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Show South Carolina Hunts KKK in Flogging Of Man Who Gave No Christmas Presents COLUMBIA, S. C. Jan. 15 (UP) J. Henry Jeanne, head of tha atate constabulary, today an- Ing to end a series of forsys of night riders that had been aimed at negroes until Pruitt was taken. He seized klan records from Johnson snd permitted U. S. District Dis-trict Attorney Oscar Doyle of Anderson to copy them. Doyle said that so far he had found no evidence of violation of federal law. "Thla sort of thing Is th worst possible kind of advertising for South Carolina," Governor May-bank May-bank said. "We hsvc got to stop It." nounced warrants had been Issued Is-sued against 13 or 14 members of the Ku Klux Klan on a charge of horsewhipping an automobile mechanic In th belief that he had failed to give Christmas presents pres-ents to his wife and child. Jeane had caused the arrest of seven men. Including Fred V. Johnson, chief of staff of th South Carolina klan. In connection connec-tion with the flogging of Lanier Pruitt of Anderson, who was dragged from his bed In Ander-soon Ander-soon soon after Christmas. Twenty men In full klan regalia "took care" of Pruitt. Jeanne, acting on th orders of Governor Burnet R. Maybank and In cooperation with federal and atate authorities, waa aeek- |