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the signals.Isr EllenArthurit., wonlivisiontion of n Iinli-illiants.Mil rian heat ley»f Mrs.\t (’lass Opens Monday.Albert if. Losche. chief warden for District 12. who presided an nounced that, through co-operation of the Board of Park Commissioners. an office for the two districts had been opened sit the J. T. V.HilP Community Center. The nextclass for the districts will openMonday. Virgil Quinn is chief warden for District to.Judge Dewcv F. Myers of theCriminal Court administered theoath to the graduating wardens.and Maj. Herbert F. Fletcher, thecity chief air-raid warden, distrib uted the certificates of appoint -ineiit and the equipment.MOVE TO SAVEFLYING SCHOOLAT CHICA60IP) —Geor-Thurs-Xegroegrega-eorgia/lent inStates-incroushad re-ing byyes, in-lie jimm andml tile? samestategin. be state’s restau-ces.WASHINGTON. July 31. (ANP) An appeal was made to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to save the last remaining Negro school for civilian pilot training located at Chicago. The request for assurance that the school would not he closed was sent by U. S. Rep. Raymond S. McKeough (Dem., Chicago).The congressman also asked that the war secretary express favorable remarks on the proposition that every facility be extended to young Negroes to assure them an equal opportunity to continue their air training. This would enable them to contribute to the nation’swar needs, McKeough said.“I am sure it is your attitude, as it is, of course, min wrote Me-Rough” that every possible contribution should be made by our government to co-operate to thefullest degree in aiding everyone,and especially the young Negroes, who as members of a race have contributed so much and so willingly to tlie defense of their country, and thus insure that no im-Crawford, John Daugherty, Ernest Dix. Chas. Edmunds, Paul Johnson. Lowell Jones, William Lee. John Mansfield, Herman March, Oscar Orr. Frederic Ransom. John Shelton. Floyd Stone, John Terry, Franklin Thompson, Robt. Turner, George Veney. W. T. Wilhite, Jesse Woods, Benjamin Woodson.Mesdames Ada Abrams, Irene Adair. Ethel Byrdsong. Helen Carson, Daisy Cash. Ida M. Dubinion, Marion Hill. ©Patrice Jackson. Myrtle Joiner. lvalue B. Jones, Geneva King. Josephine Lipscomb, Nevoline Ridley, Lorena Snorden,Thelma Taliferro. Annabell Terry,Martha Vaughn, Mary Young, MayYouree, Virginia H. White, Blanche Woods. • * *• • •PASTORS TOLDNO BIAS MEANTAT ARMY HDQTRS.IIn response to a letter written last Thursday and signed bv Rev. John A. Alexander. Rev. O. A. Calhoun and Rev. R. D. Alexander racial discrimination at the government depot at the State Fair Grounds was denied by Col. F. D. Lynch of the Army Air Forces. The ministers told the officer that benches at or near the employment office were marked “Colored Men” and “Colored Women.”Col. Lynch said that the benches in use were old ones from the parks and that some were marked colored.“It is my belief that the juxtaposition was accidental since the arrangement was not the one intended by this Headquarters and is not the arrangement which I observed today (July 24). To avoid any possibility of accidental offense being given any American citizen, I have given instruction that the designations lie painted out.” Col. Lynch in a letter stated to the ministers.pediment he allowed to deny them1 flioli* Hirht tn sorvp thpli* rniintrvCivilian Pilot Training program. The experiment was so successr.. iA 1 A.
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Indianapolis Recorder
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 01, 1942
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