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' PAGE FOURTEENWickard Says Farm Labor Lack Cannot Be Solved by Japanese Evacuated Here from CaliforniaTornado Strikes Minnesota TownRedwood Falls, Mhtn,. May 13.*— A tornado battered tho*village of Morton, a few mlle3 east of hove, IHIs- afternoon, Injuring upwards of p. score ot Its- 1,000 'Inhabitants, wrecking - 10 houses, damaging about IB others and leveling trees atid telephone poles.No deaths wnro rrvported In early accounts, but four pevsons wove brought to a hospital hero In sorb oils condition. They were Mrs. Frank Hevlcr, 63, and three chib drcn named Hustad.Tlio storm plashed Into the villi gn from I ho soutliwest after having shattered several farm buildings northwest of Springfield, in Drown county.Cas Hogs In Congress Are Given JittersI1lt;Ai5ocinled l'r»MWashington, May 13.—Gasoline rationing today had congress in n dither tie liko of which has not been seen since the lawmakers voted—hut Inter repealed — r elisions for themselves, v. ft eg] storing at their special facilities In the cnpitol, imuiy had csked nut] received X cards. An 11X carl entlLles tha holder to ynwn and tell the gas-pump man to '’fill her np.11. The voting public might gain a picture of Its representatives at tlio capital exercising the piivh ledgc3 of an unlimited gasoline supply. In the east, that voting public 1b bfrJelly rationed on gasoline. And tho country over, wartimeflcVf ‘Rnerlflrn nnnnlnr(lt;AsiocUt«d r/MiJ .' Wahlihiglon, May 13,—ThO agrl-cultural department hell loves the west's-farm labor shortage cannot besolved by using Japanese evacuated from ilia Pacific coast. Secret nry Wickard indicated In testimony mailo public to it ay.*. Senator Holman . fR.-Orc,), qncs-Honed' Wickard about tho possibility when llio cabinet official ap* peared before tho senate approprlh-ttons commit lee during hearings on tlia agriculture ' department appropriation bill.In Hie first place, Wickard said, “only about one fourth of tho evacuees have ever worked on farms or know anything' about farming.“The second thing is where they took them out to sot no of tho interior arena, they found it necessary to guard them ycry closely, for (holt* own protection, and at tha present time wo do not want to lmvo any embarrassing situation nrlso whereby pome of these peoplu for ouo reason or anther, may have Buffered bodily hnrm, .Tha army, which Is guarding these Japanese, say a It cannot have people of tli a army following around small groups of these evacuees. At tho present lime, at least, those peonlo must tio kept in large groups, which 13 not conductive to working on farms sea tiered all over a large area. . . .Tlia fnrninry them selves are somewhat loath to lake these peo-nlo nml lake all of the responsibility that might he Involved in seeing that they nro well protected for fear they would be blamed If something should happen in the community,I know all about this. Wickard told Holman, beenurn of the Investigation that I am making of tho possibilities of getting more labor for 3Ugar-bcet production. Wo want to. hiercnso eugar-beet acreage about 25 per cent this year and that requires a lot of hand labor.\
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Greeley Daily Tribune
Greeley, Colorado, US
Thu, May 14, 1942
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