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Image of Emmanuel Leroy Briggs accompanies article. Caption reads: Lieut. Briggs. E-mail inquiries for the State Historical Society of Iowa should be directed to history.research@iowa.gov or library.st@uiowa.ed Master image scanned with Ricoh Aficio MP C3000 as a JPEG at 600 ppi. Tribune j\'«t Des Moines, Iowa wew Chaplain For WAACs First Lieut. Emmanuel Leroy Briggs, former pastor of j3t. Paul Methodist church at {Augusta, Ky., has become the first Negro chaplain at the WAAC training center at Fort Des Moines He will be spiritual adviser for the Negro WAACs here. Chaplain Briggs, a native of Franklin county, Mississippi, was graduated from Clark university LIEDT. BRIGGS. and G a m m 0 „ Theological seminary at Atlanta, Ga. He had postgraduate work at Garrett Theological seminary, Ev-ansville, 111., before holding a series of pastorates which included Sharpeburg, Ky., Troy, Ohio, New Castle, Ind.. Evanston, 111., and Marietta, Ohio. Chaplain Briggs had been pastor in Augusta, Ky., for ,two years before entering army service last April. He completed his army chaplain training at Harvard university. The chaplain, besides his religious activity, has been an athlete, playing on college football, baseball and tennis teams. He is a member o
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