JOE LOUIS TO GO INTO POLITICS
Will he Back Wallace ? (Rec 10.50) NEW YORK, April 12. Joe Louis, the boxer, announced to-dav that he would, “go into politics,” after his world heavyweight championship bout with Joe Walcott on June 23, and he would campaign for a presidential candidate.. Louis returned to New York from London to-day aboard the Queen Elizabeth.
He would not say which of the presidential candidates he would support.
“I don’t know whether I will join Mr Henrv Wallace’s Party. I am goinc- to study all of the candidates b-fnre deciding which one tn back ”
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Grey River Argus, 14 April 1948, Page 5
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