The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 6, 1921, Page 14

KLUX LASHES EX-SOLDIER Punishment for. Mistreating| Wife, His Tormentors Tell Him The second of ow trying to em ie state, —Bditor, ‘The scene shifts to Dallas. Dallas seems the heart of Ku Klux Klandom in the South, if | there is such a thing. “Our best citizens belong to the Klan,” one hears on the streets in Dallas. “Be careful whom you talk to about it bere, because this is pretty much of a Klan town.” One does not have to be tn Dallas & half-hour to find the truth of that statement. Klan organizers cireu- late in the office buildings, getting | Klan recruits who are willing to Pay the required “klectokon” of $16.50 to be allowed to wear a hood, | & gown, and to attend the tar and/ feathering parties. Two newspapers are actively Against the Klan, altho a monthly | Publication of ilrepute speaks of} the klan, “with {ts fine poise, its fane and trustworthy leadership, and its pursuit of definite social | philosophy.” | BRAND BELLBOY WITH NITRATE OF SILVER Dallas’ klan activity broke out| April 1 when masked men took @ Dellboy from the Adolphus hotel— Dallas’ pride and joy as a hostelry out in the country, whipped him, | branded “K. K. K." with nitrate of | silver on his forehead, and returned | him to the lobby of the Adolphus hotel. He was accused of intimacy with a white woman. That immodiately gave a group of ‘unscrupulote Dallas negroes a beau tiful idea_and they sent out bi: Mailing letters to Dallas negroes Who were known to have money. ‘The letters read: Put $250 on the back porch Saturday night if you don't want to get croaked. Don't be heard from, either. BLACK K. K. K. The amount demanded ranged from $50 all the way to $250. “The bad coons are taking ad. vantage of the way the white people have scared the negroes,” the Dallas Police reasoned. “Some negroes ought to take a shot at the ‘Black K.K. K-" with a rife.” ‘That is just what one negro did— _ but the “Black K. K. K." had left its impression on the minds of the Then the white Ku Klux Klan of Dallas held a parade, May 21. ‘Was downtown. Suddenly the street lights on the main streets went out, before the people who were not on the scheme knew the cause Hine of ghostly figures was seen come out of the door of the Ma Jestic theatre and start down one - Dallas’ most important business ‘The parade was led by an enor. He was, followed at 20 by another kianaman, carry. ing the “fiery cross,” the oid “fiery cross” of Scottish Highlander le fends, which the Ku Klux Klan of 4865 adopted as its symbol and Which the klan of 1921 also has taken up. Bebind the man with the “fiery ross” the kiansmen marched, each one clothed from head to foot in hood and white robe, ench robe Dearing the insignia of red, white and blue crosses over, the left breast. The men walked 20 paces apart, in perfect silence, and the impression the ghostly parade made At the head of the Marchers were the officials in thet IN OPEN LETTER TD WOMEN “4 Mrs. Little Tells How S| Suffered and How — Cured Philadel hia, Pa. —“‘I was not able| to do my ouse | work and had to e| down most of the} time and felt bad| in my left side. My monthly periods | were irregular, | sometimes five or tab ig months, t and thi year and a half and doctored but ge any im-| ement. A neighbor recommended | fy dia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- id te me, and the second day after P itarte tarted taking ite I began to fe better and Lkepton taking it forseven months. Now I keep house and per- form all my household duties. You can use these facts as you please and I will recommend Vegetable Com- | ind ‘4 averyene who suffers as 1) Leno Littie, 3455 Liv- | Eegston 3 St, Phitsasipnia. Pa, How much harder the daily tasks | of a woman become when sbe suffers | from such distressing arpptoms and | weaka@ss as did Mrs. Little. Such troubles may be speedily overcome by | Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, Advertisement, THE SEATTLE STAR “Please Go Away and Let Me Sleep!” Says Lou; Geraldine Locks Him Out | NEW YORK, Aug, 6.—Lou Tellegen, who ts reported suing for separation from Geraldine Farrar, famous Metropolitan opera singer, was barr a wall of bellboys, bouncers house detectives at the Rite Carl ton hotel today. “Mr, Tellegen says, Please go away and lot me sleep,’ * was the the message from the be d actor's bedehamber. And as for the beautiful Ger aldine, she was also in a state of siege at her residence on 7ith st. Nobody could get in, not even husband Tellegen, In fact, Tellegen alleges that his wife wert so far as to change the locks on the front door so his Titan, ete mous klan’s traditional order, grand grand Cyclops, grand Turk, 20th man bore an en placard, bearing the Invisible Empire.” read the Yesterday,” “Here ‘orever,” “White Su 100 cent American,” Native “AN Pure Whi “Dallas Must Be Clean,” “For Our Sisters,” “For Our Mothers,” Daughters,” “Parasites, ers, Go! “Gamb! erates, Gol “Our Little rls Must Be Protected,” “The Guilty Must Pay.” “Right Will Prevail. The klan’s parade covered a loop six blocks long” and a block wide, and was in the form of an endless chain. It presumably began with Today, premac All “Degen }the American flag and ended, there fore, with the man directly in front of the flag-bearer, but the details of beginning and ending were attend ed to nside the Majestic theatre. thru which the parade trooped, the spectators could see no break in the line The klansmen did not seem to care particularly whether thelr iden tity was diecovered, or not It was @ hot night and many of the march ers often lifted their hoods to get a breath of air, and worried not that interested lookers-on exclaimed, “Oh, there Charlie ! Look John, there's Fred C He and his wife live Just three doors up the street from us.” KLANSMEN MIX THRU SPECTATORS They took no chances in having their parade interrupted, however. Klansmen, about 200 of them, in ad. dition to the $00 marchers, saw to that. A kiansman evidently was re- sponsible for the street lights being switched off and on at the proper time. The police force didn't care that the lights went out—or else the klan, was represented there, too. n in civilian clothes were helping the traffic “cops” at every corner. Did a hurried motor driver, impatient at the traffic Jam, blare his horn once to urge the parade to get out of the way? He didn't do it again. The first blare always brought & very respectful, but very firm, “citizen,” who would appear out of the crowd and say, “I don't believe I'd do that, please!” ‘The next day al! Dallas was talk ing about the klan, and its member. ship there has jumped up by leaps and bounds sinee. The Dal klan'y next action of note was the whipping of Edward Enger, an ex-soldier, the night of June 13, Some klansmen have de nied that the klan whipped Engers, but some have admitted it. The Klan wrote a Dallas newspaper a statement, signed with its official seal, saying there was no authoriza- tion for the use of the klan’s name in the Enger’s case, but at the same time, devoting four pages to @ recitation of Enger's alleged mis- demeanors, Engers was at work tn a filling station he owned when two men came into the place, “We have a warrant for your ar rest,” Engers said one said, flashing @ badge. “Come with us.” Engera attended to a few details about the station and then went with the men. They took him to a side street, where eight masked men sat in a motor car. THREATENED WITH NMAN Engers backed away, only to have 4@ revolver thrust in his face. “Come with me or we'll kill you," its holder threatened. “I got in the car and we started off,” Engers said. “I was quiet until the sped into the grounds. Then I yelled for heip. One of the men stuck his thumbs in my and another put his hands across my mouth. A third hit me in the face and head with the butt of bis pistol. They took me to a tonely spot. oyt of the car,’ one ordered. y started to tie me to a post. ‘That's not nocessary,’ I said. ‘I can take it like a man. HM you think I've really done anything I shouldn't have done, you ean kill me for it. “They didn’t say anything, but tied me to the post, The ‘lash fell about 20 times. I could feel the bleed running down my back when they untied me, “The man who had handled the big blacksnake whip came around to me, “Do you know who we are?” he asked. “I suppose you're the Klux, 1 answered. the man said. dd, ‘What have you whipped me for?’ I demanded. “Wor iil treatment of your former wife,’ the man said.” The klansmen drove Engers to Red Quk, then put him out of the “Here's $5," one sald, handing him a $5 bill, “Keep on going.” car eyes Ku Eingers called a livery car ang ro- | | turned to crisscrossed deep gashes. whose {ll klan beat him 15 months before the incident and had since married again. @ “I would not have had it happen for a million dollars,” she said. Dallas, Hie with red Engers’ treatment him, back welts wife, allegedly was and for i. falr | the | was divorced from | fatthful work. Many of the details of crash of the Purrar-Tellegen ro- mance were still enveloped in a mystery today. It appoars, hat both parties were con separation actions, Tellegen’s complaint is sald to be that his wife, in tho eaprk manner of a Carmen — which part she has sung so often on the locked the notified him thru her lnwyers to tell her where she could ship bis clothes, This ultimatum about his wardrobe reached Tellegen, it was reported, while he was on latchkey would not the GO UNCUT Earnest effort to reduce the operating expenses of Seattle's schools and to keep next year's | budget well within the avail | able funds characterized two | meetings of the school board Friday. Expeeted froworks over the | recent action of the board in | regard to reorganization of the | school healih department, taken when President KE, Shorrock | was absent thru a mivunder | standing, did not develop, In | stead, it was voted to retain all employes of the health de partment until a committee ap | pointed by President Shorrock | shall have made a survey and | recommended to the board pro | posed details of reorganization. | Recommendations of the tax re duction council, which Include cut-| ting the staff-of nurses from 25 10, will be given careful consider tion, the board promised In reference to the resignation of | | Dr. Ira C, Brown, for years head ot | the school medical department, Di rector Walter Santmyer stated he} was under the impresion that Dr. | Brown wished to resign, when he voted to accept the resignation at last week's meeting of the beard | TRIBUTE PAID TO | RESIGNED DOCTOR “No physician in Seattle tas a better reputation with the govern Ment end in the state," Santmyer aid, “and if there wan any prees-| ure brought to bear in connection | with his resignation I want to with | draw my vote in acceptance of it.” The matter was not reopened, however, At the afternoon meeting of the board the report for the fiscal year ending June 30 was eubmitted. It showed that the total expenditure of the maintenance fund was $5,239, 602.19, while the budget provided for | $5,590,126.69. This means, it was explained, that the’expenditures for the year actually were $33,492.51) less than the umount provided in the budget to cover them, PROPOSAL, TO RENT STADIUM APPEARS A proposai to rent the stadium, | which can be had for $1,500 a year, for school sports, was placed before the board by T. R. Cole, assistant | superintendent of achools. This was referred to the athletic board. At the adjourned session in the evening the matter of reducing ex penses by holding night schools | twiee instead of three times a week, was discussed. This would save, ac: cording to a schedule submitted with the recommendation of Superin- tendent Cooper, a net amount of | $12,621, Action on this matter was | deterred. | On the proposition of fixing Su-| perintendent Cooper's salary for next.year at $10,000, the samg aa this year, Directors Henry King and Carl Croson voted aye, Direc tor Santmyer cast ho and | | President Shorrock voted aye on the! basis that no change has been made | in other salaries. Shorrock stated | that Cooper's salary was one of the| highest in the United States for a city school superintendent, TE. ACHERS’ SALARIES | rd voted to room where new to the city this |comed and made the wet avh teachers coming fall may be wel to feel at home by teachers. | | de a Director Shorrock declared that cutting expenses the teachers’ in The klan on the same day that| Engers was whipped, sent $50 to| the Dallas Dispatch for pel 0 ation | to a free milk fund for babies. More | recently, it sent $500 to the cor Cottage, a Dallas institution homeless children. There have Sond many cases in Texas where the klan | has been charitable, * Monday: How the Waco Klan got “in bad"; where the state officials stand; the future of the movement in Texas. AMUSEMENTS _ lest Spot in" » NEW SE VAUDEVILI THEATRE ots {th and Pine Vitlote. 2526 Thin Week—Matinee ny “SMILIN’ THROUGH" Jane Cowl's Grent Succens est Be to BL 1 25e-500 PANTAGES Matinees 2:30 mt wencepe General Adml Matinees 2505 Niahen 400 j(Cnited a fishing trip at Long Beach, N.Y. Hoe hurried back to town but the blinds of the 74th st, house were drawn, the door was bolted and barred, and there was ho response to his ringings poundings. ollowing this, according to Tellegen's attorneys, papers were served on Geraldine Farrar in notification of a separation sult, charging desertion, Farrar’s see rotary, however, says she ls out of town and that no papers have boon served, Miss Murrar’s lawyers further more declare that she is prepar- ing to Institate action against Tollogen on “good and sufficient grounds,” the details of whieh _wil be revealed later, ‘TEACHERS’ SALARIES AS BOARD LOOKS INTO BUDGET martes could not be touched, be cause they are already fixed by con tract for next year stitute Salaries con 60 per cent of the total ex penditures, it was stated. We are driven to somewhat des straits,” said Shorrock, “and have to do away with many things that we need. We may have to abolish the night echools and cut the kindergartens, all of which would be very injurious, However, we must take the necessary steps to reduce costs, “In my optnion, redaction would {better have been made by adopting & policy of sealing down all around rather than hitting @ few depart ments hard.” The board expects to have new budget completed within jmext two dr three weeks DISARM POINTS URGED BY U.S, Desires “Open Door” and 2 Other Concessions BY A. L. BRADFORD Pross Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. - The United Btates government today ap- parently was basing ita program for the Pacific discussions in the com. ing Washington disarmament con. iference on three cardina) prin ciples, Thee are: 1. The recognition and firm es. tablihment of the “open door” in the Pacific and the Far East. 2. The protection and maintenance of the integrity, political and ter. ritorial, ef China, 3. The safeguarding of the In- tegrity of Tustia, which principally involves Siberia. ‘The date for the opening of the conference, November 11, haa been Practically agreed upon. The state department announced today it had word from France ac. cepting November 11 a8 the date for the opening of the disarmament con- ference, This had been expected. Formal repliet as to the date are now awaited from Italy, Japan and China, Had 12 Quarts and . $500; Under Arrest Found wandering about the streets of Georgetown with 12 quarts of banded whisky and $500 in his pock- ets, Joe Mows, 37, plasterer, was ar- rested by Police Sergt. L. W. Miller and Patrolman A. J. Rivers, who de cided the combination was too much Und took Mose to jail, Dry squad agents raided a room at 1800 13th ave. and got 70 pints of beer, Jack Wright, alleged possess the the | Or, arrested on booze charges, put up $100 bail. According to Patrolmen H, Kemper and 5. Matlorenen, w. M, Playford, Jacob laborer, was preparing | for a busy night when they entered his room at, the Green hotel, enen was said to be Mailor. two pac fe kages of corks, and had a gallons under his bed, He is | nel, France's population was reduced 4,000,000 by the war ~ Real Painless Extraction Free Daily In order to Introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which ta the Hightent and strongest plate known, t root of the corn off the 82 Amalgam All werk guaranteed for 15 years, Have impressions taken in the morn- |ing and get teeth same day, Exami- | nation and advice free. and See Samples of Our Pinte and Bridge Work. We the Text of Time, Most of our present patronage 1s recommended by our early custom. era, whose work is still giving our cus- in work. coming t be sure are in. th |this ad with you. Cut-Rate | Dentists Tv v. or-Paterson Co, packing his grip | | with five quarts of moonshine and/ GIRL HURT IN CRASH; MAN HELD Mabel Fair in Hospital; George O’Malley Arrested Mins Mabel Fatr, 25, Manhattan apts, was seriously injured when the auto in which she was riding collided with a machine driven by George O'Malley, 4812 Stone way, Friday evening at Westlake ave. and Harrison st. Mins Fair was hurled over the mide of the auto and landed} between the two machines, She/ jn in city) howpital, suffering | from severe cuts and bruises. Mins | Fair was driving with George ”. Comstock, who was held respons ble for the accident and failed on NOW PLAYING & charge of reckless driving eee Fireman Hurt as Truck Turns Over | TMurled to the pavement and nar |rowly minsing death when a huge fire truck overturned as it left the [station at Fipst ave. & and Holgate et. Friday night, Frank Buettgen, 7, olty fireman, sustained such pert. ous Injuries that bis recovery was uncertain for several hours, Buettgen wan riding on the rear of the truck, which was answering a call, In some unexplained manner, the driver steered the truck too close to the edge of the road. The truck struck a Joone board that gave way and crashed heavily on its nide. throwing the firemen to the ground. Buettgen was taken to Providence hompital, suffering from a fractured | rib, severe body bruises and possible | internal hurts, His condition ts said to be slightly improved, He Fell Afoul of a Bootlegger; Fell In| J. Murray, first mate of the schooner Mindaroa, fell bootlexger Friday night, so he says. | Murray fell overboard, landing with a whoop and a eplash in the dark and dismal waters of Puget sound, When be went down for the last time, shipmates hauled Kim out! on the Skinner & Eddy pier, at the| foot of Connecticut st, carried to city hospital in a bedrag gied and saturated condition, inside and out, TWO SHOWS DAILY at 2:15 P.M. and 8:15 P.M. ALL SEATS RESERV: ‘D FOR EVENING PERFORMANCES FOURTH ANP UNIVERS! A tate of western grit on auto track and in saddle- a romance in which speed wins MATINEES, 2 EVENINGS AN Vital Statistics] *~ BIRTHS SUNDAY: losext, Salch!, 419 Sixth ave. 8. girl Walen, Nela Robert, Silvana, Wash, Wortord, Eilsha, £05 13th ave. Chize. B16 Ps oy. a6 Firat ave. girl, “fdward, 17" Bocond’ ave, 704% Spruce at. girl. Darsaw., wirk Ito, Tateusiro, wirt 1 |Gdaho, Hiromi, 2290 1¢th ave, &. bo | Hadley, Homer Telly et. Biyd ev HL, Stanwood, boy. | George Hi, 7525 15th ave. 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