San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-08
CAPITAL MECCA
FOR KHAN
HORDES
$4,000 Expected to March
in Gigantic Parade
in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Aug. s. - The
national capital was Mecca for Ku
Klux Klansmen today as Pennsylvania
avenue was roped off for procession
of robed and hooded ranks in which
khan leaders believed $4,000 of their
number would march along the route
from the capitol to the White
House.
Beginning in the early hours of the
day, special trains rolled in from
widespread sections of the East to
add thousands to the influx which set
in yesterday.
Dusty motor caravans brought in
other hundreds from far and near TO
participate in the demonstration,
which will continue through tomorrow
night.
Khan headquarters, established in
the new Willard Hotel, was the local
point for all pre-parade activities with
an endless stream of new arrivals seek
ing direction on the days events.
MARCH UNMASKED.
Information booths established at
Union Station, however, relieved some
Of the pressure.
The capital police, on duty in full
force. were under orders to clear Penn
sylvania avenue of all traffic 80 min
utes before the scheduled start of the
parade at p. m.
White-robed women and children,
families of the visiting klanSmen, will
match stride with their men-folk in
the procession, with a flank and rear
guard of police keeping step.
No masks will be worn by the pa
raiders.
Keep your eyes on the person in
front of you," were final Instructions
issued to the marchers by khan Off
Gals today in cooperating with po-
lice precautions against any chance Of
disorder getting start in the pro-
ceedings.
EXPECT NO DISORDER.
Leaders among the large negro ele-
ment in Washington, have given assur-
ance to Police Inspector Grant that
members of the race have been eau
toned against letting any responsible
ity for possible disorder rest upon
them and pastors have added n word
of caution in their sermons.
The police force, strategically as
signed, to watch the days events, ex-
poets no disorder, but is prepared to
squelch the first sign of it.
Breaking ranks after the parade,
which, if the predicted number Of
marchers materializes will continue
well into the night, the visitors will
gather in the Sylvan Theater in the
Mall, to hear addresses by khan lead
ers.
Amplifiers have been erected TO
throw the voices over a wide eXpanse
of the grounds surrounding the Wash
ington monument.
NEGROES DECLINE.
Khan officials were unsuccessful in
their efforts to obtain the services of
a negro band to swell the chorus of
their own band in the parade, the
bandmaSter of the negro community
center band declining the invitation.
AS the parade hour approached,
Thomas L. Avaunt, who was arrested
but later released yesterday after dis
tributing handbills assailing the khan,
announced that he would make a last
minute attempt to stop the parade by
seeking a court injunction against it.
After the holding of Sunday morn
ing service on a site just across the
Potomac in Virginia, the marchers
will wind up their program tomorrow
night with the burning of a fiery
cross.
An S0-foot tree with a cross-piecn
30 feet long, oil-soaked for the oc-
casion, will provide the spectacle and
is said to be the largest cross in the
organizations history.