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...which lends itself to long-winded diatribes and has already been debated to a frazzle. Secretary Wallace has warned Science that it had better consider taking a holiday. Scientists, including Caltech's Millikan, M. I. T.'s Karl Taylor Compton and Bell Telephone's Frank Baldwin Jewett have retorted that Science makes jobs by creating new industries. One of the most telling thrusts which defenders of Science have made against the bogey of "technological unemployment" is that after a half century of sweeping technological advance, a higher percentage of the U. S. population was gainfully employed...
Hunt, 33, "John the Revelator" to his fellow Divine cultists, was on trial charged with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett (TIME, April 12). Defendant Hunt, eloquently seconded by his Negro Attorney Hugh MacBeth, explained that his "relations" with Delight Jewett were religious in nature. He wanted a "Virgin Mary" to produce a "New Redeemer." Could Judge Leon Yankwich understand that...
Judge Yankwich, after hearing pretty Delight Jewett describe her experiences with Defendant Hunt in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Palm Springs and Albuquerque, could not. Miss Jewett testified: "Mr. Hunt told me I was to be the mother of the new redeemer of the world. It was to be an immaculate conception." Judge Yankwich: "Who was to be the Holy Ghost?" Witness Jewett: "Mr. Hunt didn't say."* After several days of such maundering testimony, with Attorney MacBeth subpoenaing but not delivering Aimee Semple McPherson as an "expert"' witness, Defendant Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison...
...playing it for all it was worth in his Hearstpaper. The U. S. Attorney in Los Angeles last week issued a warrant for the arrest of John Wuest Hunt, 33, charging him with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett. Hunt, a fat, thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became a Divinite in Manhattan two years ago, was last year put under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father Divine had done him. According to Miss Jewett, a schoolgirlish young lady...
...year-old named "Smitty" who called himself "St. John the Baptist," they toured around in a big automobile. Hotels accepted them as "St. John the Baptist & party of five," one room clerk noting on his register "a religious party on tour." "St. John the Revelator" introduced Miss Jewett to such Divine beliefs as that the Father could send a "vibration" from Harlem to Denver. Wrote she last week: "I felt a sudden chill. Everyone was pleased. They told me, 'that is Father Divine sending his love.'" Then Hunt decided he was no longer St. John but "Jesus...