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Classifying Non-Essen- . tial 18-37 Workers, (Continued from Page One) or ve a statement from WMO that
Should these men fail to keep their jobs c» otherwise fall down on their side of the bargain to produce . ome front, they will be re to actiye duty upon request which is working now
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n a system of policing. . An estimated 500 with dairy perience and thousands who could qualify for dairy work are now in the army’s over-38 group. ‘Boards Hunt Farmers 2, Davis is directing county war boards, wherever there is a shortage of dairy farmers, to secure from draft boards the names of registrants aged 38 through 45, who are in non-deferrable occupations and have had dairy or farm experience and then to urge these men to seek re-employment as dairy farmers. ‘3, Steps will be taken to send 500 - experienced dairy workers in the conscientious objectors group to dairy farms and to move in another 1800 objectors with farm experience "who can make' good as dairy workers, : 4, Draft boards will be directed to send. for the 6200 men aged 18 through 37 who are in -4-F because of physical disability and who are experienced dairy farmers, but now employed in other activities, and ‘urge them to return to their former occupations. If they refuse, consideration will be given to asking ‘the war department to waive their ‘physical disabilities, where the disabilities are so slight that the registrant could be assigned to limited services, 5, County war boards will secure from draft boards the names of gistrants over 45 having dairy ex“perierice and urge their return to dairy farms. .
Seek Names of Skilled
B. If these steps do not adequately relieve the situation, the cdunty war boards will secure the . names of experienced dairy workers new in essential industries and urge them to return to .dairy farms, a ‘step which the president did not deem wise at this time because of the back-to-the-farm movement resulting from the Tydings amendment to the draft act which gives
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ment to men in agricultural occupations. ; It was evident that once the dairy problem is solved the same steps will be taken to solve the manpower problems of other types of 'industry, and then the labor shortages in essential industries and activities essential to the war effort, The broadest hint that the maximum draft age might soon be lifted to 45 is found in the WMG order for reclassification of all men from 38 to 46. The April reclassification affects only those in the farm occupations, who would be placed in 2-C and 3-C, and gives them deferment status. 5 Draft boards will begin May 1 reclassifying all other men aged 38 through 45, placing them in the appropriate class, depending on their occupation and dependency. Thus a man with no dependents and not in an essential occupation would be in 1-A and subject to induction the moment the maximum draft age is lifted. In a memorandum on the new program, Mr. Roosevelt also referred to the fact that Davis is “giving priority” to a land army of college and high school students and volunteer workers with some farm experience who can help harvest the crops this year. Additional workers will be obtained from the Bahamas, Jamaica and’ Mexico. At his press conference yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt was asked if the steps he outlined in the memorandum amounted to a form of national service for men over 38 and he reminded his questioner that he had used the word “urge.” He also said that he did not know whether there would be any action to induct men
a virtually permanent draft defer-
Signs Multiply
over 38 years of age for military service. .
That Nazis
Fear Mediterranean Blitz
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. 'cendoing Anglo-American aerial of- . fensive had reached a scale which might presage the opening of a western front. : Though well-informed allied sources cautioned that the date of the invasion was at least weeks and
perhaps months away, evidence that|
preparations are reaching an advanced stage was seen in the tightening of travel restrictions in Brit= 1sh coastal areas and Prime Minister Winston Churchill's disclosure - that British tropos “are in position” on undisclosed fronts. The Anglo-American aerial offensive, which high allied officials al‘ready have -announced is designed "to soften Hitler's European fortress, was believed to have gone into another lull last night, presumably ~ pecause of bad weather over the continent.
Nazis Have No Illusions
However, Stockholm dispatches revealed that the Germans had no illusions over being given any protracted respite from the rain of allied bombs. One German spokesman was quoted as saying in Berlin that Germany is “under no illusions about the possibilities of sleeping soundly nights.” From another German spokesman, Stockholm said, came the ~ frankest admission to date as to the / purpose of the intepsified AngloAmerican aerial offensive. ~~ «1% is not out of the question,” he
prime minister merely was striking another blow in the allied war of nerves, just as Hitler and his prppa~ ganda ace, Goebbels, attempted unsuccessfully - in 1940 and 1941 to make Britain jittery over the prospect of a German invasion.
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FDR Says He’s . Hopeful; United Nations Parley Set-April 27. - + (Continued from Page One)
ested in such conferences at this ‘But "if *the- discussions do take place, it is assumed that some effort
would be made to reconcile in principle ‘the ‘terms’ of the Atlantic
| Charter with Moscow's well-defined
territorial claims in Eastern Europe. The Russian position is that Atlantic Charter proscriptions against
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torial aggrandizement conflict
tions of Finland, the three Baltic states, eastern Poland and parts of Rumania. The Free Polish government in London and Polish organizations here are foremost and loudest in their protests against such an “interpretation of the charter. A tip on the domestic politics involved was given Eden last week when he lunched with a group of distinguished senators. One of them asked him: “What would your position be on the Polish territory question, Mr. Edén, if your parliamentary constituency contained several hundreds of thousands of Poles?” Eden's answer is not recorded. Regardless of any discussions between representatives cf the United States and the Soviet Union, the united nations on April 27 will begin a series of economic conferences of fundamental significance.
‘Set April 27 Parley
Russian representatives will participate in atleast the first of these dealing with food-—how a more or less prostrate world shall be fed after the war. The state department made public the invitation last night, summoning the conference to meet April 27 at a place in the United States so far undisclosed. Mr, Roosevelt wants the conference to meet away from Washington and in a community where the delegates will be free to work without normal contact with the press. Thirty united nations and eight associated nations were invited. Mr. Roosevelt - told his press con~ ference that the food discussions would be followed by similar conferences dealing, respectively, with relief, finances- and minerals such as metals and oils.
Makes Informal Report
He revealed this program in making an informal press conference report to the nation on Eden's visit. He said discussions with. Eden had been entirely exploratory in nature and final decisions had been
-avoided.
Such decisions would be impossible at this time, he feels. The discussions covered every current matter in military and political affairs current and future. He rered; the United States and Great Rie. be in entire agréement and that there had been a fruitful meeting of minds on all matters discussed.
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women) wouldn't be any help,” he contends. “They would do more harm then good. That tractor I'm driving cost $1100. “If something goes wiong with it, I can't get another while the war's on. . “See that tire?” He pointed to a
| great tractor tire with a half-inch
gash in the side, Ra “A careless hand caused that. I use the tractor as a hammer-mill to grind feed. The belt is attached to the side of the tractor to pull the grinder. The belt moves hack and forth a little as it runs and the hired man didn’t watch it. It slid over and cut the tire wall. Lucky he got it stopped or the tire would be cut "to pieces, “With a city kid working the machine, it would have been completely ruined before he could stop it. Farm machinery costs a lot of money, We have to take good care of it. Farmer Kin in Service “Then there is iivestock. If a cow isn’t milked right, it soon will be na good and has to be sold for meat, That sure doesn’t help the milk and
that know how to work on -livestock and dairy farms. Some of my neighbors who didn’t get the right kind of help gave up and sold their dairy herds. HE «I got two hired hands and I guess T'll get along unless they get drafted. “I got a nephew in the service. He's worth three of those city boys. I figure I'll put out 10 acres of tomatoes this year but if they would let the boy come home to help me, I could put out a lot more. “I'd buy some more cows, £00. And my brother ‘would rent another 150 acres to farm. But you can’t do it without good help. : “I get up-at 5 in the morning and lots of times I don't eat. supper until 9 at night. I don’t think city boys would like that. You can't see many picture shows, you know. Cows have to be milked on Sunday just like any other day. No, I think it would be better to let the experienced hired hands and farm boys come home and help.” William Spilker, R. R. 11, echoed his words. “By the time you learned a kid a job the job should of been doge,” ne said. “It takes 15 years to make a farmer. I've been at it 42 and just now know my way around.” Clyde Goodwin, who lives 20 miles east of the city, raised livestock. He pointed out the risk the farmer took on the amateur being injured. “Most farmers wouldn't want to hire a city-bred youngster unless they took out insurance,” he said. “That costs about $15 for six months. - The most they could work, because of school, would be three months, But that isn’t all. Maybe the kid will work a day and then quit and you've lost your $15. “I may be drafted myself. And I'm all for doing what I can to feed the boys already in. I suppose there isn't a farmer who wouldn't like some help right now. ‘But: they want somebody to do the job. “The land army wouldn't be of much help for general farm work, Of course, they could be of some use in picking tomatoes and peas but that’s just a small part of the answer to the need for farm labor.
butter shortage any. It takes people!
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right now. If it isn't fed out k fall, it won't go to market and hel
in the meat shortage. More than| that, if some of it isn't fed right,
it will be ‘stunted.’ ”. : Louis Rodebeck, R. R. 11, farms 400 acres with the help of two hired hands. He's one of the many farmers putting in their crops and hoping there will be help to harvest “I wouldn't: say a ‘land army wouldn't work, but I wouldn't say it would work either. It would depend on what kind of a boy you got and how willing he was to apply himself. It would take awhile to train the city boys. No, they wouldn’t be much help this season. “It’s like this. I went over to Waren Central high school and took a first aid course. Now, if you were lying out ‘here all cut up, you wouldn't want any amateur like me working on’ you, want a doctor.
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is. What farmers need is people
with plenty of experience.”. ‘Too Busy’ to Teach The farmers quoted $1.50 to $2 a day as the wage they would be able to offer. Some would give less if they provided board and room. “We can’t pay wages like those defense plants in the city,” was the usual explanation, : Most of them were worried about the time they would have to take
from their work to teach the city-
bred boys and girls and women.
“We're busy people,” was the re-|
minder over and over again. Glamour isn't in the average farmer's vocabulary, but what he kept trying to say in short was that farm work couldn't be sold to citybred youngsters on glamour, that it wasn't exactly fun although it was healthy, that a city-bred boy or girl would be no help if they considered
the whole venture as a vacation
‘rather than a job. Most of them feel they are being asked to produce more with less skilled labor, less machinery, less fertilizer and less this and that. They're trying. But, they insist, the land army isn’t any answer to the central Indiana farmer. To those farmers in special sections of the nation who harvest perishable crops in certain seasons, maybe yes. But as Mrs. Louis McCarty, R. R.
9, said: “We had a boy picking to-|
matoes last year. He was willing. But he wasn't used to working long hours in the hot sun. By noon he gave out and had to come to the house.” as Although "this is sometimes the case, the central Indiana farmer is
willing to use a land army for pick-. ing tomatoes. Bui to really relieve |
the farm labor shortage they contend they must have skilled help. That means getting back the boys and hands who have been around farms all their life and know on
which side you approach a cow.
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ances, at all. i, He did not elaborate on his reasons for this belief. © In his letter, Mr. Bigge also denied that there was any foundation for the statement that he “called for full federalization of the unemployment compensation system” in
of his speech he said “could possibly be interpreted as advocating federalization of unemployment compensation.” Studying his own copy of the text, The Times repeats these passages: “The benefits provided by many of the state laws are quite inadequate. . . . “Not much is likely to be
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RECESS CALLED IN CREDIT UNION TRIAL The embezzlement trial of two former officials of the defunct Ine dianapolis Firemen's Credit Union was delayed for the second time within a week today when a panel of 200 veniremen was exhausted. Special Judge Omar O’Harrow ree cessed the trial until Friday and ore dered a new panel of 50 names drawn to complete the jury. ;
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