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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

ple. ais men made money and were delighted to stick with him. They were 0iven. A percentage of their gross sre- ceipts, less deductions for careless in- i,ries to their cars. In addition there were many prizes and bonuses eacn week. = ~',. Runs Company Store ! The men were encouraged to buy stock in the company and practically all have become stocknolders' 1ne capital stock, originally 10000 shares has been increased to 4OOOoO shares chiefly through stock dividends. Hun dreds of the company's drivers are we'll off, many being worth from S1o,- 900 to $60,000.
 There is:a company store which buys food and other articles wholesale and sells at cost to the men. The company proyides a complete medical and den fist service for it's men without any cost to them. No driver can be dis charged without personal hearing by the general manager, if the drivers asks it. The company insures its men. It's provides lawyers if they need legal aid, whether the difficulty be connected with the company or not. In short, it treats the public right.
 Having built up his own company which operately nearly 5000 cars in Chicago, and employees about 1000 persons, Hertz started building taxi cabs and selling his service with them to taxicab companies all over the coun- try. :.
 The Yellow Cab Manufacturing com pany in itself an enormous business. It makes about 75 per cent of all the taxicabs in this country and has a. mar ket value of more than $30, ,000,0 IL employs more than 25,000 workers.
 With the taxicabs sold go the Hertz service. It has been so successful that no Yellow Taxicab company has ever failed to prosper. There are now such companies in 500 cities. When they start Hertz accountants aid them in in- stalling a tried and successful business and bookkeeping system. These com. panies now. employ more than 50,00o men,. Last year they carried about 5O,000,000. .t 'e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
KILLS UNCLE TO
 AVENGE SISTER
Texas Boy Waits Six Years To Take Law
 In Hands

FORT WORTH, Tex, July 19.-- For six years Louis Hill lrbored memories If that tblact, day of his boy hood when the battered body of his twelve-year-old sister, Gladys Hill, was found hidden beneath a pile of rocks on the shores of Tyler's lake here. Year by. year, as he grew older, Louis determined that the murderer of his sister should pay; that he should pay with more than confinement in an in sane asylum.
 Sunday night the avengers chance came, and today Velasco Hill, who had assaulted and slain his niece, Gladys, six years afo, lies dead by the hand of his nephew, Louis.
 velasco Hill was shot full in the face with charge of buckshot as he walked up to the door of his relatives residence here at midnight. Trem. bling, but dry-eyed, Louis Hill, as he heard his uncle's body crash to the floor, replaced the shotgun in a rack 1 on the wallr He had wiped out the score of six years.
 A murder charge was filed against the young slayer, but exoneration by the grand jury is expected.
 Six years ago yelasco Hill, brilliant Texas Christian university student, crept into the home of his relatives late at night, knocked the mother of Gladys Hill unconscious with l,loy from a rock, and then caught Gladys up in his arms and fled.
 At noon the next day posses search ing the countryside found Velasco near | Tyler's lake washing mud from his body. He shouted to officers lat h. was Jesus anl could not be arrested. 1 But once approached he noncha1antly guided his captors to spot where the body of Lis giI' victi I lay beneath a pile of stones.
 Louis Hill was among thosl Tho had been searching for his sister. Only thirteen } ears old, he did not grasp the 1 full significance of the crime, save thct it shocked the city. He the courts find Velasco Hill insane and send him to a state asylum. s Three years after he was shut in an asylum at Austin, Vclasco i'll es. capped. And then Louis Hills vigil be | gan.
 A letter came from velasco. It threatened death to Callie Mae Hill | S1SICT OL A4VuAcy H ShC AAQ Apt join Yelasco at a certain Texas city. Unless she came, the letter said, Ve- Iasco would "blow up all Fort Worth"
 The mother of Gladys, Louis and Callie Mae Hill died The wound that Yelasco Hill inflicted on her with a stone the night he abducted Gladys was the cause of death, members of the family said.
 And then Sunday night Velasco made good his threat to return to Fort Worth. But Louis Hill was waiting with. single-barreled shotgun, and when the time came he did not hesitate to use it.
 Tracing Velascos movements after escaping from the asylum, authorities said he had been identified as a base ball player in central Texas towns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
FINDS BIG SNAKE
 ON AUTO EXHAUST
Smelled Something Burning But
 It Wasn't Brakes

NEW YORK, July 19.-A six-foot blacksnake was found by George Ma son, road engineer for Passaic county, N. J., just outside Paterson yesterday. It had the girth of a mans fist.
 Mason was driving over Snake s Hill, so named not because it is in. fested with reptiles, but because of a sepentine twining of the road. He slnelled something burning and stopped his car to investigate. He found the snake curled around the exhaust and nicely roasted.
 Mason believes he ran over the snake and it was thrown up by the wheel and entangled,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
PRIEST TOWERS ABOVE MINIS.
 TIERS

The riotous scenes marking the pass ing of the amnesty bill through the Chamber of Deputies brought to the front a new priest who is a deputy from Stemilion, district of Bordeaux. He is the Rev. Father Bergey. He is tall, well over six feet, young and wears his ecclesiastical cassock with the martial air warranted by his activi- ties at the front during the great war. sFather Bergey and another six-foot deputy, former Minister of War Magi- not, lowered above the seething, strug- gling mob of angry deputies and pro- tected those against whom special at- Jacks were directed The priest was seen at one critical moment holding a member of the minority at arms length almost like a doll, to keep him safe ] from the raids of a. socialist opponent AMERICAN PLIERS ARE MODEST
 The extreme modestY of the Amer ican round-the-world fliers was what impressed the French people who met them more than anything else in con nection with the completion of the Flu ropean stage of the great air voyage.
 2"They haven't at all the air of men who have just done big things" said a. woman connected with the official delegation at the reception of the avia- tors at Lebourget. Our aviation aces would not have taken their honors so shyly as all that"
 Another put in hey do not seem to be at all proud of what they have done
 sWhen the speech-making tim, came, after the champagne, and NJ. Laurent Eynac. under-sec ,ary of the air min istry, had made a speech in the formal official style, the embarrassment of the Americans caused a moment of un- easiness. Liuetenant Lowell H. Smith the American expedition commander nudged Lieutenant Nelson and Mel son nudged Lieutenant Wade. As there was nobody for Wade to nudge in turn, he had to sacrifice himself. He was just about to begin wi n a com passionate French wom2I said,. quite audibly, after all, why pest them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
FROGS NEW DANGER.! ON BIG HIGHWAY
So Thick At Night They Make
 Cars Skid >, :. .9..,A.; 4.,:

MIDDLETowN, N. r., July 19:-z Myriad frogs have been making moter traffic dangerous on the state road. Mi. grafton begins every night after. dusk
 The frogs remain quiet in the, hig&tl way until revealed by the lights of cansg. tomobiles, when they begin jumpins. The road is completely covered iii places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
UNCOMFORTABLE COUCHEs

My flowers seem kind O droOpy," said the green young woman with her first garden. .-
 Well, miss,' returned the jolly old gardner. "I notice the beds are rather hard and maybe they don't sleep very well. ."--Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

party, the wind grounded her craft on
 Concord Point. ...'ss.---,. i,
 There, suffering from insect bitSEr exposure and exhaustion, she was founds blindly groping and stumbling about mi the marshes. She was rushed to n
 hospital where, it is said. she is expectAde to live. 2. !, A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
FRANK DWELL IS CITED FOR MEDAL
 FOR LIFE SAVING
Crack American Jockey Stopped Mad Rush Of
 Horse Into Crowd

PARIS, July 19.-(By Associated Press, s,)-Frank O'Neill, crack Amer ican jockey, who headed the list of win ners in France for several years and lost the lead only because of a nasty fall last summer, has been proposed for a life saving medal.
 E. The jockey was just getting into the saddle at Tremblay track when his mount, Indian Girl, two-year-old Ally of the Macumber stable, reared and plunged, throwing the boy who was leading her to the ground. The lilly then lunged into the crowd that always surrounds the promenading track in the paddock and frantic cries rent the air Women and men scurried in all directions, upsetting each other in the rush to get from under the nervous racers hoofs.
 .O'Neill was the only one in the pad dock to keep his head. Fortunately he kept the saddle, too. Speedily gath ering up the reins, he had the Ally un der control after three leaps. Officials and spectators crowded ; ound to con- gratulate him after the race and the stewards informed him they would pro- Pose tndI ne pe gwen ilAe sa' lhs medal. A.-.
 pOh, don't say anything about it." said O'Neill. Let it drop. This is the first time I was ever caught pulling a nag"
 CROWDS HEAR PARSON RUNNER
 The Rev. E. H. Liddell, possibly the most prominent representative of the muscular school of Christianity in mod etn times, and the Olympic record breaker in the 400-metre race, Jew al- most as many admirers to the church of Scotland in Paris to hear him preach as went to Colombes to see him run.
 Taking for his text the verse Open Thou Mine Eyes That I 4, ight See" the champion runner pointed out that there were many ways in which men might blind themselves to the truth and that the most difficult thing for light to penetrate was a wall of selfish ness with which many surround them selves. He went on to emphasize the necessity for work O: the part of Christians, in the same ay as Colum- bus and other discoverers and pioneers had to toll before they succeeded in their task.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-01-02
Light and Power Plant And Central
: Heating Are Big Factors in Max
ing Redwood Falls Desirable
Residence Town.
Fifteen Miles of Transmission
Lines Carry Current to All Users
Thirty Business Places Heated from
Central Plant with Convenience;
Seven Hundred, Fifty in City
Use Current.

Fe cities are more fortunately situated than Falls
having particularly efficient and we'll managed light power
and heating company Redwood Falls Light and Power Com
pany enterprise owned and managed by Bumest
err one of city's most progressive businessmen
modern plant located on the ap
poxae $25OOoO and with additions and equipment valued
over s75OOOO0 makes cities industries
standpoint invested Both steam and water
utilized the manufacture of electricity and the cap
acy plant sufficient for the needs of
the and other and rural enterprises for
which it furnishes services.
During past year general reconstruction Of the
throughout the business district made in order that all
lines would be of 220 volt capacity This volt
age power by
ticay machinery the driven
ment will be able install same without the necessity of
placing special orders and causing much extra work and
of installation
Covering city
approximately Is miles of which
make possible for building be lighted with electricity
and PERMITTING the of all modern electrical appliances which
appliances every
home the world At the time there
installed city
showing substantial gain the number
residences always being erected almost without exception
the Of electricity provided company
with whereby
maintenance for 105 lights section
being located the intersections of all
carde lights ample purpose
section of the city cosmopolitan
its white composed iron light STAN
capped globes containing candle
lights.
charged electricity in this city are
reasonable owing the fact that may utilized at
least six months of the during conditions
is true that municipality plants lower rate for
the smaller consumers but closer investigation will
almost instance municipal enterprises have large
bonded indebtedness with the taxpayers forced
make up deficit and retire the bonds by
taxation. The charged
with lower scale according the per month
reasonable rate of o6 charged power current
This also furnishes heat for the majority the
houses OF the city than being at the
for
every 1000 pounds condensation and while
contend that this rate is less expensive maintaining individual
storage and anitor hire make
well worth the rate charged.
Mr. Burmeister, who has guided
prise since the beginning, Redwood
at which purchased Redwood Falls Roller
Mills company which he still this company which
furnished the first electric light this always
the best interests of Redwood Falls
prompt doing his share plans Improvement
community betterment of this city and county.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
SAMUEL
DEPENDING ON
VETERANS
Youngsters Promise Little in
Way of Olympic Track
Achievements.

NEW YORK, April 1.-veterans
size up just now as Americas main
dependencies in the track and field
events of the Olympic games of
1924. If they fail, the United States
outlook is dim for the simple rea.
son that only few Of the young.
sters have flashed anything Of
greatness.
Joie Ray. Loren Murchison, Abel
Kiviat, Charlie Paddock, those are
the real American hopes in the
matter OF running. Ray, a middle
distance man. is growing ancient as
runners go, but he still is the out.
standing miller.
Murchison is performing in sen.
sational form in dashes and has
been the starriest youngster with
ease. He looks like a certain win.
ner of many points.
Kiviat performed a comeback a
short time ago that was startling.
He met and defeated some of the
best youngsters and seems a GER
tain Olympic choice. Charlie Pad
Dock star of the 1920 Olympic, is
popping" since the lifting of his
suspension and showing much of
his earlier greatness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
KID SOUTHPAN
SH|NESFOR
BRO0KLAND
Frank DeVin, Pitching His
First Game, Yields One
Hit to Amherst.

: Frank Devin, former Brooklyn
schoolboy, thought he'd rather pitch
than play first base, so Charley
Moran, Catholic University baseball
coach, gave him the opportunity.
In his first effort on the mound
the nineteen-year-old youngster
southpawed the Brooklanders to a
2-to-1 victory over Amherst, opening
the season. Amherst got one hit,
scratch by Peters in the eighth.
Devin gave three passes and famed
nine.
He had a worthy pitching rival
In Capt. Woodruff, of Amherst, who
yielded only three hits and struck
out eleven. 1t was a brilliant
southpaw. duel
Catholic University won in the
ninth. Denault, speed demon,
walked and stole. He advanced to
third when Catcher Douglas let
Clark's third strike get away,
Clark reaching first. Shea ran for
Clark and when Shea stole second,
drawing throw from Douglas.
Denault sped home with the tying
run. Shea took third on Lawlor's
out and scored on Garvin's tap in
front of the plate.
In the third, Pierson. of Amherst,
walked, advanced on Miller's strike.
out and to third on Neary's dropped
ball, scoring on Woodruff's bingle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
VERMONT WHITEWAsHES !.
MARYLAND BEAUTIFULLY

Maryland University started its
baseball campaign in an interesting
manner by failing to get either a
run or hit in seveninning game
with Vermont, which won, g. to o.
Newton, Vermont's star pitcher,
worked five innings and FogS two.
Gene Brayton was yanked by
Maryland in the fourth after get
ting in trouble and CoaIxley took
his place. Coakley couldn't help the
Old Line Staters much, and eventu.
ally Burdette tried to and succeeded
for one inning, the seventh, after
which Umpire Jimmy Green called
the game because of darkness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
N TIGUE SORRY.
EXCUSE FOR
CHAMPION
Young stribIing PIasters Irish
man, Whose Title Is
Saved by Law.
By DAVIS j. WALsH.

NEW YORK. April 1. The only
fistic champion OF this world who
has yet to give ample and sufficient
evidence that he is entitled to the
honor in question contrived to fool
some of the people all OF the, time
by q matter Of some $4,000. His
name Ii Mike McTigue. his title is
worlds light'heavyweight champion
and his idea Of box fighting is to
hide behind the nape Of his neck
after the manner Of the hermit
crab.
McTigue, engaged In a return
frolic at Newark, ". j., with Young
stribIing, the Georgia school boy,
on the occasion mentioned and only
the fact that New Jersey does not
lend countenance to official de.
cisions prevented the championship
from changing hands, as would
have been eminently right and
proper. Stribling led from the open.
ing punch, carried nine out Of
twelve rounds and scored a knock.
down in the tenth, McTigue did
nothing all evening with marked
regularity.
After the jovial little pastime had
been concluded, word was received
that Columbus, Ga, would be
pleased to have the boys do bust.
ness there again for SIS ,0OO. 1t Ii
to laugh, McTigue wouldn't venture
south Of Philadelphia with Stribling
for the legal right to paint gold
twenties on one dollar bills.
The young man from Georgia can
out-step this so-calIed champion Of
ours at any time or place and Nc.
Tigue acted as though. he were well
aware Of that particular fact. He
ran like cotton wash goods from
the opening bell, and IL the bout
had anything in common with the
former meeting at Columbus, we
can't say that we blame the good
citizens Of that community for be.
coming so affronted at Harry
Ertle's drew. decision that they
were all for giving the northern
guests free ride on a thin rail.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
VIII Dedicate Tablet
to Memory Of
Bob Cook

NEW HAVEN, CoSn., April,
1.-The tablet to be placed on
the. Yale boathouse at Derby,
Conn.,, which structure will be
dedicated this spring, has been
completed. It is in bronze and
bears these words:
"This building is dedicated in
memory Of Bob Cook. Robert
Johnson Cook, class of 1876.
Twenty-seven years Of loyal
service to the university. Cap
tain and stroke Of four uni.
versity crews. Originator of
the Bob Cook stroke, coach Of
twelve winning university crews
in Yale Harvard races"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
Cobb FUTURE
CAUSES FANS.
To BUZZ
Tyrus' Ability to Come Back,
After Slump Last Season
Is Debated.

Now that Ty Cobb has achieved
the worlds record by hitting 800 or
beyond for eighteen consecutive
years, the question today comes:
How many years viii he add to
.it?"
Some point to Cobb's 1913 mark Of
1923 as an indication that the vet.
eran Is skidding and that 1924 may
see him below 800 for the first time
since 1905.
But in rebuttal his admirers here
point to what happened in 1920
and afterward.
In 1920 Cobb slipped from 1874 Of
1919 to 1874, whereupon everyone
pronounced him as Through" But
IN 1921 Cobb banged for .389 and in
1922 hit for the remarkable mark
Out. in Detroit the fact that Cobb
slipped to 1888 last season worries
not at all; for the belief is strong
that although Cobb is aging, he will
be able to keep beyond 800 for two
or three more years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
HILL TOP sets
THREE MARKS
IN OPENER
Gets 20 Runs, 20 Hits, and
1o-Run Rally Against
RoWdoin.

BY slaughtering Bowdoin, 26 to /,
Georgetown gave the nations col
lege ball teams three season records
to shoot at The twenty-six runs
constitute one record. A ten-run
rally in the fourth inning is another
and the twenty hits gathered by
the Hilltoppers make third.
Georgetown peppered Southwick
and Bartlett, the Bowdoin pitchers.
Albert, center fielder led the attack
with four hits that included a
homer. Yohe Murray, Washington
youth, got a triple for the Hill
toppers, as did Paul Mudd, from
AnAcostia, who walloped two
singles.
Jenkins, the Hilltop pitcher, had
q soft day. He was effective all the
way.
1t was Georgetown's opening
U0ma
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
Madden Leads In Turf
Winnings For Year
With $632.63O

NEW YORK. April Com
plete racing statistics for 1923
show that John E. Madden led
the list Of winning breeders for
the seventh successful year.
Last season 419 of the Madden
bred horses romped home in
front Of all opposition. The
Madden-bred won $632,63O in
purses for their present owners.
Second place was gained by
Harry Payne Whitney, who
bred 253 winners which won
$50, 46S. Third position in
breeder ranking went to Arthur
B. Hancock with ITO winners
and 1864, 162.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
DEMPsEY's MOVIE WORK
WILL NET HIM MILLION

Los ANGELES, April lack
Dempsey, heavyweight motion pic.
ture actor. has signed a $1,000 900
contract calling for his appearance
In ten films to- be produced here
while he 10 waiting for some pro.
moter to make. Jack Dempsey.
worlds heavyweight boxing cham.
pion, an attractive offer" for a
tight somewhere on Labor day.
In connection with the signing
OF the contract, announced by Carl
taemmie, Of the Universal Film
Corporation, it was explained by
Jack kearns, Dempsey's manager,
that the fighters motion picture
activities would not prevent him
from considering a championship
bout next Septemher. q
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
pon't Be Fooled.

Washington trimmed Roanoke by
1862 pins in five duckpin games ia
Roanoke, but doesn't consider the
series cinched. Roanoke in past
years has done better on Washing.
ton alleys in some instances than
on it's own. Against Washington
the other night, Roanoke totaled
2,73l but several nights previously
did 2,S19 for five games. Those
who figure the Virginians viii be
set.ups here may be badly fooled,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
SOUTHERN GOLF BODY
SETS TOURNEY DATES

ATLANTA, Ca, April 1.-The
dates for the Southern Amateur
Golf championship tournament were
announced here today by Lowry Ar
mold, vice president of the Southern
Golf Association. The Southern title
meet awarded some time ago to
Louisville, KY, will be held during
the week Of June 70 Ia.
The Women's Southern Amateur
tournament will be held in Chat
tanooga. Tenn, the week Of May
10.
The Georgia State Amateur cham
pionship tournament will be held
in Atlanta at East Lake the first
or second week In July.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
WARDMAN TENNIS CLUB
TOURNEY SANCTIONED

Announcement was made yester.
day that the proposed tournament
to be held under the auspices Of
the Wardfnan Park Tennis Club
had been sanctioned by the United
States Lawn Tennis Association
The club will hold its tourney May
IL to az, inclusive.
Y President White, in making the
announcement further stated that
the club had been granted an allied
membership and is placed In the
same class as .Pinehurst and Palm
Beach organizations.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-01
TAXI MEN STOP CURB
CAFE TEAMS STREAK

After winning three straight
games, the Curb Cafe ballplayers
took a severe beating from the
Black and White taxi men, score
is to 8, The taxi drivers want
games with strong unlimited class
teams, including particularly the
Dreadnaughts. Waverlys, Dominican
Lyceum, and Mohawks. Manager
William Miles may be reached at
1417 North Carolina avenue north
east. Mertz Lewis will book games
by phone at Lincoln 8913-J.