Two courageous cops stand up to Klan

When two county cops confronted a howling mob of sheetshrouded Klansmen on Oct. 1, 1921, no one gave them much of a chance of getting out of Lorena, Texas alive. In the year since rearing its hooded head in Houston, the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan had swept the Lone Star State like a wildfire. Such slogans as “one hundred percent Americanism,” “booze must and shall go” and “keep this a…