The Case of Corporal Barrow

Last week Joe Louis began a series of exhibition boxing matches for the Army Emergency Relief Fund. He hopes they will serve as tune-ups for a September match--for his own benefit. But U.S. Army officials may decide against it.

One Army faction maintains that Corporal Joseph Barrow, world's heavyweight champion, is just another soldier and should fight for the Army only. Another group, grateful for the champion's patriotic gesture of donating his only 1942 prizefight earnings ($83,246) to Army & Navy relief funds instead of using the money to pay his 1941 income tax, feels that Louis should be given a chance to raise the $117,000 he owes the Government.

At week's end, the case of Corporal Barrow was put up to Secretary of War Stimson.

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