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IPROBED IN DENVER' T1 hotwyourkele*boy 5withFrarwho the 1 cartiCliriloadinteiSain I RuleBy United l*renN. ^DENVER; December 24.—Information filed in, the, district attorney's office concerning the activities of Joshua Sykes, whoso title is “Jehovah,” leader of the House of. David Sect here, led to an investigation by police today. •Police ,acquired a startling store of I • information from “Jehovah’s tcacli- j teiye ings. According to Sykes, there* never h will be another president of the United States; that he will be inaugurated king , supreme and absolutemonarch of the world; that Marie j‘“^1Friede, one of his followers, will be 1 g0kmade queen. t i badThe teachings arc alleged to in- j ja(jelude a variety of free love whereby \ ^jirhusbands and wives can live with others regardless of law.SantsniilremifactHad Church Here.Joshua Sykes, whose record is being investigated by the Denver police, was “pastor of the Chturch of cjan( the Living God, a religious sect \ S(.juwhich had a tent tabernacle in this jChri ice lt;wenthinselelt;T!dam«cblt; thy solo pi an land schcchc5pupii or;city. Shortly after; the entry of the ! United States ‘ Hr the war Sykes was accused of urging young men in his “flock to evade the draft. A “mob of men and boys stormed Sikes j church one evening and commandedj liim to fly the American flag in front | of his chtirclv The next evening ' when the flag did not appear, the jpnob stormed the tabernacle and j ^a'n j threw Sykes, his son, and one of the ! ciders of the -church into their own 1 babtismal tank. Feeling ran high i here and the vfollowing night a mobof more than 1000 people burned the recttabernacle to the ground. j 'pj* - Sykes escaped the 'mob but was | later apprehended by United Statesj authorities and convicted of obfctrtict-; ing tlic draft. He was sentenced to 1,18-months at the United States ; brison at MeNicl's Island.nunBroElmWilcliai F ra i Cha StarnnoTnrnrr uii/ro
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Berkeley Daily Gazette
Berkeley, California, US
Fri, Dec 24, 1920
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