Last week Edward Young Clarke, formerly Imperial Wizard and now Imperial Giant of the Ku Klux Klan, was removed from control of its Propagation Department. This week he was indicted by a grand jury at Houston, Texas, for violating the Mann Act. Six members of the jury were Klansmen. Clarke gave himself up to Federal authorities in Atlanta, and was released on $1,000 bail.
Statistics published by the Paris Prefecture of Police show that ninety per cent of 190 murders for love or jealousy went unpunished last year.
The population of New York State penal institutions increased nearly 20 per cent for the last fiscal year, according to the report of the State Commission of Prisons.