AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.

(Reuter Telegrams.] KIDNAPPED WOMAN'S STORY. * NEW YORK, June 23. A telegram from the towji of Douglas, in Arizona, says Airs Timel Semple McPherson, a, noted Los Angeles evangelist, who had been missing since 18th. Alay, when, it was believed she had been drowned while washing, "fes reached Douglas, on the Mexican border. She arrived there dii_ AYednesdav, alter escaping from two men and two women. She claims that she was kidnapped by them from Ocean Park Beach. She says they were demanding half a inillioii dollars as a ransom. She is now in the hospital recovering. Airs McPherson also said that, from what she overheard from her captors’ conversations, she understood they “had planned to make away either with myself or my daughter Roberta, or Alary Pickford. They‘had also planned,” she said, “to kidnap another motion picture actress, whose name I will not mention.” THE FINAL EVENT. [.Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this dav at 10.15 a.mA “L NEW YORK, June 24. All roads to-day lead to the new Roman Catholic Church at Dundelein, Illinois, where nearly a million people participated in or witnessed a fourmile procession of the Blessed Sacrament. This final event of the Eucharistic Congress was marked by all the colour and ceremony of a church procession. and occupied seven hours passing a given point and concluded with the Papal Benediction.