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Show Dry Agents Put Stop on Pious Guzzlers Rochester The Joy Christians, a new religious sect formed here with a pledge to follow the example of the Lord as a "drinker of the wine of HiB day' suffered a reversal when a federal feder-al prohibition agent from headquarters in Buffalo advised their "pastor", A. Stanley Cnpe'and to postpone his second "communion." The federal agent took from Copelanii a bottle of beer Intended for the services to have it analyzed as also a copy of the sermon ser-mon which the organizer of the new sect intended to deliver. Oopeland called off the services after the fed-rnl fed-rnl officer told him that the law required re-quired that he prove he Is the responsible respon-sible head of a responsible religious organization before he would 'be allowed al-lowed to distribute wine. The "pastor" "pas-tor" 1ms been having difficulties in getting get-ting nn adequate supply of liquid refreshment re-freshment for his "congregation" and last Friday morning he called at police headquarters to request the authorities authori-ties to give him some seized liquor for his new cult. |