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rih# it !IV-ngi.are.MUNCIE MAYORTIIRNSDOWN K.K H• £ j fifi -- ’All Heady to Take the Oath of the' I Organization When it Strikes Him j Jft-1 # ire I as IJn-Apiericantva!z!toTn-nv-I1t,J MUNCIE, Ind., July 20.—The dec-laration of John C. Quick, mayor of Muncie, that the Ku Klux Klan will n not be permitted to have a voice in rc. ! his administration of the city’s af-i, | fairs; his dismissal of Phil W. Mc-Abee, as a member of the board of public safety; his intimation of a it-j coming shakeup in the police deparl-i- | ment when he asked another board ofie public safety, and tfcut the shakeup may extend to other departments, are subjects of wide discussion in tliicity'i- Mayor Quick made hi first authorized statement concerning the Ku iKlux Klan to a correspondent of th*Indianapolis News. ^_ , Five persons, the mayor said, rep- !% resenting themselves as a committee'si from the Ku Klux Klan, waited on fl *j him and demanded that he at oncedismiss from the service John H.** . # Moles, night captain of police, ArthurRees and Jerry Curran, city detect-eatviitVt.ives.Demand Made Again The mavor said that after he halt;ss1;'o’II^ibenn initiated into the Ku Klux Klan•M. Jthe demand was made once more that £|he dismiss Moles, Rees, Curran and also William Sims, a colored patrol-man. The mavor said he refused toi iwAt]41 agree to the dismissals unless the ft men were found guilty after a fair and open trial on written charges as ! 1 required by law. The mayor said , I when he was initiated into the Klan 1Vi. % tViIspeeches demanding the dismissals I I were made by W- E. Cahill, an organ- ( i izer for the Ku Klux Klan and by two I cprominent. Muncie men*, 1W4%Vi*
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Tue, Jul 25, 1922
Page 3
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