(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Frank H. Beall, who resigned last week from his office as Grand Dragon of Ku Klux Klan in Maryland, owing to disagreements with the national officers, charged yesterday that some representatives of the National Propaganda Department have been “shamefully crooked” and “shockingly immoral” in the conduct of their operations in this State and that national officers had proposed a repetition of objectionable propaganda methods.
Under the national scheme, he explained, King Kleagles, assisted by staffs of Kleagles, go into the various States and solicit new members wherever they desire. Their practice, Mr. Beall said. has been to go over the heads of local Grand Dragons.
Mr. Beall asserted he had promised Maryland Klansmen that he would not countenance the methods of these agents and that he had resigned in order to keep that pledge.
He denied that he had been forced out of the office, and declared he had advanced $825 to agents of the Klan and that this money had not been returned.
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