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•Officers Chosen By
University Women
Mrs. Karl Kenning was elected
tnuaident of the Washington Branch
| <of the American Association of Uni
versity Women at a meeting held
last night.
Other officers elected were: Miss
-Mary Louise Brown, dean (ft Women
at American University, vice presi
jilent; Mrs. Grattan Doyle, secretary;
Mrs. Howard G. Nichols, treasurer;
Mrs. Ernest F. Burchard, chairman
vt the house committee; Mrs. James
G. Cumming, publicity committee:
Mrs. George B. Roth, membership
committee, and Mrs. Albert L. Bar-
Mws, hospitality committee.
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Next to Kinney’a Shoa Store
Shocked Child Suit
Settled For $1,250
The suit of Russell Hall, minor,
who recently sued the Potomac
Electric Power Company for dam
ages for Injuries sustained when
he was knocked from a tree in the
playground at Nineteenth and B
Streets Southeast, when he came
in contact with one of the com
pany's wires, was settled by an
agreed judgment for $1,250, accord
ing to a decree filed in Circuit
Court yesterday. _
Attorneys Cromelin and Gray ap
peared for the child who had sued
through his father, Floyd Hall, of
3835 A St. S. E»
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Women Smokers Here
Boom Tobacco
Business
NEW YORK, April 20.—Since
women began smoking cigarettes
the tobacco business, particularly
for those companies that manu
facture popular brands of cigar
ettes, has become a depression
proof industry, according to W.
F. Axton, president of the Axton-
Fosher Tobacco Company For
the past seven years, he said,
cigarette consumption has shown
an average annual Increase of
12# per cent.
“During the first two months
of this year,” said Axton. “the
consumption of cigarettes as indi
cated by withdrawals reported by
the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
Increased by more than 2,333,-
000,000, as compared with the cor
responding period of 1927. Should
that rate of increase continue the
rest of this year, consumption win
reach 111,000,000,000 in 1928, com
pared with 97,000,000.000 in 1927
and 87,000,000,000 in 1928.”
Woman Sues Autoist
Tor $15,000 Damages
Rudolph Firchgessner has been
made defendant in a suit filed by
Ruth Harris, who asks >15,000
damages for personal injuries sus
tained by her when she was struck
by the defendant’s automobile as
she was crossing P Street North
west at Wisconsin Avenue, Decem
ber 31, last.
The plaintiff alleges that reckless
ness on the part of the defendant
in making a left hand turn caused
the aocident. She is represented by
Attorney Goldie 8. Paregol.
EHHItON EXPLAINS USAGES
OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH MASK,
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 20.—Paid killers carried out
orders for assassinations in the. realm, of the Ku Klux Klan,
garbed in purple robes, to distinguish them from regular
members of the organization on peaceful business. Tar and
feather administering groups, whippers, and similar groups
urnrn hlaolr taKps
wore oiack roues.
This is part of the startling*'
revelations in today’s installment
of the deposition of D. C. Stephen
son, former grand dragon of the
klan in Indiana. It tells how tele
phones were tapped, telegraph com
pany employes bribed to reveal
secret Information, and the agencies
of graft and corruption fostered in
every possible manner. •
The deposition follows:
Q. —When some delay occurred in
presenting this deposition for your
signature did you endeavor to com
municate with an officer of the
United States Court for the West
ern District of Pennsylvania?
A.—Yes, sir. I did on March 28,
1928. I wrote a telegram addressed
to Mr. Van A. Barrickman, 911
Park Bußding, Pittsburgh, Pa., in
which I said to Mr. Barrickman
that I had Information that some
of the klan vassals were endeavor
ing to block the signing of the
deposition. I also wrote a note at
tached to-that and sent it to the
warden of the Indiana State Prison
requesting that in the capacity of
a witness before the Federal Court, (
I be permitted to communicate with (
an officer of the court. I am re
liably and definitely informed that
he did not send that telegram to
Mr. Barrickman by an authority no
Jess, reliable than Mr. Barrickman ,
himself to whom the telegram has :
been shown since his return here.
Tapped Telephones
Q.—Did anyone ever ask you to 1
given prior to the time I came here
given prior tothe time I came here 1
to take your deposition? *
A.—Yoe. Repeated efforts have
been made to get me on various ;
occasions and in various ways to
reveal the things which I have
here testified.
This is the first time I have
ever revealed even thus much of the
things that should be told the Amer
lean people.
Q.—State whether or not the
plaintiff corporation or its officer*
make a practice of tapping telephone ;
wires of private citizens and bust- ,
ness offices?
A.—Yes. To my knowldge they
tapped a number of telephones in
Evansville by an irresponsible young
man working for the telephone
company under their direction and
behest. And as they told me they '
tapped the telephone of the mayor •
and chief of police of Evansville.
Q.—Relate Instances, if you know
of any, where the plaintiff cor
poration arranged to obtain illlegai (
copies of telegrams sent to pri
vate citizens and public officials.
A.—Yes. The klan had a young
lady whose name I do not recall
in the employ of the Western Union .
at Indianapolis. For each telegram
she brought pertaining to any poli
tical matter or any matter in which
the klan might have an interest
they paid her one dollar.
Mask of Death.
Q.—What knowledge do you have.
If any, of the mystic black mask .
and by the plaintiff organ- .
ization? . w
A.—The black mask is a robe
authorized when they are on kill
ing expeditions or whipping expe
ditions. It is the official robe for
all acts of mob violence. I was told
of a number of times of taking
persons on black robe party which
meant and was meant for me to
understand that this language w®»-
crlbed the tar and feather parties
by brutality which the “heroes”
engaged in throughout the southern
states where the klan resorted to
mob violence.
O.—What knowledge do you have
of the “Death Battalion" the purple
robed gang of Philadelphia Penn,
sylvanfa, and other criminal acts?
A.—The purple robe is the garb
of the battalion of death. That Is
another garb med by the killers
In different communities. The one
In Philadelphia In particular I think
Is not the official community garb.
Disruption Comes
Q- —Mr- Stephenson, what motives,
if any, did anyone have In framing
the murder charge against you and
Illegally sending you to prison as
you have previously testified.
A.—The motive was a very strong
one indeed in this, that when I 1
resigned from the Ku Klux Klan,
September 28 1923, I agreed to
refrain from engaging in any public
attack until after the legislature
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adjourned in 1925 and then I ex
pected to lay bare the record 1 have
here testified to.
The membership of the entire
State of Indiana as well as portions
of Ohio. Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Illinois. Wisconsin. Kentucky, and
Tennessee knew about It.
They became impatient and in
sisted on -my attending various
meetings and laying before them in
part things I have here testified to
I did that. I took the Valparaiso
Indiana organization away and all
Porter County. I also took the
Tippecanoe County organization
away and also the city of Lafayette.
I glso took Fayette County away.
I also took Rush County and Rush
ville, the county seat. I also took
the Wayne county organization and
also Richmond, the county seat. I
also took Greene, Clay, Owen, Know
and various other county organiza
tions prior to the assessment of
1925 registry.
It was In this respect that I
stopped them from sending dues to
the national headquarters and per
suaded them to operate under a
truce whereby they held their funds
in their local treasury until such
time as we could lay before them
the comprehensive reorganization
programs.
Q.—Mr. Stephenson I will -ask
you to state it all the records
passed through your hands and if
you had a complete knowledge of all
money that was taken In by th*
klan in Pennsylvania.
A.—l did not have charge of the
klan at the time they started to
organize in tho State of Pennsyl
vania. but, at the timo I took
charge of the State of Pennsyl
vania. I acquired the records re
vealing everything that had oc
curred In organization activity
prior to tho time I took charge of
it.
Q.—Where are the records now,
if you know?
A. —The records are In charge of
a friend of mine by the name of
Raymond C. Northcott, whose ad
dress is in New York and Cleveland.
They are held subject to my order.
Another Interesting instalment
of this remarkable deposition w»H
appear tomorrow exclusively in
The Washington Times.
Male Detention Aide
Sought by Civil Service
The United States Civil Service
Commission announced early today
that applications for the position of
male attendant in the District House
of Detention will be received until
April 28. According tqthe an
nouncement, the position pays >1,020
per year, plus quarters and sub
sistence.
The duties are to care for the,
physical and general welfare of
children in delinquent girl and boy
departments.
Food Transportation
To Capital Discussed
The transportation of fresh vege
tables, milk and other food com
modities into the Nation's Capital
was discussed yesterday by George
W. Offutt in an address at the
luncheon meeting of the Transpor
tation Club.
He pointed out that co-operation
between the people of Washington
and the railroads is a necessity
since the growth of the city into a
metropolis.
ELOPERS BEAT POLICE
LANCASTER. P».. April SO.
Cupid scored g 90-minute victory
over the combined opposition of the
mother of the bride-to-be and the
police department. Melvin Lutz and
Elizabeth Harro. of this city, with
two companions, stepped into an
automobile and sped off toward Elk
ton. Mias Harro’s mother asked
police to interfere. When police
telephoned the marriage license
bureau at Elkton to ask no license
be Issued to the couple they were
informed the elopers had been there
an hour before.
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roadsters—■ bay one to salt you in to
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