Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1923 — Page 1

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KLANSMEN ARE STRUCK DOWN IN MOB RIOTS

Aided

Gangsters Is Charge

LAW CF.ANKS TO KXIST IN 1'ITY OK STKI BKWILLK AM) ALIKN'S ASSAl'LT AMEKICAM4

Visitors to City Are Beaten and Their Autos Overturned Governor to 'J'uke Hand

LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN, DOWN, FALLING DOWN, DOWN Captain Sherlock Pope Snaps Missing Link Yes, We Have No Telephones Today

"Doggie" Brooks to Head Infernal Revenue Department What's nn Auto Tag Among Friends!

(By Staff Correspondent)

STEUBENVILLE, 0., Aug. ,19. Law has ceased to exist in this city. Mob violence and fear of another outburst similar to that which occurred here Wednesday evening keeps' the law-abiding citizens of this community in a state of unrest.

Not for years has the Buckeye state been the scene of mob rule like that which for a few hours Wednesday held supreme control of this eastern Ohio town. It has been indicated by Gov. A. V. Donahey that never again will such an incident arise

if it is within the power of the state to prevent it. His statement to a delegation of Steubenville business and professional men who callecTupon him at Columbus Saturday was that martial law would be established if Mayor Frank Haw

kins. Chief of Police Blaine

(By Wlngfoot) Ladies and gentlemen! Meet Colonel House Armltage! Before continuing the story, however, it might be well to call to the mind of the reader that at one time

that which was considered the best pun in the Knglish language was, "The undertaker told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell." If a pun may be classed as a joke, then the "sexton joke" has been smacked for a tour around the North Star with stopover privileges at the

Milky Way.

CONDITIONS ARE GREATLY MAGNIFIED

TELEGRAM TO E. W. CLARK, WHILE SENT IX SINCERITY, EXAGGERATES TRUE SITUATION

JUNIOR KLAN WEEKLY TO MAKE APPEARANCE ON SEPTEMBER SEVEN

Also Announced. That Donation of Five Dollars Will Be Required After Charter Closes

With Organization Sweeping the North Klansmen Feel Little Interest In Controversy

Following the announcement appearing in the daily newspapers in which it was stated that Colonel Simmons had offered Edward Clark Young the management of the Ku Klu Klan, it is understood that prominent Indiana and Ohio Klansmen are now in conference with imperial officers at Atlanta. In his telegram. Colonel Simmons stated

Junior Order Will Inculcate Respect for Parents and for Home Will Be Self-Governed

that "it was necessary for Mr. Clark

The latest joke, is the Washington V? ta,k6 suPrem! ut1?,rity, , to avoid

newspaper men asking Limber U,0""C6'""U" ""u,; Liyiged Lew to run for president, While Colonel Simmons is sincere news of which appeared in the Indi- in his belief possibly, he greatly exanapolis newspapers during the last ! aggerated conditions. - In fact, so farweek. Yes, it is a fact that Limber las the Northern states are concerned, Lunged Lew received the letter while ! one would have to seek long to find

stopping over in Indianapolis be- i even a foundation tor such a state-

t ween races and immediately told the ! ment. I lie Hundreds of thousands of newspapers about it The only "mis- members in these states are not con-

take" about the report is that Limber Lunged Lew didn't tell all that was in the letter. For one thing, ha didn't tell that a notation at the bottom of the letter stated that "It might be well to destroy this letter." To "Split the Ford Vote" Of course, that is a minor detail.

Carter and Sheriff Lucas, Gf for u is only natural that anybody . . . , i writing Limber Lunged Lew with

jenerson county, were unauie the reauest that he run for presi-

to maintain the law.

Many exaggerated stories of the no-called riot in this city between

dent would want the letter de

stroyed. But, the important thing thnt Limber Lnnged Lew forgot to

members of the Knights of the Ku"rltrs wanted him te be A 100 per

that the

Klux-JKIan from East Liverpool, who were there as visitors, were "Sent out by the Associated Press, tlve International News Service and United

Press, besides a score of special,

correspondents who were sent into Steubenville by Pittsburg newspapers. The incident can hardly be called n riot. It was a one-sided fight, in which a gang of rowdies numbering between four and five hundred men and boys set irpon fifty Klansmen,

destroyed their automobiles and beat many of them with blackjacks and clubs. As best they could the Klansmen defended themselves. Result of Election There is no question but that this disgraceful event was the outgrowth of the municipal primary election held here Tuesday. It is known that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan nominated four men to offices. Thus,

the "machine," which has for years controlled th- vivic affairs of Steubenville, hand in hand with the lawdefying element, was broken. So disgruntled were the residents of the "old fifth ward" by this, defeat that they took it upon themselves "to show the dirty Kluxers" just how they felt about it. It made no difference to them whether they vented their hate upon the members of the local organization or outsiders as long as they could "get even" with the Klan. Ten machines, carrying fifty men from Fast Liverpool, journeyed to (Continued on Page 8) -

cerned in the controversy except, of

course, as it might affect the general welfare of the Klan as a whole. Greatly Exaggerated It 1ms been the policy of The Fiery Cross not to discuss the controversies that have arisen in the South between certain officials of the Klan although this paper has been fully aware that these conditions have been greatly exaggerated by enemies of the organization who are seeking its destruction Every little thing that could be picked up and magnified has been quickly held before the public through the medium of the daily press. Statements by Klan of

nctais nave been distorted and in

COLOR OF INK

HAS BEARING INDECISION

LEXINGTON CASE TO GO TO A n I G H E B 0 U R T POLICE WERE RIGHT, SAYS JUDGE

With interest in the Junior Klan at fever heat the announcement that the first issue of "The Junior Klansmen," a weekly publication to be devoted in full to the activities of the Junior Klan, will make its ' initial appearance on Friday, September 7, will no doubt be reeeived with un

bounded enthusiasm. The weekly

will be published as a magazine and

will be edited by members of the

Junior Klan from which the staff will be chosen. With the national headquarters es

tablished in Indianapolis, and a fee

of ?3 announced, the Junior Klan is

now getting - under . way. Applica

tions for membership have piled up to such an extent that it will take

the officers some time to get them into shape and to get to all those requesting membership. It has also been announced that after the charter is closed a donation of ?5, instead of ?3, will b necessary to obtain membership.

Letters are still flooding the new

offices from enthusiastic young Amer

icans throughout the United States and one letter, was received from &

14-ySar-old boy in Canada; who is visiting with his parents in a Canadian city. His home, however, is in

Cincinnati.

To Handle Systematically Due to the great amount of mail

received it is taking much time to get it sorted into proper batches so that it may be systematically taken care of that the writers of the thou-

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Bootleggers Are Active While Free

Speech Is Being Garroted Old Regime Flourishes

BULLETIN .

LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 21. It was announced here today by the attorneys for. Dr. E. H. Lougher. now at liberty on an anneal bond after hav

ing been fined in police court, that

nis case would come up in the Fay

ette county circuit court during the

nrst part of September.

UNIVERSITY TO BECOME

NATIONAL INSTITUTION

College at V alparaiso to Become a Monu

ment to American Ideals and Principles Maze of Legal Technicalities Are Now Being Ironed Out

cent he man," and that they wanted

him to run for president to "split the i some instances made to mean the Henry Ford vole." The letter, which j exact opposite of what the speaker

was signed by Clarece J. Ulery, of 901 Thirteenth street, Washington.

D. C, stated that Limber Lunged Lew was a "man of action." Whether Mr. Ulery meant back action. Is not known. However, that does not matter just imagine Limber Lunged Lew as president! And alleged Chief of Police Rikhoff secretary of war! As president. Limber Lunged Lew might be successful in taking over the Indianapolis Water . Company, and in that event Colonel House Armitage could come sailing up the canal in a gunboat furnished by Secretary of the Navy Mike Glenn that is, after Secretary Glenn had established

traffic rules along the great waterway owned by the Indianapolis Water Company. With the navy at his command, Sec

retary Glenn could have little newsboys walk the plank, which would be so much more easy than having to have their trials continued from time to time. When a raid was planned against these piratical newsboys, who have committed the crime of providing for widowed mothers, serving in the world war and trying to make an honest living. Secretary of War Rikhoff could call out the en

tire army if necessary, after Secre

tary Glenn had established coaling

stations along Pogue's Run, and aid

in the battle. McXnuiara n Bombing Squad

If these two branches of the fight-

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had in mind when making the statement.

Colonel Simmons may be making a

proper move In appealing to Mr

Clark to "take the reins," but this

is yet to be ascertained. It can be said, however, if this move would benefit the Klan, The Fiery Cross would be the last to oppose it. The management of this paper is always

in favor of any move that tends to

strengthen the Klan organization

However, at this time The Fiery Cross does not know that such a

move as advocated by Colonel Sim

mons would-have this effect. Neither

does it know that it would not.

Enthusiasm Abounds in North

In the North, where enthusiasm

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ASKS REPEAL OF ANTI

VISOR ORDINANCE

MOVEMENT IN FAVOR

OF LIBERTY HALL IS

GATHERING IMPETUS

(By Wingfoot) LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 21. "We will ultimately win this case somewhere between the police court and the court of last resort," The foregoing statement was made by the attorney for Dr. E. H. Lougher, who-was find $200 and costs on two counts after having been arrested here on August 1, when he attempted to deliver an address from the courthouse steps after having been given permission to do so by the county officials.-

"Toe-people of America," contin-.L

ued'the attorney, "believe in free speech. The courts merely repre-1

sent the people and it is only natural

that the courts must believe in free

speech."

Dr. Lougher is at present at lib

erty on an appeal bond of $200 and the case will go to the higher courts

within the next sixty days, it is believed.

Judge . Bullock, who found Dr.

Lougher gtiilty on two charges, is credited with saying such a speaking as intended by Dr. Lougher would

produce serious disorder." In mating this assertion. Judge Bullock admitted that he believed those opposed

to the Kn Klux Klan would "produce (Continued on Page 7)

Option on Woodland and Lake Is Secured and Campus Will Be Enferged Old Mill to Be Repaired Tradition and Sentiment Not to Be Lost Sight of in Business Rush. (By Eyewitness) True to the announcement appearing in the newspapers" throughout the United States last week, the Ku Klux Klan is ready to "take over" Valparaiso University ! In the true sense of the rfteaning, the Ku Klux Klan is ready to take steps to perpetuate the university at Valparaiso, Indiana, and become its principal benefactor in a time of need. The Klan can not "take over ' Valparaiso. No power on earth can "take over" the ideals, the sentiments and fond, memories that cling about this university, which is now more than a half century old. The Klan, however, can and will perpetuate this

seat of ieammg that is dear to the hearts of thousands of . graduates and others who have labored for its success - - :

Klan committees from a number

OUTBURSTS OF MATO DURCAN AND ALIEN MOBS SIMULTANEOUS

Glass Chest of Real Money lo

Be Feature of Rally-on August 23, 24 and 25

Fiery Cross Readers Respond to Ap peal for Kiddies Donations From Many Cities Reeeived

Decries "Fanaticism" Before "Mad PatFoHqwera as floods lums Stone Protestant Minister

Lafayette OfficiaJ Fails to "Curb" the

Klan Which Now Takes Over the Fair Grounds

of states made favorable reports ta

regard to the organization getting behind Valparaiso and all wa ready to consummate the deal last week

until it was found that, as is usual in many transaction' of this magnitude, it was necessary to iron out certain legal tangles before ther final consummation of Ihe contracts, -Contracts are jpw Being drain' to ' hanlwtrat'lJas heretofore been a -tangled maze of. technicalities. Mil ton Elrod, editor ot The fiery Cross, will return to Valparaiso on Wednesday' or Thursday with the hope that the matter will be ready for consummation. Opposition Forces Busy In the meantime those un-American and alien forces that would disrupt every move that is planned to better any Protestant undertaking, are busy stirring up strife and discord where possible in an attempt to

block the project- The futility of

(By Staff Correspondent)

LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 20. Sim

ultaneously with the announcement BUcn attempts, however, is. realized

when it is noted that whatever the

ALL-DAY FUN FROLIC SET FOR SATURDAY

Special Traction Rates Secured for Festival at McCord's Many "Stunts" on Program

Petition Is Presented to City Council at Huntington To Hold Special Meeting

'Murdered Klansman Is Given Last Rites

Rooei t Watson, who was killed by an aseuilant who is still at liberty, was buried near Browtjsburg, Ind., on last Saturday afternoon following funeral services at the home of his parents, 215 North Richland street. "The Kertice were conducted by Rev. W. H. Brightmire and the funeral . was in charge of the Ku Klux Klan, sixty members of which appeared at the services and tnirlul in Klan regalia. Eight of their number acted as pallbearers. . During the services at the home a quartet sang '.'The Old -Rugged

and who stabbed the victim three times. The deceased was a graduate of Technical high school and was held in high esteem by all those who knew him. Before passing on he made the statement that his assailant had also graduated from Technical high school in 1920 or 1921. He lived but a few bour3 after being struck down. It is believed that the identity of the murderer can be found by a search of the high school records and the high school annual in which his

picture is said to appear. A number

HUNTINGTON, Ind., Aug. 21.-At

a special meeting of the council to be held here tonight a petition will be presented in which it will be asked that the ordinance prohibiting parades by organizations wearing visors be repealed. In the petition it is alleged that the ordinance is unconstitutional. The petition was presented to the council on last Tuesday night when a motion to refer it to the council as a committee of the

whole was defeated by a vote of 3 to 2. A councilman who voted against a

closed session then moved that the petition be approved and the ordinance repealed, hut the city attorney asserted the only way to repeal an ordinancewas by passing a second ordinance Finally the matter was continued until next week.

Cross," and two singers rendercdJjof people saw the assassin as he

"In the Carden." At the cemetery left the upot of his crime and it is . the Klan rltsal ceremony was given, ivhounht that some of these persons

Mr. Watson, who was 19 years of will be able to identify the picture

ge, -was killed onsjast Thursday y a youth who Is said to have taken xceptlons to Mr. Watson having bei cm a member of the Ku Klux Klan

appearing In 'the annual

Klan investigators, in addition to

the local authorities, are attempting 1j locate the murderer.

COMMUNICATIONS To receive attention it will lie necessary for all communications sent to The Fiery Cross to be slpiied and the address of the' writer iven. All anonymous communications will be thrown In the waste basket without attention.. All names of writers of letters to The Fiery Cross will be held In strict confidence.

(By Malzle).

I'm almost tempted to borrow some of the vivid phrases of the Klan editors', "Liberty Hall Movement Sweeping the Country Like Wild Fire.". "Liberty Hall the Topic of the Day," etc., but I can at least state without

exaggeration that this concrete mani- j testation of Protestant endeavoi; is meeting with unprecedented and unqualified support from every direction. We believe, in view of the gathering iriterest that is being created

daily, it is ouly appropriate to again state briefly the essential and outstanding features of this enterprise. Widespread Interest Liberty Hall is t6 be a ten-story, thoroughly modern, up-to-date Community House, to be located in the 3200 block on East Michigan street, in Indianapolis. The promoters of

this project bad at first thought of this community house as an Indian

apolis institution, but when the orop-

osition was placed before the public

through the medium of The Fiery

Cross, such widespread interest was

created and so many liberal dona

tions received from othefr Indiaua

cities and even from Ohio, JMichigan and Illinois, that the 'whole

proposition has been broadened ami

the plans enlarged.,

The building, which will embody

all the newest ideas and features of modern community houses, will have

an immense assembly hall or auditorium for the use: of clubs, societies and patriotic organlzations.It will have swimming pools, with teachers in" attendance, recreation rooms, a barber shop, hotel accommodations for out-of-town guests, and last but not least, one vrhole floor of this building will be;jujpped as a kindergarten) for - little folks. Mothers who are -employed during the day may leave these children here under v (Continued to Page 7)

"Where the Pavement Ends," or, to be exact, at McCord's park, situated on the Pendleton pike, where the pavement ends on that thoroughfare, on next Saturday, there will be, in the words of the circus publicity man, a stupendous, sumptuous, scintillating, soul-satisfying series of

stunts in an all-day fun festival, which will be staked for the benefit of the "Three K Drum Corps," an organization of this city. The drum

corps has taken this way to provide 1

money with which to outfit the mem

bers with snappy new uniforms of the Zouave style.

Tlrtev Protestant fun iestival Is

scheduled to run all. day and far into

the night, and during the many hours

of fun and frolic there will be airplane stunts, fat men and skinny men races, potato and "slow" bicycle races, greased pole stunts, baud concerts, quartets, speakers, fireworks, home-cooked dinners and everything that goes to make such a day complete, including red lemonade and

peanuts, to say nothing of popcorn, chewing gum and candy. To Afford Every Convenience Inken as a whole, it will be .one great day of Protestant fun-making by militant Protestants who are earnest in their efforts to uphold the

ideals of America. The program has been prepared by experts in this line and every conceivable thing has been done to afford those in attendance every convenience in addition to fur

nishing amusement for everybody from the kiddies on up to the grandfathers and grandmothers. Special rates have been secured on the traction lines and all those who travel to the frolic via traction will get off at the County Line stop. Those traveling by auto may drive out Massachusetts avenue on to the Pendleton pike. All profits are to be

used for the. benefit of the drum corps, which is an out and out Prot

estant organization in the highest

sense.

that the Ku Klux Klan of Lafayette

had purchased a three-quarter interest in the Tippecanoe County Agricultural Association, which conducts the county fair each year in this county, comes the news that Mayor George R. Durgan, of this city, addressed a meeting of the tfn-Amer-lcan Unity League, in Indianapolis, at which he declared that "fanaticism can only be eliminated by each citizen abiding by the constitution."

Mayor Durgan has consistently fought the Klan in this city since its

inception here but has failed to re

tard its growth in the least.- Chil

dren are now in high school in this city that were not born when Mayor

Durgan was elected mayor and being

mayor has become such a hobby with him, especially as it affords him an opportunity to display his Inherent desire for dramatics, that he would crush anything that might disturb the even tenor of his way or shake up the old "Durgan regime" or order of things political in Lafayette. Durgan's Last Term

However, Mayor Durgan realizes that this is his last term as dictator of Lafayette. His administration has become the cynosure of all eyes since his fight on the Klan started. His acts have shown his close affiliation with influences that are alien to

American principles. His effort to make a system of "Durgan-controlled

public schools in Lafayette is an (Continued on Page '11)

Ku Klux Klan starts out to do, it always does. In this instance, the Klan has started out to- make Valparaiso ; a great national institution; to make it a monument to American ideals and principles. It has started out to make Valparaiso self-supporting and self-sustaining institution, amply financed and amply endowed" -with a $1,000,000 minimum. The title is to be -invested in the trustees of Valparaiso University, thus wiping out the Valparaiso Realty Company, Financial support wtlU-be given. di -

rect to the university and not to individuals or corporations- Re

quests for support will he for clearcut support, of the " institution rand

not individuals or divergent corporations. '

The Klan has started out to clear the university ""of all indebtedness and to start it once again, free of incumbrance, rigidly along the path of the original plans of Dr. Henry Baker Brown, who. founded the university fifty years ago, and who passed on in 1917. - A National Institute Valparaiso will furnish a national institute of the highest type Plans for Improvement and enlargement, will be given first consideration and a full curriculum of a standard university course will "oe taught, including the regular preparatory (Continued oa Page 7)

Alien Boycott Reacts to Aid Intended Victims

(By Radio) TIPTON, Ind., Aug. 21. Once more a Catholic boycott has failed!

The blot to break up the Tipton

County Free Fair last week, as

planned by the un-American unity League and executed as far as possible "by the dupes of a foreign pewer, fell as flat as the top of Pat O'Donnell's ivory dome Twhen the grounds were virtually taken over by? the

Americans after the two Catholic

members of the tair board withdrew because The Fiery Cross truck had sDace 'on the grounds and were sell

ing the paper and taking subscrip-

The midnight fide oTthcjCathollcs, warning those of their following to stay away: from the fair because there were Americans on the grounds,

all came to naught and fizzled com'

pletely when, after a Joyous week of

popcorn, peanuts, red lemonade and ice cream cones,- snappy shows. thrilling rides in the air, music and ; '

everything that goes to make up a .. . good time, ft was found, much to the :

discomfiture ' of - the alien forces,.. ;

that the people of Tipton county V didn't 1 give a hang whether the un-

American Unity League's dupes came

or not. And as-for the tair. instead of being a failure as was planned hy . the two members who resigned trom the board, it was one of -the biggest : ' successes imaginable. - .f ' ; ; Fiery Cress Track WIbs The Fiery Cross truck, which wa C the original cause of all the commotlon, was immediately taken from its place and" given a more . prominent v position- and - a larger and brighter electric cross waa placed oa top of it, -; - (Continued to Page 11)

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