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...Robert Shelton, the sallow-faced Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, seemed to have lost his tongue last October when the House Un-American Activities Committee began holding hearings on the Ku Klux Klan. In the two days that he slouched in the witness chair, he "respectably declined" to answer any questions of substance, taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and 14th Amendments 158 times. Most insistent were his refusals to produce Klan financial records, despite Chairman Edwin Willis' warning that his intransigence could bring him a citation for contempt of Congress...
Last week it did. Louisiana Democrat Willis started contempt proceedings against not only Shelton but six other United Klan nabobs (including four Grand Dragons, an Imperial Klass and an Imperial Kludd) who had been equally uncooperative. If the citations are approved by the full committee and the House, the Klansmen will be subject to prosecution and sentences of up to a year in jail and $1,000 in fines each. That prospect, at least, unclammed Shelton. He was not in contempt of either Congress or the committee, he snorted, but only of the "martini-bibbing, character-assassinating and truth-twisting...
Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, 36, probably challenged the Communist record before the same committee by taking the First, Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments a total of 158 times in two days, invoking the mumbled formula: "I respectably decline to answer that question...
...sallow malaprop from Tuscaloosa apparently infected Republican Committee Member John Buchanan, a fellow Alabamian, who in one felicitous tongue-trip referred to Shelton as the "inferior lizard." During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated...
Klandestine Kash. Committee Investigator Donald Appell's questioning of Shelton disclosed that the Klan's monthly "Imperial Tax" of 50? per member went into the account of a dummy organization called the Alabama Rescue Service, whose only ostensible mission was to provide Klandestine Kash for Shelton's 1965 Cadillac, diamond rings and grocery bills. Furthermore, Shelton's tax returns showed only about $18,000 of the $32,000 received in 1964 Klan taxes as Klan corporate income. Cried Ohio Republican John Ashbrook: "It's just a question of who gets him first-the Internal Revenue...