiring deficiencies at the capitol.
 Chester D. Johnson, state fire mar shal, reported that he had inspected the school for the blind and the school for the deaf at Ta!iadega and had found conditions good at both institu- Mons and proper precautions taken to guard the inmates against fire hazards. 4t Dogs Head Sent In.
 ceiyed Wednesday for examination the
 
 Sullivan, veterinarians of Montgom- cry. It was stated that the animal had bitten another dog but no human being was bitten.
 New Tariffs Approved.
 T, The Alabama public service com mission approved Wednesday the tar ifs of the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville and Nashville Railroad com panies, carrying rates, rules and regu- lations governing concentration, ware tween points in Alabama. These tar ifs were issued in compliance with a recent order of the commission, only minor notifications being made by the railroads from the terms of the order.
 Approval was also given by the com mission. to the petitiO-- of the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad company to cancel the present interstate rules and regulations governing the opera ton of logging trains between points Aun their lines south of Decatur and to Substitute ill lieu three of the present ihterstate rules.
 Jefferson Man ParOled.
 w. A. Jones, Jefferson county nrisoner, was given a parole Wednes- day by order of Gov. W. w. Brandon. Jones was convicted of false pretense oA July 27, 1923, and sentenced to serye a term in the Jefferson county jail until January 24, 1924. On rep resentation that the prisoner was suf fering greatly from tuberculosis, he was paroled a few days before his sentence will have expired.
 Ef Commissions Issued
 AIhe following commissions were is sued by S. H. Blann, secretary of state, Wednesday,:
 SS. J. Stearns, notary public and ex- officio justice of the peace, precinct 12, Notasulga, Tallapoosa county; J.. A Collier, notary public and ex-officio justice of the peace, precinct s, We tnmpka, Elmore coun:-; M. L. Lar dent, notary public, Selma, Dallas county: J. B. Falkner, notary public, Sserrett, Shelby county; c. M. Me Fam, notary public, McWilliams, Will cox county; J. l.. Massengale, notary hiablic, Akron, Hal, county; Bertha RFIAIA nF TIT