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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1922.

• Bible ThoughtforToday

ALWAYS P R O T E C T E D — W h e n thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee — Isaiah 43:2

W I L L I A M MONROE TROTTER

On April 7, William Monroe Trot­ter, editor of the Boston Guardian and world-famous agitator for the rights of the colored people, will be 50 years old

He has done more to fight jim-crowism and to inspire in the colored people a determination to battle for their rights than any living man of the race. \

He has impoverished himself, hav­ing spent the fortune left him by his fathers, in financing his work for fieedom and justice for the colored people

In the presence of this giant of agitation, nine-tenths of the alleged colored leaders appear as pigmies. He has always stood for absolute equality of citizenship The majority of the "leaders" have compromised in one way or another.

He deserves a F I F T Y T H O U ­SAND DOLLAR FUND. His work can not be estimated in dollars and cents Even a small fund will show that his work has been appreciated and that the colored people are will­ing to pay for freedom.

The editor of every paper circulat­ing amnog the colored people ought to boost Trotter in his editorial col­umns and also contribute to the fifty-year fund

T H E A P P E A L has already sent a check for Five Dollars

Reader: Do not fail to send at once your contribution to the Guard­ian Staff, The Guardian, 34 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.

A BLACK YEAR FOR COLORED PEOPLE.

The first year of the Harding ad­ministration has been a distinct dis­appointment to right-minded, clear-thinging, far-sishtedjChristian Amer­icans, especially theT colored people who have been placed by fate under the rule of the U. S. A.

The Filipinos, a colored race, have been denied the freedom which was

1 solemnly promised them more than r j twenty years ago. In 1921 there was

T H E M A N W H O D A R E S

I honor the m a n who in the consci­entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment , may condemn, the countenances of relatives m a y be averted, and the hearts of friends grow-cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hear ts of friends.—Charles Sumner.

J run the quota „ These troubles have been largely overcome. During the eight months of operation-under the law immigrants have numbered 192,-000 The limit for twelve months is 355,000, and it is not likely to be reached. So much the better. The United States needs a long rest from its-efforts to assimilate newcomers, and no matter what form permanent legislation may take, we agree with Chairman Johnson, of the immigra­tion committee, that there will be no desire to return to the virtually un­limited entrance* of foreign labor This melting-pot business is all right as a theory, but the country has got to look out for itself and its doors must be closed to strange men with tsrange and violent doctrines So says the Philadelphia Inquirer and so say we all.

a farcical "investigation" of condi­tions, by the man who had been picked to rule the islands and whose policy had evidently been decided upon be­fore the results of the "investigation" had been received in the U. S. A.

A man with bitter racial prejudices has been sent to govern the Porto Ricans, the majority of whom are colored people, who are anxious to get from under t he American yoke.

Santo Domingo wishes to be free from jimcrow xule but the present American regime hangs on without rhyme or reason.

The man sent to "investigate" and rule Haiti, is the very man who was the ruler when the alleged outrages took place. The Haitians are nearly all black people and Catholics in re­ligion. Not satisfied with the "pa­cification" outrages, the oppressors have added insult to injury, bv forc­ing jimcrowism into the Catholic churches where separate masses are now celebrated for colored and white people. That is one of the sacrileges of the rule in Haiti of the U. S. A.

The Harding administration has failed to recognize Mexico, although the conditions are now stable and there is not as much lawlessness in the whole republic as there is in the city of Chicago in the U. S. A. The population of Mexico is approxi­mately 70 per cent Indian; 25 per cent mixed white Indian and Negro and not more than 5 per cent pure Caucasian.

When the President was a candi­date he addressed a large delegation of colored people and said, "Fellow Americans, fear not, America will not fail you." Coolidge, the candidate, handed out seme very touching phrases couchel in the purest Bos-tonese, in which he made a plea for more rights for the colored people. Elder Will H. Hays and his assist­ants, including the "jimcrow" cam­paign bureau under Lincoln Johnson and Perry Howard assured the peo­ple that the election of the Republi­can ticket would make this country practically a territorial paradise.

It was not long after March 4, 1921, that it became evident that a policy of segregation was being form­ulated for Americans of darker hue. Practically all of the jimcrowism of the Wilson regime have been con­tinued and many new wrinkles have been added.

The speeches of President Harding in the South last fall, in which he practically read the colored people out of the Republican party and in effect endeavored to relegate them to an inferior status in the social or­der were a veritable curse upon a group of loyal citizens.

The administration has invaded the states in which the colored had an actual part in the party organizations and has practically decreed that they must "fall in behind the white man," or get out.

The administration started a K. K. K. investigation which was suddenly called off without any reason for the action being given.

A few jimcrow offices have been thrown out like bones to a horde of hungry dogs and a few jimcrow col­ored men have been base enough to accept thenv '

Mates, it has been a dark year for the dark peoples.

The writer has been an active Re­publican for more than fifty years and still believes in the principles laid down by Lincoln, Grant, MeKin-ley and Roosevelt, and it is with re­gret that we are compelled to note that the pre.sent national administra­

tion has strayed from the G. O. P. landmarks.

EMMET'S EPITAPH

Having been convicted bv a Dublin court of taking part in the Irish Re­

bellion of 1798, Robert Emmet, the greatest Irish patriot, was duly exe­cuted by the British authorities,

j He closed his last speech with these ! words: -"I have but one request to make on my departure from this world. Let no man write .my epitaph;

. for, as no man who knows my motives, 'dare now vindicate them, let not pre­judice asperse them. Let mv tomb

I remain unscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my countrv shall take her place among the nations—of the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written."

I More than one hundred years,have passed, during which time thousands of brave Irishmen have laid down their lives to free their beloved coun­t ry from the horrors of British op­pression. The Irish have fought Brit­ain to the death, Britain was whip­ped, and just the other day the birth of the new Irish Free State was cele­brated.

No doubt Emmett 's martyrdom did much to keep burning the fires of na­tionalism which have a t last made Ireland a nation. To Robert Emmett more than to any other one man may the successful ending of the fight for freedom be credited. Now let his epi­taph be written.

E G Y P T IS F R E E .

There is great rejoicing in Egypt. Sultan Ahmed Fuad Pasha has an­nounced with due pomp and ceremony that Egypt has become an indepen­dent and sovereign state and that he, the Sultan, has assumed the title of the King of Egypt. The British High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Allenby, called a t the Roval palace after the ceremonies at Cairo and con­gratulated King Fuad, whom he ad­dressed as "Your Majesty." How has this been accomplished? By cringing and saying "We don't want this "and we don't want that and we don't want the other" ? No. The Egyptians de­fied Great Britain and refused to ac­cept anything except absolute free­dom. They fought for it, they died for it and they got it!

CLOSE THE DOORS When the Senate concurs—as it

should do—in the bill which has just passed the House, the restricted im­migration law will be extended one year from June 30 next. It is the in­tention of the House Immigration committee to draft a permanent en­actment, but the subject is so intri­cate that it cannot be disposed of hurriedly. The extra year will be none too long.

Until the war upset all Europe the transatlantic liners were bringing as many as a million aliens into the country in a year. The situation was becoming serious. Hostilities broke up the traffic, but after the armistice a perfect flood of emigrants was headed this way. Restriction was a positive necessity. The 3 per cent proposition was adopted as a tem­porary measure. The basis for cal­culation was the number of nationals of a given country resident in the United States according to the WW census. The' idea was to receive an additional 3 per cent of the respective totals annually

This arrangement met many diffi­culties at the start. Ellis Island was crowded with aliens who had over-

T H E DRED SCOTT DECISION.

I t was fifty years ago—March 6, 1857,—-that the Supreme Court of the United States rendered its decision In the famous Dred Scott case. The re­sults which followed this decision, were stupendous and far-reaching.

Dred Scott was a slave belonging to a surgeon in the United States army. He was taken by his master to Fort Snelling, in the State of Illinois, terri­tory from which, by the ordinance of 1787, slavery* had been forever ex eluded. Afterward he was carried into Missouri, where he was hired as a slave. Claiming freedom on the ground that his residence in Illinois had wiped out his status as a slave, his case was taken before the Supreme Court for settlement.

After a three years' consideration of the case the decision of the court was pronounced in an exhaustive opinion delivered by Chief Justice Taney, seven of the nine judges concurring.

In substance, the decision was as follows: (1) That persons of the African race were not, and could not be, acknowledged as "part of the peo­ple," or citizens, under the Constitu­tion of the United States. (2) That Congress had no right to exclude citi­zens of the South from taking their Negro servants, as any other property, into any part of the community, and that they were entitled to claim its protection therein. (3) That the Mis­souri Compromise of 1820, in sq. far as it prohibited African slavery north of a designated line, was unconstitutional and void.

The decision raised a storm from one end of the country to the other and made the civil war a foregone conclusion.

RAPS AMERICAN CHRISTIANS (?) In a recent interview a Japanese

gentleman walloped the American Christian hypocrites in these words and hits the nail on the head:

"I am a Christian, but I cannot reconcile the rules which Christianity taught me with American practices. Americans are overly suspicious and narrow hearted^ Our nation is sup­posedly anti-Christian, but we have broader hearts. *

"American missionaries teach us that all people are equal, so we wel­come Americans, let you travel throughout Japan unmolested, buy property, engage in business, and give you equal rights with our own people when you are in Japan. You do not practice in America what your missionaries teach us we must do, if we want to be Christians. Even the missionaries do not practice what they preach when they return to America."

the colored children, about thirty cents" per capita, more or less for their instruction while the white chil­dren received about fifty times as much. North "Caliny" is a great old commonwealth, more or less.

President Harding evidently has a keen sense of the ridiculous. He has recently appointed Brig. Gen. John H. Russell to investigate conditions in Haiti. It will be recalled # that Rus­sell, as Colonel Russell, was in com­mand in Haiti when the outrages com­plained of were perpetrated. In other words, he will investigate what hap­pened under his own regime.

Twenty-six American marines who engaged in a fight with the city po­lice in Managua, Nicarague on De­cember 8, 1921, have been sentenced to the penitentiary for terms ranging from eight to twelve years. Now the atuhorities ought to convene a court martial m Haiti and sentence the marines who masacred many thou­sands of Haitians.

"HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT."

My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wro»>2 a51f* outrage, with whirh earth is filled. Thux 4r la? iiv&ii in mail's obdui'hie ne<*rt. It Goes not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot.

—Cowper.

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A campaign to have legislatures of all states pass a bill requiring regu­lar courses in the study of the United States Constitution has been started in New York. Illinois, Iowa, Michi­gan and Vermont have such a law. What will Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, where they violate the Consti­tution every day, have to say about the matter?

Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard uni­versity is like the proverbial cow who gives a pail of milk and then kicks it over. Miller wrote a strong article in reply to President Harding's southern speeches and then spoiled all by first lauding B. Washington and then writing in favor of jimcrow schools.. Steady, Kelly!

THE APPEAL IS CALLED DOWN

THE TRUE STATUS OF THE ORDER OFTHEEHSTERHSTUR

Sterling P. Strong, who has opened his campaign for United States sena­tor from Texas, is telling the people "Come to Washington next winter and you will meet a senator who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan." I t is quite likely that there are already several Ku Klux among the members of both houses.

Governor-General Wood announces that he will follow the policy out­lined in the report of the Wood-Forbes mission as the basis of ad­ministration in the Philippines. All of which translated means that the Filipinos will not get the freedom which the United States promised them.

Protest always pays. For some time the people of India have been making "silent protest" against the many injustices from which they suf­fer and now it seems that results are about to be achieved. The govern­ment has introduced several bills for the repeal of nearly all of the repres­sive and restrictive laws now on the statute books.

And because they have protested, England will give independence to the Egyptians. Down South, Moton et al are lauding the brutal people who have stolen the rights of the col­ored people and restricted them to a jimcrow place in the social scheme.

THE SIN OF SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro­t e s t . Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in­quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Representative Fordney of Michi­gan has introduced a bill in the house

, proposing a loan of $5,000,000 to Li­beria. The Liberiansu. seem to want the money and the president was -in the IL.&J^ujt yea# .making an appeal for i t ; but THE APPEAL believes it to be a dangerous matter. If the money is loaned and not promptly paid it will be an excuse for the United States to go in and take pos­session, and thus get a foothold in Africa, and then Uncle Sam will pro­ceed to mistreat and murder the Li-berians just as he did in Haiti. The Liberians would do well to sidestep that loan. , 3

At a recent hearing of the house committee ,on ^merchant marine, Coxey of Coxey army fame, that $40,-

1000,000 worth of idle vessels be turned over to him and his associates. One of the committee asked Coxey if he had had any experience in oper­ating ships. "No^ hone," replied Mr. Coxey. "No more than Mr. A. D. Lasker/ ' - Lasker, the Jewish head of .the Shipping Board, was appointed by the President, not because he had experience, but because he had aided Mr. Harding in his campaign for the presidency. -~^~-.-.,.

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The supreme court of North Car-lina has just decided that schools

are riot necessities. Long ago the white people of the state decided tha t education was .not necessary for

The colored people in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Mar­tinique) are bitterly opposed to the sale of their islands to the United States. They realize that with the coming of the Americans, hell would break loose in their own happy homes.

Senator King of Utah, has intro­duced a resolution requesting the Senate judiciary committee to deter­mine whether the President had the right to appoint Brig. Gen. John H. Russell as embassador extraordinary to Haiti.

Cuba and Nicaraugua are asking Uncle Sam to withdraw the troops which have been foisted upon them. Why not make a clean sweep of it and bring home the troops from Haiti and Santo Domingo too?

The colored people in the Island of Trinidad, British West Indies have been talking about local self-govern­ment and at once the British govern­ment clamps down the screws on them.

The headlines say: "Texans Lynch a Colored Man. Cause Un­known." O; yes, the cause IS known. HE WAS COLORED. That's enough in Texas.

Kansas City, Mo., March 21, 1922. 400 East Armour Blvd.

To THE APPEAL, St. Paul, Minn.: j Owing to an untruthful and mis­leading article which appeared in a recent edition of your paper, con­cerning the United Grand Chapter, O. E. S., Missouri and its jurisdiction,

j I beg to make the following statement | in correction, and set forth the facts concerning the same.

I The United Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, Missouri and its Jurisdiction, had its incipiency in the city of St. Louis, Mo., being organ­ized in December, 1890, by O. M, Wood of that city, with five chapters com­posed of members regularly demitted from the Ohio jurisdiction. Missouri having been open territory up to this

.time, there was operating in the state 1 chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star under a man bv the name of A. W. Walker. The Grand Chapter or­ganized in St. Louis was called the Masonic Grand Chapter. The chap­ters under Walker organized a Grand Chapter also and became known as the Royal Grand Chapter, and later were more commonly sailed "the Wal­ker faction."

There was friction between these two Grand Chapters as to which was the legal organization. The dispute reached such an acute stage that in 1896 a t the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge, A. F . & A. M., Grand Master Pelham called the at­tention of the Masons to the condi­tion in his annual address. The Grand Lodge decided that the Grand Chapter organized bv Wood was the legal Grand Chapter, and requested that all Masons who affiliated with the Order

jof the Eastern Star, should work in [chapters of the Masonic Grand Chap­t e r . This did not stop the difficulty and in the Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge in 1897, Grand Mas­ter Pelham again directed the atten­tion of the Grand Lodge to the mat­ter. In doing so Mr. Pelham made it quite plain that it was not the pur­pose of the Grand Master to attempt to extend the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge, but that the dissention was creating so much strife that something should he done to stop it. Therefore on page 39 of the printed proceedings of the Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 1897, the following resolu­tion is found:

O. E. S. Resolution Adopted Whereas, the Grand Lodge, State

of Missouri and Jurisdiction, at its Annual Communication held in Oma-

I ha, Nebraska, decided in its wise judg-'ment that the O. E. S. organized by O. M. Wood is the regularly organ­

i z e d body of this state, j Resolved, That this order be en­forced to its fullest limit and any Master Mason who will affiliate with any other faction shall be guilty of un-Masonic conduct and shall be sum­moned to trial for the same.

Be it further Resolved, That Mas­ters and Wardens of all subordinate lodges of the jurisdiction are enioined to see to it that this edict is faithfully observed.

ANTI -KLUX BODY FORMED Purpose Is to End Mob Violence and

Enforce Law.

Healdton, Okla., March—An anti-Ku Klux Klan organization, known as the Knights of the Visible Empire has been formed here. John Q. Hyde, one of the organizers, announced in a statement today that the purpose of the society "is to protest against mob rule, as exemplified in the teachings ?pf the Ku Klux Klan." Hyde is a local attorney.

Hyde said the membership had jumped to 150 today and that ISO oth­ers were waiting to sign applications.

"We pledge allegiance to the law of the land and only ask that the laws he enforced by those empowered to enforce them. There will be no secrecy," he said.

DR. LORENZ OPERATES AGAIN.

Famous Austrian Surgeon Repeats Lolita Armour Treatment.

Detroit, March.—Dr. Adolf Lorenz, Austrian orthopedist, repeated here Tuesday the Lolita Armour opera­tion, which brought him international fame twenty years ago. The^ opera­tion, whicn was performed without an incision and required but ten min­utes, was pronounced a success. The patient was a 6-year-old girl.

"* Pledged to Bring Back Bullock. Hickory, N . C.—A million members

of the order of the Ku Klux Klan from Maine- to Texas are pledged to see that Matthew Bullock, colored man wanted a t Norlina, N. C , on a charge of- attempted murder, is brough back from Canada for trial . Dr. Arthur Talmadge Abernathy of Asheville, lecturer of the Klan, de­clared far an address here last night.

Dr. Abernathy said Bullock would ibe brought back to North Carolina 'within ninety days, but did not say how.m*^*- ̂

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O. H. WINSTON, JOE E.HERRIFORD, R. W. FOSTER, J. G. STEVENS.

On motion of Brother O. M. Rick-etts, it was voted that so much of the report of the Cmmittee on Jurispru­dence as relates to the O. E. S. be reconsidered.

The following O. E. S. resolution by Brother O. M. Wood was adopted:

Resolved, That all Master Masons now working in Chapters under the name or title of the Walker Faction or the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, be ordered ±o desist a t once.

On motion of Brother M. O. Riek-etts, the name "Wood Chapter" was stricken out and the name "United Grand Chapter" inserted.

In orded to perfect the work thus begun, the printed proceedings of the Grand Lodge, 1898, show the agree­ment as entered into by the two Grand Chapters.

During all these years the United Grand Chapter of Missouri has moved *»on4 very nicely until Crittenden Clarke, present Grand Master of Ma­sons of this Grand Lodge, became a member of the United Grand Chapter through representing Adah Star Chapter No. 12 of St. Louis as its Patron in July, 1913.

In 1917 Mr. Clarke attended the meeting of the United Grand Chapter a t Lincoln .Nebraska, and was defeat­ed for the office of Grand Patron.

In 1919, a t Carrollton, Mo., I was elected Grand Matron by the unani­mous vote of the <3rand Chapter. I am now serving my third year as Grand Matron of the United Grand Chapter, having been unanimously elected each time.

Prior to becoming Grand Matron, there had been a committee appointed by my predecessor t o revise t he Con­stitution of the United Grand Chapter. For various, reasons this committee did not report until the meeting a t Hannibal, July, 1920^ The United

Grand Chapter adopted the revised Constitution and ordered that it be immediately printed and distributed. By this time (August, 1919) Mr. Clarke had become Grand Master of Masons. He was with us a t our meeting in Hannibal, taking part in the deliberations. But in January,

11921, under the pretext that the re-i vised constitution contained some things not Masonic, he called all male members from our Chanters. In Aug­ust, 1921, by order of the United Grand Chapter, I, with my committee, attempted to call the attention of the Grand Lodge to the usurpation of authority by Grand Master Clarke. Mr. Clarke m his annual adflress in August, 1921, made malicious and false statements against the United Grand Chapter. Finding that we could get nothing before the Grand Lodge except such as Mr. Clarke would permit, I did finally agree to call a special session of the United Grand Chapter at Mexico, Mo., for the purpose of trying to adjust our dif­ferences. The Grand Lodge agreed to pay all the expenses of the spcial session of the United Grand Chapter, and also for the printing of a new Constitution. I want those interested to fully understand that every step taken in this matter bv the Grand JLodge was for the United Grand Chapter and no other organization, for the resolution just quoted from the printed proceedings of the Grand Lodge has never been recalled by the Grand Lodge.

The special session of the United Grand Chapter did not m a t e r i ^ z e , for the reason that certain members of the United Grand Chapter sought and obtained an injunction against me, my elective Grand officers and Mr. Clarke, also against his commit­tee, to prevent the properties, etc., from being used in this special ses­sion. I was served with notice of the suit bv the sheriff of Jackson county, Sept. 28, 1921. Out of def­erence to the court I called off the special session Sept. 29, 1921. The order of injunction was granted to these aforesaid members Oct. 6, 1921.

Notwithstanding these facts Mr. Clarke proceeded to Mexico, Oct. 1921, and on the 7th and 8th davs thereof organized with a few disgruntled members, mostly disappointed office-seekers, of the United Grand Chapter, a spurious organization of the Order of the Eastern Star, known as Har­mony Grand Chapter, although he knew that my hands had been tied and that his were also so far as the United Grand Chapter and its property was concerned. He and his following are now busily engaged in trying to de­ceive the membership of the Chapters of the United Grand Chapter and take over the property of the subordinate Chapters. Anna B. Harris, Marv Mc-Farland, and J. C. Bright having been suspended from Princess Oziel Chap­ter No. 45, United Grand Chapter, of St. Paul, Minn, on account of their

j disloyalty, are nothing more nor less than agents of this clandestine organ­ization known as Harmony Grand Chapter, and true to the characteris­tics of all these agents, are busy spreading malicious and erroneous propaganda concerning the affairs of the United Grand Chapter.

The United Grand Chanter, O. E. |S. , of Missouri, is moving along. We mean to fight _a good fight and to fin-ish the course.

I We desire you should know that as far as Mr. Clarke is concerned we could scarcely expect him to have re-

ispect for the Constitution of the United Grand Chapter, since he seems to have none for the Grand Lodge which he represents. We also wish you to realize that our fight is not be­tween the Grand Lodge of Masons and the United Grand Chanter, O. E. S., but rather with Crittenden Clarke, who has usurped powers which he did not possess; who has cast to the wind every principle of Masonry and right involved in the present case.

Our fight is not only to uphold the sovereignty of the United Grand Chapter, bitf also that of the Grand Lodge, and to violate no Masonic prin-clPJe which is applicable to us.

Thus you can see it is Mr. Clarke and his outlaw followers who have erred and who have thrown these fwo organizations into confusion, discord and strife, not the United Grand Chapter, O. E. S

n LOTTIE J. GAMBLE, Grand Matron of the United

Grand Chapter, O. E. S., Missouri and Its Jurisdic-

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Afraid to Attend Church. Only a few persons were present

today at the colored Catholic church, Beaumont, Texas, as the result of threats to dynamite the church and the issuance of a warning signed "K. K. K." to Rev. A. H. Laplante to leave Beaumont or suffer being whipped, tarred and feathered.

Will Run on an Anti-K. K. K. Platform Constable Charles Hamby of Travis

county, Texas, announced today as a candidate for sheriff on an anti-Ku Klux Klan ticket, subject to the Dem-ovratic primary. Sheriff W. H. Mil­ler, candidate for re-election, admitted J? £ S rand jury several months ago tha t he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. •"-"

Cut Off Policeman's Ear. John Smitherman, colored, former

deputy sheriff and policeman, seized early today by a band of white men, forced into an automobile and spirit-

.ed t o the country, was found a t Clare-jmore and brought to Tulsa, authori­t i e s announced. One of Smitherman's ears had been cut off *nd the man severely beaten. He was lodged in *ne county jail for safe keeping.

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