The Omaha guide., 1936-09-12
BY n TAYLOR
international Negro Press

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all tho sophisticated New Workers
were down to the boat to give him
a big hand went down the
bay on the newspaper boat with
the rest of the scribes and board
ed the Queen Mary in mid-stream
It was like getting into the
Presidential Mansion to get on
that boat. The Owens family,
Governor Davey of Ohio, Bill Ro-
binson, a group from Cleveland,
Jack Demr1sey and a host of other
celebrities were on the boat.
Helen Hayes, the movie star
was on the boat, but one could only
hear Owens, Owens, Owens "A
Gordon of New York's finest met
Owens and his party at the gang
plank and kept the surging crowds
from overwhelming the brown he
ro....-.Mrs. Jesse Owens was all
smiles and looked the picture OF
fashion Jesseis father seemed
bewildered, he just couldn't get ac-
customed to all the crowds, Mo-
Their Owens took the whole affair
like a veteran.
But | am running ahead of the
story. The scribes around Jesse
when they boarded the Queen Mary
and Of course began to ply the US
ual questions $500. Jesse outsmarted
the boys in some of the answers
he gave. When questioned about
Hitler Jesse said, Gentlemen,
it would be bad taste for me to
criticise the rational hero of Ger
many" He continued that Mr..
Bundage was a very fine man."
1t Just about floored every news
paper man...~-.They expected some
thing quite different..-...The poor
scribes did not have anything to
write about, and that's bad for any
writer.
The police escorted the Owens
party in a mad dash to Harlem
where they rested at the apartment
of the inimitable Bill Robinson to
wait for the train to Cleveland
Jesse told the boys that he was
glad to be back in the U. S..
That he gave his best for the red
white and blue...-...And that he
made up in the '36 Olympics for
having missed the team in '32........
When he was pressed about the
professional offers he had been re-
ceiving, he told the press that he
intended to return TO college and
continue his education. Despite
the fact that his entrance into the
professional ranks is still the burn
ing question, Owens said nothing
that shed any light on the question.
Larry Snyder, the silent man
behind the throne lowered over
Jesse like a hen over her chicks 49,.
Bill Robinson took charge of the
affair and well-you know it went
We'll back to the Queen Mary
.... Yours truly enjoyed the lux
ury of a stroll along the docks
and finally wandered down to the
bar...--.In good old continental
fashion, I draped myself IN the
bar and ordered a tom collins.
The limey bartender went to town
and I didn't know that a tom col
Inns could taste so good 1t cost
me fifty cents, guess III have to
make it on hot dogs for awhile now
to catch up.
Cleveland turned out in grand
style to welcome its favorite son
The welcome lasted two and a
half hours. Jesse spoke six min
utes- The longest time he has
ever spoken before.Now he's
home taking a much needed rest.
Youth must be served Lloyd
Scott came through to take the ma
tional tournament setting Harmon
Fitch back on his heels..Nat
Jackson and Ora Washington
couldn't stave all the charges of
the challengers and went down to
defeat.
Ran across Peacock and Ben
Johnson and of course we talked,
the boys are hanging up their
shoes until the winter season in
the boards - Peacock says that
football is out this fall.