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...previous series, Reporter Clifford Blackburn did most of the heavy work, bore down especially hard on WPA loafing and "incompetence." Last week the Tribune printed an editorial acknowledging "compliments" from letter-writers on its WPArticles, but nowhere in its columns appeared any reference to the week's biggest news about its series...
...which will be converted into reconnaissance machines. Fitted with two 800-horsepower motors, capable of a top speed of 250 miles an hour, these Lockheeds will be far superior to the present Royal Air Force reconnaissance ships, the Avro Anson, with a maximum speed of 188, and the Blackburn Shark, with a maximum of 152. Two hundred North American BT-9B type, low-winged, single-motored monoplanes with a top speed of 171 miles an hour, were ordered from the North American Aviation plant at Inglewood, Calif., for use as advanced training ships...
...further than their names, which they pronounce alike. Both were born in May 1914. Both have well-to-do Negro managers, a rarity for Negro boxers. Lewis' is Gus Greenlee, whose other interests include the Pittsburgh Crawfords, a Negro professional baseball team. Both are trained by bald Jack Blackburn, famed 30 years ago as a lightweight fighter and currently as a Svengali of Negro pugilists...
Back, bald Jack Blackburn, 52-year-old onetime lightweight boxer who taught Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis how to fight, set out one evening last week to invest some of his earnings in Chicago Black Belt real estate. When the youthful owner of a house would not let him inspect the premises. Boxer Blackburn, who once did five years for killing a man, started a fight. Bested, he withdrew, returned with three friends, began blazing away with pistols at his opponent. Caught in the cross fire were a 9-year-old pickaninny, a blackamoor of 69, who subsequently died. Boxer Blackburn...
...light heavyweight championship in Chicago's Golden Gloves tournament and the National A. A. U. light heavyweight title. Detroit's shrewd Negro Lawyer John Roxborough, with a small fortune made by familiarizing Detroit Negroes with Harlem's "numbers" games, persuaded him to turn professional, hired Jack Blackburn, famed old Philadelphia lightweight, to be his trainer. For his first professional fight, in Chicago's Bacon's Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real...