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Show Ml CAUSES . iMREST Girl's Parents Appeal to Klansmen for Aid DES MOINES. la, Aug. It. Alpha Basset t of Orlnnell. la. faced a charge of eeductlon today as tha result, of th first direct action tor law nforemnt by th Iowa realm of th Ku Klux Klan. His arrest at , Boon yesterday, in company with n 18-year-old Grlnnell girl. and hla return to Poweahiek county today, followed a two weeks' search by Ku Klux Klsn Inveetlgstors, it waa aaid. ' Bassett and tha young - woman left Orlnnell Auguat s. Parent of th girl received vral lettera from her,' but ah failed to satisfactorily satis-factorily sxplaln her absence. The parents cam to Pes Moines snd enlisted th aid of, local officers and Inveatlgators of' th Kln. Teeterday ttr Inveetlgstors follVld ths girl snd Baaaett, who la the father of thro children, at Hoone. The information wa turned over to the Boone authorities and Baa-sett Baa-sett was arrested. Tha couple wa brought ' here laat night and tho gjlrl waa turned over to her parent. Bassett alao may fae a charge of wife deaertlon at Orlnnell, It was said. Klan Investigators operated under un-der direction of A. E. Brown, stats organiser and th Imperial representative repre-sentative of th Imperial wlsard at Atlanta- |