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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1921
Page
6
R Saunders, a strike breaker arrested during Fitzgerald disorders, waived preliminary trial yesterday. Grand jury will consider charges at its August 29 session. Fort McPherson hospital notified police, taxi company informed, Roberson described two suspects, one soldier and one civilian, well dressed near ap pearing.
At Broad and Marietta streets near 7 pm Tuesday a free for all occurred involving several citizens and soldiers. Two girls were detained for disorderly conduct after the melee. They identified themselves as Marie White, 18, of the city.
Witnesses report two men tried to lure two girls from 144 Edgewood avenue and 278% Decatur street into a car. A fight broke out as eight soldiers and bystanders intervened. Detectives and officers arrived but could not identify the attackers amid the dense crowd. the girls were escorted away and no arrests were made.
Late Tuesday afternoon Officers Rainwater and Cheney of the Georgia railroad detained three persons in the Inman Park yards. A slim girl in dirty overalls, later named Ellen Williams of 191 Whitehall Street, was taken into custody along with two men, J. C. Maxwell and J. R. Hall of Porterdale, Ga.
A Georgia railroad commission resolution wrestles with intrastate rate control and federal ICC authority. It details past revisions in 1918 and 1920, notes discrimination against small towns, and urges a new state rate structure to curb joint line biases and ensure fair competition within Georgia. The text references appeals to the Supreme Court and ongoing ICC proceedings.
Mrs Kate Evans wife of Jack W Evans died at her home 68 Orleans Avenue Tuesday afternoon. She is survived by her husband four daughters Mrs Co W Grmnsfield Mrs H Smithson Elizabeth and Florence Evans two sisters Mrs L Schel and Mrs M A Beiter Evang resident of Atlanta for years and Mr Evans is circulation manager for Georgia for The Southern Masonic Journal.
Washington July 12 The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America adopts a program by its commission on negro churches and race relations to enlist all churches in stamping out mob violence and lynching and to establish interracial committees in local communities, with a central house for churches and Christian agencies. Dr. Robert B. Speer presided. John J. Engan of Atlanta named chairman of the interracial commission.
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