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Show Ku Klux Klan Cross Stirs Small Town; Leftists Attacked RICE LAKE, Wis. Two leftist groups recently offered a reward of $200 for information that would lead to the arrest of persons who placed "huge Ku Klux Klan crosses" on two Barron (Wisconsin) farms. The reward was offered in an advertisement ad-vertisement placed in the Rice Lake Chronotype by Stanley Jones, secretary sec-retary of the People's Progressive party. The money was raised, the advertisement stated, by the party and the Civil Right congress. The congress has been labeled a Communist Com-munist front group by the United States attorney general. The first cross, with a noose attached, at-tached, was placed on the farm of Herman Olson, two miles west of Rice Lake, on Jan. 10, 1951. The second, with a butcher knife Inserted, In-serted, was erected Feb. 20 on the property of Lumir Subrt in the town of Bear Lake, Wis. Subrt is secretary of the Barron county chapter of the Civil Rights congress. Sheriff Harry Jensen was reported investigating both cases and sent both the noose and knife to the Wisconsin crime laboratory at Madison Mad-ison for study. The Communist party, it was reported re-ported by Barron officials, has been working for several years to gain a foothold in the Rice Lake area. Membership in the county, however, was believed to be small but well organized. As an outspoken critic of Communism, Com-munism, the Chronotype has been called "fascist" by the civil rights group. Attorney Sam P. Rigler of Rice Lake, over whose door a swastika swas-tika flag and a noose were draped last year after he made an anti-Communist anti-Communist speech, has also been criticized by the civil rights group. The advertisement announced the $200 reward in connection with the crosses on the Olson and Subrt property said that the crosses were " a threat." If such threats are continued. con-tinued. It stated, "we face years In which the traditional freedoms of America embodied in and symbolized symbo-lized by the bill of rights will be abandoned." Ord Taxpayers Send Trousers to Washington ORD, Neb. The seven taxpayers from this small community who mailed their pants to congress recently re-cently may have started something. Business men and Republican leaders lead-ers throughout the state joined in acclaiming their action. The men each sent a pair of trousers trou-sers to their congressmen to emphasize em-phasize their stand for economy in government. Along with the trousers trou-sers they sent a picture of them posing behind a sign which read: "Congress Here's Our Pants." Ord, population 2,240, may find Itself the source of the most significant signifi-cant taxation protest in years. Earl A. Virden, Onawa, Iowa, in a telegram to the mayor of Ord, said: "The most significant taxation protest since the Boston tea party. Let's make it a national movement. Am down to my last pair, but they go tomorrow." The movement gathered large support throughout Iowa and Nebraska. Ne-braska. Owen Cotton, secretary of the Nebraska Small Business Men's association, expressed the view of many in the state: "A good stunt, that dramatizes something that's a very real problem. I've got an old pair congress can have." |