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...impostors in religion such as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left...
...committee noted that one Newark "Kingdom" is a firetrap, that others are crowded and insanitary. A Divine "bishop" had been accused of contributing to the delinquency of a 13-year-old girl by inducing her, against her parents' wishes, to stay three nights in his "Kingdom." Said a witness before the committee: "Women leave their husbands and homes because when you join the religion you cannot help yourself...
...looked like a quiet night for the Newark radio operator of Transcontinental & Western Air. Bad weather had cancelled passenger service. Only two mail planes were in the air between Newark and Pittsburgh, approaching each other through a fierce snowstorm over the Alleghenies. At 2:26 a. m. the Newark radioman heard in his earphones...
...Burford calling Newark. Weather is getting bad. Heavy snowstorms at 3,000 ft. Will try to climb above it." That was Pilot Dean Burford, eastbound. A minute later...
Fastest. Howling tailwinds blew one United Air Lines transport from Chicago to Newark (736 mi.) in 3 hr. 17 min., another from Cleveland to Newark (411 mi.) in 1 hr. 41 min., fastest passenger flights on record...