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which included Dr. W, =. B. DUBOIS as an honorary chairman as of May 16, 1953. c who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised on October 12 and 13, 1953, that at the Netional Conference on the Rosenberg = Sobsl1l Gase held on October 10 and 11, 1953, at 410 South Michigan Avenue, room 602, Chicago, Illinois, W. =5.B. DUBOIS of Mew York was elected to the Executive Committee of the Comuittese to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg ~ Sobell Case, MORTON SOBEL, JULIUS ROSSNBIRG, and ETHsYL NOSSNELLS were convicted on hierch 29, 1951, in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, SOBSLL was sentenced on April 5, 1951, to thirty years imprisonment and is currently serving his sentence at tho Federal Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California. JULIUS end 2THEL ROSZNBRG were sentenced to death on April 5, 1951, and were executed on June 19, 1953. The "Daily Uorxer," issue of June ly, 1955, pase 3, colurm 1, contains an article which stated that br. ‘J. &. B. DUBOIS, yesterday, issued a statement that this nation can never be a democracy until MORTON SOBELL receives a fair trial. The article quoted DUBOIS as saving "STHEL and JULIUS ROSENBERG have been judicially killed for no crimeesesel am astonished and indignant that MORTON SOBILG is in jail when the accusations against him have never been prcven, when his accusers, for the most part, are self-confessed liars, and when the courts have never given him a fair chance to prove his innocence," "Viasses and Mainstream; issue of February 195k page 43, conteins an article entitled "This lan I Know" by i. 3. B. DUBOIS, which set forth an exerpt from an address delivered by DUBOIS at a recent New York meeting sponsored by tne National Committee to Win Amnesty for the Smith Act Victims, 667 Madison Avenue, New York City. DUBOIS mentioned ne kmew ESN DAVIS, but had not seen him for many years after he (DAVIS) left Atlanta ~ 52 +