Every Sunday morning for the past six years, a church pennant with a blue cross on a white field has fluttered above the U. S. flag on the flagpole of the Baptist Church in Queens Village, L. I. Local patriots have complained repeatedly but the church's minister, Rev. J. Earle Ed wards, felt justified. For nearly a century the U. S. Navy has done the same thing, running up a pennant during shipboard church services. Minister Edwards grew vexed last week when a D. A. R. pamphlet was sent him, citing a flag code promulgated...
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