The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-11-24
Yakima, Wash.
Republican Leader
Visits In 70 States
Bu c. Arthur Shepherd

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of Yakima and a leader in civic
affairs, is interviewed by your re-
porter:
After Al days on the highway
and living in hotels 1 am glad to
be back in Yakima with my fam
lily and many friends. On my trip
1 covered more than 10000 miles
through 30 states, namely, Ore
gon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New
Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
York, Massachusetts, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Maryland, Delaware, Michigan,
District of Columbia, Virginia,
West Virginia, Wyoming, and back
into Washington.
while in Detroit I called on
John Roxborough, manager of Joe
Louis, and received an autograph
ed picture of the Worlds heavy
weight champion. Bob Robinson,
secretary of Roxborough and LOU
is, took time out from his work
to show me about Detroit, where
| made many business contacts.
I'm Boston 1 called on the pub
Usher of the Boston Chronicle, who
extended me very cordial well
come to the paper. From Boston
to Portland, Maine, where it was
found business, in regard to the
textile industry, has been impair
ed due to labor conditions.
Next through Bar Harbor and
the Cadillac Mountains, across the
Presidential range to New Hamp-
shire, to st. John, Berry, Vermont,
which is in the Connecticut Val
ley. From there to Greenwich,
Mass, back to Boston.
From Boston south to Rhode
Island where we visited Plymouth
Rock and made tour of Cape
Cod. Spending the evening in New
Bedford, we arose to journey to
New Haven. There we put in a
day around the campus of Yale
College.
Passing through Albany, our
party continued on to New York
City. I spent nine days in New
York and was escorted about the
metropolis by DR.. E. L. Booker,
formerly of this city, who is en-
joying a fine business. Among the
many interesting sights shown me
was the famous Great White Way.
I also visited at the home of DIR.
Booker's co-partner in the dental
profession, DR.. Walters, who re-
sides in West Chester County, New
York. A most congenial person.
1 also CHANGED to meet P. M. H.
Savory, M. D., and owner of the
New York Amsterdam, a paper
which has a wider circulation than
the renowned Pittsburgh Courier
in that territory and is New York's
lagrest newspaper. I visited the
New York Worlds Fair and was
most impressed with the exhibit of
the World of Tomorrow.
From New York to Newark,
New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, for briefer stops.
"In Washington, d. c., stop
ped to call on DR.. J. Emmett Scott
who is publicity director of the Re-
publican National Headquarters,
who was found working diligently
for the Republican party. He was
much interested in the Republicans
of this state. While in Washing
ton met Mr.. Ralph Matthews,
editor and manager of the Wash
ington Afro-American This pa
per is one of the four owned by
the Baltimore Afro-A American pub
| Usher.
During my stay in Washington
I formed the acquaintance of M.
]. Chism of Philadelphia, who is a
civil engineer and field secretary
of the National Negro Press As
ISOLATION of Philadelphia. He took
time off from his duties to accom-
pany me on sightseeing trip of
the Nations capital. I called at
the Sixth Avenue office of Walter
White, secretary of the NAACP,
who was confined to his home with
a cold.
81 also met in D. c., David
Lawrence, columnist, well-known
by his writings in papers through
out the country.
Owing to the delay in New
York, the southern part of our
trip, which was to carry us as far
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