Religion: Sisters' Squabble

Into and out of Superior Court in Los Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta

Semple and her onetime colleague Mrs.

Rheba Crawford ("Angel of Broadway") Splivalo. On Sister Aimee's side remain her son Rolf, her business manager Giles Knight, her attorney Willedd Andrews.

Compounded of jealousies and cross-accusations as to what who had said about whom, the...

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