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Show 12 SUNDAY HERALD . Sunday, April 11, 1948 ; France Needs ;ERP To Exist, Officials Say PARIS (U.R) Aid under the Eu-i Eu-i ropean . Recovery Program must arrive by May 15 "at the very latest" to keep factories in France ' from closing down or operating at reduced output, French ov er-official contend. 'A representative of the minis ir o finance told the United , Press that "things will be aw .fully close" even if aid arrives by May 1. Supplies of steel and tex , tiles will be especially affected, he said. - As a last resort, Pierre Mendes ' France, representative of France on the International Monetary Fund, will ask the Export-Import Bank for about $50,000,000. An (Other $38,000,000 was paid France ' last month for costs of the Ameri- ' can army here during the war An estimated $150,000,000 illegal ly held by French citizens in American banks will be freed by the U. S. government June, 1. t" Those funds should enable i France to squeak Just through for 'another month or two, officials aid. Textiles, almost non - existent t here after the war's end, began to 1 reappear in shops at almost nor-' nor-' mal prices after imports from t'ne United States. Unless such im-jports im-jports continue, officials said, cloth factories will come to an al-, al-, most complete halt. Steel is equally threatened. t Officials said there is less dan-1 dan-1 ger that failure of aid to arrive in i' time will affect food imports. As i result of its third mildest win-; win-; ter since 1875, France is looking t forward to its best harvest in i years. Financial experts are planning plan-ning to divert funds normally i apent on American wheat to farm j machinery instead.' j Delay in Marshal plan funds I would cause a crisis in supplies I of powdered milk and frozen meat they said, however. Partly as a I result of last summer's drought, t and partly because of the high J cost of feed, France is producing t insufficient milk to give even I children their normal ration. Industrial production, however, I the government announced re- cgntly, has reached a higher point in 1948 than at any time since ! the war. Her Protest Hits the Target rrrv M i IB W :They Did Their Work .But Try to Collect! I MINDEN, Neb. (U.R) Two Min-, Min-, den high school boys played hookey after a snow storm to make money shoveling walks. t They finished one job and went to get their pay. "I'm sorry, boys." the house-, house-, wife said, "I haven't any money here. You'll have to collect from my husband." . Her husband was C. L. Jones, superintendent of the high school. A fingerling is a small fish. 'Informal Visit' v -1 . Ij 0 v y '"7"" iW y?T$f. Czech Socialists Plan Merger With Communist Party PRAGUE, April 10. (U-RVThe presidium of the social democratic demo-cratic party in special session today agreed to recommend merger mer-ger with the communist party, which was expected to take place before the May 23 elections. An official . announcement said the presidium "decided unanimously, unani-mously, to propose to the party congress, which will meet April 17 and 18, that it negotiate creation crea-tion of unity (with the communists).- Communist Premier Klement Gottwald told the communist central committee yesterday that fusion with the social democrats was "next on the program." Vineyard Mr. and Mrs. Roland Harding entertained at chicken . dinner at their home honoring her brother, bro-ther, Joseph H. Clegg, who recently re-cently returned from the Central States mission. Covers were laid for 25 family members. The Relief society women will present the Sunday evening pro gram. . Musical numbers will be furnished by the Singing Mothers Pres. Delia Stone will be in charge. Geneological meeting will be held Thursday .evening at the home of chairman Gran Za- briskie. Abortion Clinic Blamed for Death Of Toronto Woman TORONTO, April 10. (U.R) Beautiful, Mrs. Jane Murdoch Gordon, 27, whose body was found In a ditch in nearby York Mills, died as result of an abortion. abor-tion. Chief Coroner Smirle Law-son Law-son said today. Police , said they believed Mrs. BIRTHDAY NOTE SANTA FE, N. M. (U.RV-Dr. L. C. Boatman worked on hia birthday here on Feb. 29 to de- closer relations between colleges liver, three leap year babies, land industry DIESEL, STUDY PROMOTED ITHACA. N. Y. (U.R) The col lese , of engineering of Cornell university and the Diesel Engine Manufacturers' association will conduct a week-long diesel engi-j neering symposium here this sum- j mer. The program, scheduled for Aug. 30 to Sept 4, is intended to ' promote more effective instruc-1 tion in diesel engineering and; Gordon, estranged wife of a city health department physician and mother of a five-year-old girl. had died in an "abortion clinic" and that her body was thrown into the ditch from an automobile to hide evidence of an illegal operation. op-eration. The body was found in a lonely section early yesterday by a Toronto Tor-onto taxi driver. There were no marks of violence on it. According to police. Mrs, 3e4 don had $500 in her purse. They said the money was given her by a Leaside, Ont, man lor an oper- PLASTICS and PLASTIC SUPPLIES Wholes le or Retail t S MANUFACTURING lit Eut S South Pbona 231 S-W . This London housewife carries her protest against the high cost of living right to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. With her child and her sign tagging along, she drops a letter addressed to Cripps in the letter-box at No. 11 Downing Street She asks lower prices in the forthcoming British budget, which Cripps is preparing. California Drought Threat May Affect Nation's Food Supply By JAMES C. ANDERSON United Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. (U.R) A drought is threatening California, the nation's richest farm state in gross income and producer of a larger share of the fruits and vegetables eaten in the United States. which estimated one-third of the state's grain crop this year probably prob-ably will be lost. Meat production will suffer and a shortage of fresh milk was predicted. A million tons of hay, normally held in reserve re-serve at this time of year, already has been used for feed. At the moment, the effect of the Economists and farm experts drought has been confined large- are gravely concernea lesi me two-year-old dry cycle continues unabated through the remainder of the normally wet spring season seas-on and again next winter. They fear the drought will have a definite effect on prices and the supply of at least 17 items of food in which California is a major national producer. This is the fourth consecutive year in which rainfall in' the state has been below normal. In the first two years of the cycle rainfall rain-fall was only slightly under aver- ly to approximately 9,000,000 con sumers inside the state in the expected ex-pected boost in milk and meat prices. California does not produce pro-duce enough of either commodity to export to other states. But if the drought continues through the 1948-49 wet season from November through February, Febru-ary, housewives from Bango, Me., to Portland. Ore., will feel the effect ef-fect in higher prices for such foods as lettuce, grapes, avocados, olives, oranges, prunes, walnuts, artichockes, spinach, tomatoes, age, but in tne last two years uiand many canned fruits and veg has been as low as 60 per cent ofjetables. normal. The 1947-48 rainfall total, in fact, is the fourth lowest J isi , ii ; (NEA TeUphoto) ' The Navy announced at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, that a task force under command of Adm. Richard j. Conolly (above) will visit Norway Nor-way late this month. Led by a heavy aircraft carrier, the force will be on what is termed an "informal "in-formal visit" although observers say it will also constitute a show of power to dissuade USSR from attempting to put pressure on Norway. in the 51-year history of weather bureau records. WATER RESERVES USED So far, it has meant little to California's $300,000,000 vegetable vege-table and melon crops or its" fruit and nut industry, which returned growers $431,180,000 in 1947. California Cal-ifornia primarily is an irrigated state and farmers simply pumped more water from the underground under-ground .reserve and drew more heavily upon water piled up behind be-hind the network of dams and reservoirs. This year, an almost normal yield is expected in those irrigated irri-gated crops. But the drain on the water reserve has been staggering. stagger-ing. One more dry year and there won't be enough water left to irrigate ir-rigate everything. The drought already has struck those farmers producing field crops a $614,000,000 industry. Cattle and sheep raisers were hit first, since rainfall provides the only moisture for the pasture lands. In the San Joaquin valley, the heart of the drought area in the northern and central sections of the state, as much as J70 per cent of the grass crop was lost thu year. Louis Arburua, of the California Cal-ifornia Farm Bureau Marketing Association, estimated that cost cattle and sheep raisers in the valley about $35,000,000. CATTLE SHIPPED OUT An estimated 200,000 head of cattle already have been shipped to other Far Western states or marketed early because the parched grass lands could not support sup-port them. At least 50,000 head of sheep 'have been farmed out to neighboring states. Many producers pro-ducers have had to import feed from as far away as Wisconsin and Kansas to nurture their remaining re-maining livestock. The seriousness of the situation situa-tion was reflected in a report by the state crop reporting service, Teachers May Smoke, School Board Rules ATLANTA, Ga. 0J.PJ The At lanta school department is con vinced that Its not what you say, it s the way that you say it. School officials are now re vis ing the application form for I teachers which used to ask simp ly: "Do you smoke?" That question, ques-tion, they figure, did not always inspire a correct answer because it implied that if an applicant smoked, he was out of luck. 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