The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-02-22
ACTION STARTED
TO INVESTIGATE
CREACER FRAUDS
Senator Helm Gets Results
From Disclosures on
Floor of Senate
TEXAN is IN HIDING?
Attorney James r. Page, of Kan.
sas City, Mo-, Knows Rio
Grande Situation
(Bureau Of Publication and Educ

bureau of Publication and Educ ation)
WASHINGTON, d. G., Feb. Is
Senator Heflin, of Alabama, has fin.
ally gotten action on his resolution
to have an investigation into charges
of fraudulent land operations in
Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. The
senate has ordered the investigation
made and the inquiry is to be con-
Quoted by the committee on postof-
flee and post roads.
While this investigation will take
in the operations of all land COM
panies in that section of the country,
it will especially investigate the
operations of the Alamo Land & Su-
gar Company, of which R. B. Creger,
Republican national committeeman
from Texas, is president. Creager is
the same man who proposes to put a
crimp in the Ku Klux Khan by having
the Democratic party and the Repu-
bliCan party insert planks in their
respective platforms in national con-
ventions this coming summer hostile
to the Khan.
To Stop Complaints
Senator Heflin said in a senate
speech yesterday that he had inform
alton that Creager had at one time
secured an injunction from a state
court to prevent people defrauded
from writing their complaints to
government officials and send their
tales of woe through the United
States mails. That showed Creager's
pull with both the postoffice depart
ment and the state courts.
Senator Hefiin also charged that
Creager had come to Washington and
was in Kidding somewhere directing
a campaign of abuse and SANDER by
mail to the various senators, trying
to stop the proposed investigation.
According to Senator Hefiin, his
source of information comes from
one James R. Page, attorney, Of Kan
sas City, Mo-, who is the man who
has been through some of the pre-
liminary work in the Rio Grande val
ley. He says Page is the man who
forced through the indictment Of
W. E. Stewart, for whom this man
Creager is now receiver. Stewart was
the head of the Stewart Land Com
pany and he was indicted on l6
counts which carried a penalty of
so years in the pen. Senator Hefiin
said that Page was not member OF
the Ku Klux Khan as had been charg-
ed but that Page had even made
speeches against the Klan in Mis-
souri, in 1922.
Reads Extracts
Senator Heflin read into the Re-
cord extracts from Golfers Weekly,
the Country Gentleman, Kansas City
Journal and others to show of the
trickery and fraud perpetrated on
he people in the Rio Grande Valley
by the various land companies in
that section. Mr.. Creager seems to
be connected with most of them as
an attorney in addition to being pre-
sident of one of them which some
people proclaim is the worst one OF
the whole bunch.
Senator Hef1in introduced into the
Record yesterday the following let
ter from a widow who lost nearly
$4,000. "Dear Senator, l am for you,
and pray God you will get your in
vestigation through. l was robbed
by the Swallow Land Co (This is
Creager's company of nearly $4,000.
and / understand r. b. Creager is an
official of said company. If you get
YOUR investigation through you may
count on me, if allowed to do so, to
show that I was robbed of nearly