Revocation of the Illinois charter of the violently anti-Semitic Gentile Cooperative Association was announced here today following an order issued yesterday by Albert J. Maserow, Assistant Attorney General, moving that the Association and its directors be held in contempt of court for failure to surrender its records in compliance with an order from the court.
In ordering the revocation, Judge Joseph A. Graber of Superior Court compared the organization to the Ku Klux Klan, Silver Shirts and similar hate groups. “We will cancel this charter and let the people who wish to carry on these subversive activities do it under their own names instead of crawling behind a corporation,” Judge Graber ruled.
Eugene R. Flitoraft, managing director and founder of the Association, said he will appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court and that he will continue the work of the Association under his own name and under the name of his paper. The Gentile News, and the American Business Directories Co. Flitoraft’s objective is to boycott Jewish-owned businesses.
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