Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 130, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1931 — Page 19

OCT. 9, 1931

‘ALFALFA BILL' CALLED 'ABLE' EVEN BY FOES Wanked as Nation's Greatest Constitutional Lawyer by Champ Clark. Thi* In the last of throe article* relatln* Intimate sidelight* on the colorful eareer of Governor William H. Murray •f Oklahoma. BY GEORGE B. ROSCOE United Pfes* Staff Correspondent OKLAHOMA CITY. Oct. 9 Cartoonists and writers viewing Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma from afar have pictured him as it somewhat comical demagog with no gifts save an ability to chew tobacco and wear handie-bar mustaches. But even Bill’s Avorst enemies in Oklahoma dismiss that idea sadly. “Don't get, the idea he's a hick numbskull elected by accident and Using his office as a circus," said a prominent attorney recently in an interview. “Champ Clark called him the nation’s greatest constitutional lawyer and one of the world’s finest parliamentarians.” Right now, summary, drastic action is Murray's answer to the economic crisis. The whole nation has marveled at the audacity with which Murray flings orders and enforces them. Down Came Rates Soon after he took office he launched a barrage of invectives at the utilities. He demanded that the rates be reduced. He engaged an attorney to file an anti-trust suit and seek receivership of the Oklahoma Natural Gas Corporation. The company compromised, agreeing to reduce rates to a maximum of 45 cents a thousand cubic feet. He served notice on bread makers and ice manufacturers to come down to the working man’s level. Bread dropped quickly to five cents. They wanted “none of Alfalfa Bill." Down on Red river, the boundary line with Texas, a Kattle had been raging for years. The' state constructed expensive bridges paralleling toll structures, at three points. Bridge operators had restrained free bridge traffic by federal court injunctions. Injunction is Dissolved Murray called up the bridge operators and told them he wa ■ opening the free bridges. In a few hours, Oklahomans saw the khaki-clad national guardsmen grimly patrolin g the bridges, blocking toll structures and keeping free bridges open despite the detail of Texas rangers assigned to uphold the court order. "Alfalfa Bill" snatched his usual lunch of three-minute eggs, milk and spinach, grabbed his old horse pistol and dashed to the war zone. The bridges were kept 'open. The federal court injunction was diseolved. Murray returned to find old men clamoring for aid against the mar-ket-wrecking flood of surplus oil. Prices had dropped to five and ten cents a barrel. Bill served notice on the major oil purchasers to pay $1 a barrel. The oil moguls chuckled. “One Dollar a Barrel” “Bill’s bluffing,” they broadcast. At noon, Aug. 4, Bill called out the militia and locked the Oklahoma oil fields. "One dollar a barrel,” said Bill, “let's go.” Prices doubled and trebled as the crude oil famine spread. Bill was adamant. Then the Phillips Petroleum Company posted the $1 price. Others joined. But Bill is keeping his fingers on the oil wells. “Everybody get together and decide on $1 a barrel," he said, “Then we'll open.” Assumes Job Lead The oil task still unfinished, Murray assumed the lead in unemploy- ; mont activities. “Men who eat must, work,” he said j end issued a call for meeting of Mississippi Valley states’ representatives at Memphis. Aug. 24. The meeting led to a second call for a meeting at St. Louis, Sept. 25. Murray was invited to be the principal speaker at the Chicago j Federation of Labor's golden jubi- j lee Labor #fiy. He told 25.000 listeners in Soldiers’ Field that Wall Street was a “vicious gambling den,” that, “bread, butter, and beans is the war cry of the people,” and that “prohibition is no question as long as the working man can not get the money to buy a drink.” That's Alfalfa Bill. BRYAN ‘AHEAD OF TIME' ‘Commoner’ Would Be Gratified by Turn of Events, Son Declares. J bn 1 nited Pres* LOS ANGELES. Oct. 9.—William Jennings Bryan simply was ahead of his time in fighting the cause of free silver. William Jennings Bryan Jr., son of the “Great Commoner,” and Los Angeles attorney, declared ‘Thursday night in an address before the Foreign Trade Club. "William Jennings Bryan would be gratified today to know that now' one can even advocate bimetalism and still be respectable.” the attorney declared. /POLICE WOMAN ROBBED Revolver Is Stolen From Desk in North Side Apartment. A thief has taken from Miss Ruth Haywood, 3640 North Meridian street, police woman, the instrument that supports the authority of her badge. Miss Haywood said today her revolver had been stolen from a desk in her apartment.

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Hoax or Fact, Aimee’s 10-Day \Kidnaping ’ Still Is Mystery

Thl I* Ihe fourth of *lx *torle* on the amarlnr event* In the love story of Aimee Semple MrPberton Hutton, the ! Los An*ele* evangelist, who recently embarked on her third bnnermoon. BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN NEA Service Writer tOoDvrleht. 1931. by NE/ Service, Inc.) AS though written in letters of flame across the sky, Aimee Semple McPherson's name blazed before the nation in May, 1926. With it was coupled the name, “'Kenneth Ormlston.” Whether these two were in love, whether they did occupy a bungalow at Carmel-by-the-Sea for ten | days, during the time the evangel- ! Ist was believed to be kidnaped, j whether Aimee and Ormiston deJ serve a place among the world's j most daring lovers or were the persecuted and innocent victims of circumstantial evidence, never has been proven. The facts w’ere presented in a most sensational court trial. From such curiously harmless objects as the following wks the net woven which enmeshed prosecution and blackest ridicule: A penciled grocery list. An unfinished sermon. A strand of red hair caught in a boudoir cap. A white silk tassel. A green bathing cap. A pair of woman’s shoes. t n n O RMISTON was the radio engineer at Angelus temple, Mrs. ' McPherson’s tabernacle, containing | the largest auditorium in the world j for religious gatherings. The temple radio broadcasts each i morning and concludes with a rei cital of sacred music at midnight. On the stage there is a concealed ■ telephone connecting with,the radio tower and during the singing Mrs. : McPherson usually calls up her radio j operator to learn how her voice is being received. She often talks several minutes thus. She and Ormiston met personally for the first time on the steps of the temple. Aimee offered to drive the radio operator home in her car. She always had been interested in the subject of radio and she discovered the engineer was a man of both charm and intelligence. Their work threw the two together. Gossip was bound to follow. In January, 1926, Aimee left Los Angeles for a tour of the Holy Land. It was said she went to try to cure the heartache caused by her love for the radio operator. Her loyal followers at Angelus temple denounce such suggestions as monstrous—in the same way they have denounced every other derogatory statements about “Sister Aimee.” n u MRS. M'PHERSON returned and was welcomed with a gala! celebration. Thousands met her at j the railroad station. Her services in the Temple were more largely attended. A few weeks after her return, the afternoon of May 18. Aimee and her secretary, Emma Schaeffer, went to one of Los Angeles beaches. Mrs. McPherson, wearing a bright green bathing suit and cap, went in swimming while the secretary read a book in their tent. Presently Miss Schaeffer raced across the sand, screaming for help. At one moment she had seen her employer floating far out in the water; at the next she had disappeared. Newspapers rushed extras that the woman preacher had drowned. Skiffs, coast guard cutters, divers, airplanes and dynamite were used to find the body. The faith- I ful from the Temple took up the j hunt en masse. Many brought cots and blankets! and camped overnight on the beach/ j The most devout expected to see “Sister,” triumphant over death, ! marching to them across the waves, j Memorial services were held and j collections taken. an n THEN, on June 22, not only Los Angeles but the entire country was electrified by the news

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that Mrs. McPherson had turned up at Agua Prieta, Mexico, across the border from Douglas, Ariz. “God has resurrected me from the dead.” she affirmed and related a spectacular, tale of being kidnaped. She said a man and woman known as “Rose” and “Steve” had transported her in a closed automobile from the California beach to a shack, in the Mexican desert where she was held captive until her escape. Officials searched for the kidnapers; found no one. They combed the desert but could find no shack to answer Aimee’s description. They looked at the clothing and shoes Aimee wore and declared them new. Back to Los Angeles came Mrs. McPherson to appear before the county grand jury and under oath that her kidnaping story was true. Then it became known that Ormiston, the radio operator, was missing and had been since the evangelist’s disappearance. There were whisperings of scandal. a a tt AIMEE answered them in court when at the conclusion of her testimony she asked and received permission to address the jurors. She said: “I would not work with one hand for seventeen years and, just as I saw my dearest dream coming true, sweep it over. “And as for falling in love, I am in love with the work I do and if I ever do fall in love it will be after Mr. McPherson is dead, because I do not believe in marriage after divorce, and if I did, it would be with an evangelist or someone who could help me in the Lord's work.\

MANUAL TEACHERS TRAVEL IN EUROPE

Nine teachers at Emmerich Manual Training high school answered the call of travel this summer, and went on journeys abroad. Practically every country in western Europe was visited. None of the instructors went to Russia. Henry S. Shell of the language department visited the British Isles, Holland, Germany and Switzerland. W. Finley Wright of the English department conducted a bus tour of central Europe. Twenty-eight persons went on the tour, including Marion Peeples and Louis Smith, both of the shop department. The tour covered Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and parts of Austria. Southwestern Europe and northern Africa were the mecca of Miss Jessie E. Moore of the English department and Miss Josephine K. Bauer of the history department. They traveled in Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain—on the night of the first election—France, and the British Isles.

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“There might be a baser motive. I almost blush to mention it in the jury room but some might think of it. They say the water of the mind are like the waters of the sea, that cast up strange things; and that I might be in trouble of some sort, and had to go away and come back. “I would like to say, although I apologize for having to mention such a thing, that I had a thorough examination upon coming home, although that was not necessary, as the history of my case for twelve years back would show that such a thing would be absolutely out of the question.” U u ON July 20. District attorney Keyes announced the case was closed, Aimee’s cohorts at the temple were more jubilant than ever. They declared their leader had won against the hosts of the devil. It was two days later that a woman of mystery—a woman whose name to this day remains shrouded in secrecy—entered the office of the chief of police at Monterey, Cal., with the information that Aimee Semple McPherson and Kenneth Ormiston had together occupied a bungalow at Carmel-by-the-Sea for ten days. In a few hours the deluge had descended! Next: Aimee denies Carmel story in court. Evidence includes a trunk of feminine finery, a strand of red hair in a boudoir cap, and the “Wuss” love letters. Her congregation remains faithful and after a sensational trial the case is dropped.

Robert G. Black of the science department, with Mrs. Black, history teacher, toured France, Italy and Germany. Carolyn G. Bradley of the commercial department studied water color painting in Italy and the Island of Capri.

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residents of Peiping. Johnson was appointed to his present pot ip 1929. He was born in Washington in 1887 and is a graduate of George Washington university. He began his career in China as a student interpreter in 1907. Two Escape Boys’ School Indianapolis police today were asked to watch for Earl Castor, 16, of Anderson, and Steve Jusewicz, 16, address unknown, who escaped Thursday afternoon from the Indiana boys’ school a* Plainfield.

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