Show 1 R Revive Ghost Stories In Atlanta 1 Scrap Embalmers I Insist They Never Saw Sal Any Negro Conjurers Conjurer Fear They Will Lose if ti Jobs Super lions Are Lost White Men Declare They Have k Lived in Haun Haunted ed Houses Seen Ghosts and Had Wierd Wierd Dreams f By MILLARD C Special l of ot The Copyright 1927 1327 Consolidated ATLANTA TA Ga Ga Ga- Feb At 26 2 At Atlanta's lamas lantas conJure doctors doctor who In grave yard dust toad tod and similar charms In al- al al alleyway off oft Decatur Decatur- tret are ar up In arms arm this week against caln t a drive In hants and spirits spirit launched at t the th recent convention here her of oG Georgia undertakers It If If the existence of ot hants to Is ed these dusky purveyors of Ill charms lIl charms fear there will be b a panic i In the market that will send end end most moat of ot them back to to more arduous methods method of making a I living i 1 i But Dut It la Is not the th colored ry ry ry alone Ion that has ha taken tak n an active Int Interest rest In subject supernatural In Inthe inthe the last lart few days das day The Tho whole city Is la discussing discussing ghost and ha ltha with surp number or of whites white lining up on the aide id of the DON DONT DON'T FEAR FEAK The Th effort to discredit ghosts begon began with the the recent m here ere of ot the th state board of em- em embalmers embalmers cm the official body representing representing the states state's undertakers Te e board was wu Interviewed and every very last man mon on It declared he had ad never seen en a ghost host didn't be- be believe belleve llev bc-llev lieve In ghosts and wouldn't be beany beany any Gny more mor nervous In In a graveyard yard At midnight than he would be b In his arm chair at home reading tile the newspaper The Th board speaking for the th un- un undertakers un of ot Georgia a Id thai t un- un un undertakers are arc ar not afraid of ol ghosts because o ghosts dont don't exist On tho the heels of this thia came cam a statement from from- Policeman Hoot Hoot- Hooten Hooten Hoot Hoot-en en who patrols the tho city of ot the deAd at Oakland cemetery as- as asserting a that for for 12 years year ears he h had chased ghosts and always Ys found them to bo be b his own shadow the limbs of a 0 tree or a tall shiny monument which stands elands at one end or of the the cemetery has such a surface that It reflects the lights of passing automobiles and causes cause c uses them to g gleam cleam eam pale pale- palely palely ly Iy over neighboring graves trave Twelve Telve years In to a cemetery has convinced ed him he saS sa'S says ys that there ther are no gl RELIEVES BELIEVES IX IN SPIRITS In reply Robert Bryan Harrison Harr former president of the th Atlanta Psychology society declares that undoubtedly many many houses are haunted d haunted by the unhappy lives of who have lived In them them TragedY happening within a house can exert an 4 upon people living there thero In h s-be s and ghosts of unhappy unhappy events live on within the four walls ails of a house hous Gordon Lewis recalls recall that when ho he wasa walla a child his father pur- pur purchased pur purchased chased a ra house In Georgetown Across from Washington V D C which was wa believed to te be bo haunted S rv told t les of ot trans parent parent figures roaming about through the lower hall he said and occasionally as we e satIn the thea living room at night we could see a someOne someone walking In the tho hall han out out- outside out side de the th door dog dor would growl rowl his hair would brittle bristle and I J he h would creep crep trembling to pur f ur feet DREAM OF OP TRAGEDY Mr Lewis says sas ay that later he be and his mother and brother left for Cor Cora fora fora a short ocean trip The Th night be tor he-tor fore their departure ho he h dreamed of a city wrecked by a storm and of bodies floating upon the tho th water They sailed from New York aboard the steamship Comal and after arter en- en en countering terrific winds wind In tile the gulf gult they thy made mado mad port at Galveston Galve only to find It a city of death and destruction As they dropped an anchor chor Mr Lewis said Id aid he h saw aw be for be-for fore Core him the Identical city of his dream In summing up the tho th case against ghosts Lee Masters a member of the state tate embalming board said When I w was a a barefoot boy and bad b d no Idea of being an undertaker er cr I lived in the country near a graveyard I had heard that ghosts were seen aren to come corn out of of graves In the dead of night and I decided to see sec for Cor myself I went ent there at midnight and sat Silt on II a gravestone and and watched watched and I didn't see a ghost and I haven't h tnt seen een one on yet Ill I'll admit added Lester F FI EI llott EI-llott another member of the th board that I hn have had experiences w which made my hair raise but but 1 I always alway remembered that the th dead are dead |