^ Volume I, Number 20 Lincoln 3. Nebraska February 21. 1947
I Georgia GOP Promises Thorough State Organization
COLUMBIANS HEAD GIVEN
THREE YEARS
p ATLANTA (AP) — Columbian
President Emory Burke was sen
tenced to three years imprison
ment Friday for usurping police
powers in direction of his Negro
hating, Jew-bating organization.
Superior (Circuit) Court Judge
Carl Crow imposed the sentence
after a jury returned guilt yver
dicts Thursday night on three
counts of an indictment. The
court ordered Burke to serve 12
months on each of the three
counts, the sentences to run con
secutively.
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Counsel immediately entered a
motion for a new trial.
t The dapper, pale faced Burke, a
’31 year old railroad draftsman,
stood motionless before the court
as the sentence was pronounced.
His attractive brunet wife volun
tarily stood by his side.
Judge Crow, in a brief lecture
that preceded the sentencing, told
Burke:
“We live under a government
of constitutional law, constitu
tional authority and the duty of
every person is to obey all the
laws.”
The judge added that the evi
dence had shown Burke’s activi
ties “contrary to our form of gov
ernment and our way of life.”
The indictment alleged Burke
usurped police powers in having
his organization patrol white
residential areas to keep Negroes
out.
Before receiving the sentence,
Burke told newsmen that convic
tion of himself and Homer Loomis
jr., would not stop activities of
the Columbians.
“They are going to carry on,”
he said. “They are making plans
for public meetings right away.
A few court cases are not going
to stop the movement.”
Burke said that “these rascals”
whom he identified as a group
trying to destroy the white race”
1>are going “to be defeated.” He
added that the same group “try
ing to destroy Herman Talmadge”
a claimant to the Georgia gover
norship, was trying to destroy his
organization
Mrs. Erma Hardaway, Gary, Indiana, who recently was elected
a member of the Gary Real Estate Board, the first time a woman
and the first time a colored person had ever been named by the 32
year old organization. A resident of Gary for the'past 18 years, the
wife of Wilbur Hardaway, widely known political leader, a native
of Pittsburgh and the mother of two children, Mrs. Hardaway main
tains offices in the Roosevelt theater building.
CHRISTIANITY A LIVING
PROCESS SAYS MALONE
Mr. Clyde W. Malone, executive
secretary of the Lincoln Urban
League, spoke on the topic, “What
does my Christian conviction de
mand that I do?”, Wednesday
night in the University Library
auditorium, before the members
of “Christian Faith and Action.”
Mr. Malone related the part he
thought Christianity should play
in economical, educational and
political phases of life.
“Christianity is not a theory or
speculation but a life, not a phil
osophy of life but a life and living
process.” Mr. Malone asserted.
“Only through the brotherhood
of man and the fatherhood of God
can man attain true Christianity’,,
concluded Mr. Malone.
Mr. Malone was the initial
speaker in a series of six forums,
sponsored by the Religious Wel
fare Council and conducted by
various leaders in the city.
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RECEIVE AWARDS
Mr. Guy Stephens and Rev.
Melvin L. Shakespeare were
among those who recently re
ceived safety awards presented
by Robert’s Dairy.
Mr. Stephens received a gold
medal for 24 years service with
out an accident and Mr. Shakes
peare received a bronze medal
for 3 years without an accident.
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ATLANTA—(ANP) Members
of the Republican party in Georg
ia pledged themselves last week
to thoroughly organize Georgia
and aid in a finish fight to pre
vent disfranchisement of a third
of the popluation under the one
party system.
Meeting in a Lincoln day dinner
that saw John Wesley Dobbs, Vice
chairman of the State Central
GOP committee and Masonic lead
er, as keynoter, over 200 persons
pledged themselves to bring the
Republican party ‘■‘back into its
own” in Georgia.
Hope for the future was seen
after discussions by Attys. T. W.
Holmes and T. J. Henry who de
clared that application of the
“white primary” proposals would
fail because of rotteneSs to the
core and the confusion to follow.
When and if the proposed dele
tion of every reference to the
primary becomes law and quali
fication tests are set up by the
state, the Republicans will set up *
citizenship schools, leaders pro
mised.
W. J. Shaw, key political figure
and chairman of the Young Men’s
Republican club, sponsor of the
dinner, urged thorough organiza
tion of the state and a new in
terest in voting and candidacies.
He called for participation by
Negroes in the inner councils of
the party.
National victory /or Republicans
in 1948 was predicted by the main
speakers from country and city
areas.
Dr. T. H. Brewer ,of Columbus,
a member of the Republican Cen
tral committee, explained his
sponsorship of the Primus E. King
case in which the right to vote
in the Democratic primary was
won in federal courts. He said
that the primary suit was filed
as a citizens’ protest.
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