Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-11-15

she replied that the sheriff sent
her. Hamilton also implied that
her admittance fee at the hos.
pital was paid for by the sheriff.
The implication by Hamilton
in regards to this incident was
that the Lee fracas was not done
by the Khan but that it was
perpetrated by the Sheriff in ord
er to damage the KKK's reputa.
ton.
"Klansmen do not wear hoods
over their faces. The men who
beat up Mr.. Lee were hooded and
not Klansmen," Hamilton assert.
ed.
Despite the fact that thous.
ands were standing in a miser-
ably cold rain to hear him, Ham
ilton drew laughter on many &C.
casions. He told of his recent
arrest in Horny county in re.
gard to the Myrtle Beach killing.
He said that it was the first
time in his life that he had ever
been arrested and that he had
never before even received a
parking ticket. "When I was ar
rested this time, they sent Is
men to arrest me and I was
jailed with two men holding
machine guns on me. l must
really be a dangerous man." he
said.
Furthermore, when l was
locked up in the Horny county
Jail, a Negro prisoner was in the
cell on my left and another Ne
gro on my right. They wouldn't
let me call my wife and she was
on the verge of Mysteries when
she didn't hear from me for "a
hours" he said.
Hamilton blasted the newspap-
ers who have referred to him
as a "self-styled Grand Dragon
of the South Carolina Klan."
He said that he was duly elected
and WAS the Grand Dragon. He
also said that he came to South
Carolina from Georgia with the
sole purpose of organizing the
xxx and carrying on its work
in the Palmetto state.
mo United Nations flag will
fly in South Carolina over any
school in an area where there is
a Khan organization" Hamilton
said. This assertion came follow.
ing a blistering attack on the
Jews whom the Khan calls sub
versive and Algcr Hiss, designer
of the United Nations charter.
Hamilton also charged that
President Harry Truman is sup
posed to he President Of the I'm
tied States but that he is only
a figurchead for the Jews. He
criticized General George {.
Marshall for his appointment OF
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg of New
York as assistant secretary OF
defense. He said Mrs. Rosenberg
was A Hungarian-born Jew.
Although idntifying himself as
an ordained Deacon in the Bap-
fist Church. Hamilton blasted
many Baptists ministers and Of
ficials who have preached
against the activities of the
xxx. He also criticized some
ministers and officials of the
Methodist churches and pointed
out medicines where services
would not be held until Negroes
were given the opportunity to
attend. Presbyterian individuals
were hit lightly.
South Carolina Governor j.
Strom Thurmond was accused OF
having been photographed re-
Gently with what Hamilton de-
scribed as "Pinks," his word for
Communists. One of these
"pinks" was Baptist who had
recently written an article
against the Klan in a Baptist
publication, he said.
Hamilton stated that the xxx
would fight any effort of Con-
gress to give Federal Aid to
education. He stated here that
federal aid would tend to give
the government more control
over education non-segregation
and that forced mixing of Ne
groes and whites could be dictat.
ed by Washington.
Speaking in reference to the
Justice Department having label.
ed the Khan as subversive, that
is with communistic leanings,
Hamilton said that in truth
Washington was subversive and