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thepower to alleviate against which theworked.Mwuu It I.'' ciasujuvu tiuit lliealinwill be taken to make known to the 1 European statesmen at once any conditions i conclusion which may be reachedLaborites have j hero as to possible American movesto clear up the reparations tangle.on the warning, hut admitted that the letter held him responsible for the ex-ecutions last Friday of Rory O’Connor and three other Irish republican armyMr. McGrath refused to comment^officers. He refused to give out a copy of the letter, and would not state whether it contained a threat of death if he did not comply with its demand.The letter was addressed to “Hon-Winder, Ga., Dec. 15.—With a declaration that a mass meeting against alleged prevailing Ku Klux Klan lawlessness will be held even if he aloneattends, Robert L. Woodruff, local merchant, early today completed*arrangements for the session called to adopt a resolution declaring Barrow county citizens favor preservation of law and order. A similar resolution failed at a recent mass meeting.Citizens from all sections of the South were presumably to attend the meeting while throughout Georgia interest has been aroused over the strained relations between Mr. Woodruff and the local Ku Klux Klan chapter.Adjutant General Hope of theGeorgia National Guard arrived here today, having been sent, by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick to try to prevent trouble between Mr. Woodruff and the Klan.The situation was regarded aft tense but local authorities said they would be able to cope with any emergency. An eleventh hour warning was received by Mr. Woodruff not to attend the meeting.Mr. Woodruff refused Governor Hardwick’s offer to furnish him adequate military protection. He said if members of the Klan planned an attack on him “I believe it will not be openly but from ambush and for that reason I do not believe a sheriff’s posse or a military guard around my house would be of any avail.”“What we need in Barrow county is to create a sentiment against Ku Klux lawlessness,” Mr. Woodruff told Governor Hardwick at a conference yesterday in Atlanta.“That is why we intend to keep on having a citizens mass meeting until we can get a resolution passed.”Mr. Woodruff had a letter from Governor Hardwick he intended to read at today’s meeting. Efforts of persons to regulate and censor the conduct of persons outside of the courts and outside of the laws must be checked in Georgia, was the chief substance of the chief executive’s communication. :ourable James McGrath, Irish Consul.” It was typewritten on a plain sheet of foolscap.Worker Agai n Ku KIux Klan,Refuses“1 am not James McGrath,” Mr. McGrath said, “and 1 am not now the consul, 1 resigned the office the day Rory O’Connor and the othor Irish republican officers were executed. 1 resigned by cable, the resignation to take effect immediately upon its receipt.’”Governor?s Offer of Military ProtectionSTORM KING’S GRIPSTATE MARKS WChicago, Dec. 15.—Heavy precipitation, either sncw Dr rain, in portions of virtually every state except Florida, with a particular heavy snowfall in the lower Lake regionmarked the progress of winter over the United States.• ’ #While temperatures were higherI
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1922
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