Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1923 — Page 8

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IMPERIAL WIZARD

FOR UNPARALLELED GROWTH OF KNIGHTS OF THE KUKLUXKLAN

Dr. H. W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is the man directly responsible for the present tremendous growth of this order In all sections of the United States. He is the chief executive of the organization with sole and absolute power to direct the- policies of the Invisible Empire. Under the leadership of Dr. II. W. Evans the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have crossed the Mason and Dixon line and firmly planted the tonets of true Americanism throughout northern, eastern and western states. For years a skilled organizer and leader in fraternal work, Dr. Evans has devoted his valuable experience to the furtherance of the patriotic principles and the high ideals of the Ku Klux Klan throughout the nation. His success in promoting the growth of the Klan on the highest possible plane is evidenced by the astonishing growth In membership during the last few months. A clear thinking business man, Dr. Evans has made many changes In the national organization for its general betterment. He is busily building this structure of Americanism so that it will undoubtedly be here forever. Nationally Popular. As Imperial "Wizard, Dr. Evans has visited hundreds of Klans In all sections of the United States, and numbers as his personal friends thousands of Klansmen. He is a working wizard, devoting twentyfour hours a day to the cause, and at the Imperial Palace, busy though he may be, he is always available even to the humblest of Klansmen for counsel or advice. Dr. Evans was elected supreme head of the Ku Klux Klan at the Klonvokation held in Atlanta In November, 1922, by the unanimous vote WINCHESTER CITIZENS WONDERING ABOUT SCHOOL PETITION

PETITION TO SCHOOL BOARD, BY 1,000 BEST CITIZENS OF ! RANDOLPH COUNTY, WAS i, PROMPTLY PIGEON. 1 HOLED

- i . . , ... : : (By Eyewitness) Winchester, Ind., April 24. There are Just 1,000 people In Randolph county who are wondering what ever became of the petition circulated in December, 1922, and presented to the School Board, December 20th, 1922, which called for the reading of a chapter, or part of a chapter from the Bible (St. James Revised Version), without comment, each school day, by the teacher In" charge of the individual classes. Mr. Chas. D. Davis, who circulated this petition, in company with another man, called on Mr. Ed Goodrich of the School Board, April 6th, 19215, and he positively refused to discuss the matter or to turn the petition over to Mr. Davis who had previously circulated it and obtained the signatures thereon. It is significant to the people of Randolph county that the School Board, consisting of Ed Goodrich, Charles II. Davis, and David Hardnian, are not (at least unanimously) in favor of this commendable project, and a subject in which at least 1,000 of the bent citizens of Randolph county are interested. Miss Katherine Baker, who is a teacher in the High School, has recently been conducting debating classes, in which it is pointed out that most of the debating is but the expression of individual views, all of which are antagonistic to the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an American, Protestant organization which stands for the reading of the Bible in the schools. It is understood that Mr. Hardman does not believe in the Bible being read in the public schools, yet he is the man who presented the petition to Mr. Goodrich. The condition In the City School Board of Winchester Is about the same as that existing in other cities throughout the state, where careful manipulation of politics in the past has bonded the city almost to its bonded indebtedness. Some of the best citizens here bend all their energies on other projects rather than the adequate, iutelligent education of Randolph county's boys and girls. It Is Indeed remarkable that with 1,000 people clamoring for this laudable project, and with a tax list in Randolph county of over five million dollars, that the county now finds Itself in a position where it is impossible to raise additipnal money for the proper maintenance of its school system, and yet must have a school board that givts so little thought, and practically no consideration to a subject so vital to the citizens of the county. MIAMI, OHIO, HEARS BERSHEY Miami, Ohio, April 21. Rev. Herhcy recently delivered and address at Miami to a gathering of the Klan from neighborhood towns as well as members of the local organization. There was no difficulty in securing meeting place, and It is thought that Miami, Ohio will enthusiastically receive the organization, and that the citizens are rapidly becoming affiliated with the movement, representing as It does the best thought la American and civic ideals.

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of delegates to this national convention. The term of office of the Imperial Wizard is four years. Previous to becoming head of the organization, Dr. Evans served for some while as Imperial Kligrapp, or national secretary, having been summoned from his home at Dallas, Tex., to take this important post. Before being called to the Imperial Palace he had been one of the Great Titans of the Realm of Texas and Exalted Cyclops of Dallas Klan No. 66. Powers Are Unlimited. Unlimited nower and anthnrUv in regard to the conduct of the affairs 01 tne Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are given the Imnerial Wizard hv t.h constitution adopted at the last na tional convention. The delegates from Klans in all sections of the country last November voted that all the imperial power and authority shall be vested In and center in the Imperial Wizard as their supreme chief executive. To the Imperial Wizard Is given the power to specify the duties of all officers and employes in the organization, and he may remove from office at any time any officer or employe of the order with the exception of the imperial officers. He has the power to appoint imperial officers and grand dragons, and their terms of office may be designated by him. The Imperial Wizard issues all decrees, edicts, mandates, rulings and instructions, -which must be respected and obeyed promptly and faithfully by all Klansmen under penalty of banishment. Under the constitution the Imperial Wizard's decision regarding matters concerning the Klan is to be regarded at all times as final. He is also given full power to make contracts and conduct the financial affairs of the order, and in order to be authoritative all commissions and credentials of officers of the Klan must be signed by him. DISCHARGES KLANSMAN (Continued from Page 1, Column 2) state that this affidavit was to be signed for the "reason that certain false and malicious reports had been circulated concerning his membership In the organization." This statement Sullivan refused to sign, with the result that he was promptly discharged and Is at the present time unemployed. Mr. Lawrence, who claims to belong to the Masonic lodge, somewhere in New York, although he states himself that he had not attended a lodge meeting in fifteen years, left the city immediately following this action, and left the matter in the hands of H. W. Lowry, Protestant by birth, but alleged to be now a Roman Catholic. It is understood that this action was taken by Lawrence and Lowry on account of pressure of Roman Catholic and Jewish people whom it is understood predominate and represent a large portion of the patronage of the Claypool hotel. Sullivan is a Master Mason, and is 27 years of age. He enjoys the respect of thousands of traveling men and his discharge as superintendent of service at the Claypool hotel comes with unlimited regret by business men, public officials and private citizens who have observed and appreciated his courteous, efficient and laudable handling of the position he filled, at all times. Another Employe Also Threatened. It is understood thnt Rnw -or Tillison, bell captain at the Claypool noiei, wnose name was also published as an alleged Klansman, has been given to understand that he will be required to sign an affidavit similar to the one requested of Sul livan, or ne aiscnarged from his position. ATTENTION Let each citizen help make INDIANAPOLIS a cleaner and more BEAUTIFUL place to live. A City of Homes, let US Beautify yours. ;We will furnish first-class Paint and labor and Paint your Home, when finished same to be paid for in 10 equal monthly payments. We carry a full line of fine Interior Decorations. Call now C. B. WOOSTER & CO. 1232 Aihland Av.. Lincoln SMS EANSMEN NOTICE Order Your Phonograph Record of "THE BRIGHT FIERI CROSS." Order must be paid for in advance. Price of record 76c Song sheet isc Adress THE AEMRICAN ISO Virginia Ave. Indianapolis Record Shop 130 Tirginia Ave. NOTICE to anyone having the money for orders of the phonograph record. Please remit same at once to the same place you received your order cards, or mall to either of the above addresses.

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HARD TO CLEAN GARY FAMOUS "SOUTH SIDE" DRYING UP AS RESULT OF BHDS Opposition to Commission Government Losing Ground Fight On (By Staff Correspondent) Gary, Ind., April 24. All the forces of a united "Better Gary" campaign are running the undesirables of the Johnson protectionists to earth. Booze tons of it is being spilled into the sewers in the greatest drive for liquor law enforcement any city has ever seen. First came the federal court's convictions against city and county officials and the principal bootleggers and vice operators. Then Judge Anderson's injunctions against six of the most notorious saloons and dives, started Prosecutor Kinder off In the right direction by the filing of eight others. Eighty alleged bootleggers have been taken into custody in the three weeks following April 1. The sand dunes were never drier since the city of Gary was platted 16 years ago. The foreigners have taken to their dug-outs, hieing to shelter against the cyclonic disturbance started by the trial of the conspiracy cases. The biggest haul made in any sigle dispensary was at the "soft drink" establishment operated by Phillip and Charles Anello. Here 5,720 gallons of wine, most of it nine years old, and valued at more than $50,000, were seized and consigned, on the orders of federal prohibition enforcement officers, to the sewer. Some Close Voluntarily. The famous "South Side" is a thing of the past. Every man is suspected of being a government officer. Several soft drink places that could not exist without selling liquor on the side have closed up voluntarily. Federal raids have netted a number of stills. Whisky making has become a perilous undertaking and scattered parts of the paraphernalia that goes to make up "moonshining outfits" are to be found in public alleys and on different dumps. With the city police, the prosecutor and the federal authorities all taking part in a triple clean-up drive, the law-respecting element of Gary are putting out their right foot in a change from the aldermanic to the commission form of government. A petition carrying 4,200 names was presented to the council for a special election, hurried through to get within the time limit prescribed by law. Since then, meetings have been called In Gary's churches for the purpose of discussing the merits of the commission plan and to better acquaint the voters of the advantages gained over the present ward system. Propagandists at Work. The discredited political elements have turned to the rankest kind of deception in a frantic effort to stem the tide of sentiment for the overturn of the political grafting rule Gary has had for several years. The first discussion for reform in city affairs was had before the Rotary club and now the old system is working all sorts of propaganda and lies to accomplish the defeat of the movement for good government. The system has gone so far as to spread stories through the negro section and among the foreign-born residents that Joseph W. Hays, Michigan City business man and ex-president of the Chamber of Commerce, that city, is state organizer for the Ku WAGGONER & CLINE ELECTRICIANS House Wiring and Repairing 1610 Spruce St. Phone St. 1640 Your Keys Worth a Quarter? Bend 25c for Metal Tan with raiKd emblem of your 'favorite lodge, stamped with todf name Half-Size and address. BUCKEYE MERCHANDISE CO. Arcade Sta. Dept. 100 Columbus, O. Agenta Wanted DRexel 1229 C. H. Teaster & Co. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide Wholesale and Retail Dealers in POULTRY, EGGS, FISH AND OYSTERS 1024 S. East St. Indianapolis 1009i Delivery Hats $3.00 and $3.50 Caps $1.50 and $2.00 ALL 100 VALUES At Reliable Hatters 223 Massachusetts Avenue Fir Block. Opp. K. at P. Bids.

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Klux Klan and that rvicvizaa mt Leary, president of the Gary Rotary uiuu, ia neaa or tne Klan in Gary. In this respect, the -Gary Post-Tribune notes. th lnnnt ittlllHnn 4a somewhat similar to the situation In Mionigan City. Recently Hays addressed the Men's ClUb Of thS Rantlnt Milivnh An In. dividual in the audience, out of place iu uie environment, endeavored to heckle the speaker hut he was promptly shut up. Thursday night, Gary citizens assembled in town meeting at the Library hall and hnrl tha Hm. vi - MX "UiU Vfc UiVU lives. First they endorsed the creauon or a committee to conduct a city manager campaign, then they began tellinc thought of the other. One heckler was picKea up, carried out and thrown bodily into the street A woman police officer was called a "payroller" and told to sit down. Women and men alike spoke their minds freely. Two PflllTl oilman nrfla. ent who voted to refer to committee ana aeiay the petition for special election were rudely answered. A Lesson for Sheriffs. With the fight on for a new order of things, the Gary Klan organization is growing by leaps and bounds and with it a growing respect for the law by those who formerly showed but a passive Indifference at the conditions common to two months ago. To the traveler, -who learns at a glance whether a city is "wet" or "dry" in the ordinary parlance of the streets, there is a lesson to be learned by chiefs of police, county prosecutors and sheriffs elsewhere. These "earnest" gentlemen will tell you they are doing "great things" but how really seldom do they seize upon the furniture and fixtures of roadhouses and booze joints and underworld dives such as was witnessed at Cedar Lake, near Gary, a few days ago? In a county drive, three booze joints were visited at Cedar Lake, their proprietors arrested, their fixtures "vanned" in and the places put under lock and key. The real offensive was undertaken and completed within 24 hours after arrests. LADIES' ORGANIZATION ACTIVE IN BURLINGTON Burlington, Ind., April 24. The 100 ladies' organization, which is well organized here, recently placed Bibles in the schools in this city, insisting that they be read at the opening of school exercises hereafter. They have also indulged in donations and other helpful activities, and a large fiery cross was burned here recently, being witnessed by an excited and wondering crowd. It Is thought that this was probably the third or fourth time that the women's organization has held a public demonstration in Indiana. It is expected that it will be followed by many such events throughout the state.

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NORTHCUTT AND ROSS

HOUSES ARE CLOSED BY COURT ORDER Prosecutor Smith Believed First In Indiana to Adopt V. 8. Statutes to Declare Certain Places Public Nuisance Proceedings In Both Madison County Courts Friday and Two Injunctions Issued. WELL PROCEED AGAINST OTHERS Anderson, Ind., April 23. Charles E. Smith, prosecuting attorney of Madison county, filed proceedings In both Of the COUntV courts vpstnrrlnv under the federal prohibition enforce ment act, which are believed to be the first of the kind by an Indiana state's attorney against violators of the prohibition laws. It was not recalled in the courts here yesterday that there is a precedent in Indiana in applying the federal statutes to such cases. Mrs. Ross and Northcutt One proceedings to abate a nuisance was filed in circuit court against Mrs. Mary Ross, "West Second street, whose place has been raided twice and intoxicating liquor confiscated. The other action was filed in the superior court against Elijah B. Northcutt, against whom a case is pending in the city court on the charge of selling Intoxicating liquor in his place in East Ninth street. Mrs. Mattie P. Benepe, owner of the building in which Northcutt has conducted his traffic, is made party defendant. Sheriff Closes Room Judge Ellis, before the case against Northcutt was filed, granted a temporary restraining order, which was Immediately served by Sheriff Arthur Daniels. Northcutt was in his place when the sheriff served notice. The Sheriff ordered Northcutt out of the room, locked the door and now has the place closed. Judge Ellis has set the abatement proceedings and the trial on the restraining order for May 1. " Mrs. Ross Also Enjoined Similar proceedings were brought Friday in Judge Kittinger's court against Mrs. Ross. A temporary restraining order was granted and . the sheriff went to the Ross home, but finding no one at home, stuffed the notice under the door. Judge Kittinger has set April 80 as the time for hearing the temporary restraining order. May Reach Federal Court Prosecutor Smith has instituted these cases under Sections 21-22 of 507 Century Bldg. Michigan Sts. INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

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""'"w arjaiement proceedings jurisdiction In equity cases. Will Proceed Against Others The prosecutor announces his determination to proceed against every place where liquor is illegally kept and sold and will file abatement proceedings and will ask to have the n1nrpa iurmliI.,nM. i j .w He also said if changes of venue w ucmauueu Dy me aetenaants he Will file t.hfl onsoa Mra fn v j u.AtiVb IU UJO 1CU eral court at Indianapolis and will ouukb Anaerson ior permanent restraining orders. AKRON BOMBS HERALD KLAN DEMONSTRATION Akron, O.. April 23. The explosion the two aerial bombs and the burning of a 20-foot fiery cross heralded the presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Tallmadge, an Akron suburb, between 8 and 9 o'clock tonight. Residents of the village who were attracted from their homes by the explosions saw nearly a thousand unmasked men spread out In an immense circle in the public square park. As they looked a whistle sounded sharply and the circle closed in just as the big cross, which evidently had been saturated with kerosene, leaped into flame. As the Klansmen stood with uncovered heads they sang, "My Country "Tis of Thee." Their singing attracted a number of girls who had been attending choir practice in the Methodist church across the road from the square. The girls Joined the men in singing "The Star Spangled Banner." Afterwards they led in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." As the flaming cross began to wane another aerial bomb was exploded and the visiting Klansmen, most of whom are thought to have been from Akron, left In a caravan composed of more than 300 automobiles. Tonight's demonstration is the first big "stunt" the Klan has put on in Summit county, although numerous fiery crosses are reported to have been burned in various parts of Akron and neighboring towns and villages recently. The celebration tonight is said to indicate that there is soon to be -"something doing" in the "Rubber City."

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PERSECUTION CHARGES ARE NOT BORNE OUT SOVIET GOVERNMENT PERMITS WORSHIP Special to Fiery Cross.) Petrograd, April 21. Charges of persecution In the trial of the Catholic nrelates and nrtosta in Ruaota and the complaint that the Catholic reugion is Deing stamped upon and its believers barred from worship according to the dictates of their conscience are hardly borne out by the attitude of the Soviet in regard to the church. The government authorities from the outset have maintained that they were proceeding against criminals who had conspired against the welfare of the government and who were seeking to place their religion above the state and bring about the state's overthrow. On these grounds, they obtained conviction and the death sentence of Mgr. Butchkavitch and prison terms for Archbishop Zepliak and many priests. Happenings subsequent to that time put at rest any fears that the Soviet is seeking to bar the Catholic religion from the church. The churches are closed, but parishioners by the hundreds flock to the priests' homes adjoining where mass is sung and services held unmolested by the police, although the people only attend services. At St. Catherine's church, of which the executed prelate was cure, it la estimated that on Sunday more than 6,000 pass through the courtyard in full view of passing police and soldiers to climb the steps into the parish house where mass is sung from daylight to dark. If the Soviet is desirous of putting down the religion and persecute the people who cling to their faith, it would seem that an excellent opportunity to catch a lot of people red-handed is being overlooked. The twelve priests left in Petrograd declared that they have not been molested in any way and are even hopeful that Zepliak and the imprisoned priests may even yet win their freedom. At any rate, the charges that are being broadcast throughout the Christian world that the "blood-thirsty Communists" are persecuting the Catholics seems to find little basis in fact. The Best American Companies

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