Show AA NEWS THIS WEEK BY lemuel F parton NT TEW EW YORK one of this depart ments s favorite monarchs hast hag bong long been jeff davis king of tho th es of america who now leads his following of will w ii nearly 1000 1 in pay honor to a plan to erect a sard bard of ft home national memorial to j john y howard payne author of home sweet home come 11 there is perhaps a bit of personal pride involved as your correspond ent helped establish the dynasty that hat was many years ago when a series of hobo stories in the chicago tribune elevated dr ben reitman to 0 the kingship dr reitman however was a backslider turning at first furtively and then brazenly to irregular work went into politics in zhivago and became a cautious and solvent citizen too fat to ride the rods I 1 saw him last at the house of the late jack london in sonoma coun count ty calif and if I 1 remember correctly mr london reproached him as one recreant to his ideals and in danger of succumbing to industry and ambition until a few years ago I 1 used to get letters from the hoboes ox oi america on letterheads letter heads like those of any national bank carrying carryl carry ig g the names ames it 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 over the lingering king jeff re Is sovereignty of dr elected to reitman but that job tt f for life fis all cleared up now mr davis n rule is undisputed and his name appears on the letter head as jungle judge king of the hoboes elected for life mr davis now fifty three years vears old has covered his first 1 1000 miles on the road and plans to start his second million on an organizing trip in europe early this year his father james davis who died in cine Cinc mati a year ago at the age of arief ninety had been vaguely didenti fied lied as a newspaper man working on sever several al cincinnati newspapers but with no news as to what depart ment young jeff born in cincinnati started rambling ra 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 eions for his subjects he wants the railroads to establish 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 a lot but never toss anything into the jungle stew C correspondents pOR OR RESPONDENTS on the brit ish italian radio war front in arabia report a victory in the first engagement for abdul wahab the desert rudy val vail italy wins lee crooning for radio duel italy the sheiks according to news in in n desert accounts tuned out broadcast which in eluded 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 britons due to the fact that the former had supplied many of the radio sets and taken eions to rig them against britain s thirty one meter wavelength sir john C W reith grim pur and incidentally scottish director general of the british broadcasting corporation led off for england paced by big ben and f save the king abdul coun t berdt err with I 1 just a little oasis for tw and aldebaran and you in arabic it was no contest after that say the news reports sir john s last appearance was at edward s solemn valedictory the tall bald frosty mogul of british broadcasting lord of the empire air waves takes the microphone only when imperial interests demand it recently he said to 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 air to want and keeps B B C ably get away with it he has ont out in J front aront obaed been lambasted as a dictator all over the empire but has ridden through labor and con serva tive administrations and keeps the B B C steadily advance ins 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 ful as an engineer in london be fore becoming general manager of the B B C in 1322 1922 his salary is 35 a year si 0 consol dated news feature features service |