Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-15 | Page 1 | White Found Guilty of Desecrating Flag

WHITE FOUND GUILTY OF DESECRATING FLAG Pastor of Church of Social Revolution May Get 30 Days in Jail. TvETW YORK, March 15 Bonck "White, pastor of the Church of the Social So-cial Revolution, and two members of tho congregation were found guilty by a jury early this morning of having desecrated the American flag. -Eight other defendants were acquitted. The jury recommended clemency for "White and his parishioners. The ten defendants were charged with having burned the stars and stripes with the colors of other nations in a "riVlting pot" in the bock yard of the c"hurch. Sentence will be nronounced today upon the three men found guilty. The maximum penalty is thirty days imprisonment im-prisonment or $'100 fine, or both. At 10 o'clock last night the jury submitted sub-mitted two questions to Judge Mclntyre, who heard the case. The questions were: "Does the public burning of the flag itself constitute per so violation of the law? "If the times were so turbulent as to warrant tho burning for the public good would the ceremony be justified by that necessity?' ' To the first query, Judge Mclntyre answered: "Emphatically yes;" and to the second: "Emphatically No."