Welter-Weight Title

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 13

Welter-Weight Title

ST. LOUIS. June 6 The world welter-weight boxing championship will be decided to-night when Virgil Akins meets another American. Vince Martinez, in the 15-round match of an elimination tournament Akins, a 30-year-old boxer who has come into his own in recent months After years of erratic performance, is the two-to-one on favourite. Carmen Basilio vacated the title last September.

When the demonstration took, place, it attracted comparatively little attention.

About 500 people, mostly young, turned up and all but a small handful left again within two hours, after shouting “Lejeune should be hanged.’’ Mr Max Lejeune, Minister for the Sahara, is a Socialist and has been criticised by many French settlers in Algiers as a representative of the “old” political system.

He is with General de Gaulle in Algeria, but has not been prominent during the visit. Meanwhile, Mr Leon Delbecque, Vice-President of the Committee of Public Safety for All Algeria and the Sahara, said in Algiers in a broadcast speech that Committees of Public Safety in France should organise themselves, and group around a \ national committee.

Colonel Charles Lacheroy, head of the information service in Algiers, said at a press conference that no-one had asked for the Algerian Safety Committees to disappear.

“Everyone seems happy with our collaboration.” he said. In Paris today, the Conservative newspaper “Le Figaro” expressed concern at the form being taken by the “Public Safety’’ movement, and said it continued to spread.

“Many Public Safety Committee spokesmen have expressed their intention of helping General de Gaulle in his work of renovation.

“The Prime Minister should say clearly whether or not he approves of this zeal,” it said.