(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The claim of the Ku Klux Klan to the right to carry on activities in any state without obtaining permission from the state was denied by the Supreme Court yesterday.
The question came from Kansas in an appeal by the Georgia Klan Corporation, which sought to conduct its activities, there without obtaining permission, as required by the Kansas law relating to corporations organized in other States.
Questioning of John S. Dean, counsel for the Klan, by the members of the court during his argument was followed by Chief Justice Taft’s announcement that the counsel for the State would not have to be heard, as the court was without jurisdiction in the case. An order giving effect to the court’s decision to dismiss the appeal will shortly be announced.
Members of the court read from the records that the Klan has contested the Kansas law on the ground that it was not “doing business” in the State and could not therefore be required to comply with the corporation law, calling for it to obtain permission.
Dr. Hugo Gressmann, Dean at the University of Berlin, who has just concluded a series of lectures at Oxford and Cambridge, arrived in New York Saturday on the S. S. “Munchen.”
Dr. Gressmann comes to the United States as the first lecturer of the Hilda Sitch Stroock Foundation at the Jewish Institute of Religion. The Foundation provides that non-Jewish scholars be invited from European countries and America. The Lectureship is designed by its founder. Joseph Stroock, to bring to the students of the Institute non-Jewish scholars.
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