The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23
ALABAMA TO GET
THIRTY TRACTORS
100 Trucks And Other
Road Equipment Al
lotted To State
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU,

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March 22.--
Alabama will receive this year from
the federal government as its ALLEGATION
Of road equipment 80 tractors, 100
trucks and four mobile machine shop
units, according to unofficial informa-
ton received by r. B. Janney, superin-
tendent of motor equipment of the Ala
barna highway department.
1t is understood that this equipment
will originate at Toledo and Columbus,
Ohio, Jacksonville and Indianapolis,
Indiana.
This information was conveyed to
Mr.. Janney by a representative of a
railroad company, who seeks to have
the routing of some of the equipment
allocated to Alabama. He informed
Mr.. Janney, however, that congressional
action would be necessary before Ala
banAa and the other states would re-
ceive their ALLEGATIONS Of federal motor
equipment for use in road work.
Stills Smashed-Capture of $50
gallon still in Shelby county with 600
gallons Of beer by state and officers
was reported Saturday to law enforce
tAiVht AC0OHuGAtCLS nCtCs 4AC
also captured in Shelby a 200-gallon
still with 300 gallons of beer, and
two stills of 200 and 300 gallons ca
pacity, respectively, with 2y40O gallons
of beer and 100 gallons of whisky. One
man was arrested for possessing a still.
Many Enr0ll-The enrolment for the
series of training classes at six of the
Methodist churches of the, city for the
coming week has gone over. the 100
mark.
TO Bridge COneuch-The new bridges
necessitated over the Coneuch river at
Gannt by the construction Of a power
dam over that stream will probably
be the shortest constructed in this
state over a stream of any size. it was
stated Saturday by G. N. Mitcham,
third division engineer of the state
highway department. Mr.. Mitcham ex-
poets that the bridge will be only $50
feet in length and this saving is eff
fected by the unusually favorable site
for its location.
The bridge is a part of the highway
from Montgomery to Andalusia. 1t is
to be located on the downstream side of
the Central of Georgia railway bridge,
over the COneuc river and it is to take
the place of the old county bridge,
which is at too low a level now that
a dam has been constructed on the
stream by the River Falls Power COM
pany. The dam and power house have
been completed and the waters are al
ready impounded up to the highest level
consistent with traffic over the old
bridge. The power company will stand
the cost of erecting the new bridge.
MoseIy PrOm0ted-Paul Mosely, as
sistant chief clerk in the office of the
state highway department, has been
appointed to the chief clerkship on
account of the resignation of Julius
Wolfe, former chief clerk. Mr.. Wolfes
was due to i'll health. He
has been given leave of absence to go
to his home. in Washington, D. c., to
recuperate, but on his physicians adj
vice rendered his resignation in order
to take mp some work that would keep
him outdoors. 81 ~
DIR. Voorhees, Visits--Dr. Oscar NJ.
Voorhees, Of New York, secretary of
the United chapters of Phi Beta Kappa,
arrived in Montgomery Saturday noon
in the interest of the sesquicentennial
celebration, which the order is plan
ming to hold in 1926. A luncheon at
the Beauvier club and reception at
5 80 o'clock Saturday afternoon at
the Woman's college of Alabama were
on the Irogram, which the local Phi
Beta Kappas had prepared in honor OF
DR.. Voorhees,.