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.
