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SE 100-1820" then a guest at the home of IDA LANNING, é. the following is additional identification of IDA LANNING, Confidential Informant Seattle I of mown reliability, on December 7, 2949, advised that Mrs. wa TORSEANNING, 224 - 21st Avenue North, Seattle, at ote that ‘time was a subseriber to the ‘Daily People! 8 World. Tee Confidential Informant Seattle of known a reliability, on December 20, 1951, reported that IDA. LANSING was appointed at a meeting of the State Board of the Washington Pension Union as a member oo | of a committee to draft a new social welfare initiative in the State of Washington. 4 D LOUIS FRANCIS BUDENZ, Fordham University Faculty member and former editor of The Daily Worker, East Coast Communist newspaper, testified in January and February, 1948 before the Washington State Legislative Committee i on Un-American Activities that official Communist Party i reports coming to his attention in about 1940 had deseribed the Washington Old Age Pension Union Clater kmown as the Washington Pension Union) as being infiltrated and dominated by Communist Party members, and further indicated that its anti-Communist leaders had been eliminated. These reporta also had identified WILLIAM re PENNOCK, President, and THOMAN-RABBITT ,. Vice= President¢ | Washington Old Age Pension Usion, as members and functionaries of the Communist Part; « Confidential Informant Seattle Qi of known reliability, advised on May 19, 1952 that he was present at the International Peace Arch, Blaine, Washington at the PAUL HOBESON Rally held on May 18. He said that this rally was attended by a crow! of from five te ten thousand people, apparently comprised largely of curiosity seekers. He stated that ROBSSON sang at the rally but he also made. short speeches in which he characterized the United States as a "black sheep" among nations. The informant stated that no disturbance occurred. He said that ROBESON was accompanied by a bodyguard.