Terror in the City of Champions (58 page)

218.
W
HOLE
N
ATION
C
HEERS
C
ITY’S
C
HAMPIONS
:
DT
, April 16, 1936.

218.
“It is swell to be home . . .”: Ibid.

218.
“Keep it up, Tigers”:
DN
, April 14, 1936.

219.
“I’ve been watching hockey for nine years . . .”:
DN
, January 20, 1936.

219.
“Providing Charlie Gehringer or Billy Rogell . . .”:
DFP
, April 14, 1936.

219.
“Good God, we had to get all the police . . .”: Barrow,
Joe Louis
, 53.

220.
Conversation with Henry Ford at the train station:
DT
, April 18, 1936.

221.
“I’m not a champion yet but I hope to be”:
DT
, April 19, 1936.

221.
“the greatest gathering of champions”: Ibid.

Rumors

223.
out in the mess was Roy Pidcock:
DFP
, June 6, 1936, and Michigan State Police report, June 3, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

223.
“They are going to get me and you, too”: Ibid.

223.
“I love everybody”: Ibid.

223.
Black Legion had infiltrated his group:
DN
, June 8–9, 1936.

224.
Findlater Temple details:
DN
, May 22, 1936, and
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

224.
“The sooner the New Deal is rooted out . . .”:
DN
, April 17, 1936.

224.
“put the Wolverine League . . .”: Floyd Nugent letter, April 30, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 13.

225.
Marx’s office was Wolverine League headquarters: Ibid.

225.
Victor Nicholas Schultz addressed the crowd:
Milwaukee Journal
, June 7, 1936.

225.
Black Legion meeting of May 12 and Charles Poole plot: Based on court testimony and dozens of newspaper stories in
DFP
,
DN
, and
DT
, May through September 1936.

227.
“If the organization is any good . . .”:
DN
, September 13, 1936.

227.
“I’d like to kill him myself”:
DN
, September 14, 1936.

228.
“A fellow hardly knows how he gets into these things”:
DT
, June 7, 1936.

229.
“No. I’m not Poole . . . Out on the west side”: Meehan, Harvill, and Farrell, “The Inside Story of Michigan’s Black Legion Murder,” 6.

Poole and Pidcock

230.
Poole talking baseball:
DT
, June 7, 1936.

230.
“all washed up”:
DFP
, May 2, 1936.

230–31.
“That’s as far down the lineup as we can go . . .”:
DFP
, May 15, 1936.

231.
Cecil Pidcock had come up from Toledo: Michigan State Police report, June 3, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

231.
“something fishy”: Sugar Collection, Box 23.

232.
“What is this going to be, a party . . .”:
DN
, September 18, 1936.

232.
“To all that know me, I love you all . . .”:
DN
, June 1, 1936.

232.
The abduction of Roy Pidcock: This scenario is based on the reports of Captain Ira Marmon as described in various Michigan State Police reports and memos, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

233.
“You’re a dirty liar . . . to do it again”:
DN
, September 18, 1936.

234.
A
GAIN THE
G
-
M
EN
S
CORE A
T
RIUMPH
:
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

234.
“Poor Charlie. To think that two . . .”: Meehan, Harvill, and Farrell, “The Inside Story of Michigan’s Black Legion Murder,” 5.

235.
“Tennessee Slim”: Ibid., 5.

235.
decided he had taken his own life:
DT
, June 1, 1936.

Secrets

236.
“Charles was good to me . . .”:
DN
, June 5, 1936.

236.
Jack Harvill biography:
DN
, December 7, 1968, and Harvill family history by Jean Harvill Gallagher.

237.
“Nobody is going . . . know these people”: Meehan, Harvill, and Farrell, “The Inside Story of Michigan’s Black Legion Murder,” 35.

238.
P
OOLE A
V
ICTIM OF
B
LACK
L
EGION
:
DN
, May 22, 1936.

238.
S
IXTEEN
O
FFICERS . . .
:
Daily Leader
(Mt. Clemens, MI), May 22, 1936.

238.
M
URDER
U
NMASKS
P
OLITICAL
A
CTIVITY . . .
:
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

238.
Col. Pickert hearing:
DN
, May 22, 1936, and
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

238.
“In the interest of good law and order . . .”:
DN
, May 19, 1936.

238.
Marx represented Pickert:
DT
, May 22, 1936, and Kahn,
High Treason
, 206.

239.
Dean had seen Pickert: Letter from agent John Bugas to J. Edgar Hoover, December 12, 1938, FBI files.

239.
Pickert membership card: Alfred E. “Mickey” Farrell oral history, Amann Collection, Box 15.

239.
Sugar apartment visitors: Maurice Sugar’s “Memorandum on the Black Legion,” Sugar Collection, Box 18.

239.
“This was his moment of glory”: Farrell oral history, Amann Collection, Box 15.

239.
“big fool”:
DN
, June 2, 1936.

239.
“It looks like an underhanded way of . . .”:
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

240.
“I don’t remember what my clients told me . . .”:
DT
, May 25, 1936.

240.
“I have never heard any hint that a terrorist group . . .”:
DFP
, May 23, 1936.

240.
“It isn’t a small clique inside the club . . .”:
DFP
, May 25, 1936.

240.
“Some well-meaning but stupid men . . .”: Ibid.

240.
“What if I am the leader?”:
DFP
, May 26, 1936.

240.
“I want the statement refuted that we are interested . . .”: Ibid.

240.
“I hope those damn fools . . .”: Ibid.

241.
Peg-Leg White on his farm:
DN
, June 20, 1936.

241.
“I’d be ashamed to admit I belonged . . .”: Ibid.

241.
Lupp interview in prosecutor’s office:
DFP
,
DN
,
DT
, May 26, 1936.

Black Legion Hysteria

244.
“The row of manacled Black Knights . . .”: Davis, “Labor Spies and the Black Legion,” 169.

245.
“My boy couldn’t have done what they say . . .”:
DT
, May 27, 1936.

245.
“I can’t say that the signature . . .”:
DFP
, May 27, 1936.