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...civilian flier who was highly pleased by C. A. A.'s announcement last week was a cream-&-coffee-skinned Negress of 29. There is small chance that Willa Beatrice Brown will ever fly for the Army or Navy, but as Secretary of the National (Negro) Airmen's Association and one of the few Negro aviatrices holding a limited commercial license, she has labored mightily to whip up interest in flying among Negroes, get them a share in C. A. A.'s training program. She runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner...
Creator of this startling masterpiece turned out to be a Missouri Negress, Flora Cornell Lewis. Born in Kansas, 36-year-old Mrs. Lewis has been painting since she was six, has never studied. Farm Life was done in a battered farmhouse near the little town of Marshall, Mo., where she lives with her husband, Dr. Percy Lewis, a Negro veterinary surgeon...
...Miami, Fla. a Negress claimed a $6.75 check payable to her late husband. Asked to prove that he was dead, she answered: "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove it." Her papers did. She got the check...
...brother, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, married, in 1929 divorced Alice Jones, Negress, died...
...matter of fact, there is a colored theatre, the Howard, which could have been used without arousing any protest as it is a fit place for a Negress to sing...