Communism: FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN THE US

8/9/2019 Communism: FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN THE US

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INVESTIGATION OF UN-AMERICANPROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN

THE UNITED STATES

SPECIALCOMMITI'EE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESSsECOND SESSIONON

H. Res. 282TO INVESTIGATE (1) TH E EXTENT, CHARACTER, ANoDOBJECTS OF UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES INTHE UNITED STATES, (2) THE DIFFUSION WITHIN THEUNITED STATES OF SUBVERSIVE AND UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA THAT IS INSTIGATED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIESOR OF A DOMESTIC ORIGIN AND ATTACKS THE PRINCIPLEOF THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT AS GUARANTEED 'B'\fOUR CONSTITUTION, AND (3) ALL ortHER QUESTIONS I ~RELATION THERETO THAT WOULD AID CONGRESS IN,ANY

NECESSARY REMEDIAL LEGISLATION

COMMITTEE PRINTAPPENDIX-PART IX

COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONSWITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

THE NATIONAL CITIZENS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

FIRST SECTION

UNITED STATES

GOVERNMENT P RI NT IN G O FF IO E

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SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIESWASHINGTON, D. C.

MARTIN DIES, Texas, Claalrman

1. PARNELL THOMAS, New JerseyKARL E. MUNDT, Soutb DakotaFRED E. BUSBEY, DUnols

JO E STARNES, AlabamaWIRT OOURTNEY. TennesseelOHN M . COSTELLO, CaliforniaHERMAN P. EBERHARTER, Pennsylvania

ROBERT E. STRlPUNO, SeCTelarg 4f1d CAfefInalt/GlOr1. B. MATTHBWS, Director of Rue4rcA

This volume is a spt'clal appendb: to volume XVII of th e bearings of tb e Special Committeeon Un-American Actl\"ities. The bearings contained In ,"olume XVII were conducted on

.. September TI, 28,29, an d October 3, 4, li, 19, b)' a subcommittee composed o f -

JOHN M. COSTELLO, CaJilomia, Chairman1 0 E S T A R ~ E S ,AlabamaJ . PAR N EL L 'I'HOMAS. ~ e wJersey

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1. Introduction-National Citizf.ns Political Action Committee _2. Abolish PeonageCoDllOOdttee ~ - - - : - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ - -3. Abraham IJncolnBrigade ~ _4. A b r . & h a I n L ~ c o l n S c h o o l _5. All-America Anti-Imperialist ~ e _6. All-California. Conference for Defense of Civil Rights and Aid to~ b o r ' sPrisoners __ .,. .,.7. All-HarleD1 Youth Conference _8 ~ Allied Voters Against Coudert _9. American Committee for Anti-NaziGennan Seam.en _

10. AInerican Committee for Anti-Nazi Literature _11. AInerican Committee for DeD10cracy an d Intellectual Freedom _12.' AInerican Committee for Free Yugoslavia __':. _13. American Committee of Liberals for th e Freedom of Mooney and

B ~ g s - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -_14. American Committee for Protection of Foreign Bom _

15. American Committee to Save Refugees _16. AInerican Council on Soviet Relations _17... American Friends of the C ~ e s ePeople _18. American Friends of the Soviet Union _19. American Friends of 8 ~ h Democracy . ' _20. American Fund for Public 8ervice _21. American Investors Union, In c ' _22. American L ~ efor Peace and Democracy _23. American League Against War and Fascism _24. American Peace Crusade _25. American Peace M o b ~ U o n ~ _26. American P r o ~ a n d aAgencies. for the Soviet 8ysteD1 _27. American Relief Ship for 8pain :- _28. American REscue Ship Mission -' _29. American Slav C o n ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -30. American Student lInion _31. American Writers Congress _32. American Youth C o n ~ s s - - - - - - - - - - - - . .:_33. American Youth for DeD1ocracy ' _34. Anvil _35. Appeal for Lawrence Simpson _36. Appeal for Pardon of German Communist _37. Artef - _38. Artists' Front to Win the Wa r _39. Artists Union . _40. Ben Leider Memorial Fund _41. B e t t e r C h i ~ a g o L e a g u e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 42. Black and White . _43. Book lInion . _44. Bridges Defense Committees ~ _45. California Youth LgislatUle .. _46. Celebration of 15 Years of Biro Bidjan _47. Champion . ~ _48. Chicago All-American Anti-Imperialist League _49. Chicago Conference on Race R e I 8 t i o n s ~ _:------------- . : ---50. Chicago Peace C o n g r ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~

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.51. Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder _52. Citizens Committee for Striking Seamen _53. Citizens Non-Partisan Committee to Elect Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., toth e City Council _54. Commit tee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression _5f. Committee to Defend America by Keeping Ou t of Wa r _56. Committee for Peace Through World Cooperation _f7. Committee for Professional Groups for. Browder and Ford _58. Committee to Save Spain an d China _59. C O n u n ~ P a r t y - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -60. Communist Party, Statement Defending _61. Conference on Constitutional J ~ i b e r t i e s . i nAmerica _62. Congress of American Revolutionary Writers _63. Consumers National Federation _

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SPECIALeOMMITrEE ON U N - A ~ I E R I C A NACTIVITIES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESSEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

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H. Res. 282TO INVESTIGATE (1) THE EXTEKT, CHARACTER, ANDOBJECTS OF UN-AMERICAN PROPAGAKDA ACTIVITIES INfH E UNITED STATES, (2) THE DIFFCSION WITHIN THEUNITED STATES OF SUBVERSIVE AKD UN-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA THAT IS INSTIGATED FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIESOR OF A D01IESTIC ORIGIN AND ATTACKS THE PRINCIPLEOF THE FORM OF GOVERNMEKT AS GUARANTEED BYOU R CONSTITUTION, AKD (3) ALL O'l'HER QUESTIONS INRELATION THERETO THAT "OULD AID. CONGRESS IN ANY

NECESSARY REMEDIAL LEGISLATION

COMMITTEE PRINT

APPENDIX-PART IX

COMMUNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONSWITB SPECIAL REFERENCE TO

TBB NATIONAL CITIZENS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

FOURTH SECTION

UNlTBD STATES

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICEWASBINGTON: 1 " '


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121. Lower West Side Conference on Win-the- Wa r Legislation _122. Methodist Federation for Social Service _123. Michigan American-Slav Congress _124. M!chigan Civil Rights F ~ ? e r a H o n _ ; .: _125. Md k Consumers Protcctne CommIttee _126. Miscellaneous Communist and Communist-Front Organizations _127. Mother Ella Reeve Bloor BanqueL _128. Murray Defcnse Committee. - - - _129. National Committee tQ Abolish the Poll Ta x _

130. Nat iona l Commi tt ee to Aid t.he Victims of German Fascism _131. National Committee Against Censorship of th e Theatre Arts _132. National Commi tt ee to Comba t Anti-SOmitism . _133. National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners .134. National Committee for People's Rights _135. National Conference on Civil Liberties _136. .;.\ational Conference on Constitutional Uberties in America.:.. _137. National C o n ~ r ~ 5for l:nemployment and Social Insurance _138. National Council to Aid Agricultural Labor _139. Kational Council of Amf.'fican-So\'iet Friendship _140. N'ational Emergency Confercnce . . - _141. National Emergency for Dcmocratic R i ~ h t s _142. Kational Emergency Conference A g a i n ~ t .th e Government 'Yage Pro-graIn _143. N'ational FederatiOidor ('unstit uHonal Liberties _144. National Joint Action Committee for Genuine Social IIlf;urance _145. N'ational L a w . y { ' ~Guild ." ~ _146. National Negro C o n ~ r c s s _147. National Negro Women's CoullciL _148. Nat.ional People'8 Commlttee A ~ a i n s tHcarsL _149. Nat.ional Rccept.ion CommittC' to t.he H u s ~ i a nDelegat.ion _150. Kat ional Rt'ligion an d Lahor Foundation _151. National Right-to-Work C'onRrc:"s _152. National Scottsboro Action Committee _153. National Student League _154. National Unemployment Councilf; , _155. Nat.ional Wartimc Conference of th e Professions, the Sciences, the

Arts, the Whit.e-Collar Fields _156. National Writers C o n g r e ~ s ~ ~ _157. Negro Cultural Committee _158. Negro Labor V i c t o r ~ rCommittee _159. Negro People 's Committee to Aid Spanil:lh Democracy _160. N'egro Playwrights Co., Inc _161. New Dance League - _- - - _- - - - _- - _102. Xew ~ [ a s S C 8 ~ _163. New MasscR Let.ter t.o the Prcsident. _164. Ne w Yor k Joint Action Committ('c for Genuinc Social Insurance _165. ~ e \ VYork Peace Association _166. Nc w Yor k Profe!ol!olional Workers Confercncc on Social Insurance _167. N'('w York State Conference on KaHonal Unity _168. N'ew York To m ~ I o o n e yCommittee _169. Non-Part isan Committec for the Re-Elect ion of Congressman Vitol\larcant.onio _170. Non-Sectarian Commit.tee for Political Refugees _171.- Open Letter to American Liberals _172. Open Letter for Closer Cooperation with th e Soviet Union _

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173. ~ Letter Protesting the Ban on Communists in the AmericannvUIJberties lJEdon _114. ~ ~ _115. ~ n Review _116. Party Candidates for Public Office _177. Party an d Party Line Publications _178. People's Front for Peace _119. People's Institute of Apj)lied Religion ..:. _180. Political Prisoners Bail Fund COmmittee _181. ~ I k i e o s e _

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AMERICAN YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY

On October 17. 1943, the Young Communist League convened in a.national c o n \ 1 ~ n t i o nin N ew York City. The gathering formallydia801\1ed the Young Communist League and immediately re-convenedas the American Youth for Democracy.

I t wtl8not until Mav 1944, that the Communist Party went u n d e r ~g!Ound and reo.p.peared as the Communist Political Association. TheY o u n ~CommunIst League went u n d ~ r g r o u n dand reappeared as theAmerIcan Youth for Democracy some 7 months earlier.

Among the members of the National Citizens Political ActionCommittee, the following have been affiliated with the AmericanYouth for Democracy: Louis Adamic, Mary McLeod Bethune, .Langston Hughes, a.nd Paul Robeson.

I t is apparent at once that the present American Youth for Democracy is nothing more nor less than the former Young CommunistLeague when we examine the personnel of the two organizations.Young. Communist Leaguers occupy all the important positions in thenew American Youth for Democracy. The record reveals the following:

Robert Thompson is the national co-chairmon of the AmericanYouth for Democracy. He 'vas national vice president of the YoungCommunist League and is now a vice president of the Communist 'Political Association. He was Ii contributor to the Daily 'Vorker.(See January 20, 1938, p. 2.) He was 0. member of the AbrahamLincoln Bligade. The Young Communist Review of April, 1938(p. 7). describes Thompson as the "leading YCL figure in California."In 1938. Robert Thompson was 0. member of the national council ofthe Young Communist L e a ~ u e .

Carl Ross was made natIOnal executive secretary of the AmericanYouth for Democracy when it was launched in October 1943. For

more than 5 yea.rs prior tothat

timet he had been national executivesecretat'y of the Young Communist League. His first position withthe Young Communist League was as state. organizer in Minnesota.In 1937. he became a member of the presiding committee of the YoungCommunist League. He wrote extensively for Communist Partyand Young Commul1ist League publications. Furthermore, he wasaffiliated with such Communist-front o ~ a n i z a t i o n sas the AmericanYQuth Congress and the World Youth Congress.

Claudia Jones is editor of the official magazine of the AmericanYouth for Democracy, Spotlight. Formerly, she was associate editorof the official organ of the Young COlnmunist League, Weekly Review.

She was also a member of the n a t i o ~ a lCouncil of tlie Young CommunistLeague. She was affiliated with the World Youth CO!1gress, w o . . ~S t a t ~chairman of the Young Communist League in New York, and wroteextensively for the Communist press.

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Leo CooQer is managing editor of Spotlight, official m a g ~ z i n e01 theAmerican Y?uth for l?emocracy, and was formerly m ~ n t \ f : . i n gedito,r ofWee.kl Y ReVIew, offiCIal organ of the Young CommunIst LeJlKUe.

James West is executive secretary of the AmerlcanYouth' forDemocracy in New Jersey, and was formerlyorganizer fo.r the YoungCommunist L e a ~ ein the northwest region of the Uni ted States.

Adeline Kohl IS secretary of the American Youth for Democracy inMichigan, and was formerly S t a ~ csecretary of the ~ f i c h i g a nYo1JngCommuniat League, She was also a member of the national councilof the Young Communist League.

Lillian ROBS is executive secretary of the American Youth forDemocracy in New York Sta te, and was' fOlmerly a. member of thenational war service council of t he Young Communist League. Shealso wrote for the Communist pre.ss, _ "

Pauline Annone is ~ x e c u t i v esecretary of the American Youth forDemocracy in western Pennsylvania, and was fOlmerly a member of

the national war service council of the Young Communist Leag!Je.'Fay Caller is a member of the national board of the American Youthfor Democracy, and was formerly a member of the national council ofthe Young Communist League.

Jack Epstein is executive socretary of the ~ m e r i c a nYouth forDemocracy in Connecticut, and was formerly 0. member of .the na ..tional war service council of the Young Communist League.

Ret'bort SignOl is oxecutive sf.cretary of the American Youth forDemocl'acr in Illinois and. Indiana, nnd was formerlr an alternatemember 0 the national council of the Young CommuOlst League.

Celeste Strack became executive secretary of the American Youthfor Democracy in California, and was forml'l'ly 0. luenlber of thenational council of the Young Communist L .. 'aKuo, For a number ofy(\ars, she was national high school organbor of the Communist-frontorganization known as the Anlt'rican Student Union, She ran forCongl'ess on tlw Communist Party ticlwt in California in 1940. Shewas 'a d e l e ~ a t eto till' World Youth Congress, and has written exton ..siv(\ly fOl' tho. C o ~ n m u n i s tPl'llSS. .

Selma WeIss IS e X l ~ c l l t l V Osl 'cl'etary fot tlw Anl(\rlCan Youth forDenlOCro.cy in tIle Marylo.lld-Woshillgton, D, C., district, and wasforllwl'ly 0. JlWJllbt'I' of the OIl.tional war s ( ~ . v i c ecouncil of the YoungCommunist L c . ~ n g l w .

Dnisy Lolich is oXl'cutive secretary of the Alnerican Youth forDl'mOtwlu'y in Ohio, und wns foruwl'1y city secretary of the YoungCommunist Lp.nguo in Clovt4and, She was also an afternate memberof t lw nat,ionnl ('olUlcil of tho Young CouuJlunist League.

C l a r t . ~Hunt, at p l ' e s ( ~ n tbllSiJlt'BS nUlIll1g('l' of Anlet;Can Youth forDmuocl'acy's Spotlight, WIl8 fOllUol'ly 8 c . a t W t ~ t a r y - t r e a s u r e rof New AgePublislwJ's, Inc., which published th(' offidal ol'gan of the Young Communist L(\llguo, W ( ) t ~ l d yUevil'W. .

Philip SdUttz is oJ:ganizationo.l dil'ecto. of the Alnerican Youth forDemocl'acv in Now Y 0l1t State, and was formerly educational direc ...

tor of the YOUJlg COJmuunist League in New York State.I t will he 8P.l'Jl f. 'OlU tlw foregoing recital of overla. !1!ping p-el'sonnel intll(\ Young Communist League and the American Youth for Democracy that t1w high(\st positions in the In.tter organization were takenov('J hy p('I'Sons who were fonnedy publicly.p,vowed menlbera of theYoung COllullunist League aud among the highest offioials of the


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national organization of the YOuDg Communist League. In otherwords, there is not a shadow of doubt that the present AmericanYouth for. Democracy -is nothing more nor less than the old YoungCommunist League. .. In July 1944, Robert Bannegan, chairman of the Democratic

National Committee, sent the American Youth for Democracy atelegram inviting the Communist group to send representatives toChicago to appear before the platform committee of the ChicagoDemocratic convention. .

Accord.inJt to Spotlight, April 1944, ~ e 19, the following personsare national 8 J ! O n ~ r sof the American Youth for D e m ~ :HenryArmstrong, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, John M. Coffee FrankMarshall Davis,. Howard Fast, A. Eustace Haxdon, William H.Hogy, ~ t o nHughes, John Howard Lawson, Kirtley F. Mather,H. P. Mar!ey, F. C. Mathiessen, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., MinervaPious, Charles S. Seely, William B. Spofford, Dirk J. Struik, WilliamJay Schieffelin, Teddy Wi1son,.Mary E. Wooley, and Mary McLeodBethune.


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The LAW Bulle tin of September 1936 declares that "among editors of Scienceand S o c i e t ~ ,a Marxian Quarterly, are the following members of the League:Edwin Ber ry Burgum, Bernard J. Stem Kenneth Burke, Harry Conover, Granville Hicks, Eugene C. Holmes, Robert Morss Lovett, Brooks Otis" (p.2).

HAssociatE'd Film Audiences, in the 'Vest, and Film Audiences for Democracy,in the East, h av e m ad e a beginning in audience OJ'ganization," declared a reportpresented by a grour of Hollywood writers to the l.:eague Congress at which PaulStrand'8resident 0 Frontier Films, was a speaker ( F i g h ~ i n ~\\70r ds, edited byDonald gden Stewart, dedicated to the League of American" riters, pp. 116, 118)."

(See Congress of American R e v o l u t i o n a r ~ 'Writers.)

EXHIBIT N' o. 1

I s DE FEss E OF CULTCRE

In this h ou r of c r i ~ i s ,conscious of our r e s p o n s i b i l i t ~ as. writers and our pledgeto help preserve the American heritage of freedom and democratic culture, weissue this. Call to the Fourth Congress of th e League of American Writers.

We ~ r egathering to reaffinu the aims of our three pre\'ious Congresses.In 1935, in 1937, and again in 1939, we declared our indissoluble ties with theAmerican people. 'V e proclaimed our unalterable conviction that reaction andits wars. are th e greate:5t enemies of a free and f l o u r ~ h i n gculture. We resolvedt o pr om ote an atl llosphere in which the litera." crafts could be discussed cooperathely without compulsion or fear. We expressed our solidarity with the otherprogressive writers of this hemisphere an d of the world.

In 1941, the "alues by which we ha,-e l i n ~ dar e facing unprecl"dented attacks.Half of th e world is a t war aud the othE.'r half is E.'ndangered by attE.'mpts to drawi t into war. 'WE.' had warned of the conse


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Katharine AnthonyBenjamin AppelLeopold AtlasHelen B e ~ v o yAlvah DeBBieIvan BlackWilliam BlakeMarc BlitzsteinMilien BrandDorothI BrewsterEdwin Berry BurgumFielding BurkeHarry CarlisleBobert CarseVera CasparyMolly CastleHaakon ChevalierEdward ChodorofJerome ChodorofLester ColeJack ConroyAlexander t. CrosbyH. W. L. DanaJoy DavidinauFrank Marshall DavisMartha DoddWilliam E. Dodd, Jr.Pietro di DonatoMuriel DraperTheodore DreiserJames Dugan

Bobert W. DunnArnaud d'UsseauEdward EliseuRalph EllisonBen FieldFrederick V. FieldSarah Bard FieldJoseph FieldsSender Garlin

INITIAL SIONERS

Lillian Barnard GilkesMiobae1 GoldMorton GrantDashiell HammettHenry HartLUliaD HellmanEugene C. HolmesLangston HughesPaul JarricoGordon KahnJean KarsavinaRookwell KentJerome KleinArthur KoberLester KoenigAlfred KreymborgJoshua Kunitz 'Corliss LamontJohn Howard LawsonMeridel LeBueurRobert Morss LovettHelen Merrell LyndRuth McKenneyMay McNeerCarey M c" ilIiamsA. B. MagilAlbert MaltzDexter Mastel'flRobert MeltzerLeonard E. MillSBruce Minton

Dudley NicholsJoseph NorthHarvey O'Connor

,Sam OmitzMyra PagePhelps PutnamSamuel PlltllanlMike QuinMaurice Rapf

Walter RautenstrauchW. L. RiverEarl RobinsonWellington RoeHarold J. RomeRobert RossenJerry SackheimHarold J. Salemson .Waldo SaltJohn SanfordMargaret Schlauohlsidor SchneiderVida D. ScudderFrank ScullyGeorge SeldesViola Brothers ShoreSamuel SillenGeorge SklarIsobel Walker SouleMarian SpitzerChristina SteadBernhard J. SternPhilip StevensonDonald Ogden StewartHans Otto StormAnna Louise StrongGenevieve TaggardEthel TurnerCharles A. WagnerEda Lou WaltonHarry F. Ward

Orson WellesChandler WhippleMaurine'WhippleCharles Erskine Scott

WoodRichard WrightVictor A. YakhontofiLouis Zara

AMERICAN Wa l T E R S CONGRESS, JUNE 6-8, 1941, NEW YORK CITY

Vor information ~ J > p l yto Franklin Folsom, Nati01U1l F..xecutive Secretary, LeaglJeof ~ m e r i c a nWriters, Inc., 381 Fourth Ave., New York. MU. 6-8790

All those duiring t6 aUend the Congress are urged to register in advance by mail ..MAIL THIS REGISTRATION BLANK TODAY

P l e a ~ e M d :

I wish to a ttend the Congress as a League Member . (Fee $1.00) 0I support the Call and wish to attend as a Non-Member Writer_(Fee $2.50) 0I support th e Call an d wish to attend 8S 8 Fraternal Delegate __ (Fee $2.50) 0

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I wish to at.tend tI'e Congress 8S an Auditor_. __ .0. (Fee $3.50) 0I am interested in th e following kinds of writing (pleaae check): ('Novel 0 Short. Story 0 Juvenile 0 Poetry 0 Folk Song, Folk Lore,:Jo'olk Say 0 Text Book 0 Drama 0 Radio 0 Screen 0 Pulp 0Technical 0 Criticism 0 Other (Pletue qeciJy) - - - - - _ ..;- - _- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


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I suggest that the following session (or paper, or feature) be included in theprogram:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------enclose $ to cover my fee. 0I shall be unable to attend the C o ~but I endorse the Call 0I enclose $ ~ ___________ for th e League of American Writers uDefeilse of

Culture Fund." 0~ a n r e _(PJeae print)Addru8 - _

League of American Writers, 381 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y.MUrray Hill 6-8790

EXBIBIT No.2[Memorandum of th e Attome, OeneraJ, Mr. Francis Blddlel

Strictly Confidential.

LE. 'GUE O F A MERI CAN WRITERS

NOTE: Th e following statement does not purport to .be a complete report on theorganization named. I t is intended only to acquaint you l without undueburden of detail, wit.h the nature of th e evidence which nas appeared towarrant an investigation of charges of participation.

It. is assumed that each employee's case \\ill be decided on 'all th e factspresented in the report of the F BI a nd elicited, where a heering is ordered,by the board of committee before which the employee is given an opportunity to appear.

Please note that the s ta tement is Inarked "StricUy Confidential" an d isavailable onl;)' for use in administration of th e mandate of Public No. 185.

The League of American Writers, founded under Communist auspices in 1985,for BOrne 1ears attracted to its fold many of th e most prominent American writers,Commwllst an d non-Communist. In 1989 the League began openly to followt.he Communist Party line as dictated by the foreign poliQY of the Soviet Union,and a t that time most of the non-Communists disaffiliated themselves from i tand d ~ l a r e dtheir opposition to it s policy.

Th e League of American Writers was founded a t a Congress of AmericanRevolutionary Wri ters held in New York City April 26-27, 1935. The call fort.he Congress was signed ~ members of th e John Reed Club including such wellknown Communists as Earl Browder, Isidor Schneider, John L. Spivak, an dMichael Gold. The Congress greeted Gold as "t.he best loved American revolutionary writer" and Gold in tum told the gathering that "our writers must learnthat th e working class which has oreated a gre8.t civilization in the Soviet Unionis capable of creating a similar civilization in this country". The leading speakersa t the Congress were all prominently identified with the Communist movementin th e United States an d featured such men as M. J. Olgin, editor of the Communist Yiddish daily, Morning Freiheit , Alexandel;. Trachtenberg, head of th eParty's publishing house, International Publishers, Inc., an d Clarence Hathaway,edit.or of the Daily Worker whose masthead then proclaimed i t th e "official organof the Communist Party, U. S. A., Section of the Communist International".Th e League was created, among other things, to enlist writers in a nationalcultural organization for peace and democracy an d against fascism and reaction

ilo support progressive trade union organizations an d the people's front in acountries, and to cooperate with the progre&lJive forces. .

Soon after' the League was established, the Seventh World Congress Qf theCommunist Internat.ional in Moscow decided upon th e Trojan horse policy for

Communist parties everywhere.By

this policy Communists sought to infiltrateexisting organizations without revealing their identity. Accordingly i t becamenecessary to conceal th e Communist influence -in the League of American writers.Th e revolutionary slogans and resolutions were discarded. In th e years from1936 to 1939 the League made an effort too secure as members the leaders ofliberal thought among American writers. Although its Communist control wasdeliberately obscured, i t sponsored a policy which accorded with the CommunistParty line ' in those years, including condemnation of the Franco Revolution in


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Spain and an interpretation of that revolution as presenting an issue of Communism versus Fascism. In it s Congresses held in these years the League condemned fascism and praised the "Soviet Peace P o l i ~ y " .I t sought to make it sprogram a tt ract ive by sponsoring th e Pederal ,Arts Project an d attacking' thOEmwho were opposed to any of th e social legislation then being enacted in th e l1nitedStates.

At the t ime of the Russo-German pact in August 1939 t.he League of Amerioan"Writers began once more to follow the Communist Party line openly and withoutmuch attempt a t dissimulation. I t was in this period that most of th e prominentnon-Communist writers resigned from the League. Thomas Mann stated that theLeague "thinks to o much about politics and not enough about literature". In1940 and up until June 22, 1941, the League devoted its efforts principally tokeeping the United States out of the " i m p e r i a l i ~ twar". Its activities werefeatured in the Daily Worker an d it in turn complimented th e Daily lVorker forthe recognition i t was giving to the League's anti-war program. Many leadingCommunists were openly active in the League at this time.

On June 6. 1941 the League held its fourth annual Writers' Congress in NewYork City. I t condemned the "imperialist war" which it called a war for worldmarkets. Speakers charged that the President was attempting tolead th e countryinto war. and condemned the administration for it s action ti l sending troops to9!lell the North American Aviation Company strike an d for ita prosecution ofHarry Bridges: The American Peace Mobilization and it s picketing of theWhite H o ~was endorsed. Less than a month later the League issued a callto all writers and writers' organizations for "all immediate and necessary stepsin support of Great Britain a nd t he Soviet Union".

Not only did the ~ e follow the Communist Party line in regard to foreignaffairs but it s program Since 1940 has shown a close parallel to th e leading domesticfasues supported by the Party including a c a m p a l ~in behalf of Negro rights.opposition to what is called "poli tical persecution' in the United States, andpraise of the Soviet Union an d its leaders.

Th e League of American Writers maintains an annual Writers School in NewYork City, featuring courses in labor journalism and pamphlet writing taught byCommunists. Once each week it sponsors a "work-in-progress" reading by someauthor. The Daily Worker. in it s regular ~ p o r t sof these readings, indicates thatthe m ~ j o r i t yof invited readers are known Communist.'i or fellow-travelers.

T he o ve rt activities of the League of American Writers in the last two-yearsleave little doubt of its Communist control. The resignations of many writerswho ha d affiliated themselves with it in the era of the Trojan horse an d theirstatements a t the time of disassociating themselves from i t largely remove allpossible speculation as to the facts.

EXHIBIT No. 3

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Van Wyck BrooksErskine CaJdwpUMaJoolm CowleyPaul DeKruJr

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PRILIP STKVKNSOS, &creIGrgFRASF'Lll'i FOLSOK. Erecul're &trdd ' f /

Langston HughesMerldel LeSueurUpton Sinclair

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EXHIBIT No. 4(Table of Contents ofa booklet published by the League of American Writers, March 19391

CONTENTS

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P r e f 8 C e _ ~ _Acknowledgment _Introduction _Margaret Culkin Banning _Ruth Benedict _Stephen Vincent Benet _William Rose Benet _Algernon D. Black _Louis Bromfield _Van VVyck Brooks _Earl Browder - - - - __ -Henry Seidel Canby .:. __Walter B. Cannon _James B. Carey _EdnanueIChapman _

John M. Coffee . _Jerome Davis _Thomas E. Dewey _Martha Dodd _Theodore Dreiser _Harry Emerson Fosdick _Samuel Grafton _William Green _Granville Hicks _John Haynes Holmes . __Leo Huberman _Langston Hughes _Harold Ickes _

Robert H. Jackson _Rockwell Kent _Paul DeKruif _Lewis E. Lawes John Howard LawsoD ' _

5 Edouard C. Lindeman _8 Albert Maltz _9 Ruth McKenney _18 Karl Menninger _

20 Torn Mooney _21 George Norlin _21 Samuel Putnam _22 Kingsley ROberts _24 Anna Rochester _25 George Seldes _28 Upton Sinclair _30 Bernhard J. Stern _31 Donald Ogden Stewart _32 Rex Stout _34 Genevieve Taggard _36 Id a M. TarbeIL _37 Dorotl!y TholllPson - - - - - __ ,- -39 Mary Heaton Vorse _42 Henry A. Wallace_------- _45 Goodwin Watson _47 A. F. W h i t n e ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -49 Albert Rl!y_s WilUaDlS _50 Mary E. Woolley _52 Leane Zllgsmith _54 Bibliography . . . _56 List of anti-Semitic Publishers,58 Organizations and Individuals _60 S ta te men t b y the Society for th e61 Psychological Study of Social63 Issues _64 Statement of th e American Antbro-66 pological Association. _67

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PREPACE

SEVEN members of the Leag_lIe of American Writers, Thurman Arnold, :\fargJU'et Culkin Banning, Van Wyck B r o o k s ~Henry Pratt Fairchild, LangstonHughes, George S. Kaufman, a nd R ut h McKenney joined Donald Ogden Stewart,President of the League, in signing th e letter printed on the following page. Thisletter was sent to prominent writers, public figures, and outstanding practitionersin certain of th e arts and sciences. Because of space limitations no attempt wasmade to solicit opinions from all significant leaders, nor were leaders in all fieldsasked to participate. And no effort was made to find a spokesman for antiSemitism, though care was taken to have th e statements reflect diverse points ofview. Fo r instance, representatives of th e national political parties were askedto contribute. Protestants, Jews, and Catholics, ministers and laymen alike,were asked for statements. Scholars able to speak as specialists on race, heredity,an d minorities, were given opportunity to contribute. Creative writers, inevitably concerned with culture an d the basic human value, were awarded an im -portant place-for those very good reasons, an d because this book is th e work ofa writers' organization. In preparing the replies for th e press, one great perplexityarose. So great has been the response to the request for statements thatth e League has suffered from 'anembarrassment of riches. I t has been necessaryto

choose between cutting statements down t.o th e length requested an d perhapsdoing violence to the author's point of view, or reducing th e number of statements. Th e latter alternative was reluctantly chosen, and those whose solicitedstatements do no t appear here will take satisfaction, it is hoped, in finding theirpoint of view elsewhere expressed in the book, perhaps not in their own individual manner, but certainly 110 less sincerely.


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EXHIBIT No.5ne Bullftira 0/ f lu LcaQU40/ . A ~w,u".

CHAPTER ACTIVITY

SAN FRANCISCO: "Yesterday we had our.party for Dr . }(arl Menninger. A real

success. Will you let us know when other L ~ emembers come out this way?"writes Ethel Turner on June 13. The ~ g u ealso held a forum 'on Mexico a t theGreen Street Theatre, San Francisco, on May 22.

CHICAGO: Officers recently elected are: G. A. Borgese, ~ d e n t ;Jack Conroy,Executive Secretary; Nelson Algren, RecOlding Secretary; Frank MarshallDaviB,Treasurer. George Dillon and Meyer Levin were elected as Chicago's repre-sentatives on the National Council. .

WASHINGTON: Officers recently elected are: Charles Edward Russell, President;George Willison, Chairman; Eugene' Balmes, Secretary. A cocktail party inl ionor of Donald Ogden Stewart. League President, was held on May 16. TheChapter has sold 450 copies of Writers Take Sides.

N E W YORK: A picket line including lsobel Walker Soule, Ralph Roeder,Leane Z u g s ~ t hRockwell Kent Marjorie Fischer, Nora Benjamin, Muriel

Rukeyser, Myra Page, and Berna;:d D.N.

Grebanier marched in front of th e Naziconsulate for an hour on Ma y 10, anniversary of th e book burning in Germany.BOSTON: Rhoda Truax Aldrich, new league Correspondent, hopes to have a

Chapt_er formed out of the eiJdlteen members in th e territory by next fall. Sheand Mrs. Merle Colby have already sold 300 copies of Writers Take Sides.

MINNEAPOLIS: Under League auspices a sale of manuscriptsLPrints, an d watercolors t.o raise funds for Spanish children was held a t th e Walker Gallery onJunQ S. .

The July issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Vers(', devoted to poets employed onth e .Federal Writers' Project, includes poems by_ the following ~ e members:Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, James Daly, Willard Maas, Kenneth Rexroth,Dorothy Van Ghent, Sol Funaro!."1. Lawrence Estavan, ~ f i r i a mAllen de Ford,Sterling A. Brown, H. R. Hays, Margaret Walker. Aslo included in this issueare articles by League members Malcolm Cowley, Archibald l\'facLcish,' an dAlfred Kreymborg.

N E W MEMBERS

Eric Lucas, New York City. Ruth McKenney New York City

Herbert L. Matthews, Barcelona, SpainC. A. 'Millspaugh, Chicago, Ill.Robert Newman, Brooklyn N. Y.Dudley Nichols, Hollywood, Cal.Frederic Prokosch, Cambridge, EnglandPaul Radin, Berkeley, Cal.John ~ y ,Chicago, Ill.Ben L. Reitman, Chicago. TIl.Roberto Rendueles z New York CityE. Merrill Root, Richmond, Ind.Sam Ross, Chicago, Ill.Constance Rourke, Grand Rapids, Mich.Mari Sandoz, Lincoln, Neb.James A. B. Scherer, San Francisco,

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Herbert J. Seligmanll. New York CityHenry E. Sigerist, Baltimore, Md.Ernest J. Simmons, C a m b r i d g e ~..Mass.Alfred Sinks, Staten Island, N. x.Charles Allen Smart, Chillicothe, O. .John M.Stoddard, Hempstead, N. Y.Rex Stout, Brewster, N. Y.Leland Stowe, Bronxville, N. Y.Charles A. Wagner, New York CitySeymour Waldman, New York CityJ. Raymond Walsh, New York CityTheodore Ward Chicago, Ill.Alice Holdship W~ J New York CityW. L. White, New xor k Ci tyRobert Zacks, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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EXHIBIT No. 2NE'V MASSES DELIVERS

INFORMATION-FACTS-CLARITY-N'EW MASSES DOES THE JOB

THE 'VAR-THE NATION-THE CULTURAL 'VORLD-NEW MASSES DOES THE JOB

"On the s tudents ' reference l i s t " -Dr. Harry F. 'Yard"Gives unique \"oice"- Richard Wright" I t is indispensable to a full intel lect ual l i f e " - William Z. Foster"Necessarv to a full understanding of ou r problems"-Paul RobesonlIean be counted on for a complete and accurate a n a h ' s i s " - ~ I a r cBlitzstein"N o other magazine ca n possibly take it s place"-Cek. A k('en study that is fast becoming the talkof Ameri ra .

EDITORUL REVIEW: From WN"k to \\'et'k )'OU p;et with unexcelled clarity thefu)) picture of al l that i8 illlp'0rtant-whether i t be the labor arena, politics orcul ture-b) ' the editors of ~ : \ I -Barbara G i I ( ' ~ ,A. B. :\Iagil, Ruth McKenney,Bnlce ~ l i n t o n ,JOst'ph Xorth. Joseph Starobin, J ~ l l J lStuart.

LITERATl"RE: Each i ~ ~ u econtains sparkling and i n c i ~ i \ ' ereview, comment, and.discussion on books and writer$. A much st.udied and t al ke d a bo ut featurethat both reade r and writl'r look to,

THI::.-\Tl:R, l\IO\'IES, :\11-81(', ART: Uegularly ever)" week these cult.ural fields aregil'en th e spotlight in a whole spread, An invaluable section that culturedAmericans read with i l l t ( ' l ' ( ' ~ tand pl('a,,;;ure, A real guide to what to do an d see.

COXTRIBl'TORS: Herbert Apthekcr, Ah-ah Bessie, A. Birnbaum, William Blake,D o r o t h ~ 'B r e w ~ t > r ,El':lkinc Cnldw('Il, Harr)' W. L. Dane, Joy Da\'idman,R. Pahne Dutt., Ualph Ellison, B>n Field, Hugo Gellert" 'Vilham Gropper,J, B. S. Haldau(', A. J a m i ~ o l l ,C o r l i ~Lamont, J oh n H ow ar d Lawson, MeridelLe Sueur. Ad Ul'inhardt. :\Iargnr>t Schlauch. Isidor Schneider, Samuel Sillen,John L. Spil'ak, Christina Stead, Gencvievc Taggard, Harry F. Ward, RicharaWright, an d others.

SUBSCRIBE TOD,U' TO AMERIC',"S INDISPI::NRABI.E WEEKLY-NEW MASSES-USETilE BL,-\SK ON THl: B , ~ l ' K0 . ' TJIIS 8 H E E ~ A N DGET A BOOK FREEl

EXHIBIT No. 3WHO MAKES XEW M.'SSES AMERICA'S INDISPBNSABLE WEBKLY?

THE EDITORS: T he od or e D ra pe r, G ra m' il le Hicks, Crockett Johnston, JoshuaKunitz, A. B, Magil, HermaJl Mich>lson, Bruce Minton, Samuel SilIen,

THE CONTRIBUTIXG E D I T O R ~ :Hobert Forsythe, Joseph Freeman, Michael Gold,Horace

Gregor)", AlfredO'Malh')',

Loren Miller, II:ddorSchneider, Marguerite

Youug.THE CONTRIBl:TOR8: I'f'centl)' inrluding, XewtoOn An'in, Earl Browder, James

Bl'rtram, Lest.('r Coh('n, Wil1iam F, Dunu(', R. Pahne Dutt , Vito Marcantonio,Gabriel Pi:>ri, Samuel Putnam, rp ton Sinclair, John Strachey, Harold Ward,Frank L l o ~ " dWright.

THE ARTIST:': rect>nt.l)' including Abc Ajay, William Gropper, John Heliker,Haj)(' Ht>ndrix, H i ~ c h f ( ' l ' d ,:Fred E I l i ~ ,John Mackey, Gardn,er Rea, Redfield,Ad Heinhardt, Art 'Young, and many othen;.

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THE READERS: A recent check of new subscriptions showed: 15% teachers,students, social workers; 1 8 ~doctors, lawyers, other professions; 10% artisticgroups; 19% "white collar' business groups; 21% industrial workers; 5%housewives; 12% other groups. Here is wOOt some prominent readers say:"One of th e most informative of progressive publications."-Congruaman

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"The spearhead of the people's front . against the baby-bombers in thiscountry."-Paul de Kruif"I only wish we had a paper doing just this job for just this class of people

over here."-John Strachey ."A s a fellow-editor I envy you th e wonderful corps of contributors and reporters

you have organized."-B. Palme DuU" I do not know how anyone in the progressive movement ca n afford to be

without i t i f they have th e pr ice ." - Vito kfarcantonio" I n d i s p e ~ s a b l eto an intelligent understanding of th e international s i t u a t i o ~ . " -

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EXHIBIT No. 5

FRIENDS OF THE NEW MASSES IN CHICAGO PRESENT THEIRSECOND INTERPRETATION PLEASE

SUBJECT-WHAT ARE THE F."-CTS?-TuE NAMES?-THE PLACES?"':""THE DATES?

Fo r the answers hear Bruce Minton, Washington Editor of th e New Masses

Mr. Minton is a journal ist of unquestioned integrity who for years has beenin the closest touch with national affairs as reflected in and about Congress.His startling expose of th e Washington "Clivedon Set" some months ago focusedthe attent ion of the American people on th e organized activities of a group ofdefeatists who were working behind th e scenes to bring about a negotiated peace.

With victory drawing near thru the imminent invasion of Europe, our nativefascists an d defeatists ar e working overtime in a last desperate effort to influenceth e military decic;ions already agreed upon at Teheran. These aetivities, whichhave a definite bear ing on the 1944 elections, are the subject of John L. Spivak'ssensational series of articles entitled uThe Secret Plot Against America" currentlyappearing in Kew Mas.'res. Mr. Minton \vill deal with startling facts, knowledgeof which is absolute ly essential to every American having the interests of hiscountry a t heart . .


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SponsorS listed below, representing leading figures in their respective fields,have been invited to th e platform of this meeting where they will Participate inth e question and, discussom Period following Mr. Minton's address.

. The Date: Sunday, April 23rd, 3: 00 P. M.Th e Place: Grand Ballroom, Hamilton Hotel, 20 S. Dearborn St.

, Admission 600, T a . ~included

SPONSORED BY

John Bernard, Former Congrusman from Minneaota.Earl B. Dickerson, Member President's Fair Employment Practices Committee,

Former Aiderman.Frank Marshall Davis, P4eeuhf16 Editor, Associated Negro PrB3s.Theresa Ehrlich, &ecutive See'y., IlliflOis Chapter National Federation For Con-

stdutional Liberties. . Cortland Eyer, Assi8liJnt ProJeBaor oj Romance L a ~ g e s ,Northwestern University.Harvey O'Connor, AuthM 0/ Mellon's Millions, Bteel-Dictator, The Guggenheims,

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Wm. L. Patterson, Asst Director, Abraham Lincoln School.J. R. Robertson, 18t Vice-PreiS.dent, International Longshoremen's 'and Ware-houseman's Union. .

Al Skinner, Regional Director, Mine, MiU and Smelter lVorkers Union, CIO.Ernest DeMaio, General llice-President, United Electrical Radio &: Machine

Workers oj America, C10.Morris Yanoff, Midwest Regional Director, United Office and ProJesBor W ~ k e r s

Union, C10.IJouise Thompson, .Dutrict President, International Workers Order.

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FRIENDS OF THE NEW MASSES IN CHICAGO PRESENT THEIRFIRST INTERPRETATION PLEASE

SUB.JBCT: TllllDlRAN AND TBllI FATB 011' NATIONS

. THm EXPERTS

Phil Hanna, Business Editor, Chicago Sun: A background of over 20_years asa writer a nd stu de nt on financial business and polit ical subjects. Formerlyedi tor of th e Chicago Journal of Commerce, his daily column, Business of th eNation in "the Chicago Su n is widely read for it s lucid interpretation of businessnews and trends, and as a non-partisan commentary on _ g ~ v e r n m e n tan d politics.

~ e y O'Connor Author and Editor, Moderator: Well known as editor ofnumerous labor and trade union publications, Mr. O'Connor is even betterknown 88 author of such works as Mellon's Millions, Steel-Dictator, Th e Gtiggenheims, Th e Astors. Now working on book describing labor's part in war an dpost-war ~ l a n n i n g . .

Rabbi David Graubart, B'nai Shalom Synagogue: Rabbi David Graubart isconsidered one of th e most brilliant members of th e American rabbinate. He is aleading member of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, th e national organizationof th e conservative rabbis of this country. He is a graduate of NorthwesternUniversity.

Th e author of BEYOND THIS PRESENT, a book of literary essays in the fieldof Judaica, which has won him national acclaim as a writer, he has also contributed articles to leadinfJ Anglo-Jewish, Hebrew t and Yiddish publications.He is a leader in th e NatIOnal Conference of Christians and Jews, for whichorg!,_nization he has several times toured th e country.

Wm. L. Pat terson, Asst. Director Abraham Lincoln School: Mr. Pat tersonh ~ a remarkably rich and varied background as an educator, p o ~ i t i c a l l e a d e ran dtraveler. A few highlights of his career: Seyen years' travel in Europe, LatinAmerica, and Cuba; studied and traveled for several years in th e Soviet Union,


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including th e Far Eastern Republics; main speaker a t th e Paris InternationalConference on Racism and Anti-semitism' participated in th e defense of Saccoan d Vanzetti: for four years directed the Scottsboro Boys' defense; a director ofthe National Negro Congressj has spent six years in the field of workers' education.

The Teheran Conference, marking perhaps the greatest turning point inhistory, is impreg,


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INDEX TO APPENDIX IX-SI'X SECTIONS

INDIVIDUALSl 'agd

Aaeschbacher, J. E --_____ 449Aalto, William - _ - - __ - - - - - - - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ _ _ _ 271Aaron, Harold 334,485,928, 1240'Aarons, Saul______________________________________________________ 43 7Aaronson, Norma - _ - - - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 484, 95 8Aarow, Phil - __ __ 1741Abber, Eugene____________________________________________________ 1397

Abbey,G c o ~ e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 3 9 ~

Abbot, E . S ta nl ey _________________________________________________ 1206Abbot, F ~ kC___________________________________________________ 1392Abbot t, Beat ricc . .. 44 3Abbott, Bernice 727, 736, l1Ql, 1472Abbott, Edith 331,480,621,623,647,1200.1202,1571Abbott, George . 475, 161 .Abbott, Grace - . . .. 635Abbott, H. P. Almon________________ . ..... . _ 3ti CeAbbott, Lillian M . I-Hi(;Abbott, Robert S__________________________________________________ 3 { ~Abbott , Samuel A_ _ ___ __ __ _ _ __ _______ J3UZAbbott, w. I ~ e w i s .... _ 38 3Abel

tHilda . ____________________________________ t , ~ 2 '

Abelc, Ralph C__________________________________________________ : nuAbeles, Rose Minster . . ;-(J?

~ ~ ~ v ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ~ 1 . :.Abern, ~ a r t i n _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _J41Abernethy, William C____ _ _ __ __ __ __ _ __ __ __ 1692Abernethy, William S_ ____ ___ __ ___ _ __ ___ __ __ 1710Abeshouse, Benjamin __ ____________________________________________ 1392Abo, Edward 1447Abraham, Jacob W 177SAbraham, V - - - - 893, 14MAhramowitz, Bessie (Mrs. Sidney Hil lman) _______ __ ___ _______________ 743Ahrams, Edi th

1788, 1793Abrams, H. A . 4850Abrams, Joseph B 1302 f_

~ ~ ~ : : : :~ : ~ ~ c a ~ ~ = = = = = = = = = = = = = : = : : = = = : : : : = : I l ~brams, Samuel_ __________________________________________________ 625-

Abrams, William_ _____________________________________________ 1149, 1153\bramson, Beatrice_____ _ ___ ____ 47&Abramson, Irving_____ ______ __ ____ _ __ ___ ___ ___ ___________ 1204Abran, AbrahaIn__________________________________________________ 274Abrashkin, Raymond .. 1111, lUiSAbred

tPhilip_ ____ _ __ __ ___ _ __ _ __ 1741

Abt, John . .____ _ 467Abuza, Helen __ ___________________________________________________ 1790JAcam, Joseph . 1717Acbanworth, PauL ________________________________________________ 1717Acbcl:lon, Mrs. Dean - _- _____________________ 1023:Acheson, George Hawkins __________________________________________ 36&AChrolJ

jJoseph _;- 473, 667

Achten >ergt

Beatrlce - _- _- ___________ 1784, 1790Ackell, Edgar L . ___________________________________________ 274-

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PageAckensEAlgerod------- ---------__ 1717Acker, dith______________________________________________________ 1392Ackerly, G e o ~A 637,693, 1692, 1695, ]697Ackerman, Fntz - - - - - - -_______________________ _ __ __ 1392Ackerman, Mrs. S--------------------------_______________________ 1157Ackerman, Sidney_________________________________________________ 1010Ackley, Charles B - - - - 485, 1240Ackley, John Kenneth .. 514, 769,1379,1500Adamaitis, Joseph - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -________ __ 1717Adamic, Louis ... 263,338, 340, 380, 412, 461, 464, 500-505,

524, 564, 666, 668,672 f., 677, 729 i., 967,1096, 1172, 1174, 1176,1179, 1193, 1197,1202 f., 1205 i., 1209 f., 1222, 1240, 1350, 1374,1530 f., 1600 ff., 1604, 1641,1701,1703, 1772.

Adamitis, Anthony:. - - -. -------____________ ____ __ _____ 1717Adams, Bertram J __ - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - --- - ------_______ __________ __ _ 1134Adams, Carlyle - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - ---_ -__ __ __ __ ______ __ 1370Adams, Comfort A 332,358 ff., 618, 621, 778, 948,1206,1240Adams, David____________________________________________________ 1717Adams, Dorothy D- _- - - - - - - - -_- _- - - - - - - - - _- - - _- __ - ________________ 647Adams, Earl F - _ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - __ - ___________ 539Adams, Edward (alias for Arthur Kallet).Adams, Frances 470,474 f., 477,1096A d ~ F r a n k D - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1668Adams, Franklin P -- - -_ - - - -- - - - - - -- 583,585, 668, ]703Adams, Fred Winslow - -- - - --- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - _- - - - - __ _ 383

t ~ ~ : :g ~ ~ : : t = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =~ : g ~dams, George P 332,1240,1717A ~ s ,11---------------------------------------------------_____ 1717Adams, lIelen - - - __ - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - _- 769, 1154, 1790Adams, Horace - _- - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - __ - _- _______________ 1595

~ ~ : : : :! ~ a D o n a i d = = = : = = = = = = = = = = = = = === =================== ========== 1~ ~ ~daJ'Y James Luther 621,1455,1464,1468 ff., 1519 ff., 1624.Ada foe_______________________________________________________ 1717Ad' lohn______________________________________________________ 1393Ada Josephine Truslow - _- - - - - _- _- _- _______________ 353,

49 2 i. , 598, 622,637,652 f., 689,777,800,927 f., 932, 1127, 1135,1166, 1206, 1209 f., 1227 f., 1231 f., 1234, 1238, 1615, 1705.

Adams, .June __ - _- - - -_- - - - - - -_- - - - - - - - - _- - _- -_- - - _______________ 1717Adams, Kenneth 1\1 -_-_.----_- ,.- - -- - - - . _- _- . _________ 1072Adams, Kent_____________________________________________________ 452

~ ~ : : : :~ ~ ~ ~ t a ~ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ~ g g gdams, Margaret- - - - _- _- _- - -_- - -.:- - - - - - - - - - . - - - . _____ 805Adams, ~ l a y . -___ 1393

tiE::g ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ : : ~ : : : : : : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::3 ' g ~Adams, Richard - _- -- - - _- - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - _- - __ - . _____ 113nAdams, Samnel Hopkins .,. . 1200 f., 1240Adams, St. Clair - _- _- _- - - _- - _- _- _- - . ____ 962Adams, Theodore F . . ______ 1595Adams, " ' . H -- - - . __ . ____ ) 62RAdams, W Hlis - - - - _- _- _- _- - - _________ 171 7Adamson, Harold_______ ___ _ __ __ ___ __ 1717A ~ s o n ,"rayne 1206.1393Addams. Jane. . ., . - - - -_- - . _- - - - - . _. . _. _ _- _-__ 472f, 1619Addes, George F . . . 498,954(,1065,1202,1204Addis, n ._____ _ __-_-_ _--.-.. -_-_-. -_- -_- ._. ________ 443Addi8, T h o m a . ~ - - - - - - _. - - _- - - - - - - - - _. _- . __________ 350.

353. 365f, 371. 380, 382, 467, 492, 598, 600. 622, 647, 669, 771.1125, 1206, 1233, 1235, 1240, 1383, 1531, 1557f, 1563f, 1615. 1648

Adelman, ~ I e ~ e r . . - . ____ 433, 449, 625f, 637, 1748Adelson, Leone .___________________________________________ 1155fAdes, Bernard . . . 808, 810, 1001. 1294Adler, Alfred -'__ - _. _. . _- . . _. __________ 300, 307Adler, Celia. . -_ .. . __ . . 603


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45514031403

PageDavidson, Eugene 1695, 1691

~ :~ : t ~ ~ ;~ k > ~ ~ : : : :====== =======: : ======== =::========: === ========: . t~ ~tavidson, Florence. 1784, 1790Davidson, Mrs. Henry ____ ___ __ __ _ __ __ ____ _ _ 1790Davidson, James_ __________________ __ _____________________________ 1742Davidson, Jo_ ______________________________________________ 1200 ff., 1531

~ : ~ ! ~ E ~ :~ ~ I : ~ ; ' : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::::::::::::::::::: 1mavidson, Maurice P.__ ____________________________________________ 362

474 f., 477, 635, 659, 667, 962-966, 1097, 1375Davidson, X orma _____________________________________________ 1784, 1790

~ : ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~ r ~ ~ ' _~ ~ = ============ =:: =========: ==: ===: ==:.= ==: ===: ===: 1 ~ : :avidson, 'William_ ______ __ ________________________________________ 1742Davies, Joseph E 481,941,943,1202 f., 1604Davies, Mrs. Joseph E._____________________________________________ 480

~ : ~ : i : ;~ ~ ~ ~ ~ d ~ = : : :==: ====================: =: ===: ===:: =========== 1A ~ ~' Avila, Fred_ ________________________________________________ 1136, 1244Davis, A._________________________________________________________ 42 8Davis, Anna N. 428,472,759,982,984Davis; Arthur P__ __ _ __ ___ __ _ __ _ 1601Davis, Benjamin Jefferson, Jr. 390,624,629,631,641,676,685, 808, 810,

831,834 f., 911, 1001, 1114, 1122, 1147, 1153,1157,1162,1164,1183,1187, 1190, 1285, 1293, 1297, 1299. 1309 ff., 1403, 1448 fo, 1458,1471 f., 1499, 1531, 1559, 1624. 1672Da ,ois, Bessie :. _________________________ 1403

J)a,is. Cameron_ __________________________________________________ 1521Da,-is, Carl L. ____________________________________________________ 1403Davis, Carrington L____ ____________________________________________ 1136

~ :~ : ~ ~ :g ~ ~ ~ r _~ ~========= ===== ===============: ==================== ~~ ~ ravis. David J. ___________ 330, 335 f., 349, 653, 669, 680, 1228, 1233, 1236, 1244Davis, E. E_ ______________________________________________________ 627Da vis, Earl C. ____________________________________________________ 1244Da vis. Eleanor B. _ 659Davis, Mrs. Emersoll_ _____________________________________________ 1059Davis. Elnma_ ____________________________________________________ Ij03

E : ~ : : : :~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ====== =============: ============== ===: ============= == g:gavis, E"a_ ______________________________________________________ 454D a v i ~ lFloyd_ _____________________________________________________ 1721Davi::;, Frank 599,981,1566

Davis, Frank C 577,1244Davis. Frank MarshaIL . 566,974,978,1353Da,ois. Mrs. G. I t. _________________________________________________ 362])avis. H. l\.. ______________________________________________________ 1403Davis, Harold _____________________________________________________ 454Davifl, Henry G. . . 1403Davis, Herhert. 3 4 ~ ,577,1200 f., 1521D a v h ~ .Ilcrhert. John 1190,1202Davi:;. Horace B. 371,388,673,759,801,929-932,1148,1170,1754,1773

n:~ : : : :~ a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ i : :=~~ ~======================== ===================_~~1, ~~ ~ ~a v is, .JBille::; A. .. _________________ 1294Davi:ol . .James .1. e. . 348,350,091,1521Davis, JeroOlc.____ _ . _ . . . . . . ._ 332,3n;), 384,397,400,40-1,411,471 If., ;")14, 510, fi3:>, 537. 54R, fi51,

632, 63;), 03R, 60fi, M7, 073 r., 7;)3, 7;)9, 762, 8-13, 977, 982 (.,1115, 1143, 1164, 120;') f., 1200 f., 1212 f., 1215, 1372, 1370, 1447,1455, 1519 fT., 157;"), 1617, 1772 f.

Davi:.;, ,Jim . . . __ . . _Da,i:;, .JOhIL .. _. __ . __ . __ . __ . . . _ .Davis,.John M . ._ . _


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PageDavis, John P _______________________________________________ 267 fJ.,

313, 396 f.t. 404, 411, 432 I. , 446, 449, 452, 458, 550, 648,652 f.,667, 772, 7"18, 795, 798, 803 f., 809 f., 812, 831, 834 f., 842, 845 f. ,949, 962, 966, 1058, 1061, 1095, 1127 r., 1231, 1233, 1244, 1277,1285, 1287 f., 1293, 1295, 1297 r., 1305, 1307, 1474, 1484, 1582,1585 f., 1590, 1598, 1600, 1615, 1643, 1695 if., 1700, 1710 f., 1721Davis, John W 551,1244,1521,1559

~ : ~ : :~ : ~ : ~ : ; : :~ ~========================= ==================== = t~ ~ tavis, Lena_ ______________________________________________ 706, 708, 1162

I ~ ~ !~ ~ t { ~ I I m m m ; ; ; I ; ; .~!!!Davis, Michael M 264,412,1335,1338Davis, Morris . 1403Davis, Ralph Cresap . __________________ 1783

i ! : ~ : ~ ~ ~ ~ - : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::ii!avis, SamueL ____ 1403, 1721

Davis, Stuart .. ____ 348. 392,574,577,582 f., 785, 794,1071,1075, 1093, 1547,1617, 1637, 1648

~ : : : :~ : s t r ~ ~ _ : ~ ~ : = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ~ ~ ~ ~avis, William _________________________________________________ 455, 1403Davis, William H ,.. __0_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1643Davis-Dubois, Rachel 333 f., 1236Davison, Walter S___________________________________________ 647Davisson, Clinton J ~ ________________________________________ 360I>avy, VVilliam____________________________________________________ ~ 4 2I>awber, Mark A 648,1192,1455,1464,1468 fJ., 1520 r., 1772Dawley, Almena_____ __________________________________________ 1787, 1793I>aWBon, Adessa 1600Dawson, Benjamin F . ________________________ 1721Dawson, Ellen . __ 1128Dawson, Emest_ _____________________________________________ 430, 1563 f.Dawson, Mrs. Ernest . 1008Da \\"son, Hazel_ ___________________________________________________ 1756Dawson, Joseph M . 635, 1595Dawson, Mildred_ _________________________________________________ 1721Dawson, Mrs. MitcheIL o 1009Dawson, Percy M . __ 622, 1097

~ : ~ : ~ ~ :~ : ~ : : ~ ~ ~ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =l ~ ~ gawson, Sadie Roberts . . __________________ 1563 f.Da\,"son, William L . ___ 277, 1623Day, Dorothy . . __ 1006, 1008Day, Edmund E_ __ ___ ____ __ _ ___ 1199

~ ~ ~ ~ i l ~ i ~ ~ ~ ; ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~: ~ IDay, John Warren 1200,1201,1244,1559,1566Day, M. W . _. . 1585Day, Margaret . . ____ 553, 1763

Day, Robert B . ______ 1244Day,Sarah . ._ . 1773Day, Toby . ___ _ 834Daykarhanova, Tamara . _ __ ___ 575, 1097Days, Alpheus____________________________________________________ 1403Days Thomas Richard 1403

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