Show J RIDERS RIDERS' TE-RR TE ORIZE S SOUTH UTH r or t. t v r Y or Y or or or I I GINS AND TOBACCO BARNS BURN v X N. E. E A. A Staff Special J DALLAS T Texas Oct o. t S with flaming torches swoop swoop- filS- filS s g down on cotton gins a and d tobacco arns have terrorized many manT sections t f the South There have been some but the cotton gins continue continUO s go co up In smoke S Little Little heed has been paid by gin sIn to warnings whIch nave osted posted on sins gins Ins demanding that york work tease ase until the market price of oC cotton cottonS S cached ached 40 0 cents And many And many gins gins' lave lavo burned to tho the ground S J c ALMOST EVERY NIGhT 1 S The warnings have ha been written on f S f-S piece of or scrap serap with tb the th yo o right-hand right corners scarred and a aS S Snatch atch stuck through a double whit slit H nole ole at the bottom They rhey nave naye been The rhe Citizens of Everywhere o The Black 7 75 and by the Commit eh l enio T 8 fee see of f Some born bore no signatures M And while almost every night lAnd rings new destruction gin manu Cae Caen and fire Insurance I men are c con con- i n that ret the blazes are not t the the tho natural nat nat- nat nat-I Work lork ork o of Night riders but ural oral run of blazes in Inflammable cot 1 n gins This because th number f fires Ires In 1920 have ha been fewer than Uan S corre corresponding months of oC 1919 I If is Thero-is some some feeling that the Ku Iu the result O ot ote lux- lux Klan outburst i is S. the Ie e high cost of or having cotton colton ginned i iid S. S id not due to the low Jaw price i rho 10 market price has dropped while fio coat cost has until it st Is i ij gone Ion up j our I r times what it was before the wa war S OT op 1 iM These burnings aro arc not the work I U the intelligent farmers says sas 1 l' l lF 1 F. F 1 J nee vice president of oC the Guar- Guar ily Bank Dank and Trust company or L ual- ual al- al i. i Sa J It t would cut off III chance to tomake make I hi his cotton crop worth something i it he e applied the torch to all alt the cot cot- J n gins r 11 farmer l knows theta Is IR no I J i f xe t market value to cotton until I it itis I 5 is S been hElen through a gin classified by b i 1 expert and put Into bonded aro buses u cs And he can borrow no money I r his crop crimp until it has been i lu ul Into S 3 M wise farmer pets gels I ii ls cotton S filed nned lie He can bold it then until the tile market is better ket Night riders riders' activities against tot tor to- to t r owners o are are on the Increase As Jn n 11 indication of the growing terror tobacco barns have been en burned I lii Christian Christran count county Kentucky alone r. r 5 S A e- e y 5 S 'S Jr r S I AbaTeS bOTel TJ that has hils hc hen n posted d nn Olt oon gini 10 On OD One of the time cotton sins gins of the due Inert li I. n a or K F. K Ir Florence Florent 1 hunker Mn n a. a gin gi fires ore are not the Mork TorI of InI n farmer I r s fv t. t T V ff i I I I II II I I I I I I 55 4 v 2 4 |