Farmers Can't Get Seized Jap Machinery

LOS ANGELES, April 27.--(AP)--"Buck passing" is given by Frank M. Kramer as the reason impounded Japanese-owned farm machinery is not being released to California farmers.

"For 11 months I have been urging that this equipment be released to our farmers, but to date we've been unable to get it," the State Department of Agriculture supervising inspector told a Senate military-affairs subcommittee yesterday. "It's simply a case of buck passing."

Kramer said farmers are decreasing their acreage because of manpower and farm-equipment shortages while the Japanese-owned machinery lies idle and rusts.