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Harlem Airport Chosen For CAA Pilot School

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 20-Edgar G. Brown, Washington representative of the National Airmen's association, announced Monday that Harlem airport, Eighty-ninth street and Harlem avenue, Chicago, has been designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority as a private CAA pilot school.
The designation is important because Harlem airport is the only one in the city with a Race instructor. He is Cornelius R. Coffey, president of the Airmen's association.
Mr. Brown who is also president of the United Government Employes, Inc., made the announcement following a conference with the five man board of which Robert J. Hinckley is chairman.
Opens Next Week
"The CAA air pilot course at Harlem airport, Chicago," said Mr. Brown, "will be one of the schools opened next week at government expense to young men and women of the Race without college training for aviation instruction, and will present a new field of employment to Negroes. This is in keeping with the provision of the CAA that five percent of the total number of pilots trained under the CAA program in 1940 shall not be required to have a college education, but have only to pass a rigid physical examination. It should be recalled that Charles Lindbergh nor
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Eddie Rickenbacker, ace war pilot and head of one of the great air lines today, did not have college educations."
$1,000,000 Earmarked
The participation of member of the Race in the government's civilian air training program was guaranteed with the earmarking of $1,000,000 for their training.
This campaign was lead by the National Airmen's association and the Chicago Defender.
The National Airmen's association announced Thursday through its secretary that all persons interested in taking advantage of the instructions offered under this program should write, Willa B. Brown, secretary National Airmen's Association, 3435 Indiana avenue, Chicago.

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Robinson's Chi Air Ass'n Names Officers

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CHICAGO, Jan 16-(ANP)-Election of officers for 1936 of the Challenger Air Pilots Association, founded by Col. John C. Robinson now of teh Imperial Ethiopian Air Force was held here Tuesday night. Lt. Col. C.R. Coffey, who became the president when Robinson left Chicago, will fill that position throughout the year.
This association is reputedly the oldest Negro flying group in the nation. It has a membership of 35 pilots and mechanics. There are five airplanes at the disposal of
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members and Harlem airport, located Southwest of the city is the field used.
New officers for the year, in addition to Coffey, include Maj. Earl Renfroe, vice president; Miss Janet Harmon, recording secretary; Lt. Harold Hurd, financial secretry; Charles Johnson, treasurer; Sgt. Albert Cosby, sergeant-at-arms, and Col. Robinson, commander in chief. Members of the advisory board are Lt. Dale L. White, Lt. Clyde B Hampton, Miss Willia B. Brown and Preston Bowie.

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Credits The Chicago Defender With Getting Air School at West Va. State

By EARL W. BROWN
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INSTITUTE, W. Va., Oct. 20-The Chicago Defender is responsible for aeronautics at West Virginia State college, President John W. Davis said this week.
When the Chicago Defender- National Airmen Association flyers flew here last spring, they created more interest in aviation than could have been aroused through a year of lecturing, he said.
Shortly after the visit of the Defender-N.A.A. goodwill flyers, Dale E. White and Chauncey E. Spencer, Dr. Davis headed a group which went to Washington to confer with government officials on the possibility of having this school designated by the Civil Aeronautics Authority as one of its training centers.
Inspired by the ability of the two Chicagoans who completed a 3,000-mile air jaunt during which they visited 10 eastern and midwestern cities awakening the Race to the possibilities in this relatively new field, others here in the state took up the fight to win recognition for West Virginia State college.
Governor Homer A. Holt, at the instigation of Atty. T.G. Nutter
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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People lent his support to the economic campaign. To this was added the backing of the Business and Professional Men's club of Charleston and other civic minded groups.
With aeronautics now an established phase of the curriculum of West Virginia State college, a well trained staff has been assembled to carry out the program of the C.A.A.
These include W.S. Clayton, Millard Brown, J.W. Grider, who attended the first national air conference sponsored by the N.A.A. and the Defender in August; Robert King, and Marshall Fields. J.C. Evans, director of trades is advisor of aviation at the school.
A minimum of 72 hours of intensive training is required of every student before completing the course here. Ground instruction consumes 35 hours of the time and the remainder is spent in flying instructions.
The school is using Wertz school on which the Defender-N.A.A. flyers landed, for training purposes.

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Wiley and Bishop Serve As Hosts To Jeanes Teachers

MARSHALL, Texas, Oct. 20-Wiley and Bishop colleges were co-hosts to a double meeting of Jeanes teachers and elementary public school principals of Texas Friday and Saturday, sessions alternating between the two colleges.
Discussions covered problems peculiar to the professions in which the groups are engaged. The college had faculty representatives participating through whatever light they could on the subjects under consideration from viewpoint of the college.
Representatives of the Wiley faculty who took part on the program Saturday were Prof. O. W. Crump. head of education department and director of extension schools, and Dean V. E. Daniel.

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Pausing in Columbus, O., to re-fuel their plane, Dr. Albert E. Forsythe and C. E. Anderson, cross-country fliers en route to Los Angeles, were snapped for The Courier.

Transcription Notes:
There is a part of the first article that is obstructed because of a fold or tear. I filled in some words that I'm sure are there, but I'm not sure if I should have marked them in some way. Column 3 of the last article is actually a different article, not sure if I formatted the change correctly.