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| . Little Rock, He is a director of the Southern Conference Educa- tional Fund. On July 31, 1958, he signed an ad in the Washington Post petitioning the House Un-American Activities Committee not to hold hearings in Atlanta, Georgia, designed to investigate subversion in the South, The record of the Atlanta hearing reflects that numerous witnesses took the stand under oath, and subsequently invoked the First and Fifth Amendments on questions as to their communist membership or activities, A clipping from his newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, dated March 26, 1954, bemoans the findings of the Jenner Committee that resulted from the hearings in New Orleans, wherein it was found that the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., is the successor to the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, which is subversive, with the same address, executive director and officers. 3, HENRY WALLACE, Wallace was a presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948, When he came to Arkansas that year, he refused to sign an affidavit, which is required by Arkansas law, to the effect that his party is not affiliated with, associated with, or controlled by the Communist Party. He was accompanied by Daisy Bates, L. C, Bates, Ladislav Pushkarsky, and Leonard Farmer when he appeared at the Capitol, and left the Secretary of State's office arm in arm with Daisy Bates, Pictures were made on the front steps of the Capitol, wherein Daisy Bates appeared on Wallace's left; L. C. Bates, Ladislav Pushkarsky and Leonard Farmer also appeared in the picture. The electors of Wallace were subsequently placed on the ballot as independents, and L. C. Bates, Daisy Bates and Ladislav Pushkarsky were three of the 74 signers of the petition. 4, LEONARD/FARMER., Leonard Farmer was a communist in the j State of Arkansag from at least 1948 through 1951, When Henry Wee ee ee Wallace came to Arkansas, Farmer gave an inter-racial breakfast d . 7 for him at his home on West Markham, Farmer is a man of means, y and told a deliberate falsehood to the Supreme Court of Arkansas _. fwhen he applied for admission as an attorney after graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1951. He graduated from -12- BC