Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1940 — Page 2

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LEGION REPORTS 080,572 ON ROLL

Membership Cards Flown Here in 60 Planes From All Sections of U. S.; Gen. Arnold Says Aircraft Sales To Allies ‘Bargain for Both Sides.’

A membership of 980,572 was reported at American Legion national headquarters here today following yesterday's eighth annual aerial membership roundup. The membership cards were flown her in 60 planes from all parts of the country. The reports were made at a ban-| I quet given last night by National Commander Raymond J. | Kelly and at which Maj. Gen.! H. H. Arnold, chief of the U.[¥ear Jf the 43 parts in the coun; S. Army Air Corps, spoke.

|orders. | Gen. Arnold defended the sale |

He said air power has demonof American planes to belligerent strated that warfare has moved into nations as “a bargain where both

‘the third dimension and that it has sides gain their desired ends.”

a predominant and controlling in- | A total of 65146 membership | fluence on international diplomacy | cards were received during the!

and warfare. roundup. Last year's roundup

“No longer can any army or any netted only 51.210 and thé member- | Navy operate successfully without ship at this time last year totaled

| the co-operation of air forces, nor 878,962:

jcan sea or land battles be won 1 > | without the protecting shadow of an State's Total 38,292 effective air force,” he said. Legion officials said that only He said the U. 8. air force has

Kelly Greets Arnold

National Commander Raymond J. Kelly (left) greeted Maj.-Gen. H. H. Arnold when the chief of the U. S. Army Air Corps arrived by plane to speak at the American Legien’s aerial roundup banquet.

GROUP HOSPITAL SERVICE SET UP

‘Non-Profit Insurance Firm Granted Certificate By State.

Formation of a state-wide, nonprofit hospital insurance association was announced today. The organization, to be known as the Hospitalization Benefit Association, has been granted a certificate of authority to operate in the state by the Indiana Insurance Department. Albert M. Bristor, vice president and treasurer of the Union Title Co., is the first chairman of the Association, which is opening offices ir the Circle Tower.

Hospital Choice Open

Mr. Bristor said the Association will offer hospital insurance on a monthly premium basis, with selection of a hospital left to the member. The members will select their own physicians. The plan does not include payment of medical or nursing fees. The chairman said a large number of Indiana industrialists, business and professional men throughout the state have agreed to serve,

slightly more than 70.000 more learned the following from the Eumembers are needed during the ropean war: year to go over the 1931 record en- | 1. Leak - proof rollment of 1,053,909. | needed. : The roundup netted 1067 new 2. Military aircraft requires some memberships for the Indiana De- armor for vital parts. | partment, bringing the total en- | 3. Present armaments of war air-| rollment to 38.292, an all-time high Planes must be changed. |

wa wis we SfOkes Bares Resurgence Of Klan Horrors in South

without pay, to further the organjzation of the program in their respective communities. Units already have been established. he said, at Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Whiting, Valparaiso, Michigan City, South Bend, Mishawaka and Muncie.

Dr. Silver's Talk Precedes Jewish Welfare Fund Drive

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National Appeal Chairman On Kirshbaum Program Thursday.

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of the Hebrew Temple at Cleveland, will speak at a pre-Jewish Welfare Fund drive meeting at 8:15 p. m. Thursday in Kirshbaum Center. The drive will open Friday. Funds

collected will constitute Indianapolis’ share for the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs, which collects funds for the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service. Dr. Silver has spoken several times before in. Indianapolis State teacher meetings, Community Fund assemblies and other gatherings. He is national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and the United Palestine Appeal, a mem{ber of the Executive Board of the | Zionist Organization of America. | He is active in the American Jewish ers League. He was a Dudleian |effort for the rebuilding of Pales- | Lecturer at Harvard University. | tine. Local chairman for the United His other activities include mem- Jewish Appeal is Louis J. Borin{bership on the executive board of stein. Vice chairmen are William 'the Larger Regional Government at'L. Schloss, Allan Kahn and David |Cleveland, and the Ohio Consum-'L. Sablosky.

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. . . . Active in efforts to rebuild Palestine.

GREW, ARITA DINE ASSISTANT PASTOR | roxvo. Apri 0 ©. Bet was | reported today that an informal NAMED BY DR, VAL discussion of United States-Japa- | nese relations had taken place last

and 4000 in excess of the depart-

4. The machine gun must be in- Tom Stokes has been in Georgia and

,the East Point Klan's operations

Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, Tabernacle Friday when Joseph C. Grew, the

MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1940

DRIVER TAPED IN AUTO TRUNK

North Side Man Abducted by

Two Bandits and Robbed of $41.

Two “tape bandits” bound Cyril Shook, 38, of 801 N. Pennsylvania St., Apt. 2, yesterday as he was parking his car in front of his home, drove him over the northwest and northeast parts of the city and robbed him of $41. Meanwhile, a coupe believed to be the one used by two bandits who robbed a grocery store at 1656 Roosevelt Ave. Saturday of $50 was found in the 2200 block N. Temple Ave. Mr. Shook reported to police that the men forced him to ride between them until they came to the 38th St. and Keystone Ave. district, There, the men taped his wrists, put a handkerchief over his eyes, taped it, and placed him in a rear trunk compartment of his car and locked him in. Later, the bandits halted the car near llth St. and Capitol Ave. asked Mr. Shook if he had worked himself loose. When Mr. Shook replied in the negative, the bandits unlocked the rear compartment and fled. The abandoned coupe found on | Temple Ave. bore marks on one side believed caused by shotgun pellets, | police said. William Van, who op- | erates a drug store near the scenes |of the holdup, told police at the

Seuth Carolina investigating the resur-

ments quota. Indiana cards were creased from .30 caliber to .50 calibrought here by five National Guard planes. |

| gence of the Ku-Kilux Kian, which he finds using much the same tactiezs as in the 1920's, and seeking te regain na-

ber for use against aircraft. 5. Bombers are easy prey to fight-

|carries across into South Carolina

edn ur. tition for them. Each local unit

where seven men have

rested for the abduction and beat- |

Other local units afe to be set Presbyterian Church pastor, today

p as soon as local civic groups pe-

will be governed by its own local

announced the appointment of the Rev. Stewart William Hartfelter, for two years pastor of the First Presby-

tional power. Herewith is the first of

| a series by Mr. Stokes.

By THOMAS IL. STOKES i Times Special Writer | ATLANTA, Ga. April 29.—The | Ku-Klux Klan rides again in the | South, with its white robes, its | torches and its fiery cross. It preaches intolerance for racial

and religious minorities. It pro-

A drive for books and magazines Claims a narrow sort of “American-

{ism” that is being translated here |and there into a) fight against the

stitutions was announced today by C. I. O, itself a fledgling minority | Thurman 2». Gottschalk, State Wel- seeking to organize mill workers in fare Administrator and institutions this region.

ing, two days after last Christmas, |

5 lected terian Church of Greenfield, of Lanier Pruitt, 27-year-old me- id of 5 0 13 persons e

bv members of the unit. assistant pastor at Tabernacle. The chanic, at Anderson, S. C. They annually by (appointment is effective as of waived a preliminary heaging at State Board Arranged | April 1. Anderson last Friday and the cases| p,q members also are to be se-| The Rev. Mr. Hartfelter, who is (will go before the Grand Jury May | lected from representatives of the 26, was born in Sullivan, Ind. the 1. medical, industrial, professional, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. | One hundred witnesses have been civic and fraternial groups. The Hartfelter. He attended the public 'called to testify about activities in State affairs of the Association will schools there and received an A. B. that area. be directed by a legislative bonrd, tsgsee from anal Sotiese mn 11935. i- f delegates, one from each unit for | He is a member o i e The anti C. I. O. sentiment is|0 ie) : a land Sphinx Club, Wabash uppermore widespread in South ach or less members i ‘her Mr. Bristor said the Association |classmen honorary. Carolina, where the Klan has been ; | riding in many mill towns will set up a definite schedule of| He was graduated from the : : : |reserves. The membership fee for | Princeton Theological Seminary in _ This was disclosed in an examina- |, cjtalization will vary, depending 1938 with the Th. B. degree. While ‘tion by the writer of correspond- g, whether the member prefers at Princeton he was a member of

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figures, attended the banquet at| 6. More range must be built into Townsend was among those at the American war planes to European | MAGAZINE APPEAL tion's air force superior to all planes and building up the Ameri“We are the last people in the said, “but we would be unwise, inlaboratory. in which our fighting “At the close of our present twoof the warring nations, will, plane He said the aviation industry now

A long list of distinguished guests, | er aircraft unless equipped with tall including many prominent military | Buns. which Commander Kelly was bombers. toastmaster. Governor M. Clifford TE STATE MAKES B Gen. Arnold said that the sale of y belligerents provides a “full scale | laboratory” that will make this na1 The sales are a “fair exchange,” | he said, giving the Allies needed air- to be used in libraries at State incan aviation industry. Sees War as Laboratory world to wish to profit by the misfortunes in Europe,” Gen. Arnold ded, if we failed to realize that the war in Europe is a full scale airplanes can be service-tested under war conditions at no cost to us. vear augmentation program, our air force, though not as large as those for plane, be superior to any of, them.” estimates it has a productive capac-! ity of more than 17500 airplanes a

supervisor. The drive is to be made especially lyv—as here and in South Carolina

to obtain material for mental hos-| —in a moral frenzy that dispenses V- Johnson, Grand Klokard of groups are eligible for membership, pitals and will be held in conjunc- cruel “justice” by the lash upon South Carolina, urges an intensive together with their families.

tion with State Institution Week,

sinners” in the dead of night. May 12-18

This thriving city, the head-

“Authorities are agreed on the quarters now as back in the twen- Support “the splendid campaign you or 3 cents a day,

importance of easily accessible read- ties of the revived Ku-Klux Klan, ing material in institutions of all woke a few weeks ago to read in types,” Mr. Gottschalk said. |its morning paper a lurid story of

State institutions are completing prytality. A Negro farm hand, cut- ©f the South Carolina Klan, who Department.

a three-year building program. SiX- tine across the fields on his way teen institutions will celebrate the home, discovered in a desolate.

near-completion of the program by oy sprinkled bottomland in the

a series of open houses during State Ben Hill nei . hake . by ghborhood on Atlanta's Institution Week, Mr. Gottschalk i kirts, the bruised and beaten

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And it breaks forth intermittent- ence in secret Klan records seized ward, semi-private or private room | the Benham Club—oldest club at

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drive on the C. I. O. and announces plans to contact mill o ners to

are waging along.” The letter was addressed to Ben Adams of Columbia, Grand Dragon

has frequently expressed his an-

tagonism to ¢he C. I. O. Mr. Adams,

prominent politically, was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 938. This correspondence also reveals the strategy of the Klan in seeking to establish itself and to make itself felt in labor.

Ike Gaslon, 39-year-old barber of

| East Point, one of Atlanta's suburbs, had been flogged by Klan night-riders and left to die. His naked back was corrugated with ithe cuts of a four-foot leather whip | found near his body. The barber {drank a good deal and beat his (wife. Klansmen had undertaken to correct his morals. Atlanta's eyes were opened when | further investigation disclosed that such floggings, though not resulting fatally as had this, had been going on for months in the East { Point section. Charges against the victims were mostly of like character—“moral lapses”—with one ex- | ception, the kidnapping and flogging of P. S. Toney for attempting to organize a C. I. O. union. There began before the

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—a $1000 fine, a year on public | works and six months in jail. He {is to be tried later on a kidnaping | charge involving the abduction of | Mr. Toney. | This was the first of a series of {trials in Klan flogging cases which are expected to run for weeks. In- | vestigalors still are busy trying to

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gleaming from deep shadows. In Judge Hugh M. Dorsey one would hardly recognize the vigorous young district attorney who, many years ago, was called upon to prosecute the Leo M. Frank case | which stirred up such & wave of in-| | tolerance. Mr. Dorsey thereafter’ was swept into the Governor's chair. Intolerance broke out again in the Southland when .the Ku-Klux Klan was revived a few years later and, under promoters who made it ‘a lucrative business, flooded over state lines, established itself far and | wide and swirled headlong into na- | | tional politics in the 1924 Madison ! | Square Garden Convention of the! Democratic Party. | | The cycle seems to be repeating itself today. i

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| One objective shown by the , records is to make friendly contacis with police officials so they will not interfere with Klan activities, obtaining police members where possible. That this effort has had some success is shown by the fact that three deputy sheriffs in Fulton County, as well as the acting sheriff of Anderson County, S. C., are publicly avowed Klan members.

From no less a power than the Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Dr. James A. Colescott, has gone out an official order for Klansmen who are members of labor unions, either A. F. of L.or C. I. O, and of the Workers Alliance, to try to seize control of offices in those organizations. Dr. Colescott, a pudgy, pink-faced ex-veterinarian, succeeded Dr. Hiram W. Evans, an ex-dentist, as national head of the Klan last June. He appears placid, phlegmatic, and apparently is not easily disturbed. A native pt Terre Haute, Indiana, he was for nine years head of the Ohio Klan. But Imperial Wizard Colescott has been kept very busy lately trimming his secret organization to meet the public outery raised against the activities of some of his members,

Unmasking Decreed

In rapid order, he decreed unmasking of the Klan, issued restrictions covering burning of fiery crosses, suspended the East Point chapter when the flogging cases | were revealed, and banished Henry Cawthon when he was convicted. With a:l that, and with his appearances before the grand jury here and in the Anderson cases, he has had little time to devote to the | drive for new members which he is putting on all over the country in | the effort to restore the Klan to | the eminence it enjoyed during the twenties.

NEXT — Secret correspondence (and records reveal Klan fight on C.L O.

IS DELAYED BY RAIN

FT. WORTH, Tex, April 28 (U. P.).—Rain spoiled the ceremonies for the inauguration of “Dogville,” a town for “dead end” canines.

sick, live in the canine counterpart of “Boys’ Town,” in buildings made of used dog food cans. Yesterday, W. J. Elkin, the boss of Dogville, had intended laying the cornerstone of a new city hall, but the rain spoiled the event. “Maybe it was a good thing at that,” Elkin said. “The dogs needed the bath. We'll hold the cornerstone laying the first pretty Sunday.”

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