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WPA Students Receive Awards
Certificates of achievement and
special awards were presented to near
ly l,00(hNegro students enrolled in
WPA adult education classes in five
central Texas counties, as some 2,000
spectators gathered with the pupils to
attend the second annual interscholas
tic meet at the O. J. Thomas High
school, Cameron, Texas, on June 17.
To the upper left, Director W. Hu
ser, of the State Education Program
of the WPA, is pictured as he present
ed awards to contest winners and out
standing students at this event. Part
of the huge crowd filling the 0. J.
Thomas High school assembly hall is
shown to the upper right. In this pho
tograph may be seen contestants in the
spelling matches lined againt the wall.
The exhibition of home making and
the industrial arts and the crafts
revealed much ability on the part of
some of the 400 central Texas students
taking part in this interscholastic
meet. A view of sqme of their work in
the arts and crafts is lo the lower
left. 0. J. Thomas, president of the Ne
gro State Teachers’ Association and
principal of the 0. J. Thomas High
School is pictured to the lower right
as he congratulates an 86 year old wo
man who has been taujght to read and
write in a WPA class.
Because of the high calibre of
work of the 34 teachers in these Texas
WPA classess, Bishop College and
Wiley College at Marshall have an
nounced free summer tuition scholar
ships for outstanding Negro instruc
tors on the WPA education program.
—WPA Photos.
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REVEAL NEGRO SUP
PLIED BILBO “BACK
TO AFRICA” PLANS
Detroit Attorney Sponsors
Mensure
*****
Washington, D. C,, July 28 (By
Crump ftar ANP)—Although much
has heen said about thy bill re
cently introduced in tho U. S.
Senate by Senator Bilbo of Miss
issippi, wherein two million No, j
groes could be sent to Africa at
the expen o of the United States
Government and the Miss. S*na
ttor has been condemned for his |
action, it has boon revealed here ^
that Negros are behind the move- j
ment and that the Bilbo bill was ,
ijust a “freler," was instigated by |
a prominent Detroit lawyer, head
of the “Negro Nationalist Society." '
Othi-'T information has also been
revealed that a prominent man
belie ved to ho high up in tOvi Li
berian government, recently on £
visit to this country, has had a
hand in th*» “back to Africa”
movement.
Tho Negro Nationalist society
has been taking shape quietly in
Detroit for the past several years,
during which time various U. S.
Senators and Congressmen have
been approached on the subject,
among them Senator Vandenburg
of Michigan. An authoritative >
statement her0 has H. that the bill,
known as the Greater Liberian
act, a 27_pagd typwritten docu
ment, which has found favor with
Senator Bilbo, v/ho b studying it,
will be introduced in the nttxt ses
sion of congress.
Tins ‘‘Greater Liberian Act,”
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■which is tr^medous in scope, is
almost irorceivable, as it would
cost the American government
millions of dollars to oarrp it
through to completion. I.t calls
for Ndgro nationalization on Lands
on the eastern Coast of Afrira,
known as the Gold Coast, adja
cent to Liberia which are to b^
obtain'd through war debt nego
tiations and sponsored and fi
nanced by the govemmen of the
United States, the sam as Emg_
land has sponsored and backed
the nationalization of the Jews in
Palestine.
It calls for survepors and en
gineers, the building of highways,
railroads telephone and telegraph
system. The draining of lands,
building of homes, an army and
navy, and the guarantee of pro
tection by U. S. military forces
for a period of tCn years are like
wise included. This bill .which is
said to have been drawn up by
Ramon A. Martinez, a detroit at
torney, and which covers almost
every conceivable idea for the
complete rehabilitation of lands
and the nationalization of a race.
In a plea to the various senators
and congressmen for the consid.
eration of his plan Atty. Martinez
is reported to have written, ‘The
Negro must plan, create and work
for an achievement of his own
scheme of things, with all the in
struments of social, political and
economic power and control over
it, firmly clinched in his own
hands.
“The first and moat fundamen
tal instrument of life and power
that God gav© to man in land.
Prom the land he must feed; on
the land he mast build; into the
land he must dig for his wealth;
on the land he must develop© and
grow ; on the land he must fight
and organi e his own life, for the
race that does net control its own
life.”
2 Women Have Solo
Licenses; 1 A Private
Pilot’s
Washington July 20 (ANP)—
Two colored women have solo or
amateur flying licerBes and one
has a private pilot’s license, it
was revealed here last week. They
aro the only Negro women licens
ed as aviators in the nation.
Miss Dorothy Darby of Pon
piac. Mich., and Miss Lola Jones
of Chicago are those with solo or
amateur licensee. They require 10
hours of flying and do not permit
the holders to take up passengers.
Before the Joe Louis fight with
Max Schmeling, Miss Darby flew
with special greetings to the
Brown Bomber from Detroit.
Tho first and only colored avia
trix with a private pilot’s license
is Miss Willa iBrown of Chicago,
who rece'ved her license in Juno
At least 35 air hours are necessary
to receive this rating, and the
applicant must pass an exacting
th*ce hour technical test, as well
ns demonstrate the ability to per
form such aerial feats as tailspins
loops, ect., Miss Brown had close
to 100 air hours and received a
grade of 96, the highest mark in
the class of 15 taking this test
The other 14 applicants were
white men.
Training For Ambers
Los Angeles, July 20 (ANP)—
Determined to add the pelt of
Lou Ambers, lightweight cham
pion to his collection and become
the first man in history to hold
three world titles at the same time
Henry Armstrng booked passage
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on an eastbound train Thursday
l.isbt
A’ready feather and welter
weight champion, “Homicide Hen
ry” meets Ambers of Herkimer,
| N. Y. for the crown Aug 10. Ho
I seemed well rested since shipping
' Barney Ross and will train at
I Fompton Lakes, N. J.
! “I hope to have three titles
when I come back home, he said.
"I think I can beat Ambers, but
he may be hard to get to.”
BOXER DIES OF
INJURIES AFTER
FIGHTING WALKER
Columbigl Ga. July 28 (ANP)
—Five days after he was badly
beaten and knocked out in a
heavyweight fight with Obie Wal
ker, of Atlanta, Oscar Jenkins
who fought under the name ‘‘King
Kong” died Monday night at the
htatiem hospital in Fort Benning.
Jenkins, widely known through
the South, was kayoed in the 10th
round during an all Negro card.
Shortly after the fight ended
Jin kins was rushed to the hospital
when be failed tK> regainconacious
nese and lingered in a coma until
his death. Walker said immedi
ately aftAr the match that Jenkins
was “plenty tough.”
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STENCH FROM BODY
IN MORGUE CAUSES
WPA TO^STRIKE
Chattanooga. Tenn., July 28 (A.
NP) By Katie E. Johnson—City
officials thii week declared that
they had placed responsibility for
tho sttench from a decomposed
body at the county morgue which
last week caused eight WPA em
ployes working on the grounds at
the morgue, to go on strik<*.
J According to a report made bjr
Counytaker Charles L, Teppenpaw
Jr., to County Purchasing Age*t
Fred Frawley, the Otv s Cox Fun
eral home, colored undertaking
establishment was blamed for
placing the decompored body ini
the morgue. The re pert stated that
the body waa signed for at Baro
ness Erlanger hohpital by the O
tis funeral firm.
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