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t *. * 4 8 i x _ * 4 As near as can be determined the partics responsible for this Scuchsrn Conference sent out lott rs to prominent educators and cther fells throughout the country with the namcs of other people cm, ty oy more promincnt on the letterhcad, without the actual know- J.-€,. ~nd sanction of those rartics whee: names appcared on the otctiens rv. Naturally, the recipients cf these lettcrs felt that thev cr. uite nighly honored in being invited to participate and possibly neon .t * conference thit would be attcnded by thc prominent peopl “tise; maics appeared on the letterhend. Consequently, these people Ore be 5b ee ee i i fl] for the invitation and readily acceptcd. It is the opinion of i ceet pocrds in Rirmingiim thet when these letters of aceeptanee eames ! ’ ek, th sponsors of the conference destroyed their driginal letter- i rerd onc innde up a new Jetterhead bearing the asnmes of the distinguish— i oa be ipa whe vhed aces nted and consent: to teke port in the confsrcnec. ; Jee re m arin the. .cces on*the stattoriry wor. toon sent to7the A porttla vhost mus. +. arcd on the orieinsi littorhysd aad they else _ foi) for the invive tie. cad rendily aceopted th request that they = poerfdctrsts din th, (i. inghern confercne:, :> . ~~ * One name in srrticuler that «+s mentionca prominently in con- 7 * moet ioe cotth the orsunigition of this conferenee wig JOM GCALDENS of ree Pitgdncies, who has for a lons neriod ef time leancn toward the radices] a Patty se: and who in 1934 eppeared as ere. of the National Committee for 2 2c? ‘2 Nights. snot party whose nia. was nrominintl» connucted . . this affair was ROVIRT FL WALL, the -heed of tne Communish Party in an wo South, In connection with GELDERS, he is the soa of LOUIS SELNORS a che G3cd in 1927, lenving ouite a larg: cstate to his widow, snd it is - Pte A that GaLDERS miyht possibly hr-< an interest in this sstinte." 4 ir, TAYUGN also forwarded to rr, KITCISIL the April 22, 1940, “. gcru Jf the publication *Alobam" which contcined 9 surmery of inferre~ . bie go c.ae pning the 1940 eonfertnee meting at Chattrnoorye, Tennessee. a "fo ears ony of the inform tion sct out in this publication follows: "To the gratification of mos? Alabanians, the leftist outfit ae eoliftag digelf the "Southern Conferener for Yuman Welfare! decided to Spoosere in this state after the ocius Birminghan debrele of 1938 fare ce ‘oghteh confercnee bigwigs beeamc galJ.d because municipal authorities . mts,e 3 9 scgresation ordinance, teboc:d racic] commingling. “ Last. week the radical regimer’. rolled into Chuttanoo,;a for Lip cont concentration, ballyhooed Diesocricy in the South as a theme zz. .. , thon temahawked representative government ond state's rights by ac - Jpses for federal control of elections in the South throuch the Gey ar }.. r‘d-pell tux bill. ‘,.