The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
GREENE DECLINES
 HOSPITAL OFFER
Dr. Louis J. BristOw Ap-
 pointed Head Of Sel- ma Infirmary
(State Capital Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 2.-D. F. Greene, secretary of the state board of the Alabama Baptist convention, has declined the offer to become superin- tendent of the Baptist hospital at Selma, he announced here this afternoon. The hospital board, sometime ago, ten dered the superintency to MT: Greene and since that time he has given the matter serious consideration.
 q feel that it is my duty to remain with the state board. We have great program ahead for the next few years and feel that it is my duty to remain with this work," declared MT. Greene.
 Dr. Louis. J. Bristow, former su- perintendent of the Baptist hospital at Selma, has been elected superintendent of the hospital which is to open in New Orleans the first of next year.
 Aerial Guard Arrives-Fifteen off cers and eighty-five enlisted men of the aerial units of the Alabama Ma tional guard,- from Birmingham, with eight airplanes, arrived at Maxwell field this morning for two weeks training period. The work to be given will comprise detail work in all phases of the aviation section.
 After the Alabama aerial forces com plete their training Tennessee National guards units will be sent here for a similar purpose. Alabama and Ten nessee are the only states in the Fourth corps area having National guard fly nig forces.
 To Choose Site-Dr. John W. Aber- crombie, state superintendent of edu- cation, has been notified of a meetnig of the board of control of the Alabama school of trades and industries called by the chairman, Watt T. Brown, for Gadsden Wednesday, August 6, to make final selection of a site for the school at Gadsden. It has been determined to move the school from Ragsdale and Gadsden has been determined upon, for new location but the particular site there is yet to be chosen.
 Dr. Abercrombie and Governor Bran don are ex Officio members of the board. The other members, besides Mir. Brown, the chairman, are c. A. Bell, AnnistOn; Harry Halfacre, Birming- ham; Dr. A. W. Rails and R. A. Mitchell, Gadsden.
 Bids Advertised-B have been ad- vertised for from the state highway Ae- partment, to be opened August %, Tor bridge in. COvington county, over the Conecuh river, near Can't, on the high way between Luverne and Andalusia. The bridge will be about 250 feet long, of steel and concrete construction.
 Bids have also been advertised for, to be opened September 10, for pro jects in Dale and Bullock counties. The Dale county project comprises S15 miles of sand, clay and gravel road from Ozark to the Choctawhatchee river bridge. The Bullock county pro- iect will consist of replacing old bridges with creosOted timber bridges. and concrete culverts on federal aid project No. l, between Bruceville and Union Springs, and an extension of the project about four -teenths of a mile at the Union Springs end.
 Mrs. Mastin Elected-Mrs. Mary I. Mastin of Huntsville, formerly connect ed with the Madison County Health association, was elected executive sec retary of the Anti-Tuberculosis league Of Montgomery county at meeting of the executive committee today.