Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — New York Pastor Gets Thirty Days and Fine For Burning Flag. [ARTICLE]

New York Pastor Gets Thirty Days and Fine For Burning Flag.

New York, June 2.—Bouch White, pastor of the church of the Social revolution, who last night particisessions for desecration of the Amercan flag and other national emblems in the rear of his church, was today found guilty by the court of special sessions for desecration o fthe American emblem and was sentenced to thirty days in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. The offense of which he was convicted today was the desecration of the American flag in circulars he caused to be distributed some weeks ago.