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RNEW Today's Chuckle You are an old-timer if you can remember when a woman who touched up her hair had neighbors whose comments were enough to curl it. Local Weather Clear and colder tonight, low 22 to 23. Sunday mostly sunny and milder, high 50 to 56. Complete Report, Page 3 Metropolitan Lancaster U. S.

Census 278359 87th Year -No. 27,239 METROPOLITAN EDITION LANCASTER, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1965 16 PAGES 42c PER VEEK-7ccw BURNED CROSSES ALONG RIVER Klan to Fight LBJ's Order For New Law KKK Strong Here in 1920s, But Withered autos, driving slowly past polling places. This action followed closely the wide distribution of threatening posters bearing the initials KKK and a hideous conception of Uie skull and crossbones, which were hanging all over town, Crownovers article says. At an Armistice Day observance, Nov. 12, 1923, a clash almost developed between Klansmen and American Legion members.

WREATH AT COURTHOUSE The Klan placed a floral wreath with the letters KKK at the Lancaster County Courthouse Plaza during the night. Legion members found the wreath when they went to the plaza for Armistice Day services. A Lancaster veteran who lost an arm in World War I See KLAN Page 2 Ex-Convici, 29, Held in Assault On Amish Child Father of 2 Was Paroled Last June On Similar Offense A paroled sex offender was arrested here Friday for last Mondays abduction and rape of an eleven-year-old Amish girl south of Quarryville. State Police identified the suspect a GEORGE ALDEN SHEETS, twenty-nine, of Nottingham, an unemployed auto mechanic and father of two children. Sheets was paroled last June from Eastern Penitentiary after serving three years for a similar offense.

Records show that Sheets was arrested March 4, 1961, for statutory rape charges brought on behalf of a twelve-year-old Rising Sun R2, Maryland girl. PLEADED GUILTY On June 21, 1961, a jury was selected to try the case, but no testimony was taken. Sheets pleaded guilty to statutory rape and was sentenced by Judge Joseph B. Wissler to three to six years in the Eastern Penitentiary. He also was fined $100 and costs.

Records also show that Sheets was paroled from the penitentiary on June 21, 1964, just nine months ago. The arrest of Sheets Friday climaxed an intensive five-day investigation by State Police, who were assisted by city police, Maryland authorities and agents of the State Parole Board. Sheets was charged with statutory rape and assault with intent to ravish after he was identified by the victim and her two younger brothers, aged nine and six. Prosecution was brought by Trooper Merritt Binns before Justice of the Peace Kathryn V. Clark, Greenfield Road.

Sheets was committed without bail to await a hearing on Monday, April 5, at 1 p.m. PAROLE VIOLATION Another charge, of violating his parole, was lodged against Sheets at county prison by Pat Mastromatteo, state parole agent. It was trooper Binns who appeared in Lancaster County Court as prosecutor against Meminger is scheduled to re-Sheets more than three years sign his post as councilman and ag. councilman John F. S.

Rees is! Ml)luil wisjuuuiuii HAVE HIS CAR jexpected to be named his suc-er ho had been living with dozen holes two to six feet in He was taken into custody at cessor as commissioner of ac-his Lancaster County brother SUJ; noon at the home of his father, I counts and finance. Rees now was charged today with mvol-V'ance Sheets, at Peach Bottom! is parks commissioner. mntarv manslaughter ana leav- R2. Troopers also confiscated! creates VACANCY See EX-CONVICT Pag 11 Bias) Damages U. S.

Landing Ship in Viet Believed Set Off by Reds; One Japanese Crewman Is Injured SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) a massive explosion believed set off by Viet Cong frogmen Friday blew gaping holes in the hull of an American LST docked at a commercial pier at Da Nang. The blast by an estimated 500 pounds of high explosives injured one Japanese crewman I slightly, caused extensive interi- York Hit-Run Death Solved lor damage, and ripped a half A Kentucky construction work-, juntary manslaughter and leav the scene of an accident in ne uiasi was luucneu uu vC 1, rftnnfvman 3 despite an overnight city curfew The scheduled action will York County man cials claimed the Klansman came from Lancaster. Three nights later, 175 Klansmen were reported at a meeting in Quarryville. On Oct. 9, 1923, the first public demonstration of the Klan was held at a public initiation ceremony at the Lancaster Fairgrounds.

An estimated 10,00 spectators heard an unmasked Klansman speak on religion, the Klan and the American flag. 3 PHOTOGRAPHS The purpose of the program was to initiate some 700 Klansmen from Eastern Pennsylvania. Crownover pointed out that the newspaper story was accompanied by three photographs, the first ever taken of local Klausmen. On Election Day, Nov. 6, 1923, Crownover said, Klansmen dressed in their regalia patrolled Lancaster streets in The Ku Klux Klan, called a hooded society of bigots by President Johnson, was a flourishing organization in Lancaster County more than 40 years ago.

Robed and hooded Klans-men by the hundreds staged parades, rallies, initiation rites and cross-burning ceremonies in Lancaster city and many county communities in 1923 and 1924. But the men who belonged to the secret organization quickly became disenchanted with the Klans unsavory attitudes. In the late 1920s, the Klan in Lancaster city and county withered and died. HISTORICAL JOURNAL The history of the Ku Klux Klan in Lancaster County in 1923-24 is detailed in the current issue of the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, in a 13-page article written by Donald A. Crownover, teacher at Hemp-field High School.

In compiling his report, Crownover read articles about the Klan published in Lancaster newspapers and interviewed local residents who once belonged to the Klan. Crownover points out that the editors of the Examiner-New Era, now the New Era, and the News Journal, now the Intelligencer-Journal, attacked the Klan in editorials. IN QUARRYVILLE The first Klan chapter reported in the newspapers, Crownover said, was located in Quarryville and had about 60 members. On Oct. 9, 1923, the hatred group burned crosses along the Susquehanna River at Columbia and paraded through the borough.

Columbia offi Local-Bred Horse Wins British Derby 'Jay Trump' Wins Was Raised on New Danville Farm Jay Trump, a seven-year-old thoroughbred race horse bred and raised in Lancaster County and almost destroyed five years ago after an accident, won the 124th running of the Grand National Steeplechase in Aintree, England, today, former The horses former owner, Jay Sensenich, of New Dan- It took him three hours just to ville, today said he feels good sew him up. SELMA, Ala. (AP)-Two hundred white and Negro demonstrators led by a Canadian minister marched in a solemn procession to the county courthouse today to protest the slaying of Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, felled by a snipers bullet after taking part in a march at Montgomery. The Rev.

Lawrence Duncan Heat of Toronto, Canada marched at the head of the quiet, orderly line, two abreast. MARCH AUTHORIZED U. S. District Judge Daniel H. Thomas of Mobile authorized the march and prescribed the route to the Dallas County courthouse.

It was the first demonstration since the massive civil rights march Thursday to Alabamas capitol building in Montgomery. Mrs. Liuzzo was shot to death by gunfire from a passing car a few hours after the Montgomery march ended. The attractive mother of five, whose home was Detroit, was driving from Selma to the capital to pick up marchers. The killing occurred about 26 miles east of Selma on U.

S. 80. About 125 of the marchers were Negroes. Leaders of the march grouped themselves on the steps of the three-story courthouse at the end of the 10-block route. HERE FOR FACTS We are gathered here for a few facts, said James Orange, a huge Negro man active in the civil rights drive.

We dont like what happened here the other night. Orange recalled the deaths of two other victims in the Alabama racial struggle -the Rev. James J. Reeb, a Boston white minister fatally clubbed by white men here, and Jimmie Lee Jackson, a Negro who died of a gunshot wound suf fered in nearby Marion. A Roman Catholic priest offered a prayer and Heat prayed for all the people of Selma, high and low.

'WE SHALL OVERCOME" Then the demonstrators sang We Shall Overcome, the theme song of the civil rights movement. Meanwhile, in Montgomery, a Klu Klux Klan leader said today the robed order would fight a presidential attack after four klansmen were arrested on charges of federal conspiracy in the highway killing of a white civil rights worker. Were going to put President Johnson back on the spot he has jumped on the white people of the South, said Calvin F. Craig, grand dragon of the Klan in Georgia. WILL DEFEND MEN Craig, reached in Atlanta, said the Klans attorney was defending the four men.

They were arrested by FBI agents in the assassination of pretty Mrs. Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, a Detroit mother of five. Mrs. Liuzzo was shot to death Thursday night near Lowndes-boro after taking part in the civil rights march to the state capital. President Johnson announced the arrests and then declared war on the Klan.

He called for controling legislation and congressional probes. DENOUNCES ATTACK Craig followed the lead of Robert M. Shelton Jr. of Tuscaloosa. the imperial wizard of the united Klans, in denouncing the Presidents stinging verbal attack.

I regret very much that this white lily (Mrs. Liuzzo) was See KKK Pag 2 and was sure glad to see him win. Im not the least bit sorry, Sensenich said, concerning his sale of the horse about four years ago for $2,000. Today, the thoroughbred won $61,714 for his present owner, Mary C. Stephenson, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Its like being an astronaut, SIS backing lit filywr-old Wore U- kg Jay Trump was sired by Ton- tnere Prince (by a son of Polyne- BAD ACCIDENT -1' It took some three months for the horse to completely recover. Sensenich said Jay Trump is a big horse and was a regular pet around the farm. He stands about 16y2 hands high and weighs some 1,200 to 1,300 pounds. ONE-TIME WINNER He finished in the money only once for Sensenich as a three- sian, sire of the famous Native ere-, aiKj rigid security precautions ate a vacancy on council which! The worker, Odas Johnson, the area site of can be filled by an election of twenty-three, of Mount council within the next 30 days.lRl, came to City Hall by 4 0M The prompt action by council York with hlsbrJr, schar: Marines and batteries of Hawk is needed, according to the re-of Gap Rl, with whom he had: antiaircraft missiles, port, because of the necessityjresided while working in York. of electing a treasurer to sign Charles H.

Dorsey, forty-nine, RED TARGETS BOMBED vouchers and other important of York, was killed by a car financial documents. jin downtown York. Police said To sign vouchers and pay city the car left without stopping, bills an immediate replacement Odas Johnson also was charg-in the treasurers post would be'ed with operating a motor ve-needed, a check of the Third! hide without an operators li-Class City Code revealed. Icense. Oscar Johnson was charged with permitting an unlicensed operator to drive his Other matters relative to thejear.

coming municipal election were The charges were lodged be- Twelve U.S. Air Force B57 jet bombers raided suspected Viet Cong targets 50 miles northwest of Saigon today. A U.S. military spokesman said there were no strikes against North Viet Nam. U.S.

sources said 15 Viet Cong were killed and 12 wounded and captured Friday during a helicopter assault in Quant Tri Province, 400 miles north of High-Wire Act By Squirrel KOs Power in Denver Several blocks in the western section of Denver were without electric power between 7:30 and 8:45 a m. today after a squirrel climbing on high tension wires apparently caused a fuse to blow. Workmen from who restored power to the section found the electrocuted squirrel lying beneath wires near Denver Park. The shortage was caused by a blown fuse located at North Sixth and High streets, three blocks east of the park. Workmen explained that animals can cause shorts only if they touch both a positive and a negative wire at the same time.

Dancer) and a mare named Bea Trump. SECOND FOR U. S. His steeplechase triumph was the second straight for an American horse in the Grand National, considered the toughest of all steeplechases. Team Spirit won a year ago.

He was the first American- As a two year old, Jay Trump's right front leg was severely ripped and torn in an accident at Charles Town Race Track, W. Va. Sensenich said the horse was accidentally hit in the eye with a whip. He cleared one fence but Was injured and required 29 stitches in the leg. Temperatures at 50 Sunday As Spring Edges In A stubborn winter, which officially should have departed a week ago, slowly began to make way for spring in Lancaster County today.

Temperatures were gradually climbing today, although a brick March wind still whistled through the county. By 1:30 p. downtown temperatures had reached 45 degrees. Bright sunshine is expected again Sunday, with readings moving into the low to mid-50s. It will be cold tonight though, with low readings dropping well into the 20s.

It was riPPedde Penwith American-owned and tissue showmg and I thought American-ridden horse to win though. tissue showing and I thought about destroying him, said. fore Alderman Mildred Hunt, of York, by York city police. Dorsey also was hit by a second car operated by Susan also discussed this morning at a meeting of the City GOP Executive Committee. Also among the most pressing big Sensenich But the vet looked at him and said he would be alright.

Jay Trump and Freddie, the See LOCAL-BRED Pag 11 Saigon. Two Vietnamese soldiers were killed and three wounded. 2 Gl's BURNED SLIGHTLY Two American enlisted men were burned slightly today when a U.S. Air Force observation plane accidentally fired two white phosphorous rockets during takeoff at Qui Nhon base. The men were released after treatment.

Two squadrons of Marine warplanes are expected to be brought to Viet Nam to support the Leatherneck ground forces already here. An informed source said the aircraft would be stationed at See BLAST Page 2 needs is the selection of a re-jBootier, twenty-six, of York, as placement for Alexanders spot he attempted to get on his feet, on the GOP ticket for city coun- He was dragged 172 feet by the cil at the coming election. second car, police said. 'BETTER THAN BEING SHOT BUT BARELY' Reporter Sniffs 'Viet Gas' I was in the gas cloud for possibly 10 seconds, coughing and retching. The single thought that struck me after getting one sniff of the stuff was to get out of there.

But where to go? EYES WOULDN'T OPEN My burning eyes would not open. I ran, took a breath and what I inhaled was sweet mountain air. But that didnt end my discomfort. The nausea, coughing and smarting eyeballs remained for another 15 to 30 minutes. Id had no breakfast, so the experience wasnt as awful as it could have been.

STILL NAUSEATED But as 1 write this about an hour after the experience, the nausea is still there. I would guess my complexion matches the color of SgL Butterfield's beret. And my voice has plunged two octaves. effects, CM, or common tear gas and DM, a pepper-like irritant gas. IN SECLUDED AREA A Utah National Guard officer reported that two canisters of CS gas we.e available.

We drove with it to a secluded area in Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City. M.Sgt. Dee Butterfield, who wears the green beret of the Special Forces, pulled out a canister marked Grenade, Hand, Riot, CS, M7A2. He tossed it a few feet from me ar i it popped like a firecracker. LIKE PEPPER, FIRE Grey smoke spewed from the grenade.

I moved into the smoke and breathed. It was like inhaling pepper and fire. I coughed, and the nausea hit my stomach with ballbat impact. My cheeks stung and my eyes ached. BY STEVE HALE Deseret News Writer SALT LAKE CITY (AP) I got a heavy dose Friday of the tear-nausea gas that is causing a world-wide furor because the United States has supplied the stuff for use against Communists in Viet Nam.

Officials in Washington say the gas has been useu to comba' the Viet Cong in situations where innocent people might be hurt if guns were used. After my experience with the gas, I can report that I prefer it to being shot or shelled. GOT VERY SICK I can also report that I have not been so sick since I ate some stew I cooked as a Boy Scout. The Pentagon told the Deseret News that three kinds of gas have been used in Viet Nam. They are CS, a choking tear gas which also has nausea MAIL CHECK TOOAY TO EASTER SEALS.

S3 Jnt Avt Lincutw. Atfv. Power Blackout Strikes Bowlers A power failure forced a 114-hour halt in the 27th Annual Pennsylvania Womans Bowling Association tournament this morning at Rocky Springs amusement park. Bowling started at 9 a.m. and all 40 alleys were busy when the lights went out about 10:35 a.m.

The lights in some alleys remained lit, but all bowling was stopped. This is the second weekend for the tournament. Power was restored at noon. officials said the power failure was caused oy trouble in the Rocky Springs system itself and not by any area Today's New Era Pag Bridge 7 Comics 7-9 Editorials i Lenten Guideposts 19 Obituaries 3 Radio-TV I Sports 9-19 Theaters 4 Want Ads 1 1-1 2-1 3-1 4-1 Women Phone Lancaster 397-3251 AP WirwM Jay Trump, bred and raised in Grand National Steeplechase at Lancaster County, crosses finish line Aintree, England, today, as winner of the 124th running of the.