Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-26

klux Corporation and the compactness
of the personnel which manages its af-
fairs, an attempt has been made to in
vcstiSate some of these transactions.
For instance, where does the enOr-
nous profit 60 that must be involved
in the sale at $3.50 each of hundreds
or thousands Of sets of cheap cotton
rcgalia which manufacturers belonging
to race prescribed from membership
in the klan would be glad to distribute
at q wholesale price of not more than
S1.25 set? The EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER after investigation is unable to
answer this question.
Who Gets the Profit?
" -. r,-rlf.
Kleagles or other responsible officers on
CATION Department and addressed to
Imperial Wizard Simmons. They are
delivered by express from tho Gate
City Manufacturing Company. Atlanta.
under signed agreement on the order
blank that they 'shal ever be the
property of the Knights of the Ku Klux
klan, lnc.,' though the member is re-
qulred to pay $500 for the outfit.
But the Gate City Manufacturing
Company has no legal existence, or had
charter petition, dated June 0. 1920,
and signed by c. 3. Davis and Mrs.
Lottie B. Davis, was allowed by order
of the Fulton County Court. Until the
incorporators meet and organize there is.
legally, no Gate City Manufacturing
Company. and If it had conducted any
business up to the date of organization
that business has been legally wildcat.
for until it organizes it can have no
officers or stockholders.
No Deed to Palace Filed
The Peach Tree road property. bought
to be the Imperial Palace of the order.
belongs to persons unknown, as no deeds
or other papers relating to them have
been filed with the courts. At the time
of the purchase an Atlanta paper, Of
which close kinsman Of Clarke is man
aging editor, stated in its news columns
the decd had been negotiated by the
Clarke Realty Company of Atlanta. Be
hind this statement it is impossible to
60 until the deeds and other papers go
OH record.
The Clarke Realty Company. through
Clark" and Mrs. Tyler, pctitioned for
Incorporation on June -, 1921, to do
general real estate business, as well
as to purchase personally of all kinds
and act as trustee, guardian, adminis-
traitor and executor.
AS required by Georgia law, copy of
its petition was printed for four sue
cessive weeks as an advertisement. the
medium chosen being the Sparchlght.
The Atlanta law firm Of IiutcheSon q
Wood appeared in the petition as It's
attorneys. This firm is composed Of
Carl +. Hutcheson. n member of the
Board of Education of Atlanta and
active in local politics, and Joseph o.
Wood, member Of the City Council of
Atlanta and editor of the SCarchlight.
ku Klux Buys Land
There have been two real estate
transactions recorded in Atlanta this
summer in which the Ku Klux Corpo-
ration appears as purchaser and takPr
of title. The first was u warranty deed
conveying 10 knights of the ku KluX
Klan" tract in Lot II, Fourteenth
District, Fulton County, for a Consid =
GRAFTON Of S1S 800, dated July IL and
recorded August II, 1921.
! The second was n transfer, for con-
siderution Of $l4 800, of a bond for title
to tract in the same lot, dated July
90. 1921 The consideration involved
I II cash payment of only $4,000, the re-
mainder being taken up in equity and
/ unpaid purchase money notes outstand-
/ ing.
/ Out Of all the millions which have
poured into the treasury of the Ku klux