Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1931 — Page 9

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AIMEE BRIDE AT 17

She Fell in Love at a Revival

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This I* the second of six stories on the amazing events in the love story of Aimee Scmnle McPherson Hutton, the Los Angeles evaneelist, who recently embarked on her third honeymoon. BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN NE\ Service Writer (CoDvriKht. 1931. bv NEA Service. Inc.) AIMEE M'PHERSON—the “magnetic, golden-haired angel of Angelas temple”—wore a blue suit trimmed with blue fox fur and a modish Eugenie hat when she and David L. Hutton were married in a tri-motored passenger plane at Yuma, Ariz., because “Married in blue your love will be true.” How different this sky elopement, heralded around the world, from the ‘simple home ceremony years ago in the little Canadian town of Ingersoll, Ont., when Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy, 17, tripped altarward j with Robert Semple, preacher and ! boilermaker! No reporters, no photographers at j that wedding. There was no elaborate trousseau j either. There was no posing before , motion picture cameras. Aimee, the | blushing bride, had seen only one motion picture show in her life at that time. She had attended just one dance—and danced with the village preacher. #OO THOSE were the days when Aimee was a red-head. She attended Ingersoll collegiate institute and her chief claim to distinction was the fact that when school programs were given Miss Kennedy always won applause for speaking the best “piece.” She had admirers—yes, indeed. In 1907 Aimee entered a popularity contest staged by the Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Review. She won more votes than anyone else and was awarded the grand prize—a free vacation trip down the St. Lawrence to Quebec. It was Aimee’s first view of the world outside the small Canadian community—a world she was to encircle and conquer. She was not given the title, “Miss Popularity” (it was before the day of beauty contests), but that prize trip held all the significance and glamour for the farm girl that -subsequent “Miss Manhattans” and "Miss Chicagos” have known. That trip seems to have been a turning point in Aimee Kennedy’s life. She was pretty, 17, rather well developed, but still girlish. Life beckoned and the fire that has since made her the greatest woman evangelist in the world had begun to burn. 000 THE trip to Quebec was to be followed shortly by more momentous happenings. AiTnee heard talk In the school classroom about “The Holy Ghost Revival” services Preacher Robert Semple was conducting. Semple was a newcomer in Ingersoll. Curious, Aimee left a school play rehearsal to visit the revival “Asa schoolgirl I spoke at school and church entertainments and took part in all the amateur plays I could. I loved the stag-3 -md decided to be an actress. I tried to forget my mother's teachings and read Darwin and Ingersoll. "Then one day, dressed in all my finery, I slipped into a little mission in the Canadian town where I attended school, attracted by the voice of the handsome young preacher, Robert Semple. He had curly brown hair and a beautiful face and he upset me. •‘At. first I giggled at some of the things he said, but I couldn’t forget them. I went again and then one afternoon driving along the frozen country road in a sleigh the miracle happened. A warm glow filled my heart and I began to pray to God to forgive me. I was converted.” Ttu HUS simultaneously Aimee was won to love and to the church. She flung herself into the excitement of the revival meetings. She absented herself from school day after day to sit in the crowded mission room. Nothing her mother and father could say or do could keep the girl away. As the evangelist explains: “I have never done anything halfheartedly. Some people go through life always undecided, always neutral; but from the time I was a tiny child, whatever I did I did with my whole heart.” So there were arguments in the

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Kennedy household, but, as usual, Aimee won. She gave up school and was steadfast in her attendance at the mission house until the end of the meetings. Mr. Semple departed to conduct evangelical work elsewhere. There were letters, however. Aimee corresponded with the tall young man with the curly hair and he came back. She was helping a neighbor care for her two sick children when, as she tells it, “the door opened and in walked Robert Semple, offering his services and prayers. After he had prayed the children fell into a quiet sleep and we sat down side by side by the light of the shaded lamp to read the Bible. “Robert talked earnestly of what a life of faith meant, the sacrifice, the joy, the reward; then, reaching over, he took my hand in his and, telling me of his love, asked me to become his wife and enter the work as a helpmate by his side. “I said ‘Yes’ to Goa and ‘Yes’ to Robert.”

THE marriage was arranged. The young couple’s honeymoon was a trip to Stratford, Ont., where Semple worked as a boilermaker in a locomotive factory, preaching at night. Aimee plunged into housework, played, sang and testified at the nightly meetings. After six months in Stratford they set off on a revivalist trip across the country. Then they sailed for China by way of Great Britain and the continent. One of the anthems with which they spurred on converts at- their meetings was the following, sung to the tune “Bringing in the Sheaves:” “Bringing in Chinese, Bringing in Chinese, We will go rejoicing, Bringing in Chinese.” In Hankow, China, Semple fell ill. He was sick just one month and died. A month later a baby girl named Roberta, was born. The 20-year-old widow started home with her tiny daughter and eventually reached New York to join her mother. Life could scarcely have been more black than it must have looked at this time. Aimee was without money, in poor health, and with a child to support. She and her mother took up revival work. Presently the horizon brightened. Aimee met Harold McPherson and again she fell in love. Next: Aimee weds Harold McPherson on a “companionate” understanding, but their roniance ends in divorce when she Returns to preaching. She builds Angelus Temple.

Greets Sisters

Lorena Denham

Welcoming Pythian Sisters of Indiana at an informal reception in the Denison tonight will be two junior auxiliaries—Semper Fidelis council No. 10 and Friendship council No. 8, both of Indianapolis. Miss Lorena Denham of 2615 North Gale street, royal princess of council No. 10, is an Indiana university student. She transferred to the Bloomington school after two years of study at Butler Hollege.

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LAUNCH U. S. CASE AGAINST SCARFACE AL’ Government Charges Vice King Owes $215,000 Tax ' on His Income. SMASH AT JURY FAILS Defense Attempt to Change Makeup of Panel Is Overruled. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO, Oct. 7.—Dwight F. Green, 1 assistant United States district attorney, launched the government’s first broadside at Alphonse Capone today in an opening statement at the gangster’s trial that linked him with Cicero gambling interests and placed his income from the underworld in a given six year* at more than $1,000,000. Green, calm spoken, with graying temples, is the man who started the government’s campaign against gangsters on the income tax front. The years of study he put in on such cases already has resulted in the com ction of several of Capone’s right-hand men. “Capone, the gambling house overseer, owes the government $215,000 in tax on that $1,000,000 income between 1924 and 1929,” Green said. Defense Move Fails That charge, specified in two indictments, is the one the gang despot went to trial on Tuesday. An attempt to change the makeup of the jury by the defense failed shortly after the session opened. Attorney Albert Fink declared one juror had not been “quite frank in his statements Tuesday, if what Attorney Ahern heard overnight is true,” and demanded an investigation of the jury. The jurors were dismissed and attorneys for both sides went to chambers to confer. After a few minutes they returned and Judge James H. Wilkinson ordered the trial to continue. Jurors “Small Towners” The twelve men sitting in Capone’s trial were sworn in by Judge Wilkerson shortly atfer 4 p. m. Tuesday. It took just four hours to complete the jury. It was the sort of jury the government prosecutors had sought, the sort defense attorneys had fought. The twelve, all are more than 45 years old. All but one are from suburban towns, villages, or farms. The panel includes a farmer, two retired merchants, a country store proprietor, two painter-decorators, a real estate dealer, an insurance salesman, a clerk, a lubricating engineer, an abstractor and a patternmaker out of work.

COSMOPOLITANS ELECT Paul Duncan Named Head of Butler Fellowship Club. Good fellowship among students from various nations enrolled at Butler university is the purpose of

the Cosmopolitan Club, which recently elected officers for this year. Paul Duncan was chosen president and will have charge of the club’s activities. He expects to arrange for a number of speakers to appear before the group this semester. Other officers are: Elizabeth Myers, secretary; Mrs. J. H. Ehlers, treas-

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‘JUST TIRED/ SO THEY STOLE CAR, RODE HOME State Fair Visitors Get Fines and Sentences to Farm. Two gentlemen whose moral backbone was broken down by physical fatigue at the state fair last month, will have six months at the state penal farm in which to rest. It was not a desire to steal, but that tired feeling that prompted them to steal an automobile to ride home, they told Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, before whom they pleaded guilty today to vehicle taking charges. He sentenced George Snider, 333 North Noble street, and William Row, 517 North Noble street, to 180 days on the farm and added fines of SIOO and costs each. Both have police records. Thomas Martin, 528 North Senate avenue, and Dave Johnson, 18 West Wysong avenue, both Negroes, were fined $1 and costs and sentenced to sixty uays on the farm for illegal possession of a car. FEAR MONGOL UPRISING Manchurian Communique Says Princes Given Arms by Japanese. By Unit* and Press PEIPING. China, Oct. 7.—A Manchurian communique announced today that the princes of inner Mongolia were mobilizing and preparing to declare their independence. The Japanese, the communique said, gave the Mongols arms and ammunition from the captured Mukden arsenal. License Plates Truce to Continue Truce between Indiana and Kentucky on vehicle license plates will continue indefinitely, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and James Carpenter, license burea head, announced today. They have returned from Frankfort, Ky. t where they conferr.d with license officials of that staff.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1931

Women Throng to Poison Trial Scene

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throw part of it on the ground. Jackson denied this. “While you were in bed after this happened, in front of I ouise Moffett, your wife’s sister’-j daughter, didn’t you say that you and Davis (a hired* hand) hadn’t sprinkled strychnine on corn and watched the crows eat it and fall dead?” Yells His Denial Jackson broke openly. “Never in'my life. Never. Never,” he yelled. “And didn’t you, in the 1 pital, in the presence of a nurse say Mrs. Simmons did it?” “I did not. That wasn’t me. I might have thought it.” Although the state protested at times to questioning, Tindall attempted to show Jackson was angered at Simmons and his wife. “Didn’t Simmons and his wife try to keep your wife from taking you back?” he was asked. “No,” Jackson replied. Refers to Prison Record The defense referred to incidents purported to have occurred after Jackson’s release from prison, following serving of a sentence for Mann act violation. Jackson denied he and the Simmons family “had nothing to do with each other,” asserting John Simmons was “over at our house not three months ago.” The witness also said he had worked on a farm owned by a member of the Simmons family after his release from prison. “Carrie Simmons is one of the finest women I ever saw,” Jackson proclaimed. “Didn’t Ben Scifres (Boone county prosecutor) and Roy Adney, his aid, visit you at your farm and tell you if there was false swearing in this trial someone would have to pay for it, and if Mrs. Simmons was acquitted I’d have you indicted for murder?” Tindall asked. “Well your name wasn’t mentioned,” Jackson replied. Defendant Listens Eagerly “And didn’t you tell Mrs. Charity Simmons (mother of the defendant’s husband), that ‘they’re after you and will get you yet?’ ” “No, sir.” • During this part of the testimony, Simmons and his accused wife leaned forward on the defense table and listened eagerly to every word Jackson uttered. This afternoon, state’s attorneys said they would requestion Jackson. Pretty and chic, Miss Vaneeta Belle Paterson, 15-year-old Lebanon high school junior, admitted in her testimony that she knew but little es what occurred before members of the picnic group became ill. She attended the reunion with Marion Hickson, her sweetheart and Purdue university student. •Just Watched Marion’ She said she and Hickson did not stay at the picnic tables, but sat on an auto cusmon nearby. “You didn’t think about watching anyone?” she was asked. “You had eyes for no one but Marion, didn’t you?” “That’s right,” she answered demurely. Referring to her and Hickson as “you children.” W. H. Parr Jr., youthful defense attorney, learned .from Miss Patterson that she had gone to the aid of Jackson when he was suffering from the poison. “I tried to put a tablecloth over him, but he told me not to cover him. He said he was going to die,” she testified. Miss Patterson said she saw Mrs'. Simmons “wrinapg her hands when Lois JacksoS removed one of

the capsules from her mouth at the picnic table.” Later, according to Miss Patterson, Mrs. Simmons sat in the family car outside the hospital, knowing that both Alice Jean and Virginia had died from the poisoning, but did nt show emotion. “There were tears in her eyes but she was not crying,” the girl told the jury. “She was calm.” Miss Patterson was one of the persons who escaped illness and death at the reunion said she ate her sandwich without ill effects. She testified her sandwich bore only one toothpick. It has been the contention of the state that the number of toothpicks in the sandwiches indicated which of those were poisoned. It is alleged some carried two toothpicks and others only one to hold them together. Answers “Yes” to Both • \ Attorneys for both sides then asked when she had talked to opposing counsel. The girl admited a conference with the prosecutor Tuesday night and said Scifres told her not to be “too particular” about the number of sandwiches in the tin container that Mrs. Simmons is supposed to have examined. Scifres immediately recalled his witness and asked her if he hadn’t instructed her “not to be particular unless you are sure of it.” The girl answered “yes” to this question, too. Jackson, who had testified Tuesday, left the stand after he had rattled the skeleton in the closet of his own life ominously. He looked the jury and defense attorneys in the eye as much as to say, “Sure, I’ve been convicted of the Maim act violation and for transporting a mortgaged car. What are you going to do about it?” Target of Whispers Jackson left Tuesday with the awareness that he had been the continual subject of a “whispering” campaign from friends of the defendants. He left knowing df the innuendoes defense attorneys have injected into the court record during the trial, for in the short period of his cross-examination he was subjected to those same innuendoes. Mrs. Ora Pollard of Lebanon, preceded Jackson on the stand Tuesday afternoon and told of the alleged failure of Mrs. Simmons to aid her daughter, Alice Jean, when she became ill from the poison pellets. A highlight in her testimony was her statement: “I saw Carrie Simmons pick up a sandwich out of her tin—look-at it—and then walk away. She was very pale.”

DR. COULTER TO HEAD T. B. SEAL CAMPAIGN Association Chief to Direct Group of 48 in December Sales. Dr. Stanley Coulter will head the campaign for sale df Tuberculosis Christmas seals in Indiana this year, it was announced today by the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. Appointment of Coulter, honorary vice-president of the association, as chairman of the campaign, marks the sixth successive year he has so served. He will act as the head of a group of forty-eight directors of the association who will conduct the seal drive which begins Thanksgiving day and extends through the Christmas holidays. A goal of $200,000 to finance preventive and curative anti-tubercu-Josis programs in the state for the next year has been set by the committee. Changes Mind on Suicide By United Press COLUMBUS. O, Oct. 7.—Mathias Radio, 47, wanted to end it all so he leaped from a bridge into the Scioto river. The water was cold and unfriendly so he changed his mind and swam to shore.

Although twelve farmers legally will return the verdict for or againstvMrs. Carrie W. Simmons, alleged poison murderer of her daughters, another “jury” each night weighs the fate of the slay-er-suspect in their homes. The pper photo shows the member; of that “jury” of the public, composed mostly of women and girls, who, each day, flock to the courtroom to hold their seats through hours of testimony. Their thoughts are unfathomi able and their facial expressions varied as the trial proceeds. Lower left photo is that of Ora * Pollard, Lebanon farmer, who, in

DICTATOR POWER IS GIVEN TO BRUENING

Chancellor’s Cabinet Resigns; Suspend All Rights in Germany. BY PAUL KECSKEMETI United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Oct. 7—The cabinet of Chancellor Heinrich Bruening resigned today. A rigid dictatorial regime was ■ established and basic constitutional rights in Germany were suspended. President Paul Von Hindenburg accepted the cabinet’s resignation and commissioned Chancellor Heinrich Bruening to form anew ministry. The cabinet resignation had been expected to give Bruening a free hand in reorganizing his administration before the reichstag meets Oct. 13. Dictatorial powers were given the government in an emergency decree issued today by the 84-year-old president. Among the basic constitutional rights suspended were inviolability and personal freedom of the home, rights of expression of thoughts through the press and letters, rights of coalition and assembly, and constitutional guarantees of personal property. Curtius Move First Step The resignation of Foreign Minister Julius Curtius Tuesday was the first stfp in Bruening’s plans to strengthen his government to face difficult situations during a winter expected to be the hardest in years. Bruening visited the President immediately after the cabinet meeting at which the action was decided upon and tendered Von Hindenburg the cabinet’s resignation. It was believed that Bruening’s new cabinet would exclude Curtius, but would contain several industrial personalities. Over 100 Pages Long The suspension of basic constitutional rights was made valid for the duration of the emergency decree and the extent of enforcement was left to the discretion of the government. The decree was over 100 pages in length and divided into eight parts. The first part amended the President’s previous decrees, aimed chiefly to support Bruening’s financial program, of Dec. 1, 1930, and June 5, 1931>

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—Photos by Times Staff photographer rapid fire Hoosier language, Tuesday told of the deathly, quiet chat blanketed the gay picnic party when the first strychnine capsules were tasted in chicken sandwiches. He described the defendant as “calm and staring” during the tragedy. Circuit Judge John W. Hornaday is shown in the center photo. Recovered from poisoning illness, Horace Jackson, champion corn grower of Hancock county (lower right), as he appeared on the witness stand today when the defense attempted to show that he might have been the poison murderer.

Did Anyhow By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 7. While stopping here en route east, David Hutton objected to his wife, the former Aimee Semple McPherson, posing for photographers holding a baby in her arms. “Put it down,” pleaded Hutton, nervously, “a picture of that really would start a story.”

PINCH BANK BOBBERS Hoosiers Confess Holdup of Carthagp Institution. By United Prcus LOUISVILLE, Oct. 7. Clarence Shrock, 24, of Warren, Ind., and Lowell McCorkle, 26, of Marion, Ind., confessed, police said, to the robbery of the Carthage, Ind., State bank, a week ago. Officers recovered $1,092 of the $2,400 loot. • The bandits waived extradition and will be taken to Rushville, ind., today. With them were arrested two Marion girls, Leona Hawkins, 19, and Mabel Ellis, 17, who denied knowledge of the robbery. The four were arrested in a rooming house today. MOVE TO BOOST PAY Federal Roads Bureau to Take Action on Southern Jobs. By Scripps-H award. A*e< ctpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. The United States bureau of public roads will seek to increase wages being paid on certain southern fed-eral-aid road construction jobs through approval of the insertion of minimum wage scales in contracts. This change in policy was announced today by Thomas H. McDonald, bureau chief. This decision follows disclosures that contractors have forced down the pay of unskilled labor in South Carolina to as low as 75 cents a day in some instances. Establishment of this low scale followed action of state officials in abrogating regulations requiring payment of a minimum of 20 cents an hour after the federal bureau had disapproved fixing a minimum scajt.

EXPERTS LAUD BANKING PLAN AS WISE STEP Hoover Proposal Wins Favor of Authorities All Over World. MORGAN KEEPS SILENT International Bankers at Paris Want Extension of Debt Holiday. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Approval of President Herbert Hoover’s stabilization plans came from many quarters today, while the White House was announcing that the second move in the program would come later today when the President meets with ten bankers and real estate men to discuss home building finance. The list of conferees was: William E. Best, Pittsburgh: Hi-* ram S. Cody, Chicago; Harry A, Kahler, New York; Harry S. Kissell, Springfield, O.; Samuel N. Reep, Minneapolis: W. Q. Stewart, New York; Ernest P. Trigg, Philadeldelpnia; Clarence M. Wooley, New York; James L. Madden, New York, and Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce. From Paris came the pleased comment of the French press, enthused because Mr. Hoover had decided to await the arrival of Premier Pierre Laval in Washington before discussing prolongation of the one-year debt moratorium. Bankers Are Lukewarm Then, too, from Paris was the report that J. P. Morgan and his partners, Thomas Cochran and Nelson Jay, studied at length today an outline of the Hoover plan. Morgan declined to make a statement, but other international bankers in Paris were understood to be lukewarm toward the proposal, expressing themselves as being more interested in “an extension of the debt moratorium than in bolstering banks suffering from unwise financing.” In London, Charles G. Dawes, United States ambassador to Great Britain and an outstanding economic expert in his own right, hailed the Hoover plan as “the foundation for improved business activity.” One of Britain’s outstanding economists, who preferred to reiTiain anonymous, indorsed the plan fully and declared the action was on “entirely wise lines.” The London Stock Exch&nge was stirred by the news and prices in many sections of the list advanced moderately.

Germans Are Pleased From Berlin came the pleased statements of German bankers who said that “in extraordinary times extraordinary steps must be taken.” In the United States itself, the most important reaction came when the American Bankers’ Association, meeting at Atlantic City, officially approved Mr. Hoover’s proposal for the $500,000,000 bank pool to relieve frozen assets. In Wall Street enthusiasm was mounting hourly. Even before the Street had concrete news of the plan Tuesday, the market took a sensational upward spurt eclipsing any advance since the close of 1929. Today, the market opened 1 to 5 points up and held steady throughout most of the morning. Bankers were optimistic and lauded the proposals whole-heartedly. Explain “Frozen Assets” Meanwhile, at Washington, the* department of commerce gave out a statement explaining “frozen assets.” Examples, listed by the department, were: 1. Notes secured by mortgage on real estate. 2. Notes secured by collateral such as stock certificates. 3. Bonds of corporations or foreign governments. 4. Stocks not Hsted on stock exchanges. The department stressed the fact that these holdings in normal times are sound, but in times of financial stress can not be converted into cash immediately. The department h ; S u ed “ frozen assets” as “assets other than cash which become temporary valueless becaase there is no market for the securities behind them.”

RECONSIDER T. B. RULING Health Board Again Ponders Hospital Unit Project. Proposal of the Flower Mission Society to erect a $50,000 unit at city hospital for indigent tuberculosis patients, rejected last week today was being reconsidered by the city health board, following conference of the board with mission representatives Tuesday The offer was rejected by the board previously because the budget does not include provision for maintenance of the building. Offer to buld the unit was made two years ago. Following discussion of the project Tuesday, health board members promised further study of the proposition. thieveTre^auto “Borrow” Car to Haul Loot in Motor Company Robbery. Thieves split the difference in ettquet in acts of outlawry at the Jones Motor Corporation' 358 North Capitol avenue, early today. They stirpped tires and tools from cars parked in the rear of the automobile company, loaded them into one of the cars and took the accessories to their hiding place. But this morning when Floyd Frazier, 915 Highland avenue, vicepresident, investigated, he found the accessories still gone, but'the thieves had returned the automobile used in transporting the loot.