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Socialists Planning To Offer Presidential Candidate on Ballot By LYLE C. WILSON Washington U.R) The So cialist party boldly has announc ed that it will put up a presiden tial candidate again this year. The national convention takes place in Cleveland May 30-31. The Socialist Call devoted less than a column to its convention announcement and the mention of a couple of likely presidential nominees. Inside the paper has a full page discussion of what the Socialist party Is up against, which is plenty. And what it should do, which is a matter of dispute. Voters Desert Party The Socialist party is up against the fact that most of its voters have deserted it. The de sertion began in 1936. Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs polled nearly 1,000,000 of about 15,000,000 votes cast in 1920. Socialist Candidate Norman Thomas got nearly 900,000 votes in 1932 of 39,816,000 cast. Eco nomic depression is body build ing food for Socialists. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal-Demo cratic coalition sapped the So cialist party's strength. The Socialist vote fell to little more than 80,000 In 1944; was a mere 139.000 in 1948. Hundreds of thousands of Socialist votes curtain 42 x 81 Ruffled Organdy CURTAINS Various Colors Kitchen COTTAGE CURTAINS.. Various Colors Marquisette PANELS $079 Wpr. $029 Wpr. 99 flLflN Furniture Co. 613 EAST MAIN PHONE 2-4207 Veteran of Korea Found Underage Marshall, Mich (U.PJ A Korean veteran who. enlisted in the army when he was 15 is back home trying to readjust to civil ian life. Corp. Mack Hall, now 17, was discharged for being underage. The husky youth was keeping his age a secret until, he says, a girl friend in Kentucky reported him to the secretary of the Army. Hall kept his secret so well that he was sent to Korea, where he served as a machine gunner with the 5th division un til he was wounded. He was so anxious to get back in uniform that he tried the Ma rine Corps. That branch of the service accepted him until It, too, found out his true age. One month later he was back in civies. ' Hall thinks the armed forces are on to him now so he'll just look for a job. were not being cast or they had been absorbed into the coalition created by FDR and led in 1948 by President Truman. Socialists are disputing what to do about that. The full page discussion in the Socialist Call was an argument for getting out of the presidential candidate business altogether. The nomina tion of a Socialist ticket is as un realistic as little children play mg house. Socialists were advised, there fore, to adopt the bare knuckled realism of British Socialism which set out just more than 50 years ago to kidnap a political party and, . thereafter, to take over government in good time British Socialists did just that The party they took over was the Independent Labor party although that one was not their first choice. To Scatter Selves The Call article counselled So cialist! to scatter themselves among left wing organizations. This infiltration or penetration was to lead finally to independ ent Socialist political action That independent action, appar ently, would come finally with Socialist domination of an estab lished party or by the shaping of existing left wing groups into national political party struc ture. ' Specifically tagged for pene tration were: Liberal Party New York, Americans for Democratic Action, CIO Political Action Committee, AFL Labor's League for Political Education. The slump in the total Social ist poll suggest that many thou sands of Socialist voters already have moved In those directions, mcmm LOW HEEL Weitport'j flair for rtyfing little low shoes mm to a high in our latest selection from the most complete line of flats in America. 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The cases of aggravated as- SAILING ALONE IN SLOOP only 23 feet long, Mrs. Ann Davison, 38, widow of man who lost life three years ago In similar venture, heads across Atlantic to Florida from Plymouth, England, hoping to be first woman to make such solo voyage. (International) Suggestions Made for Housewives1 Planning Of Potato-Less Meals The House of Finer SHoes Washington (U.R) Agricul ture Department food experts advised housewives Wednesday to plan potato-less meals around such nutritious substitutes as rice, baked beans, spaghetti or that old Southern standby, hominy. They said all these foods are plentiful, Inexpensive, easy to prepare and healthful. Remedy for Husband They concede that some habit ridden husbands may go right on demanding plain potatoes with their meat. But there's a remedy for that too send him out to find, and pay for, a few pounds of spuds. Agriculture Department offic ials see no hope for relieving the present "potato famine" until the new crop starts coming into the markets next month. Even then, there's no guarantee that potatoes will be cheap or plenti ful. Farmers simply haven t been planting many potatoes since the government dropped price supports on them last year. Appeals to Housewives Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall, who has scores of agents at work across the country trying to break up a flourishing black market in potatoes, appealed to housewives earlier this week to cooperate by giving spuds the go by until they are offered above the counter at ceiling prices. The food experts said house wives will find it easier to com ply with Arnall's request than they may suppose. High on Substitute List Spaghetti, macaroni and noodles all made from wheat- are high on all lists of potato sub stitutes because they are already familiar to the cook and her clientele in nearly every Amer ican home. Rice, which many families have "discovered" since the po tato shortage began, is also high ly regarded by the professional menu-planners. The. experts don't feel that sweet potatoes offer much conso lation to pinched pocketbooks these days. Last fall's crop was not large, and current sweet potato prices are high with re maining supplies of poor quality. MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Many Vermont Deaths Said Undiscovered saults are on par with other rural areas. "My opinion, therefore, Is that many murders have been committed in Vermont in the past several years that haven't been recognized as such," he said. "These rhurdcrs have been ruled out as suicides, accidents, or as deaths brought on by nat ural causes." Spelman said it not only was easy to get away with murder in the state, but that it was a simple matter to dispose of a bodv. 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