Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-08-22 | Page 4 | Black Legion Roundup is Set

BLACK LEGION ROUNDUP IS SET J DETROIT Auf Aug 22 INS INS Scores of cf t persons faced possible a arrest est in Michigan 1 hIgan toddy today as authorities staged t a big bg roundup of ot Black Legionnaires LegIonnaIre Le Le- Le- Le on a court premise that membership in the riding clan constituted a crime in l itself elt The premise was established jes cs when Judge James E E. Chenot Che- Che not sitting as a one-man one grand Jury returned indictments on criminal criminal crim crim- inal syndicalism charges against 22 alleged d cultists including Virgil of at Lima Ohio Judge Chenot said many others would be foe indicted Monday While state authorities sought the extradition on of Effinger from Ohio local police rounded up 13 of the p 22 persons 22 named in the indictments yesterday Those taken into custody custody cus cus- tody included two Highland Park poli policemen two Highland Park men a common picas pleas court clerk and a Po former chief turnkey at the county jail Legionnaires Flee All of the indictments were based baseden en on Michigan's criminal syndicalism Jaw law which carries a penalty of ot 10 years in n jail jal or a 8 fine or or both As M authorities fashioned the law into an antl Black Legion weeDon weapon weapon wea wee pon Don known Black Legionnaires were reported to have lave gone into biding hiding or tied fled the state Authorities it was recalled had learned tho names of scores of Black Legionnaires in the flung far-flung I 1 probes robe into the organization whose whole existence was first revealed last Ma May 12 with the ride night-ride slaying of af Charles A. A Poole a V P A worker Accompanying the tho indictments yesterday was an amazing affidavit from tram Dayt Dayton n Dean squat executioner honor for tor the tho hooded cult accusing Effinger Ettinger of being a major general in n charge of Michigan Ohio Indiana Indiana Indiana In In- diana Illinois Pennsylvania and territory west of ot the P Pacific Violence Preached Dean n also claimed Effinger Ettinger preached violence at Black Legion meetings urging members members' to use blacksnake backs whips to flog guns to hoot shoot and ropes to hang He charged the Black Legion was formed on a military basis with officers of the same ame ranking as in tho U. U S. S army army and said it planned e S general uprising by seizing seizing- arsenals arsenals ar ar- ar- ar and government buildings on September 16 1936 The uprising to take over the government was call word to start at a a. special Dean asserted He Ho also revealed for tor the first time existence of at an inner circle known as the night riders which directed tho the Black Legion It was composed of about members he ho said Under the states state's criminal syndicalism syndicalism sn syn syn- law it is a crime to plot overthrow of at existing government b by force Uniquely it t was first enacted en en- acted to but authorities have turned it against Black Legionnaires who swore a blood oath to stamp out communism com corn