Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1946 — Page 13

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CHIANG: IN MUKDEN,

PEACE HOPES RISE

NANKING, May 24 (U. P).— Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Manchuria today in Gen. George C. Marshall's plane shortly after his troops swept into Changchun, raising the possibility of an early truce in the Chinese

under. Marshall's auspices owas the American epvoy's latest effort to promote a settlement of the Na-tionalist-Communist strife before it spread from Manchuria to all China. Complete Nationalist control of the Changchun area’ would satisfy one of Chiang's basic armistice demands. There were indications the

BOUGHT TOO MUCH NEED MANPOWER “Last Saturday I bought a lot 1 GREENFIELD, Ind, May 24—

IN THE LAST THREAT WW Planters Report Dire Lack . of groceries to tide me over. The Hancock county farmers are doing

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U, S. HEALTH REPORT SHOWS POLIO GAIN

By Science Service

WASHINGTON, May 24.—Health report for the nation: Infantile paralysis cases up to 84 from B56 the previous week. Florida, Cali-

Two more fatal cases of smallpox in Seattle, one in a resident of Port Angeles . suggesting a new focus of the disease may have started there. Measles declining. Scarlet fever and meningitis now below the five-year median. This is the picture from. reports of state

health officers to the U, 8. public| again

health service here for week ending

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clerk: | “Now I want to know how |eivil,war, +" |Communists were prepared to fornia and Texas still have most of | May 18, latest on, Which figures Bie ara Pian made on unanimous academy as proctor much to buy today.” . Chiang’s sudden trip to Mukden {negotiate on that basis. it with Colorado adding 11 case x | decision of the judges. Springs Art school M g! A ft. Wik + woiaraco. aod hol a s. | are available. Miss Denny is staff caricaturist} mer. :

LOS ANGELES, May 24 (U. P.). —A woman approached the infor- - Of Harvest Help. strike was called off, and the food i spoiled,” she told the information i lots of planting and lots of prayi ing. ’ Currently most of the crops are in the ground, although corn and tomato planting have been delayed by wet weather. i According to County Agent Rich- ; ard Prange, the farmers again will meet the government's demand for increased production to help feed the hungry mouths of Europe. 1 “Never have we fallen below the|’ id mark set by federal authorities,” 4 Mr. Prange said. “Farmers of this area always have equaled or bettered the demand. That was true even last year when the national average was 139 per cent over prewar levels.” But this year the farmers are praying and praying hard. They are not asking for a break in the weather. What they want and need desperately is manpower. Need Tomato Pickers

“Right now the 'picture loSks awfully dark,” Mr. Prange said. “I haven't the slightest idea where in the world help will come from when it is time to harvest the handpicked crops like tomatoes. Farmers and farm "help will be at the lowest ebb in the history of the country. Now with the war over, it looks- as though there actually will be less. Few are returning to the farms. “Only about 10 per cent, at the outside 20 per cent, of the young men discharged from service are coming back here. There are several reasons for this—the unavailability of equipment, high land prices, scarcity of farms to rent. inflated livestock prices and the attractiveness of industrial wages. “Meanwhile, the government continues to draft farm youths, They are going into service at about the same rate that veterans return to the farm,” Mr. Prange said. Older Men Tired

“Coupled with this is the fact that the older men have worked fike dogs during the war farming two and three times the acreage they normally would. Now the older men are exhausted. Many of them want to retire altogether while others want fo decrease their plantings.

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“It is obylous what condition they are in. Before the war you seldom heard of a farmer having heart trouble. Lately several have died from it. 3 “But that is not the only hitch to getting in crops like tomatoes. During the war we had the benefit of prisoner-of-war labor. This yedr that will be gone, During the past few years migratory labor also has fallen off. 5 “Last year alone in this county, counting the prisoners and migrants, the labor totaled about 9000 mandays. We can’t get along without the same this year and we don’t know where it is coming from. “We're just planting as much as ever and praying for a solution,” Mr. Prange said,

P.-T. A. WILL SPONSOR FAMILY HOUR SUNDAY

A family hour at the Children’s Museum will be sponsored by the Parent-Teacher association of school 31 from 2 to 5 p. m. Sunday. Teachers and P.-T. A. officers who will act as hostesses are Miss Charlotte Thomas, principal; Mrs. Alfred Lyon, association president, and Mrs, Gerald Ellsworth, Mrs. Jesse Rodman, Mrs. Jack Hess, Mrs. Emerson Baker, Mrs. Alfred Bowers, Mrs. George Smallwood, Mrs. Raymond Hyatt, Mrs. Henry Gedts, Mrs. Robert Reever, Mrs. Arthur Hueber, Mrs. Carl Kenninger, Mrs. Paul Ritter, Mrs, Ben Steward, Mrs, John Bennett, Mrs. George Kraft, Mrs, William Hawley, ‘Mrs, Albert Peters, Mrs. Clarence Sitler, Mrs. Hugh Knight, Mrs. Melvin Searcy | and Mrs. Willard Hadley.

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