The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-11
RA|[R0ADs CHECK
 UP 0N C0AL RATES
pr. Ferguson Explains New Method Of Treating Blood
 Infection
STATE CAPITAL BUREAu1 i
 THE AGE-HERALn

Fifteen representatives or railroads are in Montgomery for the purpose of checking up the new rates on coal promulgated recently by the Ala bama public service commission and effective March l.. Thursday morn ing they were in conference with J. H. Aldredge, examiner for the commis- sion, and will be busy here several days longer. Among these railroad representa- tives are: J. M. jDewberry of Louis vile, ky. general coal and coke agent of the Louisville and Nashville rail- road; R. L. Simpson of Washington, D. G. assistant general freight agent of the Southern railroad; Gus Rich- land of Atlanta. Ga, assistant general West Point and Western Railway of Alabama. It is understood that these representatives will be. busied nere quite @ while.
 DIR. FERGUSON VISITS CAPITAL Dr. Burr Ferguson, native Ala bamian. official of the United States recently mentioned in Associated Press dispatches as originator of a new theory in the treatment of blood infection, arrived in Montgomery on Wednesday night for a visit to rela- tiyes. Dr. Ferguson was born in Montgomery, although he has resided many years in Birmingham, where, according to his statement he first evolved his theory. f..,
 Dr. Ferguson's theory is that in case of blood infection it fs important that the number of white corpuscies in the blood be increased y<as re- straints to the infection. Az a means of attaining this end he favors thu use of salicylate of mercury.
 A pamphlet has been prepared by pr. Ferguson for circulation among members of the medical profession, being a reprint from the medical press and circular of London. of No- vember IS, 1923, of his paper read be- fore the South Hampton Medical so- ciety, November [, 1923. In this paper Dr. Ferguson formally gave his theory to the world.
 In this pamphlet pr. Ferguson says that he first conceived the idea in 1916. while in the service Yof the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company at its by-product plant near Birmingham, using the q- salicylate man of the corporation suffering from blood disease.
 ESCAPE RECAPTURED
 Ell Jones, negro convict, escaped from Flat Top mines a little over four months ago, has been apprehended in Chattanooga, Tenn, according to a telegram received Thursday by Roy l.. Nolen, associate member of the state board of administration, from W. H. Hackett, chief of detectives in the Tennessee city.
 Jones, who had been a trusty con- vict for several years, left Flat Top prison on August 20, 1923, and since that time his whereabouts have been unknown He was serving ten year sentence from Madison county Tor assault to murder and had com pleted more than half of his time when he made his escape.
 PACKING CASE UP
 The interstate commerce commis- sion through an examiner of the commission will hear at Montgomery on February IS the petition of Swift x O., attacking number of live stock rates established by the state authorities of Alabama. The Ala bama public service commission, Ala baffia Farm Bureau federation and Montgomery Chamber of Commerce. has intervened in the case to protect Alabama interests. t
 The case is another instance, it is stated, where an appeal has been taken to the interstate commerce commission in an. effort to nullify state authority, by virtue <of the transportation act of 1920. Swift & Co. has contended that the rates from