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I $2.00 Per Year in Adavance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 26,1922. Established in 1891.
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Tell the Farmers.
Cotton Under
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Last Wednesday quite a number of
t farmers attended a meeting at Denmark
at which experts told the farm
L era the best methods to follow in the
* production of cotton under bill weeX.
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vil conditions. A great deal of interx
est was manifested in the meeting, i
as was evidenced by the questions
asked. 7
The object of the series of meetings,
of which this was one, is to
i get the farmers acq,nainted with all
f the available lmormauon m regam
f to the weevil, its destructiveness, and
\ the best known methods of combating
the weevil. It is not the purpose of
* the speakers to boost the planting of
cotton; they very frankly tell the
farmers that they may never again
expect cotton to be the crop it once
was, but such an, important world
crop deserves the best possible attention,
and the idea is to get just as
% much cotton as possible from the
acreage planted, but it is stressed
K v that the acreage should necessarily
be small. Below is given the ref
-marks of the speakers in condensed
form.
Dr. J. N. Harper, who is director
of the soil improvement committee,
of Atlanta said that fertilizer is not
used for the land's sake but for the
sake of the plant. This fact, he stated,
was now being pretty generally
known.
f "Nitrogen makes the weed grow
( and delays the maturity of the cotton
crop," he'said, and "increases the
/ ratio from stem to root. Phosphoric
; acid is the balancing element and
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to carry nitrogen from the plant to
the fruit. To get ahead of the boll
weevil you must induce quick fruit^
age. Legumes ma>e nitrogen in the
( land. Unless nitrogen can be obtained
in that way it would be too
expensive to get it." Dr. Harper
further stated that it might be too
expensive to turn under legumes,
n therefore,^ he stated, the best thing
to do is to rotate the crops.
Dr. Harper advised that. the percentage
of potash heretofore used in
this county be decreased.
^ J. O. Taylor, of the states' relation
service, advised that now is the
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time tor "warm ieei auu vuui ucauo. I
Poison Effective.
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'stage the Bamberg county people are
?r passing through," he stated, "and
many came through all right. The
fight against the boll weevil with calcium
arsenate poisoning has been
> effective." Mr. Taylor said that all
the failures where calcium arsenate
poisoning was used which had been
analyzed by him and the government
department had found out to be
the result of failure to adhere to
. some deail of the method of mixing
or using the poison. He gave the
names of a number of planters in
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas
* who made large increases of cotton
fcy using calcium arsenate poisoning.
jr "Start poisoning when the weevils
have punctured from 10 to 15 per
cent, of the squares and don't use
poison on land growing less than &
f * bale to the acre." *
To figure out when the weevil has
infested between 10 and 15 per cent,
of the field, do this: Locate a stalk
of 100 squares in each of the four
corners of the field and the center;
pull off the punctured squares and'
figure the percentage of these punc
tures against 500. He advised poisoning
only one section of the field
' if it is found that only that portion
of the field is infested between 10
and 15 per cent. Besin to look for
' the weevil when the eotton is 4 inches
Ihigh, he said. He said he does not
^ advise picking up the squares from
the ground as not much good can
he accomplished thereby.
Mr. Taylor said most failures in the
use of calcium arsenate resulted from
* neglect to use this material as advised
oy the United States government
after mutb research. He advised
against the use of molasses
poison.
He advised every precaution
against injury to cattle. He said poison
should be applied mainly at night,
sometimes late in the afternoon or
early in the morning, as moisture
is neded to make the poison stick
to the leaves. The inhaling of the
poison does not hurt the work animals,
he said. He advised using pre>
caution against opportunity of animals
to eat objects in which is the
poison and against continued inhalation
by man and animals.
Including the cost of everything
the poison need not exceed $5 an
f acre for the entire season and not
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Weevil Conditions
$15 per acre as some have the impression,
he stated.
Using the Poison.
Mr. Taylor gave tne ionowmg information
in reference to using the
poison, the kinds of machines used
and other general information for
use by the farmers of this county.
Make your acreage allotment according
to the following schedule,
and buy a surplus rather than shortage
of machines, as this will save you
money.
Do not allow over 8 acres to one
hknd gun.
Do not attempt over 25 acres in
one organization with hand guns.
Do not supply individual tenants
and expect each to care for his crop
successfully independent of the others.
Use hand guns only when no other
machine is suitable.
This term is used to describe the
: new type of one-wheel, one-mule
machine which is just being put on
the market. It sells at a medium
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ers.
This machine will cover from 15
to 20 acres in a night of operation.
It should not be allotted more than
60 acres for the season.
This machine has only two nozzles
buf will usually cover three rows at a
trip.
This term used to describe the twowheel,
two-mule machine which
straddles a row of cotton. It is the
most suitable for large farmers.
This machine will cover from 25
to 30 acres in a night of operation.
| One of these machine's should not
be allotted more than 100 acres of
infested cotton for the season.
I This machine has three nozzles,
j but will usually cover four rows at
a trip.
How to Poison.
Use only pure calcium arsenate in
the form of a dry powder. Apply
this only in the dust form.
Purchase this to conform to tlie
i following specifications:
Not less tlian 40 per cent, total
arsenic pentoxid.
Not more than 0.75 per cent, water
soluble arsenic pentoxid.
j Density not less than 80 or more
than 100 cubic inches per pound.
Have your county agent send a
sample of your calcium arsenate to
the Delta Laboratory, Tallulah, La.,
for free analysis to make sure that it
is satisfactory.
Use only dusting machinery especially
constructed for cotton dusting.
Poison only when the air is calm
and the Tvlants are moist. This Drac
tically meang making only night applications.
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j Start poisoning when the we^fals
hare punctured from 10 to 15 per
cent, of the squares.
Keep your cotton thoroughly dusted
until the weevils are under control.
This usually means about three
applications at the rate of one every
four days.
Then stoD Doisoning until the wee
vils again become abundant.
If the weevils become abundant
early enough to injure young bolls,
make one or two more applications
late in the season.
If you have a heavy rain within a
day renew this application immediately.
Do not expect to eradicate the weevils.
Poisoning mere controls them
sufficiently to permit a full crop of
cotton and you can always find wee
vils in the successfully poisoned
fields.
Keep your cotton acreage low and
do everything possible to increase
your yield per acre, as it costs just
as much to poison one quarter bale
per acre cotton as bale per acre cotton.
Always leave an occasional portion
of a r?nt nnnoisionpd for comnari
son with the adjoining poisoned tract.
This will show .how much you have
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increased your yield by poisoning.
If you are considering posoning,
write the Delta Laboratory at Tallulah,
La., for more detailed information;
also ask the advice of your
county agent.
Earliness of Crop.
C. A. Whittle of the soil improvement
committee^ spoke on "Earliness
of the Crop."
"In Bamberg county there is light
and quick soil and makes ideal conditions
for fixing early crops," he
said. "Fresh vegetable matter turn
ed under shortly before planting prevents
proper -germination of seed.
Get the vegetable matter turned under
early enough."
In speaking of the kind of cotton
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Health Exhibit
Was Shown Here
The ''Keeping Fit" exhibit of the
state board of health, originally prepared
by the U. S. public health service,
was presented to the boys of the
Bamberg high school by B. A.
Schnell, boys' secretary of the state
Y. M. C. A. This exhibit which was
prepared by the government for use
in the high schools of the country
has attracted favorable attention
wherever shown and it is the plan of
the state board of health with the
assistance of the state Y. M. C. A.
to present this in every high school
in the state.
The exhibit shown the boys bere
consisted of 48 charts beaming the
message of physical fitness and explaining
simple rules of hygiene and
training. There are about 130 high
onVr?/\le in thn ctata that this ftxhibit
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will reach. It is also planned to
show the series in the mills. It is
the effort of the South Carolina public
health service to reach over 12,000
boys and men in the state during
1922 and the state Y. M. C. A.
in nnnnaiiofinot in tViic n*nrt Ttl J) (i H1 ?
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tion to the presentation of the charts
all boys who viewed the exhibit were
given a copy of the pamphlet entitled
"Keeping Fit" prepared especially
for this exhibit. The state board of
education .has unanimously approved
the showing of the exhibit in all of
the high schols of the state and urges
the cooperation of all school authorities.
It is the present intention of
the state boaird that this exhibit shall
be made yearly. Dr. . V. Akin, of
the state board of health has full
charge of this phase of the board's
work and Mr. Schnell is the field
director of the campaign.
Mayor's Monday
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inviiuiig iriuiiiiw
The mayor was rushed again Monday
morning with a number of' cases
which resulted as follows:
Wm. Grant paid $5 on a charge ofcursing
and trying to cut his wife.
Allen Boatwright paid the same
amount for cursing, disturbiiig the
peace and drawing a pistol.
Willie Dyches also contributed a
five spot for drawing a pistol on a
fellow black.
Wesley Washington was found
guilty of store breaking and had also
been found' guilty on a similar charge
previously. ?iis sencence in eacn. case
was $25 or 30 days, and he has gone
to the county chain gang for the 60
days.
Livie Irons paid $5 for cursing and
disturbing the peace.
Mattie Boatwright was charged $5
for cursing and disturbing the peace
and paid up.
Mack Funches donated $5 to the
citv treasury for fighting, and dis
turbing the peace.
All these defendants were negro
men except Mattie Boatwright, a negro
woman, and all paid the fines
rather than serve time, except Wesley
Washington.
seed to plant the speaker advised an
early variety. "The ideal variety under
boll weevil conditions will set a
big heavy bottom crop and set up
squares throughout the season." De"
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linted cotton seed is aavisea, ue hl?led.
"Phosphoric acid has more to do
with maturing the crop than anything
else." Concentrate your activities on
the early end of the growing season
and also use nitrogen early in the
game.
"An increase of one per cent, of
phosphoric acid nitrogen is the
amount you have been using is ad
vised."
In speaking of the probable number
of boll weevils this year in the country
Mr. Whittle said, "you never can
tell what the boll weevil is going to
do." He advised against taking any
chances whatever.
Mr. Whittle advised the burning
of the area around stumps, burning
out the ditches and nearby fields.
"Turn under the stalks while green
immediately after picking; if you cannot
do this, see that the stalks are
killed as the weevil feeds on the green {
stalk.
"It costs more to raise cotton under
boll weevil conditions but by the
proper methods more cotton is -raised.
Continue the present spacing in
planting until differently advised by
the government.
Close Watch Needed.
P. H. Jeter, agricultural writer,
witli the soil improvement committee,
of Atlanta, a South Carolina man,
mentioned the names of farmers who
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Bamberg's Corn
Crop Good One
B. B. Hare has just made public a
statement of the corn crop of the
past year in Soo^i Carolina, the totals
being: Acreage, 2,022,000; production,
32,955,000 bushels; value, $24,nnn
In Bamberg county an acreage of
45,000 is reported; the average yield
per acre is given as 17 bushels; the
total production, 765,000 bushels, and
the value, based on price Dec. 1,
$566,100.
It seems to be a peculiar fact that
the majority of the counties where
the boll weevil did its most destructive
work produced better corn crops
than the counties wherein the weevil
did not do so much damage, which is
the reverse of the usual conditions.
For instance, Greenville county was
damaged very little by the weevn,
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bushels to the acre, and Greenwood's
production was 14 bushels, whereas
Jasper, the county suffering the greatest
amount of weevil devastation, produced
16 bushels of corn per acre,
Orangeburg made 17 bushels and
Beaufort made 23 bushels per acre,
the largest yield in the state.
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(jamoun proaucea is uusueis pci
acre, Barnwell 17, Allendale 17, Colleton
16, Hampton 16, and Aiken 17.
NOTICE TOBACCO GROWERS.
All tobacco growers will please
come to the meeting on Monday,
January 30th, at 3 o'clock at the
court house, for the purpose of electing
a delegate to send to the district
meeting. Also to organize a permanent
society.
A. M. BRABHAM,
President.
Marketing Meetings
for Bamberg County
What is cooperative marketing and
how is it worked? Every farmer,
banker, merchant and business man
who has never heard the present plan
of cooperative marketing explained
should attend one or more of the folowing
meetings and hear of this wonderful
plan. Meetings are being called
in this county as follows:
Denmark?Jan 25, 11 a. m.
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Govan?Jan. zo, j p. m.
St. John's?Jan 27, 3 p. m.
Oak Grove?Jan. 30, 11 a. m.
Olar?Jan 26, 11 a. m.
Ehrhardt?Jan 27, 11 a. m.
Hunter's Chapel, Jan 28, 11 a. m.
. Kearse?Jan. 30, 3 p. m.
Oh January 31st, at Bamberg, a
county-wide meeting will be called to
perfect a county organization and every
cotton grower will be expected to
attend.
The speaker secured for these
meetings is Dr. W. W. Long, of Clemson
college, hut other experts will attend
and render their services. This
educational campaign for cooperative
marketing of farm crops was put on
after holding a farmers' meeting at"
Bamberg and having this plan explained.
At this meeting, the plan
was thought enough of to put on an
educational campaign covering the
county. Six cotton states have completed
a sign-up campaign, for sign-?
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lug up U T CI tnu U?...vu ,
other cotton states now have their
membership campaign in progress.
Let's help to pat South Carolina in
this progressive movement.
The first shipment of apples from
the Pacific Northwest to Europe by
ocean steamers this year will total
10,000 barrel*.
have successfully fought the boll weevil.
"The time has come when the farmer
must spend much of his time in
close watch of his cotton crop," he
stated, and advised "close personal
supervision by the land owner," for
success in growing cotton.
Alter relating mo eiyci icu?,o >_? a
many farmers who beat the boll weevil,
Mr. Jeter stated that cotton can
no longer be successfully grown under
the same conditions as in the
past. The peach man had to come
to spraying his trees, the trucker in
protecting his potatoes, and many
other lines of farming have had to
consider the ' insects and diseases
which attack their crops. So far, cotton
has been practically free from
this consideration hut not any more.
The old methods of growing cotton
has passed away forever and the
earlier we become reconciled to this
view and learn how to dust properly
with calcium arsenate the earlier will
we be able to grow cotton under boll
weevil conditions.
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W. FRANK WALKER DEAD.
Dies from Injuries Received in Fight
With A. V. Cullum.
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Columbia, January 21.?W. Frank
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ber of the city council of Blackville,
died at the Baptist hospital at
about 1 o'clock this morning of injuries
received, according to information
reaching Columbia, in a fight
with A. V. Collum, Blackville mer
chant, and Belton Fanning, Collum's
brother-in-law.' Walker was said to
.have been struck with a cold drink
bottle.
Mr. Walker was brought to Columbia
at about 10 o"clock last night and
was immediately carried to the hospital
where he was operated upon in a
vain effort to save his life.
Details as to the difficulty were
meager and the cause of the fight
shrouded in a maze of conflicting
stories. The affray, which occurred
just in front of Mr. Cullom's store
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about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
according to Sheriff C. K. Sanders of
Barnwell, who was reached at ihis
home by telephone last night, was
said by some to be the culmination of
long standing differences between the
two men. It was not known who was
| the aggressor in the fray, Sheriff Sanders
said, but Cullom claims that the
fight was started by Walker, according
to the sheriff, who says that Collum
claims that Walker walked in to
his store and threatened him. Walk -
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Sanders, drew a pistol during the
fight. Belton Fanning, Collum's brother-in-law,
Colium says, then took the
pistol away from Walker.
The first blow broke the scalp, but,
it was thought, did little internal
[ damage, the second, however, was
just over the temple, fracturing the
skull.
Officers secured the pistol which
Fanning is alleged to have taken from
Walker, who, it is claimed by Cullum,
according to Sheriff Sanders,
also had a pair of brass knueks.
B. L. Boylston, of Blackville, one
of the eyewitnesses of the affray,
wient tn Walker's aid after he had
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been struck and assisted the physician,
who had been called in, carrying
tihe injured man home. Here
under the attention of Dr. D. K.
Briggs, of Blackville, and Dr. Joe
Matthews, of Denmark, Walker was
given preliminary treatment to be
brought to Columbia later. Both
physicians accompanied Mr. Walker
j to Columbia.
Both Cullum and Fanning were
I put under bond by the city council j
of Blackville, according to Sheriff
Sanders, who did not know of the
extent of Walker's injuries, was in
Blackville all afternoon, but did not
make any arrest, leaving the "handling
of the ease to the Blackville an-1
thorities. Informed of Mr. Walker's
-death early this morning, Sheriff
Sanders said that the two men would
be taken into custody at once.
Mr. Walker was 47 years old and
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Jury Holds Cullum.
Barnwell, Jan 21.?Uhe inquest
over the dead body of W. Prank
Walker, of Blaokville, was held in
Blackville this afternoon by Coroner
J. Staff Halford, of this city. Only
one witness, Belton Fanning, brother-in-law
of A. V. Collum, was examined
and the jury returned a verdict
to the effect that Walker died
j from the effect of wounds inflicted |
by Cullum with a soft drink bottle.
; An examination of the body wds
made by Drs. Chas. A. -Hansley, coun
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ty physician of Barnwell; Dr. D. K.
Briggs and Dr. Ryan A. Gyles, of
Blackville, who testified as to the
nature of the wounds. Fanning, it
is understood, testified that he took
a pistol away from Walker.
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Nothing But a Smile.
Peoria, 111., Jan. 18.?When Jimmy j
Kelley, Chicago bantamweight boxer,
threw off his bathrobe and stepped1
out in the ring to shake hands with !
Stanley Exerett, Pekin boxer, in the [
ring at a tbeater nere lasi mgnt, ne ,
discovered he was wearing nothing;
but a smile. His seconds hurriedly I
flung an overcoat about him and rush
ed him to a dressing room. He re-'
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turned in ring costume and won a
draw in ten rounds. There were a
number of women in the audience. I
Kelley is a student of journalism atj
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Set For Today;
rial is Continued
The regular January session of
criminal r>niirt />nnvenoH in Ramhorr
Monday morning with Judge J. W.
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DeVore, of Edgefield, presiding, and
Stenographer Allen in his place. The
court began its work, however, under
a handicap by reason of the fact that
Solicitor Robert L. Gunter, of Aiken,
was and still is ill at his home there. K
Mr. Gunter suffered three chills Sunday
night before the opening of court
the next morning, and so of course his
presence was well nigh impossible.
But no more time than could he prevented
was lost as Judge DeVore appointed
B. W. Miley, of the local bar, ? ^
to act as the prosecuting attorney, \ and
the court functioned right along
Monday.
The first case taken up was that
against Joe Joseph, Arthur Funchess,
Joe Johnson, and Louis Chapman,
fn 111- noornon pha rero.l mUh viftlftHnn
of the prohibition law. The jury's
verdict was guilty, and each defendant
was sentenced to serve . four
months on the county gang. Bennie
Faust, another negro, then plead guilty
on the same charge, and took a \
sentence of six months at hard labor
or a fine of $300, provided that if $50
of the fine be paid the remainder of
the sentence be suspended during
good behavior. Ed. Gore, the young
white man charged with the killing
December 31st of the negro, Grover
Hayes, by a^-blow on the head inflicted
on the place of Mrs. M. A. Bamberg
near mis city, was ireea uy me jaryt
the defense offering no testimony.
Joe Johnson, Arthur Funches and *]
Louis Chapman, three of the same negroes
previously sentenced for violation
of the prohibition law, were next
tried on a charge of grand larceny,
and were all acquitted. O. J. C. Lain,
county game warden, was tnen put * .'a
upon trial for the death of Page
Odom, a negro. The court directed
the jury to write a verdict of not
guilty in this case, jparry Lawson
and James Isaacs, two negroes, were
tried and acquitted on the charge of
house breaking and larceny in connection
with entering the home of
Sam Zimmerman in this city a short
while ago. Marion Busby, negro, was
convicted of house breaking and larceny,
and was sentenced to a period x
of five years at hard labor on the public
works. v -^3
As The Herald goes to j^ss Wed|
nesday afternoon the case of Warren |j
Charlton, negro, charged with the - ?a
murder of Ruby Watkins, another ne- / j 1
gro man ait a hot supper at Bhrhardt I
a considerable while back, is well un- "
der way, and this is the extent of the
business thus far concluded. *
The homicide case of Edwin L.
Goodwin, charged with the death of
his step-father-in-law, William Carter,
was again continued, this time
on motion of the state. Goodwin is a
well known white man of the lower y|S
edge of the couhty, and has been in.
jail ever since the alleged crime, al- ^
though an order for bail in the sum
of $5,000 was granted. The coutinu- %
ance probably means that the case
will now hold over until next September
when our next term of criminal
court is scheduled for this county,
and Goodwin may possibly be kept in
custody all that time unless he ob
tains bondsmen. His oraer ior uan . &
was granted by Judge S. W. G. Shippquite
a while ago. . A
A case in which much interest has
been and is being taken is that
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against tne wnue man, xv. v. ??xx- A;1_
liamson, charged with the murder
of another prominent white citizen,
W. Ham Brabham, at Ehrhardt, a
few years ago. It will be remembered
that Williamson was tried once
before and convicted of manslaughter
with recommendation to mercy;
his sentence was 10 years. But the
case was appealed to the supreme *
j court which reversed the decision of .
I the lower court here and sent the
j charge back for another hearing.
| This case has been set for trial to
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, day, (Tnursaayj ana wm m an y? viability
be disposed of at this term of
court.
? Suit Against Klan. j
! Houston Texas, Jan 21.?Suit for :
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! $200,000 damages against the invis- ]
| ible empire, Knights of the Ku Klux l
| Klan, incorporated under the laws of j
I Georgia, was filed here today in fedI
eral court by Miss Melba Meyer. The j
j petition alleged the receipt by Miss I
| Meyer of a threatening letter from I
Richmond Klan, No. 38, which she as3
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