Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-09-23
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cial train crossed the line from
Nevada and came into RoSeville,
Calf, in Central Valley in mid
afternoon yesterday. Arailroad sta
ton crowd at Sacramento, heard
more about it later on, and the big
gest cheer the President got last
night in a dash into the San Fran
cisco area came when he told a
crowd at Lakeside Park, in Oakland:
1T see no reason why you should
suffer a brown out" to crafty the
greed of corporate monopoly. Nor
do I see any reason why you should
have to keep on getting up an hour
earlier every day when all the rest
Of the United States is going OF
Daylight Saving Time this fall"
His hearers liked that.
California has been suffering from
drought last winter which cut down
the water supply for power genera
ton; a shortage of materials to
construct steam generating plants.
And a greatly increased population,
which naturally boosted the demand
for power, according to neWsmen
out here who have followed this
situation. On the other side, the
dominant power interests have been
accused of sitting Federal power
development and this latter is the
line the President followed, without,
however, mentioning any reputed
corporate offender by name.
Today Mr.. Truman is moving to-
ward Los Angeles for night speech
in Gilmore Stadium, Los Angeles,
where he will be followed tomorrow
night by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, his
rival for the White House. Tomor-
row the President swings into the
Southwest on the return trip to
Washington.
Coming back to California for
the second time in three months
Mr.. Truman conferred with Oliver
J. Carter, new Democratic State
chairman for. California, and other
party leaders here who met his
train at Reno. He is due to meet
James Roosevelt, the national COM
mitteeman who was one of the
Eisenhower Democrats in the pre-
convention days, IN Los Angeles, Mr..
Roosevelt's home.
Party Breach Not Healed.
AS between the President and
Gov. Dewey who will be in San
Francisco Saturday the chairman
says that Mr.. Truman is the "un-
derdog" but that he is on the way
up, and actually the situation in the
State has not yet "crystallized.'
Three factors admittedly initiate
against the Democrats. The party
split has not healed yet; Henry Wal
lace figures to get from 100000 to
100000 votes according to observers,
although his forces claim 100000,
and Gov. Earl Warren, Republican
vice presidential nominee, has a
great following in both Republican
and Democratic Parties.
Democratic leaders are trying to
ease the Warren situation by arguing
that 1t is Gov. DeWey-not the Cali
fornia Governor who heads the COP
ticket.
Out OF a total registration OF A.
OOO.0 900, the Democrats show an edge
of 100000 over the Republicans.
Wallace Followers Carry Banners.
The President encountered Wall
lace followers on his arrival in Oak
land last night. A mixed racial
group stood at the railroad sta
ton as he drove by after leaving
his train. They carried banners
with the customary slogans: Stop
inquisitions of Wallace supporters;
lend Jim Crow in the Army" and
LESS red scare and more red meat"
The President was waving his hat
when he passed the demonstrators,
who later appeared in Lakeside
Park.
The President also encountered
another troublesome situation here
in the maritime strike. AS he moved
up to the plaza in front of City
Hall for the speech in San Fran
cisco striking waterfront work
ers" of the CLIO International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems Union were circulating IAN
open letter" to the President, blast
ing away at George Killion, former
Democratic treasurer and one Of
the active movers in the Truman
campaign, for his reported part in
blocking a settlement of the strike.
Mr.. Killion is president of the
American President Lines, and the
strikers described him and his COM
pany as "policymakers of the Pacific
America Shipowners' Association
and the Waterfront Employers As
ISOLATION of the Pacific Coast in their
stubborn refusal to negotiate a set
tlement of the strike" which started
early this month and has tied up
West Coast ports.
Asks United Front.
The Presidents San Francisco
speech was delivered near the site
where the United Nations came into
being, and In referring to that he