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Show 33RD DEGREE IS HAD FOR $130 Sacramento Attorney Tells Of Activity As Alleged Mason Officer ficer" of which n on trial In the, i-nii.fi States district court charged MflAri as (o how he paid $130 lor im ' gam-atlon. He also WlttM m JJ BBSS i no u 1UT Perrot and Dom- Thmson. inomu. i-n. It. Bergera rel ith to the authcnUc-itv authcnUc-itv of thf orfanlaation. OFFERED riT BATE Mr Wllkla testified that ho became Identified with the American MHOBtei feneration through the offorte of B A J Lucas an organiser opera ttngr U er the direction of Thomson V Ilk"1 Kcd hv lucu.m to join becausi It waa her of a Sarramento lodge. Rising, ir x, 4, and Lucas offered him a ol $26 for the blue lodge de- " a month later. .Mr. W.lkle testified, j he took ih- .heroes from the fourth to the thlrtj -second one afternoon Charles M Morris. United SUfl district dis-trict attorney, who conducted Sllkle -Dji .-xamlm.tlon. Introduced Int.. the evl- ilght or more doplomai d srei - charters and other documents, all earing gold seals and moat printed on parchment, which had been re-'J clvcd by the witness in the course of I aesoclatlona with the organizations. Willi- was put through the thirty-third thirty-third degree about six weeks after nklng the thirty-second, and had to DU fan for thl" at the last minute. WIDE LATITUDE The witness claimed that .although the by-laws ot the Amen, an Masonic Federation nnd the Federated Su-M-eme councils prescribe the fees for the various degrees that these fees are not adhered to. and said that organizers or-ganizers have considerable latitude Is to what they will accept for memberships mem-berships Speaking of his efforts to ascertain from Thomson the exact chain of authority au-thority for the conferring of degrees. Mr. YVilkie said: "I had been challenged, chal-lenged, told that I was n fake, the bunk and everything, and I was very much interested in the question of authority." au-thority." He said that Thomson had outlined Xo him the history of the organization or-ganization as It appears In the ariou? publications. The source of the Masonic authority of the defendants' organization was traced in the literature rep itedlj .showing that they obtained through Thomson a grant from the Grand Counoll of Rites uf Scotland authority I;;' j' to administer the higher degrees and by Indorsation on this grant by Jos icpn N. Unene. iai sovereign siaiiui commander of the Supreme Council of i Louisiana, authority to confer ih craft or blue lodge degrees. TRACE Ad HOK1TY The Louisiana organization, the literature lit-erature says, obtained Its authority from Polar Star lodge of Louisiana.' which in turn received Ita dlspensa-tion dlspensa-tion from Mother lodge of St. John of Scotland founded at Marseille-France Marseille-France in 1S43. under authority from Mother lodge Kilwinning or No. 0 of Scotland, the fountain head of Bluei lodge Masonry. The Grand Council of Rites of Scot-' Hj H land, so defendants' writings say. ' the only source of all higher degree pf Masonry- and the oldest high degree body In the world." Masonry throughout the world." so II I one passage reads, "Is united in on family with the sole exception of the' adherents of the state grand lodges In! the United States, of America " These J U adsercnts of the 6tate grand lodge are the members of the order best known In this country, who claim that rho Thomson. Perrot, Bergera organization organi-zation is clandestine and spurious. ENTSPECTOR TESTIFIES M. G. Price, the postoffice Inspector Who Investigated the case for the gov-1 ernment completed his testimony both on direct and cross-examination end Jerome Broderick. an employe of the postoffice department In New Yorl testified to having made photostatic 1 copies of certain documents represent 'I by the defendunlv to give rhem authority au-thority to confer Masonic degrees In completing the direct exa-mina-' tion of Mr. Price, John Jensen, special prosecutor for the government. Intro duced into the evidence a score oi more of pamphlet, booklets and other oth-er literature Issued by the American1 Ifaaonic Federation and Ita offli era In which appeared the claims to author-. Ity and legitimacy of the organization as well as other ' salesmanship" ma- terial |