St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-11-22

"You can't visit Atlanta these
days without hearing or reading
about a new group Of crackpots who
are trying to OutCO Hitlers Brown
Shirts, the one-time champion bully
boys Of the world. A new nation
alist group of hate-"ongering
radicals, buns and ne'er-do-wells,
in the words of the Atlan.a police
chief, has sprung up in the Georgia
city to spew its venom at a free
America.
"The limelight Of publicity has
been turned on these crackpO.s by
Atlanta's two daily newspapers, the
Atlanta police have arrested the
eaders for disorderly conduct and
melting a riot in connection with
an anti-Negro demonstration and
the pastors Of just about every re-
ligious denomination in the Georgia
capital have condemned this new
order in strong terms.
cts a cnch that the concen-
trated fire the ColUmbians that's
what they call themselves) have
drawn will burn them out (they
supposedly number only 200 after
several months of organization),
but the fact that they did organize
is added proof that the Hitlerism
philosophy is still very much alive
in the minds Of many ego-manIacs,
even in America. The Columbian
incident emphasizes again that
Americas people must always be
on their guard to protect their free
dom.
"The Columbians are so similar
to H tiers Brown Shirts of the
early Nazi days that it's frighten-
ing to think that such a group has
sprung up in this country. They
wear khaki shirts wi h a red, light
ening-like fash emblazoned on their
left sleeve. This shoulder patch has
gwen them the name of the Red
rlash' order.
But the uniform is the least of
their similarity to the Brown Shir.s
"One of their main hates is labor
unions, and here they show how
closely they follow the fascist pat
tern, for men who hate freedom
hate labor unions and want 10 de-
stroy them.
Hitler stamped out the trade
unions in Germany. They were
among the first casualties of his
Third Reich. He crushed them
under the heel of the Nazi boo be-
cause they stood in the way of his
enslavement of the German peo-
pie.
"The Columbians want to do the
same thing. They want to stamp
out the CLIO and the ALL, leaving
the field clear for a Columbian
gentle union That's very reminis-
cent of Hitler and group that sup
planted free German trade unions.
THE Columbians hate the Ne
groes and the Jews.
Hitler lacked a Negro race in
Germany, but he turned his
Brown Shirts loose on the Jews.
They sacked Jewish stores, beat
raped and killed the Jews, pill
LACED and burned the synagogues
and before they were through
had stamped out all religions,
not just the Jewish faith.
The Columbians already are
guilty Of violence against Negroes.
One of their number slugged a
Negro with a blackjack last week
He was arrested by police and re-
eased on bond. In open defiance
Of the police, the Columbians pinned
medal of honor on the youth
who had done the smuggling.
The Columbians want to get
rid Of both the Negroes and the
Jews by sending the Negroes to
Africa and the Mediterranean area.
They have adopted another
Brown Shirt tactic. They have
taken it upon themselves to help
out Atlanta's police by patrollinR
the streets, presumably to protect
white people from Negroes.
Says Atlanta's police chief:
These hoodlums may be under the
impression they are running the
City of Atlanta, but if they are /
want to set them right. The police
department is doing the police work
ana vii! continue to do it,
The best description of this new
crackpot group comes from their
own leader, S2-year-old Homer L.
LOOMS, Jr., son Of a prominent
New York attorney, who told an
Atlanta Journal reporter:
We're q nationalist move
ment rising up to speak for the
masses and organize them and
show them how they can take
control and have better things.
We're political. We're going to
show them how to take control
OF the government - first a
neighbOrhoOd, then the whole
city, then the state government
and finally the national Vovarr-