Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton EW YORK one of this depart ments favorite monarchs has long been jeff davis king of mhd hoboes hobles of america who now leads his following of hoboes hobles will nearly in in pay honorato honor to a plan to erect a bard of home national memorial howard to john j 1 home payne fayne author of home sweet there is perhaps a bit of personal pride involved as your correspondent helped establish the dynasty that was many years ago when a series of hobo stories in the chicago tribune elevated dr ben reitman to the kingship dr reitman however was a backslider turning at first furtively and then brazenly to regular work went into politics in chicago 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 county calif and if I 1 remember correctly mr london reproached him as one recreant to his meals ideals and jn in danger of succumbing to industry and ambition until a few years ago I 1 used to get letters from the hoboes hobles of america on letter letterheads 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 tiley they had to do with some misunderstanding in the organization over the lingering king jeff Is sovereignty of dr elected to reitman but that r rf is au all cleared up job for life I 1 now mr davis bavis rule is undisputed and his name appears on the letterhead letter head as jungle judge king of the hoboes hobles elected lor for life mr davis now fifty three years old has covered his first miles on the road and plans to start his bis second million on an organizing trip in europe early this year his father james davis who died in cincinnati cin e a year ago at the age of ninety nin rati had been vaguely identified as a newspaper man working on several cincinnati newspapers but with no news as to what department young jeff born in cincinnati started rambling when he was thirteen and now fetches fetched up with a round forty years on the raad bald and genial working harder at the hobo trade than do most men on their regular jobs he campaigns for better migrating and loafing conditions 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 various states he denounces the fuzzy tails in his following ho boes who talk a 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 foe abdul wahab the dese desert rt rudy val italy wins win lee crooning for radio duel italy the sheiks in in desert according to news accounts tuned out britaina Brit ains broadcast which included news of a death sentence for an arab found in possession of arms and tuned in italis cheerful crooner I 1 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 precautions to rig them against britaina Brit ains thirty one meter wavelength sir john C W reith grim purposeful and incidentally scottish director general of the british broadcasting corporation led off tor for england paced by big ben and god save the F king ing abdul countered with just a little oasis for two and aldebaran and you in arabic it was no contest after that say the news reports sir johns last appearance was at edwards 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 t thinks h inks they ought fajt lord of air A to 0 o want and keeps BBC ably get away out in in front with ithe has as been lambasted lam basted as a dictas dictator or all over the empire but has ridden through labor and conservative serva tive administrations and keeps the B B C steadily advancing he is the most inaccessible man in england forty seven seen years old the son of an old line scotch clergyman trained in engineering at the royal college of glasgow successful as aa an engineer in london be fore becoming general al manager ol of the B BC in i 1922 his salary is a year C news features service |