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Show DGDEN FORBIDS KU KLUX KLAN AND ALL WHC WISH TO WEAR HOODS RECEIVE RE-CEIVE HARD BLOW Ordinance Immediately Effective Will Rob Hallowe'en Celebrants of Much Incidental Fun Ogden, Local members of the Ki Klux Klun cannot parade in regalia under the terms of a city ordinance passed here and made effective upon publication. The ordinance, local attorneys at-torneys say, will bar adults and children chil-dren from wearing Hallowe'en masks or attending mask balls. Mayor P. F. Kirkendall and other members of the city commission declined de-clined to discuss the "Anti-masked meeting" ordinance, nor would they admit that it was aimed to curtail Klnn activities here. "The ordiance speaks for itself," Mayor Kirkendall is reported as saying say-ing when asked if the intent was to prevent the Klan demonstration scheduled sche-duled in the park that surrounds City hall. Further than this statement, he paid ho did not care to comment. Tho immediate impulse behind introduction intro-duction and passage of the ordinance was not divulged. The ordinance, which legal experts nay will bar citizens from many social activities as well as prohibit the usual Klan session in regalia, sets forth the restrictions to be imposed and then recites that an emergency exists and the new law is to become in full effect Immediately upon publication. Under this emergency clause, it is raid that following publication all police po-lice officers will be under obligation to arrest and prefer misdemeanor charges against any citizen found In violation of its terms. The restrictive clause of the ordinance ordin-ance reads: "It shall be unlawful for any person, persons' or association of persons to parade, appear, congregate, congre-gate, be or remain on any street or in any public place of Ogden City while such person, persons or association asso-ciation of persons, is wearing any mask, disguise or other device whatever what-ever which shall be intended to or have the effect of preventing the entire en-tire face and features of such person, per-son, persons or association of persons, from being at all times plainly visible to the public." |