Sister Aimee Out?

When Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton learned last summer that her plump new husband, David Hutton, had lost a $5,000 breach of promise suit to a Pasadena nurse, she swooned, fell, cracked her skull, bled nasally and aurally, lay ailing for months. Meantime reports and charges circulated about the conduct of her Angelus Temple. A suit was brought to compel Mrs. Hutton to fulfill a cinema contract. Rarely was she able to preach her "FourSquare Gospel" to her flock. One day last month. Husband Hutton helped his wife to the rostrum of Angelus Temple, where the faithful gave "offerings" as they so often have before. Few hours later Sister Aimee boarded ship for a long tour of Europe, Africa, the Holy Land. An evangelist named Rev. A. P. Gouthey was engaged to preach in her absence. But last week Evangelist Gouthey had resigned. Los Angeles whispered that there were bickerings in the Temple, that Sister Aimee, ailing so long and in court so often, was out, finished. A possible successor: Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo, comely onetime "Angel of Broadway" who was arrested in 1922 for blocking traffic with a Salvation Army meeting. Now director of California's State Department of Social Welfare, she preached in Angelus Temple last fortnight.

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