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TWELVE MEDFOHD (OP.ECOK) MAIL THIBtJJE Thursday. June . 1957 Ku KIux Klan Re-Emerges in Desegregation Era as Piecemeal Body With Power Lacking Hi!., r'. N.n: the h .1 Klin K la r'-.r.r I'vmni as a poucrfi'l fr.rr of rri.ijfi-in in the ouih" lh I m'rj l'r-.s m.iflr a urv of ( in t" 'niichfHit ih StniJh phi intrinn w.:h Klan l-adrt fur lint ditpatrh. By JAMES RUSSELL United Pitt Correspondent Atlanta T're Ku Mux K!an. which has ra..fd i"s hood ed hrnd periodically in the South since the days of Civil Wa reconstnir.-Uon, h;is re-emer-r-d Ui the dscsreiiatirin as a jjiei.-cii.eal body of feud ing v. izarris arid klcagles. T!"i power it once enjoyed has Innz ani.-hed. The caliber of its Ie;.dr-.h;p has greatly diminish ed. Only in isolated pockets does tr 13.")7 version of the hooded order hold any real strength. for the express purpose of de flating the klan do so at every t-irn. Eight southern states have laws that prohibit the wearing of masks on public property ex rept during celebrations such as Haioween. Some states forbid cross burnings on public prop erty. Klan Bounces Back Louisiana routed the klan years azo with a law requiring public filing of membership lists 'out it bounced back in limited form last year. Georgia revoked the klan charter 10 years ago for engaging iii unlawful activi ties but a new klan. professing to be law-abiding, is now chart ered in the state. Klansmen still wiar white rtat and local lawi enacted robes, hoods and sometimes masfis. just as they did after the Civil War when a terrorist cam paign was directed by Confeder ate Gen. Nathan Bedford For rest against the carpetbaggers. But the sheeted night riders of the 19th ceiitury have given way to ceremonious marchers who mass at pre-arranged meet ing places on private property and often invite people to come see the show. Only Small Groups There is no cohesive south wide or nationwide klan organi zation today. Terrorism on a widespread basis dissolved with the conviction in 1352 ajid 1953 of more than 100 klansmen on charges arising from floggings and kidnapings in the Carolina i border country. An occasional case of brulali I ty in the South is blamed on the j KKK, but the public views the I order more with curiosity and j amusement than with fear and , apprehension. I Leaders of the modern klan I direct their acid remarks as j much at one another as they i do at integrationists. Commu nists and religious minorities. To join the klan you must j ki addition to taking a number of oaths pay a membership fee of S5 to S10. depending on i which group you pick. There iare possibly a dozen ''klans" in i the South. Bill Hendrix of Florida and E I L. Edward of Georgia are pos Isibly the best known klansmen. Neither recognizes the other as a genuine leader and Hendrix, who successively has been a grand dragon, imperial emperor and imperial officer in one or more klans, called Edwards a Johnny-come-lately. Freedom and Liberty "Today, the klan is lighting for individual freedom and lib- i erty, Hendrix maintains. "If any Catholic can take our oath we will take hirn into the klan." A few years ago Hendrix. a carpenter and construction worker, invited Negroes into his klan provided they were strict segregationists, b-ut apparently rone evei joined. He resigned from the order after a 1951 fed eral conviction for sending de famatory material through the mail but the Supreme Court ban on segregated schools brought him back. The group headed by Edwards, an Atlanta auto paint sprayer, claims nationwide representation and restricts its membership to "Protestant Christian Aryans." It staged the biggest KKK rally of recent years at Stone Moun tain near Atlanta last year. The keystone of klan strength is in the South's most cosmopoli tan state Florida. In the north ern and central "cracker" coun ties, klan rallies are held fre-1 estimates, however, indicated to quently by members of three ! fal combined membership docs separate organizations. The best 'not number more than 5.000. r, it 1 i i is 11 HfADING FOR HOME PORT The Matson Lines' newest passenger ship, the SS Matsonia, flies dress flags as sh .queezes through the lower level of Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama CanaL She's on her way to Los Angelei and San Francisco to prepare for her maiden voyage to Hawaii June 11. Aboard the 26.000-ton liner on inaugural cruise from New York to the West Coast are 760 passengers. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS London Evening Standard critic Famsden Grieg on Soviet party hoss Khrushchev's television interview: "Nikita Sergevevitch Khrushchev is a sort of Yul Brvnner of USSR." New York Dr. Herbert Berger, chairman of the New York state Medical Society' committee on narcotics and alcohol addiction, charging before the American Medical association that athletes may have used stimulant drugs to help them run four-minute miles: "The recent rash of four-minute miles is no coincidence. hen I was a college boy the four-minute mile was as unlikely as lying to the moon." New York Don Bowden, th nation's first sub-four-minute iHler. on a charge that the recent flurry of four-minute miles was due to the use of stimulant drugs: "The coaches and athletes I know have too much integrity 0 fb UN drugs." Boston Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, on the rise &i Communism: "Due to our International policies and our strong defense Jkere is reason to believe that the rise of Communism has reached and passed its peak in spite of Mr. Soviet party boss (gikita S. Khrushchev's recent forecast." Aiheville. !. C. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, urging mhite and Negro leaders In the South to remove the causes p racial prejudice: "It may take decades V achieve equality of opportunity for your Negro cititens if we rely on law alone. And that type Cf struggle in ttirn could leave a legacy of bitterness which would poison our nation and hurt our prestige abroad." New York Evangelist Billy Graham on racial prejudice: "Man looks on the outward appearance of his fellow man, God on the Inside. We are made of one blood all the nations of us. Jesus had none of the bigotries that we have. I fear that there is bigotry even in some of our churches today." Washington President Eisenehower, on a suggestion that the time might be ripe for a realignment of the major political parties: ' I am busy. I am working hard. I haven't any time for such stuff as that." Warsaw Polish Communist Party bi Wladyslaw Ge mulka.. criticizing the United States for delays in granting aid to Poland: "Even though the credit is rather modest with regard to our needs, it can. to a certain degree, alleviate our present economic difficulties." San Francisco Alan C Mcintosh, president of western newspaper representatives, on weekly newspapers: "The weekly newspaper is the last frontier of personal journalism here in the United States." 4 'A 1 is ut.--. . ..i ks-Mtt'OiC a, -X t PRINKING (ti"pt; of i..i::n;.- ort of f1,,- , , DIMINISHING RETURNS Tallahassee, Fla. Tl The i Florida Railroad and Public Util ities Commission has agreed to let the Georgia Southern & Flor ida Railroad stop passenger serv i ice on two trains between Palat- ka. Fla . and Valdosta. Ga. 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