Evening star., 1947-06-14
Action Expected
MondayonP Plea
ToBar Wallace
Court Petition to Halt
Speech Charges Strong
Communist Sympathy

District Court is expected to
act Monday on the petition of
the American Anti Communist
Association to keep Henry A..
Wallace from speaking at the
Governnrent-owned Water Gate
Monday night.
The association, in a suit filed
yesterday, accused Mr.. Wallace OF
"a strong sympathy with the cause
of communism" and declared the
Southern Conference for Human
Welfare, sponsor Of the former Vice
Presidents speech, is a Communist
group" The suit said Mr.. Wallace
Is "a speaker whose methods incite
human emotions toward riot and
insurrection.
The association asked for an in
junction requiring Secretary of the
Interior Krug to cancel a permit
issued by the Interior Department
for use of the Water Gate. Calling
attention to an executive directive
issued in March by President Tru-
man for removal of Communists
from Government payrolls, the
Anti Communist Association assert
ed that granting the "use of public
property by Communist group .
is in violation of the spirit and in
tent Of the laws of the United
States" and of the executive di-
rective.
Move to Scare Audience Charged.
A spokesman for Mr.. Wallace at
the New York office of the New
Republic magazine, of which he is
editor, described the court action
as an attempt by the Anticommu-
mist Association and the House Un-
American Activities Committee "to
scare Government workers so that
they will not attend the meeting" :"
The spokesman added:
"If the police state has not ar
rived the Government workers in
Washington will rebuke these meth
DDS by turning out in force"
The Un-American Activities Com
mitteee, which has described the
Southern Conference as a Com
munist front, Is making public
further report on its activities for
use in tomorrow's newspapers. No
clue to the contents was given in
advance.
Both Mr.. Wallace and the confer
ence have denied that they have
any connection with communism.
O'Konski Heads Association.
The Anti Communist Association
Is headed by Representative OKon-
ski of Wisconsin. He says it has
some 10000 members over the coun-
try.
1T is silly" he told reporters,
"for this country to be fighting
communism under the Truman doc
trine, and on the other hand provid-
ing space for this Southern Confer
ence to he'd meetings here"
The association in it's petition late
yesterday said, referring to Mr..
Krug:
The defendants outright and
absolute disregard for the welfare
OF the people of the United States
in granting permit for the use of
public property by a Communist
group sponsoring a speaker whose
methods incite human emotions
toward riot and insurrection is
violation of the spirit and intent of
the laws, of the United States = -"
Refers to Custer.
The petition said Mr.. Wallace
found it impossible to subordinate
his political PHILOSOPHERS and be-
liefs to those of the administra-
tion" and it was necessary for the
President of the United States to
summarily discharge him or re-
quest his resignation.
This was reference to Presi-
dent Truman's custer of Mr.. WAL
lace as Secretary Of Commerce dur
ing a dispute over this country's
policy toward Russia.
The said Wallace" the petition
went on, was during the first few
months of this year invited to
Paris by the Communists, and,
while there. was the guest of lead
ing Communists in Paris, indicat-
ing a strong sympathy with the
cause Of communism"
An Interior Department official
says Mr.. Krug's reply to the petit
tion would be handled in a "rou-
tine" manner by the Justice De-
partment.