Show HIGH OFFICER OF ALABAMA lEAVES KLAN Convinced Hooded Band Baud Bandin Baudin in Hands of Lawless Leadership MONTGOMERY Ala Oct 20 20 By The Associated Press A A Klans- Klans Klansman Klansman Klansman man whose wholesale investigation of reported floggings Incriminated the Invisible empire has branded the K i K r. r K ir I in Alabama as the greatest menace to constituted authority In tendering rendering his unconditional resignation Lion tion from that order In a sweeping condemnation of that order General Attorney Charlie C C. McCall directed his letter of with with- withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal yesterday to the exalted cyclops Klan No 3 province pro No 2 realm of Alabama invisible empire Knights of K K K Montgomery This This' action follows Immediately after the extensive probe of the at attorney at- at torney tomey general into a series of alleged whippings In Oneonta Blount and Crenshaw counties His activities lUes prompted an Investigation by a special Crenshaw county grand jury last week at Luverne which scored the Klan In returning Indictments against res res- residents resIdents res- res of that section charged with complicity in these floggings While professing professing- an adherence to those fundamental principles which the Klan has publicly pronounced the general attorney-general declared that he had become convinced that the Klan In Alabama Is in the hands of a law law- lawless lawless lawless less leadership I I have become convinced cOD that It ItIs Itis I Is 15 not the purpose or Intent of Its leaders to aid al ai the duly constituted of officers of- of officers officers of the law In their effort to enforce the criminal laws where crimes are arc committed by Its leadership leader leader- leadership leadership ship he continued I have become personally convinced that many of these crimes by hooded mobs which I 1 Investigated have been plotted and planned by Klan Ilan leaders and the per per- perpetrators perpetrators perpetrators of those crimes have ha been encouraged and shielded In the com corn commission commission mission thereof |