The Phoenix index., 1940-09-07
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NObOM01H, .. C.-- (ANP)- -.
Gov. Burnett R. Maybank last
Thursday night vehemently con-
demned the Ku Klux Klan Ger
man Bund alliances. The governor
spoke from Columbia over hook
up of radio stations both in North
and South Carolina.
The governor said in part, "The
law enforcement officers of South
Carolina are capable of enforcing
the law better than any member
of the German American Bund
and any Ku Klux Bunsters, who
attempt to take ever law enforce
ment in South Carolina will FIND
| themselves in Jail where they
ought to be. am prepared to use
the full power of the governor S
office to insure that law enforce.
ment in South Carolina remains in
pro-American hands"
BLAST SIGNIFICANT
This vitriolic blast at the Klan by
the states chief executive is con
sidered very significant. During
the administration Of other gov
ernorS the halls and grounds OF
the state university here were used
by the Klan for their state con-
vention. Less than two months age
Ben E. Adams, grand dragon OF
the Ku KluX Klan and former edi-
tor of now defunct weekly, spoke
along with FBI men at the state
convention of the. police chiefs
and 'sheriffs at Florence South
Carolina.
According to Grand Dragon
Adams, he was informed by James
E. Colescott, imperial wizard of the
New Jersey KlanSmen who met
with the bund at Mountain View
N. J. have been removed.
The white dailies in the state
! were particularly vitriolic on the
issue. In Spartanburg where less
than a month ago four innocent
colored men were carried from
their homes and beaten by hooded
men, the Spartanburg Herald said
The Klan stands for all that is
un-American. 1t believes in the
doctrine of fear and force. 1t rides
the highway at night in grotesque
gowns. 1t has been charged with
dragging people from their homes
and taking them to secluded spots
where they were soundly beaten!
The bund believes in fifth column
work in the U. S. It acknowledges
Hitler as it's fuchrer. 1t is just
about as American as any lit
tie organization we have except
the Ku klux Klan."
BORED LIKE TER
MITES
From the Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte. N. c.: Sufficient in
vestigation probably would reveal
that the fifth columnists in France,
Norway, Austria and other coun-
tries that have been taken over by
Hitter were loud in their proclama"
tions of patriotic loyalty to their
countries while boring like ter
mites in the foundation OF their
national security. It's time for the
American people to judge a new re
vived organization by what it does.
by its connections, associates, and
affiliations rather than by what its
leaders and srokesrnen publicly pro
claim aloud The word American
ism is being used to cover a null
titude of un-American sins"
In the upper part of the state
where the Klan a year ago rode un-
molested, intimidating Negro vot-
ers, invading small communities
gown of mauve fashioned in lace
and robbing the colored residents
without a single move being made
by the law enforcement bodies to
stop them, the leading daily in the
upper part of the state, the Green
vile News, said,
Such citizens IN this section of
the country as may nave IN the
past been defending or expressing
sympathy with the ku KluX Klan
on the grounds that it stands for
Americanism may find some fur
ther food for thought in dispatches
and photographs from New Jersey
where the Klan appears to have
become very friendly with the Ger