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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
UNION SPRINGS FIRE
 WARNS CAPITAL
Temperature Rises Three De-
 grees In Thirty Minutes
(State Capitol Bureau)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 31.-At- tachs of the weather bureau discovered an unusual situation when they reach ed their office Friday. The machine that records temperatures had been performing queer antics during the night. At 3:15 the temperature began to rise. At 3 :45 it was warmer by three degrees than it was half hour before. It can be attributed to only one thing: the fire at Union Springs, which is about forty miles away.
 Union Springs is southeast of Mont gOmery. The wind was blowing from the southeast. The fire was burning at the time the recorder was performing its stunt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
BURNED AT GARAGE

Jeff Davis, young white man .of garage near Government Hill Thurs day afternoon when his clothing which had become saturated with gasoline be- came ignited. Young Davis attempted to strike a match on his belt buckle. He was carried to the Colbert county hospital for treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
DREDGE TO OPERATE

The United States dredgeboat Black water of the Montgomery district will be used here seven months every year, it was announced today. The dredge ar rived Monday from Port Arthur, Texas, and will be given trial here soon. The dredge, Robert McGregor was sent to Pascogula after long service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
RICHES HAVE WINGS

I can remember when was more enriched by a, few cheap rays of light falling on the pond-side than by this broad sunny day. Riches have wings, indeed The weight of present woe will express the sweetness of past expe- rience. When sorrow comes, how easy it is to remember pleasure! When, in winter, the bees cannot make new honey. they consume the old.-Thoreau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
NYHOFF TO BUILD STORE

J. J. Nyhoff, large subdivision op- orator, was in Sheffield today for a two-week stay. MT. Nyhoff stated that while here he will let contracts for the construction of large store and office building at the intersection of Broadway and Jackson highway on his main plant Gate subdivision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
WEIGH TO CHICAGO

(Special. )--Dr. s. w. Welch, .s health officer, left this afternoon Chicago, to attend a meeting of council on medical education and V pitals of the American Medical sa citation. The other members of council are. Dr. Arthur Dean Be
 professor of surgery at the Univer; of Chicago: Dr. William Pepper, q
 of the University of Pennsyivani Dr. Louis B. Wilson of Mayo Cir and Dr. M. w. Ireland, surgeon gene
 of the United States army. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
ATTALIA DAY OBSERVED

Small town jealousy and boundry lines between Artalla ahd Gadsden have been wiped out by the spirit of Rotary, according to President O. D. Dupre who brought the Attalla club to Gads- den Thursday to be the guest of the local club. It was "Attalla Day" with the Gadsden Rotarians. and they en- tertained the visitors with an excel lent program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

at Moscow and it is expected the bridge will be opened about February l, Mir. Hotk said.
 Piers of the Reese's ferry bridge over the Alabama river near Montgomery will be finished about February 1, and the bridge opened for traffic the latter part of 1925. Steel erection has been com pleted on the Tallapoosa river bridge at Sturdivant, Tallapoosa county, the floor is being placed, and the bridge is expected to be finished by February 1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
TOURISTS PASS THROUGH

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Oct. 3O.-Like the migratory birds that seek the south land in the winter, many tourists. are passing through Huntsville on their way to warmer climes. It is estimated by filling station officials that at least POO tourists pass through this city daily, most of them lodaded with household eff fects.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01

tabls Compound advertised, thought it must be good, and brought tithome to ma and Rdyised rse to try it. After taking one bottle Twas able to eat, ana after uix bottles l was doing my c'9n work, Thi fi Hadn't been able ta it 'or years. rhave a new baby gvao $ doing nic sly and I am still iSf:ig tno Yegefeble Compound and feaeng be ter u n l have for four yes5s. The medic :e is surelywonder- fas a'd a good thiag to, have in the h3us "--Mrs. GL1RGE STINK, Min nesota. Iuactiesl Wisconsin.
 A q ,Btry wide canvass of pslr- chasen of the Compound reports 9S yer cssk-. benefited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
THREE STILLS SEIZED

Federal Prohibition Agent Jack Roberts and State Law Enforcement Officers John Coleman and Lester Camp have returned from Jackson coun- ty where they aided Sheriff Henry Jones in capturing three 15O-gallon stills, 13y5OO gallons of beer, five gal Ions of whisky, ten bushels of meal, two bushels of malt, two horses, one wagon, 800 pounds of sugar and rifle. They also arrested Anderson Maritime and B. R. Bowen for' distill-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
SHOW HORSE SICK

Lady Fashicn, the most valued horse and animal performer of the Sparks circus which was seized with pneu- monia here October 6, was shipped to Marietta, Ga. Friday. After inspec. ton by her owner there she will be sent to a Blue Grass farm in Kentuc- ky to recupprate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
GADSDEN MAN
 SURE OF DAVIS
Offers To Buy 30 Cent Cotton If Democrats
 Win Victory
(Gadsden Bureau

GADSDEN, Oct. 31.-So strong is he in his belief that John W. Davis will be elected president and that 1t will mean higher prices for cotton W. R. Philips, local crop expert and statis- tician, announced Friday he would pay 30 cents for the first bale of cotton brought to him after Davis election IS completed. MT. Philips declared he can not understand how the government fig ures crop of 12,675, 900 bales. He es- inmates 11,70O,OO0. Heretofore his fIg' ures have been more nearly correct than those of the government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
FIX HIINTERS MEET

Fox hunters of this district are pre- pairing to go to Heflin next Tuesday for the annual meeting of the Alabama Fox Hunters associatio Red foxes are said to be plentiful in Cleburne county and it is expected that several big hunts will be staged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
BRIDGES BEING BUII,T

Progress is being made on several big bridge projects of the state highway de- pertinent, according to H. H. Houk, state bridge engineer. The first steel span is being rivited on the famous Rooster bridge' over the Tombigbee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
PLAN MONUMENT
 TO MORRIS. PASTOR
Box Supper To Start Fund For
 Memorial

MORRIS, Ala, Oct. 31.-(Special) )-- The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist church will give a box supper at the Morris Grammar school Saturday night. The proceeds derived will start fund to erect a monument to the memory of. the beloved Joseph K. Jarvis, who served the Baptist churches of Morris, Kimberly, Majestic and Oak Grove as pastor. He also served as postmaster at Morris, which position he held at the time of his death. The deceased had no immediate relatives in Alabmaa, but was buried here at his request.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
REMARKABLE RECOVERY OF
 MRS. STINK
Gives Lydia E. Pinkha1n's
 Vegetable Compound Full Credit
Minnesota Junction, Wis.-'Twas under treatments but nothing seemed

Ito help me, ana ] Twas run-down and |so weak that l
 had to remain in
 |bed much of the
 time and was like
 an invalid. l had
 pains in my abdo- men and in the fe.
 male organs, and
 my stomach both' cred me. My bus
 band saw Lydia E. IPinkham'a VeRe-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
SCHOOL CLUB ENTERTAINS

FAYETTE, Ala, Oct. 31.-(Special.) ) The Parent Teacher association enter tained at a Halloween party Friday night in the auditorium of the grammar school. r.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
INDIGNANT AT MINOR

The democrats of north Jefferson feel indignant of the fact that J. W. Minor, while seeking office as demo- cratic nomineee, is a. contributor of cash to the Coolidge-republiean campaign fund. a:E.air~t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
TWO HOUSES BURN

Damago PIaced aC $I,UUU m SH6lAIcIu
 Fire .s.
 SHEFFIELD, Ala, Oct. 31.-(Spe- al.)-Two small residences were de- stroyed by fire in Sheffield Thursday night entailing loss of approximately
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
AFRICAN FRINGE TO SPEAK

Prince Madarikan Deniyi of Lagos, Migeira West Africa is in Gadsden and is billed to appear at the Friendship Baptist church colored, Sunday night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-01
TWO CITIES BID

Anniston and Huntsville Seek Next
 Next Gonference H$ TALLADEGAy&Ala., Oct. 31.-Both
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
ON
 NEXT FRIDAY
Epinard Big Feature Of Six
 tieth Revival

] SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y. JnIv ol.-The sons of Kentucky, first win. ner Of the Travers stake, are gathered here in preparation for the sixtieth opening of the Saratoga racing season Friday. 'D'' It was just three score years ago that Kentucky, son of Lexington. dashed down the track to win the final heat of the first Travers race.
 Annually since that time Saratoga has for 50 days each year turned it. self from the working out of rheumatic limos, to the eager following of thoroughbred horseflesh.
 But Saratoga this year, on it's sixtieth birthday, offers an added attraction hplnard, king beast of the French rae. ing courses. That noble steed is in tralnlng here for three special match races Tn September and is now in good shape despite his reported, nervous brea kdown from the kisses of too many ad1pmhiring 1phi women. 4 7. 1 EplnardS stable is attracting more attention even than the celebra fed American ponies,' which have been shipped here for this season. Epinara WorKs out daily, and Wednesday turned quarter in 2S Is seconds.
 Millions in horse flesh from the tracks of New York, Kentucky and Canada, have been here for week get. ting acclimated for the brick 3O-day season. Daily along the streets down to the barns at the lower end Of Union avenue there is a stream. of the thoroughbred racing stars, led by the trainers.
 
 Southern fanciers again hope to see Kentucky horse dash. out isE front in the big race of the Saratoga season. That would be fitting memorial for the sixtieth anniversary of Kentucky's victory in the. Travers stake.5
 Among the horses showing up ex- eeptionally well are: My Own. Baffl- ing, Mad Halter, Wilderness, Cyclops, Goshawk. Lad In, Cherry Pie, En- chantment, Thorndale, Chacolet and Big Blaze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
TANKS RATTLE
 PICKED SQUAD

STOCKHOLM, July S1.-An Ameri- can team of Olympic athletes, under the leadership of Harold Dibble, be- gan competition here today against picked teams from Holland, Switzer- land and Sweden. The meet will continue Saturday and Sunday. The AmericaN team is composed of Charles Paddock, Loren Murchison, c. H. Moore, Frank P. Johnson, Bayes Nor ton, Leroy T. Brown, Allen Helffrich and Ivan Riley,
 In the 100 meters today Murchison was first, his time being 1O.5, and Pad dock second with 1O.6. The no me- ters hurdles was won by Riley in the time of 14.7. Patterson of Sweden was second with 14.9. RiIey's time was a world record, but was not al- lowed because he knocked down a hurdle.
 The running high jump was won by Brown with 80 meters; Oesterourg and Cassel of Sweden both jumped 1855 and Norton made it at 1.SO. The 400 meters relay was won by an Amer ican team consisting of Riley, John son, Murchison and Paddock. The time was 42.6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
SEEKING FIRPO
 DEPORTATION

; WASHINGTON, July S1.-The de- pertinent of labor, which is now con- sidering the deportation of Battling Ski, the Senegalese boxer, has been asked also to deport Luis Angel Firpo, the Argentine heavyweight.
 Canon William S. Chase, rector of Christ church, New York, came to the capital Thursday and urged Commits sioner General Husband to have tho Argentine fighter deported because of his recent entrance to this country with a young woman whose passport showed she was bound for Cuba.
 FirpO was here recently, and he met President Coolidge at the White House.
 Skis deportation is being considered because of his recent marriage in New York, reports from abroad stating that he has a wife and child living near Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
BARONS BEATEN
 ANOTHER TIME.
Travellers Win 16-Inning Game 4-3-Second Game
 Is Called

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, July s1.-- Especial. )-The Birmingham Barons took part in the longest game of the Southern seasonf here today, when they fought the Little Rock Travellers for 16 innings only to lose out at the fin ish, to 3.
 The long contest, was scheduled as the first of double-header.
 A. second game was started but was stopped after the Barons had batted in the third with the score 3 to 2 in favor of Little Rock.
 The long battle was just such game as couple of second-rate ball clubs can get into now and then.
 Both teams at times played over their heads and both at other times over looked chances to score.
 Chances Go Wrong
 Both took some daring chances on the bases and both dost
 The Barons lost 1.-two runs at the plate after the score had been tied and the Travellers lost one.
 The end finally came in the sixteenth when "Scrappy" Moore walked and scored from first on Philbin's double to left.
 Moore and the ball reached the plate about the same time, but in the mixup, Spencer dropped the ball and there was no close decision for Umps Pigue to make. Pigue called close one against the BaronA in the eighth and got called q few uncomphmentary things by How ard Camp.
 Howard got the gate and wasn't in the extra inning fun.
 BarOns Tie
 The Bar0ns tied up the game by a driving rally in the eighth inning for three runs and lost fourth run at the plate.
 Five hits figured in the rally with Ganzel leading off with double. Good hit one on the handle and broke his bat but drove the ball to center for a single. Brausen singled and was forced by Brenner after which Jeanes and Rhode singled in order, the last hit bringing in the tying run. ic
 lJeanes and Rhode tried double steal but Tex" was out atsathe plate on a close decision. gs.
 The Barons had chance to win in the thirteenth, when, with the bases full, Mccall, who hadzrelieved Melee, pitched three wide balls to Robertson, RAncA HlCJlns TOT OdafKe.
 Mccall Pulls Out
 Mccall steadied and put the next three over and Robertson grounded, out. Brausen was thrown out at the plate in the tenth when he attempted to score from first on Brenner's single after the ball had been momentarily fumbled in the outfield.
 Clarke, who started for the Barons, went i 2 ipY,iu0c affar xvhiah ha v.a&srnd for a pinch hitter. ''Sep" Good fin ished and the Travellers got to him again, making it two defeats he has suffered here in two days.
 Sep" also pitched the ball that Babe" Herman crowded to win the second game of yesterdays double header.
 The series closes tomorrow with the regular game booked for 2 80 p. m.,. the finish of today's second game will be played off as the second game tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Slidin In

and the Lookouts crumbled the Crack CTS. However, the Vols did better jot of their task with the Pels Thursday and instead of splitting the double. header, as they did Wednesday, they copped both games. As for the Look outs they had but one to play and could do no better than win it.
 
 Meanwhile the Memphis Chicka- saws let out their best war whoop and paced gleefully along their path. They trailed the Bear down and skinned him, l to 0. They also skinned" Tommy Long, he should have won his game. He allowed the Chicks three measley bingles and they beat him despite his team mates six hits off Slim Me Grew.
 Keenan and Weaver were the two boys who picked the Pelicans in the opening encounter, 5 to 4, while Lind. strOm duplicated in the second game score z to 2.
 Sedgwick turned back the Crack CTS for Chattanooga and the Look outs won, 6 to 4, though the game was called in the ninth on account of rain. The extra inning will be played Friday, but at best the Lookouts have everything their way to complete the victory. The New York Yankees who had be. gun to sit comfortably at the helm of their circuit, were twice jolted Thurs. day, when they lost both games of a double-header to the Browns in St Louis by scores of to i and 5 to 4 Babe Ruth knocked his thirty-third homer of the season in the sixth in. ming of the second game, but there was no one on base at the time.
 These two defeats, together with Washington's 1 to 0 victory over the Tigers in Detroit, cut the Tanks growing lead to half game and placed the leaders in an un- comfortable position.
 Washington, by her triumph over the Tigers, moved into sec ond place and pushed the Cobb men into third, half a game be- hind.
 In Chicago the White Sox conquared tho Red Sox, 5 to 4.
 The Athletics and Indians halved 6 double-header in Cleveland. The Phila delphians won the first game, to B and dropped the other which went to lC innings, by 4 to 3.
 s
 The spacious bridge between first and second places in the National league was reduced in size when the leading dropped another game to the Pirates in New York. They lost by 5 to 0 in an uneompleted game, which went only six innings because of rain.
 The Cubs, second in the standing, were winning from the Dodgers in Brooklyn, to 1, saving away the chasm between them and the Giants to six games.
 
 Jess Haines, of no-hit, no-run fame twirled favorably for the Cardinals He beat the Phils, 6 to 3, but was hit 12 times.
 Rain in Boston at the end of the fourth inning of the game between the Reds and Braves, broke up the pro. ceedings with the tied at two all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
BILL JOHNSTON
 MEETS KINSEY
Thalheimer And White Easily Beaten In
 Doubles .

SEABRIGHT, N, J., July 31-Only Howard Kinsey stands between William NJ. Johnston and his fourth straight victory in the Seabright invitation ten his tournament. Johnston reached the finals here today at the expense ot Nathaniel w. Niles of Boston, whom he outplayed, 6-2, 6-4, while Kinsey ad- vanced by defeating Lucien M. NV illiams of Chicago, former inteF egiate champion, 6-4, 8-0. V'sif
 In flashes Johnston played up to the form of his championship days, but he was inclined to temper his speed on occasions. He stroked almost en- tirely from back court. outplacing and outsteadying Niles and getting better speed and length in his drives.
 Williams, after an impressive start slumped in control against Kinsey and dropped nine of the last ten games played. ..
 Miss Mary Browne and Mrs. T. Hor- ace Dudley of Los Angeles advanced easily to, the finals in the women's doubles, defeating Miss Molly D. Thay- CT and Miss Phyllis Walsh of Phila- delphia, 6-3, 6-2. They meet Miss Mayme Macdonald and Miss Florence Ballin of New York, in the finals to- morrow. Other finals sch4duled for Friday are Johnston versus Kinsey in the mems singles and Miss Browne versus Miss Macdonald in tla Mpmen's s singles. /
 Three teams survive in the mems doubles, with William Nj. Johnston and Clarence Griffin and in the final How ard and Robert Kinsey and Earl Behr and Dean Mathey in the semi-final.
 Harvey Snodgrass and Walter Vest brook furnished something of a sen- satioa by overwhelming the national intercollegiate champions, Lewis White and Louis Thalheimer of the University Of Texas. The collegians failed to win a game.
 Later in the day in a spectacular match, Snodgress and Westbrook ex- tended Johnston and Griffin. to tbe limit to win, 5-7, 6-3 and 7-hl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
FNN neYer-iespairing

A FEh never-despalrlng martyrs, "A pausing in their days routine at the receiving end of civilization's wired voice, heard the rumbling of the storm and it rang in familiar strain. The same old story! Never in the his- tory of the city. it is generally conceded, has Birmingham baseball fans been in flicted with a worse organization of athletes in diamond endeavor. Hope springs eternal from the human breast" " 80 runs the poets song, but the man that wrote q verse like that never was baseball fan--and resided in Bir- mingham.
 When the Little Rock Travellers walloped the Barons twice We'd nesday it appeared that the bottom had been reached-but, no, twas not true, there's bottom further down. Thursday's encounter which the Travellers won, to 8 in IS innings, seemed once more to place the Barons on firm foundation on the lowest plane-but they still excavated few inches deeper. The Elberfeld crowd appeared to be intent on taking the second game scheduled for Thursday, but rain interfered in the first of the third. The score was 3 to ? in favor of Little Rock.
 The Barons this season are slowly tolling the death knell for professional baseball in Birmingham. After years of only fairly good organizations and the last two or three years of miserable playing this team caps the climax with the poorest showing ever known for a Birmingham club. Chattanooga slipped into sixth place Thursday and the Barons dropped to seventh. Little Rock is eleven games behind the Barons and it is fortunate thing for the Stewards that they do not remain long in the Traveller city for the mar gin would soon be wiped out.
 
 The Birmingham Baseball asso- citation did quite a nice bit of im- provement on their park this year. 1t looks much more impressive and seats many more people. Very nice, indeed, but there was a slight omission, which they probably overlooked in their plans--they for got to get. team to play in it. Maybe the moguls thought the fans would be glad to pay 75 cents to sit in the nice seats and cool off on the hot summer afternoons-not much with park benches free. Or possibly the sight of a nice park would draw crowd of ticket buyers--it seems not so.
 |
 Pitchers--yes, we have no pitchers, but why pick on just this specie of mis- guided uniform wearers in the pay of the Birmingham. club? Little Rock got less hits. than the Barons, five less, in the game Thursday, they made three errors, the Barons none, they won the game, the Barons lost.
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 No rift appears, the clouds are solid black. MayDe, some day, however, the fans of the Magic City will again be able to see bona fide baseball game, at Rickwcod--yes, maybe some day, or Redwood will see no bona lfiHe pay-as-you-enter fans in the stands.
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 It was hectic day in the Southern. The Nashville Vols continued their slaughter jof Pelicans from yesterday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
FEW REMAIN IN
 TENNIS TOURNEY

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July S1.-The southern California tennis champion ship matches narrowed down in the fourth round today to William T. Til den II. national singles champion; Mrs. Peggy Deinert, woman singles champion of Hawaii; Sandy Weiner. youthful protege of Tilden, and a few Califor- mia stars.
 In stiff competition, Tilden and Weiner defeated Bob Allen and Hor- ace Donnell, of Pasadena, in one of the semi-final mems doubles, 60, S-6, S-6.
 Weiner was eliminated from the junior singles competition by Albert Kussman, Los Angeles, 9-7, 7-5.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
FIRPO TRAINING

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, N. Y., July 51.-Luis Angel Firpo, Argen- tine heavyweight, pitched his camp here today in preparation for his training for the match with Harry Wills, in Jersey City, September II.
 Firpo's ring has been set up at the same snot where Jack Dempsey trained last summer for his match with Firpo.
 rhe Agentine will start actual training tomorrow with road work, rope