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Show miner email 0MBT1PLI I I 1 j National Feature of Female Lawyers to be One Feature of Get-To gether CHICAGO, Feb. 11 Conferences preliminary to the fifty-first annual convention of the National Woman Suffrage association began today and will continue until the convention ends next Wednesday. Prospects were that the convention would probably formulate formu-late a new organization under the name of League of Women Voters. This, suffrage leaders said, probably would bo contingent upon ratification of tho national woman suffrage amendment amend-ment by thirty-six states, expected be-Ifore be-Ifore the convention adjourns, which would bring to a successful conclusion tho half century's labors of the organization. orga-nization. In connection with the suffrage association's as-sociation's meeting there will be a na tlonal convention of vonien lawyers, the first ever held A reconciliation with the Woman's party, the radical wing of the movement, move-ment, was declared by members of the suffrage association to be "hardly pos sibie" Whether the new League of Women Voters will be held to a strictly nonpartisan non-partisan course was a question in I which political observers of the two major political parties were displaying considerable interest. . ' Suffrage leaders estimated 2000 delegates dele-gates and their alternates representing 2,000,000 members of suffrage organizations organi-zations In every state, would attend the convention. |