Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1930, Page 23

OB HANGS SLAYER OF CHIEF OF POLICE Colored Man Taken From Jail’ and Killed on Telephone Pole. By the Associated Press. | CARTERSVILLE, Ga., October 1.—A motorcade of 45 or 50 masked men took | John Will Clark, colored, from the county jail here early today and hanged him to the crossbeam of a_telephone | pole on the fair grounds a mile away. | Clark, charged with murder of Chief of Police Jenkins, was removed from the custody of the three deputies sheriff on duty at about 1 o'clock and taken on his death ride in one of the automobiles | of the motorcads. At dawn local police reported finding the body hanging by & Tope from the telephone pole. First Effort Failed. A previous effort to lynch Clark was made two weeks ago. National Guards- men were called out and he was then removed to Atlanta for safe-keeping, but returned yesterday for trial The lynching party came to the jail in 9 or 10 automobiles. Ten of the men entered the jail office where the deputies were on duty, took the key to Clark’s cell from Deputy A. J. McCoy, unlocked the cell, seized their prey, and “It was all over in five minutes.” McCoy sald. “We had no time to draw our guns, the men overpowering us as soon as they entered the office.” Sought Change of Venue. Clark was taken a few hours after his attorneys had appealed to the higher courts for a change of venue on the ds he could not obtain a fair trial Chief Jenkins was killed on the night of « ber 5 in a scuffie with two colored men who had halted their auto- mobile in front of his home and whom the chief said were creating a disturb- ance. He was shot with Clark at that time was an_escaped convict. Officers said he confessed to killing Chief Jenkins, but satd’ the lh’ofln‘m was accidental during the scuffie. PRIVATE SUG.AR SHIPPERS CRITICIZE BARGE LINE Offer of Low Storage Rates for Its Freights Attacked as Govern- ment Enterprise. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 1.—The Pederal Barge Line’s policy of charg- ing low storage rates for sugar shipped in l? ve:e.h ‘was lma:e‘d as Goverfl- ment enterprise compet with private interests, and was defended as “good and a convenience to shippers” in testimony here yesterday before Wil- liam A. Maiden, Intrestate Commerce examiner. Maiden took testime in laint ony in & complaint filed with the tbeaznerl- $550,000 TO MRS. CHANEY ‘Will of Screen Star Bequeaths 81 to Former Wife. in a dozen Indian dialects. Driver Freed When Car’s Top Speed Is Proved Only 29 By the Assoclated Press. 4 RACINE, Wis., October 1.—The old bus simply wouldn't go that fast and John Marchant proved it. The traffic policeman said he was driving 36 miles an hour. Marchant said he wasn't. The court continued the case and told the officer to go out and see for himself what he could get out of the car. “Twenty-nine miles an hour ‘was the best I could do,” the po- liceman reported back to the ruled the MISSIONARY IS ILL Mgr. Grauard, 90, in Critical Con- dition at Northern Settlement. EDMONTON, Alberta, October 1 (#). —Mgr. Emile Jean Baptiste Marie Grouard, one of the best known mis- sionaries of the Far North, is critically ill at Grouard, the northern settlement named in his honor. He is 90 years old. His illness is believed due to his ad- vanced age and the hardships he has undergone In carrying Christianity over the subarctic trails. He is credited with being more familiar with the Indian tribes of the North than any other white man, and can converse fluently On a liner recently arriving at New York from Europe were 17 Smiths. Visit THE NEW M. A. 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