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mately 1000 persons. Mr.. Wallace
praised and took credit on himself
for the benefits this community has
derived from the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Says Income Could Double.
II say the cold war must end if
we're to have peace and prosperity
in the United States" Mr.. Wallace
said at Decatur He added he
thought the Marshall Plan money
the United States is sending abroad
should be kept here so that there
can be TWAS all over this land"
I Mr.. Wallace declared the income
Of the South could be doubled if
it is possible to get everybody
black and white together-pulling
together
At Huntsville. Mr. Wallace stressed
the fact that there is still too much
soil erosion in the South, and the
fact that too much of the Southern
income goes to absentee land and
industrial owners in the North.
Il don't like to see the wealth of
the South draining on the one hand
into the ocean and on the other
hand into Wall Street" he said.
Little Racial Tension.
A possible explanation for the
fact that the violence which has
accompanied Mr. Wallaces tour
seems, temporarily at least, to have
subsidized in this area. is the fact
that both at Decatur and Huntsville
racial tension is relatively slight.
There are not many Negroes in the
two communities
Only about 1000 of the 27,O00 in
hahitants Of Morgan County, of
which Decatur is the county seat,
are colored. About one-fourth of
the residents of Huntsville are COL
.ored
Mr.. Wallaces route is to be COW
cred by automobile. is from here
to Birmingham, where he is to speak
over the radio on a Statewide
,hookup at 3 pm.
In his radio address. Mr. Wallace
Is expected to enlarge on his plan
70 subSidize agricultural and indus
trial expansion in the South with
four Federal payments of $1,000 ,000.-
900 dollars year.
Advisers Are Concerned.
Mr.. Wallaces advisers are openly
concerned over the possibility that
there still may be violence in Ala
>bama OF more serious nature than
the egg-throwing to which they
already have become thoroughly ac-
cuStomed They are concerned. too,
about the attitude of the police
They are principally worried about
Birmingham, where labor tension
is said to be equaled only by race
tension, and Eugene Bull Connor
Is police chief.
It was there, last spring, that
Senator Taylor, Mr. Wallace's run
ming mate, was arrested, fined $50
and given a suspended siX-month
Jail sentence for walking through a
door marked "colored"
Palmer Weber, Southern State di-
rector of the Progressive Party who
came on the train at Knoxville to
discuss todays schedule, summed
up his views of the situation in six
words.
Alabama" he said, is a very
rugged State"
Was Heard in AsheviIIe.
Mr.. Wallace spoke last night in
Asheville, N. c., the only town in
that State where an audience would
listen to him. Before proceeding to
a reception in his honor at the
suburban home of DR.. Carl Schaffle,
he succeeded in making a short
speech from the steps of the Bun
combe County courthouse.
He said he thought the size of
the Progressive Party vote in No
vember will determine whether there
will be third World War.
Despite an occasional jeer, it ap-
parently was refreshing to Mr..
Wallace to find himself getting
some attention, and he undertook
at the end of express. his gratitude.
Il am so happy to be here" he
said, addressing such splendid
and attentive audience"
With that Rmark, however, he
drew the loudest boo of the speech.
It was as if he had reminded his
audience Of something they had for
gotten
On the train last night. in his
special car, Mr.. Wallace ate dinner
In his quarters-bedroom D-with
Mark HYDE of 3735 Kanawha street
NV, Washington, retired busi-
ness friend of the former Vice Presi-
dent whose wife is the Progressive
Party's national leader in the Dis
triCt.
He Joined the Wallace tour in
Asheville to report on the situation
in Georgia where he has been help
ing in attempts to get the Wallace
name on the ballot through petit
tion, Later, Mr.. Wallace worked on
his Birmingham speech At Knox
vile. more than 100 persons, most of
them apparently friendly, stood on
the station platform waiting for
him to appear, but he remained
closeted to all but local reporters
and members of Progressive Party
committee who boarded the train
to meet him
Jokes With Reporters.
Later, he emerged from his room
and sat on bag in the aisle joking
with reporters accompanying him.
He seemed tired. but more friendly
and relaxed than he has since the
start Of the trip.
The behavior of the white people
of the town of Hickory, when Mr.
Wallace visited them yesterday, con-
trasted sharply with that of his
Asheville audience. He was fore
warned. Driving into town he
passed an open air movie theater,
and the lettering on the marquee
indicated the picture playing there
last night was The Egg and l."
The eggs in Hickory were rotten,
and while none of them hit Mr..
Wallace one did make square con-
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