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Last month in Atlanta, Ga., birthplace of the (second) Ku Klux Klan and Order of the Supreme Kingdom, there came into being an "American Facist [sic] Association and Order of Black Shirts." Its organizers were Holt J. Gewinner and Joseph Wood, onetime Klan candidate for governor. In petitioning the Fulton County Superior Court for a charter (not yet granted) the association claimed its purposes were "white supremacy," "charity," "patriotism" and assistance to members in finding jobs. Dues: $1. The Black Shirts prepared to run Negroes out of jobs, replace them with unemployed "Facist" members. Atlanta stores advertised black shirts...
Montana. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, opportunistically appeared as a campaigner against Senator Thomas James Walsh, Dry Roman Catholic, Democratic nominee for reelection. Wizard Evans was inferentially supporting Wet Catholic Albert John Galen, Republican Senatorial nominee. His explanation: Senator Walsh is much abler and more experienced than Nominee Galen, more capable politically...
...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, suffered bruises, cuts, a sprained wrist, when the motor in which he, his son and some Ku Klux friends were riding smacked into a telephone pole near Decatur...
...Issue. Just as U. S. Republicans and Democrats stand broadly for much the same things, so do Canadian Conservatives and Liberals. There is a little ''religious issue" up in Saskatchewan (the Catholics claiming that Protestant Bennett is abetting the Canadian Ku Klux Klan) but this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed...