The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-28
'MAMA'vOICES
THREATS TO
EXPOSE aimee
Red Haired Evangelist and
Mother to Battle 1t Out
in Courts.
MONEY GRAB CHARGED
Mrs. Kennedy Tosses Hints
That kidnapping Story
Was Shy of Truth.
MONEY GRAB CHARGED

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 28.-Red-
haired, comely Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson, whose business is religion
Of hard and fast tenets, and whose
followers are legion, today faced pos
sibility of another siege with the
courts.
Mama" Kennedy, Mrs. McPher-
sons mother, and aid in the work
Of Angelus Temple, made the threat
because zhe did not like the way
her daughter had treated her.
The older woman not only said
she planned to take their difficulties
to court, but she added the court
might care to inquire further into
the famous Carmel-By-the-Sea in
cident, which brought the woman
evangelist national notoriety.
Hints at Exposure"
Mrs. Kennedy, herself, said she
wanted to know what, if anything,
her daughter had kept from her in
accounting for her disappearance
last year with a story of being kid
mapped and carried into the desert.
While Mrs. Kennedy has believed
until recently that "Aimee told the
truth" she is beginning to wonder
whether some of the circumstances
of Mrs. McPherson's kidnapping
story are not incongruous.
At one time authorities charged
Mrs. Mcpherson with living in a
cottage at Carmel-By-t the-Sea with
Kenneth Orrniston, Temple radio
operator, during the period of her
absence from Los Angeles. The
evangelist legally was cleared of the
charge, however.
Break Is Complete
This and other things have re-
suited in a misunderstanding be-
tween mother and daughter-a mis-
understanding so complete that the
two have refused to communicate
with each other except through
lawyers.
A trivial argument between
Mother" Kennedy and SISTER
Aimee and officials of Angelus
Temple was the beginning of the
end.
Mrs. Kennedy charged her daugh-
ter with what might be called
double crossing" The evangelist
declared the breach is not between
herself and her mother, but between
her mother and church members.
"She has tried to gain complete
control Of the temple by. dealing
through a committee and at the
same time pretending great friend
illness toward me-" charged Mrs.
Kennedy.
Accepts Challenge
affairs at the temple are in ter
rible shape" Mrs. Kennedy said, in
announcing that she would bring
suit against Aimee. Things never
were worse there. Mrs. Mcpherson
melted revolt against me when she
was in the East, and invited me to
fight it out in court, I have ac-
cepted the challenge, will engage a
lawyer and do just that"
Mother" Kennedy returned from
a business trip to face the crisis at
Angelus Temple. Mrs. Mcpherson
was sick in bed today. She was said
to have collapsed following her
mothers declaration of war.
"Mrs. Mcpherson acted in very
Christian manner" the evangel-
lists mother said very earnestly, and
dryly added: "She has made mis-
statements of facts regarding me. y
"She asks me to resign! To whom
would resign? She's a trustee and
I'm trustee, and so we're equals. +"
"Grab" Is Charged
According to the evangelist's
mother, she was sent out of town
so that her daughter could "grah
the mail, grab all the funds and
take away my share in controlling
the temple"
Mrs. Kennedy's statement Is In di-
rect opposition to that made by Mrs.
Mcpherson, who Tuesday declared
that her mother had not left the
temple and would not, but that
with Christian love and under
standing we will continue to direct
the affairs of the temple together