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Show PASTOR THROWN INTO A TANK BERKELEY. Tal.. April 19 Approximately Ap-proximately ?,U0 boys, ranging in ase from 10 to 20 years, ducked Pastor 1 Josiah Sykes and two of his elders In a baptismal tank, ehaspd several ( other elders through the residence district dis-trict and wrecked the canvas tabernacle taber-nacle of the church of the Living. Ond. a religious denomination here last : night when thp pastor and his assistants assist-ants refused to sing the national an-t an-t hem. Two policemen who endeavored to interfere were smothered under an avalanche of squirming boys After a struggle the pastor and two Of his elders were thrown into the baptismal tank when they refused to sine 'The Star-Spangled Banner," while several other church officials who came to his aid were driven out ' of the tent and pursued several blocks by swarms of boys. When police reserves arrived they .found the interior of the tabernacle m disorder and ihe pastor and elders grouped round a stove The boys had vanished 00 |