The United Bavarian Societies have signified its intention of withdrawing from the Nazified German-American Conference, C. K. Froehlich, Conference president, informed the Jewish Daily Bulletin Friday night.
Froehlich said he had learned of this in a telephone conversation with a high official of the Bavarian group, whose name he would not divulge.
A hurriedly called meeting of Conference leaders, at which attempts were being made to persuade the Bavarian organization to rescind its resignation, was still in progress late Friday night.
Froehlich and his lieutenants in the Conference feared that loss of this influential and numerically strong unit, which contains within its ranks some of the most respected and important names in local German-Americandom, might
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