Evening star., 1948-09-30

Inv q National Maritime Union sailor
from Pennsylvania as he spoke be-
fore a crowd of more than 4'Ooo-
the biggest he has faced since leaV-
ing New York a week ago on Ihls
final campaign drive.
Despite the fact that his broadcast
address was punctuated at scattereo
intervals by boos, catcalls, rebel yellS
and cries of go back to Moscow,
lit was a victory for the third party
candidate in his battle with the
south on the race segregation issue
Audience Unsegregated.
! His audience, more than hal1
colored. was completely unsegregateo
and mostly on his side. Police SAID
L it was the first time such a meetlng
! had been held in the booming South
west metropolis. with Negroes and
whites mixing freely. For Mr.. Wal
lace, the evening contrasted pleas
antly with the cool, correct recep-
tions accorded him in Dallas Tues
dav and elsewhere on this 8,500-mlle,
15-State tour. :.
For two hours before the candi-
date himself appeared, the meeting
! in the City Auditorium had been a
friendly, enthusiastic affair. Some
of the loudest cheers greeted the
songs of Paul Robson, the great
colored baritone, who supports MIR.
Wallace and who joined the troop
for a one-night stand in Houston.
The egg-throwing occurred just as
MIR. Wallace stepped to the speakers
stand in the center Of the stage. 1t
was virtually a one-man a1alr
When Mr.. Wallace took his stance
a. youth stepped into the aisle near
the front of the hall on the candi-
dates right and began pulling eggs
from his pocket and hurting them
toward the stage. His aim was poor
One of the missiles struck the stand
in front of Mr. Wallace, splashing
his clothing little.
Youth Escorted From Hall.
A few tomatoes were thrown, to
even less effect, by other anti-Wal-
laceites near the front OF the nall
But it was the young mans SHOW
He pelted away for fully Is seconds,
while Mr.. Wallace stood on the stage,
smiling and waving, and the audi
ence shouted its excitement. Three
colored policemen, standing within
10 feet of the thrower, made no move
to interfere with his antics.
Finally a squad of eight white
. police marched from the side OF the
hail, seized the youth Alid-Esrorted
him to an exit. There he was re-
leased, after identifying himself as
John J. Staskiel of Kulpmont, Pa, a
seaman member of the National
Maritime Union. ,
AS other police waved the crowo
back to its seats, Mr.. Wallace sought
to calm his audience with shouts OF
alright, ladies and gentlemen-all
right; he already was on the air,
the hubbub and his words being
broadcast over a Statewide hookup.
Then, standing amid a litter OF
eggshells, the candidate delivered
his speech. It was well-written, re-
fecting the work of Mr.. Wallace s
new ghost writer, former news
paperman named Robert Shaw who
joined the party two days ago. 1t
did not sound very exciting, how
ever, as Mr.. Wallace read it.
| HE has" said one observer, "a
sporifc effect on friend and foe
alike"
Explains New Peace Plan.
Mr.. Wallace gave few details
earlier yesterday about his latest
scheme to save world peace. 1t is
L his thought, announced Tuesday In
Dallas, that since the United States
and other Western governments
cannot be trusted" to give the peo-
pie the facts about the Berlin situa-
ton and other aspects of. the world
crisis, these facts should Sbe sought
out and established by a commits
sion of Representative" Americans.
! Mr.. Wallace told a press confer
ence the commission should be ap-
pointed by an Impartial organiza-
ton shuch as the American Associa-
ton of University Professors. 1t
should, he said, include representa-
tives of scientific, educational, pub
fishing, agricultural, labor, church
and women's groups, who have not
committed themselves as approving
either the bipartisan or Progressive
positions on world affairs.
| At the auditorium last night, the
candidate blasted away at the
"gluttons'. and "vultures" of the
North, who, he said, suck the wealth
of the South into Wall Street.
He said the people of Texas should
have had the peacetime benefit of
wartime industrial expansion here.
Instead" he continued, 'it went
to feather the nests of particular
kind of bird We have in this country
today-the prof1t-hungry vulture.
The habits of this bird is anywhere
it can smell dollar, and you can
spot it in a minute from the news
papers it owns, the Senators it con-