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KX 100-2375 SIDNEY ALIMAN . ORO CI T-17, of known reliability, advised on January 13, 1949, that SIDNEY ALTMAN, Box 403, Tullahoma, Tennessee, was a delegate to the Southern leadership Training School of the Progressive Party at New Orleans, Louisiana, December 10 - 12, 1948. No Communist Party activity on the part of ALTMAN is known. * GEORGE FRIED Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD JAVERT, 121 Dabney Avenue, Knoxville, advised . that during April of 1950, FRIED delivered a lecture to members of the “Channing Club" at the Student Center of the University of Tennessee. During this lecture, which was on the subject of "Marxisn," FRIED indicated that he was a believer in dialectical materialism. JAVERT was unable to recall any specific statements but was of the opinion that the ontire lecture was pro-Comunist in nature. Dean RALPH E. DUNFORD, University of Tennessee, advised that he had known FRIED since 1947, and that FRIED was ono of the leader: . on the campus in the faculty-studont movement in support of WALLACE: He further advised that FRIED was a nember of the student organization known as the World Affairs Discussion Group. DUNFORD continued that LEWIS B. GARINGER, student president of this Discussion Club, requested that the group be disbanded and that University approval of the group be withdrawn. GARINGER gave his reason as being "because of its infiltration by WALLACEITES." DUNFORD added that he has noted nothing on the part of FRIED which would indicate disloyalty or un-American temnlencics. \ CT T-3 has named FRIED as a wember of the Tennessee Executive Board of the Progressive Party during 1948. ” ALVA LYLEYOCUARNETTS ‘ CI T-5 advises that he is acquainted with Reverend DeJARNETTE and is convinced that he is a Soglalist, rather than a Communist. 7-5 continued that DeJARNETTS has never attended any Communist ' Party meetings, to his knowledge, and no information has ever cor to the informant's attention which would indicate DeJARNETIS to ve a membor of the Communist Party. T-5 did recall that DeJARNET had regularly attended meetings of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, in Chattanooga, and was a€tivé in this organization n ‘ r ~ll-