Kidnaping and slaying cast glare on Ku Klux Klan acts
Bastrop La Jan 10 A P in open court state s attorney Wegy sought to fix responsibility for the kidnapping and killing of Watt Daniel and Thomas Richards hooded Klansmen in Morehouse parish against a backdrop of testimony naming Jeff Hurnett J K Skipwith Jim Tisdale A B Campbell Dr S O McKoin and others. Addie May Hamilton 17 testified she was forced from Mer Rouge by Klansmen and girl witness testified of a second kidnapping near Bastrop with McKoin and Pink Kirkpatrick involved. Mrs Richards widow described her husband s abduction and details of the hooded party and danger to her family.
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Thomas Richards
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Ghee Qitera
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Dr. McKain
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Tir. McKain
Witness Testimony Ties Hooded Men to Local Klan Activities
A witness describes a convoy hijacking near Mer Range on August 24 by hooded gunmen who forced the car off the road and questioned occupants about the Ku Klux Klan. She cites sightings of Addie May Hamilton departing and notes tacit involvement by Klan readers in recent violence against Rouge citizens. The state asserts active Klan operations and vows accountability as city officials investigate alleged clandestine membership among workers.
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Dr. McKain
Mer Range
Win Bagtyop-Mer Range
Ka Klux
Addie May Hamilton
Watt Daniel
TI Richard
New Budget Law Aims to Enforce Fiscal Discipline
A bill sponsored by Senators Southold Cowan Speer Peck and Powlin introduces a budget law with teeth affecting counties cities towns and school districts The measure requires officers to file detailed revenue and expenditure estimates and holds them liable for any overspending The plan creates governing boards to review provisional budgets and mandates public hearings and levy setting by August first with emergency provisions and reversions to general funds for unused appropriations
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Naturalization Question Sparks Klan Oath Tension
A naturalized alderman faced a Klan member asking if a foreign born citizen is 100 percent American. Green refused to repeat the oath, stating he resigned but still adheres to the group's doctrines. The piece also includes an influenza prevention ad for Laxative Quinine products.
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Greed
Green
Annual Parent Teacher Meeting at St Helena School
The annual meeting of ST HELENA OGHOOL 10 Parents Teachers will be held this afternoon at 230 o'clock in St Meleng hall. Father J ONE will address the gathering and all parish women are urged to attend whether or not they are PTAs members. In Japan horse breeding, half of imperial pasture lands are placed in Yat prefecture for prefectural authorities, covering about 2768 acres.
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ST. Helena
St. Melenu S School
St. Meleng Hall
Afra
A. Cooney
Father J
Japan
Yokio
Lwate
WEDDINGS INCREASED DESPITE OFF YEARS IN TOKIO
TokIo December 17 weddings in January 1922 rose despite superstition about an unlucky year. At the Hibiya shrine 300 more ceremonies than 1921 were held with economical plans. Hibiya shrine offered six wedding classes from 14 to 70 yen, shifting from elaborate receptions to simple invitations and modest gifts to cut costs.
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Tokio
Hibiya Shrine
Te Most Economica
Hibiya
Government weighs night shift ban for women in Japan factories
In Kwanto district spinning firms push to halt women’s night shifts. Government aims to fast track a bill in the Diet to prohibit night employment. A general limit on output to meet demand is under discussion, with factory closures at night raising objections to worsened working conditions.
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Kwanto
Japan
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