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Promoting Is Louis' Idea
Vacates Championship For
Big Time Deal; Plan Walcott
Charles Bout for Crown
BY LIIIX OVERSEA
CHICAGO. (ANP). The idea of entering the promo
tional field was Joe Louis’ alone, it was revealed here by his
attorney, Truman K. Gibson, Jr. As retired heavyweight
champion of the world Louis leaves behind the greatest
record ever achieved by a champion boxer. His becoming
a promoter will breed the biggest fight for the control of
boxing by several groups loaded with money.
His co-partners are James D.
Norris, one of,the world’s leading
grain operators and co-owner of
the Chicago stadium, and Arthur
M. Wirtz,. partner with Sonja
Heine and her ice review, and
owner of large real estate proper
ties. Wirtz and Norris also own
45 percent interest in Madison
Square Garden and interests in
large stadiums in Detroit, St.
Louis, and Indianapolis.
Louis, Wirth, and Norris each
own a third share in their new
organization, the IBC, Internation
al Boxing club, which also has ties
with leading foreign groups.
Although he had planned to be
a promoter two months ago, his
plans were kept secret until all
arrangements had been com
pleted. Attorney Gibson is cred
ited with guiding the char pion
toward the desirable setup.
The first fight to be promoted
by IBC will be the Ezzard
Charles-Jersey Joe Walcott bout
for Louis’ vacated heavyweight
crown. The winner of this bout
has agreed to meet either Gus
Lesnevich or Lee Savold within
90 days after the match.
Louis said that both Walcott and
Charles have signed two year
agreements to fight exclusively for
IBC. The new champion will de
fend his title every six months.
The new IBC program has been
approved by the NBA (National
Boxing association) commissioner
Abe J. Greene. Joe sent his let
ter of retirement to Greene dated
March 1, 1949.
Louis is entering the promotion
game against the advice of the
man who made him and whom he
made, Mike Jacobs of the Twen
tieth Century Sporting club. He
told Jacobs of his decision two
days before his announced re
tirement.
“Uncle Mike,” said of the Louis
retirement, “It looks like I have
to Tetire, too.”
The Brown Bomber’s entrance
into this phase of boxing may
break Jacobs’ monopoly over the
game gained through Louis. The
latter’s firm was caught off bal
ance because it had figured on
signing the Bomber for a June ti
tle defense. What it will do now
depends on Jacobs.
The International Boxing club’s
biggest competitors will be the
Tournament of Champions, Inc.,
which had already cut into the
Jacobs monopoly. This firm,
headed by David Charney, is
Eastern Stars
Plan Tea for
Sunday, Mar. 20
Amaranth^ Chapter No. 3,
Order of Eastern Star, will have
a silver tea at the home of Mrs.
J. Bonds, 427 No. 24th street, on
Sunday, March 20 from 4 to 6
p. m. The public is invited, ac
cording to Miss Frances Lewis,
Worthy Matron.
—Courtesy The Lincoln Journal.
JOE LOUIS.
backed by the Columbia Broad
casting system, Music Corporation
of America, and Allied Syndicates.
Jack Solomons, the British
promoter, also hopes to land the
big fights. He controls two cham
pions, Freddie Mills, the 175
pound king, and Rinty Monaghan,
flyweight titlist. He has a fish
and bookmaking fortune behind
him.
Southern Schools
| Contract For 200
Meharry Berths
ATLANTA. (ANP). Contract
forms, under which various south
ern states will contribute to the
education of medical and dental
students, were drawn up and ap
proved by representatives of 10
southern colleges meeting here
last Feb. 26. Presiding at the
meeting, attended by educators
from participating states, was Dr.
W. T. Sanger, president of the
Medical college of Virginia, at
Richmond.
The contract forms provide that
Meharry Medical college, Nash
ville, will take 200 Negro medical
and dental students from Ga.,
S. C., Fla., La., Md., Miss., Ark.,
N. C., Okl., Tenn., Ala., Tex. and
Va., receiving in turn $1,500 for
each student accepted.
Georgia has stipulated it will
contribute $24,000 a year for the
next two school years to Meharry,
tvhich will take 16 such students
from the state. The legislature has
already set aside the $48,000 for
this purpose.
The state will contribute $15,000
to schools accepting 10 other den
tal students from the state this
fall. Emory university will take
20 medical and 70 dental students.;
Name Negro to
Gary School Board
GARY, Ind. (ANP). Mayor Eu
gene Swartz announced Friday
the appointment of the Rev. J.
Claude Allen as a member of the
Gary school board. This is the
first time in the history of the
city that a colored member of the
board has been named.
Student NAACP
Meets to Vote
Fate of Rules
The college chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People met
Tuesday, March 15 at the “Norris”
house, to consider changes sug
gested by the University of Ne
braska faculty committee on Stu
dent Organization before that
group would complete its consid
eration of the NAACP as a cam
pus organization.
Main issues discussed included
the suggestion of the faculty com
mittee that the NAACP forsake
title and ties with the National
Association in order that it might
be more closely supervised by the
school. No other national organi
zation of the Nebraska campus
has been so challenged recently
although it is common for na
tional offices to exercise some con
trol of local chapters. Also con
sidered was the provision which
requires half of annual dues of
one dollar to be sent to the na
tional headquarters.
Speakers on the program were
Eugene Berman and Charles
Goolsby who talked on why
there should be a campus organi
zation of NAACP.
The constitution for the college
NAACP had been previously re
viewed by the Student Council
and approved before being sent to
the Faculty Senate group which
must also approve all student or
ganizations.
Rutgers Student
Council Condemns
Bias on Campus
NEW BRUNSWICK. (ANP).
Rutgers university student coun
cil in a memorandum presented
the university board and adminis
tration last week, condemned
racial bias in fraternities.
The student council asked that
any organization which did not
admit Negroes or Jews or had any
bars against race, color or creed,
be barred from the university
campus.
The officials were further asked
to state their own positions on
the matter.
Little Red School House, African Style
Among topics now being studied by the U.N. Trusteeship Coun
cil at Lake Success is the first report from one of its own regular
Mission to areas under U.N. Trusteeship system. The report con
cerns Ruanda-Urundi and Tanganyika and covers all phases of na
tive life, including health, economics, social welfare and schools
(above). (ANF).
Job Opportunity Campaign To Be
Sponsored At Urban League Friday
By Alfred Grice
A vocational opportunity pro
gram is being sponsored Friday,
March 18, at the Urban League
beginning at 7:30 p. m. The pro
gram will consist of conferences
with high school students con
cerning the vocation they plan to
choose, in addition to a general
program for students and their
parents.
Students will be familiarized
with their chosen fields by lec
tures, demonstrations, films and
At YWCA Confab
MRS. CARTER WESLEY
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MRS. CARTER WESLEY of
Houston, Tojcas, was chairman of
the credentials committee of the
18th national convention of the
Young Women’s Christian Asso
ciations of the U. S.. which met
in San Francisco from March 7
to 14. Plans for world peace and
understanding through organiza
tional work were discussed at the
convention.
Postal Employes
Get Promotions
Mr. Roland Young, employed
for the past several years in the
post office maintenance depart
ment, has recently been up
graded and is now relief eleva
tor operator.
Mr. Ernest Cruder also re
ceived a promotion from the
maintenance department to mail
handler.
conferences. The ultimate pur
pose of the program is to enable
the youth of Lincoln to make
their just and due contribution
to America’s onward march and
to her industry’s full utilization
of their skills and human re
sources regardless of race, religion
or color.
Certificates of Recognition
from the National Urban
League will be awarded to three
local persons. Urban League staff
members said that their names
would not be revealed until Fri
day, however.
Among persons who will speak
briefly on their occupations' or
professions will be Miss Katie
Faulkner and Joseph Ishakawa,
U. of N. art department; Mrs.
Helen Randol, U.S. Employment
service; Mrs. Dorothy Glenn, leg
islative clerical pool; Mrs. Frances
Greene and Mrs. Mary Thelmon,
See Job Opportunity, Page 4.
Noted Medics
Attend National
Cancer Meet
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By Lewis O. Swingler, Editor,
The Memphis World
MEMPHIS. (ANP). Three out
standing leaders in the field of
medicine, one internationally
noted for his research in the de
velopment of blood plasma, at
tended the
three-day Na
tional Cancer
conference last
week in Mem
phi s. Sessions
were held at
the Peabody
hotel Friday
thru Sunday of
last week un
der auspices of Mr. Swingler
the American Cancer Society and
the National Cancer Institute of
the U. S. Public Health Service.
Physicians who were present
at the meeting included Dr.
Charles Richard Drew, medical
director of Freedmen’s Hospital,
Washington, D. C., and distin
guished for having developed
blood banks during the last war;
Dr. Robert S. Jason, vice dean
of the medical college at Howard,
and director of cancer research
there; and Dr. W. H. Sinkler,
medical director of Homer G.
Phillips hospital in St. Louis, Mo.
Several other prominent medics
were invited to the conference, one
of the first major meetings to ever
be held on cancer. They were Dr.
George W. Hilliard, assistant pro
fessor of surgery, Meharry Med
ical college, Nashville; Dr. John
Johnson, professor of medicine at
Howard, and Dr. Burke Syphax,
director of tumor clinic at How
ard; and Dr. John Morehead of
the Virgin Islands.
The conference brought no new
facts that would reveal what
causes cancer and the delegates
left with many of their old gen
eral definitions of “sick cells,” or
“upset io the general function of
the body.”
There was general agreement
that a more intensified education
al program would and should be
carried out in order to make the
patient himself aware of early
symptoms of cancer. Once the
patient is able to detect these
symptoms, and call upon his doc
tor, cures can be effected in a
majority of cases. ,.
