File:George Washington Apgar (1889-1938) in the New York Herald of New York City, New York on 14 December 1922.jpg

Apgar Denies Newark Klan Has Charter. Refutes Claim of New Branch With 1,500 Members. District Kleagle Apgar of the New Jersey Ku Klux Klan, with offices in Hoboken, denied yesterday that his had granted any charter of the so called George Washington Klan, which attempted to establish itself in Newark recently. The Klan, or a confessed branch of it, advertised in the Newark newspapers Tuesday that there was to be a j charter grunted to George Washington Klan, No. 3, of the Invisible Empire that night. Publicity welcomed, j Reporters at the Klan grotto were entertained at length by a tall, hooded figure who styled himself as District Kleagle. He said that ho had obtained the charter in Georgia and that the George Washington Bodge was but one of forty in Newark and that it had a membership of 1,500 and a waiting list of 400. Yesterday District Kleagle Apgar, who rules over New Jersey, denied that any person had the right to grant charters in that State except himself. The George Washington Klan, had received no charter.

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