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\ soca _ . ; i @ Special ‘en oe check d_ten of the memvers o EL'® Temple in December, 1942, ene and the other bqV oftfcere for Selective Service registration were found to registered and not delinguent. In addition to this, at that a ° : we he did not believe in Conscientious Objectors and that there Met been only one such in the temple ae related above. He said he had refused to support his member in hie etand at that time. Regarding the Selective Service subject ae a whole, it con be stated that the majority of the Temple membere are elderly and sbove draft age. EL wre oute ooken in his etatemert toa Gmeriel)] Acen 22 SOULE daloas) OS Cea vias VA LR oe es The other brench of the sect in New Jereaey includes two Temples ae followa;: - - 2 Twelfth Avenue, Newark, New Jereey, under the leadership ihr ed bye . Membershin atated by leader to be forty male membera an fifteen Temele / - 239 Nof Clinton Street, Trenton. New Jersey, under the leadership of EY, Exact membershio being checked. 2 These two temples compriec the New Jerecy br:nch of -the Mooriah Science fas ek eso ten rs o e (.~, whee x faith which holde ac ite Netionel Lender Col. “KIRKMAN BEY, 930 Ne. Rudson Avenue, Chicngeo. Tll ‘TThie beanch does not follow the strict dietary laws and its mule membere do eheve and cut their hair do not wear : es {It is thie branch of the faith to whic EL an {nos BEY belong, both of whom were djecpgeed in deta earlier in thia re~- ae port in connection with bye EL in New Jer the faith Col C, REMAN he he een a Temple member since 1929 en he was formnlly ordained by Col. C. KIRKMAN B - EL was at one time a member of e other branch of the fait hot time his Temple teacher wa EL, L has stated to the writer thet to the best o bye his reco ELta brench of the faith begnn wearing bearde in 1933, not having followed their etrict dietary lawe and rules of Sersonal conduct prior to thet time. wae han uleo told the writer tht NOBLE DREW ALI founded the Moorish - Selence Temnole in Newark in 1413 at which time it, or a previous group, a had been culled the “Concc.nite Temple". After three or four yeere in Newcrk, ALI moved to Chicago, und the n:me of the grow became the “Moorish Holy Science Temple of the World", - thia in about 1923. Then in 1928 ALI is said to have drovped the word "Holy" in a new incorporation of the group ! -9- MMe tone Set ece te ace aoe 2 le ee So ee <a ees Se ee a i Cottey . hop poet re nome ener oe SOY