Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
WELCOMED TO HER HOME.
Cheers and Tears Greet Evangelist i'm
OS Angeles.

Los ANGELES, Calf, June 90 up.
Aimee Semple Mcpherson. evan-J
gelist, who dropped from sight at the
beach May IS. To reapear in Doug
las. Ariz.. June %, relating story of
abduction. torture and privation,
came To the end of her homeward
trail here today. surrounded by thou
sands of milling admirers. She trod
a carpet OF roses III fragrant contrast
To the bliStering sands OF the Mex
lean desert across which she said she
fed from her abductors last Tues
day.
NJ F. Mccarthy special agent of
the southern Pacific, in charge of
squad of guards at the station into
which Mrs. McPherson's train pulled.
said the arrangements 10 guard the
little Whitehead. bronze haired woman
and the preparations made by her
followers TO greet her We're more de-
tailed and lavish than those which
attended the visits to Los Angeles OF
President Wilson. King Albert OF Bel
GUM or former President Taft.
Tears Of joy stood in thousands of
eyes. triCkled down the wrinkled
cheeks of old men and women. whose
religious fervor and tithes from their
savings have helped the exponent of
the -Four Square Gospel to build
the great circular AngeluS Temple.
from which she broadcasts the tenets
of her faith.
Greeted With Cheers.
From the threats of the younger
OF her followers poured yelling del
use of cheers and shouts, calls of
welcome and cries of fervent loyalty.
'iIosanna" and "Iiallelu jahs' echoed
and re-echoed. aud over the great
:tSSt.mitllSy,- here. - under
tone from hundreds of lips of AnGelus
Temple adhtrents Il deVout Praise
the Lord.
Great thruns> If the curious as
we'll as temple followers iammed the
streets in every direction from the
station. In these ranks there broke
anew the controversy which has
ragged about the case since the day
in MAY when Mrs. Mcpherson walked
into the Santa Monica surf aud her
secretary Miss Emma SChaeffer. and
her mother. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy.
announced that she had been
drowned
The temple pastor. aCCompa MED by
her mother and her two children
Roberta by her first husband Rob
ert Sempe. now dead. and Rolf. the
son Of her second husband. Harold
MCPHERSON. from whom she is Iii
vorCpd walked from her car and into
the station lobby surrounded by eight
hofivCuards. These special officers
rode with her from Douglas after re-
ported threats of violence against her
there
Girls Scatter Roses.
Twelve little girls from Ansclus
TcIn,,ir preceded the party scattering
| roses at the feet OF their religious
teacher.
The AnscuS Temple Band white
uniforms Eli<tenins in the summer
sun. struck II triumphant air "a THEN
bastor appeared at the door and faced
the tremendous crowd.
Then the joNo procession formed
and the evangelist WAS escorted by
cheering thousands back to her tenn
pie.
There she will take again the flow
er.draped chair kept vacant beside
the pulpit since May is.
Prior tn her arrival here Mrs. Me
pherson greeted her followers by
radio. speaking over station KIM,
Los Angeles Ivy remote control from
| Cotton. Calf, where her train stop
ned Il minutes.
1T was bad enough to 60 through
the ordeal without having your word
doubted" she said in describing her
| kjdnaping. A crowd of 5000 was on
hand at Cotton.
Man Claims He Saw Her.
ID. n. Greenwood. city building in
snector at Tuscon, Ariz., boarded the
| train at Tuscon, and. after LOOKING
at the evangelist. declared she was
! the woman whom he had seen on the
streets of TuScon four weeks ago.
Mrs McPherson somewhat taken
| back. asked Greenwood on what ne
based his Identification. lie declared
he recognized her by her hair, the
! thinuess Of her face and her figure
| Asked by Capt. Cline of the Los
| Angeles detective force If he was
! positive I'm his identification. Green
| wood replied: "NVell, II 1t wasn't Mrs.
| Mcpherson il was her twin sister"
Lee TO Retire From Congress.