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Communist Party, on which occasion PEPPER told LEACH that there was a meeting scheduled for Noveaber 8, 1943, and ‘that the following ‘persons wotild be there: HARPO MARK ‘AN GROUCHO MARK: IRVING PICHEL , mM MARC CONNELLY 1] He stated that many others would also ‘be present, ‘whose names Source dia not remember. Source A stated that this organisation was planning © to ‘have a mass meeting, the object ef which was to make arrangenents, if ‘possible, to send a delegation to Washington, BD. C., on mti-Senitisn. Source A further revealed that GEORGE PEPPER advised ELIZABETH LEACH that the HOLLYWOOD DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE had sent a wire to Congress urging the passage of the Poll Tax Bibl. This wire ‘was signed ‘by thirty-five ‘persons, ineoluding the following: WALTER HUSTON ‘ YY HARPO MARX we GROUCHO MARX JOHM GARFIELD RANCHOT TOME ~< waRC CONNELLY . . ‘ROMARD 0. ROBINSON Vv ‘ere. KOWARD @. ROBINSON. Sourte B advised that he was supposed to know all Democrats and all Democratic organizations in Beverly Hills; that when he heard of an orgmisation calling itself the Beverly Hills ~ Westwood Den- ocratic Committee, he made some inquiry and learned that this Comittee had no connection with or relation to the Democratic Party setup or organization, ‘put that it was being sponsored by the HOLLYWOOD DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, and ‘that DON KING, 4183 Saltillo Street, Woodland Hills, California, PAUL WEBSTER, 260 South Crescent Drive and 125 North Palm Drive, telephone - Crestview 6-7687, and ROBERT T. WILKERSON, 133A Shirley Place, Beverly Hills, telephone - Crestview 1-583, were the parties behind it. Source B said that he learned that they were holding occasional meetings. This source further learned that a meeting had bean held in Room 300, at the Beverly Hills High School on November 16, 1913. The School Board required them to sign a pledge that they were not Communists before they were allowed to hold the meeting dn the sehool.