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Show Schmeling Denied Furlough to Box BERLIN, Jan. 13 i;n Max Schmeling. former world heavyweight heavy-weight boxing champion, has been denied an army furlough to accept ac-cept a challenge by Heinx Larek, Viennese heavyweight, for the European Eu-ropean boxing championship. The reason given today was that the German fighter's "parachute trnining has reached the atage which demands extreme exertion and the mnet Intense concentration." concentra-tion." This was Interpreted in sports circles as meaning that extensive operations by nazi parachute troops are in the offing. |