San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-21
Khan Here Cannot Confer
Second Degree Friday I
Night.
| NAMES MEN HERE
Knights of Kamelia Rank
Will Be Elimi-
mated. 7 (!
HEARING OCTOBER 81
Say Khan Here Has Illegal
ly Given Degree With
out Authority.
NAMES MEN HERE
HEARING OCTOBER

A temporary INDUCTION which may
affect, in a measure, the limitations
proceedings Of the San Antonio branch
of the Ku Klux Khan, scheduled "a
be held at the San Antonio Speedway
fiday night, was granted by Judge
Robert w. Il. Terrell in the Seventy.
third district court Friday morning.
The temporary order restraints the ie-
cal khan from comforting upon rs
members the second degree or what
is known in the Khan organization a.
the knights Of Kamelia. Hearing tn
make the injunction permanent is set
down for 10 O'Clock October ). E
The petition. which WAS filed shorts
| lv before noon by L. p. Hull and
Herbert Oliver. San Antonio attos-
neSs, names as plaintiffs the "Knlslits
OF the Ku Klux Khan. corporation;
organized and existing under and ny
virtue of the laws of the state ot
Georgia" having its principal offire
in the City of Atlanta, Fulton county,
Georgia.
Name Many Defendants.
The defendants named therein ara
Ionnie Irwin. DIR. Fred b. Johnso1.
George W. Keeling, w. I. Garyins
George II. Cahoon. =. Hopkins, Frans
+. Bradford, p. d. Mathis, Henry A.
Rogers, Oliver Sortell. Jack DarneI
and Il. L. Rochester of Bexar county,
and DIR. s. L. Howse of Travis county
and w. ]. Simmons. resident "c-t
| Atlanta, Ga. In addition all ''officerss
clerks. servants. agents, employees.
workmen, confederates. associates and
SUCCESSORS are named as DESCENDANTS
The petition was sworn to by j. \.
Bracewell. as agent for the Auants
| headquarters.
plained. following the filing of the pc
tition. that il will not interfere with
the holding of the Initiation ceremonies
at the San Antonio speedway Friday
night. unless the local klsn attempts 3
! 10 confer the second degree In
that case, they said. the temporary
I writ will serve to restrain such &C.
/ ton.
Organized in 1916.
The petition sets out that the KAN
was organized on July j, 1916. IN
Fulton county. Georgia. las a purely
benevolent and eleemosynary corpora
| ton. and for the purpose OF conduet- :.
| ing a patriotic. sacred. social, beneyo-7
| lent order whose object shall be TO
unite white male persons. native born
1 Gentle citizens of the United States
of America. who owe no allegiance
of any character. kind CT degree 10
anT foreign government. nation, m-i-
stitution, sect. ruler. person or peo-'
! pie. whose morals are good. whose
reputation and vocations are respect
i full. whose habits are exemplary. who
/ are of sound mind and Is years &C
more of age. under common oath
into a brotherhood of stric- regulations.i
to cultivate and promote patriotism
toward our civil government; to prae-
tice an honorable clannishness toward
each other: TO exemplify practical be-
nevolences; to shield the Sanctity or
the home. and the chastity of woman
hood: to maintain forever white sd
premacy; TO teach and faithfully in
culcate a high spiritual philosophy
through an exalted ritualism, and oy
practical devotion 10 conserve. pro-
teet and maintain the distinctive in
situations. rights. privileges. primer
Piles and ideals OF pCre Amerieanlsm.
Khan Owns Parapherualia.
The petition further sets out that
the charter gives the khan the power =
ito confer an initiative degree. ritual
ism, fraternal and secret Obligations.
words. grip. signs and ceremonies. I'M
der which there shall be united only
while male persons Of sounC health.
good morals and high character.
Ii further sets out the bylaws 3,
| adopted July 5. 1916. prescribing the
method of control and management
of the Khan and the organization or
branches. One of these is. that all re-
gala. paraphernalia. etc. shall belong
10 and is the property ot>the order
/ On April %. 1921. the petition SETS
1 ont. there was organized in IAN An
tonic subordinate branch 81 tho klao.
I in conformity with the constitution
| and bylaws Of the Kan "nd Sphlcet
to the same restrictions ana resula-
, tons as other branch organizations
THAT as a part Of the work OF Your
petitioner the petition ssys- ~fherf
are various degrees conferred uroh