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THE MORXTXG OKEGOSTAX, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1922 WIZARD PHP TEIVI. ACCUSED OF FRAUD Use of Mails Is Charged by Grand Jury. BONDING IS INVOLVED Sums in Excess of Company's Rates Beclared Collected and Excess "Used for. Self. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 5. E. T. Clarke, imperial wizard pro tern, of the Knight3 of the Ku KIux Klan, was indicted by the Unitea iate& erand jury here today on charges of "using the mails to effect schemes to defraud." He was released bond of $500. The charges against Tr. Clarke. who yesterday announced his resig nation as pro tempore head of the klan to take effect November 10, were based, according to the true bill rendered by the grand jury, on alleged use of the mails in collect ing money from certain members, subordinate officers and employes of the Ku Klux Klan on the pre tense that such moneys would be used to pay premiums to surety companies lurnishing bonds for these klansmen. ExceMM Sums Held Collected. " The indictment alleged that the sums collected were in excess of the amount required to pay such premi ums, and that this excess was con verted to the personal ubo and bene fit of Mr. Clarke. According to allegations in the memorandum accompanying" th-j charges, Mr. Clarke used the mails to collect money on the following plan: Grand goblins were required to be bonded in the amount of $5000, for which a fee of $25 was required to pay premium to bonding company, king kleagles were required to fur nish bonds of $2500, for which a fee of $12.50 was required for premiums, and kleagles were required to .fur nish $1000, for which a fee of $5 was required for premium. It was charged the National Sure ty company of New York was desig nated on the literature sent through the mail by Mr. Clarke as the bond ing company and it was further charged that the premium rates of . this company for $5000. the amount of a grand goblin's bond, was only and that the difference in this amount and the fee collected of the grand goblin were converted to the personal benefit of Mr. Clarke, and that proportionately smaller differ ences on the lower bonds were han dled in a like manner. Alligations Declared False. Memoranda included in the Indict ment charged that Mr. Clarke mailed a letter on June ' 9, 1921, to George 13. Kimbro Jr., Houston, Texas, ex plaining the terms of the bonding process, giving fee rates and setting forth rules of the klan regarding bonds for employes. Another mem orandum was alleged to be a copy of a letter which Mr. Clarke mailed to Kimbro on February 6. 1;22, in which he acknowledged receipt of check for bund premiums of three kleag les. In a statement tonight coneernirig the indictment, Mr.. Ciai ke termed It "another effort on ti1 part of th. enemies of the klan to hurt the klan I by discrediting- me. "The ones who brought the charge before the -grand jury are all discharged employes," he said. "The indictment will not amount to anything, as. it is predicated on false allegations. The money charged in the indictment to have been received by me was all properly transmitted to the imperial palace, and is so on record at the palace." SENTENCE CUT 10 YEARS Keith Collins, Convicted in Huge Mail Robbery, Free in Tear. KANSAS CITY, Mo. The sentence of Keith L.. Collins, alleged "brains" of a bandit gang which on October 13, 1920, looted a Burlington mail train of $2,500,000 in cash and Lib erty bonds at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was reduced from 15 to five years by Judge John C. Pollock of the Kansas City. Kan., federal court.. Collins was convicted of partici pation in the robbery in federal court at Dcs Moines, Iowa in De cember, 1920, and sentenced to 15 years on eacn ol six counia, me sentences to run concurrently. JCol- lins was sent to the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. The reduction of sentence was made on application of T. W. Bell, a negro attorney of Leavenworth, Kan. Th erounds for the reduction were that the maximum penalty for the crime for which Collins was qonvicted was five years' imprison ment. Bell said that Collins had served 23 months of his sentence and wifh the reduction and time off for good behavior that Collins would be free in another year. TAKE IT FROM ME' DELIGHTFUL SHOW Music Is Distinctive Brilliant, Too. and AUDIENCE LARGE ONE Play Has dumber of Entertaining Situations and Principals Fit Nicely in Roles. LIQUOR WELL GUARDED Crowd of Thirsty Siglit-Seers in Brooklyn Disappointed. NEW YORK. The people who hang around the Wall street zone for the occasional thrill of seeing a truck load of gold hauled from one bank to another took a journey to Brooklyn to see what $1,600,000 worth of red liquor looks like but they were disappointed. Two trucks of the closely guarded- caravan that was to transport seized liquor from the Brooklyn army base to a Manhattan ware house so the "dry" navy would have room for the contents of the nest rum runners seized had just been loaded when a sudden order from Ralph A. Day, prohibition di rector for New York state, can celled the transfer. Whether fear of rum bandits caused the cancellation or the per sons from whom it was seized ob jected to its removal to the juris diction of another federal court could not be learned. NEEDLE FOUND IN BABY Steel Swallowed by Mother Dis covered in Infant's Shoulder, STOCKTON, Cal., Oct. 5. Three years ago Ethel Frick swallowed a needle two inches long. Two months later she married. Today her baby Charlotte, 22 months old, continued to cry, appar ently without cause. The infant's t hand went repeatedly to a spot on the left shoulder. The mother . In vestigated and found under the sur face of little Charlotte's skin some foreign matter She probed and found the needle. The head had dis appeared. The blunt end of the broken needle finally protruded and the mother withdrew it. BY LEONE CASS BAER. You can "take it from me" and from a capacity audience present last night at the opening of the Heilig season that "Take It From Me" is a delightful entertainment. The music is distinctive, even bril liant; and of that quality we all like to whistle or hum on the way out. It is recommended to anyone who wants an evening.of genuine amuse ment. The play is not without a number of entertaining situations, and the principals are all fitted nicely to their roles. One or two linger in the memory, and they will be remembered when they come again. As for the music, it is lilt ing, and sometimes its! melodies are youthfully sentimental and are in troduced gracefully. The title, "Take It From Me," is lost forever about half way along in the developments, when the hero says, "You can take it from me," and it really has nothing to do with the loosely jointed story. The story itself is a musical com edy "Get fUch Quick Wallingford." with a hero, suddenly made the head of a billion dollar firm, trying to become a bankrupt in one year, while his nice little secretary double crosses him and saves all the money he thinks he is Squandering. Hero Seta Reckless Pace. Just as Wallingford did, this hero sets a pace of reckless expenditure. He lets a movie 1 vampire wreck the chinaware department in his store and the picture boomerangs and is a mint of money. He lets a klepto maniac steal several thousand dol lars' worth of plunder each .day and rejoices to see his capital fading, when in comes the kleptomaniac's rich papa with a check to . cover daughter's thefts. The hero sends a leaky boat to bring a valuable cargo of goods home and when he is rejoicing to hear that the boat has sunk along comes the secretary to say she had contermanded the order and had the goods sent on another boat. . The hero nas a rea son for wanting to get rid of all the money. He spends it to keep it from being inherited by the villain. The virtue of relevancy is apparent, and though the narrative is neces sarily held up in order to put in dances or songs the story meanders along and affords amusement. Play Staged With Tste. The play has been staged with a nice and discriminating taste. Novel and dainty dances and unique en semble effects delight. One pair of dancers especially linger in mem ory. These are Marjorie Fielding and Robert Hart, clean-cut. agile and wonderfully graceful dancers. Their exquisite dancing almost stopped the procedure of the enter tainment. Miss Fielding's fragile loveliness, her distinction in ballet technique, her unique and pic turesque posings and balancings with Mr. Hart, who is himself a splendid athletic dancer, made an enchanting vision. They appeared in three specialties, an Adagio and a modern treatment of a ma rine dance and an oriental episode. Alice Hills, an eccentric corned! ertfhe of quality, brings her splendid sense of farce to the role of Ella Abbott, a prim old secretary in the firm, who thaws out under the sun shine of her new surroundings when the hero becomes her employer. Ellen's transition from a drab HDeetaoIed nervous old girl' Into a butterfly vamp in earrings and French heels was one of the joys of the production. She regaled us with one song we enjoyed hugely. about the one romance of her lite. It had happened "years and years ago," but she loved to talk about it. Miss Hills is richly endowed with the spirit of comedy and seemed to enjoy as much as we did her Jva- I tisha-like role. Comedy In Helped Along. To help along the comedy there was Chic Burnham as an old mes sensrer boy on roller skates, whose antics provided wide swaths of fun. There was also Joseph Wilton, an attenuated comedian, whose eccen tric dancing was a revelation. His romance with an olive-skinned charmer, a movie queen, played cleverly by arjorie Sweet, pro vided abundant fun. The outstanding melody is "The Call of the Cozy Little Home," well sung by Myra Treska, who has a sweet, flutelike voice. Miss Sweet's voice is big and melodious and of dramatic quality, and her pantomime dance was vibrant and compelling. The quality of the acting through out was fresh and humorous and snappy. The costumes are attractive and fresh and smart in style and coloring, and a big chorus dances a million miles of intricate steps. The engagement ends on Saturday night. The cast: Vernon Varf Dyke Robert Capron Barney Charles Welsh Homer Dick Boiler Joseph M. Wilton Arline Marjorie Fielding Gwendolyn Poraythe Jane Hazelton Tom Eggert Beach Cooke Sheriff "Biff" Doyle Bud Lorraine Horace Turner Prank Gardinar Ella Abbott Alice Hills Wilkins Chic Burnham Cyrus Crabb Henry W. Pemberton Grace Gordon Myra Treska Queenie La Belle Marjorie Sweet Mists DeWitt Butler Kathleen Butler Harmon Earl Welding Judson Charles Heffron NEXT SMOKER THUBSDAY VOUXG BROAVX MAY BE USED AT MEAD OF BILL. Likely Opponent Is Rough House Charier Burns, Rugged, Ag gressive Canadian Mauler. , The next Portland boxing commis sion card probably will be held Thursday night, October 12. Match maker Hansen has not closed for the main event on the next show but he expects to use Young- Brown, whose two sensational ten-round mills here with Joe Gorman are among the brightest spots in local ring history. Hansen can land Brown but will not put on the bout unless he can find an opponent who is figured to give the fans a real run for their money. To date Fred Winsor, who' is getting ready to flood the local ring market with a stable of high class fighters, is the only manager to come forward with a classy op ponent for Brown. Winsor says "Bough-Ho jse" Char ley Burns of Vancouver, B. C, is a cinch to give Brown a tough struggle Burns is a rugged, aggressive. "rough -hot-e"" mauler whose motto is "treat .em rough. Hence, his monicker of "Rough-House." Ten sor also is angling to put Tom King, Australian' middleweight champion, on the same card. . King and Eddie Richards, who by his showing in re cent bouts is entitled to a top posi tion on the card in a double windup with Burns and Brown, would be a real fighting programme. Charley Jost, manager of Bobby Harper, has decided to let his boxer rest for a short time. Joe says Harper wrenched the muscles in his left shoulder recently. This injury has tied up his arm and slowed him considerably. The shoulder was in jured two or three weeks ago and he had to call off a date in Seattle on account of it. Everything looked all right for the bout with Adair, but the injury Bid not mend as quickly as expected and he was handicapped by it against Adair, though good enough to whip that youth handily. Jean inheritance of open-hearted h?epitality and its provincialim. Th west has inherited some of the finest virtues of our country, and if it is not bitten by Back Bay, Phila delphia, Virginia or Charleston, it will grow up into Htr mother's finest child. "No church west of Chicago, no God west of Denver." we used to hear when I was a child. But today the churche are part of the com munity and even men go. People in the west do not seem to go to church merely out of respect for the devil and a conscience complex, but be cause they like to. Churches and schools are important places in the west. VALLEY OF GOLD SEEN Precipice 800 Keet High Bars Adventurous Prospector. REDDING, Cal. A verdant valley of approximately 640 acres has been discovered high up in the Salmon river mountains in Siskiyou county near the Trinity county fcorder. It is almost certain no human feet have trod tne meadow tract. Several attempts have been made to reach the valley in the last few weeks, but all have failed. The mountain valley is walled in by Sagged granite rocks of such precip itous dimensions that no one can scale them with ordinary appli ances. A tiny creek meanders through the valley and finds its exit in a waterfall 00 feet hieh over a precipice as straight ip and down as a stone wall. A Trinity county miner found gold all along the creek, clear up to the precipice that barred his way. This miner, Gordon Abrams. climbed a peak and looked over into the val ley through a spyglass. He saw a gray peak cutting across it. He be lieves this is a quarts ledge., pos sibly the mother lode of the gold he found in the placer diggings below. Abrams is almost certain, he says, mortal man has never entered the valley and that no one is likely to enter it soon. Head The Oreconlan classified ads. BRAINS COUNT IN WEST Author Pays Glowing Tribute to Open-Hearted Hospitality. Irving Bachellor in Delineator. I.took a trip across the continent J stopping on in inaiana to see my oia friends. It was like a bath for my soul. Brains count out west. Any body who tries to show off is snubbed. 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