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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1928, Page 2

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(United Press Association.—By Electric I’e legr a p li. ■ — Copy rig h t.) KU KLUX KLAN. NEW YORK. April 11. A message from Pittsburg states that further light was thrown on alleged Ivu Klux Kinn methods when witnesses testified that the organisation possessed a secret society whose object was to obtain information regarding all manner of pub lie officials, which might he used to control them if needed. It also transpired that one member of the Klnii obtained admission to the Chicago Eucharistic Congress by posing as a priest in order to obtain data for inllaminatory antiCatholic speeches. E. Bonham testified that he saw Klansmen capture two New York Jewish salesmen in Oklahoma. “They were forced to whip one another,” he said, “ and when they did not apply enough blows to each other with long whips, members of the Klan joined in the floggings. The Klansmen called this lagjaeking.”

“DAWN” FIRM' OPPOSITION. WASH fNOTON, April 11. Fearful lest the exhibition ol the British film, “Dawn,” should reawaken anti-German feeling, German diplomatic and Consular officials are making renewed efforts to prevent its showing. The State Department has taken no official cognisance of the growing protests. and will not until it is formally approached. The German Embassy is considering Hiis step, though it is reluctant to amuse a public discussion similar to that which occurred in England.

Meantime, the German Consulate at New York has succeeded in exacting a promise from many important theatres that they will not exhibit it:.

AVI I FAT GAMBLING. NFAY YORK. April 11. A message from Chicago states that frenzied scenes were enacted in the Hoard of Trade as wheat shot to new high records in all future deliveries. An advance of over live cents was the greatest in a single day's turnover lor severed years. Traders who were* confidently awaiting a break in the market were forced into short covering, and paid dearly, while the general public plunged into the market and the wildest scenes lollowcd as the frantic traders sought to lull'd their orders. NEGRO CANDIDATE SHOT DEAD. XFAY YORK. April 11. Election day at Chicago ended with the brutal murder of a negro, a lawyer named Octavius Cronadv. who was a successful Denoen candidate for one of the city wards. He. with two friends in a car. was making a tour of the polling places. Another ear. flying the banners of the Opposition candidate, drew alongside and those in it fired a number of shots at Gronady. who started a wild flight along the streets, until he collided with a tree. ‘The pursuing ear then came up. and poured in machine gun fire, fatally wounding Gronady.

GARDEN OK EDEN. WASHINGTON. April 12. That the Garden of Eden was not in Mesopotamia, hut in Central Asia, and that the Prophet Daniel predicted theWorld AVar. were some of the conclusions presented at the annual session of the American Oriental Society. Doctor Duncan, a Professor ol Egyptology at the American University, declared that over eight heathen cities have been proposed by scholars, hut archaeologists and anthropologists, he said, now agreed upon Central Asia. Professor Lee. of Pennsylvania, said that the last two verses ol the lwellth Chapter of the Book of Daniel would give exactly the date of the prophecy of the "World AVar if a year were substituted for a day.

U.S. IMMIGRATION BAR. WASHINGTON. April 11For the second time in the past few months, the U.S.A. -State Department has refused to permit a foreign educationalist to enter the United States in order to accept a plae'e in an American University. This is because lie would bo in excess of the l .S.A. immigration quota.

The case is that in which the United .States Consul at Toronto has refused a visa to Captain O'Dell, a member of the Mount Everest Expedition, who wished to enter the Harvard l Diversity Geological Department. The State Department only remarked: “The law is rather rigid." Captain O’Dell’s ease is similar to that of Professor .lack, oi Aberdeen University, who recently was prevented from going to the University of Michigan. KLU KIAN REVELATION'S. NEW YORK. April 12. A Pittsburg message stated in a deposition by D. Stephenson. former head Indiana Ku Klux Klan. now serving a life sentence for the murder of a girl at Hcarccmrt, in a Klan trial, declared the Imperial Wizard. Evans, told him that negroes had been burned at the stake, that one had his ears cut off and another was branded with letters K.K.K. He also alleges Evans authorised the Black Mask to rob for the use of killing aiul whipping expeditions.