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Show MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, ARTISTS Friday, Jun, ITIAn NEW KLAN TERRORIZES MIDWEST unable to visit Max fight camp missed a rara opportunity for entertainment and anlightanmenL Mickey Mo Avoy, one of tho Gormana hotter sparring partners, has Good Luck Forever" tattooed on hla right shoulder. Thors Is a picture of a sailor n hla left shoulder. Hie right arm Is adorned with U. $. A. Navy." On his left leg there le pictured the emlllng face of a girl whs atoms to Authorities Say Membership May Run Into Millions; Killing Out in Detroit Arouses Public Indignation; Gang on Way By bo named Anna . . . When BUI Wingate, a very good Baltimore sports writer, died a few days ago, tho mayor of tho town Issued a public . resolution of regreL The next rumor the Rwiklyn baseball club will have to deny la WILLIAM C. UTLEY ImIts secret orders which were tn Th portant phase of Its history. outWest was saved from bad" laws largely by a band of "good outlaws, the Vigilantes, who took the suppression of crime into their own hands when the law proved Inadequate. The Ku Klux Klan ha seen two periods of activity In th South and Middle West The Middle South has had Its Night Rlders or White Caps." And the coal fields of 1'ennsylvanla once quaked In fear of the Molly Maguires. The Vigilantes arose to defend organization mazy purpose In the the securing 0 jobs for its unemployed the weak and s members, and to keep employed when men of the pioneer West days In their jobs. Each member was lived by the celerity of their gun "sworn by holy and terrible oath" to hands. They saw that Justice wag do his best to secure a job for another meted out In trials where the member in the place m here he worked. would have ordinarily been One of the complainants against through fear or admiration the Black Legion claims that he was In ridiculous court proceedings, a to members forced to accompany cleaned up the West and mail formal meeting, a sternly costumed ItThey a safe place In which to live. gathering that awed hljn completeMe KICK small Bora ia Sooth. employer. ly. lie la a masked menace has been discovered lurking It is the every other rock in the Middle West or decade of masked menace which springs up every fire the and ful law of the so to strike fear into the hearts roimaginations of those who retain enough of their boyhood terrible and secret stories about organizaeat manticism to up tions which ride the night in ghastly masks and fearsome ceremonial robes. No doubt the Black Legion is already being used as a threat to scare little children into eating their spinach or practicing their musie lesson. But the i Inclined to scoff at first, has d uni of the ANEW that Frank Hague, Jersey Citys mayor, will buy the Joint and Install e Nw Trk PotWNU torrUm. Travla Jackson as manager , . . Latest suggestion for the What to Do ilh Camera club . . . Stuff him and save him for Ihe laughs . . . They are saying that Eddie Mayo, the neat fielding third sacker bought 01(J by the (Hants, cannot hit southpaws. Yet last year he went to hat 122 times left banders and bad 39 alt there. against they ALL day long most of them, they have hits for a .319 average. . . . When little site to do. Occasionally they he loses a game Fred Frankhouse titter words of wisdom concerning saves hla temper by not reading the this cream colored youth who glow- newspaper until two day later. ers at them from brightly tinted Could It be true that Jo Louie1 posters tacked against the walls. Oc- manager requested Mr. Joe to casionally they smile little secret leave camp because the Bomber wti smiles at the antlce of sweating fat spending more time in billing and men who rush in to offer kings ran- cooing than In training? Anysoms for squatters rights at Yankee how, Mr. Joa, who dotee upon fights stadium for the and who never missed a workout, decided to stay In New York (Infight More often though they Just sit stead of Lakewood) until after the In the gay there, these fighters, Suanugers and night of June 18 nineties a pltchar always warmed promoter o' another duy. Probably up with the first baceman, Instead all of them are glad that collections are so good In this pulaee of the of th catcher, before entering the Broadway duke who deals In ducats. box. But what they like best Is another collection. So all day long they sit Connie Mack Is Still there, looking at the ticket stubs, Wizard in Rookie Hunt mementoes of almost forgotten fights, neatly pasted In frames outIn spite of gray hairs and advancside the doors of Mike Jacobs office. And these a re the tales that are ing years, Connie Mack has not lost much of his skill In told : coming There Is ths scrap of faded card- picking board which entitled s Brighton young hall players. the Beach vlaitor to aee Gibbon and Nicholson, (Md.) McFarland load with agll left ao Washington ollege outfielder ballymany years ago. Prize-figh- t hoo and customs were much ths who goon will be same then a now. Papers pf that presented as a memday carried the proud tiding that ber of the Athletics, John McCormack had bought the should make good In the hlg time withfirst box of six for this one. That night the eminent Irish tenor in a year or so. He walked leisurely to his favored spot conies from Jimmy and found six thick muscled citizens Foxx's neighborhood seated there, caps pulled far down and another thing he hits almost as hard . . . James over bristling foreheads. I beg your pardon, bojs, these Graham, secretary of the Metropolare my seats, pleaded McCormack. itan Soccer league, once starred for the Norwood and Roslyn F. C. In The boys snarled. Uahera were sum moned. The boys continued to snarl. S otland. He helped organize the Greenock West of Scotland F. C. Ever a diplomat, the singer saved and is the prond holder of a Glasths day. He took hla friends back medal. to where there were some vacant gow Juvenile Cup trainers Sharp already are beatseats 20 rowa from ths ring. ing tha new rule requiring the Jockeys names to be releaied with Recalling Bat Nelson overnight entrie at metropolitan Go at Dempsev-Willar- d tracks. They wait until the 3:30 deadline before giving a name. There are dozens of stubs which Then, Juat a likely at net, thy bring back memories of that great change the rider before race time little fighting man, Terry McGovern. th next day . . . There alao It tiffing going on because A larger piece of th celebrated bookies who crashed pasteboard bears th name ef Wil- the clubhouses this year are said lard and Dempsey. to be opposed to giving the same Seldom will there prices that are quoted In th main ring . . . Buddy Hassett, newest of bo such sweltering heat as ther was Dodger heroes, has found a way to on that afternoon beat the autograph hunters who lie after Battling Nel In wait outside Ebbets field. He son took hit bath. borrows a pair of glasses from a reporter to that- - he can escape In On th night previeach afternoon. disguise ous to the Toledo Archie Wulker, former lightweight massacr Bat had contender, now works In the Curb been scurrying htth house . . . Alr and thither on KxcliHiige errands of hla own. Now aa he though It hus been years since he wandered near the arena In the won a bet, Jimmy Kelly, the celeSulllv'Mn Streeter, still manearly morning he felt In need of brated that other refreshment which cornea ages to breakfast on scrambled eggs from a cooling tub. He looked, saw and champagne . , , Ilaiuhla Bauer, a barrel brimful of sparkling liquid the lady trainer from the West, who was merely given a badge by the and climbed In. New York Jockey club, can ride her Cold drinks sold at such a preml own horses better than most Jockeys. uin that afternoon that vendors neglected shat otherwise might have Celebrated Gee Gee9 been a swell business opportunity. bono to effort They made charge Wind Up in the Army nuses for sips from the tub of lent onade In which the onee great lightSome of our most celebrated gee weight champion had bathed. wind up In the army . , . Sir gee Carefully pasted In the frame Barton and Bthave Yourself (both la another bit ef cardboard there Vander with $500 engraved upon It Ln tall Kentucky Derby winners), Pool, Audacious, Chilhowee, Single numerals. This I on of the du Foot, Kentucky Cardinal and CapL Carpentler-Levlnakfrom cat the ( Alcock are In tha Remount service. ecrap at Jersey Incidentally, there are 700 stallions City on Tuesday, October 12, 1920. in the American Remount associaMembers of the International Sporttion . . . William Graham, who stars ing club, which staged the affair, for the Bay Ridge Hearts, Is th were taxed this tidy sum for the ton of the soccer scribe bf the same a of seat. pretty privilege ringside name. .Outsiders also were called upon for Turfmen hope for one good break fancy price but even though the out of Ihe news that Governor Lehbig shots tosaed In their C notes at man refuses to he They If they were dealing In cigarette hlnt'that a new governor may mean coupons, the show was not a great a new state racing commission or financial success. About all It did commission may be scrapped waa to pave the way for th winner, that the as was done year ago when Marry Gorgeous Georges, to meet Dempsey. F. Sinclair was chairman. When theymet a year later the THINGS I NEVER EXPECT TO face price of each ringside pasteSEE: board waa $50 but first row ducats A Nsw York State racing comwere being peddled as high as $500. For hours during that eventful af. missioner remembering (and provternoon while millionaires and out ing) that ha really Is aa much a of right phonies fought for prized lo- servant as th mugga who exist in of the millionaire who cation, on seat remained vacant walkups In Westchester. reside within distance of jalmost touching A Broadway columnist getting an th ring. Next day Tex Rickard, who bad Item of sports newt first The New York State Athletic promoted the affair, and Mike Ja cobs, whe hand bankrolled It, were keeping within proper legal chatting concerning mathematics, fl bounds and thus giving the public nance and the curious frenzies of a break. the public. Tex absently atuck his Any commission appointed band Into a side pocket and pulled sports acting as If the ant a p'ece of p.iMct card. wishes of the people really came Gee whizz! be said. ahead of the iIitiolang. Ducats Bring Back Fond Memories of Timers Rings .... elded that It Is high time that the outlaw order be taken In deadly seriousness. Authorities, It Is reported, sre even ready to believe that the secret members of the Black Legion and Its affiliations may number g mem-her- persons. There sre today even reasonable grounds for suspicion that the organization may have roots in other sections of the country. In many localities there are movements to ' i I y t - n tirsn-pervlse . The Bridge That Wasnt There By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. give a good look at this one, boys and girls, hots I of Ea?t Orange, N. J. B n E. j, ever read this yarn he is going to tell yon, in s novel, j wouldnt believe it could happen. If your own brother told it , you, youd tell him he was just plain goofy. n Doc thought he was cracked himself h he found out what had happened. And the people he told i WELL, Strath-Gordo- f Strath-Gordo- r ; I ... i Ti story to thought he was crazy, too for a while. But here art hi facta, all checked and attested and sworn to. Too cant get anutt troth of th thing. " You canH aay It waa a dream, becauae a bridge to 1 bi$ j heavy, aolld object If Its there, its there, and If It aint, K tin You cant dream It out ef place and then back again. All of which lead! op to Docs story. The date la August, 190$ a the place 1 well somewhere on the road between Beattie, Wuh, The Ku Klux Klan first gained Duwamlsh Head on the other aide of Elliot bay. Doc was yrteOd. prominence, and was probably born. medicine In Seattle and he had received a hurry call from a pattei In the reconstruction period followDuwamlsh Head. ing the Civil war. Its methods were Patients Husband Thinks Doc Flew to Sick Room. ruthless, but were at that time probof means He started out In his car. and you know what those 190 vtet ably Justified as the only protecting 'the South against the automobiles were Ilka To make matters worse, the dirt roads d $ time were wet from a week steady rain. Parts of them were toefe army of carpetbaggers and villains who sought to control the govern But a patient had called him, and even though he was twenty . ment, at the South at that time. away. It was up to Doc to get to him If he possibly could Th night was pitch dark. Th roada were unllghted, M The theatrical costumer and the dramatic rites of the KKK were th flickering kerosene headlampa that rattled on th tides d aimed primarily at negroes who Docs horseless carriage didnt throw any light on th read 0 all. There were two ways to get to Duwamlsh Head and Dm sought political superiority to whites after gaining their freedom. It was took th ehorter. It took him an hour and half to cover that not hard for the blacks to believe twenty miles, but when he got there, his patients husband said: Klansmen were "Good gosh, but you made that trip faat How did you managi that the white-robethe ghosts of Confederate soldiers to get her eo quickly?" t returned to haunt them. To have Well, sir, Doc thought that waa funny, but be didnt say ujft, discouraged the superstition would then. Hla patient was waiting, and he waa needed In the sick roou I have been to contribute to the deworked over her for half an honr until she was out of danger, aat it feat of the Klans purpose, so the he went out to assure her husband that everything waa all right, members wisely encouraged IL Doc Hears He Crossed That Was Out mui-dere- g M frfc 1- Ml Ut0) D d At the need for the Klan began to vanish, it turned its energies toward personal grudges and exaggerated causes. At a result it finally died out for an extended period. Within the memories of most readers the Klan was revived by William Joseph Simmons and his crowd In the days following the World war. But Its purpose was not confined to political Injustices. It aimed at alleged Intolerances of religion as well as race. At Its height, this second edition of the Ku Klux Klan was said to have had more than 9,000,000 members. Its treasury was believed to have boasted, at one time, a sum of $90,000,000. c Two Detroit police officer dresaed in the regalia, and displaying the weapon of, tho Black Legion, whoso membership some estimate place at a maximum of 6,000,000. demand the truth about aecret, robed organizations which, under the guise of true Americanism, SF legedly seek to grasp political pow er i by terroristic methods, Find State Employees Members. Positive proof of the existence of such a hand seems to have been un- covered In Michigan, where 13 men, allegedly members of the Black legion, were held In the murder of year-olCharles Poole, a twenty-twYVPA worker of Detroit. Authorities there claim that In a district of 135,00(1 persons there are at least 8,000 and possibly 40,000 Black Legionnaires. Three state employees have been dismissed because of their and 12 others have membership, been suspended from state, city and county pay rolls. o d In tome IS or 16 states, investigations are now under way. probing into past, unsolied cases of mob violence, and into complaints 6v citizens that they are being terrorized. Detroits own case probably began last Angust, when a ballot box scandal reeked with charges' of terrorism by a secret tasked brotherhood; but police laughed at the Idea. toWhen Poole was killed, however, the police, in seeking some clue to the murder, discovered that he had been a member of a club which met In a little meeting ball and celebrated weird rites. Dozens of witnesses clalms that he was threatened with being flogged to death If he did not return to work two members of the Black Legion whom he had discharged. lie returned them to work forthwith Police, In their questioning, have noticed that a high percentage of employment exists among the fitnesses charged with lielng members The principal fear which was instilled into the hearls of honest citizens by the Bla k Legion was the possibility of there appearing at some lime a great leader able to organize the Legion .to transcend regional boundaries and make of the l. C. Stephenson, who had been Kleagle of the district of Indiana, abducted a young lloosier girl, mistreated her and failed to- - get her medical attention, leaving her to die when she took poison Id her shame. Ills acts had nothing to do with the Klan Itself, hut so aroused public opinion that the Klan has been little heard from since. The Molly Maguires sprang up in the Pennsyhama coal fields in the 70s, and their stamping ou established the mm1 'fl a I Bridge He sat down for a few moments rest before starting on tbs W trip, and again his patients husband brought up the subject of the $ ness with which be had arrived. "How th dickens did you come here, anyway. Doctor! to asked. "Did you fly?" "Why, I cam by the Bay 8ida road, of course, said Dob Th man looked at Doc aort ef curiously. "You couldnt kav$' he said bluntly. "Tha bridge le out" Doc thought he was joking, and tried to langb It off. But the: Insisted the bridge was being repaired that the planking wu all C The Molly Maguires Appear. The new Klan died from many causes, most of them relating to Its absence 'of weighty purpose. But the death bluw was really struck when "T7 r - tesldi 1 v. qnestloned revealed that the Black legion had existed since 1933, at least, although there were a few who Insisted that It dated from the Mayflower or from the Boston Tea Party. It Is considered possible that the organization may have been an outgrowth of the Ku Klux Klan. The officers dress In white garb somewhat similar to that of the KKK, and the ritual is said to be similar. Detroit authorities are Inclined to Fingerprinting Black Legion 8upect at Detroit believe the story of Dr. William Jacob Shepherd of Bellalre, Ohio, who order a general Fascist movement fame of the Pinkerton Detect iva difficult to measure or control beThe Mollies fought the introclaims that he was an Exalted under-covduction of cause Its of operation. foreign miners into their of the KKK. and organized a area and stopped not even at murder Black Guard which developed nnlta Precedent In History.' to achiete their cause. But in time In Ohio and Indiana and then apread Authorities are virtually certain the outfit, its need outgrown, became like wildfire. but a great extortion that member, wherever they are, nothing One of the principal figuresring. "Provided Interest ia Life,1 Id the are burning their hoods and robes breaking up of the gang, Charles A. There were many groups who at a rapid rate, and that the organwere attracted by the black robe ization will die as others before It WIngert, died only three years ago. Upon his death the New York Sun" and mystery of the new offspring. have, In the light of public discovcarried the following editorial (In Doctor Shepherd said. Arthur Lupp ery and disapprovaL part) ; of Detroit, who seems to have been The United States, lika many another "The Molly Maguires had long bethe chief recruiting officer of the country, has In ils diary many records fore abandoned the original philanBlack Legion, Insists that it never of secret fraternal orders whose memcountenanced violence of any aort bers cloak their identity. Indeed, what thropic purpose ofjis organizers Me explained Ita growth by declargroup of small boys has not formed and had become (known, early In the as a system of extortion. its secret" and fearful society, like the It ing that, (luring depression. his friends, its method of operation has and that Tom of Seuryer men been an lnierest gave thousands of signing covenants full of misspelled copied, iierhaps somewhat- - unconin, life that they would not other-- - words in blood painfully pricked from sciously, by some of the wise have bad. ' their hula fingers? 1 racketeers." Other witnesses claimed that the pri- Every section of the land has had j e WMtern Nwappr I'aioa. ' The Car Crossed Like an Acrobat on I Tight Rope. It was Impassable. He told Doc that the only available route to hh kk was the upper road, a 23 mile trip. He began to urge Doc to atay all night, and at last Doc MW k serious. Then It occurred to Doc that the man must have gone lMWt become unnerved by his wife Illness j Daylight Reveals That Bridge Wasnt There. . I decided to stay with him, partly to humor , Says Doc : wrought man, and partly because I didnt think It f to lesv to ' wife alone with one in such condition, I spent the night at his boo.1 In the morning he brought the subject up again at breakfast H Now Doc, lets both go down and look at that bridge before yo to town. " Ther wae something In that fellows manner that remlsfd Doc of a sane man humoring a tick one. It occurred to him that thla bird thought he was th crazy one. But he agreed top down and look over the bridge, which was only a mil away ft the houa. They got Into Doc's car and drove th short dlatane down th road. They got In sight of th bridge ind then "Imagine my surprise even horror," says Doc, "when I bridge In broad daylight All that be had told me was true! TH nothing left of the bridge but the gaunt string pieces twe f running from one side of the river to the other. Strath-Gordo- n Had Piloted Car Over Fingers 0! The planking the rails the superstructure all had he away. And yet 1 had come across that bridge In the darkucm i night 1 knew that I wasn't crazy. And yet, for a moment I kF think that I was losing my mind. I ' Tha string pieces were th answer. were less thm ' They -- i Toot wide, each, but widtfc they were separated by the same the wheele of my automobile. I had driven across them to k dark, like an acrobat on a tight wire. My heart cam Into throat when I thought of what might have ' happened. All the local people knew that the bridge was Impassable warning sign had been posted. I, not and having ao many times before, drove over It knowing thla, The only wtf automatically. explain the miracle Is that, having a surgeons hsnd. I drove same steadiness with which I performed operations. Had I ddt' Inch from the straight path over that I would have fall water and I might not have attendedbridge, Eev. i!lad( Pri '0 ner 1 J my patient" Cy-clo- er ! Tortoise Carries Water the animal, they would b Travel Over Dry Land obtain enough water to over a of two or ftj The-wor- d tortoise Is applied to the land turtle. Sometimes called of California for hla habit of hibernating during the rainy seaaon, ther u tlll another that m,Kht The little camel of the desert Located under the hard shell I. a membrane sack in which they store a fPrP'f f "ter earry on their far from stream and ponds. From plant life growing on the wastelands they obtain more then enough moisture for their dally as and are able to store up a supply so hl El. offering largethat If from thirst could ' period Possessing no Teeth, writer In the Los An fW their Jaws are bard and the edge, forming a means they use to food small enough to wtI large shell protects then flj a attacking enemy. They m The own their foe Ity fighting strive to overturn ponent When thla have no means to right " and are Jeft to die by Land turtle ere when night comes or dark and gloomy they "1: ' , 4"" unn?t locate la appearance to t i jv j |