Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-08-06
FINAL PLANS MADE
FOR KHAN PARADE
POLICING SATURDAY
No Suspension of Trolley
Traffic Is Provided in
Regulations.
LINE TO FORM IN AREA
EAST OF FIRST STREET
All Vehicles to Be Halted One
Square Back of Route of
Hooded Marchers.

Final arrangements for the Ku
klux Khan parade on Saturday after
noon We're made public in a general
order issued by acting Superintendent
of Police Charles Evans this afternoon.
The order provides that the parade
will form in the area east of First
street and north of A street north
east, with head of the column at First
and B streets northeast. Promptly at
3 o clock it will move over the follow
| ing route:
West on 3 street to First street
northwest, south on First street IN
Pennsylvania avenue. west on the
north side of Pennsylvania avenue IN
Fifteenth street south on Fifteenth
to B street, entering the Monument
| Grounds at that point.
No Trolley Suspension.
The order provides for no suspen-
sion of street car traffic either on or
across the parade route: provided.
however, that street cars moving
north and south on Seventh. Ninth.
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets will
be permitted TO cross only when il
interference with the passage Of the
parade and provided further. that
from o'clock until the last unit has
cleared First street the Capital
Traction cars will be routed off Of
First street between B street and
! Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
No moving vehicular traffic of any
description except ambulances and
public service vehicles will he permit
ted on B street between First street
northeast and First street northwest
after 2 o'clock, nor on First street
/ northwest between B street and Penn
sylvania avenue, nor on either side OF
Pennsylvania avenue between First
and Fifteenth streets, nor on Fifteenth
street between Pennsylvania avenue
and street after 2:45 o'clock.
Policemen will be stationed at all in
| terseCtions, one square back of the pa
! rade route, to divert all vehicular traf-
| nc except such commercial vehicles
! whose destination is at a point within
| the restricted square. This ban on
! vehicles one square back OF the pa
rade route will remain in effect until
the last of the parade has passed three
squares beyond given point.
Officers Activity Feverish.
! With feverish activity officers of
J the Khan, as well as railroad officials
were preparing today TO handle the
vast hordes coming to Washington
/ for the demonstration Saturday
| L. A. Mueller, grand kleagle of the
/ District, who conceived and nurtured
the idea for the parade of the hooded
| Knights along Pennsylvania avenue
/ surrounded by score of his lieuten-
ants, worked assiduously throughout
the morning on the final details for
| the procession. The grand kleagle
would see no one; his Office was bar
| red to all strangers, and especially
! lnquls1tive newspaper men.
Simulta neously the transportation
/ officers of the five railway lines run
ming into the Union Station and of
/ flcials of the Washington Terminal
! held an animated conference to com.
plete arrangements for moving into
| and out of the Capital the caravans
of special trains which are coming
from points east of the Mississippi
! River.
Additional Specials.
| Every hour brings reports IF add
| tions to the Khan specials, and the
| railroads now confidently expert n
move at least $4,000 Klansmen and
their families. Motor caravans from
| the nearby States proba bly, will aue.
ment this number by 10000 There
| have been unconfrmed rumors. too.
that Khan delegations from Norfolk
and contiguous territory have char
tered several river steamers as their
| mode of transportation.
As the railroads have granted 2
! special scale rate to the Klansmen
which is approximately equivalent TO
half the regular fare, there is every
indication that the Khan specials will
/ grow until the last moment Each
special will carry between and 10
cars with a seating capacity of 80
to a car. All of the specials will
be composed entirely of coaches, in.
| dicative of the fact that the visitin &
Klansmen will leave the Capital i'm
! mediately after the ceremonies Sat.
/ urday night.
Khan officials continued today Il
guard the details of their program
with utmost secrecy, as the current
of rumors grew in intensity. Unit
every plan in connection with this
demonstration is definitely and finally
agreed upon by Mr.. Mueller and his
colleagues, the Khan leaders propose II
maintain their strict policy of retj
cence Then an Official communioue
will be issued by the grand kleaEle
giving as much information a. he
thinks the public should know
Flow of Rumors.
The unofficial flow of rumors con
tain virtually every type of story
imaginable. One has it that large
group of Texas rangers are en- route
to participate in the procession. An
other says that the women of the
Ku Klux Khan, composed of wives AND
daughters of bona fida klansmen, have
planned to have a contingent in th'
parade.
Two conflicting stories also have
grown out of the Maryland, Virginia
and West Virginia motor caravans
One indicates that the .Klansmen will
park their machines in the Arlington
horce show grounds, on the Virginia
side of Highway Bridge, where il Is
proposed to hold an elaborate cere
monial and burn the largest fiery
cross ever erected. The other report;
that the parking grounds will be II
the vicinity of Bethesda, Md. klar
headquarters, however, would neither
deny nor affirm any of these reports.
The Detective Bureau was advised
today by one of its members, whc
claims to have his information
straight, that all klansmen coming U
Washington in automobiles will carry
small tin plate under the license tag
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