Show Gangland Quiet on New Years Year's Murders in Chicago 1926 I CHICAGO Jan 1 AP New AP-New New Years Year's quiet pervaded gangland today today to- to day as relatives kept silence about the slayIng of Hilary Clements and statisticians scanned the lowered murder rate of 1926 Big Joe beer gangster had had- taken his New Years Year's resolution resolution tion to remaIn out of the beer business busi- busi business ness and announced he planned to move to Wisconsin In the spring John L. L Clements brother of Hilary Hilary Hi- Hi lary who had bad openly forecast that the latter while missing had been the vIctim of gangsters declared at atthe atthe the Inquest that h he knew of no enemies hIs brother had made What had caused him to keep Jeep silent sil- sil ent about his brothers brother's former as- as i sedates was a mystery Hilary's body was found with bullet holes in it under a house last Tuesday Although rs VIrginIa Rom Romaine in had J-id Identified the body of Clements a as that of one of tw two men who I. I I I 1 iJ f rented the room whence fire from froma a machine gun nest had killed Earl Hymie Weiss leader of the north northside northside side gang last OctobEr do do- do dared he did not b believe lieve Clements had anything to do with tha assa as- as sa Clements Clements' frIends had been enemies erie erie- mies of the group FIgures of of the Chicago crIme commIssion showed murders In 1926 against In 1925 Police statIstics gave homIcIdes In the 1926 year machine guns were in gangland's strIfe strIfe- and in 1925 of which were classifIed as murderers in 1926 and In 1925 Whether Clements Clements' death was a break Th n the gangsters gangsters' tru truce e arranged ar- ar rang ranged d a few weeks ago seemed uncertain CHICAGO Jan 1 AP AP The ad ad- Continued U d on on p g f i f Q J i r dk i t GANGLAND QUIET ON YEARS Continued from page 1 vent ot of 1927 was greeted in ChIcago Chicago ChI ChI- cago today by an unusually well behaved behaved be- be haved citizenry and with probably the least drInkIng and violence in inmany inmany many years Police contrasted the quietness of the day with many of its boisterous predecessors and prohibition enforcement en- en chiefs declared themselves themselves them them- selves highly pleased wIth the way merrymakers conducted themselves conducted At nightfall there had been no reports reports re- re rei i ports of death or illness from poison polson liquor In automobile mishaps however the cIty got oft off to a bad start though four deaths from motor accidents accidents ac- ac recorded in the first day ot of the new year were fewer than those of many recent New Years Years' days It was a day spent by the fire sides and Chicago's streets were more desolate than on any other the was mild holiday although daY day- was and with a a. hint of sunshIne Motor Mo- Mo rotor ro- ro tor traffic and attendance at mat matl- flees became fairly heavy toward oward and tonight's gaiety suggested that of a holiday though the crowds were scarcely greater than those of a normal Saturday night nigh 1 Prohibition chiefs did not divulge how much evidence was obtained last night for possible use in injunction injunction in- in junction proceedings E E. C. C Yel- Yel lowley district a administrator asked asked ask ask- ed his agents not to arrest drinkers drinkers drink drink- ers unless the their r behavior was flagrant flag flag- rant but to note any of the gentleman's agreement by w which hotels roadhouses and night nightclubs nightclubs clubs promised to make patrons conform to the dry law An unidentified pedestrian p met death when two motor cars col- col ol- ol T Their occupants fled before I police pollee arrived A night watchman at a hotel was killed when he stepped In front of a taxicab Another Another An- An other motorist was booked when his machine ran down a man on his way to work A motor car which overturned in a suburb pinned one of three occupants beneath it and cost cost his life liCe The driver was held The usual shooting marked the ingres of the new year ear but only one injury was reported from stray bullets bullet The employee of an electrical electrical elec- elec shop sitting at his desk shortly after dawn was wounded in the tho arm when a motor car passed pass pass- ed Its occupants ants tirIng firing revolvers Police made few arrests arrests and and said the celebration probably was without without with with- out precedent in its orderliness Church services were unusually well attended and last nights night's watch services s drew larger crowds than in several years |