ARKHAM ADVERTISER                                                                                   Tuesday, May 1, 1923 _________________________________________________________________________________________________ TROPICAL EXPLORERS RETURN FROM BOLIVIA TO ARKHAM Trekked uncharted jungle in Bolivia – Struggle against climate, disease and savage natives – Rare specimen and fantastic finds to be exhibited at Miscatonic University ___________ ARKHAM, APRIL 28 -- The Wyndham-Jones expedition returned to Arkham on April 27 after more than  six months in the mostly uncharted eastern provinces of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija. The leader of the expedition, Professor Trevor A. Wyndham of the Miskatonic University, read a brief statement to the press as a great amount of boxes were being unloaded at the Arkham train station early that morning: “I am pleased to announce the return of our expedition. It has been quite successful, and our many finds will contribute greatly to the understanding of both the natural and the pre-Columbian history of Latin America. An exhibit displaying many of our finds will open at the Miskatonic University’s Fulbright Hall on Friday, May 4.” Professor Wyndham thereafter proceed to oversee the unloading of the train cars without taking any questions from the assembled press. Professor Wyndham. _______________________________________________ Ku Klux Klan on the Rise Patriots or Poltroons? ________ The Ku Klux Klan had been defunct for nearly a half-century when William J. Simmons decided to revive the organization in the fall of 1915. A resident of Atlanta, Simmons worked for a fraternal benefit society called the Woodmen of the World, and he already belonged to more than a dozen clubs and churches. But he had dreamed for years about founding a fraternal order himself someday, and with D.W. Griffith’s cinematic paean to the Klan, The Birth of a Nation, scheduled to debut in Atlanta, the inspiration and the timing seemed right. On Thanksgiving night, after riding with about 15 other men in a rented tour bus to a large granite formation outside of the city known as Stone Mountain, Simmons lit a wooden cross aflame and announced the rebirth of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Advertised by Simmons in Atlanta newspapers as “The World’s Greatest Secret, Social, Patriotic, Fraternal, Beneficiary Order” and a “High Class Order for Men of Intelligence and Character,” the new Klan floundered for several years. It had attracted just a few thousand members by the spring of 1920, when Simmons hired Mary Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke as publicity agents and promoters for the group. Tyler and Clarke divided the entire country into what amounted to sales territories and they sent more than 1,000 solicitors into the field to recruit members whose $10 membership fee for the Klan went in part to the solicitors as commission (con’t on page 4). Rare Items to be Exhibited Indian artifacts and unique plants, animals among _______ ARKHAM, April 28 — This morning, Dr. Henry W. Jones, the co-organizer of the Wyndham-Jones expedition, met the press to provide some details concerning the finds of the expedition. According to Dr. Jones, the finds include several specimen of pre-historic fish thought to have been extinct for at least 750,000 years; several species of previously undiscovered birds and lizards; and a wide array of art from such tribes as the Gomorqi, the Xalenque and the Arumbayas. Being that Standard Oil sponsored the expedition, several surveys were also undertaken to ascertain to suitability of the provinces for oil production, the results of which have excited both the Miscatonic University Department of Geology as well as Standard Oil.     A unknown idol from the Arumbaya tribe National Affairs: Throw Them Out! _____ NEW YORK CITY --- Mr. Nathaniel A. Elsberg was elected to a second term as President of the National Republican Club. In accepting the re-election he made a pointed little speech. Said he: "I want to see the time, and that soon, when men who have been elected by Republican votes and supported by Republican newspapers and who call themselves Republicans, but who at every opportunity assail a Republican administration, President and Cabinet, are thrown out of the Republican party and over into the Democratic party, where they belong.” Veteran Peaks Island Fisherman Drops Dead ___________ SALEM, Ma, April 27 – William H. George, 87, a fisherman until 10 years ago and a well-known resident of Peaks Island, died today after being stricken with a shock on Commercial St. He was hurried to the Salem General Hospital in the police ambulance, but died on the way. He was a native of Kingsport, and is survived by his son Walther F. George. _____________________________ WEDDING BELLS ARKHAM, April 30. A very pretty wedding was solemnized at Holy Trinity Church, the contracting parties being Mr. J. Eric Biron, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Biron of Boston, and Miss Sylvia Elice Sasso, of Marblehead. The Rev. Fr. Cronin, S. J. officiated, and the church was crowded inside and outside with friends and well-wishers of the couple and their parents. The reception was held at the Glenroy, South Camp Road, the home of the bride’s parents, and was largely attended. The presents were numerous and costly.