Negro WAC becomes Major

Morning Register Des Moines, Iowa SEP 1J4 i legro WAC Becom Maj, Charity E. Adams (center) Tuesday received gold oak leaves and congratulations at Fort Des Moines on her promotion from Col, Frank H, McCoskrie, post commandant, and Maj. Harriet M. West, Washington, D. C. Gapt. Charity E. Adams, Negro, supervisor of plans and training in headquarters of the first WAC training center at Fort Des Moines, Tuesday was promoted to the rank of major. Major Adams is the second Negro member of the WAC to hold this rank. The other is Maj. Harriet M. West of Washington, D. C. Major Adams is the daughter cf the Rev. and Mrs. E. A. Adams of Columbia, S. C. The Rev. Drv Adams is general secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal church there and supervises education in more than ten A.M.E. colleges in the country, He also is presiding elder and dean of theology at Allen university in Columbia. Major Adams taught mathematics for four years at a high school at Columbia and was stu