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...mission. Traveling through peanut-rich Crisp County (150 miles south of Atlanta), he offered remaining farm hands $30 to $40 a week; hinted about girls around Newark whose boy friends had gone into the Army. After a week he had rounded up ten Negroes. He sent for Harold G. Weston, the company's personnel manager...
...last week Weston and the Negroes were standing on the station platform at Cordele, the county seat, ready to take the train. Along came the sheriff, arrested them all. Next day in court, surprised Harold Weston found he was charged with violating an old Georgia law (passed in 1877), which aims to stop out-State labor recruiting by making "emigrant agents" register and pay a $1,000 fee in each county where they operate...
...disciplinarian, felt it was high time to hand down a lesson. He had lost his patience: it was ridiculous, he said, for the Government to ask housewives to save fats when thousands of tons of cottonseed oil and peanut oil were lost for lack of farm hands. He sentenced Weston to a year on a chain gang, fined him $1,000. The imprisonment was stayed on condition that Weston leave the State within 24 hours, stay out for at least 18 months...
...Newark, Samuel Freedman was out raged: "The South is still fighting the Civil War." He called WPB, which sent a man to protest. Snapped Judge Gower: "WPB isn't running this court." Harold Weston thought it best to pay the fine and hurry home. The Negroes were released...
Robert T. Fisher '12, Harvard football coach from 1919 through 1922, died Tuesday morning at the Newton Hospital in his 54th year. En route to his home in Weston, he was stricken in Newtonville station Monday afternoon by a heart attack...