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be bw SEG CNIS ER US “EE vt on pa) ° paper and thai be yes argued with him a number of times since he quit the or- ganization. further advised that the subject states there is no God except ALLAF, od of the Mohammedans. He added that he finnlly ordered the subject not to come to his house again and thet he has not done so. and his wife stated that they are sure there ere not more than five or six other negroes, other than the immediate “amilyof subject, who have been induced to vecome members of this organization; that the colored people now know that the subject is obtaining money from them by false pretenses. view was had , Se as. siti‘ §# Lew Wes maa ein ee eS on colored, who stated they started to join instant organization and _ _ fee for a membership card and badge and received same, but have not paid anything more and refused to do so because they did not have the money to spare; and they came to the conciusicon that subject WASHINGTON was making a racket out of this matter as he did not work at any gainful occupation. They added that they could not see ‘that they would receive any benefit from being a member of this organization. They also advised that subject WASRINGTON did not tell them that when the Japs took cver this country that they would not be molested, but he did say tne resent wer was s war between the white and colored races and toe colcred race would finelly win; t::at he also told thes: they were not ne- groes cut Asiatics; that they will not have anything further to do with tris organization, and they feel sure the subject is not having any success in ob= taining new members at this time and do not believe he has more then five or six members; that he “as now lost most of them. —— ave Agent the membership card and badges fur= nished them by the subject, which are being maintained in the Springfield file in this case. t this tj ent conferred with States Attorney CONMELL who called in Sheriff He directed the Sheriff to accompany Agent for inter- view with the suojec and stated that the Sheriff had his authority to arrest case he refused to allow the Sheriff to examine his papers, etc., perteining to instant organization; that in case the subject refused to turn over the list of his memvers and any literature he may have, he would cause a warrant to be issued for nis arrest for obtaining money under false pretenses. , shericr QED accompanied Agent to the shack in which su in the river bottoms north of Lf wASHINGTOS stated that he originally came from Jackson, Tennessee; thet he has spent the last two years in Chicago, Illinois, and while there be- came aWare of the fact thet the negroes are not, in fact, negroes; that ne sew negroes parading in robes and wearin. a fez and was told that he coule find wie wea OLE Ga aol ae tdi