The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-20
SHERIFF LOSES
 FEED BILL SUIT
Case Involving Etowah Official Reversed By
 Supreme Court

MONTGOMERY, Ala, June 19.- W. B. Allgood, state auditor, was vic torious in the case involving claims of William Chandler, former sheriff of Etowah county, for sums of money for feeding prisoners, which was decided By the supreme court Thursday The case had been decided in favor of Chandler in the Montgomery circuit court but the supreme court reversed the Mont gomery court and then rendered decision in favor of the state auditor, dismissing the petition of Chandler for writ of mandamus to require the auditor to issue his warrant for the sums claimed.
 Chandler claimed a sum of $1 ,2SS. .62 from the state for feeding prisoners. The auditor averred, however, that dur ing the year commencing April 1, 1921, and ending March 31, 1922, the sum of $2,143.46 was collected by Chandler from the state on the representation that he had actually expended that amount in feeding state and county prisoners. As a matter of fact, the auditor charged, only $1,042.53 of that amount was actually spent for state and county prisoners, while $1,1O093 of the amount was spent for food for federal juvenile, insane and other pris- oners. It was claimed that Chandler was indebted to the state in that sum.
 Bottlers Warned-H. M. Robertson, supervisor of the division of agricul- tural chemistry of the state department of agriculture, today issued a warn ing to certain bottlers of the state as to advertising matter claiming bever- ages as being real fruit products.
 Attention is called to the advertis- ing material which is being used by certain bottlers of the state in ad- vertising beverages as being products of real fruits when in truth they are purely imitation products and synthetic preparations" Supervisor Robertson stated. "No words, designs nor devices should be used in advertising these products, whether it be on bill boards, periodicals or newspapers of Alabama, which would tend to deceive or mislead the public into believing that the prod uct is made from real fruits.
 "The legislature of this state passed an act, prohibiting false advertising and this department will be compelled to take action under this act, if the above practice of advertising certain bottled beverages is continued"
 MOIasses Feed Selzed-Seizure of 31 bags of molasses feed at Opelika was reported Thursday to H. NJ. Robertson, supervisor of the division of agricul- tural chemistry of the state department of agriculture. The feed is held for confiscatiOn. It was not registered and cannot be registered for sale in this state, it was said, because of it's high fiber content, per cent. above the state standard.
 May Abandon ROad-The Alabama public service commission Thursday re- ceived a notice of a petition filed with the interstate commerce commission by the Mobile and Ohio railroad seeking permission to abandon that portion of it's Mobile and Bay Shore branch from Delchamps to Alabama Port in Mobile county. The line sought to be abandon ed comprises 3.91 miles from Delchamps to Alabama Port an dan additional .82 of a mile on a spur to New Alabama Port, making a total of 4.73 miles. Reasons given for the petition were that the territory served has not developed as was expected and probably will not develop sufficiently. to justify main tainance of the line which was claimed has always been operated at a financial loss.
 Paroles Granted-Gov. W. w. Bran don Thursday paroled Tom Hays, sen- fenced from Covington county for life for murder June 30, 1913; Will Walls, Pickens county, who received a 25- year sentence for second degree mur- der, May 1, 1915; Sherman Posey, Morgan county, sent up for burglary,