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oe ee Oe te ee i oe eS oc ka oo’ ii Each menber is suypoeed to pay seventy-five cents per month or more if sble. “ Gp =: they are all of a very peor lew—-cless negro, moat of whom were at ene time employed on the W. P, A. He estimated the number of followers of this feith in South Bend at between seventy-five and one hundred. He stated they claimed to have descended from the Is- reelites who were lost in Afica in the middle ages. ‘They have their own merriage ceremony which ia ~verformed efter the regular state license is obtained; that they are apparently ncolygamiete as indicated from their moral conduct, but he did not know of anything in thelr religion which advocated nolygany. w The informant advised that he hed heard rumors that thia organi- ration was in some reanect ingpired by Javoanesae, but he had ne definite in- formation along thie line except that he did know they claimed sympathy and Yacial affiliation with all the darker races, preferring to be called "Olives*, rather than negroes, belinving that the term "negro" was a term invented ——r by the white Americans to promote inferltority. w f me... mentioned that there hed been rumors that they advocated ruman sacrifices as a nart of their religton, but he never kmew ef any facts to bear thie out, The rumor cropped un on one occasion when an old man and member of the sect euddenly disepveared from town, It wae said that he ‘ed been chosen for the next human sacrifice, wv Confidential Inf ornsn SBP ce available his filee from which the following information was taken. “ Fe steted veraonally that in dealing with mermbere of this sect, trey inateted vigorously thet their tribal name follow their actual names on all documents, and that there are three tribes known to his office. Membere of one of the tribes edd to their names "Bey*, Another tribe adde "E1", end the other tribe adds "Alleh". So far ae ew, there were ne "Allah's" esround South Bend. & Le JBSSE RI ChaRD- He is a laborer These files indicate t SON4/Bey, Assistant Grand Sheik, fernerly emleyed by the W, FP, 4. and who holde the position of Divine Minister, and, thereroré, ig entitied: to conduct the merriage ceremony, Eome conditions there are very bad. Ee was interviewed on one occasion, and stated that he had started the temple at South 3end with the help of the Grand Shel from Chicago; that he came to South Bend #a°1932 fre® Detroit; thet he waa born in Herth Carolina in