Evening star., 1948-10-04
'Wa||aceite Charges
Scholarship Pressure
After Ban on Speech
By kewboId Noyes, Jr.
Stor Stoff Correspondent

S'ot SioII %oTesPonoe"
FRESNO, Calf, Oct. 4.-Henry
Wallace's arrival here late this
afternoon is being awaited with
considerable interest, but the
interest centers around a meet
ing he is not going to hold rather
i. than the one he will hold.
: The Progressive presidential can
! didate was to have spoken at a
meeting of students and faculty
members at the Fresno State Col
lege. However, the college admin
1istration withdrew the invitation.
In a telegram to Mr.. Wallace,
Dean Mitchell p Briggs explained
that townspeople had signif1ed their
intention Of attending the sup
posedly closed meeting whether
/, they were invited or not. Under
these circumstances, Dean Briggs
said, the meeting could not be held
Charges Threat to Finances.
According to Stewart Bryant,
president Of the colleges Students
for Wallace group. who went TO
Bakersfield to explain the situation
to Mr.. Wallace yesterday, dean
Briggs had given part but not all Of
the story.
Fresno financial interests, he
charged. had threatened to withhold
agricultural scholarship funds from
the State institution If it went
through with its decision to allow
Mr.. Wallace to talk with the stu
dents on the campus.
Whatever the circumstances, the
colleges president, DR.. Arnold e.
loyal, made it plain he felt his
school had been put in something
Of a spot.
DR.. loyal said the decision to
withdraw the invitation to Mr.. WAL
lace frankly is an admission On
our part that something we decided
upon in good faith does not seem
to be so from a public relations
standpoint"
Will Speak 1T Auditorium.
ut has become 30 hot" the college
president added, that it is strategic
to admit that while we acted in good
faith apparently We made = mis-
take"
Mr.. Wallace will speak in Fresno
at rally at the Memorial Audi
torium tonight He told q Bakers
field press conference yesterday that
students at the State College would
be welcome at this meeting.
The candidate is to fly here from
Bakersfield in his chartered airplane.
He chose Bakersfield, the birthplace
of the Republican Vice Presidential
Candidate Earl Warren, for an at
tack on the California Governor be-
for 372 supporters at the Sam Lynn
baseball park last night.
Mr.. Wallace accused the Governor
of "cynical double talk" in his deal
ing with the issue of the so-called
160-acre limitation in Federal irriga-
tion legislation This limitation pro-
hibits the distribution of water from
Federal projects to farmers cultiyat-
ing more than 100 acres Of land.
The Progressives of California are
fighting large fruit growers of the
central valley region around Bakers
field, who would like to have Cali
fornia exempted from the 16O-acre
limitation.
Il charge that Gov. Warren is
playing both sides of this question, I"
Mr.. Wallace said. He came out
bravely for the family-sized farm,
and then added he was afraid it
wouldn't work in the Central
Valley -.
This is the most cynical kind Of
double talk, Mr.. Wallace added.
And it is double talk that can
lead to complete disaster for the
Independent farmers in this valley
if Gov. Warren moves into the vice
presidency"
The candidate made a lengthy
attack against Joseph di Georgia,
whose 26,o00-acre fruit farm near
Bakersfield has been strikebound
for more than a year.
Mr.. Di Georgia, he said, is typical
of the valleys absentee land
owners.
yes" he said, "Mr. Di Georgia
Is a farmer. He has 4 farmhouse.
He has farmhouse in Di Georgia,
Calf. He has a farmhouse in San
Francisco. He has farmhouse In
Palm Beach, Fla. And he has q
farmhouse on Park avenue in New