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a $ oe a re Pe "int that she coeulé recall which mit have given rise to the story ¥ . that.a fu years before she had employed ’a negro boy those name . ~: _i. whose presert vhereabouts she could not then recall, who had gaic - re st some wit. veople rould permit him‘to eat rith the fuwily. a GE ev ise vuat she Lad not believed tha boy, whom she knew to be an - fe nveterate liar, but: had. question Patout the matter, He had replied iy . that a family living next door :- i would perm vw toe r- ’€at with them as he was‘not employe@ as their servant, | said. ro __,. thet she knew that such was not the case and Lad dismiased the mg er, a . . fr ‘wind. -She could not account for the etory reported by Ce Be i: identity was not revealed), uless it had criginated with... ~ on ' “the incident just related by her. Sythe ee a ES oo a i prior to'the abo a gE: ” oe, reported to on July = . , hy the existence of some such club, According to this i ormant,.. sidered entirely.relieble, ‘the members of the ‘so-called an oyment , if any of their .. °- i who was not con . NELgalOR CLUES" had agreed’ to‘quit their empl : “employers or their friends made a slurring reference to either. the Presi~ -— dent or his wife. This informant was unable to give any further inforua~ - tion with regard to the organizations, and no further investigation was 7 conducted on the basis of her.allegation, ©. oo, . : It is also noted in the report of { , Atlanta, Georgia, dated October.16, 1942 in the case entitled _ NELEANOR UNION; IN(ERNaL SECURITY® that a complaint was received at LaGrange, Georgia that a negro cook had quit her job and stated that she { had been ordered to do'so by the "ELEANOR UNION" and that she had signed a pledge in her own blood and that any negro who took her job would be ‘beat up by members of the group. A complete investigation of this matter as shown in this report revealed that the entire story was false as far as its having occurred at LaGrange, Georgia and that the story had appa- rently originated at Washington, D. C, and Birmingham, Alabama, ._ AO ye to the origin of the story, ow maar Oo vas ; : at LaGrange Womans College, stated that while she = : was visiting a neice in Marietta, Pennsylvania, whose name she refused to _ divulge, she had attended a bridge party at a neighbor's home. She Slit eighbor, but stated that at the party 4 : “ong 11 the i ar or Yd she was not sure whioh, had told her the 7 - wife of a retir aval Officer in Washington, D/C. had said that her ne- ~ . eS - gro cook had suddenly quit her job. When aeked/for the reason for leaving the cook bad said that she was a member of tha’ PELEANOR UNION® and that | - gince on the previous night the Naval Officer's wife had guests who ridi~ culed the negroes it was her obligation to quit her job in compliance with 4