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©be lAUanla ©rMWeHa So mnial VOL. XXIII. NO. 37. 11 hi . in J.TT-; 1 r j i ■■’i -T -rrn—niM-iiniri ~t N ..... ni■ imh S ClJcrrx ® huiMfiias H ■g&r nw I mtmci ii mi irf r cMMbrnmawfrl ■mi ■■■ i H « ■GRAND JURY TO SEE | PROBE ON GAMING 1 THUM FINISH further Raids on Safety Deposit Vaults and Brirtg- H| ing to Light of More Swin .-'■dle Victims Feature ■Kt Is the duty of the county com- to appropriate enough to carry on the investigation by the November term of the jury into alleged gambling, horse racing, wire tapping and but if they do not, the grand jury will, according a statement made by A. McD. Wil- foreman of the jury, Thursday ||j Mr. A. McD. Wilson said he had Mio doubt that the commissioners see that the work would be out to a finish regardless of cost, and he said the present Brand jury will recommend that the be continued by the succeed- investigating body. “Solicitor General John A. Boykin,” I Mr. McD. Wilson said, “is doing the I Work of the chief of police and his B men. He has unearthed a condition ■ in Atlanta that is astounding and the ■ work should be completed and not ■ allowed to come to a standstill. It ■ is far more important to the coun -9 ty,” Mr. McD. Wilson said, “than the ■ building of highways and the county ■ commissioners will be requested to ■ appropriate money to complete the ■ investigation.” ■ Another raid on a safe deposit ■ vault, the disclosure of a number ■of additional alleged gambling dens, ■ and the bringing to light of several ■ more alleged victims of the gam- ■ bling and swindling syndicate, were ■ among the developments of the probe R ing. ■ It became known Thursday that P evidence has been secured by the grand jury to show that a banker, named Dukes, former president of the Bank of Milam, at Milam, Ga., who mysteriously disappeared from a lo cal- hotel in November, 1918, was a victim of the gamblers and swin dlers. At the time the banker dis appeared it is said his coat and ■watch were found in the hotel. Later it was charged that he was short In his accounts at the bank, fd< the extent of approximately $45,000, but this money, it is said, was made good by his friends. Although the police and private detectives were employed to search for the missing man he was never found. k According to information received ■ by the solicitor general, the banker ■ had fallen into the toils of the gam- ■ bling and swindling syndicate, and f was fleeced out of his money in a I downtown office building, where ,it F is said, the gambling operations were being conducted at that time. Victim Found Another victim found is W. B. Hill, seventy-six years old, of Clarkesville, Ga. Mr. Hill, it is said, claims he was fleeced out of $6,000 by the •‘gang.” He is coming to Atlanta to testify before the grand jury. Several others, who claim to have • lost from $2,000 to SB,OOO, Mr. Boy kin says, have communicated with l the solicitor general and have an- I nounced their intention of appearing ' before the grand jury. The investigation has revealed, it Is said, that besides the places al ready mentioned, the gamblers oper- tn the old Normandy hotel, re- Mpently torn down, at Peachtree and |®West Peachtree streets, in a build k®ig, on Ivy street, in the rear of the theater, in a building on Pied avenue, between Merritts ave- and Pine street, in the section Floyd Woodward, alleged of the syndicate, lived, and Kn a building on Auburn avenue, near R the junction of Ivy street. t F It also became known Thurs ' day that a new witness to the kill- I Ing of Ed Mills, the alleged gambler, 1 by Floyd Woodward in a local ho tel two years ago, when it is said Mills was shot and killed in an argu ment over the division of spoils, has been found. This witness, accord ing to the solicitor general, states that he overheard the alleged plot to h kill Mills and heard one member of I the “gang” say that “Daylight will r be darkness for him (Mills) in the, morning.” Mills was shot and killed a few hours later, it is alleged. A demand was filed by Attorney Samuel D. Hewlett, counsel for Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, wife of W. Clyde Smith, one of the alleged members of a the syndicate, for an early hearing RxtJT' the appointment of a receiver for confiscated by Solicitor and which was found in a deposit vault use(l by Mrs. Date of hearing had been ■set by Judge W. D. Ellis for Jan that a hearing be granted as IKoon after Christmas as the court assign it. To Seek Booty R Information that more property is " confined in a safe deposit vault in k another bank of the city caused So -1 licitor Boykin to secure a court or- I der and make a quick trip to this I bank. Just what it has disclosed B has not yet been learned. It was ■ said by Mr. Boykin tfcat four other were made on deposit boxes afternoon, but that the of the same had “beat him g®> it” and all that was found was empty envelopes. and startling evidence is be jß®: found each day, Mr. Boykin says, it will be necessary to continue probe through the entire session January term of grand jury. effort is being made by So- General John A Boykin to lo property in Atlanta owned by of the alleged gambling SKQgiB swindling syndicate in an effort the victims of the "gang” to ■■■ver part of their losses. raid was conducted Wed- which resulted in the seizure deposited in a local savings in the name of L. V. O’Brien, "Jack Knife” O’Brien, na- known confidence man tinned. on Page 6, Column 5) M FDR BEnER IS BUSINESS OF NATION SEEN BYOFFIGIALS All Danger of Collapse of Credit Situation Has Passed, Government Ex perts Declare BY DAVIjAIAWKENCE (Leased Wire Service to The Journal.) (Copyright, 1920.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The worst is over. A turn for the better in the business situation of the coun try has come. Government officials generally are glad tq be able to send a Christmas message to the Ameri can people that all danger of a col lapse in the credit situation has passed and that from now on, a steady return to normal conditions may be expected. Every bit of evidence gathered here confirms the view of officials, that with the exception of individ ual cases, where bad management or imprudent financing has caused some concerns to hang by an eyelash, the entire business outlook is favora ble. The process of readjustment is not over. Perhaps some of the most painful changes will come when the price of labor is gradually .brought down, but in the business world it self the bottom has been reached and the future is by no means as dark as it was a month ago. Letters received '’•om bank officials in vari ous parts of the country indicate that the turn came in the last six or seven days and that the improve ment is substantial and sound. H< Buying Christmas The reports received on Christmas buying indicate that the strike which the consumer started several weeks ago against the purchase of any thing except absolute necessities was broker by the Christmas spirit and that most retailers will have cleared their shelves pretty well by the end of this year. Os course the danger in reducing the] cost of labor always is the pros pect of a strike. But in many cases the employers would welcome the chance to be fid of an overhead cost on labor altogether for a few weeks, so the wise laboring man consulting with the housewife and noticing a decline in the prices of food and clothing will, it is believed here, be ready to accept a lower weekly wage rather than insist on a higher one and run the risk of not getting any thing at all during the winter months. But an abrupt change in labor prices is not expected. Certain classes of labor which have been paid at war prices will have to come down. All this may be stubbornly fought by the labor organizations but the alternative may be no work at all. The Lucky Individual Already requests to accept a cut has worked out successfully in sev eral lines of business, and while ev erybody wants the other fellow to come down, and nobody wants to bear the brunt of the reduction him self or herself, some reduction in labor costs is inevitable. The busi ness man who wisely made his prices on a basis, of the average cost for a period-of normal years is the lucky individual nowadays. Yet few of them were able to do so unless they sacrificed profits altogether during war years and the number who did that is very small. Perhaps the most optimistic in Washington are those who see in the falling prices of building mate rials the answer to the labor ques tion. High rent, it has been contend ed, has-been the backbone of every demand for increases in wages. The shortage in houses has been nation wide. Some building materials are back to pre-war prices. But building on a general scale will not be re sumed until labor comes down, too, for anyone wanting to build a house and sell it several years hence for at somewhere near the original cost will not build at war prices of labor If the purchasing power of the dol lar should gradually increase, the average workman will not be justi fied in asking for the retention of high wages, but the trouble will be to make the average man accept that line of reasoning until the dollar ac tually does buy as much as it used to do. Storm Is Weathered The trouble about the readjust ment of economic conditions is that things do not move uniformly and naturally reductions in labor cost will be resisted. In the sense that a fall in labor prices is yet to come, the painfulness of the economic sit uation is not over, but with unem ployment so extensive, the resump tion of large business operations after the first of the year will tend toward the relief of those who are gettnig no wages at all and who believe in the practical philosophy that some kind of a job is better th:>n none. The big fact is that the financial world, which makes possible the con tinuance of manufacturing opera tions, has passed through its crisis and that while buying will be con servatice, the return to norma) has at last begun on a basis that has removed the wrinkles of anxiety on the faces of government officials and made them feel that • nation has successfully weathered the storm. Congressman Starts New Fertilizer Probe WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.—-Inves tigation by the federal trade com mission of the price of fertilized is proposed in a resolution today by Representative BlandJPof A STORY OF CHRISTMAS—IN THREE HAPPY CHAPTERS <s —~ Ji. : fir..: Mm <1 T; A » ■I ‘ t t W JjW.r-'Sa / ®■ i- s 1 / 7/MRR -' I B ITT _W/ . \ I gig Brx ; rBM i to JW. UMI - s a r k ) XT~X P' | J 'wonde-y- Pat J S a/ . wasn’t Santa goe3 io -me. ' I* - I Gonna crawl down fro that places , ~ . . . , . ° ' | r I I’B think he-J spoil his whiskXs ana 1 n t hang my stocking u P B«t h® fam! cMmX : ’1 k f \ Get black stuff orj Inis face-, . ♦u« Laok hV all 1-r j : / X. I took, nymamma's great big one LooktC all the things j iound. 'Twill hoia jes’ he.aps. of stoF£ "L. CYCLONE STRIKES IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF EUFAULA, ALA. EUFAULA, Ala., Dec. 23.—A cy clone passed four miles north of Eu faula at 10 o’clock Wednesday, blow ing down trees on E. E. Davis’, R. L. Thompson’s and Mrs. E. S. Shorter’s places at Roseland. At the historic old Toney place, five miles from here, trees, barns and outhouses were blown down. Across the Chattahoochee river in Quitman county, Georgia, on S. H. Davis’ place, seven mules kill ed and trees and houses were demol ished. . Reports from Florence, Ga., 25 miles from Eufaula, say the storm struck there, destroying several buildings. Reports also say it struck Springvale, Ga., nine miles from here. All long-distanee telephone wires are down and Western Union is working with difficulty. A fierce wind blew at Eufaula all Tuesday night and at 10 a. m. the most ter rific wind and rainstorm since the cyclone of March 5,191 p, raged. Rain poured until 3:30 p. m., but no dam age in the city is reported. Clouds remained heavy and unnatural hu midity prevailed for several hours. CYCLONE DOES DAMAGE AROUND WINCHESTER MARSHALLVILLE, Ga., Dec. 23 A cyclone passed through Winches ter Wednesday afternoon, damaging Judge Felton six to ten thousand dollars; Felton Hatcher, Billy Phil lips, Taylor estate and Will McKin sey from one to two thousand dol lars each. Several head of stock were killed, but no persons were killed or injured. Judge Felton narrowly escaped be ing seriously hurt by a scantling which was blown through the wire screen of the .porch, missing him eighteen inches. r Seven buildings were blown down and others were badly damaged. Some automobiles were injured with loss estimated at SIO,OOO to $12,000. Felton Hatcher’s barn was blown down on forty cows, killing six. Had it not been for the presence of 200 of Mr. Hatcher’s hands, who lifted the top, the entire herd would have perished. Mr. Taylor’s and Mr. Phillips’ loss s will not exceed S2OO each. TWO CAROLINA TOWNS STRUCK BY CYCLONE COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 23. —At least two South Carolina towns were struck by a tornado Wednesday aft ernoon, dispatches from Barnwell and Laurens, telling pf loss of one life at the former and destruction of property at both. FARMER FINDS $150,000 WORTH OF STOLEN STOCK NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 24 Stock certificates and securities to the amount of $50,000 which were stolen from the First National bank, of Smyrna, Tenn., on the night of December 13, were recovered today by local police officers through in formation received by the chief of police here. The bonds were found by Luther Ellis, a farmer, living about four miles south of Ashland City, Tenn., in the Cumberland river imbedded in a gravel bar. Mr. Ellis notified a friend of his, who in tuwi notified the police of this city and officers were immediately sent down to take possession of the papers. W. V. Smith, president' of the Smyrna bank, came to Nashville and signed a receipt for the papers at the local police headquarters for $50,000. The bonds had been stolen from the bank when safe breakers entered the Smyrna bank and got away with many, valuable papers. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1920. W. F. HETRICK IS TAKEN TO JAIL IN COBB COUNTY W. F. Hetrick, the former general manager and secretary-treasurer of the Acworth cotton mills, who is wanted in Cobb county on a charge of embezzling $90,000 of the funds of the concern, and who was recently captured in Columbia, S. C., arrived in Atlanta at 7:20 o’clock Friday morning in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Sanders, of Cobb county, and was taken from here to Marietta on the 8 o’clock interurban car and placed in the Cobb county jail. Deputy Sanders and Hetrick were met at -the Union station by W. T. Gloer, general manager of the Ad ams National Detective agency, which trailed Hetrick and captured him. They wetn together to the Kimball house and got breakfast. Hetrick was well dreesed and in good spirits. He told the officers several interesting stories of the manner in which he had eluded detection since "his disappearance last October. He said he had been to Florida, to Min nesota, to New York and to Phila delphia. In the last-named city he worked on a newspaper as proof reader, he said. He was trailed by watching his wife’s letters received at Daytona, Fla., where she is said be living in a fashionable tourist hotel. She was to meet Hetrick in Columbia to spend the holidays with hm. The detectives got there first and met him on arrival. Hetrick further told the officers that he had been planning to return to Cobb county to straighten out the financial affairs of the Acworth mills and prove his innocence. He asserted that he was not guilty of embezzlement but would be able to show, at the proper time, that others took the funds. He would give no hint of the identity of these persons. Marriage License Should Cost as Much as Dog Tax CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Because bridgegrooms are so full of joy and hope they won’t object, Robert M. Sweitzer, county clerk, proposed to the finance committee today that the price of marriage licenses be raised to the same scale as dog licenses. A marriage permit costs $1.50 and a dog license $3. . “I don’t see why Bthe fee for a marriage license should not be raised to the dignity of that for a dog license,” Sweitzer said. “A young man about to be married is- so full of joy and hope that I am sure few, if any, would object.” Pupil Killed, Teacher Shocked by Lightning ADRIAN, Ga., Dec. 24.—At Ori anna, a small town near here, light ning struck the dormitory late Wed nesday afternoon and killed a son of J. I. Hatcher and severely shock ed Miss Maggie Smith, a teacher in school there. Alexander Graham Bell Makes New Invention ST. JOHN, N. R, Dec. 24—An nouncement of a new invention by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was made upon his arrival here today from Scotland, where he visited his native city of Edinburgh. He declined to state the nature of his latest discovery. HOUSTON WARNS AGAINST REVIVAL OF FINANCE BODY WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—De claring that the government faces a gross deficit of $2,103,000,000 for the current fiscal year, Secretary Houston today warned the senate finance committee that congress should avoid putting a heavier bur den on the treasury department. The estimate came as a surprise to the senate, as it was nearly $1,000,- 000,000 greater than that recently estimated by Senator McCumber, North Dakota, one of its members. For the fiscal year ending June 30, the treasury head estimated the deficit would be approximately $1,500,090,003, and he added that it could be seen that new sources of revenue must be sought to meet even current requirements. Bonus Bill Mr. Houston v,-as called before the committee to discuss the soldiers’ bonus bill which, according to esti mates, would require an outlay of $1,500,000,000, and he indicated that the treasury would oppose any ac tion -by congress that would tend to open a new drain on the treasury. The secretary also reiterated his objections to the revival of the war finance corporation. It would mean, he said, that the treasury would be compelled to launch a new program of borrowing. The committee was urtable to com plete its work today and asked Mr. Houston to return for further tes timony Monday. HAMON CASE GIRL IN CUSTODY OF TEXAS SHERIFF EI PASO, Tex;., Dec. 24.—Clara Barton Smith left El Paso at 6 o’clock this morning bound for Ard more, byway of Fort Worth. She was accompanied by Her lawyers and Sheriff Garrett. The party is scheduled to reach Fort Worth Friday morning and to reach Ardmore that afternoon. Bond of SIO,OOO is to be furnished immediately and Miss Smith expects to spend a few days with relatives in Oklahoma before returning to El Paso to await the trial. Attorneys W. P. McLean, Jr., of Fort Worth, and Charles A. Coakley, of Ardmore, said they would ask a speedy trial and expressed the be lief that her acquittal would result. “The sympathy of the people of Carter county is with Miss Smith,” Sheriff Garrett said. Hamon was shot in an Ardmore hotel and before his death gave out a statement saying the shooting was accidental and relieving Miss Smith of all blame. The county attorney, however, swore out a war rant which later was changed to murder and another containing a statutory charge. Miss Smith was Hamon’s secre tary. 2,000 Deaths Reported After Terrific ’Quake In Chinese District BY JAMES Xi. BUTTS (Special Cable to the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, by Leaser! Wire to The Atlanta Journal.) (Copyright, 1920.) SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 23.—Two thousand deaths have been caused by a terrific earthquake in the Ping liang district of Ifansu province. There were twenty-five distinct shocks within the first nine hours after the first tremor. Hourly shocks are still continuing. Cities were laid in ruins with great Igss of life and the roads in the district were demolished. FIRE AND BLAST KILL THREE MEN 'AT GALVESTON GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. 24. — Damage tentatively placed at $400,- 000 resulted here this afternoon when a fire spread by an explosion aboard the oil barge Bolikow swept a portion of the Southern Pacific docks. Three men are known to be dead and two injured. The Bolikow was a total loss, while the steam ships El Occidente, Aschenborg and Hastnai sustained damage from the flames. Part of the docks on 'both sides of the slip in which the ves sels were berthed burned, as also did a grain elevator conveyor. Captain Wallace Mackenzie, mas ter of the British steamship Aschen borg, brought his vessel safely through a blazing inferno. With the fire licking at his vessel from both sides and a wall of flame ris ing from the oil-cpvered water, Cap tain Mackenzie, crouched on the bridge of his vessel, one hand on the wheel and the other on his en gine room controllers, poked the Aschenborg safely through the fire and into the channel. The damage to El Occidente? was not obtainable tonight, but it was officially announced that the Hast hai suffered only slight damage to her superstructure. Decision Barring Christmas for Boys May Be Revoked WEST ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 24 Three west Orange boys who were sentenced by. Recorder John B. Lan der to have no- Christmas presents and take no part in yuletide rejoic ings because of their michievous pranks, may have their sentences re voked. Recorder Lander, who has received protests from individuals and organi zations throughotn the country, said today he was “a sick man from wor rying about what I have done.” He said he was considering changing the sentence. “I am certain of one thing,” said the recoyder, “and tl\at is that my decision has resulted in making bet ter boys in this pre-Christmas sea son in many places outside West Orange. It has been a -warning to those who have made a practice of going too far with their tricks. It would not be right for any boys to go to church on Christmas even, sing ‘Jesus, Lover of My Soul’ and then go out and play tricks that would be damaging.” Judge K. M. Landis Gave Young Offender Choice of Two Paths CHICAGO, Dec. 24. Kenne saw M. Landis gave Roy V. Warner, aged 17, charged with cashing a sl7 check stolen from the mails, his choice of two paths today. “Do you want to go to hell?” the judge asked, leaning overythe bench, “or do you want to go along the nar row path? The road to hell is lined with beautiful scenery, but the other Ijpth is the better.” Warner said he “guessed he would try the strait and narrow path.” The judge sent him to jail until January 5 “to think things over.” Colby Welcomed By President of Brazil RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec. 23. Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president of the republic, addressing Bainbridge Col by, secretary of state of the United States at a banquet given in Mr. Colby’s honor Thursday night, said that North and South America were bound by ties of common ideals. These ties must be drawn still closer, however, the president declared, to bring to completion the work of dem ocratic civilization undertaken by the two Americas. W. B. GREEN TO APPEAL FROM COURT DECISION William B. Green, the former Fair burn banker who was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years by a Campbell county jury, and whose appeal for a new trial was denied Thursday by the state court of appeals, will take his case to the state supreme court. Attorney H. A. Allen, who repre sents Green, announced Friday that he would give notice during the day of a petition for a writ of certiorari and that he will file the formal pe tition within the next few weeks. If the supreme court grants the writ, it will then hear arguments by coun sel for both sides on the main ques tion of whether Green shall have a new trial. Green is at liberty under bond. He is staying at his mother’s home at Fairburn, and, according to his friends, he is a broken man, both mentally and physically. His bond is $40,000, of which $25,000 is for embezzlement, and $15,000 for a charge of arson on which he was in dicted but has never been tried. It was -stated at Fairburn Friday that no steps will be taken to reim prison Green or to begin his service of his sentence, pending the outcome of his attempt to appeal his case to the supreme court. “I saw Mr. Green Thursday, and communicated to him the decision of the court of appeals,” said Attor ney Allen. "He took the decision philosophically, but he will leave nothing undone to get a new trial, if possible.” » Six Men Are Held In Connection With Tragedy Near Butler COLUMBUS, Ga., Dec. 24—On vari ous charges in connection with the bloody tragedy near Butler, Ga., on the morning of December 15, Will Garrett, his two sons, Alfred and E. F. Garrett, were held by United States Commissioner N. A. Brown, last night under bonds of $25,000 each. The two negroes, C. Dandy and-. W. Lackgart, were held for SSOO each, and C. A. Wadsworth was bound over in the sum of $5,000. preliminary hearing lasted four hours. Details of the tragedy in which R. W. Jackson, an officer, and John Garrett lost their Ilves were bared by many witaesses. Of ficers had just smashed a still. No bonds had been made today, all six men being held in the Musco gee county jail. Milking ThiefJßalked; Farmer Substituted Young Mule for Cow RALEIGH, N. C., 24—A thief has been sneaking into the barn at night and milking a cow owned by a Johnson county farmer. The planter determined to put an end to the culprit’s depredations. A few days ago the cow was trans ferred from her regular stall and a young mule was substituted. Sev eral nights ago the farmer was aroused by a terrific racket in the vicinity of the stable. The planter grabbed his shotgun and ran to the barn, but the thief had escaped, leaving a battered milk pail, a small stool and a hat in the mule’s stall. The 4 visits of the intruder have ceased. Scents a $1.50 A CRIME WAVE ORDER DF‘'SHDDTTOKILIi ISSDEDJYBEAVEII Evening Watch lslncma« and Civilia Called On —N® by Officer W Bound . two Crime ys. the went to the force by '. *> gin. The highwaymen were on the defensive. to start anything except in a g stances, and one of these the capture of a safe-cracker in th« very act. In addition, the police got credit] in the minds of several hundred people for killing a yeggmen with $20,000 in his pocket as he tried to escape fronj a Five Points jewelrV shop which he had blown opejJ with a charge so terrific that m wrecked several buildings. IR Thirteen different reports of thiß affair were reieeived by The Journal) and twenty-nine by the police. Thu 1 far painstaking investigation ha’ failed to confirm a single report. The story seems to have been start ed by one of those Inventive brains] that always appear along with crimd 'waves. ■ 1 Caught In Act The yeggman caught in the ac> was Rube Benton, alias James Harrison, a negro barber for Her-' don’s, at 35 Marietta street. He was trying to crack the safe of his employer’s shop when the police got him. Will Hines, the negro janitor of Herndon’s, unlocked the front door of the barber shop at 5 a. m. and started to clean up. He heard rifle hammering in the basement, and without stopping to investigate, relocked the door and ran toward Five Points. The police crusade on crime, notably the placing of fifty addition al men on duty at night and Chielj Beavers’ orders to “shoot to kill'] wheh criminals were encountered ai the jobs and sought to escape, apj parently has had an Immediate and marked effect in checking the recent epidemic of robberies in Atlanta. j The news was widely heralded iJ Wednesday afternoon’s newspaper that fifty men had been transfe#wß from the day watch to the evenirß and morning watches, that the citP zen police had been called upon to do voluntary duty in their neigh borhoods at night, that members ok the force had been ordered to “shoß quick and shoot to kill” if safe! crackers or highwaymen, caught redj handed, sought to get away and that the entire-force was on its mettle to' protect the Atlanta public. i Evidently the yeggmen anJ burglars took the warning to hedjfl for Wednesday night was a of comparative quiet at the polß| station. Where twenty-six calls, B eluding one- murder and a number ■ bold robberies were received at tIR police station Tuesday night, onll fourteen calls came in during t« same hours Wednesday night, anl practically all of these were of I minor nature. The “shoot to kill order” resulted in the slaying of -one negro. Will Ham Henry Clemons, of 29 Gumbjl street, was ordered to halt on thJ Edgewod avenue bridge' about 1 o’clock by Policemen Evans arifl Bentley. The officers say he wR carrying a heavy satchel and thlH at their command, he dropped it aH drew a weapon which was fouM later to be a pair of barber sheaH As he advanced toward them, man Evans fired. The negro dr-K ped. shot through the abdomen, ajed soon afterward at the hospital. Ml Rob Cash Register Two burglaries, one a taxicab hold-up and the of an automobile were the crimes ported Wednesday night. J. F. tree, a grocer, of 166 street, Inman Park, stated that white men entered his store in the evening, held him up and bed the cash register of $1.55. Two churches were ransacked ing the night. At the All SairiK Episcopal church at 256 West Pead® tree, robbers stole all of the Chris® mas gifts and decorations whirl, haR been left in the Sunday school room, ready for the children’s entertain ment Thursday morning; and the North avenue Presbyterian church on the corner of Peachtree and North avenue, was entered and plundered of several articles of value, including the church linden, and sofa pillows from the ladies’ parlor. A Mrs. Lucas, of* 15 Elmwoo’d av«, nue, reported her cbok was waylaid o r , the way to the grocery store anol robbed of a purse containing $2. R. E. Mitchell reported the theft of his automobile from Auburn avenue and, Ivy street. The boldest robbery of the nighfl was reported by W. A. Harrison, oR Forrest Park, who stated he charte® ed a taxicab in Atlanta and was ing in it on the Cascade road, the driver stopped, and, with two er men who occupied the front with him, assaulted him and him of $7. His wounds were at Grady hospital. Several arrests have been connection with recent John C. Davis, a young was arrested at Toccoa by agents and has confessed to bery of two safes at the cruiting station in the building. The police have Dewey Hunter, a n.-rro record, and Ja>-...x Jackson, A. Nolan, another negro. (Continued on Fag* 6, C®