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Ku KluxKlan Losing Hold on j
Fears of Negroes; Dissension
From Within Group! Growing
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By Bern Price
ATLANTA, April 18 The attitude of many southerners.
white and negro, toward the Ku Klux Klan has changed. j
The Klan isn't what it used to be.
At Gainesville, Ga., 50 miles north of here, la negro woman eyed
Ku Klux Klan parade from her porch rocking: chair. j
A dozen hooded heads turned as she sang out, "Send us yo' sheets.
white folks, well wash 'urn.
The
negroes lining the road grinned
broadly as the parade moved on,
flock of giggling negro children
fell -in behind, drumming loudly
on. tin pans.
Last February at West Colum
bia., S. C, Dr. Samuel Green,
grand dragon of the association of
Georgia Klans, told
Klansmen and curious that unless
"white supremacy" was maintain
ed, "the day will come when a
black buck negro may ask for your
daughter's hand in marriage."
A voice on the outskirts drawl
ed, "Well, she can always say no
can't she?"
On Prowl for Klaa
At Mumford, Ala., February 20,
a 12-year-old boy kicked over a
burning cross and doused it in a
water hole. Later that night men
armed with shotguns were report
ed on the prowl for K landmen.
The Mumford incident prompt
ed Alabama's Gov. James E. Fol
som to order the arrest of anyone
operating a car with a concea'ed
license plate, a favorite Klan de
vice. Said Folsom, "Mobs, hooded or
unhooded, are net going to rule
Alabama "
Irate, city councils in a half doz
en cities have passed anti-mask
ordinances on the heels of Klan
parades -r- Wrightsville, Colum
bus and Macon, Ga., Chattanooga,
Tenn., Tallahassee and Miami, Fla.
Atlanta's Junior Chamber of
Commerce is pressing for a simi
lar ban.
A Klan parade at Denmark, S.
C, brought quick reaction from
Gov. Strom Thurmond who told
state police to get busy enforcing
"intimidation" by
laws against
masked men.f 1
To Obey Laws i
Green promised Thurmond be
would "banish"; any Klansman
guilty of violating laws. j
Nobody, however, lambasted the
Klan more than Gov. Fuller Wai--
crowd of ren of Ftorida- He called them
nooaea nooatums ana sneeieu
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jerks" after a parade through Tal
lahassee. ' i
Within the i pattern of chang,
however, thej-e were still hang
overs from the days of direct vio
lence and intimidation. j
At Trenton; Ga.. Sheriff J. M.
Lynch reported robed men taak
seven negro prisoners from him.
carried them o Hooker, Ga.. and
there logged j tbe lot. The sher
iff said he had arrested the ne
groes after receiving complaints
of "wild parties."
Latest of the violence outbreaks
was reported April 6 in Chatta
nooga, just over the Tennessee line
from Trenton j; A; 38 - year - old
railway worker said five unmask
ed white men invaded his house
and beat him severely.
The grand dragon says the Klan
is "building upjfast." but it is pub-?
lie knowledge that the Klan is
bothered by internal dissensions.
Last year two large klaverns af
Manchester and Columbus. Ga.,
broke away to form "The Original
Southern Klan$. Inc."
The Anti - Defamation league
of B'nai B'rith mvs the Klan is
largely impotent outside of Geor
gia. Within Georgia the Klan is"
known to be having trouble keep
ing its private busines private.
Amitv High Band
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Presents Concert
AMITY Amity high school
band presented; its spring concert !
Wednesday in the gymnasium.
Numbers were presented by the
girls chorus. soUo; by Irene Shan
dv, instrumental trio comprising
Bob Watts. Mild Canfield and Bob
Clark: guest flutist. Byron Hoyte
of Portland. The; band played in
its new blue and white uniforms.
Citation awards were presented
by Joe M. Bar?, director, to De
lores Bell, Rebecca Wood, Betty
Koeever. Robert Watts, Dean Jo
nes, Norman Newman and Keith
Schuchterdt.
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CHICAGO, April 16-;p-A re
newed r'n-up May wheat ran into
resistance on the board of trade
today, the contract finally ending
with a small fractional gain after
having spurted nearly 2 cents in
early dealings. New crop wheat
futures ended lower.
While wheat dominated the ac
tion in the short session, a fairly
good trade developed also in soy
beans. Gains 'extending to nearly
3 cents were recorded at one time.
Before the close soybeans also re
treated, although they. managed to
hold a good part of the early ad
vance. Wheat closed lower to high
er,, oats were -S8 lower, rye was
unchanged to higher, soybeans
were a4-l4 higher, and lard was
unchanged to 5 cents a hundred
pounds higher.
The Alexandria. Virginia, Ga
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be the nation's oldest daily newspaper.
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Gates Sailor Reported
Sick in California
GATES Mrf and Mrs. Burrel
Cole received word from their son,
Seaman Apprentice Thurlo Cole,
that he has spent the past three
weeks in sick bay at Alameda,
Calif., but is recovering now.
Guests last week of the Norman
Garrisons were 5 Mr. and Mrs. H.
Siltola and daughter of Salem and
Mrs. Herman Zeller and family of
' Scio. They motored to Detroit.
Brooks School
Schedule Set;
Posters Readv
BROOKS Health posters are
under preparation in grades four
to eight, with selections to be
made at achievement day, April 21
at 2 p.m. at the Brooks, schoolhouse
for exhibits at the Silverton spring
fair.
New pupils at the local school
are Eddie Anderson, Patsy and
Floyd Jackson.
Mrs. Alta Simmons, third and
fourth grade teacher at Brooks, is
nominee for president of the P.E.P.
Teacher's club.
In the doubleheader baseball
game between Brooks and Hazel
Green, Brooks boys lost by a score
of 13 to 4. The Brooks girls won
42 to 3.
The school calender for the re
mainder of the year include 4-H
achievement day, April 21. 4-H
spring show, April 29 at Silverton:
graduation. May 25 at 8 p.m. at
schoolhouse; picnic, May 27 at
Brooks; closing day, May 31.
Students of the graduating class
are Paul Edmonds. Eugene Arm
strong, Troy Archer, Larry Dick
man, Paul Johnson, Clair Sim
mons, Maysile Wellman, Dovie Lee
Legg, Vanan Holmes, Roberta
Lowery, Wayne Osborn, Vernon
Hillyer, Alden Dodd, Raymond
Morrow.
The entire staff of teachers at
Brooks has been retained for next
year: Mrs. India Reavis, Salem, in
primary grades; Mrs. Alta Sim
mons, Brooks, third and fourth
grades; Mrs. Loretta Martin, Sa
lem, fifth and sixth gi fades; Mrs.
Esther Franz, Salem, seventh and
eighth grades.
Paul France, a resident of the
Brooks district, has been employ
ed to drive the school bus and do
janitor work.
Search for Bodies
Enters Tenth Day
INDEPENDENCE. April 16
(Special) Search for the bodies
of two men believed drowned jn
the Willamette river here went in
to its tenth day Saturday.
I The men were Robert C. Woods,
j co-owner of the Valley Concrete
i company, and W. A. King, Macco
corporation s superinte n d e n t of
construction for the new Willam
ette river bridge here. They were
thrown into the river April 6 when
their small boat capsized. A third
man swam to shore.
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