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Race and Place Newspapers
Reflecter
Location: Charlottesville, VirginiaArticle Transcripts
Date of Publication: September 21, 1935 (Saturday)
Frequency: Weekly
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Joe Louis Sues to Obtain Cash Due From Bouts in D.C.
Washington - Suit to recover his share of the proceeds for appearing at a boxing match held at Griffith Stadium during the Elks' convention last month, was filed by Joe Louis, Detroit's Brown Bomber, in the District Supreme Court here Friday.
In his bill the boxer asks an accounting and seeks an injunction, naming the following defendants:
J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of Elks; the Lincoln Athletic Club, Walter Johnson, Joseph Maxwell, Douglass Smith, operator of the District Athletic Association; the Washington Baseball Club, Inc., and the Washington Ball Park.
Promised 221/2 P.C.
In his bill, Louis states that by oral agreement, through his manager, Julian Black, he arranged for personal appearances during the Elks' convention whereby he was promised 22 1/2 per cent of the net proceeds from the fights at Griffith Stadium on the night of August 27.
Wilson was to get 22 1/2 per cent, the Lincoln Athletic Club, 45 per cent, and Johnson, Maxwell and Smith, 10 per cent.
The Washington Baseball Club, according to the suit, was to sell all tickets, pay expenses, and then distribute the profits. Gross proceedings amounted to $8,849.70 and expenses were $2,140.95, leaving a balance of $6,708.85.
The boxing commission was paid five per cent of $465.50, the Washington Baseball Club, fifteen per cent or $1,327.45 for the use of the park; $182 expenses at a ball park for ticket-takers watchmen, ticket sellers, ushers, and miscellaneous items; $100 to Joe Turner for use of his ring; $31.50 deductions from boxers' purses unpaid for licenses to the boxing commission, and $34.50 deducted for 138 passes given for window card displays at a value of twenty-five cents each.
There were 1,460 fight seats sold at a price of eighty cents. There were 4,919 sold at $1.10, 961 sold at $1.65, and 719 at $2.20. The Federal Government took $896.65 tax.
Through Michael F. Keough, white attorney, Louis asks for an order restraining the Washington Baseball Club from turning over its collections to the District Boxing Commission, as threatened, and requests an auditor to determine his share of the money.
The fighters who have not been paid are Lem Samuels, Knockout Clark, Meyer Rowan and Billy Eley.
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A detailed account of Joe Louis' injunction against several Washington organizations for denying him his fee for apperance at certain events.
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Negroes Ignore Blast Threats
A detailed account about a crew of Negro rail workers who continued their job at the Western Railway despite threats of bombing from white miners.Despite threats by white miners to blow up their railroad car homes, twenty-five Negro laborers went to work upon a spur track which the Norfolk and Western railway is laying near Grundy.
Sheriff J.H. Goff, of Buchanan Co., placed a guard around the construction crew after receiving protests against the use of the Negro laborers.
Governor Peery today had recieved no request from the sheriff or any other local official for state aid in handling the situation.
It was explained at the offices of the Norfolk and Western at Roanoke that the Negro track laying crew was used because there were not available in the county sufficient workers who knew how to tamp a tie or drive a spike as well as the regular crew.
A delegation of white miners said last night that they expected to blow up the eleven-car work train, but action was deferred pending further parleys today. Meanwhile, the sheriff placed a guard around the crew.
"I am prepared for any contingency and believe it will not be necessary to ask the governor for aid of the militia," Sheriff Goff said.
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Why Do Men Teach God Gave Men an Immortal Soul?Mr. John Edwards, Woodridge, Va. - God fore knew that the ecclesiastical systems, catholic and protestant, in the name of Christ would be over-reached by the devil and used for his purposes as a part of his organization through His prophet Jeremiah. He stated: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then are thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me, for though you teach in my name your iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. I love strangers and after them will I go taking sides with the world. These systems have gone from God. Jeremiah 2:21-25. No man should teach the people any thing that can not be found in the Bible, man having an immortal soul can not be found in the Bible. Jehovah alone has immortality. First Timothy 6:1 6. That thou keep this commandment without spot unrebukeable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why would men teach that we have immortal souls when it is not true? God said the soul that sins shall die. God calls Himself a soul and said He is soul hates sin. Psalms 11:15.
Resurrection of the dead means an awakening out of death and standing up again in perfect life. The resurrection of Jesus was up to that time the greatest demonstration of God's power ever made manifest to man. It was written concerning Jesus, As for me I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness. Psalms 17:15. For thou will not leave my soul in hell, the grave. What is man that liveth and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the grave? Psalms 89:48. For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not any thing, neither have they anymore a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9:5-10.
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A contribution by John Edwards of Woodridge, Virginia, asserting that "No man should teach the people anything that cannot be found in the bible."
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Va.Union Expects Large Enrollment
Virginia Union University opened Thursday for the enrollment of students in the thirty-seventh annual session. From the number of applications received during the summer and the steady rush of pre-opening requests, it is estimated that the first year class will have 175 students and may possibly reach the 200 mark.
Officials of the University report it is likely that the dormitories will be filled to capacity for the first time in over five years.
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A short report on the projected rise in enrollment at Virginia Union University.
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Nazi Prejudice Against Jews Is Like Dixie's
NEW YORK - Dispatches from Germany during the last week indicated that Jews are being subjected to discriminations similar to those practiced agains the colored people in the Southern states of the United States.
A decree just issued by Bernhard Rust, Nazi minister of culture, orders that after 1936 "complete racial segregation of German pupils in all schools must be enforced."
But, whereas any person with a drop of colored blood is considered a colored person in the Southern states, Germans who have one quarter of Jewish blood will not be barred from the Nazi schools. The rule will be strictly enforced against whole Jews and half Jews.
Restrictions are also set up against Jewish doctors serving Germans. Posters in Munich warn women not to let Jewish doctors treat them. German lawyers who defend Jews will be barred from practice. Jewish children have been barred from the public schools.
In direct contrast to the German regulations is one from Russia, where all prejudice based on race has been outlawed. Hereafter, in Russia, there is to be no discrimination in the schools whatever. For a time, the children of the enemy classes of the present regime were restricted. The bars have now been lifted. In Moscow alone seventy four new large schools were built last year.
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An article that compares the legalized segregation of Jews and Germans under Nazi rule to Jim Crowism in Southern America. The author gives Russia,which outlawed all segregation based on race, as a counter example.
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Louis-Baer Fight Has Struck Fancy of Boxing Fans
NEW YORK, Russell J. Cowans - The fleeting days of arduous labor in a training camp will soon be just so much water under the bridge, and the two gladiators who are scheduled to mix in the battle at Yankee Stadium on the evening of September 24, will be stalking in for the kill.
Not since the Dempsey-Tunney battle of Long Count has interest been stirred in fistic circles. The rallying of the cauliflower followers on New York for the big doings has already started, and ere the tow men climb through the ropes on Tuesday night, more than seventy thousand wild-eyed fans will be seated in Yankee Stadium.
While the price went to even money in the betting which as been reported, the main point of speculation among the scribes and fans assembled, is just how long the battle will last. AS it is expected to be a brawl with a bar-room aspect attached, those w ise in the ring craft are predicting that it will not go the limit.
The advance sale tickets up to Thursday had passed the $600,000 mark and Promoter Mike Jacobs was predicting a million dollar gate, a record gate for fights since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927.
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Rare sports coverage by Russell J. Cowans concerning the Louis-Baer fight that took place in Yankee Stadium on Sept. 24, 1935.
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U. of Va. Ponders Girl's Application
Richmond, Va. - Miss Alice Carlotta Jackson, daughter of a druggist in this city, has received a notice from Dean J. C. Metcalf of the department of graduate studies at the University of Virginia that her application for admission to the graduate school has been referred to the board of visitors, the governing body of the university, for final decision.
Miss Jackson is a graduate of Virginia Union University and has studied at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She wishes to pursue advanced studies in French. No provision is made by the State of Virginia for graduate work in any subject for colored students.
Daily papers in Virginia, almost without exception, have called the Jackson case at the University of Virginia a "blow at amicable race relations."
They do not deny that the colored student is entitled legally to have the State provide professional and graduate training, but they claim the colored student ought not to "force" the State by bringing embarrassing legal suits.
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A report concerning Alice C. Jackson's suit for admission against the University of Virginia.The case was refered to The Board of Visitors, the university's governing body, and condemed in local white publications as a "blow to amicable race relations."
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