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...demanded that the committee give him a public hearing. It agreed, and last week Methodist Leader Oxnam vigorously attacked the committee members face to face during six long hours of verbal combat, before hundreds of applauding fellow churchmen. The bishop said the committee methods gave rise to a "new . . . Ku-Kluxism," and flatly denied any sympathy whatsoever with Communism. He also denied belonging to a good part of a long list of front organizations about which committee members questioned...
...churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter may have little to keep running on-only his dwindling tuitions, the Armstrong money and the resentment of many of his students, who recently planted a Ku-Klux-type cross on his lawn and set it aflame...
...North Carolina's legislature passed a law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan (and also, in part, at the Communist Party), banning any secret society organized to circumvent state law. Henceforth outlawed, if used for intimidation by any fraternal, political or social order: secret meetings, wearing of masks, burning of crosses...
...weeklies won their prize for stopping an invasion. The invaders: the Ku Klux Klan, which swarmed into Columbus County from neighboring counties in 1950 and began to terrorize whites and Negroes alike. News Reporter Editor Willard Cole, 46, and Tribune Editor Horace Carter, 32, locked arms for a long, tough battle. Branding the Klan "a [bunch of] gangsters," Cole and Carter, both native Tarheels and longtime friends, fought month after month with front-page editorials, dug up proof of K.K.K. floggings and atrocities, kept guns in their homes for their own protection...
Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...