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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
17
The Georgia Baptist weekly urges Baptists to curb the outflow of Black residents to northern and western cities. An editorial calls for a one day halt to lobbying, and for laws to stop lynching in the South. Georgia Texas Florida Louisiana South Carolina cited for annual lynchings.
An Atlanta writer’s six page piece cites a state college report showing 100000 people left Georgia farms in six months, with 80000 natives, resulting in 11810 abandoned farms and a drop in rural churches. It notes mob violence and peonage pressures driving blacks to seek education opportunities, while Treated county Houston Holds Blacks shows one area where no lynching has occurred since 1913 and suggests a state police force and sheriff removal powers.
The piece urges labor, contract law changes to curb peonage and to fund proper institutions including schools, hospitals for the feeble minded, tubercularity care for delinquents, and increased public health staff. It notes state finances are strained and political will may falter, prompting private citizens to act to prevent economic loss from farm land abandonment and black worker migration. Endorsers include Rev. B. J. Forrester, J. Phil Cawthonell, W. N. Ainsworth, Walter Sheppard, Hugh M. Dorsey, M. M. Parks, and Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick.
Friends and relatives hunt for H J Griffin 42 of 97 East Linden Street missing since last Monday. Last seen getting into a car on Marietta Street after leaving Terminal station. Griffin, about six feet tall and 140 pounds, wore a small diamond ring. Dr J Cheston King and Dr Wylie King appeal for any information contact their offices in the Peachtree building or King's Drug Store on Peachtree Street.
Ernest Chambers of Greene county was arrested by Detective Lieutenant W A Chewning after a drunken incident on Woodward avenue. He sang loudly and chased two girls into a home, tried to dance with the occupant Mrs C B Farmer, and fled as her husband fired two shots. Chambers then headed to Oakland cemetery before police took him into custody.
Kansas City Kansas bank bandit James Dudley Major escaped from an office after disarming a deputy sheriff and a dentist. Posing as a patient, he freed himself during a toothache visit, restrained both men, and fled with the deputy’s revolver and $846 from the purse.
A moral on family finance urging systematic savings to avoid hardship. It cites a widow spent on luxuries, a child unprepared for needs, and asks if a couple reserves enough for the unexpected. It advocates laying up a nest egg starting today for protection and future security.
In St Louis on June 14 Ida Georgine Boening aged 12 or 13, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Boening of the city, was ordered returned to her mother Miss Audie Dunlap of Van Buren Arkansas, overturning the prior adoption. She was reportedly connected to the late Joseph Alexander, the potato king of Oklahoma and Arkansas. The court ruling reasserts maternal custody and ends the adoption.
Pekin June 14 President Li Yuan Hung has resigned after capture by troops and held prisoner on a train he fled from Pekin Wednesday he telegrammed parliament quitting office and has shelter and protection in the British legation Pekin remains quiet former cabinet ministers run the government among possible successors is the governor of the province tied to bandit raids on the Pekin blue express with Americans and other foreigners seized and held prisoners on Mr Poatzuku
President Harding declares in a letter read at a Spanish American War Veterans gathering that the nation’s role in world affairs expanded due to the war with Spain, praising mobilization and sanitation lessons and noting the war’s influence on future participation in global events. The item also includes a long Augusta Georgia public works bid notice and an Atlanta school property auction listing.
A live ground hog, captured on Kerme jaw mountain by hunters including ft. J. Tribble and C. W. Graves, was placed on display near the Capital City Seed and Bag Co at 33 South Pryor Street. The animal will be sent to Grant Park zoo for February forecasts on early spring weather. The ground hog, an ordinary rodent, slept much of the time and fed when awake. Visitors heard of the tale from eager spectators at its cage.
In Berlin on June 14 General Uuden dorff hig started a movement to direct a monument honoring Albert Schlageter, a former German army officer recently executed by the French at Duesseldorf for alleged sabotage against occupying forces in the Ruhr.
Mrs Charles Haines wife of Rev Charles Haines and mother of Susa Marie Halnes died Sunday at her St. Augustine Florida home. She is survived by two other daughters.
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