Henry Wallace Is Shouted Down

Chronicle (Levin), 1 September 1948, Page 2

Henry Wallace Is Shouted Down

Iteceivcd Tuosdav, 7 ]>.m. NEW YORK, August 30. Mr. Henry Wallace, the Progressi vo Barty's Bresideutial candidate, had to abandon street meetings in Oreensbo ro and Burlington, North Oarolina, today when a crowd threw eggs, tomatoes," and shouted him down. He was h-it 011 the ai'in by an egg at Burlington, but the Greensboro erowd's aim was inaecurate. At both places the crowd roared: ' ' Why don't you go back to Russia. " Mr. Wallace, at his Burlington meeting, got no farther than: "I would like to take this opportunity, " wlien eggs aiul tomatoes were tlirown. Angry, AT i-. Wallace walked aronui! and shook a finger in the faee of several men and shouted:. "Are vou in the L'niled .States ? ' ' At Oreensboro he spent five lninutes trying to beat down the erowd's op* position and then gave up. Mr. Wallace has declared that in his eampaign tour of the south he will not enter liotels or other. public places whare Negroes were not permitled or where unsegregated meetings are not permitted. A1 r. .Wallace, by making race problems the major issue, seeks to wear at least some part of Ihe niantie of Abraham Lincoln wliom he regards as an encouraging precedent for the formation pf a third Party. By eni-. phasising Lincoln 's liberalism, he seeks to distract attention from tlie deadly endorscinent of . Coniuiunists.