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JOSH JEHOVAH WILL NOT IETO TURN SACK AGAINIF WORLD ENDS TODAY HE WILLFACE IT INSIDE DENVER’S J AIL• I□Religious Fanatic Taken Into Custody to Begin Serving Term for Obstruction of Draft During War]\ENVER, Colo., March 2.—Joshua “Jehovah” Sykes, self-styled king of heaven and earth, who failed to appear in San Francisco today to begin serving* an 18 months* sentence for draft obstruction during* theovar, was arrested tonight by the police alter an exciting* automobile chase.The police charge that fiveBODY OF ONE UNKNOWN WILL BE HONOREDWASHINGTON, March 2.—The house tonightadopted the Fish resolution directing the war department to bring back from France the body of an unidentified soldier and to inter it with suitable ceremonies in Arlington cemetery.followers were trying to smuggle him out of town.The police had invaded the temple of the Church of the Living God, over which Sykes presides, early tonight on a' request from San Fraribisco that he be arrested. Sykes was not there.NAVY APPROPRIATION ANDLater word came that Sykes had entered the temple about 8 o’clock and proceeeded to the pulpit in his robes of white and preached a sermon. The police went to the temple just as Sykes was being spirited into an automobile by his followers.SOLDIER BONUS MEASURESDOOMED TO BE DEFEATEDWASHINGTON, March 2.—Congress, within a clay and a half of adjournment, had cleared its calendar tonight of ten of the thirteen supply measures and leaders still were hopeful of getting two of the others, the army and sundry civil, through.The police followed in another machine and overtook the Sykes car into a residential part of the city. The policed crowded' the Sykes car to the curb, forced the machine to stop and the arrest was made without a struggle.(Continued on Pago 5)The light on the naval bill was continued in the senate and indications were that it finally would take its place with the many bills regarded as certain to die.SUICIDEAmong measures for which liopo had been abandoned were those proposing a soldier bonus, regulation of the cold storage andfbo n !* f\ f'finl i 11 fl llvtt V i PSBccAnmmc nnniCQ
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Cheyenne State Leader
Cheyenne, Wyoming, US
Thu, Mar 03, 1921
Page 9
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Matthew S.
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