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T * ^ V* * w t mm m m m — m } -9-9 m m — t t «* v ^wall* children practically, penniless. He drove Uu-ough Yuma .valley he siiys. searchmg for.helpahd*met an d-'. hi red Lo n '. th e * AjiierieiLn'r side 'of the border.se\ren Mexican's to - complete ,’tiie ^harvest lie miVst-finish. immediately or;lose- / /; \ !•• • La t ti e * s ays li e wa s •. taken-'to ■ Yu mit- jail—by-f border -patrolmen,-kept in jail overnight despite;-*hiS; plea that he. be* allowed to put lip bond, was photographed and fingerprinted, released hi. the after* noon of. the;next dny.-dn;:?1,0QQ. cash-, bond, f61 1 owingJappearance• -before, the TJriited• State eommis-, sioner. Lattie • asserts the - Commissioner refused to accept as bond security: negotiable United States, war bonds.' ‘ / •William CL Seale,. farming 140 acres near Roll, says be had “practically all of his worldly possessions” tied up in his crop, cut and lying in the field when ttife military deprived him of all his work-.eta. .He swears he thought he way. performing a patriotic duty to hi3 country when he. employed Mexicans lie located in Yuma county to save his harvest. Scale put up Si ,000 bond when arrested. He hasfivu children, one boy an the navj--m the Pacific, another son with medical discharge following honorable service. Says Parmer Seale; “Looks like rve got more to worry about here at home on the farm from my government than my boy has to worry, about out there fighting Japs.”William C. Farar or the Wellton district says in his affidavit Lhut he had all of his 40 acres of aifal-fa and bemnida seed cut and ready on the ground for threshing when the workers for whom he had signed a government contract were taken from their jobs. He was arrested after he had hired six Mexicans at Gadsden, south oC Yuma. Farar was required to put up $250 bojid, as agnfnat the $1000 each of his neighbors hud to furnish. He has told friends the border patrolmen asked his opinion.. of the Roosevelt administration and that when he replied ho thought ft was all right, be was told that maybe his photograph token at the jail might not be miy good and that if it was bad it would be thrown away, He doesn't know that his conversation bud anything to do with the smaller amount of band required of him; Furur Iia.H two sons in the combat forces.But this hasn't soothed the farmers and it isn't helping th* administration with the farmer' vote oome November*
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Yuma Weekly Sun
Yuma, Arizona, US
Fri, Sep 01, 1944
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