Georgia authorities plan to proceed with their suit to revoke the charter of the Columbians, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro organization, as soon as all the pending charges against Homer Loomis Jr. and Emory Burke, leaders of the group are heard.
Burke was sentenced on Thursday night to three years in jail on charges of usurping police power, while Loomis received a one-year sentence earlier after being convicted of incitement to riot. Both face prosecution on charges of illegal possession of dynamite and Loomis has several other indictments pending.
(In a statement issued in New York yesterday, Richard E. Qustadt, national director of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League, said that the state authorities, the jury and the people of Georgia are to be congratulated on the prompt action taken against these "native faccists.")
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