Convention

In St. Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual "greatest and best" convention of the Hoboes of America. In a grimy hall in the flophouse district, 100 delegates heard greetings from Ohio's Representative Herbert S. ("Brother Bo") Bigelow, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing who sent a $10 contribution, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Unanimously the hoboes voted to lobby for benches and cots in railroad boxcars and a special 1-c--a-mile hobo rail rate, applauded King Davis when he thumped for enforcement of the 14th Amendment "so that a hobo can go anywhere in this country without being pinched for being broke." Keynoted he: "We're not spittoon philosophers. . . . We got 815,000 American members now. . . . Half have got jobs and are making dough. A hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to. He don't hit the smoke like floaters do, and when he drinks he drinks good liquor. Columbus was a water hobo. He said to Isabella: 'Queeny, old gal, you'll have to stake me with a handout. . . .' " Picked as convention city for 1938: Altoona, Pa.

Wenatchee

In Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker."

Retired

In Manhattan, Thomas Alexander, 40, retired Negro sailor, was sentenced to from 20 to 40 years in Sing Sing after he had confessed attacking an average of five Harlem women a week for the last three years.

Proof

In Vienna, School Teacher Waldemar Boden was sentenced to two months in jail for forcing his pupils to swallow half-inch iron nails as "proof of their loyalty" to him.

Purchase

In Vandalia, Ill., a missing steel bridge over the Kaskaskia River was found in a junkyard, whither it had been carted after dismantling by a dealer who said he bought it from a nearby farmer.

Collins

In Connellsville, Pa., State Police discovered that John Lindley Collins, 39, had stumbled into a sunken grave, smothered to death when he grabbed a 300-lb. tombstone which toppled on to his chest.

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