Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1923 — Page 8
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GREENFIELD KLAN HOPES FOR CLEANUP
GREENFIELD, Ind., May 22 A blg'( number of persons from this City Journeyed to Knlghtstown to attend tho demonstration by the Ku Klux Klan in this city last week. It is understood that several of the residents from here took part in the parade. The Klansmen of this city, and their number is growing daily, it is aid,' are looking to Mayor Marshall Winslow with the hope that he will get rid of persons who are said to be "bottlegfiing in this city and were not arrested by the former mayor. Mayor Winslow took office on May 15 to fill Iho place made vacant by resignation.
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2,000 CANDIDATES AT
KLAN CEREMONIAL
Los Angeles Sees Biggest Demonstration Ever Held on Pacific Coast
LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 23. More than 2,000 citizens of Los Angeles and vicinity are cogitating upon the solemnity of the oath administered to them Saturday night in open initiation, when they became members of Klan No. 1, Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, at Ocean Park Heights, before thousands of spectators. The ceremony was conducted beneath the light of a flaming electric lighted cross, over a hundred feet high, around which were gathered more than .3,000 fully robed Klansmen. Largest on Pacific Coast The spectators, though forced to keep out of hearing of the actual administration of the oath by mounted Klansmen, were free to witness the entire proceedings at what is said to be the largest public initiation of the Ku Klux Klan ever held on the Pacific coast. An American flag, illuminated with flood lights, played an important part in the ceremonies, which lasted more than two hours.
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(Continued from Page 3, Column 6) wouldn't pay any more to my clients that he had 'protection.' " ' Knock Out Erldence But it was for L. W. Boyce, manager of a private detective agency, to play a trump card for the defense. His testimony was never recited In the Jensen trial. Q. How long have you lived here' A. Twenty-two years. Q. Do you know Frank- McCormick? A. Yes. Q. Do you know his business prior to prohibition? A. He was a saloonkeeper. Q. Any other kind of business? The witness testified it was common knowledge he operated a gambling resort contingent to the entrance to the saloon. Q. In June, 1922, did McCormick see you? A. Yes, he called at my office several times during that month. Q. Explain what connections you had with him. Mr. Boyce stated that McCormick had requested him to see the mavor, that he saw Mayor Leach, was "employed by him to put a private operative on the track of three gambling houses, and to report back to the mayor without the cognizance of the police department. Q. How many did the mavor call your attention to, to "get the goods on?" A. Three of them. Two of these, he added, were at 21 and 23 Sixth street. The witness explained the raids. His operative met the "purity" police squad at a given location and led them to the quarries without giving out the party's destinations.
W. Ana were you paid for this work for which you were employed? A. My hill was $204. This amount was handed to me in currency by Frank McCormick, who called at my office. Wouldn't Come Across The inference of the workings of the "system" was too plain for further explanation and the attorney did not attempt to draw conclusions from the witness, whether the places were hurting their competitors or whether the proprietors of them had failed to 'come across.' Q. Did you, after this work, have any talk about this work? The state objected. Hughes to Olson: Do ve-u seriously object, Mr. Olson? Olson: 1 do. The question was withdraw ii. Q. Have you had a talk with Me.
LCormick since in June, 1922? I Rev. Carl Bartsch. pastor of the ! English Lutheran Church, next took (the stand and related that during the (fall of 1921, with the present incum- , bent as mayor, he and another minister, had toured camhlincr wwirts
had obtained entrance to 26 South Washington avenue, had registered his complaint at the city hall, and had made a second tour and found the same conditions to exist. There had been no action taken, no remedy obtained. Cops Within Earshot. "I was m the alley next to 26 Washington avenue," elucidated the Rev. Bartsch.. "and from t h f win.
dows could plainly hear the clicking of chips, and right ahead of me was the police station. In the open door of the police parage I saw policemen." This be said was several days following the registering of the complaint. -Mayor, Gambler's Reference Joseph M. Griffith had the upstairs of r.Ql Washington avenue, .. South, which was formerly used as a roomins " house, for rent. He told of "Curly'.' riiich coming to him in the summer of 1922, asking him. if he had the upstairs for rent the mat ter of the amount of rent did not seem to bother him, whether he paid $40.00 or $50.00, or more. "I told him ; would have to insist about the character of renters,said Griffith, "and he answered that" I
wouldn t have any trouble with hiin." Q. Did you insist upon references? A. Yes. Q. Who did he give you as references? A. The mayor and Chief of Police Jensen. Q. Did you call them up? (Objection by Olson. "I don't care for telephone conversations," he insisted. Objection overruled.) A. I called up the office of the chief of police and a voice answered saying he was Chief Jensen. I explained to him that I had a flat to rent, that I wanted to be careful about who the tenants were, that I didn't propose to get into any trouble. I then-explained that Ulrich wanted the fiat and had given his (the chief's) name for reference. Q. What did the chief say to you? A. That I wouldn't have any trouble with the rent, and I told him I didn't care about the rent but wanted to know who I was getting in. He then told me that I wouldn't have any trouble with Ulrich, giving me to understand he was all right. Q. And you call.;d up the mayor? A. 1 got the secretary of the mayor, Mr. Cullen, and got the same kind of understanding. Q. When did Ulrich next see you 7 A. He came back the next day. The witness then stated that Ulrich told him he wanted to operate three tables in the rear of the rooms upstairs, and a rooming house In the front that ho could make $50.00 a night, and would be willing tcpay $250.00 a month rent Q. Did you ent it to him? t A. ITilcked him out of the office. The place has been empty since. The Brown Cane The defense sprang their principal surprise, tending to show the moral conduct of the mayor, when they
THE FIERY CROSS
brought to neighbors of Mrs. Charles Brown. 3249 FS'ffh i.o a
Two of them testified to seeing Mayor
iw too premises of Mrs Brown the latter nnrf rf .
or 1922. The general reputation of the Brown woman's home was held by these witnesses tn v..
umavurable. Parties were held, lasting into
" nours oi tne morning, as late as 3 O'cloek nnil oi.i.,ni.:i.-
and taxis came in considerable nam-
UC1 ... Mrs. Grace Weigel. B10 East Thirtythird Street, a resident nf (k .,.
- vx liic UViKUborhood for seven years, told particularly of seeing the mayor at the Brown home at least two times Her testimony featured the morning session of Thursday.
W. uia you have occasion to observe the house? A. Yes, by the noise of automobiles going and COminer nnrl the
0 v kUW OUUUU coming from the interior of the
uouse.
Q. Could von 1 ri n tr I ti f r tin. T" .
house?
A. Yes, with the curtains up. Q. What did you observe? A. I could narticularlv w n-Viot
was going on in the kitchen?
HOW close to the kitchen were
you?
A. Close enoueh thnt tn the cum
mer I was able to hear conversation.
W. ma you hear any portion of the conversation? The witness said she could, and at once it identified the character of the parties speaking. Q. Do VOU knnw Mra Tlrnwn a
the widow of the former detective
unaries Brown? A. Yes. Q. How soon did these nartten nr.
cur after the funeral of Mr. Brown?
A. They occurred previous to the funeral and after kept them right up. Kimonos and B. Y. Ds The witness then testified that in August of 1922 there w.-is nne tveel.-
in particular that the noise making
as so loud that the neighborhood could not sleen. "T mvseir .-ouirin't
sleep with the conversation that went on," she said, testifying that at differ
ent times she saw women in their negligees, nink kimonos, and on one
occasion seeing a woman without any
waist on; that at the tunes referred to the men were dressed in bathrobes and B. V. Ds. So far :.s the
noise was concerned, the piano was kept going until 3 o'clock in the morning, and when the inmates would ko to the kiteh en where re
freshments were kept, would shout
louu enough to be easily heard in the front part of the house.
Preceding Mrs. Weir-el nn the
stand was Samuel H. Davis, retired
rurnitnre manufacturer.
' Do you know the nremises nf S"in
Fifth avenue, South?" he was asked.
A. I live in that neighborhood. Q. Do VOU know the. nwnnnnt rf
the house?
A. Party by name of Brown. Q. Has this house ever come to
your attention? '
OlSOn raised the first nliieot-inn
the admissibility Of this oharar-ter
of evidence, saying that he did not want the wife of an ex-policemar defamed. The court overruled the
objection that.jhe testimony bore
out tne allegations complained of in the attacking affidavit.
A. There had been rumors nlmnt
the place, and it had an unfavorable
reputation. . Q. Did vou make n'nv effort to ha
conditions complained of remedied?
. Dropped Iuvestiga': a A. Yes; a Mr. Belair came to us
rand said that he would take the com
plaint to the police department. Q. Do you know the general reputation of the place? Would you call it disorderly? (Olson voiced another objection overruled.) A. Yes, they kept open house until two, three and four o'clock in the morning. On cross-examination ;Mr. Davis was asked if Belair had requested him to swear out a complaint. A. Xo-he did not. At the time he only" came -to investigate. Saw .Mayor Learn It was for Mrs. Weigel and her husband, both of whom were elderly people, representing a far diffeient type than many of the witnesses in the trial, to give the most sensational disclosures against houses of illfame in which there was a direct connection with the mayor of the city. Mrs; Weigel brought it out that the neighborhood was up in arms; that complaint had been made to the police; that Captain Belair had promised an investigation and that conditions complained of continued up until the present, Without, remedy. "At one time I saw a bakery wagon bring in forty cartons of bread on one dAlivery," she said. (By Hughes.) Q. DM you see anyone at these parties who is in the courtroom now? A. I saw Mayor Leach. Q. Did you have a good view of him? A. Yes, I saw a perfect profile of him. He was sitting at the table with other people. Q. What wero they doing? A. Drinking. Q. How many times have you seen the iriayof at the -Brown home? A. He went out there twice, that I know of. She then told of calling her "husband's attention to seeing Mayor Leacb, questioned him at the time if it was not he, and that her husband said that he was certain that it was. Defense Rests Professor Parry L. Greenwood, 3302 Portland avenue, in charge of the South High Commercial -Depart, ment, was one of the complainants against the Brown house. He testified also that its reputation was unfavorable; that he had been. Invited by Mr. Davis to attend a meeting on the porch of the Davis home, at which, neighbors discussed the disorderly character of the place, "There was a second indignation meeting held, at 'which there was an increase In our number,- after Captain J3elair had failed to take any action toward remedying conditions," he swore on the stan '
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Bishop Hickey Declares Sad Conditions Exist in American Public Schools
(Special to Fiery Cross) definite drive by Catholics of this state to hull v.i, x . . .
m,.- .C.ij 6 D,-"uis, io wnicn their children may be sent after serv-
."6 ml, mcir preliminary time in the parochial schools, is shortly to be started according to Bishop Hickey Notwithstanding th. j.- .V'
"o iiti mat tne state is well equipped with fine high
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Btshon H!elrV fit mn... it..
, UUVUUA-.U mc arive to a collection of priests gathered before him, said: "We are forced to undertake the tremendous task by the sad conditions in the educational world which stares us everywhere in the face. It is scarcely necessary for me to describe these conditions in detail to one who has the intimate knowledge of them that belong to every observant Catholic priest. World Inclined to Pans This is all very well, but the outside world is inclined to pause and wonder just what these conditions are that are evident to the eyes of observant Catholic priests." The state schools are of a high quality and meet the approval of Protestants throughout the state. The need for Catholic schools is not seen excentinc for th
o vuc lulUBg ui continuing-the type of education that
x,..x,fco uuu o none too wen educated, or rather thinking, scholar from the parochial schools.
Friday, May 23,1923'
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TO SEE FIERY CROSS
WELLSTON, O, May 19. The citizens of this nlaca were riven theiV
first opportunity to view a real fiery
tiobs on last Saturday night. The cross was burned at the intersection of Ohio avenue and Second street. The hour was about 8 o'clock ani almost 1,000 persons were attracted to the spot. It has been rumored that several threats have been made against the Klan in this city and the statement made that "they had better not
to burn another cross." However,
tne movement here is verv Rtrnnir
and it is probable that the cross burned last Saturday night is only one of many that will be burned at this place and in this vicinity.
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