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!I ouege i or luiure success.iiiiu ) i avuvi auu **% v^. ^in all a very enjoyable trip.Negroes Executed in RaceRiots Barred From Tabletr!iritAI ST IN, Aug. 22. Names ofi , ^j|v • ro -o!diers « \« i uted flt; participation in the Houston race riot during world war army camp ua* there, were barred today by a special committee from the original list of 5,164 names of Texans losing their lives in war service to be inscribed on a huge bronze tablet at Texas University Memorial Stadium.The committee, headed by Ciov-t rnor Moody, let a contract for construction of the tablet to Hugh Villa of San Antonio for $9,500.The fortieth legislature appropriated $10,000 for the purpose.The negroes 4‘did not lo.se their lives while in service of ?h* ir eoun*99try,” the committee found. lust how many Texas negr* soldiers were among the seventeen executed, could not be learned. The committee did not seem to know.“Fvery one who lost his or her life from any cause wh*U in the service was listed, Vdju ant lien.R. L. Robertson explained beforethe committee meeting to State Commander Walton D. H od of theAmerican I.egion, anothci member of the conference. The .hird member is Judge James W McClendon of the third court o* civil ap-peals, president of the Tk xas Fine | Arts Association,The tablet is to be completed in ten months.ConFro;lastiStheSchlt;ShitsionSohSProDaiSchlifirstIOS ita,datlt;Ctehaspo1-2
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Bryan Weekly Eagle
Bryan, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 23, 1928
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