The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-24
INVESTIGATION OF COURTHOUSE
 FIRE EBEGUN
Edifice At Enterprise De stroyed At Great Loss.
 School Burns
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SCHOOL DuTnS
 tsTATE CAPITAL BUREAUl
 MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 23.-- Chester E. Johnson, state fire mar. shall, to investigate esthe fire which early Wednesday morning destroyed the Coffee county branch court house Ut Enterprise.
 According to the news received by the fire marshal the court house, a brick building, with wooden inside, Structure was total loss, as well as a large part of the fixtures and records therein. The ,bdilding was valued at around $3O,O0O, the, fixtures destroyed at $10,0O0 making $40, GOO the total of the financial loss. It was not known to what extent this was covered by insurance. / Practically all the. records except those of the probate, eoffice were de- stroyed by the flames, The probate records were kept in a vault and es- capped intact. A large part of the records of Coffee county, including the main court house at the county seat Elba.
 A telegram was also received We'd nesday by Marshal Johnson from Ari- 
 been burned there Tuesday night
 Visits Marion, Dr. R. E. Tidwell, assistant super intendent of education, and head of the division of teacher training, left We'd nesday for Marion to pay an official visit to Judson college there in COZ nection with teacher, training work.
 Hunters Fined
 John O. Crow, L,5S. Sampson, and Frank Clines of Marshall county have been convicted of hunting without li- cense and fined $10 and costs each, according to report made Wednesday to I. T. Quinn, state commissioner of conservation. Doyl Morgan was con : yicted in Cherokee county of violating the state game law and fined $10 and costs.
 Life Termer Paroled
 Ali Wallace, life term convict, who has been nearly IS years in prison, w. Brandon. Wallace was convicted in the Lee county circuit court January 16, 1906. In granting the parole, the governor stated the prisoner had worn himself out in the service of the state and that clemency was recom- mended by the trial judge, the soIici- tor and the board of pardons.
 Other paroles issued "Wednesday fol- low: -ts4a @issi':
 Morgan Jackson, convicted in Hous- ton county, August l, 1921, of grand larceny,y sentenced 10 three to five years imprisonment;A Aaron Vaughn, convicted in Mobile county, July 30, 1919, of forgery and sentenced to two to three years imprisonment in each case; Robert Lee, convicted in Mo bile county, May 1S,; 1923, of manu- featuring liquor, sentence one year one day, to one year two days. t.f
 White In New Office ; Temporary quarters on the third floor of the capitol have been assigned Hugh White, counsel for the Alabama public service commission, on account of crowded conditions in the commits sion's officers on the; ground floor of. the state building. eys., <. s8...,z
 Pushes Weifaxs Work s ..i Miss Virginia HandieE, assist ai1t disi rector of the state aFetf 6r partment, returned Welnesd day 3f6f f Birmingham, where for the past SS9 days she has been engaged in aiding the reorganization of child aid work. This work has recently been taken over by the state child welfare department after the Children's Aid society merged its activities with that of the state de- partment. Two new workers have re- gently been installed in the children's aid division. Miss Grace Ashe of Bir- mingham, and Miss Ethel Sudlow, from Greenville, s. C., who will take charge of the work in north Alabama.
 May Abolish Station
 The petition of the Southern railway to discontinue its agency at Maxine will be heard January g at Birming- ham, it was announced Wednesday by the Alabama public service commits sion, Members of the Alabama pub lie service commission will sit at Falk- vile Thursday to hear the petition of the Southern Bell Telephone company to be given permission to sell to the .Falkville Rural Telephone company all of it's outside local telephone exchange plant at Falkville. The commissioners will sit Friday in Birmingham to hear two cases at the Chamber of Commerce building.
 Lewis To Make Report
 E. R. Lewis, representing the federal department of commerce, was busy at the state capitol Wednesday, going over figures to make a report on the fiscal condition of this state. He has been in Montgomery three weeks and during that time has completed a finan- cial survey of the city government. He expects to be in Montgomery two weeks longer investigating the states finances.
 Discuss Road Program
 Following a routine Business meeting Wednesday morningfin the state high way building, the state highway com mission repaired to the governors of flee, where conferefiee was held with Gov. W. W. Brandon in reference to the proposed new policy of the highway department. This program as planned, calls for systematic construction of state roadn, departing from the pre-. vious method of waiting for federal aid and matching funds from the federal treasury dollar for dollar on road work, At this conference there were present also W. s. Keller. state highway engi- reer, and other members of the state road forcea and Harwell G. Davis, at- torney general of Alabama. Both the governor and John A. Rogers, chair man of the state highway commission, stated after the conference that notb- ing developed at the meeting beyond a discussion of the new financial policy, proposed for the construction of roads in Alabama. The bond commission