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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
16
Prominent At lanta parents and club members plan 4 pm meeting at the Woman's club house to discuss stopping all night dances and curb late morning car rides. Clergy and community leaders are expected, with Mrs Boykin leading talks on possible solutions to the social issue.
Invitations issued for a 1 o'clock luncheon in the Daffodil tearoom by Atlanta section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Charles Murphey Candler will lecture as chairman of the state railroad commission on The Railroad Property of the State of Georgia. The event serves as a get-together for those interested in such subjects, with a large attendance expected including Georgia School of Technology students.
The Chi Mi club of Grace Methodist Sunday school presents Leave It to Me a three act play at Igleston hall corner North avenue and West Peachtree street at 8 o'clock tonight Tickets available at J P Stevans Engraving company The cast includes Virginia Kelly Marian Cook Evelyn Kelly Betty Aiken Frances Noyes and others from Grace church youth group
Clomer Thompson and Eula Putnam, jointly indicted for the murder of Ernest Brown on March 15, likely will stand trial at the start of next week in DeKalb superior court. Judge John B Hutcheson convened the term, with civil business planned for the first week.
Joseph A. McCord of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announces that Bank of Dawson in Dawson Georgia has been admitted to the National Reserve system. Negroes of Atlanta and suburbs held their fourth annual outing at Lakewood Park. School children performed drills followed by motorcycle and automobile races with about $400 in prizes. Jackson McHenry founder of the association gave an address. Rev P James Bryant president led the program.
Attendants at the Fitzhugh Lee Camp No 6 Spanish War Veterans meeting Sunday afternoon passed resolutions urging city schools to observe May 3 each year as a memorial day for the dead of the Civil, Spanish American and world wars. The resolutions request the schools to declare it a holiday.
M. H. Karnes, Georgia Republican leader, elected president of the American Fish and Fertilizer company, a $500000 Atlanta based firm. The stockholders elected him at their second annual meeting last Saturday. He serves as vice chairman of the state Republican committee and plans to resign when a new Georgia Republican organization is announced from Washington. He has withdrawn as an applicant for Savannah port collector and has managed the Thomas E. Scott Sales Company. The firm operates a fleet of fishing craft based in Carabelle Florida.
The national convention of junior chambers of commerce meets in Dallas June 16-18. Atlanta plans to host next year’s gathering and extend invitations to Dallas delegates and county units. Prominent speakers include Thomas Addison Edwin Denby Herbert Hoover and Charles Schwab. Robert Maddox declined due to business. an extensive entertainment program will be offered.
The Fulton Lodge No. 32 Independent Order of Odd Fellows will celebrate its 21st anniversary Wednesday night at the temple at Moore and Decatur Streets. Speakers include City Attorney James L. Mayson on the lodge history, Dr. Caleb A. Ridley on Love, J. W. Evans on Friendship, Carl Hutcheson on Truth, with T. H. Robertson of Gainesville and Dr. Wilder of Macon also presenting. Refreshments will be served and lectures heard. the event is billed as the lodge's most important meeting recently.
Savannah plans public forums beginning Tuesday night in the municipal auditorium. The board of trade will host discussions and exchanges of views on matters deemed to affect Savannah’s commercial advantage.
A detailed survey of shoe industry conditions opens with sessions in Atlanta led by editors and executives from Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Columbia. Topics cover merchandising, stock turnover, show window design, advertising, hosiery department profitability, and salesperson compensation. A banquet and cabaret at 7:30 p.m. closes the day, with special entertainments for ladies and a samples display tour of area hotels.
City council moved to curb joy riding in city owned vehicles by restricting nightly and Sunday use to police fire and Grady hospital, with water department allowed Sundays. Cars to be kept locked at city garage. Finance sheet adopted, no major changes. Termination of Cyclorama contract planned for June 21. library and garage officials reappointed. trolley stop schedule referred to committee.
Lyerly Ga June 6 Special Motion for a new trial for Clint Mathis, convicted two weeks ago of the murder of Lewis Kinsey, a rural mail carrier and taxicab driver, will be heard Saturday June 11 by Judge Moses Wright in Rome. If denied, attorneys will file a bill of exceptions with the supreme court. Mathis was sentenced to re im prisonment. The defense asserts the verdict was contrary to law and evidence. Clarence Patterson, a young negro minister, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and given 20 years. He killed his brother Thomas after an altercation at their home near Lyerly. a shotgun was used.
Pittsburg Pa June 6 a fire of unknown origin started in an office building in the gown town section was brought under control by 3 am after the entire city department responded. No loss of life but damage estimated between 500000 and 1000000 with several firms in the business district facing heavy losses.
Savannah Ga June 6 Henry Paul II is held on charges of assault with intent to murder after a pistol fight with R L Street special agent of the American Express company. Paul fired first then fled to Union station where Street confronted him and fired back. Paul was shot in the leg.
Savannah Ga June 6 Special fight Rev Benjamin J Keiley Catholic bishop of Savannah arraigned society and feminism in a diocese letter read Sunday He characterized both as inimical to Christian home life and scored society primarily for its influence on family values The remarks reflect a conservative stance during a period of social change and gender debates.
Harold R. Young of the National Retail Dry Goods Association will speak at a tax meeting Friday night in the Chamber of Commerce building under the Atlanta Retail Merchants Association. An open forum will follow, with many acceptances promising a large audience. The talk centers on federal taxation and proposals to substitute a gross sales tax for the income tax.
Two injunction suits challenge Georgia railroad commission power to set public utility rates. Augusta-Aiken Railway and Mec tric contend the commission lacks local rate authority over Montezuma. Southern Bell seeks to block a 10 cent fare denial. Hearing set for Tuesday before federal and state judges.
About 250 dentists from across the state gather in Macon for the fifty third Georgia State Dental Society convention at the Hotel Dempsey starting Wednesday. Dr H E Friesell of Pittsburg Pa will speak at 8 pm on The Profession. Dr Charles E Boynton of Atlanta will discuss child diseases. Dr M M Forbes of Atlanta presides. officers include S R Atkinson Jr treasurer and J Russell Mitchell secretary.
Athens Ga June 6 Special Discussion on water power development to be held at a water power convention for the eighth and ninth districts in Athens Thursday. Mayor R R Parker of Madison will preside as state vice president of the Municipal League of Georgia. Marion Jackson of Atlanta will explain two league sponsored bills in the legislature. One bill lets towns and counties develop their own water power. the other allows the state to do so.
Baroness Stefan Kemeny widow of a Hungarian nobleman is a guest of Mr and Mrs Cornelius I Moses at Vernon View near Savannah Ga She formerly Miss Ida Mitchell of San Francisco and was active in war relief during the world war prior to her marriage.
The Swedish motor ship Bullaran reached Savannah last night, the largest motor driven vessel to visit the port. She seeks cotton seed cake but a deep draft limits her to a partial cargo.
The Connally memorial tablet was unveiled Sunday in the Georgia Baptist Hospital Nurses' home reception room funded by Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Connally. Captain Joseph Brown Connally, who died after being gassed in World War I, is honored. Dr. Henry A Potter delivered the address. The inscription notes his service and death at Fort McPherson on August 26, 1920.
In Bainbridge Georgia on a Saturday a burglar ignored visible jewelry and took 22256 dollars in cash from a drawer in the home of G McKenzie on Washington Street. The money was set aside to pay employees at his milk plant.
A letter to the Georgia Railway and Power Company asks for an electric motorman opening. The writer, claiming to be Lloyd George, notes army status and a July 20 deadline, but the non English postmark casts doubt the former British prime minister sent it.
Cordele Ga June 6 Special The curb market under the management of two committees of ladies has proven a great success Opened and operated on Wednesday and Saturday mornings farmers from the county bring produce raised on their farms and offer it for sale.
Unanimously adopted June 5 1921 in joint session via For Good of the Order Committee. Resolution condemns Georgia publicity as branding the state lawless and warns against Inter-Racial Committee and NAACP propaganda challenging Jim Crow and white social prerogatives while pledging justice to all races.
Washington reports Senator France of Maryland will press Soviet authorities to release Captain Emmett Kilpatrick of Uniontown Alabama and Mrs Margaret Harrison of Baltimore who are detained in Russia. Harrison was jailed while doing newspaper work and Kilpatrick worked with General Wrangel's anti Bolshevik forces. The piece notes women bus conductors in Japan averaging 18.50 dollars per month.
Mrs. Ernie M. Ford of Staunton Virginia visits to seek support from Captain Carl D. Ford now in Atlanta federal prison for polygamy and Mann Act violations. She says she will not meddle in his affairs but aims to secure proper support for her and her year old son. Ford reportedly has two other wives in Atlanta planning separate businesses.
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