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VLeader?tr-Vanishes With His Fs6SPRINGFIELD, III., (UPD-State police revealed Saturday they are searching for John R. (Johnny Bob) Harrell, wealthy anti'C ommunist religious sect leader who once defied the U.S. government.Harrell, currently plagued by in-“ come tax troubles and self-de- scribed death threats, is missing along with seven members of his family and 114,000 to $20,000 in cash, Slate Police Capt. Wit-liam Hall said. -Hall revealed Harrell's battered, 1954 car was found abandoned Tuesday on a country road south of Glenarm, III., eight miles south of Springfield. The ignition keys and papers and clothes belonging 1 to the ex-Air Force pilot and sen-atorial candidate were still in the car, Hall said.Also in the car, Hall said, was Harrell’s personal Bible, signed by 15 to 20 members of the Christian Conservative movement.We don't assume or allege anything, Hall said. • We just wonder where he is. His whereabouts may be perfectly explainable.”Police started looking for Har-^ rel when he failed to show up ^(Monday for an income tax hearing ' in Springfield.The 41-year-old sect leader, who wears his blonde hair down to his shoulders and predicts a Communist attack on the United Stales at any moment, had told reporters he planned to take his followers to a new headquarters near San Fidel, N.M.It was at his mansion In 1961 that Harrell and members of his Christian Conservatism movement defied the U.S. government to lake a 19-year-old Marine deserter who had sought sanctuary.The Marine, Pvt. Dion Davis of Greenville, Pa., said he wentto hale” and flaunt sin right in your face,” Harrell served notice that his followers would protect Davis with arms and they'll have to kill me to take this boy out of here.Harrell’s belligerence melted on the morning of Aug. 4, 1961, when 100 FBI agents, stale policemen and a few Marines stormed his 100-acre estate. They found Harrell in a tunnel underneath the mansion, close by an arsenal of100 firearms and 10,000 rounds of ammunition.Harrell was charged but never went to jail. He put the incident down as one more of a series of harrassments and crises which he says the Lord has told him will be his lot.Russ Mountain Man Has 158th BirthdayMOSCOW (UP!) — Shirali Far-zali Ogly Muslimov, who like other Azerbaijan Mountain villagers has slept almost his entire life in the open, celebrated his 158th birthday Saturday, the Soviet news agency Tau reported.Tass said Muslimov looks quite well, though he has lost some of his teeth and his eyes sometimes fail him.Picasso Will Build Monument In FranceMARSEILLE, France (UPI) — Artist Pablo Pciasso has agreed to build a monument to the mythical founders of the port of Marseille, the honorary director of the city’s administrative services said Saturday.The director. J. P, Chamant. said the 81-year old artist told him he would consider the mon-U merit 1flF fhf* turirL’C r\f mu
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Cumberland Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Apr 07, 1963
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