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Last week C. A. A. certified two Negro schools: West Virginia State College at Institute, W. Va., whose President John Warren Davis lobbied in Washington for inclusion of Negroes in the program; and North Carolina's Agricultural & Technical College at Greensboro. If their students do as well in flying school as did 330 whites at 13 colleges which participated in experimental training classes last spring, better than 95% will be licensed, and Willa Brown's National Airmen's Association should grow apace. Of the 62,200 pilots (including students) now licensed by C. A. A. only...
ALBERT OETTINGER Greensboro...
...however, much of it is equal to the best that is being written by U. S. white composers. Most prominent among such Negro composers are Los Angeles' sober-minded William Grant Still (Afro-American Symphony), Tuskegee, Ala.'s William Levi Dawson (Negro Folk Symphony), and Greensboro, N.C.'s Robert Nathaniel Dett, long famed as the smart, musically sophisticated leader of the Hampton Institute Choir...
...winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than the bank ever was. Laid out by experts from Washington, such a Federal art gallery as that in Laramie...
...Greene was returning to her car. parked on one of the main residence streets of Greensboro, about 7 o'clock Saturday evening. Jan. 15. She entered her car. started her motor and was alarmed when she heard the back door open. She turned and saw a young Negro entering her car, holding a pistol on her. "Take me home." he ordered. The Negro had been drinking. Mrs. Greene offered him her purse and the car if he would just let her out. "That's not what I want," was his reply. With the pistol held to the back...