The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-27
K[ANSMEN ARE.
OUT.
Of BROOKLYN
New York City Officials Begin
Active Fight Against Ku
Klux Organization Fol-
lowing Arrests of Al
legged Members

ing w lle HlSlllUSIo VI tiS Au Alu<N
Khan that they must give up their
allegiance to the invisible empire"
or get out of Brooklyn was issued
today by District Attorney Dodd of
Kings county and Magistrate Dale.
The warning was voiced at the
arraignment of eight alleged mem
bers of the elmer circle" of the
Klan, who were arrested last night
by members of the bomb squad
after they had attended what their
counsel admitted to have been a
Khan meeting. They were held in
$500 bail for further examina-
tion-seven on charges of possess
ing blackjacks and one on charge
of having a bottle of whisky in the
automobile in which all were ar
rested.
The first persons rounded up by
the police since Mayor Hylan's or
der to drive the Kahn from the city,
gave these names in court:
Demands Immediate Hearing
Alfred c. Clark, John F. Collins, a
chaffeur; Ellsworth B. Morse, an as
sistant manager; William D. NJ. Sim
mons. advertising manager of large
typewriter manufacturing concern;
John NJ. Gilmore, photographer;
Thomas Jones, a salesman; Charles
T. milford, a bank clerk, and Robert
Fischer, 10, claiming to be student
at Pratt institute.
Counsel for some of the 1defen-
dants demanded an immediate hear
IL g, but Magistrate Dale refused un-
til he was told of the presence of the
black Jacks in the car, after the men
ad departed from the meeting which,
ii was learned, was held in a build
ing owned by a Masonic organization
and occupied in the day time by the
Brooklyn Traffic court. William Had
don, superintendent of the building,
said the owners had leased the hall to
a group known a the Brooklyn Circle
club and that he never thought the
organization was part of the khan.
NATIONAL FIGHT on
CHICAGO Jan. 26.-An "all nation
rally" to form the basis of a national
organization to oppose the ku kluX
Khan and kindred organizations Will
be held at the Coliseum here begin
ming February &c, and continuing for
one week, Patrick II. ODonnell,
chairman of the American United
League, announced tonight.
Gov John NJ. Parker of Louisiana
has accepted an invitation to make
the opening address February 26, and
Gov. Al Smith of New York is ex-
pected to speak, MIR. ODonnell an
nounced. Other prominent speakers
representing various races and creeds
will be invited to address sessions
of the mass meetings, it was an
nounced.
This is expected to mark the be-
ginning of national movement" he
said, Ito harmonize all races and re-
ligions in the common purpose of
breaking down the ku KluX Khan
and kindred organizations that I'M
dertalSe to overthrow the separation
of church and state, freedom of con-
science, equality before the law, ana
freedom of men to act"
EVANS DEFENDS ORDER
CHICAGO. Jan. 26.-Ku Klux
Klansmen have no right to take the
law into their own hands, Hiram
Wesley Evans, imperial wizard of the
organization. who also in a statement
charged Governor Parker of Louis
lana with political or other motives
in instigating the Mer Rouge inves-
tigation of the death of Watt Daniel
and T. F. Richard, declared today
Asked if the khan would defend am
i. l.. y
in connection with the Louisiana case,
Evans said:
1t would depend entirely upon
the condition of the klansman. If he
was unable to provide defense for
himself we would most certainly see
that his rights as a klansman were
locked after, and that he got justice.
We would not use any effort any
where TO prevent man from paying
the just penalty for crime COM
mitted.'
There is no set of circumstances
under which the khan would have a
right to take into its own hands, or
be responsible in any way fer the
enforcement of the law. except inso-
far as their sworn duty as klansmen
would place them under the officials
charged with the enforcement of the
Do Not Condone Violence
Every klansman specifically takes
the following cath, which has never
been published before
~ furthermore promise to swear
that | will always, at all times and
in all places, help, aid and assist the
duly constituted officers of the VI
in the proper performance Of theif'
legal duties.
There is nothing contained in any
oath that in any way permits, al
lows. or condones law violations.
The mask is but portion of our
regalia. 1t is only worn within our
klaverns during the ceremony of
naturalization or initiation, or when
special dispensation is granted, in a
public parade; to the grave Ct
klansman, or a man who has served
the khan or the country in an up
standing way. or upon an errand of
charity. On the two latter occasions
it is not worn except that the khan
may express, as khan, either its
sorrow or it's sympathy, and that this
action might not be considered in
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