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Moslem World Congress is Opened in Mecca

June 3, 1926
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The Moslem World Congress, called by Sultan Ibn-Saud, victorious leader of the Wahabis, was opened in Mecca yesterday, despatches received here state.

The purpose of the Congress is to restore Moslem religious unity and to abolish the differences between the various Moslem communities regarding certain rites and beliefs which have caused friction among the Moslems for many centuries, it was declared.

Asa K. Bartlett, leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Muskegan, Mich., confessed, according to R. Glenn Durm, County Prosecuting Attorney, that he made and mailed the bomb whose explosion last Thursday killed August Krubaech and William Franke, fiance of his daughter. Jeanette, and fatally wounded her.

Bartlett, a Blue Lake township constable and former Justice of the Peace, opposed the election of Krubaech as a township Supervisor last April. In his confession, according to the Prosecutor, Bartlett stated that his anunosity toward Krubaech, while covering a period of more tahn four years, became intensified at the election when Krubaech defeated Mrs. Jennie Norlin.

The bomb exploded while Krubaech was opening the package containing it in the dining room of his home. Three Lakes Tavern, in the presence of his daughter and her fiance. All thought the package contained a wedding present. Jeannette and Franke were to have been married last Saturday.

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