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Port Allegany, Pa•
lonmber 18, 19,1.
Pederal Bureau ot Inveatigation,
Pittsburgh, Pa•
Gentlemen,
~l~owing the appearance in thi• town on Jbvember 6, 1947,
or a Mr• J~~ppincott~ .Director of the Eaatern Area, Red Cross,
Pittsourgn.Jlia., aa speaker of the eve~r,", at the annual looal
Red Croes dinner, I aa told by Dr• H. B, Cro~, local pra.otioing
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dentiat, that in a personal connrea 1 n,
lowi:ng the dinner, !lr•
Lippincott told him that the •aauoere" reported as seen in "Tarioue
parts of the country, were aotually tror:. Spain.
He eaid that Mr•
Lippincott said tha.t thil! had oeen aeoertained by the Government in
r..aahington, but that it 110.a not being made known.
He said that.
'r• Lippincott had been in &.trope and interred that he had been in
Spain and kr:ew conditions ovor there.
Dr. Cranwell ie a man active
in the Methodist Chruch and the looal Protestant ens Club, and it is
easy to see how tar thie report can be spread.
The taot that the
Federal Government indorsee the Red Crose makes a atatement of an ofCioial
reprenntative ot that organisation almost indisputable.
Aa a repreeentatiTe tu ot the Federal Government and ae a
o1t11en interested in truth and World peace and racial and religious
harmony in our own country, I queation the ad'Yieability or an aooredit.d
repreRentatin ot the Red Crose giTtng out thi• information. even "ott
the Noord".
I thought you might be able to oheok with Mr• Lippin­
cott or his organia.ti:-n.
Tours v,..ry truly,
r.ll.)
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