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...were lynched several years ago), Negro troops gathered along the railroad tracks one night and peppered the town with a barrage of rifle shots. No one was hurt. A few weeks ago Negro soldiers rode through Duck Hill firing blanks, frightening the whites out of their wits. Recently at Brookley Field, Ala. Negro troops fired on M.P. s who came into their barracks looking for a man supposed to have assaulted a bootlegger. Their white general quelled the uproar, mainly by diplomatic handling of his angry troops...
When construction workers walked out on a job at the Army's Brookley Field near Mobile last week, it was the last straw for Alabama's draft director, Brigadier General Ben M. Smith...
Only four entrants set off, at intervals of 10 seconds, to fly the Pulitzer speed test. The Navy, winner last year, went unrepresented, having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel...
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