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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03

NEW YORK.-One Of this depart
~ ment's favorite monarchS has
long been JEFF Davis, king of the
hoboes of America, who now leads
his following of
Hoboes VIII nearly 1,0oO,c coo If.
Pay Honor to a plan to erect a
Bard of Home lS''Jnsr INA iiirtn,U- go,Uard ,ai
Payne, author of Home, Sweet
Home"
There is perhaps bit Of personal
pride involved, as your correspond
ent helped establish the dynasty.
That was many years ago, when
series of hobo stories in the Chicago
Tribune elevated DR.. Ben Reitman
to the kingship. DR.. Reitman, how
ever, was backslider, turning at
first furtively and then brazenly to
regular work, went into politics in
Chicago and became cautious and
solvent citizen, too fat to ride the
rods.
saw him last at the house Of the
late Jack London, in Sonoma coun-
ty, Calf, and, if remember cor
rectly, Mr.. London reproached him
as one recreant to his ideals and
in danger of succunbing to industry
and ambition.
Until few years ago, I used to
get letters from the hoboes of
America, on letter-heads like those
Of any national bank, carrying the
names Of the Jungle judges"
"shacks" (organizers) and track
walkers" and supreme knights Of
the road"
They had to DO with some mis-
understanding in the organization
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03
King Jeff Is
Elected to
Job for Life


Job for Life IS all cleared up
rule is undisputed and his name ap-
pears on the letter-head as Jungle
Judge, King Of the Hoboes, elected
for Life"
Mr.. Davis, now fifty-three years
old, has covered his first 1000, 900
miles on the road, and plans to start
his second million on an organiz-
ing trip in Europe early this year.
His father, James Davis, who died
in Cincinnati year ago at the age
of ninety, had been vaguely identi-
fed as a newspaper man, working
on several Cincinnati newspapers,
but with no news as to what depart
ment.
Young JEFF, born in Cincinnati,
started rambling when he was thir-
teen and now fetches up with a
round forty years on the road. Bald
and genial. working harder at the
hobo trade than do most men on
their regular jobs, he campaigns for
better migrating and loafing condi-
tons for his subjects.
He wants the railroads to estab-
lish a one-cent-a-mile rate for box
car passengers. He says the plan
has worked fine in France. He
moves about the country, fighting
the bum blockades set up by va
rious states. He denounces the
''fuzzy-tails" in his following-ho-
boes who talk lot but never toss
anything into the jungle stew.
CORRESPONDENTS on the Brit
~ ish-Italian radio war front in
Arabia report victory in the first
engagement for Abdul Wahab, the
desert Rudy Val
italy WINS lee, grooming for
Radio Duel Italy. The sheiks.
in Desert "cooi oins W news
out Britain's broadcast, which in
cluded news of a death sentence
for an Arab found in possession of
arms, and tuned in Italy's cheerful
crooner.
The Italians also were one-up on
the BritoEs, due to the fact that
the former had supplied many of
the radio sets and taken precau-
tions to rig them against Britain'S
thirty-one-meter wavelength.
Sir John c. w. Reith, grim, pur-
poseful and, incidentally, Scottish.
director general of the British
Broadcasting corporation, led off
for England, paced by Big Ben and
God Save the King" Abdul coun-
tered with Just a Little Oasis for
Two" and "Aldebaran and You," in
Arabic. 1t was no contest after
that, say the news reports.
Sir Johns last appearance was at
Edwards solemn valedictory. The
tall. bald, frosty nogul of British
Broadcasting, lord Of the empire air
waves, takes the microphone only
when imperial interests demand it.
Recently he said: ITO set out to
give the public what it wants, as
the saying is, is a dangerous and
fallacious policy"
Those who know him say he will
go on giving the Arabs what he
thinks they ought
Lord OF AR to want, and prob
Keeps B.B.C. ably get away
Out in Front viii, with it. He has
a dictator all over the empire, but
has ridden through labor and con-
servative administrations and
keeps the B. B. c. steadily advanc-
ing.
He is the most inaccessible man
in England, forty-seven years old.
the son of an old-line Scotch clergy
man, trained in engineering at the
Royal College Of Glasgow, success
full as an engineer in London. be-
fore becoming general manager of
the B. B. c. in 1922. His salary is
$4,000 a year.
@ Consolidated Ne1ys Eaa@,,rn.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03

over the lingering
sovereignty of DR..
Reitman, but that
is all cleared up
now. Mr.. Davis
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03

CORRESPONDENTS on the Brit
~ ish-Italian radio war front in
Arabia report victory in the first
engagement for Abdul Wahab, the
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03

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Washington, d. C.-WNU Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-02-03
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
By lemuei r. Parton
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NEW YORK.-One Of this depart
~ ment's favorite monarchs has
long been JEFF Davis, king of the
hoboes of America, who now leads
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
By :Evie' Robert

both ends, reached for an old Blue Hen" match,
lit it by striking 1t on the seat of his pants and
then turned with the lighted cigarette in his
mouth, his thumbs through his suspenders, as If
to say: well, folks, here am, as big man as
any of you"
It would have done good to the hearts of Clay
Williams or Jim Hill or Fry Kehaya, because he'll
probably soon stop rolling his own, and will be
puying Camels, Luckes or Spuds like the rest Of
us do. Outside Of Brunswick Ca, we stopped at
little junction. On one side Of the train
noticed several Negroes rolling barrels of rosin
around a turpentine still, while on the other
side of the train some cows were munching the
long gray moss that grows on the big old Span
ish oaks and some old razorhack hogs we're eat
ing acorns and cracking them all over the lot.
At Jacksonville, just to be different, we got
off the train to walk up through the station.
There we saw farm display, with man ex-
planning the joys of Florida to travellers. One
old couple was asking where they could live
quietly and raise oranges, and grow old in the
sun.
Another sophisticated younger couple wanted
to know where they could find Charming sur.
roundings, good fishing excellent golf, horseback
riding-all for practically nothing" This had
the man Stumped.
One woman had two little kids with her who
had never before seen an alligator and had
never seen an orange on a branch, all Of which
you can see in the station at Jacksonville. After
ALL with apologies to California Florida Is q
great place. I'll take it any day.
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
Behind the News By Paul 1lallon

the conference. He enabled
the dictatorial underminers to
arouse Latin suspicious of an
American conquest. Again, they
say, democracy has hurt itself
with Straigntforwardness, while
the dictators continue their Sc.
cret practices.
It probably will not prove to
be important.
You may lay even money re-
firing Governor Murphy of
Michigan will be in the Federal
Administration som e where,
probably in the Attorney Gen.
erals chair.
An active inner campaign in
his behalf for the, Job has
aroused some friends of Solicitor
General Bob jackson, who think
he should have it.
80
Favored System Fails
NHOMAS CORCoRAN, the
l. one and only Senator with.
out a seat, Strolled into the
Morgenthau cloister with a
friend whose identity no one
would reveal. Newsmen. as
usual, went to the cloakroom,
looked into his hat. There they
found the initials, "W. j. c."
Searching through their men,
cries and Who's Who they could
discover no hint of who it might
be. They appealed to Morgen-
THAI, but he said the visit was
confidential.
Newsmen suspect dirty work
at the hatrack. They have an
idea that prominent men are
borrowing hats from obscure
friends before calling on the
Treasury Secretary.
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
In Opposite Directions

MIR. MORGENTHAU doesn't
Wk like it. Some Federal Re
serve members who were not in
on it do not like it. Securities
Exchange Chairman Douglas
does not like it, and further.
more he does not like the resent
ment shown by Federal Reserve
in the Giannini case. Maybe he
should have consulted Federal
Reserve before he acted in that
case, but he had his reasons.
Involved also, if not more so.
Is the Eccles spending policy
versus Morgenthau budget wor-
rying policy.
It all sounds very complicated
and it is; as are all personal
suuabbles among Government
officials pulling strenuously
their own opposing ways. But
it Is as real and earnest as life
itself under the re-deal.
Whatever comes ont of it prob
ably will not include Mr.. Eccles'
head. The odds, however, heav-
lily favor a Morgenthau policy
victory all along the line. (You
will remember he was the rosy
last time. The 1887 depression
caused Mr.. Roosevelt to switch
The Washington times., 1938-12-08

Just outside the jail walls some little boys were
repairing snowman, and were picking sides for
battle. AS the train pulled away, one of the
fellows in jail yelled out to the train: "You can
puff and snort today, but before long I'll be
riding you"
Outside of Columbia, s. c., we stopped to
change engines There were some little old
khacks and barns and houses all up and down
the tracks.
little chap-couldn't have been over seven
or eight years old-came out behind the barn
which backed directly up to the tracks. He very
carefully took out of the pocket of his overalls
o thin slip of paper, then reached in another
pocket and got out some tobacco: With his
back to the train he rolled the cigarette squeezed
The Washington times., 1938-12-08

(World Copyright, 1888, by King FeA-
lures Syndicate, Inc. All rights re-
served. Reproduction in full or in
part strictly prohibited)
A MOTHER ring-around-a-rosy
"A game is going on inside
about Federal bank controls. It
looks like Chairman Eccles of
Federal Reserve is going to be
the rosy this time.
Eccles appears to have au-
thored memo recommending a
change in the existing examina-
ton system, among other things.
That Is, it appears so to some Of
ficials here. but not all. Treas
ury Secretary Morgenthau said
at a press conference he had such
q memo, but Federal Reserve Of
ficials previously denied its ex-
istence. Mr.. Eccles probably
prepared it alone, without even
the knowledge of his publicity
adviser, and gave it to the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Morgenthau. At
any rate, guarded secret though
it is. it recommends abolition of
Mr.. Morgenthau's Bureau OF
Comptroller of Currency; work
of bank examinations to be di.
vided between FD1C and the
FRB. -, -:77=~- - e. : =
The Washington times., 1938-12-08

sad. If you just sit quietly
and watch, you can pick UP
q good deal of information and
certainly you can get an In
sight into the lives Of other
people.
For instance, I think it was
Just outside Of Raleigh, N. c.,
the train slowed up very much
and just off the tracks was a
big Jail. All the inmates were
looking out of the windows,
envious, poor devils, of us on
the train
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
Ewes Rib
PALM BEACH, Dec. Z

IT'S amusing how many things happen during
the course Of long train trip. Some of the
things make you laugh, while others make you
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
Undernainers at Work

TALES OF German-Italian un"
i derminlng at the Lima Con.
ference came here in official
diplomatic pouches before they
arrived press rate. These conf
Dental accounts confirmed the
later dispatches indicating the
Germans are trying to arouse
Latins against American pro-
tective measures.
Some officials think that, in
a way, Mr.. Roosevelt let down
his guard for this attack by an
nouncing his purpose of promot-
ing continental defense before
The Washington times., 1938-12-08
Not Casual at All

DOOSEVELT'S talk at Chapel
IL Hill may be interpreted as
just another speech. It sounded
that way. But not If you have
the proper official earphoneS.
The story he told about the
Georgia friend who came in to
chew over the tobacco and cot
ton situations, for example. was
not the off-hand allusion which
the casual text implied. Tobacco
and cotton referenda are sched-
uled for December 10 and IA, re-
spectively. Agriculture Score
tary Wallace has BEEN making
a super-super effort to roll up
an impressive majority in favor
of restrictive quotas.
Whole speech is regarded gen.
orally here as a carefully con-
ceived political document. re-
vealing the Presidents inten-
ton to goright on through with
the next Congress, with added
caution, therefore, more skill.
The Washington times., 1938-12-08

(world Copyright, 1888, by King Fea-
lures Syndicate, Inc. All rights re-
served. Reproduction in full or in
part strictly prohibited.)
Evening star., 1938-11-06

through the heat and stencil of the city her
face an expressionless mask.
Sahm Seuh the man who had only three
fingers on his right hand, and whose eyes were
cunning moving as smoothly moist in their
sockets as the tongue of snake. had noticed
her going about her work and of late he had
become exceedingly soictous She was not
looking we'll Was she perhaps sick? She no
longer laughed, or paused to gossip in loud
tones with the slave girls in the early morning
hours before daylight Was it perhaps that the
money she was making was not sufficient. -.
Sahm Seuhs oily eyes slithcred expressively.
Perhaps that too could be remedied.
Because she had said nothing. because she
had stared at him with eyes that saw not and
ears that heard not, her soul numbed by an
anguish which made her as one who walks in
sleep at the hour of the rat, Sahm Seuh had
grown bold.
Did she need money? Lots of money gold
money? Not the paper money of China, but
gold which would enable her to be independent?
AHii- -ahh 1t was simple. So simple as only the
striking of a match. And Sahm Scuh Tipped his
wrist in quick motion and scratched a match
into flame in order to illustrate his meaning He
had gone then, leaving her to think the matter
over.
Evening star., 1938-11-06

which brought renewed heat to a city alrea
stepped in its own emanatlons; city of Sllt
winged mosquitoes oppressive. sweterlng heat
incorporated perspiration, and those 0dOr
which cling to China as an aura.
Sahm Seuh stood before her
That gold?" he asked. 'Do you wish it"
Il would strike match" she said, ton
lessly, her face devoid of expression. ,
Meet me. Sahm Seuh said. at the house
on Sky Horse Alley where three candles burn
Open the door and climb the stairs The time
tonight at the last minute of the hour of tls.
dog" And So as one in a daze, Leung Fab
turned down Sky Horse Alley and shuifled
along with leaden feet, her eyes utterly without
expression, set in a face of wood
Night found her turning into the Alley
the Sky Horse.
In house on the left girl was pSuSir
a metallic sounding Chinese harp. Ten step
back of her bean peddler raised his voice in
long. bowling 'O-u-W-W-N P-O-OO-O." Fifty fee /
ahead, family sought to scatter evil spirits b
flinging lighted tirecrackers from the balcony
They were scattered broadcast. in an impartia
distribution. If few tirccraCkers perchanCiI
flew across to the balconies of the adOinn,
houses and rolled in to explode under beds on
chairs. who was there to object? Certainly u. !
Evening star., 1938-11-06

The devils eggs began to fall from the sky
in a screaming hail. Anti aircraft guns roared
reply. Machine guns sputtered away hyster
ically. Through all the turmoil the Japanese
flyers went calmly about their business of mur-
der ignoring the frenzied nervous attempts of
an unprepared city to make some semblance of
defense.
With fierce mother instinct, Leung Fab had
held her baby to her breast shielding it with
her frail body. as though interposing layer of
flesh and bone would be of any avail against
this 'civized" warfare which rained down
from the skies.
The earth had rocked with series of detona
tons. and then suddenly Leung Fab had been
surrounded by terrific noise, by splintered
tmbers dust and debris.
When she had wiped her eyes and looked at
the little morsel of humanity in her arms. she
had screamed in terrified anguish
No one had known of Leung Fah's girl Be
cause she had no husband. she had kept her
offspring as secret; and because she slept in
one of the poorest sections OF the city, where
people are as numerous and as transient as bats
in a cave she had been able to maintain her
secret Since no one had known of her child, no
one had known of her loss Night after night
she had gone about her work, moving stolidly
Evening star., 1938-11-06

-IIE Love of Loyalty Road in Canton is q
wide thoroughare cut ruthlessy through
d the congested district in order to modern
lZe the city. Occasional side streets feed the
traffic of automobiles and rickshas into it. but
back of these streets one enters the truly con-
gested areas. where people live like sardines in
a tin.
The Street OF the Wild Chicken is so wide
that one may travel down it in ricksha. But
within a hundred feet of the intersection OF
The Street of the Wild Chicken and Love of
Loyalty Road, one comes to 7ien Nah Hons
which, being translated, means The Alley of
the Sky Horse. And in Tien Afah Hong there
is no room for even rcksha traffic. Two
pedestrians wearing wide -brimmed hats must
needs tilt their heads as they meet SO that the
brims will not scrape as the wearers pass each
other shoulder to shoulder
Houses on each side of TieM Nah Hong, with
balconies and windows abutting directly upon
The Alley of the Sky Horse, give but little
opportunity for privacy. The lives of neighbors
are laid bare with an intimacy of detail which
would be nconceivable in less congested COM
munty or more occidental atmosphere At
night the peddlers of bean cakes, walking
through The Sky Horse Alley, beat little drums
to attract attention, and shout their wares with
cry which is like the howlof a wolf.
Leung Fab walked down The Sky Horse Alley
with downcast eyes, as befitted modest
woman of the cOo)ie class. Her face was utterly
without expression. Not even the shrewdest
student of human nature could have told from
her outward appearance the thoughts which
were seething within her breast
Leung Fab had casped to her breast morsel
of humanity which represented all of life's hap
piness, warm ragged bundle, child without
a father, a secret outlet for her mother love.
Then one night there had been scream of
sirens, panic stricken helter-skelter rush of
shouting inhabitants, and over all the oIninous,
steady roar of airplane engines, hideous
undertone of sound which mounted until it
became as the hum of million metallic bees
1t is easy enough to advocate fleeing to
place of safety, but the narrow roads of Canton
admit of no swift handling of crowds And
there are no places of safety. Moreover the
Temperament of the Chinese makes it difficult
to carry out any semblanCe of an air defense
program Death in one form or another is al
ways jeering at their elbows. Why dignity one
particular form of death by going to such great
lengths. so far as precautions are concerned
Evening star., 1938-11-06

That night as she move
through the narrow tho
Oughfares of the city h
mind brooded upon II
words of Sahm Seuh.
Canton is a sleepleSs cit
of noise. At times, durlr
the summer months. thei
comes a slight ebb of al
tivlty during the first fe'
hours after midnight, bu
it is an ebb which is barel
perCeptlble to ocCident
ears. In the large Chine:
cities people sleep in shift
because there is nc
enough room to aCCor.
modate them all ator
time in houses. Those wi
are off shift roam Il
streets, and becau.
Chinese ears are impe
vlous to noise. Just
Chinese nOStrilS are IL
mune to smells. the hu
bub of COnverSatiO
continues unabated.
Daylight was dawnin
a murky, humid dav
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-08-19
Milwaukee Youth
Visiting Duluth
, is Drowned
White Man Rescues Girl

Duluth.-Thomas Fox, Jr., Of
Milwaukee, Wis, was drowned in
the st. Louis River Sunday, He
and his sister Elaine were rowing
in a homemade boat between the
Interstate Bridge and the Superior
side of the st. Louis River Channel
when choppy waves suddenly upset
the craft. The boy sank immedi-
ately in 80 feet of water, while
his sister cried for help and chung
to the overturned boat. She was
rescued by Alex Uskynk, white, of
40 Main Street, Superior.
Search was resumed Monday for
the boys body. Elaine and Thomas
Fox, Jr., are the children of Mr..
Thomas Fox, Sr. Mr.. Fox is a
musician and has charge of the or
chestra at the Ritz Mite Club. The
children came to Superior from
Milwaukee to visit with their father
and had been staying at the home
of Mrs. Helen Brisco of Superior.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-08-19
Duluth News
BY Mrs. ZilIah M. Waters

Kenneth Richardson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. B. Richardson, 724
E. 7th St., returned to New York
City where he is in the dress de-
signing business, after a three
weeks visit with his parents.
Mrs. Anna Lee johnson has been
indisposed for a few days with the
flu. She was confined to her bed,
but is able to be up and around at
this writing.
DR.. and Mrs. White Of Chicago
and Mrs. Lottie Fowler and Mr..
Antoine were in the city over the
weekend. They were the house
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Merry
of Kenwood. DR.. and Mrs. White
are old friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Merry.
Mr.. George Cook, who had been
confined to his bed with double
pneumonia, left St. Mary's hospital
for his home last week.
Rev. Goodman is up and around.
He started Revival at Calvary Bap-
fist Church Sunday and will con-
tinue during the week.
Miss Dorothy Thomas of Gary
New Duluth is visiting in Mime
apolis with Elder and Mrs. Berry
(Flora Stalling).
Miss Susan Avant, daughter of
Mrs. Collins of Minneapolis, is in
the city visiting a few days with
Mrs. Anna Lee johnson.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-08-19
CHIcAGoANs HERE

Miss Nell Matilda Richie, teach
er of music at Du Sable High
school, Chicago, motored here last
week with her mother, Mrs. Mar
gle Richie, and friend, Mrs. John
Landers, all of Chicago, to visit
three aunts, Mrs. Ell Myra Lyons
and Mrs. Lena Lane of 76 Hyland
Ave. N, and Mrs. Minnie Pateman,
818 Aldrich Ave. NJ, where they
are house guests.
During her visit in Minneapolis
Miss Richie was the guest of Mrs.
w. D. Brown, Mrs. Paul Curry,
Miss Dorothy Hall and Mrs. De
Velma Strong.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-08-19
Community Good
Will Services
at Wayman

Special Goodwill Services will be
held at Wayman A. M. E. Church
throughout the week of August
21st to 18th. The purpose of these
services is to bring together all
church folk in a greater spiritual
bond than now exists.
Starting the week off will be the
fourth quarterly meeting held at
500 P. M. Sunday, August 21st.
Rev. C. F. Stewart of st. Peter A.
M. E. Church will deliver the mes
sage. His choir, assisted by the
Wayman choir, will contribute the
music. At the morning and eve
ming services of that day, Rev. E.
A. London will deliver the mes
sages. The Junior Choir will rem
der the music for the morning SER
vice.
The program for the week will
be as follows: Rev. H. C. Bolts
of Zion Baptist Church, Monday
night, Aug. 22nd; Rev. T. C. Nell
son of Camphor Memorial Church,
Tuesday evening, Aug. 23rd; Rev.
L. W. Harris of Pilgrim Baptist
Church, Wednesday evening, Aug.
Oath; Rev. H. Reddick, of St. James
A. M. E. Church, Minneapolis,
Thursday evening, Aug. 25th; Rev.
w. A. Warrington, of Bethesda
Baptist Church, Friday evening,
Aug. 26th. There will be no SER
vices on Saturday evening.
Services will begin promptly at
500 P. M. each evening. Each
minister will have his choir pres
ent. The public is invited to attend
the services to hear the inspira-
tional messages and music.
To end this week of spiritual
feasting, Sunday afternoon, Aug.
18th, Rev. G. L. Hayden of st.
James A. M. E. Church, st. Paul,
will deliver the message at spe-
cial service. The choir of that
church will provide the music at
that time.