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I IT SEEMS TO ME that the
rapid increase in consumption of
' intoxicants is very alarming. In
lour years in this state consump
tion of spiritous liquors has in
creased by about 60 per cent. The
increase is proceeding at a more
rsnid rate now. subject only to
the prospect of diminishing sup
plies. .-.-.
. Here are the figures for con
sumption of spiritous liquors as
reported by the state uquor com
mission:
1938 1,063,313', gallons
1941 1,267,099 gallons
1942 1.658.903 gallons
The comparison , for ; the first
quarter of 1943 with previous
vears is as follows
1st quarter, 1941248,639 gals.
- 1st quarter, 1942 303.Z3Z gais.
1st auarter. 1943 431.513 gals.
The trend seems tol be toward
The spiritous liquors J and away
fram winM. both natural and .for
tified. Consumption' of beer, which
has the lightest alcoholic content,
: has shown considerable increase.
The comparisons by years are as
follows:
: Fortified1 Wines
1938
. 1941
775,472 gallons
584,623 gallons
530,592 gallons
1842
Natural Wines
1938
1941
1942
271,548 gallons
225,474 gallons
157,027 gallons
Beer
.1938 346,578 barrels
1941 416,871 barrels
1942 542,871 barrels
. The pause is not far to seek:
flush money and the unsettled
conditions of war times. The curve
cf state liquor sales moves right
up with the industrial and war
time payrolls, showing that when
the men and women are in
the money a bigger expenditure
for liquor is made. i
And the American drinkers' go
in for whiskey, not stopping with
beer and - ignoring wine. In the
case of wines it is the more potent
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Cost of Living
Rise Estimated
26 J. .'per Cent
'PORTLAND,-Ore. May 22-J)-The
cost of living in the Portland
area has risen 26.1 .per cent since
the start of the war, W. E. Kimsey,
Oregon labor commissioner, said
Saturday. '
He testified at a regional war
labor board bearing" that in
creased lrrmr costs and average .
annual earnings should be con
sidered in setting up minimum
wage standards.
The board, seeking to determine
what wage level is fair for the
region, also heard testimony from
farm, labor and employer repre
sentatives.. - ' " r
' Dr. G. Bernard Noble, board
chairman, said pay - increases
Would be ordered for workers
found' to be in substandard levels.
Dan Hay of Salem, submitting
a statement at the hearing on
behalf of the Associated Em
ployers of Oregon of which he
- is manarer, said that in a sur
vey among members he had
"found prevailing opinion in es- -.
tablishments employing chiefly
' women to be that anything less I
than 5o cents an hour would be
,a "sub-standard" wage rate In
relation to cost of living.
Hay added however that taking
fsupply and demand" also into
consideration, 60 cents an hour
"would be more suitable." He es
timated that living costs in Port
land were 30 per cent higher than
in Willamette valley cities,' voiced
recognition of a policy granting
to wonyn workers equal pay when
taking over jobs formerly held by
men, and favored a 10 cents ' an
hour : differential -. for : .cannery
workers in recognition . of that
work's seasonal nature.
Germans Lose
44 Bombers
LONDON, May 22-;p)-Forty
four out of a large force of German
bombers and fighters which at
tacked ' Kursk, 120 miles north of
Rostov, Friday morning were shot
down, "Moscow announced , early
Saturday in a broadcast recorded
ky the Soviet Monitor,
j The Russians said their losses
Were 10 planes.- :
"The enemy planes were over
taken by our fighters on the out
skirts of the town,", the broadcast
said, "and were met with intensive
anti-aircraft fire. A few. raiders
broke through. ',
Lebanon Votes
10-Mill Tax Levy
1 1 LEBANON, May. 22-(-Leba-jpon
voters approved, 161 to 39,
Saturday a 10-mill levy over a
give-year period to provide a $70,
CC0 sinking fund for improve
ments to the city's sewer and
t-r''ri system. - -.'-
iiehty tihsd yeab
ork
tops
Nation's War Effort
Curtailed by Labor
Negotiation Tiffs
I By tho Associated Press '
Cfi. fresh work stoppage in the
mine fields, spreading strikes in
Akron - rubber factories and
walkouts in Michigan's Chrysler
plants curtailed : the nation's
war output Saturday night.
Miners quit work at four Ala
bama pits which supply coal for
coke ovens . feeding coke " to the
Birmingham district's steel and
iron plants. The mines, normally
employing 3,800 m e h, included
three operated by the Tennesee
Coal, Iron and Railroad .Co., a
US Steel subsidiary and a shaft
operated by the Sloss-Sheffield
Steel and Iron Co. Company and
union spokesmen attributed the
strikers - to protests against fines
imposed by the company for un
authorized strikes April 27 to 30.
A strike of CIO United Robber .
Workers spread from the Good
rich Rabber Co., and Firestone
Tire and Rabber Co., to the
General Tire and Robber Co.,
involving upwards of 35,000 in
the three, plants and halting
production at Goodrich and .
Firestone. The-' strikers were'
- protesting, onion spokesmen
said, a War Labor Board de
cision granting them an increase
of . three cents an hoar in basic
pay, instead of eight cents an
hour which had been sought
'by the onion. '
"'Nearly 24,000 workers were in
volved at six Chrysler plants, and
the! Chrysler tank arsenal's as
sembly line closed for lack of
partsu Company spokesmen said
about 2,000 of 14,000 day shifts
returned to work yesterday.
Union leaders have charged ft
break-down In collecth-e bargain
ing at the Chrysler, plants; the
company denied this. R.' J-.- Tho
mas, head of the CIO United
Automobile Workers, said he was
"going to find out" who was re
sponsible for the strike.
All workers in the Bitnmin
ous coal fields of Pennsylvania,
aside from 36 - at one mine,
.. had voted to return to their
Jobs after a flurry of work
stoppages. .
A two-day-old work stoppage
at the Steelton, Pa., plant of the
Bethlehem Steel company ended,
-but 900 workers at the Crucible
Steel- company's La Belle plant
in Pittsburg halted work. Spokes
men for the Crucible workers
said they were protesting delay
in obtaining a ruling by a federal
agency on a contract clause.
Prisoner
Exchange
Expected
WASHINGTON, May 22
The state department announced
Saturday- that the Japanese gov
ernment had given "reason to hope
that 's second exchange of ap
proximately 1500 American civil
ians for an equal number of Jap
anese civilians held in the United
States may be arranged.
Negotiations for further, ex
changes of Americans held in Jap
anese occupied territory and Japa
nese in the United States had been
under way, the announ' --nt
said, since the first transf
place last, summer. '
3k
Funeral Arranged ,
NEW YORK, May 22 -(A3)- A
lavish state funeral costing $23,
000 will be given Admiral of the
Fleet, Isoruku - Yamamoto, the
Japanese radio reported Saturday.
Eye- Witness Tells' of Attu Experiences
MASSACRE BAY, Attu Island,
May 14 (Delayed) -Pi- I met
home sergeants today. ---; .
There was a first sergeant (name
censored) with whom I walked a
little : way as he made his way
back from the front line dressing
station to the second line station.
He - wore a tag officially identi
fying him as a "walking around
case, able to travel but not for
the moment able - to - fight longer
because of two shrapnel wounds,
one in his thigh, one in his shoul
der." He was a little reluctant to
talk; and when he did talk; his
words came painfully.
Kills 4 Japs
"I was the last man in. the plat
oon,' he said. "We were going up
around the top of a ledge at night
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MRS. WM. HOWARD TAFT
Ex-President,
Chief Justice's
Widow Passes
WASHINGTON, May 22 -(P)
Mrs. William Howard Taft, who
during her 81 years saw her hus
band become president and then
chief justice of the United States
and one of her sons a senator,
died. Saturday.
Ill for a year and a half, Mrs.
Taft died at her home where
she had lived much of the time
since she first came to the capi
tal with her husband when he
was inaugurated in March, 1909.
Mrs. Taft was credited by
friends with . being the political
mentor for her husband, who
urged him on through the various
channels that led. to his nomina
tion and election as president.
Her residency in the capital
was broken only once in more
than SO years, the eight-year
interlude between the time she
moved from the White House
and the day upon which she
came back to Washington as the
wife of the chief Justice. He
served on the supreme court
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Observation
Organization
Is Praised
"Astonished" by the quality of
the equipment and the alertness
of the civilian workers at the
Willamette valley ground obser
vation posts of the - army's air
craft warning service, Maj. Ralph
Millet, ground observer officer of
the first fighter command (Atlan
tic coast); spoke of his experiences
viewing the Oregon posts when he
stopped briefly in the state's cap
ital late this.week
With Col. John C. Gray, com
manding' the general's staff for
the ground observer corps, fourth
fighter command, Cap t R. Steb
bins, office of air defense, Wash
ington, DC, Lt H. L. Young and
Capt. William K. Morgan, Port
land, Millet had been viewing the
west coast aircraft warning serv
ice network of civilian-manned
observation posts when he halted
in Salem to visit the state civilian
defense office and state officials.
"With yeur more sparse popu
lation, I had not expected to find
anything like this, he said, speak
ing not of the marble capitol
building but the ground observa
tion setup. r ? !
"South of Salem this morning
we visited two observation poets
that are , the finest I have seen.
You know, we have many people
to support any such movement,
many from . whom to draw vol
unteers." c , "
A short time ago I stood be
side, a woman who must be 65
years old; I heard no plane but
she asked us to cease our con
versation and listen," . and sure
enough she had spotted one. Alert!
That is the -word for it. You may
quote me as saying the setup is
swell" Millet declared.' . -
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I looked down and saw a little
light, which I thought , was some
kind of an animal. We went on a
ways and took a break until dawn.
I got to thinking about that light
and went back to look again. In
the dawn, it was not an animal.
It was a little tent. A Jap soldier
was sitting outside. He saw me and
shot up at the same time I saw
him and shot down. I killed him.
Then I threw two grenades down
into the tent. There were four
other Japs Inside. 1 The grenades
killed them all."
The sergeant said he hoped to
get his wounds fixed quickly so
he could get back up to the front
lines. "My captain's up . there,"
he said. .."He's in a foxhole and
has a leg wound. They've got us
Salem, Orecon. Stmiay tie .:;, Mar 23. 1S13
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I' Nip Supply Center.
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I Triumphant - American . troops
I have split the Japanese rem
nants on Attu island into three
isolated groups in preparation
for the final battle, the navy
disclosed Saturday.
This was the 12th day of
fighting on the rocky island
Fighter-b o m iTers destroyed
Attu village, apparently the ene
my's supply center, Friday. A fuel
depot went up in flames and oth
er installations took fire. A church
and one other structure were the
only buildings that rose above the
ruins of the little Aleut settlement.
The Jaanese evidently had no
more intention of surrendering
despite the hopelessness of their
position, than they had had in
other! tight spots of the war in -.New
Guinea and Guadalcanal.
There was no doubt among
authorities here that the fight
would go on until the last ene
my soldier has been blasted or
bayonetted from the last fox
hole. The navy communique today
ATTU
STATUTE Ml
American forces who landed on
Attu island at Holts and Mass
acre bays (semicircle inflicted
heavy , casualties on the Japa
nese invaders. A " Tokyo radio
broadcast admitted. The navy
said that advance US' patrols
from both sides of the island
had joined (open arrow) As
sociated Press TelemaC
brought the fighting up to date,
covering not only' the activities of
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Silverton .
Woman Is
'Honored .
. SILVERTON JBeeauso a Sil
verton woman, '. Mrs.' ' George
Chris tensen, in looking out ever
her garden '.while doing her
breakfast dishes thought of her
oldier - son : in ' Australia, ' she -composed
a little poem.
The" little poem finally found
its way Into " the - pages of the
Satnrday Evening Post and now
. John ; Tasker Howard, - well'
known composer of music in 1
New! Jersey, has written music
for the poem. The song is await-
ing publication. -" -
When asked how it feels to
have "rated so high in the lit
erary world, Mrs. Christensen -turns
rather diffident and an
swers, - "Well I never and.
stop there. .
pinned down so badly now that
we can't get to him." . ' ,
Medical Squad Trapped
' Then there was " a sergeant
(name : censored) of a medical
squad. I met him at the dressing
station,' just after he had come
back.
"There were 20 of us," he said.
"Some litter bearers, some wound
ed. We were trying to get back
here, but we went into a box can
yon. The Japs let us get in, then
opened up on us. They had both
ends; of the canyon closed' with
machine guns We couldn't move.
Every time one of us stuck his
head up, the Japs let us have some
more lead. Finally, 12 out of the
20 were wounded.
final
Battle
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Host
W. J. La ROCHE
ICniglits'Qose
First Session
Of Conclave
More than 180. delegates to the
35th annual convention of the
Oregon Knights of Columbus end
ed the first, day of meetings at a
dinner dance Saturday night in
the, mirror room of the -Marion
hotel. -
Delegates were welcomed to
the. convention Saturday morn- ,
ing by John W. Keller, secretary
of the Oregon post war planning f
board, who repsesented Gov.
Earl SnelL ; , ;
In the afternoon sessions of the
convention the Rev. Darnian Jent
gev OSBftke? oii-thev retreat
movement in war time7 and Frank
Lonergan, past supreme director of
the-. Knights 1 of Columbus, com
pared the sacrifices of mothers
and the bond-buying public in his
address. . -J, ... ."
At p. m. Satnrday visiting
Kniahta were interviewed over
KSLM. a ;- . .. '
Knights of Columbus members
will attend a Communion f Mass
celebrated Sunday morning at St.
Joseph's church and ' will later
attend a breakfast in St. Joseph's
halL Rev. Martin W. Doherty,
pastor of Sacred Heart church of
Gervais, will be toastmaster and
Joseph Bradley of Belmont, Calif
and Rev. Francis W.. Black, state
chaplain, will be speakers at the
morning meeting. ; '
" Corp Donald Tangatr, USM, .
who was wounded at the Gua
dalcanal engagement, was an
honored ; guest of the Knights
for the afternoon.
W. J. La Ro the, grand knight
of. the Salem council, was host of
the convention. '
Nazi Air Loss '.
286 in 3 Days
' ALLIED- HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May v 22-P)
American warplanes, pouring new
fire and destruction on axis -military
power across N the "Mediter
ranean, swept over ports and air
fields of Italy, Sicily and Sardinia
again Friday- and - destroyed . 97
more enemy planes guarding the
invasion " approaches to' southern
Europe.". -. '-. . ,V ' - r' "
. These new stabs at axis air pow
er brought to 286 the number of
enemy planes destroyed in three
days. rThirty of the 97 planes bag
ged Friday were shot put of the
sky by big US bombers and fight
ers and 67 were destroyed on the
ground. The allies ' have ' lost 12
planes in. the furious three-day of
fensive. - , " . -.
; "We were in that canyon for
three days, - from the first day of
the occupation until now.. Finally
bur mortar crews found the range
and began? working . on- the - Jap
machine gunners. -While the mor
tars' were making the Japs let us
alone, those of us who could walk
had a chance to get out.' . 1
-"I've got to get these scratches
fixed ; up and go back up there
about dark tonight' I want to get
the rest of those boys out" -?
He also had" some- shrapnel
wounds, three of them. - - -Does
Impossible
.There was also a first sergeant
whose name was not immediately
available. He was in no condition
t. fait Viawin raMH tnmp fTirK
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Civilians
rm
1 ra
' Mississippi - Breaks '
f Elinois Levee- to
Inundate RR Yards
' By th AaaoeUtcd Ptcm
The swollen Mississippi river,
gorged by flood waters from its
rising tributaries, crashed through
weakened ' barriers in southern
Illinois and east Missouri late yes
terday 's (Saturday), inundating
one of the, nation's largest rail
road yards and . trapping some
1000 civilians.
The flood waters, which already
have spilled over 1,356,960 acres
and rnade more ' than 100,000
homeless in six mid western states,
engulfed -the Missouri Pacific
railroad's Dupo, lit railroad
yards, washed, out the main line
of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio rail
road and threatened the. town of
Dupo, whose 2082 residents were
being evacuated. - , -
: , Coast guardsmen sent lout boats
immediately when the Mississippi
m a d e . an . unexpected break
through in St Charles county, Mix,
isolating about 1000 civilians. The
water. Joined the Missouri for the
second time two miles above the
normal confluence and the civil
ians were caught in the pock et-
The Dupo yards handle 8000
freight cars and service) 50 loco
motives daily. -
Meanwhile,' as the Illinois, Ar
kansas, Wabash and Mississippi
rivers " continued their ominous
rise, the Red Cross in St Louis
issued jit flood report on the Miss
ouri, 'Arkansas, Oklahoma" and
Illinois area showing:'
. Inundation : of 1,356,960 acres;
9663 houses damaged; 29,837 fam
ilies made homeless and otherwise
directly affected; 19,662 ' persons
in shelters; 18,161 persons being
fed and 7135 needing rehabilita
tion. ' ; "
. The Red Cross said there was
an "increasingly- serious health
situation". ; in., the affected areas
and i that "conservatively" more
than 100,000 persons were home
less in the - four states and Kan
sas and Indiana. ...
CJeorge Miller.
e 71;
Headed Firm
.. George . O. Miller, one of : the
founders of the Miller Mercantile
company, which operates 10 stores
In the Pacific northwest among
them the Salem "Miller's," died at
his home in; Portland "Saturday at
the age of 71 years.
Mr. MilleT, second cousin of
Floyd E. Miller, assistant manager
of the Salem store, was also pres
ident of Miller, Brothers company,
wholesaling establishment ; . The
widow, five children . and seven
grandchildren survive r. ' '
i The Millers, two sets of broth
ers, came west from Nebraska in
.1902 to commence their mercan
tile activities in Oregon. First they
resided' Jn McMinnville, 'in 1906
expandingyto Portland. : At that
time George O. "Miller moved to
the .larger city, remaining there
the rest of his life.
v Only survivor jof the original
firm is L. A. Miller, McMinnville,
who still works in the business at
Portland, father of Floyd E. Mil
ler of this city and cousin of the
deceased 'president : of "toe two
companies ,' ; i;t t J t.-
NLRB Hearing
In 61st Day
PORTLAND, May 22-(JF)A
the Kaiser shipyard labor hearing
droned through its 6 1st day and
the transcript reached 800 pages,
trial examiner Robert N. Denham
remarked; y:
: ."Unless you plan to spend the
rest of" your lives in this room, I
suggest you limit your inquiries.
We are wanderiing all over the
face of the globe " .' -
The remark was directed to AFL
Attorney Edwin , Hicks, who,; was
asking a witness about the nature
of operations of sheet metal work
ers in general. . Denham asked him
to confine his questions to . sheet
metal work in shipyards. Hicks
replied he merely was trying to
give a complete picture.
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Lenin9s Organization Said Unable
1 To. Handle 'Economic Development :
In Various Countries of World' -
-.' MOSCOW, May 22-i9-The' Comintern, the organization
which Lenin and his advanced revolutionary followers created In
1919 tq. mobilize working class parties throughout the world, an
nounced its own dissolution Saturday in order to advance the
cause against fascism. .'.,.
r . The action,- the most far-reaching yet taken in the swing to
ward full war cooperation between Soviet Russia and her major
western allies, was adopted by the Comintern's executive com
mittee which explained that because of inability to convene a
congress under present war conditions, it was asking the various
0PA Develops
MailProblem
'Headache'
WASHINGTON, May
The OPA developed symptoms
of a first-rate headache. Satur
day ever the eollossal mailing
project it has undertaken for.
distribution of ration book No.
.- ' - ,
Within the next week every
man, woman and child in the na
tion is to receive an application for
a ration book to replace books No.
1 and No. 2 when they expire.
.That means millions of applica
tions "120,000,000; were printed)
to be delivered by; the postman
and returned to mailing centers
the same way, after they're filled
out. Later the books themselves
must be delivered to householders.
. Bat seme Americans don't be
lieve ia waitlag until the last
mutate m get what they waat,
even though the applications
. plainly state they are not to be
returned before Jane 1, or after
Jane ; 10.' ' " v :-'K:
First in trickles, then In larger
quantities, the applications came
bounding back to the agency's of
fices here. Also the questions "be
gan te come in principally from
service men who live at home but
apparently were to be . excluded
from obtaining ration book No. 3.
Hundreds of specimen blanks
carried by newspapers cum in,
carefaUy fUled ont by families
thinking they'd get their books
' that way. The newspaper blanks
won't do at all they were pub
lished only for the information
and galdance of readers. .
: The service men were aroused
by the statement on the form that
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Army Units
In Memorial
Parade Plans
.-'1 ' " ' . "
In addition to the Salem and
Marion county marching organiz
ations which headquarter here, a
number of military units, includ
ing an army band and the mech
anized troop of Gen.' Gilbert R.
Cook's Timberwolf division head
ed by LtJ CoL John W. Bonner,
will participate in the Memorial
day: parade Monday afternoon.
May 31. - - ' '
;- Announcement of the' staff and
division commanders for the
parade which Is to march prompt
ly at 2 pjn. from Marion Square,
was made Saturday by Col. Carle
Abrams, grand mars hall of ' the
day.-''"f -'"i -v' V;.;"-'---"- c- "
- Chief reviewing officer is to be
Col. A. H. Stackpole, whose army
unit stationed in - this area will
provide the band and an armored
troop, .including a platoon of
tanks. ;: ' .':.v ru: tv,---r
Admiral Land to
Visit Portland.
PORTLAND, May 22H1P)-Rear
Admiral Emory S.' Land, chairman
of ' the , United ; States maritime
commission, . Is scheduled to ar
river here Tuesday to Inspect ship
yards in this area. ;
lie I will present the maritime
M" pennant to Henry J. Kaiser's
Swan . Island yard for its tanker
production record and will wit
ness the launching of the tanker
River: Raisin, - named after ' an
early-day American battle.
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national sections to ratify the step.
A resolution adopted by the
committee said the communist in
ternational had been out-moded
and had proved to be a drag, in
some countries, on the, "further
strengthening of the national
working class parties," - ;
The great lesson of the war,
it added, was that "the general
national uprising and mobilisa
tion of people for the speediest
. victory ever the enemy can be
best of all and most fruitfully
carried out by the vanguard of
ike working class movement of
.each separate country working
within the framework of its
own country.'
Tfie text of the announcement
seemed to indicate that, dissolu
tion of the. . Comintern was -no
MEXICO CrTT,,May 12-(A
The widow of Leon TroUky,
slain former communist leader,
Saturday " night called the dis
solution of the Comintern "the
final rite- in the slow death of
a once revolutionary party."
The widow, Natalia Sedova
Trotsky, said "the third inter
national has long since ceased
to exist as a progressive force
In the workers' movement."
temporary war-time expediency
but a final act of abolition.
The resolution, signed by two
Germans, two Finns, two Italians,",
two Russians, two Frenchmen,1 a
Czech, a Bulgarian, a Hungarian
and a Spanish woman communist,,
said that even before the war it'
became clear that because of in
creasing complications in internal
and international affairs of vari
ous countries "any sort of inter-;
national center would encounter
insuperable obstacles in solving'
the problems'" of the-cbmmunist
movement. "
Differences in the "level and '
- tempo" of the' economic and
political development In various '
eowftiries were accentuated, It .
; added, by the war which placed
a ; dividing line between coun-
- tries which fell to Hitler's dom
ination and those united in an
anti-Hitler coalition.
-The working class parties have
three main tasks, it declared.
Those in Hitler's bloc must give
all help "by sabotage of the Hit
lerite military machine from with
in."
The "sacred duty" of those in the
anti-Hitler coalition . consists cf
aiding" "by. every means the mili
tary efforts pf the governments .
of these countries aimed at the
speediest defeat of the Hitlerite
bloc.""';; :r;.,'
Finally" the, basic task in the ,
occupied lands is the promotion
of the "armed struggle develop- .
lag into a national war of liber- .
ation," the resolution declared.
"Communists have never been
supporters of the conservation of
organizational . forms that have
outlived themselves," it continued,
adding that they acted in 1935 to
give greater flexibility and inde
pendence -to the various national
sections., : ; -
As a result, the resolution of
the communist party of the Unit
ed Stages In withdrawing from
the Comintern in November, 1940,
had been approved, the resolution
stated.
Center Program
Is Postponed
Threatening weaiher caused
postponement of the Salem vic
tory center program planned for
Saturday night by the junior
chamber of commerce. A eimilar
program,. with special entertain
ment by and "for soldiers end
civilians, is planned for presenta
tion shortly, Don Black, chair
man, said. .
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