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CV 157-1521 "HEATH and 19-year-01a DAVID HARRIS, JR., son of the senior HARRIS questioned by the Grand Jury, were picked up by Akron police last Summer on a suspicion charge. "Police said then that HEATH had entered the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant and was given some plumbing fixcures by an unnamed Goudyear employee. The fixtures, police said, could have been used to make 'potato-masher' hand grenades. "HEATH and young HARRIS pleaded no contest to thn anondantan nwerdys and y ins 4 . pod tne Suspicion cnargze ana were fined in Municipal Court. EVAN LEWIS paid the fines, according to a Beacon Journal reporter who witneésed the transactions. Pa "LEWIS reportedly invited HEATH end HARRIS to . Akron last July after HEATH and HARRIS got mixéd { ( up in a fight and knifing scrape in Stone Mountain, 4 Ge., national headquarters for JAMES VrRuABLE's carn eae National kKnignts of the Ku Flux «lan. "HEATH wes identified by VENABLE an Gn hr: ful. Grand Dracon of the iliinois ilational S and HARRIS as Wisconsin Grand Dregon. VaUAELE ‘algo — ; said he had banished both mén rroa the Klan ‘ror Hfe! after the Stone Hountain altercation. "Banished or not, HEATH and HARRIS were active in the Akron-aréa Klan aiter arriving here under LEWIS' protective wing last July. "They helped spearhead a membership campaign that tripled the Klan's size to about 130 in the ‘Akron area over the Summer and Fall. "Following a Beacon Journal story on their activities, however, the Klansmen nearly halted their meabership drive and 'were not very active! according to local police. Bee Ne ea SD Se “HEATH later left Akron when he failed to. find . a steady job, but stilt maintains close ties here se with LEWIS and CRITES,. The following article appeared in the January <©:. Asse of tne Akron Esacon Journal, Axron, Ohio: - 25 -