Terror in the City of Champions (59 page)

245.
McCrea newsreel interview of Lupp:
DT
, May 26, 1936.

246.
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:
DN
, May 31, 1936.

246.
“The Black Legion probably is the craziest . . .”:
DT
, May 28, 1936.

247.
“I have ordered the police commissioner . . .”:
DT
, May 25, 1936.

247.
“Dayton always said it was a shame . . .”:
DT
, June 4, 1936.

247.
Dorothy Guthrie assault:
DFP
and
Washington Times
, June 18, 1936.

247.
“You don’t know anything”:
DFP
, June 18, 1936.

248.
“It seems you can’t tell where . . .”:
DN
, June 5, 1936.

248.
“My life is ruined”:
DN
, June 9, 1936.

248.
“Some of the defendants awaiting trial . . .”:
DN
, June 14, 1936.

248.
“Two years ago, I didn’t have a gray hair . . .”:
DN
, June 13, 1936.

248.
“I made up my mind they would . . .”:
DN
, August 5, 1936.

249.
Estimates of legion size:
DN
, May 31, 1936.

249.
“We thought for years that things such as . . .”:
DFP
, June 2, 1936.

249.
“Dear enemy. You are to die soon . . .”: Michigan State Police report, June 15, 1936, Amann, Box 5A.

249.
“Beware! Black Legion!”: Michigan State Police report, June 23, 1936, Amann, Box 5A.

250.
“Aw, we wouldn’t have dropped him . . .”:
Washington Times
, June 6, 1936.

250.
“Think you know too much . . .”:
Washington Post
, October 21, 1936.

250.
“Black Legion Game”:
DFP
, June 30, 1936.

250.
“A veritable nationwide Black Legion hysteria . . .”:
Toledo Blade
, May 29, 1936.

250.
Nelson Harding editorial cartoon:
Washington Times
, June 1, 1936.

250.
“Indeed, when I looked at a photograph . . .”:
New York World-Telegram
, May 29, 1936.

251.
“springs from an inferiority complex . . . are not of the elect”:
Washington Star
, June 14, 1936.

251.
“stripped of their hoods . . .”:
Washington Post
, May 25, 1936.

251.
“Homicidal fanatics of the Black Legion type . . .”:
Washington Times
, May 29, 1936.

251.
“a strange and particularly evil manifestation . . .”:
New York Herald-Tribune
, October 1, 1936.

251.
“a new zoological specimen . . . mockery of ‘justice’ ”:
New York Daily Mirror
, May 25, 1936.

251.
“Outside the grooves of his prejudices . . .”: Eliot, “Behind the Black Legion—What?” 29.

251.
“the diseased minds of fanatics . . .”:
DN
, June 6, 1936.

251.
“The responsibility for this shameless . . .”: Ibid.

251.
“fall to pieces as soon as it . . .”:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
, June 7, 1936.

251.
“Bosh!”:
DFP
, May 26, 1936.

252.
“There are indications that several Michigan . . .”:
Boston Herald
, June 10, 1936.

252.
“J. Edgar Hoover says the federal government . . .”:
Washington Star
, May 28, 1936.

252.
“If the state inquiry reveals kidnapping . . .”:
Chicago Daily Times
, May 29, 1936.

252.
“The sooner this thing is dragged out . . .”:
New York Post
, May 28, 1936.

252.
“lawlessness”:
DN
, May 29, 1936.

252.
“I advised her that in the absence . . .”: Memo from agent R. B. Hood to Edward Tamm, assistant FBI director, May 29, 1936, FBI files.

252.
“unduly alarmed”: Ibid.

252.
“John Dillinger was a gentleman . . .”: Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, May 23, 1936, FBI files.

253.
“Decent Michigan people would welcome . . .”: Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, May 25, 1936, FBI files.

253.
“show these outlaws . . .”: Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, May 27, 1936, FBI files.

253.
“Certainly this organization is a far greater . . .”: Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, May 26, 1936, FBI files.

253.
“Organization intends harm to President . . .”: Telegram to J. Edgar Hoover, May 25, 1936, FBI files.

253.
“a savvy Connecticut Yankee”:
Chicago Daily Times
, June 5, 1936.

253.
“He knows he’s got a good thing . . .”: Ibid.

Frenzied Nerves

255.
Mickey Cochrane’s nervous breakdown: Numerous sources, especially press reports in the
DN
,
DT
, and
DFP
, June 3–10, 1936.

Dayton Dean and the Negro Reporter

257.
The Dean-Cowans interview: The scene was adapted from
The
Afro American
, August 1, 1936.

258.
“just for the hell of it”:
Daily Leader
(Mt. Clemens, MI), July 21, 1936.

259.
“I’m afraid Dean is confirming anything . . .”: Ibid.

The Captain

260.
Ira Marmon biography: Several sources, including
DN
, July 12, 1943, and author interview with Marmon granddaughter Barbara Rock.

261.
“quiet . . . unobtrusive . . . determined”:
Michigan State Digest
, June 25, 1942.

261.
“wise and smart”: Farrell oral history, Amann Collection, Box 15.

261.
Frieda rattled his nerves: Author interview with Marmon granddaughter Barbara Rock.

262.
Pickert and McCrea disputes:
DFP
, May 26, 1935, and March 12, 1936.

262.
as many as fifty deaths: Numerous news stories, including
DFP
and
Washington Post
, May 25, 1936.

262.
“Pidcock had been out of work . . .”:
DN
and
DT
, June 1, 1936.

263.
“He had been a communist . . .”:
DN
, June 1, 1936.

263.
“There have been several bodies . . .”: Marmon memo to commander, June 10, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 4.

263.
“A lot of people are going to disappear . . .”: Anonymous, “I Was a Captain in the Black Legion,” 55.

264.
“It looks as if Oakland County . . .”: Marmon memo to commander, May 29, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 4.

264.
Irvine Wurm incident: Michigan State Police report, May 30, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

264.
“extra confidential” X-9 proposal: Letter to Marmon from informant X-9, July 3, 1936, Michigan State Police files, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

265.
certain the legion had killed Roy Pidcock: Various news accounts, including
DN
, June 7, 1936, and
Wyandotte
Herald
, June 5, 1936, as well as numerous Michigan State Police reports, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

265.
Hazen Branch death:
Wyandotte Herald
, January 31, 1936.