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11/ ILL the coming Louis-Conr
’ ' fight set a new record for gate
receipts? There are more than two
or three close to the fight game
who don’t think so. It will be a
sellout, but the idea
is that the Yankee
i Stadium can’t
m -itch either Sol-
„ dier Field, Chicago,
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( tennial in Philadel
| ' N WM Here’s the low
down from a gate
receipts authority:
‘‘Mike Jacobs will
, charge $lOO for
Billy Conn ringside seats. He
will scale the crowd
down from that. I believe you will
find the attendance somewhere be
tween 90,000 and 100,000. My guess
would be around $2,500,000, slightly
below the second Tunney-Dempsey
meeting in Chicago which drew
$2,650,000.” Jacobs boasts that he
will gross three million dollars on
this fight.
This sent us prowling into the rec
ord book to check the leading money
records of the game. Here they are:
Tunney-Dempsey, Chicago, 1927
$2,650,000.
Dempsey - Tunney, Philadelphia,
1926 $1,895,723.
Dempsey-Carpcntier, Jersey City,
1921 $1,626,580.
Dempsey-Sharkey, New York,
1927 $1,083,529.
Dempsey-Firpo, New York, 1923
-$1,082,590.
Louis-Baer, New York, 1935
$948,352.
Louis-Schmeling, New York, 1938
—5940,096.
Tunncy-Heeney, New York, 1928
$691,014.
The first Louis-Conn fight in New
York, 1941, drew only $451,743.
There are two outstanding points in
this financial roundup. The first is
that Jack Dempsey figured in all
the shows over $1,000,000, five al
together. These five Dempsey fights
hauled in $8,338,422,
Dempsey altogether drew in some
thing like $10,000,000 at the gate, far
beyond any one else. It will also
be noted that Dempsey drew huge
amounts against four different oppo
nents—Tunney, Carpentier, Sharkey
and Firpo. Gene Tunney, with
Dempsey out of the picture fell from
$2,650,000 and $1,895,723 to $691,014
against Tom Heeney,
The Louis Cute Record
Joe Louis so far has been in 57
fights, but Joe has yet to know a
million dollar •gate. Here are his
five best financial contests:
Louis-Baer, New York, lf»ws—
Louis-Schmeling, New York. 1938
—5940,096.
Louis-Braddock, Chicago, 1937
$640,420.
Louis-Nova, New York, 1941
$583,821.
Louis-Schmeling, New York, 1936
—5547,372,
The five top Louis fights are near
ly five million dollars below the
Dempsey count for the same num
ber of contests. The Conn engage
ment will be the first time the Bomb
er moves into the million-dollar row?
and this time it is almost certain to
be better than the $2,000,000 row.
Whether it will reach $3,000,000 is
another guess.
So far Louis has drawn in ap
proximately $5,030,000 at the gate;
37 per cent of this amount is about
$1,850,000. F.ven if split evenly with
his managers this should have left
Joe over $900,000.
Taxes have taken a terrific toll
from this amount, but even so one
begins to wonder how Louis could
be in the red, so far as back debts
go, for over $200,000 to the govern
ment and Mike Jacobs.
If you owe $200,000 today and
make $2,000,000, your net will be I
ab*ut $lBO,OOO, and this still leaves
you $20,000 shy. The best Louis can
hope to collect in the Conn fight will
he something about $ 900,000 and
$1,000,000, so far as gate receipts go.
What he will get from motion pic
tures and television is still a guess.
But when they stop lopping off 90
or 92 per cent, the residue won’t be
any too ponderous to carry around. ]
Dempsey and Tunney had better
breaks. Tunney knocked over $900,-
000 or more for himself in 1927 at
Chicago, but the income tax at i
that time was light—approximately
10 or 12 per cent. Both Dempsey
and Tunney kept most of what they
made, although the Mauler split 50- j
50 with Jack Kearns before they
said ‘‘farewell forever.”
Those days now belong with the
dodo and the great auk. Maybe you
can make it today, but if you do—
try to keep it.
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Pennant Race Odds
What should the proper and cor
rect odds be on the two pennant
races just ahead? A few dozen
bookmakers gave me this:
“We’ve made the Cardinals even
money against the rest of the Na
tional league.
“The American league looks
about as wide open as the Kentucky
Derby. The Yankees and the Red
Sox should be slightly favored. We
rate them the better balanced
teams.
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MEMPHIS COTTON CARNIVAL TO REOPEN . . . Dedicated to the past, present and future of the cotton
industry, the Memphis Cotton carnival will resume this year after bowing out to the war effort since 1941.
Photograph shows previous carnival which will be outdone this year. The 1946 carnival will sparkle with a
series of parades depicting growth of the Mid-South, lively street dances and songfests. Exhibits will show
uses of cotton as well as new applications and artificial fibers and plastics.
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JAPANESE HOLD OPEN ELECTION ... An estimated 24,000,000 voters went to the polls in Japan to select
representatives for a new national house of representatives. Unheard of—Japanese women exercised their
right of suffrage. Typical of most voting places was the Votsuya ward office, Tokyo, where the women outnum
bered the men. Final results will not be known for some time, but Red element has admitted defeat.
UNCLE SAM’S OLDEST REGIMENT . , . The color guard of the
3rd regiment, oldest in the U, S. army, with some members wearing
the costumes of the Colonial wars, is shown during colorful ceremony
at Heidelberg, Germany, which marked the de-activation of the 7tii
army under Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes.
GREECE HOLDS ELECTION ... A voter of the future looks over
the array of posters put up by various parties and candidates to boost
their chance in the recent Greek elections. In contrast to the bitterness
of the pre-election campaign, the voting itself was quiet, with Com
munists and left wing groups fighting a losing battle to persuade
voters to boycott the election. Populist parly won.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
SOVIET AMBASSADOR . . , Niko
lai V, Novikov, present charge
d’affairs in Washington, who has
been named to replace Andrei A.
Gromyko as Soviet ambassador
to the United States. Gromyko
will remain with UNO.
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SEARCH OF TITLE . . . Billy
Conn, Pittsburgh Adonis, who
hopes to wrest the world’s heavy
weight boxing crown from Champ
ion Joe Louis, when they meet i-
New York in June.
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A 1956 Baby Speaks
(A polonies In 7 homo* Hood)
I remember, I remember
The house where I was horn—
The crevices and cracks through
which
The sun peeped in each morn—
The ceilings low, the shaky walls,
The fragile, lumpy floors,
The windows loose and noisy and
The tissue-paper doors!
I remember, I remember
The cockeyed shape and size—
The modernistic gadgets and
Contraptions not so wise;
The buttons all around the house
Which drove my folks berserk—
(We should have seen at sight, I
guess,
The darned things would not work), j
A button moved the pantry out
And put a guest room in;
We threw a darling little switch
And back it came agin!
The dining room could be made
small
Or medium or large
(And pressing lever Number Eight
Would make it a garage!)
I remember, I remember
My father’s sad, sad tale
Of how he was a veteran
And got the home by mail;
He ordered it by catalogue
And got a G.I. loan
For 10 times what the shack was
worth
But, still, it was his own!
I remember, I remember
My father always said,
“I wish I’d bought a rugged home—
Old-fashioned like instead,
j One thing,” he said, ‘‘a veteran
Inside his hat should paste.
‘When you go out to buy a home
I Don’t ever buy in haste.’ ”
Farewell to Beer
Beer is going to be so scarce this
summer that they may serve it in
punch glasses and demand a letter
of introduction.
It will be almost as hard to get
as during prohibition. And not any
easier to drink.
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In fact, some pessimists are pre
dicting that by Fourth of July it
will cost you 10 cents to hear “The
| Stein Song” from a juke box.
♦
| It’s all because of the grain that
i must be saved and sent to relieve
j the hungry in Europe. Nobody can
J complain when a thirst is sacrificed
to such a noble cause.
But it is going to ruin the Elks
j picnic, the City Hall outing, and the
I ball games between the single and
married men at Mulligan’s grove.
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And we predict that it will do
more to arouse the general public to
| a hatred of war than anything s*r*
far. A beer drinker is a beer drink
er, and he has never thought he
was asking too much from life.
It seems to us that life is going tt
seem extra drab for a while to the
fellow who didn't care for the hard
stuff and whose only plea was: “Put
a head on it, Steve!”
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Now that the government has
placed all those restrictions on new
building we await the black market
bungalow and the tie-in sales plan
which makes you also take a light- j
house, two cowsheds and a house'
boat.
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Headin', Writin’ and Drivin’.
Automobile associations and edu
cators are now starting a program
in high school to teach young peo
ple how to driv£ an auto and par
ticularly how to do so with a de
cent respect for others. “A main ob
jective will be the development of
a sportsmanlike attitude toward fel
low drivers,” it is announced. We
hope no instructor will get into bat
tle with another motorist en route
to and from the classroom.
♦
The idea is good, but there will
be no change in the situation on
American streets until sombeody
educates our police chiefs, traffic
heads and cops as a whole so that
they will give the pedestrian an oc
casional break.
♦
With the Want Ads.
“I want the following books:
‘Meet Mr. Hypen,’ ‘The Dawn of
I a Tomorrow,’ ‘The Brick Moon,’ ‘Xit
I and Roe,’ ‘The Silver City’; will
I swap iris and other perennials.
Mass. M9lB.”—Yankee magazine.
Would you give us a couple of
geraniums for “The Virginian” and
j “Quo Vadis”?
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INCENTIVE
“Is she pretty?”
“No.”
“Interesting?”
“Not especially.”
“What’re you marrying her for?”
“She comes of a family that has
a spare room.”
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SIGNS OF SPRING
An ant is here,
A worm is there. . . .
Haul out the swing
And garden chair!
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This newspaper,
through special arrangement with the
Washington Bureau of Western Newspapet
Union at 1616 Eye Street. N. W., Washing
ton, D. C., is able to bring readers this
weekly column on problems of the veteran
and serviceman and his family. Questions
may be addressed to the above Bureau and
they will be answered in a subsequent col
umn. No replies can be. made direct by
mail, but only in the column which will
appear in this newspaper regularly.
Credit for Army Schools
The Veterans’ administration is
| completing arrangements with high
schools, colleges and universities so
that veterans may be given aca-
J demic credit on diplomas and de
grees for study and technical ex
perience acquired during wartime
service in the armed forces.
For this purpose VA is using as
a guide a compendium of hundreds
of educational and training studies
given by the armed forces during
the war compiled by the American
Council on Education.
School authorities may consult
this guide and obtain the recom
mended evaluation of courses taken
from the U, S. Armed Forces insti
tute, or at one of the four overseas
Army Study centers, or in any of
the service technical schools, civil
affairs training courses, etc.
For instance, a veteran who stud
ied the history of philosophy at Biar
ritz American university in Biar-
I ritz, France, and is credited on his
j AGO form 100 with completion of
the course, would be given by the
guide’s recommendation, 2Vg hours
toward a baccalaureate degree. In
many instances sufficient credits
have been earned so that a veteran
forced to leave high school to enter
the service, finds he may receive
a high school diploma upon his re
j turn.
Questions and Answers
Q. My son received his discharge
in September and the first six
months in the army I didn’t get
my allotment or that for two minor
children, one 13 and the other 8. Is
there any way I can get this money?
—C. E. J., Halifax, N. C.
A. An allotment to parents is not
compulsory and you could get it
only if the amount was deducted
from your son’s pay. If the two
minor children are your son’s chil
dren they are entitled to the allot
ment which every serviceman is re
quired to pay his dependent family.
Suggest you write to Chief Finance
Officer, Allotment Branch, Adjutant
General’s office, War Department,
Washington, D. C., giving son’s
name, serial number and all other
data.
Q. My cousin was killed in the
Battle of the Bulge, December 25,
1944. I would like to know in what
cemetery and in what town and
country he is buried.—D. D., Potts
ville, Pa.
A. Write to the Office of the Quar
termaster General, Graves registra
tion, War .Department, Washington
25, D. C., giving the veteran’s name
and serial number.
Q. I have a son who was inducted
into the army in January, 1943, and
was discharged the following March,
1943. Is he entitled to mustering
out pay and the G.I. Bill benefits?—
Mrs. E. M. P., Decatur, Neb.
A. He is probably entitled to $2OO
mustering-out pay if he served 60
days in active service. He is not
entitled to G.I. benefits unless he
received a disability discharge, for
this requires 90 days active service.
Q. I am the mother of a boy killed
in action in 1944. He made me bene
ficiary for his insurance, i am 50
years old and get $52.80 monthly.
Will I ever get any more monthly,
| and how soon?—Mrs. H. G., Sharon,
Kan.
A. If the insurance is National
: Service Life and has not been con
verted there are two options.-Xor
payment: (a) If the beneficiary is
under 30 years of age at the date
of death of the insured, payments
are made in 240 equal monthly in
stallments at the rate of $5.51 for
each $l,OOO of insurance. However,
i the beneficiary may elect to have
| the insurance payable in monthly
| installments as a refund life income,
i payable for a definite period and
continuing throughout the life of the
first beneficiary and in event of
death of the first beneficiary the re
maining installments, if any, paid
to the second beneficiary or,
(b) If the beneficiary is 30 or
j more years of age payments are
i made in equal monthly installments
I throughout the remaining lifetime of
| such beneficiary with the proviso
that such monthly installments shall
be payable for 120 months certain.
If you are not satisfied with your
installments, suggest you write to
j Insurance Department, Veterans’
1 Administration, at your regional of
fice in Kansas City.
Q. My brother was killed in action
In Germany, leaving a wife and one
child. Several months ago her in
surance checks stopped coming. We
have written to find out why but
have been unable to do so. Can you
help us?—Mrs. J. H. R., Riddle,
i Ore.
A. The only suggestion I can make
is that you contact, personally if
possible, your nearest Veterans’ ad
ministration regional offices, at the
Veterans’ hospital at Portland, and
tell them the whole story and case
history.
