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[[First clipping]] No Negro Commeria[[l]] Pilots In United State[[s]] LOS ANGELES. Cal., Nov. 22. - According to the Department of Commerce, no Negro holds a commercial pilot's license. The information came in answer to a request for flying Instructors from the Bessie Coleman Aero Club in Los Angeles. The letter, signed by Jesse W. Lankford, chief licensing section, declared "There is, of course, nothing in the air commerce regulations which would prohibit the holding of such license." The Bessie Coleman Aero Club is a national non-profit organization organized to promote aeronautics amonth Negroes and plans to have a club (branch) in every city of importance. The organization has worked out plans which will enable each club organized to get an airplane. The national organization is composed of Negroes in America who are foremost in aviation today, all nine of whom are grooming themselves for commercial pilots' licenses in order that they may be ready for a tour of the country in the interest of the Negro for aviaion, which the organization expects to make next summer. The president and organizer, William J. Powell, of Chicago, is a graduate of the University of Illinois (electrical engineer) and is now completing a course in aeronautical engineering at the Warren College of aeronautics in Los Angeles. The other members of the national organization are: Dr. A. Porter Davis, vice president, Kansas City; B. H. Neeley, business manager, Wichita, Kan.; Miss Geraldine Fortson, secretary-treasurer, Los Angeles; Gus Ivory, editor of magazine, Chicago; Herbert Banning, Ames, Ia.; Hubert Julian, New York City; Walter P. Swaggerty, San Francisco; W. L. Brown, Los Angeles. [[Second clipping]] CHICAGO BOYS RECEIVE DEGREES AT ILLINOIS At the convocation exercises held at the University of Illinois, at Urbana, Ill., Wednesday, two Chicago boys received stellar honors for class accomplishments. They are Richard A. Harewood, who received his A.B. degree from the department of romantic languages and literature of the College of Arts and Sciences, and William Jenifer Powell, who received his B.S. degree from the department of electrical engineering. Harewood's work in French and German languages won him unusual scholastic mention while Powell's scholastic triumphs secured for him the cherished membership of several exclusive fraternal organizations, among them the Le Cercle Francais, Electrical Engineering society, American Association of Engineers, and the Gun and Blade club, in addition to his appointment a member of the senior alum class committee which is the first instance of a Race student being honored in that way. In the recent war, Powell served as a first lieutenant with the 317th engineers and the 365th infantry overseas. Both boys are members of Tau chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and have served terms as local presidents. [[IMAGE]] Richard Harewood [[IMAGE]] William Powell
