"FUNDAMENTALIST" SECT
NEW YORK, March 7. Federal agents at Salt Lake City, Utah, arrested 20 leaders of the "Fundamentalists," a religious sect advocating polygamy, on charges of violating the Mann Act and the Lindbergh kidnapping law and mailing obscene literature. The Fundamentalists, who claim a membership of 2000, are opposed by the Mormon Church, which no longer advocates polygamy. The Federal authorities have arrested 30 other Fundamentalists. The authorities said that some of the defendants had, six wives and 33 children. All were expelled from the M«ssl^Q{phurch for practissifa&^yetosgS
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 5
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