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1ft ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES. ASHEVILLE. N.C XU Sunday. May 4. 1952 CWA, Company WNC Is Free Of KKK Activity Agree; Strike Ends In State de Forest Brightens TV Image By Science Service WASHINGTON.

May LM In positions of community leader Continued From Page IB' of detecting them and the danger of the example." ship. Even today. ex-Klansmen occupy positions of responsibility In Cleveland and Rutherford coun the community their former af- ties proved to be the hotbeds of 'filiation known to only a few of WINSTON-SALEM. May 3. UP) A their fellow citizens CIO union today ended an eight- 5 LK.rjf WvMSw MSI tvyafe? fTsJyd U-iFTv.

LJM de Forest. Los Angles, "father day strike 4,900 workers at Western Electric Radio shops in North Carolina by agreeing to a new con radio." and William A. a a. activity in the west. The KKK in these counties got their impetus in considerable measure from the South Carolina Klan.

Part of the storm of Klan controversy swirled around Randolph A. Shotwell. 6on of a Presbyterian The Klan was a powerful force on the national political scene about 1924, devoting its energies largely to opposing the compaign of Al Smith, a Roman Catholic, for the Democratic presidential tract raising wages 9 to 18 cents Phoenix. were granted a patent this week for an electron! light amplifier for us tn television sets. They received patent an hour.

The shops in Winston-Salem, minister und founder of Th nomination in that year, Greenffcoro and Burlington make secret electronics equipment for the number 2 ,594,740, en of MS patents granted by the governmaet this week. armec forces. Up to seven cents of the increase Tha nitrama thm fnvmkln la ville Citizen (then The North Caro- An eHort denounce the Klan lina Citizen and editor of The0? name was beaten back at the Rutherford Vindicator. Democratic National Convention. Shotwell was widely reported to convention went into a be the leader of the klan in Ruth- between Smith and W.

G. Mc-erford County and was tried forAdoo. the Klan-supported candi-Klan activity in Federal Court. He! date, with John W. Davis finally stoutly denied membership in the 'emerging as the nominee on the is effective Monday and the rest will be retroactive to then if ap-proveo.

by the Wage Stabilization ness of th television Imag. Tbm Board (WSB). amplifier receives beam of Bent forming an Image, transform! It into a. h9m nf elentrana In The Communications Workers of America (SWA) said in a statement: Klan. but his pleas of innocence 103rd ballot.

Davis later made it creases the intensity of th le- The amount by which this settle were of no avail, shotwell was sen ment exceeds the amount auto plain that he was no partisan of the Klan. Interest in the Klan was at its tenced to six years in the era! Penitentiary in Albany. N. matically approvable under WSB tron Deam ana then transform it back into a light beam duplloat-ing the original Image with In out was pardoned in 1873 by Presi regulations is the greatest in terms of basic wages yet negotiated in peak in the summer of 1924 and creased Intensity. Wizard Dr.

Hiram Wes- served less than of his The amplifier Includes a radia the current wave of negotiating among the CWA, Western Electric tion-sensitive and lKtraiMmta. Co, and other subsidiaries of the isive elements having th eharae- American Telephone and Telegraph Company." tron-sensitive and electron- ra 1 a-siv elements having the characteristic of emitting more than ana two years term. Although the extent of Shot-v well's association with the Klan was questionable, there was no doubt about KKK activity in Rutherford County. J. B.

Carpenter, clerk of Ruther- ford Superior Court, told the Joint "Congressional Committee that 100 ley Evans claimed a membership of 5.000.000 across the nation. In North Carolina, the KKK backed Angus McLean for the Democratic nomination for governor and Robert R. Reynolds for lieutenant governor. Asheville was the scene of a number of Klan gatherings in that Western Electric is a manufactur ing subsidiary of American Tele electron for each electron hittlnr phone and Telegraph. A series of Western Electric strikes in the na it, ana an electron-sensitive and radiation-emissive element.

BOTS AND CATTLE mixed freely at Biltmore Farms yesterday assistant district supervisor of the agriculture education division of in the Future Farmers of America dairy cattle judging contest, oak- the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, was in charge ley School judging team took first honors in the event which began of the competition. Forrest Fancher of Biltmore Farms was judge, at 10 a. m. and continued until after 3 p. m.

Union Grove Schools in The two judging teams placing first and second will be eligible to enter Iredell County won second place awards. H. Gryder of Taylorsville, the State finals contest in Raleigh in July. (Citizen-Times Photo) period, although no incidents of tion iast month also affected telephone service when operators honored picket lines. -to 200 whippings had occurred in the county in 1870 and 1871.

Oneiextreme violence were charged to Man Posts the order in the 1920s. of the most celebrated victims of Western Electric workers in the three cities voted over the week end on ratification of the new contract. The company said it expected to resume full operations Monday. It had operated on a limited basis In the summer of 1923, grand dragons (state chiefs) of the Klan held the first annual meeting of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Asheville. The meeting was held whippings in this area was Aaron Biggerstaff, a Rutherford County farmer and an alleged Union sym- pathizer.

Many of these whippings occurred Bond, Dies In Wreck Southern Rail Freight Derails Near Charlotte after Grand Wizard Forrest, realiz-1 with little or no fanfare and es- during the strike, which the union called 90 per cent effective. uie excesses to wnicn Me Klan apea me attention oi tne newspa Federal and state labor mediators aa gone, ordered the organization pers or the city. TALLAHASSEE. Mav 3 tm brought both sides to agreement disbanded in February. 1869.

One speaker at this meetine. an One hour after bein? rla-if exalted cyclops" of the order. under bond on a nvkKu driving early today. The mediators had been working on the dispute even before the strike started April 25 when a charge today, Roy Andrew Johnson 34, of Perry, suffered fatal injuries in a head-on automobile crash. FFA Groups Continued From Page 1 charge of the contest.

Judge for the competition was Forrest Fancher of Biltmore Farms. Beef cattle and hog judging was held at Kerrygil Farm near the Asheville-Hendersonville Airport with the Lansing School team from Ashe County taking first place. Members of the winning team were Dean Carter, J. F. Brooks and Jimmy Sturgil.

Teacher was Prentiss England. Union School in Lincoln County took second place honors with team members Jimmie Heavner, Frank Ritchie and Donald Scronce judging. S. E. Richbourg was teacher.

B. L. Lunsford assistant district supervisor, was in charge at KerrygiL Judges were R. G. Shipley contract expired after beine ex The Federal Government con-4 tinued its fight against the Klan even after the Democrats were returned to power by the voters of iKorth Carolina in 1870.

One of the first acts of the Democratic General was to impeach Governor said, that "Klansmen contend and defy any man to disprove their contentions, that the Protestant Christian citizens of this country have as much right to oreanize an CHARLOTTE. May 3. (ff) Wreck crews restored service early tonight on a Southern Railway Asheville to Charlotte branch freight line following derailment of seven freight tended while negotiations continued. The union originally asked a wage increase oi 30 cents an hour, later scaling it down to 19 cenus. The jl I I Hoiden and remove him from office Johnson died in a hospital her after his car collided with another automobile.

Only an hour earlier Johnson nosted a S35 bond ftr all-Protestant, society as the Roman Catholins and Jews have to organize their all-Catholic and all- cats. No one was hui v. en March ZI. 1871 company first had offered between 7 and, 14 cents. The union announcer) that twciriec jewisn societies.

2 Within two or three years the 3Qan died in North Carolina. nly A coupling broke on the 83-car train 57 cars back of the three-unit Diesel engine. It was train No. 59, running on what's known as the "Klansmen," he said, "are not 'against the Catholics or 'against' oe reDorn alter the turn of the "eenturv. Southern's branch.

The line me jews, hut are 'for Protes The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan is used by freight trains only. It tant Christianity first, last and all the time." organized in Atlanta, in runs between Charlotte and Ashe' '1901. but not until the days fol ville, and branches off at States- A former Klansman recalled that lowing World War did it gain a tne organization was conrpmori of Watauga County and J. B. Ed ville to Winston-Salem.

The accident happened at 8:40 a. sizable iouowing. DR. WALKER DR. HUNT wards of Candler.

Tal H. Staiford, district agricul The energies of this new Klan were turned to a different direction principally with getting and hold ing new members. The public activities of the Klan were pretty m. today about a mile and a half outside the northern Charlotte city the wage increases "significant improvements in contract protection were obtained." Details of these fringe benefits were not made public. Wages had averaged $U2 cents an hour.

The union said the increase of nine to 18 cents averages 12 cents in take home pay. Bankers Name Lee Henkel WINSTON-SALEM, May 3. Ufi ture education division supervisor, limits on Hutchinson Avenue. from those of the KKK In Recon struction days. uweciy umiiea.

ne said, tn nn nn. was in charge of the FFA program State Dentists Begin The engineer was DeWitt Thomas casional parade of the members. yesterday. Contests began at 10 a. m.

yesterday and continued until and the conductor O. C. Lowe, both Where the original Ean was against "carpetbaggers" and "scala "i meir rooes and hoods down Patton Avenue. oi Asheville. after 3 p.m.

Annual Meeting May 11 ln September. 1924. thi. All winners in the speaking con tests and first and second place winners in the farm animal judging Klansman said, the leadership of the Klan forestalled mob action against a Negro lodeed in the Rim. M.

Ennis, Philadelphia, president. PINEHURST, May 3. A num Churchill Feels Danger Of Wa American Dental Association; and events are eligible to compete for State honors in Raleigh in July. ber of well known authorities on various Dhases of dentistry will combe Counuty Jail. On this nrra.

Dr. J. E. John Roanoke, The Carolinas-Virginia chapter Beach accused him of excessive speed and improper passing. Cpl.

Hope Carlin, who Investigated the fatal crash, said Johnson apparently was driving on the wrong side of the road at high speed. The driver of the other car, W. C. Richardson of Auburndale, his wife, their three children and Mrs. Etta Calloway, who was riding with them, were injured.

Natives Clash With Reds In Tibet Capital CALCUTTA. India. May 3 CP Reports reaching here from Tibet today said Tibetans fought a bloody street battle with Red Chinese troops in Lhasa, the capital. Both sides suffered casualties th reports said but did not say how many. The trouble was said to have started when armed Tibetans surrounded the house of Sawang Ngabou, Cabinet minister regarded by Loyalist Tibetans as a Quisling for negotiating a treaty with Red China last May.

A. D. A. trustee for the Fifth They will represent the 29-county district 'of the agriculture edu District give addresses and conduct clinics at the 96th' annual sessions of the North Carolina Dental Society. according to the story, some 50 Klansmen were made special deputies by the then Sheriff E.

Mitchell. ui xvooert Morris Associates elected a West Virginia banker as president last night and wound up their daylong spring meetine- with cational division with headquarters The remainder of the Monday Lessening LONDON, May 3 Ufi Prime Min nere. morning session will be devoted The four-day meeting will be This is not to sav that th Trion a receDtion and rti to lectures by Dr. Philip Phair, held at the Carolina Hotel in Pine- The new nrpsirlont nf v. Chicago, assistant secretary of the ister Winston Churchill said tonight wags and in favor of white supremacy, the new Klan promoted white.

Protestant, gentile supremacy. Klan leaders argued that the Klan was "not anti-anything," but its opponents accused it of a bigoted attitude toward Negroes, Jews, Catholics, aliens and Darwinian evolutionists. In the early 1920s units of the Klan were formed in virtually all North Carolina counties. The Asheville Klan, which claimed 800 members, maintained its klavern (meeting place) on an upper floor of the building at the corner' of southwest Pack Square and Biltmore Avenue occupied In later years by Liggett's Swore. Its membership rolls have never been opened to the public.

Jtut the Klan numbered among1 its members more than a few persons burst May 11. 12. 13, 14. The program was announced to went about its secret work without arousing opposition among those outside its ranks. American Dental Association's Boy, 15, Says tne danger of war has lessened i the last six months.

Council on Dental Health, on "Se wic urbanization of bank credit executives is Lee Henkel. vice president of Charleston National Bank. Charleston, W. Va day by Dr. Bernard- N.

Walker, Charlotte, secretary-treasurer, and curing Community Acceptance of Churchill, in a prepared political Clansmen were called "bigots" 3d a committee nf loartino- He Set Fires Fluoridation," and Dr. W. W. De broadcast on the theme of his re Dr. Neal Sheffield, Greensboro, meritt, Chapel Hill, professor and gime's first half-year of office, re Others elected were: Brant Sn forned to counteract the KKK influence in the area.

A Continuing camnnirrn onomrt i head of the Department of Fed' marked: "We have anxious years to w.j I. 11 II- Salem. Vice nrpKiripnt nr ur publicity chairman. Registration will begin Sunday afternoon. May 11, at 1 o'clock.

A golf tournament will be held that afternoon. odontics. University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, on "Prost Bank and Trust Company, first endure -hut I cannot believe that the danger of World War is as great as it was a year ago or that the last six months have not seen hetic Dentistry for Children. uevuov ixic Kian was waged in the columns city's newspapers By the mid-twenties, the ex-Kiansman said, a group of "roughnecks was beginning to have its vice president; Alexander Donnan, vice president of First Nation! Monday afternoon's program will The first general session will be be featured by discussions by Dr, an improvement." exchange Bank, Roanoke, Second Vicp rrpslHont- The Prime Minister asserted an Leslie M. Fitzgerald, Dubuque.

iu me councils or the order. co-founder, diplomate and secretary of the American Board of hopes of making things better at home depended upon keeping the xmy ior wis reason and partly oecause some irresrularitiM in r- buu laui Davidson, vice president of Lynchburg National Bank and Trust Company, secretary-treasurer. CHICAGO. May 3 OB A 15-year-old boy told police today he set a series of five fires, including one in his own home in which his father died. Police Capt.

Walter Storms said Nelson Letts related he set the fires in a South Side area last night and early today. In one of the fires, in the Letts home, Nelson's father, Kenton, 50, was suffocated on the stairs. The fires had alarmed neighbors set police looking for a firebug. Young Letts, ironically, had been posted by his family as a guard against the firebue. The bov peace and added: Oral Surgery, on "Oral Surgery; held at 8 o'clock Sunday nignt and will feature a memorial service for members who have died during the past year.

Dr. F. E. Gilliam, Burlington, will be in charge. Dr.

R. Fred Hunt, Rocky Mount, who has headed the Society this year, will give the President's ad THE Just Out! and Dr. Robert G. Kesel. Chicago, Handling of funds were found in the North Carolina realm, the leadership of the Asheville Klan de- "The fear of another World War casts its dark shadow upon every professor and head of the Department of Applied Materia Medica land on both sides of the Iron Cur DRIVE in: tain that divides mankind.

I have and Therapeutics. University of the feeling that this fear is becom Illinois, on "Dental Decay me time nad come to put away the hoods and robes and crosses. The result was a resolution dissolving the Ku Klux Klan Ashevflle, adopted on April 6 1926. RESTAURANT ml. tbra Tannel Man Bends, Stabs Self CHELTENHAM, May 3 I John Oehman bent over to lace ing universal and it is sinking deep The dinner session will be fol dress Monday morning, alter which greetings will be extended by Dean W.

R. Berryhill of the University of North Carolina Beifone Oo Kl(bi Hcbwr N. 1' EXTRA TINY er into all human hearts, and from that I draw the hope that all will lowed by the election of officers and a meeting of the House of The Klan did not fold I had told nolice he saw a red-haired in the end come right." School of Medicine: Dr. LeRoy Delegates. night.

A remnant lingered on for a I man carrying a flaming torch in OWNED OPERATED BV J. O. BUCHANAN HEARING AID the vicinity of the fires earlier last rumber of years. Some Klansmen made it their business to oppose runnel Rd. Dial 97:14 CIO Official's Auto Bombed a shoe today and was stabbed in the stomach by an open penknife in his trousers pocket.

The hospital reported he severed an artery but is recovering. Church Speaks Up Midget In Size MIGHTY IN ouuiu urn ior tne presidency jn 1928. the year he was nominated by the Democratic Party After that election and the victory of Herbert Hoover, the Klan was dead. ST. PAUL, May 3 LB An HICKORY SMOKED BARBECUE CHICKENS.

Half or I'njointed CORNER CUT BEEF RIBS HEAVY PORK RIBS (With Plenty of Meat) CHOPPED OR SLICED BEEF OR PORK HEARING POWER night. Storms said the boy told police he started the fires because he wanted to get even with his father. He quoted young Letts as saying his father had been drinking and had been abusive to the boy's mother, Laura, 49. The boy was held to await taking of a formal statement by the state's attorney's office and the city fire attorney. It was dead, at Ipast until th.

GREENVILLE. S. C. (UP) Apparently alarmed at the govern automobile belongmg Earl Drange. 26, a CIO union business agent, was blown up outside his ment's expanding tax program, the ActuaHy27y2sman-er and 26A lighter home early today.

No one was in period following World War n. Then kluckers reoganized In Georgia and by 1949 the movement had spread to North Carolina. jured. Special Take Out Service than any previous Beltone the new Beltone Lyric eives exciting Southside Baptist Church here' posted this sign on its bulletin board in front of the church "Salvation is free and tax free tell Tom and Dick but not Harry." Open 7 Days A Week 7 A. M.

to 1 A. M. Aitnough crosses have been iiurned and rallies held in a num. new clarity and understanding of Deputy Sheriff Norton Risedor-phy said a dynamite bomb tossed into the front seat apparently caused the explosion. He said the bombing obviously was "some kind of warning" and not an attempt Youth Denies School Forced Him To Leave ITHACA.

N. May 3 An Earlham College senior said today the college strongly urged him to finish his studies in absentia because of his engagement to a Negro classmate. The" student Robert McAllester, 23, of Ithaca, denied, however, that he had been forced to leave the Richmond, school. The 1 1 e's Administrative Council told him "the most convenient action would be for me to leave school on my own and continue my studies," McAllester said. He returned to his home here.

He said he and Grace Cunningham. 22-year-old-Negro coed irom her of counties, violence was largely limited to Columbus Countv. Math Needed To Keep False Teeth Steady WASHINGTON. May 3 (. Mathematics is being used to make it certain your false teeth won't fall out.

Lt. R. S. Ledley of the Army reported the complicated formula to the American Physical Society today. He said his studies in dentistry at the National Bureau of Standards indicate that if tooth "slope" is not accurately figured in fitting teeth the dentures become loosened under the force of chewing and sometimes fall out.

Ledley reported he had worked on precisely the direction of chewing forces and had expressed it in nis mathematical formula. Now he's reducing it to chart form to enable dentists to make quick speech. 26 new features make this the hearing aid you've been waiting for. So, before you decide on any hearing aid, come in, phone or writ; for valuable FREE BOOK of complete information about this near the southeastern tip of the tate. There at least 50 persons mostly white have been dragged out of their homes and flogged by Klansmen since last fail.

on Drange's life. Drange is business agent for the CIO International Union of Elec trical Workers, Local 1139. Syria To Distribute 1,500,000 Acres DAMASCUS. May 3. Syria's new land-reform project provides for the distribution of the State's private domain of more than US million acres, most of it in the fertile plain of Jezira.

To avoid too great a parceling of land, agricultural co-operatives of 20 to 50 families will be cre mtu: improved Beltone Midget lit Size Mighty In Hearing Power! Twenty-seven men have been in- Life In Old Boy Yet nicted in Klan night floggings and tneir cases are scheduled to be uied in Whiteville this week. JLLIl'S USHER Beltone Vr7 KALAMAZOO, Mich. (UP) Wil Klan leaders have eyed the Ashe ville area in recent months as a possible field for expansion. They liam Ridler, who celebrated his luznd birthaay. said he knows he's not getting Id.

"I still get a kick out of a pretty girl," the retired farmer said. "If I didn't. ated. These co-ops will hold be- Berkeley, planned tenta- tivun o. nnn and 5.000 acres.

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Khartoum-Entebee 1,090 miles in two hours, 41 minutes. Entebee-Livinstone 1.344 miles in three hours, 13 minutes. Livingstone-Johannesburg 618 miles in one hour, 48 minutes. The Comet's passengers paid the regular fare of 175 pounds ($490) for one way and 315 pounds ($882) foi round trip. schedule-shaving landing in Johannesburg today.

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C. Alabaster, said the Comet arrived at Livingstone ahead of time, left late and made wide, sweeping turns en route to Johannesburg to kill time. The big ship, which bore 36 paying passengers, 30 bags of mail and six crewmen from London, averaged 390 miles an hour in the flight that touched three continents. Europe, Asia and Africa. "The flight was trouble free and the passengers.were most enthusiastic," Alabaster said.

The BOAC log (all based on time) of chocking and unchocking the wheels showed that the Comet made the following speeds: London-Rome 930 miles in two hours. 46 minutes. Rome-Beirut 1.3S2 miles in three hours, 20 minutes. Thousands oi spectators ringea Palmietfrontein Airport as the four-engined De Havilland craft, which whistled away from the misty spring weather of London yesterday at 2 p.m. Greenwich time (9 a.m.

EST), and whined down in the South African autumn here at 1-33 p.m (8:33 a.m. EST). The official landing time was clocked five minuts later, when chocks were fitted beneath' the Comet wheels, still two minutes ahead of the scheduled landing time of 1:40 p.m. Elapsed time for the flight including stops in Rome, Italy: Beirut, Lebanon, Khartoum. Sudan; Entebbe, Uganda; and Livingstone, Rhodesia was 23 hours 38 minutes.

That's about two-thirds of the time consumed by regular commercial aircraft for the Journey from London to this city. Much of the flight was made more than seven miles up. The British Overseas Airways Corporation, the operators, said th flying time was 17 hours 16 A Savings and Industrial Bank Both for Only Intfrt rr Each Account Insured up to By Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation went so far as to ask one former Klansman in Asheville for a list of the order 89 it was constituted in the 1920s. The request was refused. Despite the recent outbreak of Kian actiity, there are signs that ire Klan will not be tolerated.

Governors Kerr Scott and James Byrnes have denounced the hooded oider. Law enforcement officials and the courts have displayed genuine toughness in dealing with the Klansmen. And there are indications that tie 1953 General Assembly may adopt an anti-mastcing law. Klan opponents are confident that the Klan stripped of its hoods and I masks will not survive long. Safety Courtesy 2-Way Radio Day and Night TAXIS DIAL 3-1611 Blue Bird Taxis CAROLINA INDUSTRIAL BANK THE BANK ON THE SQUARE DIAL 5676 FRANKLIN HARDWARE CO.

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