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Honored By Harlemites
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World's Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis is shown in New York with Chauncey Spencer, left and Dale L. White, right, fliers who were guests of honor along with the champion at a party at the Mimo club in Harlem Saturday. The affair marked the twenty-fifth birthday of the champion and the arrival in New York of the fliers who are nearing the end of a 3,000 mile air tour.

Chicago Flyers Discuss Aviation in Capitol
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With the hope to set up colored aviation clubs all over the country, believing that such a movement will stimulate government appropriations much quicker, two pilots, representing the National Aviation Association of Chicago, visited the capitol on Monday and conferred with several officials, including Representative Emmett O'Neil (Dem., Ky.), center, shown shaking the hand of Pilot Chauncey Spencer. 
    Others in the group are, left to right: D.T. White, pilot and vice-president of the NAA; James W. Douglas, business manager of the Washington Pilots' Association; Floyd J. Smith, of the same association, and Edgar G. Brown, president of the United Government Employees.

Fliers Drop Flowers on Editor's Grave
National Airmen Pay Striking Tribute to Robert S. Abbott
Impressive tribute was paid the late Robert S. Abbott by the National Airmen's association during the interment of the body of the noted publisher at Lincoln cemetery on Monday afternoon.
As Rev. Augustus E. Bennett, pastor of Grace Presbyterian church, pronounced a final benediction over the body as it was lowered into the ground, a plane bearing two members of the aviation association swooped low over the bare-headed assemblage and dropped a bouquet of American beauty roses on the canopy covering the grave.
    Retrieved by one of the funeral director's assistants, the flowers were handed to Mrs. Edna Abbott, widow of the publisher. Taking the card and a few flowers from the bouquet, she tossed it into the grave.
    The plane, piloted by Dale White, vice president of the association, was the same which made a 3,000 mile tour of the east and south last year under the joint sponsorship of the Chicago Defender and the association.
    Accompanying Mr. White was Marie St. Clair, youthful aviatrix and assistant secretary of the NAA.
    Almost 1,000 persons travelled to the cemetery in a cortege of 250 automobiles to witness the burial of the noted journalist and publisher.
    Services were conducted at the grave by Reverends Bennet and Archibald J. Carey, Jr. Music was provided by a quartette supplied by the Frank L. Edwards funeral home which had charge of the funeral.
    The striking aerial tribute paid the late publisher by the National Airmen's Association was significant in that it was the Chicago Defender which served as sponsor of the organization during its formation almost two years ago.
    During the epochal tour made by Mr. White and Chauncey Spencer last year, Mr. Abbott received daily reports on the progress of the trip. The fliers carried to New York City and to Washington a scroll signed by Mr. Abbott and Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago.

'Race' Pilots Face Penalty
Washington, July 12 - (AP) - A group of pilots known on every air lane today were called by the National Aeronautic Association to face a disciplinary committee for their part in the unsanctioned American air races in Chicago last week. They face a three-year revocation of their contest licenses.
    A disciplinary committee will report on August 9 its recommendations for those taking part in the races.  The meet was staged simultaneously with the National air races in Los Angeles, which were licensed by the N.A.A.
   Among the pilots to be called are Lon Yancy, John Livingston, Harvey Mummert, Art Davis and Harold Neuman.
    The N.A.A. has ruled that pilots in unlicensed meets may lose for three years their contest licenses from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale.