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...good ladies of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan are saving Green Stamps for an airplane for their noble, semiliterate leader [Nov. 12]. That is sickening, particularly to us in Taos, because we collect trading stamps too-for Christmas toys for children of poverty-stricken families. Our stamps are collected by people of three groups (Spanish-American, Indian, Anglo) for children of three groups in an area where these people have lived together cooperatively for years...
...during eight succeeding years he made the World in his own image: argumentative, boisterous and usually entertaining. He gathered a staff that eventually included Walter Lippmann, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, won the paper two more Pulitzer Prizes for its exposes of the Ku Klux Klan and of prison conditions in Florida...
...scheme is to collect enough S. & H. Green Stamps to make a hefty down payment on a private plane for Jones. Heading the stamp drive is Jones's wife, Syble, high priestess of the Klan's women's auxiliary in nearby Salisbury. At Klan klatsches, Syble reminds the white-robed sisters that hub by and his Klan kohorts could do much more for the cause if they had wings-and then asks the ladies to hand over their stamp books...
...turned out to be just the kind of dramatic local story that the Times's Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthal likes. It was a fresh and surprising New York sidebar to Ku Klux Klan investigations in Washington and Klan murders in the South. Phillips revealed that a top Klan Kleagle, Daniel Burros, 28, a violent anti-Semite, had been brought up as an Orthodox...
...West Point, joined the Army, was sent to paratroop school, rose to the rank of specialist third class and served a stint under General Edwin A. Walker, a "man of destiny." Later he joined one extremist group after another: the American Nazi Party, the National Renaissance Party and the Klan. He was arrested in Washington for defacing a Jewish building, and he served two years in jail in New York for inciting to riot. And all the time he never let his fellow Klansmen know that he was a Jew. Said Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan...