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Oflieial and Legal Newspaper Thursday, August 17, 19.50 300 Comn ' . lies to Effect Intel ^nai Merger CHICAGO. (ANP). Negro and white church leaders and members are beginning to gather along the north shore here at Lake Forest college where they will officially form a combined Community church, the International Associa tion of Community Churches. Principles in this historic merger will be the Biennial Council of Community Churches, white group headed by Dr. Wins in Primary Courtesy Lincoln State Journal. SEN. JOHN ADAMS Senator John Adams, sr., prom inent Omaha attorney and pre siding elder of the Omaha dis trict of the A.M.E. church won the nomination in the primary last week for a second term as senator representing the Fifth district. Senator Adams was the first Negro member ol the Nebraska legislature since his son, John, jr., represented the Fifth district in 1936. He introduced the F.E.P.C. bill in the Last session of the senate. Among groups supporting Sen ator Adams is the Omaha P.T.A. He received his legal education at Lincoln university, Pennsyl vania, and at Yale received his B.A. degree at Gammon Theolog ical seminary in Atlanta, Ga., wh jre he was born. Senator Adams was admitted to practice at Columbia, S. C., and has been admitted to all courts, including the U. S. Supreme Courts, before which he has ar gued many cases. Negro Student Develops New Jet Engine BUFFALO N Y. (ANP). The development of a new low fuel consumption jet engine for war planes by a Negro research physi cist was disclosed here last week by Dr. Joseph V. Foa, head of the propulsion branch of the Cornell Aeronautical laboratory. The alert scientist is Joseph G. Logan-, 29, a native of Washing ton, D. C. Logan while working at the laboratory is studying at the University of Buffalo for ad vanced degrees. Logan’s engine, a modification of the pulsejet engine that pow ered the famed German V-l bombs of World war II, has al ready passed a successful test. If his engine is a success it may be utilized in rockets, jet planes, and heliocopters. Lincolnites Attend Kansas Meets Mr. and Mrs. Clayton P. Lewis and Mr. and Mrs.-William High tower, were guests in Kansas City last week where they attended the 67th annual communication of the Prince Hall Grand Chapter, OES, and the 75th communication of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Kansas. Koy A. Burkhart. The dates for the meeting are Aug. 16-20. The actual merger will occur Sunday, Aug. 20 at Rockefeller Memorial chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago. Delegates representing 300 churches in all parts of the coun try will attend, and the program will deal with a unified Christian approach to missions, family guidance, and community plan ning, as well as with the details of merging. This merger is intended to form a completely integrated church without the restrictions of limit ing doctrines of one kind or an other. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. Area reports will be given from ministers of the Biennial and National councils and the women’s area leaders. That night Dr. James H. Robinson will de liver the main address. Aug. 17, the main business of the day will be the adoption of a constitution for the merged bodies. On the following day the dele gates will make up the area or ganization, select an office man ager, make a financial report, and consider a biennium budget. Other business will be taken care of Aug. 19. Sunday morning, Aug. 20, the meeting will move into Chicago where delegates will worship af. Dr. Evans’ church. The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Joseph Fox, national secre tary of the National Council. A laymen’s meeting will be held at the church that afternoon. At the closing session in the evening at Rockefeller chapel, the two churches will officially com bine. Dr. Evans speaking for the Biennial Council and Dr. Carl Stoll for the National Council will dedicate the fellowship of their respective groups to Dr. Burkhart who will Ln turn dedicate them to the new president of the Interna tional Association. The new president will respond and the two churches will become one. The Community Church move ment is very young compared to other church groups. The Biennial Council is not more than 30 years old, and the National Council is only five years old. National Missionary Speaker at Church A Special program will be held : at Christ Temple Church of Christ (Holiness) 2149 U Street, Sunday, August 20th, at 3 p. m. The service is under the direc tion of the Christian Women I Willing Workers, Mrs. Ida Mc Williams, President. Mrs. Helen I E. McWilliams, national Mis ! sionary of the Church of Christ (Holiness) will be the guest speaker. Everyone is invited to attend. Reds Cut Line Near I chon As Tired 24th Holds On HEADS AMERICAN WOOD MEN—Lawrence H. Lightner, supreme commander of the American Woodmen, directed the organization’s activities at its supreme camp session in Denver, Aug. 14-17. The or ganization, now 49 years old, is the only Negro legal reserve fraternal life insurance associ ation in the United States.— ; (ANP). Chicago Women Supervisors for Family Court CHICAGO. (ANP). Democracy moved up an echelon last week at the Family Court, formerly the Juvenile court, when two Negro women were upgraded to the po sition of supervisors. They are Mrs. Janet Avery Hamilton and Mrs. Rosetta Holland. ' Judge Robert J. Dunne an nounced their appointment after they had passed a competitive promotional examination. In their new positions, the ladies will be in charge of regular probation of ficers who usually handle the cases before the court. Mrs. Holland recently received her master’s degree at Loyola uni versity, and Mrs. Hamilton has had two years of graduate train ing in her field at the University of Chicago and at Loyola. The Family Court will discard its ra cial system of handling case loads for a geographical system. AMERICAN WOODMEN S NEW HOME OFFICE BUILDING—A pre-meeting feature of the Amer ican Woodmen’s supreme camp session held in Denver, Au* U-17, was the dedication of their new $325,000 home office building on Sunday, Ang. 13. Mere than 800 delegates from 23 states and the [ District of Columbia aiuim the camp session. (ANP). By BRADFORD LAWS PUSAN, South Korea. (PCNS). Mud-soaked and weary after weeks of constant Red attacks, the Twenty-fourth In fantry Regiment “Eagles” withdrew several thousand yards to another mountain range and began to merge with the right flank of the U. S. First Cavalry Division, straightening and strengthening the whole line. An all-night Red shelling, cli maxed by small arms fire at dawn, forced the limited United Nations forces withdrawals. At this writing, the gravest threat is on the Hwanggan front, where the Second and Third North Korean divisions attacked the First Cavalry, while the First and 15th North Korean divisions continued their week-long as saults on Maj. Gen. William B. Kean’s battle-proved doughboys. The Communists sent their 15th division against the Negro infantrymen. An 800-man force from the Red 15th division went between the all-Negro 24th in fantry regiment of the 25th in fantry division, driving a small wedge into the line near Ichon, seven miles southwest of Ham chang. Despite low clouds and heavy rain, several U.S. navy lighters from carriers of the United Na tions ‘’Task Force 77” got through, flying low over cloud-topped ranges to plaster the Reds with strafing and rocket attacks. The Communists, in a desper ate bid to end United Nations resistance before the arrival of American reinforcements, struck their heaviest blows against the 25th infantry division and the First Cavalry between Sangju and Hwanggan, where four red divisions totaling some 30,000 troops stabbed into American lines in the biggest battle of the war to date. Forty-five thou sand Red troops lunged forward along a 200-mile fluid line, forc ing U.S. withdrawals along the front. Outnumbered four to one, both American divisions gave ground before suicidal Red assaults, but came back in a slashing, artil lery - supported counterattack which broke the momentum of the Communist offensive. Nearly 2,000 enemy troops were killed during the day by Pittman Nominated for Omaha School Board MRS. PITTMAN Mrs. Elizabeth Davis Pittman was nominated for the Omaha Board of Education at the Pri mary Election held last week. Mrs. Pittman ran fifth among ap proximately 33 candidates. Mrs. Pittman is the wife of Dr. A. B. Pittman, prominent Omaha Veterinarian, and the daughter of Attorney and Mrs. Charles F. Davis. She attended the Univer sity of Nebraska and the Creigh ton Law School. She becomes the first Negro to have been so honored in the state. Mrs. Pittman waged an intelligent and vigorous campaign; her plat form being, Best Schools, Best Teachers, Best Education. Mrs. Pittman faces a prodigious task ih the general election; at that time she will be in a run-off against eleven other nominees; the six obtaining the greatest number of votes will be elected. American artillery fire alone, but hordes of Red infantrymen were fed into gaps as the communists gambled everything on an attack in force before UN strength could be augmented. In the 24th regiment and else where throughout the UN forces, American casualties were re ported to be amazingly small.