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CHI, ’5KEGEEFields Get 75 Each}Says Bottleneck BrokenTEXAS BOARDDEFERS EDITORIMEMBER QUITSSAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 11. (AND—When U. J. Andrews, 37-year-old editor of the San Antonio Register, was reclassified from 1A status and given a six-month deferment, a selective board member was so enraged he quit. Andrews, whose deferment was appealed to Washington by the Register's publisher. Valmo C. Bellinger, declared:“There Is a great scarcity of Negro journalists in this country, and they are needed to keep up Negro morale during wartime-” The draft board member, Ed. McClannahan, submitted his resignation, charging that ‘‘undue favorand discrimination were shown in the Washington move.”12, 1942NUMBER 41the commitment rate for whites of the same age group! The rate of Negro committments to FederalCHICAGO, Sept. 11. (ANP)—Seventy-five of 150 Negroes to be given basic aviation training by the Civil Aeronautics authority to prepare them to serve with the armywill be trained at the Coffey School of Aeronautics at Harlem airport,it was learned here last week. Theother 75 will be trained at Tuske-gee Institute, it was announced by Charles I. Stanton, acting Civil Aeronautics administrator.Miss Willa B Brown, pioneer Inthe field of air training for Negroes is co-ordinator of the civilian pilot training course at the school. She told reporters that the policy in regard to Negro pilot training is a partial victory “in freeing the bottleneck* which prevented the training of Negroes as pilots.”The program for Negroes was temporarily halted, she said, when . the army took over civilian pilot I training on July 1 and many civilian training schools were closed. Negro students had to qualify as aviation cadets, but their training was held up because of the limited facilities of Negro army training programs, she said.Quarters for housing the students who will begin training about Oct. 1, are being constructed now. and$60,000 worth of government equipment will be moved from the ground school at Wendell Phillips high school to the airport. Miss Brown said. The students at the Coffey school will receive upengraduation the same enlisted ratings granted other graduates-In Washington, Stanton denied that CAA ever had any bars against Negroes. The Civilian Pilot Training courses have graduated 558 Negroes, he said.In the courses to be instituted Oct. 1, Negroes will be taught as glider, transport and liason pilots, and for duty as instructors In the army’s primary flight schools.
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Indianapolis Recorder
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
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