The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-30
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and that he would be convicted for white slavery in Texas and that they had things at the palace their own way and were going to run 1t to suit themselves"
 Days Were Numbered.
 Mrs. Steele said she then asked Akers s'how about Colonel Sim mons," imperial emporer of the klan, and that he replied that "be tween Colonel Simmons liquor and his dope, his days were numbered" | Akers then asked her. she said, to make an affidavit against Clarke, telling her he would give here $500, which would put her on her feet and out of Atlanta. She said that in or der to get away from Akers, whom she feared, she told him she would call him later, but that she did not make an affidavit and spurned his offer of $500 for one.
 In another affidavit made on Au- gust 9, 1923, she related incidents starting on July 19 when she said Tom Akers called her by telephone and asked for another appointment She again went with him in his auto mobile and he told her the case against Clarke In Texas apparently | had fallen through and we will have to build another case against Clarke. She said Akers then asked her if | Sne ndQ TeCGlNtQ tuJ AAOliSJ Hun Clarke's friends and that If she could get any, and when she said she could not he asked her to meet him at the office of Paul s. Ethridge, an at 1 torney, saying that he and Paul would go over the case and that in the meantime they would see that she would not want for anything" | Akers, on July 31, she swore. asked | her to call Col. w. J. Simmons on the telephone and see if she could not get some money from Colonel Simmons. | Colonel Simmons did not answer the telephone, but a pr. Johnston talked to her and she made an appointment and met pr. Johnston that night, but did not ask for money.
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 "Got S1,OOO From Akers."
 | After 'Just a little pleasant con- versation," she said, she left pr. Johnston and got into the automobile "of MT AIers, which was waiting for her just a short distance away, the said Akers being in said car and then drove the car to deponent's home That on arrival of her home she had 1000 in United States currency, which the said Tom A<ers had given her."
 She then told of meeting Akers in Paul Etheridge's office and how he gave her two $20 bills, telling he. 
 She said that on the second visit Akers told Etheridge that he believed | Helen had complete, solid breach of promise suit against Clarke" but that Etheridge asked for time to think 1t over" She met Akers at the usual place" on July 26 and he gave her another $70 in money to pay for medical attention, telling her to call him on July 30. On the latter
 date she called Akers and he told 1 her, she said, that 1t had been agreed that Joe Morris was the mal- to called him and he told her that i've can get this thing straight and get | 1t started right away, but that after the first of Septehmer deponent's case would not be worth the paper 1t is written on.''
 Later she met Akers and a man he presented as John Brown and that in order to "mislead the said John Brown and to draw him out as much as possible" she told him that she | had been In New York city with Clarke and that the "said John Brown then informed this deponent i she had stopped at the Pennsylvania hotel and was registered on seventh | floor and that they, the said E. Y. Clarke and oeponent returned from the theatre at 1880 in the morning." | She then said that Brown told her that the thing for you to do is to file this suit through Morris and let MT. Akers see that you get out of town immediately upon filing the suit" and then admonis,:ed her mot | to communicate with anyone except the said Tom Akers, who said Brown then stated was more capable of and would sell her newspaper stories for her and that he was sure MT Akers would see she got a square deal.'"
 She said that as soon as she got away from Akers and Brown she went to the office of Henry J. Nor ton with whom she kept in close transactions and after informing Norton of the conversation and that Norton then called an attorney, w. S. Coburn, who represents the plain tiffs in the receivership suit.
 Arrange To Call Akers.
 | Arrangements then were made to call Akers on the telephone with persons listening in on three exten- sion telephones in Coburn's office and stenographers taking down the con versations. The affidavit then goes into detail of the conversations in which she told Akers she was short of money and he promised to take care" of her.
 LII one conversation QeLdlleu Akers asked her if the suit was go- ing to be filed and she told him it was. He told her he could do nothing for her until the suit was filed and she asked him whether she and a girl | friend, named Lillian, should go to Norfolk or Richmond after the suit was filed, and Akers said that Nor | folk is where you ought to go," and she replied ''yes, Norfolk is all right" and Akers replied, T think it is best"
 The Steele affidavits were the last read today. Prior to this an affidavit by Col. William Joseph Simmons, Emperor of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was read charging that Dr. H. w. Evans was elected imperial wizard last November through opera tion of deliberate plot to prevent Colonel Simmons name being placed before the klonvocation as a candi- date. He said that on the night before the klonvocation, F. l.. Savage. then head of the investigation departments of the klan and another man had called on, him and told him an attack on his character would be made in the meeting and that the men assured him the persons making the attack would be "shot down in their tracks," He said he withdrew his name to prevent trouble.
 Henry J. Norton, exalted cyelops of | the NdlHdn Y OTTcSI kldn num- Der one, in an affidavit charged taht large sums of money had been ex- pended in contributions to political campaigns against candidates an- tagonistic to the klan. M. c. McCur- ley, former employe of Savage's de- partment, charged that klan funds had been used to establish an ex- tensive spy system.
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 Threatened To Secede.
 J. Jones, former cashier, charged in