DEWEY CALLS LOUIS "CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS" FOLLOWS PLAN AGAINST WALCOTT KNOCKS OUT CHALLENGER; PACKED WITH DRAMA, SUSPENSE AND AGONY By I. Willis Cole Leaving the Yankee Stadium in New York last Friday night, where we witnessed the gripping, tragic climax to the stout-hearted attempt of Jersey Joe Walcott to wrest the world's heavyweight championship from Joe Louis, anciently named by and referred to by sports writers and experts as "The Brown Bomber," the "Dark Destroyer," and since Friday night, "the champion of champions"; we were faced with the first metropolitan newspaper fight "extra" to reach the streets, the Daily News, which giving the detailed account of the now historic battle said of the final round, the eleventh, as follows: "Louis' trainers were giving him a pep talk as he came out. Louis scored with light left to side of head. Walcott missed hard right to face. Walcott landed three left jabs to Louis' face. Louis landed light left. Louis started to crowd Walcott and he backed away. Walcott landed two rights to face and made Louis back up. Louis caught Walcott with hard right to jaw. Louis landed four rights to jaw. Walcott was staggered by right. Louis caught him with right against ropes and Louis threw right to jaw and Walcott went forward with his hands over his head. Louis went after him with four more rights to jaw and Walcott went to canvas on his right side. He tried to struggle upright and was on one knee and as he tried to rise, Fullam counted nine, ten, and out. Time: 2:56. And that was the sum-total, the core, the Louis-Walcott championship fight in a nutshell. That does not mean that the fight from the first to the eleventh round was not a good fight--far from it. As some of the writers would have it, and at the same time attempt to pay the highest tribute to Joe Louis, it was not by far the sorriest heavyweight championship fight in history. As "Bill" Corum Saw It "Bill" Corum, radio announcer and our expert writer for the New York Journal-American, who comparing the Louis-Walcott fight of last Friday night with the Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight championship fight of years past, said in part as follows: ". . . I must wonder, when I hear folks talking about how dull Friday night's fight between the Joes and their meeting in the Garden were, how much the rosy mists of memory have colored the two championship battles between Jack and Gene. "Turn back to the round-by-round stories of those two ten-round decision affairs sometime and see for yourself if they were two-man 'Gettysburgs.' "In the entire twenty rounds there was just one real knockdown. Throw out the hullabaloo created by it and the ensuing 'long count,' and the fact that the surprising Tunney twice outpointed the supposedly invincible Man Mauler, what would you have left? "Not too much in the way of slashing, thrilling fights, I assure you. Except, of course, the importance of the stake involved and the fact that it was Dempsey and Tunney who were fighting. "Which was much the same with these two last fights that (Continued on page 4)
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STATE ALCOHOL CONTROL MEN SWOOP DOWN ON TWO MORE PLACES Field agents of the State Alcohol Control Board swooped down on two more places suspected of violating state liquor laws Thursday, June 24. The surprise raid conducted against the 1901 Club at 19th and Walnut, and a place known as "Belgium's" resulted in a fine and a possible citation in one case, and filing away of the other. Both were heard in the court of Magistrate Rollin Gibbs early Tuesday morning. Sidney Craighead, 25, 1901 W. Walnut, bartender, was fined $100 and costs on the charge of possessing tax-paid liquor on un-licensed premises. The case against James Lyle, 51, 737 W. St. Catherine, alias "Belgium", was filed away. He had been charged with possession of special federal tax stamp 2750 without corresponding state license. Intention to conduct more raids in the near future was expressed by one field agent who refused use of his name. "We have not begun to raid yet," he said. The ominous warning to liquor law violators came as an aftermath to a story that the State by its raiding vigor has started a factional war between city and county officials here, brought on by protest of men paying for protection from raids.
Fights Liquor Store
MINISTER FIGHTS LIQUOR STORE PROTESTS ISSUANCE OF LICENSE NEAR CHURCH; TALK DENIED Ingenuity of modern science won the first round of a fight between a liquor store dealer and a minister who protested issuance of liquor license near his church last week. A recorded telephone conversation between two men, identified as the agent of the liquor dispenser, Max Wolff, 1435 W. Madison, and Bishop W. S. Saunders, pastor of the Baptised Pentacostal Church, within 200 feet of the liquor premises, was construed by city alcohol administrator Lawrence Duncan as being sufficient evidence of an agreement. He granted renewal on the basis of the recording. The law requires a written consent from church authorities for the sale of intoxicants within 200 feet of a church or religious institution. In applying for Wolff's renewal of beer and liquor license, Ollie James Cohen, the dealer's attorney produced a record of a conversation allegedly between Bishop Saunders and himself. Cohen asked if a hundred dollar check should be made out personally--or to the church. The other voice, reportedly that of the Bishop, replied the check should not be made out to the church. Saunders denied part of the conversation (Continued on Page 4)
WEST KENTUCKY TRAINING SCHOOL TO GRADUATE LARGEST CLASS IN HISTORY Paducah, July 1.-West Kentucky Vocational Training School will close the 1947-48 school year with the largest graduating class in its history. According to announcement, this week, by Acting President M. J. Sleet, Commencement Exercises for the 92 graduates will be held Friday night, July 16, at 8 o'clock in the New Auditorium-Gymnasium. Dr. R. B. Atwood, President of Kentucky State College, Frankfort, will deliver the Commencement Address. Dr. Atwood, a native of Hickman, Ky., is a graduate of Fisk, Iowa State College and the University of Chicago. He has had many years' experience as an educator, the last 18 of which have been at Kentucky State College. Dr. Atwood has just returned from Europe, where he and several other prominent American citizens made a survey of conditions in Europe countries. In view of the foregoing facts, obviously, for the members of the graduating classes, but for the citizens of Paducah and other places as well. The baccalaureate Services will be held Sun- (Continued on page 4)
CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS [Photo] Joe Louis Who after his dicisive and glorious triumph in Yankee Stadium last Friday night, announced his retirement--and was named by the Governor of New York and others, the champion of champions.
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REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARERS [Photo] New York's Governor Tom Dewey, right and California's Governor Earl Warren, who were nominated at the recent National Republican Convention, as candidates for President and Vice President, respectively, subject to the will of the American people in the November election.
Joe Louis Mobbed And Car Stripped In Harlem And The Champ Liked It
Seek Data On Early Life Of Dr. Carver
One quart of milk weighs 2.12 pounds. To make one pounds of butter 9.77 quarts of milk are required. One pound of cheese requires 4.56 quarts of milk.
DETAINING WOMAN, BURGLARY, CHARGED Six charges of burglary and one of detaining a woman were lodged against a nineteen year old East End youth by police this week. While no loot has been recovered, officers expressed belief that the mysterious identity of the East End Phantom has been cleared with the arrest of James Willis Thomas, 926 Marshal. The case broke, according to police, when the accused man allegedly broke into the home of a woman listed on police records as Edna Mae McCarty, 455 South Hancock. She told police that a Negro came into the house and placed his hand over her mouth and cautioned her not to scream--she did scream and police caught Thomas after a chase. Others listed by police as having been burglarized by Thomas are Arnold Fust, 511 E. Market, Herschell Runner, 227 E. Jacob; Della Dudley, 509 E. Walnut; Mary Jo Arterberry, 519 E. Walnut and Louis Kram, 609 South Jackson.
Reaffirms Non-Partison Policy
NAACP Political Stand Unchanged
Says Selection of Dewey Does Not Alter Position; Platform Hit
MAN IS KILLED, WOMAN WOUNDED An argument between two men allegedly growing out of an enmity incurred when a young woman transferred her affections from one to the other, resulted in the death of the older man an hospitalization for the woman early Tuesday evening. The dead man, identified by police as Edward Green, 52, 1137 Eddy, died at General Hospital from multiple stab wounds of the chest which penetrated his liver, according to the coroner's report. The woman, listed on hospital records as Georgia Howard, address not given, is near death in General as results of a severe beating. Police seek Earl Phillips, 29, 1314 R. West Chestnut, as the slayer-beater. Homicide Detective St. Joseph Riebel said the argument between the two men started when Green objected to Phillips beating the girl. After passing a few words, Phillips turned on Green with a knife, the detective related. The 29-year old man was identified as a former boy-friend of the Howard woman who is believed to have "quit" him for the older man. The fatal stabbing brought to a close a week-end of an unusual number of malicious striking and stabbing charged on the police records. There were fourteen over the week-end.
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