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"EYES 0 PROBER IS ORDERED FROM CITY (Continued from First Page.) start this week. Information has been received that special investigators are on their way here from Washington to make the probe. Clarke, imperial keagle of the klan, In a letter to Colonel Simmons. last night demanded that the Wizard ac cept his resignation together with that of Mrs. Tyler, head of the women's auxiliary. These resignations were submitted to .Coonel Sitmons. following publi cation of charges against Clarke and Mrs. Tyler. The charges were follow ed by demands from A. Donald Bate kleagle of the State of New Jersey, that Clarke and Mrs. Tyler be dis missed. Daugherty's Agents Keep Close Watch on "Wizard" of Ku Klux Agents of the Department of Jus tice are closely watching the move ments of William Simmons, im perial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, it developed today. Last reports tow Attorney General Daugherty stated that Simmons is confining his move ments 'to Atlanta, his home, and its environs. It was explained that the agents were keeping track of Simmons so that he would be available immedi 'ately if Daugherty decides to sum mon him to Washington for exam Ination. Daugherty, who is visiting his home in' Ohio for a few days, prob ably will decide when he returns to Washington whether to question Simmons and other high officers of the klan. He is expected back within a few days. Two Senators now are among the members of Congress who are press ing for a Congressional investigation of the activities of the klan. Senator Pomerene of Ohio expressed his amazement at the growth of the klan In Ohio. and Senator King of Utah indignantly deciared the United States cannot afford to harbor any such or ganization. Both Senators demand a thorough investigation. Under the direction of William J. Burns, chief of the Justice Depart ment Secret Service, scores of opera tives are running down various angles of the klan activities. Department of Justice agents. including district at torneys, marshals and others, are ac t ive in hundreds of cities in a search for evidence. Postoffice agents also are gathering evidence. Local of ficials are aiding the Government agents. Before leaving for Ohio Daugherty said that the Government will search into every nook and cranny of the Ku Klux Klan; examine every activ ity and settle the question of whether the organization is in violation of the Pederal laws. If the evidence proves the Ku Klux Klan to be inimical to the interests of the Government, prosecution will be started Immedi ately. WOMIN LEADS GRAND JURORS IN WALKOUT Claims Nine Men Have Defeated Justice by Letting Oamn biers Oo Free. MEDIA, Pa., Sept. 25.--Under the leadership of Mrs. Julia Yarnall, of Swarthmore, active in social and edu cational circles, six women and five men, members of the Delaware county grand jury yesterday went on a strike against the action of nine other grand jurors, all men, who had refused to return indictments against prisoners seized In the Chester gambling raids last month. With Mrs. Yarnall as their spokes man, they summoned Assistant Dis trict Attorney McCarter to the grand jury room and informed him that they would not consider any more bills until they were allowed to protest in court against the action of the nine jurors who, they claimed, deliberately thwarted justice. It was arranged that their protest shall not be heard until Monday, the jury being excused until then. '"The whole proceeding is absolutely outrageous," said Mrs. Yarnall. "I is Impossible to go along this way any longer. The nine men who have been continually voting against us block any action that is right.." On Thursday the grand jury ignored the bill against William McClurg, one of nine alleged gamblers, by an eleven to nine vote, and put the costs on John O'Toole, county dteotive. I ' PiikCASUES F I,0001 FIRST LADY WITH GRAt Mrs. Elisabeth Tyler, woman beh the Invisible Emp ire of the Ku E conferrinig with Lloyd P. Hooper, New York, in the Pennsylvania Hol in New York city doing organisat 54009,000 FILM TO ADVERTISE KU KLUX KLAN Deal for Picture Spectacle to Outdo "Birth of a Nation." NEW YORK.Sept. 25.-Plans ap proved by Imperial Kleagle Edward Young Clarke to have a New York motion picture corporation make an elaborate and costly feature film to he used as propaganda for the Ku Klux Klan were uncovered yesterday by investigators working in this city. Approximately 5400,000 was the sum to be expended on a screen spec tacle planned.to imitate and outrival "The Birth of a Nation." and the con tract for making it was drawn and otwarded to the Wheeler Productions. Inc., 1620 Broadway. "Ypsterday, To day and Forever" was the title seleot ed for this piece of up-to-date Ku Klux advertising. Is Yale Man. Clifford Slater Wheeler. president of the Wheeler Producers, Inc., who de scribed himself as a Yale man and Yale club member, a captain in the French urmy for four years during the war, an da Ku Klux kleaglel in the "realm" of New York, admitted yesterday his company got the contract after Ar thur Donald Bate, a former vice presi Aent of the Wheeler Corporation and king kleagle of the third territorial Ku Klux district of New Jersey. went to Atlanta last March and discussed the project with Imperial Kleagle Clarke. Bate, who lives at 338 Rahway ave nue, Elisabeth, N. J.. is the klansman who several days ago sent a telegram to Imperial Wizard Simmons calling in him to dismiss Imperial Kleagle Clarke and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler. fol lowing the revelations against the pair. "The idea of the moving picture scheme met with the aoornval of Clarke and Imoerial Wizard Sim mons." said Kleagle Wheeler yes terday. "Kleagle Bate brought back , letter which was binding until the contract was delivored. Some time later I learned from Atlanta that Lloyd P. Hooper, New York grand goblin, had received the contract. It was never turned over to me and for some reason or other the matter came to a standstill. I have been unable to locate Hooper for some time. (Got Yale Men In. "I joined the Ku Klux Klan." Wheeler declared. "when Hoopcr first mme to this city. I- opened up the klan in New Haven last spring and rolled up a large membership there. including numerous Yale men. At the Yale Club in this city, where I am a member, I got quite a few of the boys to join. I was a captain for four yeoars in the French army and saw service in Russia. Cbnditions in the Soviet government opened my eyes, and when I returned to this country I made numerous ant--Bolshevik speeches through the New England States. "The Ku Klux advertisements came to my attention, especially those con 2erning anti-Bolshevism. I joined, be lieving the organization 100 per cent Ameriqa. Of course, we bar Catho lics and Jews, but I never knew the klan was anti-Jowish or anti-Catholic. [f the charges concerning Mrs. Tyler and Mr. Clarke are true, I'm afraid it will reflect on our organization. I'm going to Atlanta in the immediate fu ture to see things for myself. I want to clear up a few matters." BRIAND AND JUSSERAND ON FRENCH ARMS MISSION PARIS, Sept. 25.--Premier Briand, Fdlnister of Colonies Barraut, and Ambaseador Jusserand will make up three of the four members of the F~rench delegation to the Washing lon conference, it was learned today. The fourth delegate is yet to be selected. He probably will be M. Loucheur, minister for liberated regions. M. Viviani, former premier, was spoken of. but he will be coin Slied to remain in Franoe by his e of Nations work. Premier Briand is expected to remain in Washington several weeks, after which he will return and his place as head of the French delegation will be taken by Ambassaor Jums rand. "Sicking" Dog Costs $1 B. CHICAGO. Sept. 25.-Mrs. Danda Sebach "sicked" ido on Jacob Ha maa, a pedler. The judge ordered her .o pay 515 for damages to Hagam's -ali= amaEd m. ZEAL ME OF KLAN" CC JD GOBLIN 0 Ind the throne in women's chapter lux Klan, shown nounced that the grand goblin of ship had not bee1 el. Mrs. Tyler is would have to w4 ion work for the Vicious Pm Mysterious Scored B By RABBI JUI Pastor of the E A great public service is Hearst papers in exposing ti so-called Ku Klux Klan. The facts in the case, as i cials in the columns of The I amazing and dumbfounding. story or piece of fiction, for imagination toward lands fa: the human mind and memory Yet all of these things, to existing condition of affairs America, and at this all-glor3 Much as one would desire to prove the matter an Innocent pastime, or a bit of imagination, the indictment here seems to be so strong and of such grave nature an to leave no doubt be hind. It is evident that we have nere to deal with a vicious element acting arbitrarily against all law and order. stopping before nothing in carrying on thir sytem of blackmail. extortion and murderous design-a regular "black-hand" in American style. Imagine a force of 700,000 (among them men of power and influence and officials of state) threatening to infest the whole country with lawlessness and high-handed rule of their own, and striking terror into the hearts of a peaceful citizenship. Tendency of America. Involuntarily we are Induced to ask the question: Whither are we drift ing? What will become of America and its traditional love for elnocracy and fair play? What will be left of its cherished principles and the r.oble Constitution assuring an accused person trial by jury, and guaranteeing the meanest of citizens the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness? What means all of this savage on slaught against the foreign born, all this vulgar incitement of rsce-hatred and religious prejudice? An-1 this at a time when America and all worldly nations are working laboriously in one united effort to readjust matters be tween them all, to wipe off prejudice and ill-feeling to bring on a proper understanding and reconciliation be tween races and creeds? How long then is such evil spell of reaction to be ailowed to continue tc spread havoc over the citizenship of this country? How long will America be ruled by mad fanaticism and mock Dietists, clad in the garb of saints from the shades of the dead past, cry lag their patriotism from the house tops, clamoring to be the lect 100 per cent Protestant Christi, n Amer lcans, and claiming the right for them selves alone to rule and owrn America; thus undermining the very vitals of democracy upon which the American commonwealth is based? How far will this tragi-comical procedure o? eLownish clan-business be driven? Savors of Bigotry. To drive out Jews, Catholics, ne groes and all the foreign-born from tht land-that is, we will say, too much 0t a big bite to swallow. even for a big, mystic Ku Klux Klan, with its fright zul and royally imposing names, and its weird garbs and guises of the de-ad. The queer notions, fade and fanciful display of unnamed knighthood may have been in place in Germany under Godfrey arid the crusades in the clev enth century and a continuation there of in the year. that followed. The riark machinations against unsuspect Ing citizens may have been gobd eenough In the workings of the Spanish Inquisition and medieval ages. So the secret agencies and pogrom incitement in Russia under the erstwhilq czarist regime and Pan-Blavism, as lo( as it lasted, that, too, can be explainod in the way of "tyranny versus Jewry." But to, what purpose are the fopmlish etunts of the .9-called Ku Klux Klan, with its ghostlike stalking over the ities' streets in the dead of the night, If for anything else than a minstrel ahow? If such organization was thought to he a necessity immediately after the eivil war, there is certainly no excuse for its existence at the present time. All of -us here. as elsewhere, have had enough of "frightfulness" in the seven year's of world war and the after-maths thereof, We need no more of that in this land of freedom and peace. Nor dloes anybody care a rap for the si-as medic reform afforded by the Klan. Tt is an Ill wind which hodes no good to any portion of the American citizen .hlp. Give Mtan one of your fingers and he will soon have the whole of your hand, heart and soul. And uks- iet us= ash, hem g.... the 'N TRY )NFERRING F NEW YORK v of the Ku Klux, Mrs. Tyler an organization for women's member 1completed and that all applications kit until this work was completed. -poses of Clansmen Rabbi Loel LIUS T. LOEB, [ebrew Institute. now being rendered by the ie secret 4machinations of tht -evealed by ex-klansmen offi. Vashington Times, are simply They read like some fairy. - which one must stretch the e away and times remote to our sorrow, appear to be an right here in our own free ring twentieth century. clansmen the right to exalt themselves above the ret of the American citsen ship? Who has vestedl them with au, thority to question and inquisition the thoughts, the feelings and obeliefs ol peoples and creeds; to pass tem all r review and to judge an to who oi which of them is worthy ad dp Ing of grace, and who or which toIt be doomed eternally and driven off th earth? Challengs ght. We challenge even the bt of thai tribe of the self-styled per centers an to loyalty and patroti< devotion. We point to the Proud records of Jewish men in the world war, by far exc ing their % ots and excelling in their signal Persce We Jews have sent our ons Among the. first, and have given unstint Ingly f our blood and tresur ill the he re of the American flag (Th? writer of these lines ha had his own two sons abroad through nearly all of the course of the two years of the American operat ona In the Etropean war. one of the a private in the 149th Field Artil, iery of the famous Fortyseyond (Rainbow) Division and passing through with distincton In seven o the biggest campaigns that won the victory for the American arm. We make no display of ourselves and of our prowess. W e aro). ways ready to serve our country in peace as well as In War. We de, mand no thanks for our service. We We Jeem hav ben our polaindt as cte. Wet ado hnot giren urn pThwrite of thee ite. tees an noarly alar otfi the oure of tevery yerslve that Awerwouad notaccond int theropLie and ear v, ouhr agarivte our tneho, ast chaeld Aryl :cy he fossanders and mies-n (Rinbof makersion. hand nothing t the biggest, owever that wonte vicorforadbneilt the Amrcnause Wfte communityadiarely of thle aornd of ourpoes. e the fal naredy to srope o ory ia pcensm We eleve, war the con mrandy, thanksAmericanur spelc lie aeno farplcgto for what hl e uder ito beng orulain dut ano thatAmeocaism i iis' dstrialany oppsevd tha wen woul otc acod uto thercis. Liv ndimldtivn, ilack motto and hemvehno tevi desiacte ohif manoert e aee.i t Fie aaafrom pic otie. FWrt, iwas, thoerHama" wer paeul and bthedamaloe Prtcole chrg the mmunith ard nynftroe ands famtonngal the cns ribes ofwa upthem.ul-b reorsmlrsb fchre are eucid W onybey the f lnalse agatendst th pRonsCato hldk goons. thereivcopan to mthery.n Bgry and Ameindanacisml libet seemd fi play fonfne two celassheor ae, cnditios beig crued. Today ot istht Amoertycofisc is damrec le aopse the wieaon and vioreen tothe acti of intim indaint lnes. ail and besircing the haracforn ofnocent eoplTe. r h nme FflgtantofcisIsaMtion. Te irst ito wsc the repubanc For papers They thk e anale Potodl and faningby the priuemen ofwa uothem.n owmi elararns ahic agans the nomanurpolic. Thgoran goodnae ther Jusicomany inth wise Bhigry acond' mblindt fanaiismt t ses, inet cfimndt, ad, cor cage conytioso orfes To ba aongry.o the cve-ma and preimi the garbarfietisdmitlns ae suberting the mst vtal torthe TO TERF PUBLICITY BEST WY TO DEFEAT KLAN, HE SAYS N. Y. Alderman Denounoes Ku Klux-Lauds Papers Fighting Schemes. NEW YORK. Sept. 25.-Warm praise for the exposure of the alms and activities of the Ku Klux Klan was vokced today by William T. Col lins, majority leader of the board of aldermen and chairman of its comu mittee on general welfare. Alderman Collins said, "The New York American is de serving of the greatest praise for exposing the latest exhibition of know-nothingism as exemplified in the Ku Klux Klan. No organization founded on principles violative of the Constitution of the United States and the fundamentals on which this Government is founded can long sur vive when exposed to the light of day. "A fearless press can do no better work than a vigorous exposure of the machinations of the bigot and the dissembler, the liar and the lie. The New York American has always rendered yeoman servie along this line of endeavor, and its appeal to the reasonable people of all races and creeds in this country is bound to stamp out forever from our body politic this infamous Ku Klux band. Empire Will Find Job Too B1g. "Under the teachings of the Ku Klux Klan. the Catholic, the Jew and the fortign-born citizen are to be subjected to the same ostracism and contumely that the negro has long suffered at its hands. A very big contract is undertaken here by the Invisible Empire. I venture to say that over 70 per cent of the American citisenryl is only one de gree removed from the so-called for eigner, and I do not believe that there In more than 6 per cent which is two degrees removed from the same much-maligned citizen. "Well, the Wizards and the Kleagles of that 'Empire' will to the way of their predecessors In that field, and the devil's cure to them." Condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan, or of any other organization with similar objects, is expressed In a resolution prepared by the Ameri canization committee of the John Manning Battle Post of the Ameri can Legion. Assistant District At torney Albert Blogg Unger Is chair man of the Americanization commit tee. All members of the poet are attaches of the district attorney's office. Resolution of Legion Post. The resolution follows: "Whereas it appears that a secret society. calling tself the Ku Klux Klan, Is in procese of formation throughout the United States, hav ing as an essential element for its existence a propaganda of religious and racial hatred; be It "Resolved; That the Americanisa tion committee of John Manning Battle Post-honored by the name of a gallant young Carolinian who gave his life on the field of battle do hereby advise the rembers of this post that such an organization as the Ku Klux Klan is subversive of the principles of republican gov ernment and has no place in these United States; and be it further "Resolved; That said American ization committee, composed as it is of members of several races and creeds, further advise the members of this post that It in their duty to hold In abhorrence and to shun and condemn such secret orders as the Ku Klux Klan." VILLA PROTECTS FUGITIE BANK HEADlINEXICO Spurgin Trailed to Hiding Place by Girl He Promised to Marry. EL PA51., Tex., Sept. 26.--Warren C. Spurgin, fugitive president of the wrecked Michigan Avenue Bank. is firmly established in a feudal! strong hold of Pancho Villa, 150 miiles from a railroad and In a spot In Mexico wher. he can and does defy the powers of' both Mexico and the United States to touch him. He was traied to his hidinq place by Mary Jane McGrath. better known by her stage name, Masie Belmont former sweetheart of the embezsler lHe had promised to marry h.-r as soon as he could divorce his wife. ?iut failed to do so. Over 900 miles of sage brush, by automobile, by burro and on toot, she followed Spurgin and finally c.aught up with him. lie is under the protection of Villa. who assured her that Spurgin war iafe from the Mexican, th., United $tates or any other government in the world. Spurgin has entered into an arrange ment with Villa to operate a gold mine end Villa's men are to guard the ship ments of bull on. Miss MGrath ii. now back in ElPaso, Villa having re fused to permit her to see or talk with Spurgin. ernent to intervene and to stamp out the rushing movemnt of the Klan craze, which has no right to exist if but part of the tales con cerning its deeds of violence prove true. Time to nip the movement In the bud. The only way to accom plish this end is publicity. Let the searchlight of truth be thrown upon the dark machinations of the Klan. ore it spread its baleful influence and mix up the entire citisenship by the sowing of hatred and dissension amid brethren dwelling peacefully to .IFY KLAN INVES' FAMOUS BEAUTY MUCH ADMIRED BY TRAVELERS F A 2( se da di k th u #P1 U a n 4 4 MRS. HU(,&u A. FRENCH, Daghter of Gen. Robert P. Wynne, who recently returned from p iEuroe, was admired by the passengers for her remarkable beauty. ter a, three weeks' stay in this country, Mrs. French plans to cross ti the Atlantic again. General Wynne was Postmaster General In Roose- I velt's Cabinet. k Reflected inFashion' . A bevy of the most striking origina tions, which we are featuring at. . ...... ICTURED, the "'Exeter" Pump. One oft L P stle itsof te yar.Verychamin in Blc afkno lakSee ih"a Amon themanyothe newstyls w are eatringat 9.7 are"Todle"Sanals A fal eitio ofthe renh Sadaltta withut penigs n frnt.Comein ari ons lethers WinterOxfors other wingtips newleaher. W ness an Gne c ' mans facory c Notaleals, a umbr o ne Fal an Oxord 5,000UA pi rsEnclue-eeya Daugterof Gn. ober P.Wyte redceadeyespeciall froi- u Eurpe wa amird y te assngrs orherreakKdablk n bext. Aftr athee eek'tayinthi contyars Fn pand to r the tlatiegai. Gnerl Wyne a Andet ate GnuerI oe Ote Women'sCabinet. ie RefeedadnFashio' tulfgiondo wih wailre fetrn atO.. emupl' Black, Cfkord acednt a i1OAT-- OR (LANSIEN AID IN SEARCH FOR ALLEGED SLAYER oosses of 1,000 Armed Men Scouring Virginia Peninsula for Half Breed. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 2. party of 1,000 armed men, Including 0 members of the Ku Klux Klan, are arching the woods north of here to y for Carlo Meeks, a half-breed In an and negro, who is accused of IlIng Robert De Korte. a police of The Klan announced 01blicly that j members were participating in the an hunt. The searching party is said to be e largest which has taken part in a milar expedition in the Virginia minsula In fifty Years. ERMAN PROF. FLOORED BY DOUGHBOY'S QUESTION COBLENZ. Sept. 25. - A learned ofessor .d just concluded his lec. ire on, tionometry. illustrating on huge blackboagd'the various figures nder study, and the audience of earn it students, young and old, was still ader the spell of his wizardry. "Has any one any questions to sk?" said the proffessor. "I shall be lad to answer." Just then a tall youth wearing the niform of a member of the American >rces In Germany arose with a start s if coming out of a deep sleep. With few companions he had wandered ito the large hall and finding many noccupied seats had made themselves t home. in most classical German e asked: "Can you tell me why German chim ey sweeps wear top'hats when on uty?" ONG ISLAND LETTER WAS SENT TO ISLAND OF LUZON NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-The case of te letter addressed "S. I., which the "tofflce sent from New York not to taten Island, but to the Solomon lands in the Pacific has been matched y the earliest case of one addressed L. L" and sent out not to Long iland but to the Island of Luzon in Ie Philippines. Evidently the New 'ork postoffice is rich in geographical nowledge. s Mirror $9.75 he most distinctive 'atent Leather, Dull y" Louis heel. 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