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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15

ANNUAL PICNIC
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Broth.
erhood OF Locomotive Engineers No.
312 will hold It's annual picnic in At.
lantlc park on Sunday. August II, at
IL O'Clock. Basket lunch. Coffee
viii be furnished by the auxiliary.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-15

Miss Lucy semple swanstrom
viii return Sunday night from a
years visit In the Enst.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
JOHN BULL KLAN
LED BY PRINCE
XXX
New Secret Organization in British
Isles is Similar to Americas
Klux Movement.
U U U

London.-A Protestant organiza-
tion similar to the Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan of America has sud.
denly appeared in the British Isles
accompanied by as much mystery as
the American order. Although the
organization is said to have been
formed two years ago, little had
been heard of it until December 7,
when a monster patriotic demonstra-
ion was held in Westminster Abbey
1t was the first public ceremony
ever held by the order, and the
Prince of Wales, Mason, took a
leading part in the affa;.. The duke
of York, another member of British
royalty, also took a prominent part
in the ceremonies.
The organization is known as "the
Most Noble Order of Crusaders" and
takes for its patron saint Britain's
Unknown Soldier.
1t is common knowledge that
among the leaders are some of the
most prominent men in England. In
cluded in the list of prominent men
are: Col. Walter Faber, Sir Charles
Wakefield and Lieut.. Gen. Sir Ed
ward Bothune, director general of
the territorial forces from 1912 un-
til 1917. Arthur Patterson is grand
scribe of the order.
The members wear no hoods or
sheets in the regalia, but affect a
ceremonial garb unmistakably med
ieval. A note of militarism was sup
piled by trumpets of the household
cavilry, who sounded reveille at the
conclusion Of the Westminster cere-
mony.
Each crusader vows "to give
service, to exercise personal self
sacrifice, to honor God, to be true to
the king, to serve his country and
to- practice brotherhood, without dis
tinction of rank or class, toward all
with whom am associated within
the order" The society's symbols
include a Bible, a pair of spurs,
sword, cup, chest and other objects.
1t is credited with being opposed to
socialism and militant capitalism,
deploring "the dishonesty and sus-
picion in our industrial life."
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
NEWSPAPERS CREDIT
KLAN WITH VICTORY
At OKLAHOMA POLLS
Progressive Democrats, Said to Have
Been Indorsed by Klansmen,
Swept Into Office.
xxx
xxx

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.-Pro-
gressive Democrats-presumed to
have had the support of Klansmen-
were swept into Office Friday night
at precinct caucuses throughout Ok
lahoma.
Newspapers, in their columns Sat-
urday, conceded that men favorable
to the movement of the Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan, as a result of the
precinct elections, will be in control
of at least fifty counties out of an
approximate seventy when Demo-
cratic county chairmen are elected.
In Muskogee chairmen said to have
had support. Of Klansmen were
elected in thirty-six out of a. possible
forty-seven precincts.
While Klan officials welded every
influence to prevent that issue being
injected into the campaign, news
papers and persons opposed to the
organization insisted on making the
elections Klan affair, and by doing
so, went down to defeat in almost
every instance. . ..
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
ANT|-BIbLE FIGHT IN
CANADA IS HEATED
XXX
Jews in America Act to Prevent Pas
sage of Law to Place Book in
Schools.
KKK

Cincinnati, Ohio.-Jews of America
have been asked to enlist in a fight
to prevent passage of law in Brit
ish Columbia making Bible-reading
compulsory in the public schools.
"Mr. Landsberg of Victoria" &C
cording to an article in the Jewish
Independent, published at Cleveland,
"has been in correspondence with
Charles Stohl, president of the Un-
ion (of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions) in which he asks for infor-
nation which would help the Jews
of Canada to fight this matter. A
resolution was passed at a recent
convention of trustees in the public
schools in the province, urging the
inclusion of Bible teaching" in
the curriculum. Material supplied by
the Union enabled Landsberg to con-
vince the minister of education of
the province, as we'll as members of
the Provincial Legislature, who have
this matter in charge, to withhold
the passage of the law which would
make Bible reading in the schools
compulsory. One of the trustees of
the public school. Christian Sivertz
(please read the name again) has in
troduced resolution attacking Bible
reading in the schools on the grounds
that this would be contrary to the
provision of the School Act, that the
school shall be non-sectarian."
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
INTENSIVE DRIVE FOR
BONUS LEGION aim
Mass Meeting to be Held in Every
County in Country, Committee
Announces.
-K.K.K-
XXX

The American Legion executive
committee, in session at Indianapolis,
after setting September Is to 10 in
elusive as the date for the 1924 ma
tional convention, to be held in St.
Paul, started an aggressive campaign
to support adjusted compensation
for world war veterans and went on
record as opposed to the substitution
of ordinary headstones for the
crosses that stand at the head of the
grave of every American soldier in
European cemeteries.
In the campaign to foster the sold
iers' bonus it was announced, mass
meetings would be held in every
county in the United States. John
R. Quinn, national commander, stat
ed that wealthy and selfish interests
have twisted figures and facts" to de-
feat the measure.
Figures purporting to show that
Secretary Melons treasury figures
were erroneous were presented to
the committee. The figures had been
prepared by Congressman A. Hiatt
Andrew of Massachusetts,, who sum-
married. them as follows:
"The country was told in 1922 that
we were faced with a great emerg-
ency in that we were confronted
with deficit of $3.50, 100000. Yet, as
a matter of fact, in that fiscal year
we paid off $613,0O0,OOO of the gov
ernment's debt, more than $211 ,000,-
600 in excess of all legal require
ments, and still the treasury ended
the fiscal year with a balance to its
credit of $370,0O0,00O. The treasury
estimate of its balance sheet for 1928
was $1,000, 100000 in error. Today
the surplus can no longer be over
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
ACTION BRANDED BY CITIZENS AS A
VICTORY FOR LUMBER INTERESTS
LAF0LLETTE DEMANDS
LOWER FREIGHT RATES
XXX
He Offers a Resolution for Charges
on Crops and Farm Supplies at
Pre-War Leyed.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator La
Toilette introduced a joint resolution
in the Senate directing the Interstate
Commerce Commission to proceed i'm
mediately to reduce freight rates on
agricultural products and on mate
rials and implements required on
f rms to the pre-war level.
The resolution charges that rates
on grain, livestock and other agricul-
tural products from country shipping
points to primary markets are now At
per cent in excess of the pre-war
level, while rates on grain for export
have been increased by approximate
ly 73 per cent.
Although the value of farm prod
ucts has decreased, freight rates re-
main, Senator LaFollette declares,
substantially on the levels established
when wheat was selling at So BUSH
ell, corn at $1.86 a bushel, and cotton
at 81 cents pound. 1t now requires
the value of 166 bushels of wheat to
buy an ordinary farm wagon, he says,
as compared with 1O2 bushels in 1918.
"In addition" Senator LaFollette
says, American farmers have suf-
fered from increases in every ele-
ment of the cost Of production, in
cluding taxes, so that they face heavy
net losses on their entire production" !"
It isfurther asserted that data of
the Department of agriculture shows
that in 1922 more than 100000 per-
sons moved from farms into cities,
and that because of conditions in the
agricultural districts young children
are being employed in ever increas-
ing numbers to perform the work of
grown farm hands. Existing condi-
tions, declares Senator LaFollette,
constitute an emergency which re-
quires immediate action if American
agriculture is to be spared from ap-
palling disaster"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
WHAT Will STOP L00T|NC OF STATES $4,000, 900
TIMBER TRACTS? WE'D LIKE TOO KNOW
|OUSTER MEETING WAS
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
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COX'S REMOVAL CULMINATES A
TWO YEAR FIGHT
xxx

State Forester w. T. Cox was
fired by the state forestry board late
Friday afternoon.
The vote to oust him was 5 to 4,
and occurred in an executive session,
from which the public was excluded.
Scores who had been excluded from
the meeting, but awaited outside the
door, leaders. of the fight for conserva-
ton of the forests, branded the ac-
ton as victory for the lumber in
terests, declaring it virtually gave
them permission to loot the states
$50 100000 timber tracts.
The custer of Cox eliminates a
two-year fight, during which Gov.
Preus has repeatedly shown his dis
like for the forester, and during
which he at several times was about
to bring about to bring about his dis
missal, only to be prevented by the
bitter opposition of conservatiOnists.
Dismissal of State Forester W.
Cox was indicated this afternoon
when test vote showed four for Cox
and five against him.
This vote was taken after a motion
to dismiss Mr.. Cox summarily had
been made. 1t was on another mo-
tion to lay the former motion on the
table.
The lineup of the members Of the
board on the Cox dismissal is indi-
Gated by this vote, it is believed.
Those voting to lay the motion on
the table (in favor of Cox were
Dean W. C. Coffey, Prof. E. G. Chey-
ney, G. D. Veibert, Cloquet and W. M.
Taber, Park Rapids.
Those voting against the motion
were: Otto Diercks, state timber su-
perintendent; Harry Gearhart, Du-
luth, lumber interest attorney; Kaiser,
Bagley; Haven Little, Karson, and
w. B. Douglas, St. Paul, president Of
the board.
The afternoon session started with
the presentation of a number Of pc
titions asking that Mr.. Cox be re-
tanned. Included in those are the
Minnesota State Game Protective
league, the Ramsey County Mems
Garden club, the Minnesota State
Horticultural society, and the Wo-
mems club of Thief River Falls. In
addition there were many individuals
who presented statements.
Mr.. Diercks then made the motion
which, as adopted, discharges Mr.. Cox.
1t proposes the naming of M.
Thornton, now state surveyor general
of logs and lumber, as acting state
forester, pending the appointment Of
a permanent forester.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
MICHIGAN FAvORS
OREGON SCHOOL Law
XXX
Attempt Is Being Made to Compel
All Children to Attend Free Pub
lie Schools.
-KKK-

Washington, D. C.-Three years
ago Michigan cast 353,s17 votes in
favor of sending all pupils to public
schools. This year a renewed attempt
is being made to change the state
constitution to include these sections:
"From and after August 1, 1925,
all children residing in the state of
Michigan, between the ages of seven
years and sixteen years, shall at
tend public school until they have
graduated from the eighth grade.
"The legislature shall enact all
necessary legislation to render this
section effective"
The opposition to this proposition
is well organized, since Catholic,
Lutheran and private schools of all
sorts, representing a huge invest
ment in property as well as thou
sands of votes, are against it. The
general sense of the people of Michi-
gan, however, seems to favor a uni
versal use Of the public schools, and
the supreme court Of the state is
now being invoked to pass upon the
constitutionality of laws which
friends Of the amendment say pre-
vent the question being brought be-
fore the people.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
KHAN SWEEPS LOUISIANA
xxx

New Orleans, La. - The Catholic
ticket was swept into oblivion by the
avalanche of Ku Klux Klan votes in
the state election.
New Orleans, the stronghold Of
Catholics in the South, went for
Fuqua, the Ku Klux Klan nominee
by a majority of to 2. Long, also
an Catholic, secured enough votes
to show the utter weakness of Cath
olics as a political factor in this city.
The combined vote of the two anti
Catholic candidates is more than
double the vote of the Catholic can
didate in the city of New Orleans.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01

looked or disguised and the argu-
ments on the basis of a deficit are
no longer possible. Now we are
told there can be no tax reduction if
the adjusted compensation obliga-
tion is met. I have looked into these
figures with considerable care and
am convinced that this statement is
as baseless as the treasury estimates
Of 1922
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
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KANDIYOHI COUNTY SHERIFF
RAIDS FIREMEN'S BALL
XXX
Roscoe Booze at New London Gather
ing Creates Disturbance and
Makes Big Sensation.
BULLETIN

{ Special to the Call of The NOrth)
New London, Minn-It is alleged
that the raid on the stag party here
the other night which resulted in SEN
sational arrests was brought about
by information sent by New London
Klansmen.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01
KU KLUX ADVERTISE

Seattle, Wash.-Seattleites were
recovering Wednesday from a night
time thrill provided by the Ku Klux
Klan when brilliantly illuminated
airplane flew over the city carrying
fiery cross on one wing and the let
ters K. K. X. on the other. The last
previous demonstration Of the kind
here was by tobacco company.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-01

In society we dig for our supplies;
in society we share them.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
GAVE CARDUI
TO DAUGHTER
Alabama Mother Had Thor.
ough Confidence in Car
dui, as a Result of Her
Own Long, Success
full Use of 1t.

Gadsden, Ala.--"My back and hips
gave me great deal of trouble be-
fore my first baby was born,' Mrs
w. J. Daugherty recently told a Wis
itor at her home on Route 2, here.
"When / became the second
time" continued Mrs. Daugherty, u
had the same trouble, only worse. >.
Medicines did me no good at all: in
fact, | got worse instead of better.
Finally. when / had given up hope OF
getting well. a neighbor told me
about Cardui. My husband got me
bottle AMI / started on it at once.
Immediately j began to improve.
I have taken Cardui ever since.
when / get puny. :. For female trou-
bic it can't be beat. j gave it to
my daughter when she was thirteen.
II took it because / suffered so
from aching all over-arms, legs and
head. My head would ache for weeks
at a time. After taking Cardui i
have completely recovered"
Cardui is perfectly harmless,
mild. purely vegetable extract of
medicinal herbs. One of the in
gradients of which it is composed has
been known to medical science for
over six hundred years and has been
recommended by medical writers as
being of great value in many female
ailments. Sold everywhere.
TRY the drug store first.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
TWO ARE INDICTED
Frank Gordon and +. E. Martin Held
In Robbery Cases.

Frank S. Gordon and T.. +. Martin
arrested by San Antonio police in con-
nection with several hold-ups. were in
dicted by the Thirty seventh District
Court grand jury Thursday on charges
of robbery by assault with Firearms
and burglary and theft. Seven indict-
ments were returned against each
man. Both are in the Bexar county
Jail where they have been since their
arrest.
The two men were arrested on April
10. following the robbery of an en-
ploye of the Magnolia filling station
at South Flores and Arsenal streets
Martin. who is % years old. is said to
be I'll former oil field worker while
Gordon. % is n restaurant man and
formerly lived at Palestine. They are
brothers-in-law.
L. Z. Engle, the Magnolia company
employee from whom about SIC was
taken, is said to have identified the
two men as the ones who had held
him up. Engle had the presence of
mind to obtain the number of the car
driven by the men and it was this that
led TO their arrest. The men also are
claimed BY the police to have partici-
pated in other robberies.
The grand jury in its report Thurs
day returned % true bills and five mo
bills Three Of the five "no bills"
were in cases where the defendants
had been charged with violating the
Dean act. -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
HEARST INTERESTS
TO CONSOLIDATE 10
LARGE PUBLICATIONS
New Corporation to Be In.
corporated Under Laws
of California.

New York. April 25.-The William
Randolph Hearst publishing interests
have decided upon a consolidation Of
the capital stocks of ten Hearst pub
LEGATIONS to be owned by one holding
company to be known as the Hearst
Publications. Inc. it was learned yes
terday. The new holding company has
been incorporated under the laws of
California. Halsey, Stuart and Com
pany. Inc, of New York, have been
engaged as the bankers to handle the
underwriting of new bond issue in
connection with the consolidation.
The new company will own all the
outstanding capital stocks of its SUBJ
sidiary companies which publish the
following newspapers and magazines /.
San Francisco Examiner. San Fran,
cisco Call and Post, Los Angeles Ex-
aminer, Los Angeles Evening Herald.
Oakland Post Enquirer, Good House.
keeping. Cosmopolitan, Harper's Ba-
zaar, Motor and Motor Boating.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25

San Francisco, Cal. April 25.--In.
dications are that consumers will pay
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25

view of the fact that the foreign coun-
tries can be counted onto absorb over
$SO.OOO,0 900 worth of American canned
goods this year.
Canned Meat Outlook Good.
Canned meat products have bright
outlook, according to meat packers.
but the prospect for ample supplies of
mutton end lamb are not so bright for
the next six months. One reason for
this is the high price of wool which
has restricted the marketing of lambs
were marketed from the California
farms and ranges last year. Federal
regulation and protective measures by
adjoining states prohibits the shipment
of animals on the hoof from quaran-
tined sections. They may be slaugh-
tered within those areas and the prod
ucts, properly inspected, may be
shipped, but this would entail higher
transportation costs and consequent
higher prices to consumers.
The cost of retailing meats is now
being made the subject of exhaustive
investigation by Mid-western univer-
sites and the Department of Agricul,
ture. Early results of this study show
that the cost of doing business" in
retail meat shops hovers around is
to 20 per cent of sales. In most
cases where costs are % per cent or
more of sales. the stores are losing
money, while dealers operating at is
per cent or less of sales are making
profit. This means that each dol
lars worth of goods bought by the
retailer must be sold around $40, to
break even.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
LEMONS GO UP

Thrift. eight New Oil Wells Started in
California.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
TEXAS LAND FRAUD
PROBERS TO SPEED
UP EXAMINATIONS
Helm Urges Committee to
Go to Lover Valley in
May.

Washington. d. C., April 25.-The
Senate committee investigating alleged
land frauds in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley of Texas put on more pressure
today after receiving appeals yester-
day for speedier examination of wit
nesses.
Edgar G. Blessing. solicitor for the
Postoffice Department. lodged an OBJ
lection TO keeping Rush ID. Simmons
chief postal inspector. on the stand
during introduction of "irrelevant'
matter. Simmons has occupied the wit.
ness stand during most of the time
consumed thus far by the inquiry. and
committee members concurred in the
solicitors desire to hasten completion
OF his examination.
A number of other witnesses also
have been kept waiting. and Senator
Heflin. Democrat. Alabama. the prose
cutor. has expressed a desire TO dave
the committee go to Indiana. In
coin. Neb., and the Rio Grande Valley.
about the middle Of MAY. TO question
alleged fraud victims and view cosdi-
tons at first hand.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
b Can and Can Opener
Emancipation Proclan,a-
ton, Is Slogan.
AN SALES CAMPAIGN
|od Year in Corn, Peas,
| Tomatoes and Salmon
Is Predicted.
Nv j. G. ROYLE

bright BY Tho San Antonio Light.
Few York, April 25.-The question
ch Gamers in this country say they
in this coming summer is show
by women want to be free?" The
stern Gamers Association in ses-
at Chicago, will base a selling
paign this coming year on the slo-
that the tin can and the can
per are the emancipation proclama-
freeing the wontn of the world
n domestic drudgery.
tatisticians of the United States
nsury Department some years ago
blished the fact that 30 per cent
the food purchases for the Amer
label are in the hands of women.
opinions of the Gamers carried to
housewives something of both n
mise and warning. A canvass OF
situation by ]. A. Lee, secretary
he Western Gamers, showed pros
Is for an apparently satisfactory
in corn, peas, tomatoes and
non. There has been q fairy
Tough cleanup of existing stocks
prospects indicate good crops and
Die conditions for 1924.
california, according to representa-
y from that state, faces short
/ coop caused by frosts and drought
Oh left irrigation reservoirs poor
Supplied. and they expect a de-
ID which will readily absorb the
over 1923 pack. They say adverse
Ither served to reduce the Cal
Lila fruit crop to 20 per cent of
normal.
Growers Band Together.
utter county where about 40 per
of the California peaches are
yn, suffered severe losses amount
in some orchards to Is per cent,
lie Yuba, Butte and Sacramento
hties also sustained heavy damage.
fisticians estimate the damage to
rs in Sacramento county at %
cent while the plum crop of the
Joaquin valley will he 80 per
under normal. The same ap-
B to cherries. These statements
~ the inevitable conclusion of
er prices in some sections.
he combination of increased bust
prompt clean-ups of stock and
II crops in some districts has in
I'd wholesalers to contract early for
re 1924 output, but prices so far
been held to an even keel by
ting stocks on hand. Wisconsin
and Indiana tomatoes are known
be in good position.
some other parts of the country,
vers have banded together to in
larger canning operations so that
products which ripen too fast for
h shipment may not be lost. This
ency is noticeable in the South,
re peach production promises to
heavy. Packers assert, however,
the future production of standard
ming vegetables already has pro-
ed to the limit Of safety. The ex-
demand is not being neglected in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25
MILLS PASS DIVIDENDS
Further Indication of Depression in
Textile Industry.

Boston, April 25.-The passing of
its dividend by the Narragansett Mills
and the reduction of the semi-annual
dividend of the Everett Mills from
So to 81 share, are taken here as
further confirmation of the depression
in the New England textile industry.
1t is reported in Manchester, the
home of the Amoskeag plants, that
that concern may close its cotton
plant completely June 1 unless bust
ucss improves materially. The Man.
chester branch of the w. II. NOEL
vain Shoe Company is running on a
reduced schedule, with some units
closed entirely.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-25

more for their lemonade during the
hot months than at any timt in many
years. The California Fruit Growers
Exchange has decreased the price of
best grades of lemons % cents to S3.75
a box, and this advance is expected to
be followed by others until So a box
is reached. Adverse weather condi-
tons have curtaiied the crop and re-
suited in a shortage of the larger
varieties.
Thirty eight new OF, wells were
started in this state this week, COM
pared with 81 last week, bringing the
total so far this year to 80.