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Show PROBE HOUSE j OF DAVID IN I BENTON HARBOR I 'King Benjamin' Says His ' Enemies Have Launched New Attack 111 ROY GIBBONS BENTON HAKBuK, Mich.. June 10. "King I'.' ii.lamln" Purnell. who ballot ba-llot BhAVed Or had a haircut m 2 yean, la going to be investigated again DetetCtives have been snooping I around the House of David, temple 'of the Flying Rollers, a cult of .some 900 followers VrAo live in a combination religious colony and amusement parK along the shore of Lake Michigan, just outHfiln of Benton Harbor. 1 Other Investigations, by county and state, are promised within throe 1 months by Charles V. Gore, prosecuting prose-cuting attorney of Darrlen county. I Gore has been spurred to action, bv repealed reports ol peculiar love rites in the House of David, and bj j rumors of myatorloua diaapitearances of cult members on High Island, a desolate outpost of the organization! In upper illchlgan, J Tlii" reports haw been persist-ing persist-ing for yeara." saya Gore I bclieyo the time has arrived " lun the should b.- .itli. r proved or dlsprosed b thorough investigation " 1 1 1 MI s 1I1S r.MMH - ' My enemies are spreading falao reports, re-ports, as they did formerly." says Klpg Denjamln "1 man of Cod and live according to His teach- ii m. i hi wife she's "Queen Mary' here are credited bj 'heir followers with having had a vision ap-pointing ap-pointing thorn Gods messengers. Plw pr.-.. hrd that the -nrt of I . i- .;r.-I .;r.-I was near; several times King Benjamin" Ben-jamin" was quoted a having fixed; SP04 IflC date but this he denies i I Now "King Benjamin" says the end Us coming within 26' years. ' That apparently concepM him less, than the impending Investlgatlona and: ithe Inroads modernism Is BtMHM !the cult Including Jazz, and f lappei , '"'"our colons ha endun-d dehpite the j slanders ..: myriad en. nue: Mm, , in" says, "but ol late modern- ISnihiidori. I i. harm P,8mi jau mush and similar curses have hi. i us hard. SEEDS OF DI ONI I S I "These manifestltations of modernism modern-ism have sown seeds of dls, ontent in line hearts of some members. These 'no longer let their hair and beards grow But that Is noi enough "We are Hearing th- end "I sin ami crime Christ Is coming again within the next 85 years. When He comae every living member of the House of M untlnued n liufC Two ) PROBE HOUSE OF DAVID IN BENTON HARBOR (Continued from Pac One) David will be glorified. But they all must live right, eat no meat, work fOl I each other and forget themselves " The colony, established In 1903. lei run on a communal b.'isis; all member- pool their resources and work for the I common good. They raise fruit and. operate an amusement park, a vegetarian vege-tarian restaurant and therapeutic springs, all patronized by unbelievers And they have a long haired and bearded baseball team. Marriage formerly was forbidden but is fostered now. Bringing children child-ren into the world once was branded sinful, but children no longer are bar-i-r-fl |