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Show An American Tragedy Bos No Longer Ride Rods MINNEAPOLIS. The war has erased almost completely another familiar figure from the American scene hobos who "ride the rods." Since Pearl Harbor most of the men who rode freight trains for free and weren't bound for any place in particular, have gone to work in war plants, says Joseph Gillis, president presi-dent of the National Council of Railway Rail-way Patrolmen's Union (AFL). Combating railroad thieves will be one of the main problems confronting confront-ing railway patrolmen in the postwar post-war period, Gillis told the organization's organiza-tion's annual convention. |