The king of the hobos is hitting the road again.
Joseph Leon Ben-Morris Lazar Cohen-Siegel Lazarowitz, who, for a three month interlude between travels, had stopped at his father’s home in Brooklyn, N. Y., and hibernated, is here en route to Saskatchewan, Canada. He will travel by way of the Shenandoah Valley.
Through the courtesy of the Jewish Community Center in this city, Lazarowitz has been given food and lodging and every comfort of home life. He is conferring studiously with Jewish leaders in an effort to determine ways and means of dethroning Germany’s Chancellor Hitler, against whom the king harbors a grudge.
“I wish I had him here,” said Lazarowitz firmly. “I’d teach him.”
Recently the hobo monarch published his views on the situation of the Jews in Germany. He expressed the conviction that America ought to declare war on the Third Reich. In this way, he said, the persecuted Jews would be avenged.
Short of build, with but one tooth in his mouth and swarthy of complexion, H. R. H. carries on his person letters from the secretaries of notables to whom he had addressed innumerable communications. They all say in substance that Lazarowitz was kind to write and that his “sentiments are to be called to the attention of …” etc.
The king recalled his experiences to an interested group of persons at the Center here who dined and wined him, wishing him in the main a rousing bon voyage. He said that he will spend the Shvuoth holidays in Wilkes-Barre.
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