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Part I SEPT. 28, 1 944 LOg gngtlgg ttmtS Grieving Followers ajar came strains of music from the assembly room. "We shall meet on that beautW ful sang. Sing on Hearing News 4- ill I J-- i fcr' A iiu t.V loved ones in," said a third, AIMEE M'PHERSON SUCCUMBS ON TOUR Evangelist, in Oakland for Church Dedication, Dies Suddenly at Age of 53 They sang. Earnestly, though unhappy, they sang.

Grief and wearing the blue cloak of a congregational worker, and a cho faith mingled in their voices. Their leader was gone. "In the sweet bye and bye," they sang, their faces tense and marked with unbelief in what they had heard. She would scatter roses as a benediction for the penitent. Began in Tent Within an hour after a maid had discovered Aimee Semple McPherson unconscious in her suite in an Oakland hotel and All this stemmed from gelism which began in a tat doctors had pronounced, her tered tent which sometimes was rus of "No, no, no" answered her.

Rev. Mrs. Hal Smith, standing behind the pulpit and intermittently wiping her eyes, gave credence to the report. "She's gone," Mrs. Smith said, "but her great work will live on!" Prayer Vigil Continues In the cramped quarters of the Prayer Tower where, for more than 20 years a continuous prayer vigil has been in progress, devout women, shocked to learn the news, raised their faces heavenward and, with outstretched arms, begged for guidance in their hour of sorrow.

"Give her back to us," Mrs. Gwedolvn Pittenger prayed, "if saved from collapse by rusty dead soon afterward, a crowd began to gather here at Angelus Temple. They met the news of the passing of their beloved evangelist with doubt which nail. It was a successor to evan gelism in a two-by-four Canadian rooming house lighted by a flickering kerosene lamp. gave way to tearful mourning as tney read in the counte nances of their fellow church Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy she men the reality of sorrow." was born on a farm near Inger PictSweet PEAS YouH "enjoy the true gir-den-fresh flavor of thee big juicy tender peasl They're picked at their perfect best and quickly sealed to retain all their lucious goodness.

Serve them often! soil, on Oct 9, 1890. Baptized and reared in a 'Going My Way' But it couldn't be, they rea it be Thy will." And half a doz-i soned with themselves. On the marquee outside they had read home where religion dominated, she early was struck by wander Continued from First Page her maid; Norman Nelson, tenor soloist; Charl3 William Walkem, an evangelist, and Rev. Grover T. Owens, her public relations representative.

She arrived in Oakland Monday to assist in the dedication of a new Foursquare jrhurchj with services continuing until Friday. Tonight Mrs. McPherson was to have spoken on "The Story of My Life." After a spectacular career punctuated by romance, legal battles, adventure and tragedy, the founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel was still shouting "Hallelujah!" to the masses a few hours before her death. She had ridden in a horse-drawn buggy with customary showmanship to the Oakland Auditorium and lectured on "The Story of My Life." She was scheduled for three additional revival sermons, "V-Day," "Great Divine Healing" and "High Voltage." Adding More to Her Fold She was adding another unit of her churph which ha3 spread to the jungles of the Amazon and to the heart of darkest Afri the topic of Sister's sermon for en worshippers, trembling and weeping, added their wails to the prayer. Through 'a window slightly lust.

Sunday. Her subject was "Going My Way." It couldn't te but it was! She was attracted by a sign advertising a Pentecostal mis "In the sweet bye and bye, sion and against the wishes of her Methodist parents she at we shall meet on that beautiful shore," they sang, assuaging tended a revival meeting at this their grief with their song. undenominational edifice. Timn photo LEADER GONE In the Prayer Tower of Angelus Temple women weep and pray after learning of the death of Mrs. McPherson.

Crowds gathered all day long at temple. When the announcement was made to a gathering in a small assembly room, old men dropped their walking canes and fell to their knees. tears ed. Roberta was later divorced and married an orchestra leader, arrangements to assume the presidency and pastorship of the stumbled into the border settlement at Agua Prieta, saying she had escaped from coursing down their cheeks raised their hands upward im Harry Salter. International Church of the Sister Aimee herself eloped by two dark-complexioned individ ploringly.

A child in their midst Foursquare Gospel, of Angelus uals named Rosie and Steve. plane to Yuma on Sept. 13, 1931, looked on, bewildered. Temple and of its branches with David L. Hutton, rotund She told reporters the pair throughout the world.

re not sure she gone, even if they say it," cried out and jovial baritone in her choir. had approached her on the Dr. W. B. Teaford.

temple one follower. Almost on the wedding night. Hazel Joan St. Pierre announced "He raised Lazarus from the CHARLIE TOBEY gayit beach at Ocean Park and asked her to administer to their dying baby. When she was taken to she was suing Hutton for breach of promise.

She was a nurse dean, said Mrs. McPherson's body will lie in state when it is brought here. Pilgrimages are expected from every State and Canada. Tentative arrangements are for funeral services to be ca. The woman who herself had baptized more than 40,000 with water was preparing to add a car, she declared they clapped a blanket over her head and she became unconscious when a more to her fold.

grave after four davs!" cried condiiet buinn iv trft another, half hopefully, half ('' luctant to believe that death had' a.h odi from $20.00 to silenced t)ie crusading voice of Driv the woman who to her had be- TOBEY'S RADIO come a symbol of religion. IcOJIJIlTVICATIO! SERVICE "lie has begun to gather Hisj 1 300 so. Broadway m. nil Curious, she became a worker in the mission. At the bedside of two sick children she met a tall, fair-haired clergyman, Rev.

Robert Semple. They were married when she was 19 and they traveled as missionaries to the Orient where both fell ill of an epidemic fever. Mr. Semple died and shortly thereafter a daughter, Roberta Semple, was born to his widow. Marries Grocery Clerk Shortly after returning to the United States she continued her evangelism in the South, where she married a grocery clerk, Har-old McPherson.

A son, Rolf McPherson, was born to them but this marriage ended in divorce. Sister Aimee first visited Los Angeles in 1917 and five years later she and her mother, Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, had collected more than $500,000 to erect the cream-colored temple opposite the trees and lagoon of Echo Park. On completion, with Radio Station KFSG and furnishings, it was valued at $1,500,000. This structure was dedicated who once had treated him.

She got a $3000 judgment. Divorce Ends -Marriage On a trip to Central America Mrs. McPherson had been in sponge was pushed onto her conducted Sunday for the Canadian farm girl who carried the the public eye for more than a nostrils. rcasmift eras gospel throughout the world. Steve burned her fingers with with Hutton, Sister Aimee con quarter century and the center of her activities was Los Ange- tracted a serious tropical ail ies.

a lighted cigar attempting to elicit information (the nature of which was never disclosed) ment. She was recovering from Friends and foes the scoffers this illness and a nervous break-1 who doubted her story of being down when she learned of the INJOY kidnaped from the beach at while she was driven to a one-room shack in Mexico, Sister Aimee said. COfFIE oh (f SI oVnvw THAT'S The evangelist declared she Ocean Park in 1926 and being spirited to Agua Prieta, Mex. were always intrigued by the career of a girl who became known around the world by her used a jagged tin can to slash the ropes. Doubtful critics insisted her clothing, especially breach-of-promise suit judgment.

The Information caused her to faint and she fell to a concrete floor, suffering brain concussion. The marriage to Hutton ended in a 1934 divorce. Stories about Sister Aimee are legion. In preaching to millions she was hailed by her followers as a miraculous healer. Every time she spoke her temple was first name.

That name was "Aimee." her shoes, failed to show sufficient wear to make her story Throughout her spectacular credible. I I r4-i Wv all vaur needs, vol SA career she seized the trappings Sister Aimee's return to her on New Year's Day, 1923. Four hundred gypsies who acclaimed temple was triumphant. Crowds of the theatrical world huge bouquets, klieg lights, a radio station, a Prayer Tower in which jammed the tabernacle nightly. her as a religious leader were 5 II TFOtfU III III jammed.

She entered Texas Gui- among the throng of the devoted. Story Contradicted Contradictions of her story li V- Money Tours In Pick PimtaHon The pennies and nickels of the came from many sources. The Los Angeles County grand Jury Chautauqua circuit were now "noiseless" currency which didn't heard testimony wit returnea 2. "flavor-Saver Roosted S. Ffasiter in the Bean 4.

"Fits" Your Coffeepot 5. Richer in Your Cup rattle in the collection plate. At no indictment. Several weeks this one service alone $100,000 later the District Attorney's of was raised for the temple. fice filed a complaint against Mrs.

McPherson. her mother, In years to come this was to be a mere dribble as the Four Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, nan's famed New lork night club, was hailed by the trademark greeting, "Hello, Sucker" and announced she was warring against sin. i Names Assistant. She appointed Rheba Crawford Splivalo, the "Angel of Broadway," as associate pastor of the temple in 1935.

This friendship was ruptured in 1937 vhen Mrs. Splivalo filed a $1,080,000 slander suit against Mrs. McPherson. The suit later was settled. This was the 45th suit against Sister Aimee in 14 years.

Most of the cases were dismissed. Mrs. Kennedy, estranged from Kenneth G. Ormiston, former square Gospel expanded to 400 churches in the United States MH.D AND MELLOW ff it i i radio operator at the temple, and Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman and 200 mission stations abroad, Yet in depression years a mort gage again weighed on the tern Seilaff.

The complaint charged con I CxAiVA I UNI Values in Certi-Fresh FISH! pie. When the cycle veered up spiracy to obstruct justice and ward a few years ago, Sister to prepare false -evidence, 13e Aimee again celebrated in spec EE Bottle followers had maintained a continuous vigil, day and night for more than 20 years as an aid in her battle to save souls. Old-fashioned Oratory 1 Sister Aimee, herself, wearing a large cross about her neck and in flowing white robes, still was using old-fashioned oratory to spellbind her audiences and lead thousands "into the fold." "I am not a healer," she said repeatedly. "Jesus is the healer. I am only the office girl who opens the door and says 'Come in." Her technique In her huge temple in Los Angeles, in a tent on the prairie, beside the swamp on a distant continept was the same.

At its peak, the bass horns of a big brass band would boom triumphantly. The "miracle room" at Angelus Temple would open, a museum of crutches and other artificial aids discarded by the halt and the lame after the prayer-induced recovery. The music would soften Into a religious appeal. It would sweep in crescendo in martial Btrains. Then Sister's sermon and the climax: "Ushers! Jump to it!" her vibrant, far-reaching voice would alleged Mrs.

McPherson "pretended she had been kidnaped" but that instead she spent 10 days in a cottage at Carmel with HALIBUT STEAKS 51S, no. rinr tacular fashion. The mortgage was burned on a New Year's Eve In a huge urn placed on the roof of the temple dome. Klieg lights VM. VITA Catsup FOUNTAIN STANDARD Peaches hsjvm HEMET CHOICE Apricots ASP FANCY Applesauce HUNT ROYAL ANNE Cherries i her daughter in recent months, went into seclusion at her Her-mosa Beach home when she learned of the death.

Atty. Fainer announced that Rolf, temple business manager, Red Grcle played on the evangelist as she lighted the match. A throng of 2n.47c 2. 51c Gla.t aw no. riAP Clin Jt9 No.

tOe Can I No. 2" i tT Otaso No. Z. Can, 36c Bokcr lo.OOO jammed the streets below is authorized both by Mrs. Mc-j 43; I I lb 37fc COD FILLETS easier LAKE CATFISH Columbia RaXd Smelts Pherson win and through other "Angels" temple workers clad in white, with full cloth wings stretching from their shoulders flitted about on the dome as the triumph of faith over gold Black Chetrie was celebrated.

Funds Go to Church umati rurm BTrrT 5-i bti 5-ottb; All funds- were plowed back Tall AC Can 2i to 31 -lbs. Average FRYERS into the church. Previous to her death, her attorney said, she would leave a personal estate 45M WHITE HOUSE Evap. Milk MEL-O-BIT Cheese Spread KRAFT ARRAY Margarine -Lb. Ormiston.

The radio operator denied this and subsequently the charges were dismissed at the request of Dist. Atty. Keyes. Investigations had failed to shake the story. Sister Aimee began several world tours.

In 1930 the British administration of Palestine asked her to leave Jerusalem because Moslem troubles might be aggravated by her evangelism. Stricken III in 1931 She was stricken with a nervous breakdown in 1931 and members of her congregation maintained a "death watch" in tower. Roberta Semple fell in love with a ship's purser, William Smyth, and they were married. Rolf fell in love with Lorna Dee Smith, a temple Bible student, and married her. "Ma" Kennedy, long a widow, fell In love with Guy Edward (What-a-Man) Hudson, a traveling salesman, and was married to him.

67e Loaf shout. "Clear the one-way street Grade Y. Dressed of only 54000. Undoubtedly the greatest con to Jesus. car fe bo it BooaooeeQ09C0o888PttC08 IJLt.t-fl-ft.tJL8 She would make a dramatic pause in the blinding spotlight, Then her cry: 2 mmmmmmmmmmmmrj "Come on, sister! Come on, i brother!" SULTANA Salad Dressing NN PAGE Spaghetti SULTANA ORANGE Marmalade sistent splash of publicity for any woman in modern history began when Sister Aimee, clad in a green bathing suit, walked into the breakers at Ocean Park on May 18, 1926, and disappeared.

For 34 days, thousands of her followers patrolled the beach. A $23,000 reward was offered but later withdrawn. Searchlights glared across the waters all night. On June 23 Sister Aimee 19" 1 lb 14a 1-lb. js Glau 19 1-lb.

Glow And down the aisle they came, first slowly and haltingly. Then in droves. Sobbing, shouting, on crutches, in wheel chairs and APPLES BELLEFILEUIfS on foot came the faithful fol SULTANA 25 lowers. They would kneel and pray. Sister Aimee would shout hallelujahs for their salvation.

PreservespTT NN PAGE Plum Preserves Of the three marriages, Rolfs has been the only one that last-1 25e 1313 PFKOE ORANGE PEKOE Our Own Tea Jl- 59 Premonition of Daughter's Passing Told by 'Ma' Kennedy ANN PAGE LEMON Sparkle Dessert 5 StTITANA CIDER Fr the right In morn Vinegar SM-V Speaking of a premonition of Bortlctt Pears Lima Deans 2n.19 1 Yellow Onions 3.8c Tokay Grapes 10 1 Yams or Sweet Potatoes 2.19 1 SUNNYFTELD Rice Gems I Com Flake 8'-o. fyt Pkg- Tr t-ai. he vna-offi Thi ysssr uneasy Tuesday night as she had been when her daughter's husband died in China. She said, however, that she was glad her daughter lived long enough to arrange things for her son Rolf to take over. Mrs.

Kennedy said she didn't think arrangements had been made for him to take over when her daughter was so ill six months ago. Gallo Wines her daughter's passing, Rev. Evangel Minnie (Ma) Kennedy last night tearfully recalled that Aimee Semple McPherson had always said she "would like to die while actively carrying on her work." The 73-year-old mother of the famous evangelist said at her Hermosa Beach home she was pT'" Soiden Nahtl ht 4 CLARET or BURGUNDY ORTer MUSCATIL Del 8-oz. Can Tomato Sauce M' ont Can No. 303 4 1)0 5th I 00 5th Gal.

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