Local Klan denies any role in flogging

Members of Slatington Klan, No. 210, Knights of Ku Klux Klan, located at Schnecksville, are incensed over depredations which some person antagonistic to the fraternity have blamed on the organization.

Officers of the Klan emphatically deny that the flogging and threatening of a foreigner in the northern part of Lehigh county had anything to do with the organization and furthermore, it is stated that at no time will its members participate in the physical punishment of individual violators of the law.

The case in question found a number of hoodlums, guised in costumes long discarded by the Klan, taking it upon themselves to use the regalia similar to that abandoned and then place the blame for their deeds on the Klan.

The rumor has done considerable harm to the local Klan, which is known for its generosity and its great charitable work, the nature of which never receives publicity because the organization believes in quiet action rather than exploited charity.

Source: The Slatington News, 5 January 1933

Death Claims Major Berlin

Source: The Slatington News, 11 May 1933

[See my articles on Major Roscoe Berlin and the Berlin family.]