IN THE ARMY NOW
NO COMMERCIAL FIGHT FOR LOUIS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, May 30. The War Department indicated that Private Joe Louis will not be permitted to share in the proceeds of the heavyweight title 'fight this summer. MajorGeneral Surles, Director of Public Relations in the Army, declared that no authority had been given by anyone to assign Louis to a commercial fight. Louis previously believed he would be permitted a commercial fight since he gave: the purses in his last two .title fights to the army and Navy Relief Fund,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3
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92IN THE ARMY NOW Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 3
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