The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1930, Page 6

re hree Bills in New York Legis- & lature Forerunners of Na- | (. _ tion-Wide Reform | L — LEADER QUOTES OWN CASE Superior Judge in Chicago Calls Alimony ‘Greatest Curse in America’ By PAUL HARRISON New York, Feb. 25.—(NEA)—It was four years ago, while being led to jail, that Dr, A. Dallek decided to do something about the alimony laws. ‘Today Dr. Dallek is head of the legislative branch of the National Sociological league, nee Alimony Payers’ Protectiv: sociation. By his eiforts three bills which would pro- tect, the husband from the gold-dig- ging wife have just been introduced in the New York state legislature. | And the organization born in an alimony jail has grown to unques- tioned respectability and national; scope. In New York city alone, there are j 000 members, and the mailing list | $s 10 times as large. It is only natural, one: is certain, that Dr. Dallek should feel deeply about this alimony business, It seems that he had been married for 16 years before there was a divorce. He op- posed Mrs. Dallek’s request for ali- M™mony, but resignedly accepted an order to pay her $75 a week. After all he had a fairly prosperous prac- tice as a chiropodist in the uppet reaches of the Bronx. Sent to Jail “Well,” he recalled, “I paid for a While and was getting along all right until I became seriously ill, I was away from my office for more than #@ month, and a month's absence is yery bad for chiropodists. “By that time I owed my former ‘wife $350, and was given permission to make up the deficit in three pay- ments. Two of these were made, but when I owed only $115, I had to call her attorney and beg two days of grace so I could make some collec- tions. “Within an hour, he had @ com- mitment order signed. I was jerked Out of my office and marched to jail.” In 1929, the various states, and Mexico and France, granted divorces to 203,628 citizens of this country. For every 100 marriages, there were 17 absolute divorces and 2 separations. “A superior court judge in Chi- cago.” continued Dr. Hallek, “calls Blimony ‘the greatest curse in Amer- ica’ He says there would not be nearly so many divorces obtained on ‘ALIMONIACS’ ASK PROTECTION FROM GOLD-DIGGING EX-WIVES TOUGHEST GANGSTER; [9 SHOT IN HIS BED AT HOSPITAL BY ENEMIES Wards Off Immediate Death by Firing at Assailants With Gun He Had Hid Chicago, Feb. 25.—(?)—Frank Mc- Erlane, whom gangland knows as its “soughest,” was shot three times, probably fatally, by enemies last night as he lay already wounded on his bed in a private hospital room. With his right leg in a cast and swung high with pulleys and weights, McErlane grabbed a revolver from beneath his pillow and fired back at his- assailants as they fled into the corridor. One of the assailants’ bullets pierced McErlane’s back; another his wrist and a third lodged in the right thigh, As “Charles Miller,” McErlane gained entrance to the hospital Jan 28, for treatment of a bullet wound, which he said he accidentally in- flicted. While the nurse was out of the room last night, the assailants slipped in. A fusillade broke the quietness, followed by screams of patients. Mc- Erlane’s nurse, returning hurriedly down the corridor, found the door eben and her patient groaning on the Police were called, but McErlane maintained he was “Miller,” until recognized by detectives. A search revealed the gangster’s revolver under the pillow. It had been emptied, and bullet pits on the wall of the corridor opposite the door to McErlane’s room indicated the battle he waged with his attackers. Although once a partner in the flourishing south side beer business of Joe Saltis, McErlane has been known as an ally of “Spike” O’Don- nell and his gang. This change of associates, police believes, was responsible for what they believe was an attempt on his life Jan. 28. Failing then: the rivals apparently believed they had McEr- lane at their mercy in his hospital room but they did not reckon with the revolver McErlane had hidden beneath his pillow. REVOLT THREATENS Cleveland, Feb. 25.—()—A modern Jules Verne steps forward to encircle the world in 10 days by airplane. The Jules Verne of another day pictured man girdling the world in 45 days; Mears and Collyer complet- ed their globe tour in less than 24 days; Harry A. Husted, Cleveland manufacturer, hopes to pale wild fancy and solid achievement. Fokker F-32 he has ordered for the trip, plans to leave the west .coast June 15, off the beaten track over boldly projected routes. The flight over the Pacific may be non-stop, with a refueling over the Hawaiian islands and first stop in China. He then will fly northward through Siberia, heading for Moscow, Paris, England, New York, and the west. “Newer developments in muti- motored airplanes, in the manufac- he said, “will make ocean hops in ADMINISTRATION OF jture of fuel and oil, and in refueling,” meaningless grounds if women sore heavier - than - air craft regular ven- not sure they could collect large ali- jmony, “In a few respects the laws of New York are particularly severe, but they are essentially the same in other states. The usual procedure is some- thing like this: “The gold-diggins divorcee hires the highest-priced lawyer obtainable. Her former husband has to pay the counsel fee, so he probably has to hire % cheap lawyer for himself. Oldest Alimony Payer “Usually at the advice of her law- yer, she declares the man's income to be larger than it really is, and men- tions hidden assets which may not exist. The defendant may file a cor- ~ vect answer regarding his income, but * only one in 200 ever is granted a Yeferee’s decision. “Temporary alimony is awarded and the case set for trial. If theman in arrears on these payments, or ins not paid counsel fees, he cannot go to trial, The trial may be de- layed for years, and the ex-husband may be sent to jail in contempt of rt. 4 “So long as he owes a dollar, he thas no legal standing and cannot plead his case. Physical disability or Joss of his position or business has nothing to do with it.” For instance, there is the case of one Pojansky. At 74, he is the oldest inmate of the alimony jail. Pojansky hadn't lived with his wife 2 for years. “For that matter,” he paid, “we never did agree.” When they finally separated, the fwife was allowed $20 a week alimony. ¢ Pojansky paid and paid. The couple had four grown and self-supporting children, but they offered no aid. Pojansky got oid and lost his job. He was called to court. The justice made an unusual decision; two of the seen ee reenee ‘| ghildren were ordered to support the 2 father; the other two were to pay his } alimony to their mother. To Arrest Alimony Laws But another court overruled this fiecision, Pojansky was thrown into E He has been there four months Dr. Dallek: “All we want— nd we're going to do it this time— is | DOMINGO REPUBLIC |Dominican President Flees to | Capital Fortress as Vice President Resigns Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub- lic, Feb, 25—(P)—A_ revolutionary movement in the north of the repub- lic today offered serious danger to the administration of Président Hora- cio Vasquez. Doctor Jose D. Alfonseca, vice president, resigned his office in the face of the opposition. Senora De ‘Vasquez, wife of the president, took refuge in the American legation. The president himself fled for a time to the fortress commanding this capital. The newspaper La Opinion said calm was restored late Monday after- noon with the promise of free elec- tions May 15. The entire trouble is believed to have arisen from President ‘Vasquez, expressed intention of seek- ing re-election at that time. President Vasquez was elected for a four-year term in 1924 but in 1927 had the constitution revised to permit his holding office for an additional two years. on Dejeans, Haitian minister at info Domingo, reported to his gov- ernment the section of North Central Santo Domingo was “aflame” with the counter - government movement, with the distubance greatest in Santiago, Concepcion De La Vega, Moca, and Cristi. - Captain Verdier, commanding the Haitian border post of Ouanaminthe, said the Dominican Guardia disarmed the municipal police and partisans of the government at Dajabon, a village just across the Massacre river from his post. Americans arriving at Ouaminthe said there was firing Sunday night in Santo Domingo city and in Santiago with four wounded at Santigao. There were unconfirmed reports | fo amend the alimony and divorce ws to the point where both padties volved will be mutually benefited. ‘Three bills have been intorduced in { fhe state legislature. They are: de- manding proof of a wife's testimony mcerning her husband's income; {fording a husband about to be sent jail for arrears in alimony a hear- and proper redress if entitled to removing the pail sentence as nishment for being in arrears un- ss the default is willful and inex- H ble.” whe youngest alimoniac ever con- in the jail “club” was 19. He @ gold-digger one week, married the next, and the third week “It is possible for a woman alimony in one state to in Port Au Prince that the insurrec- tionists had captured the prison and fort at Santiago. All reports there, it was said, indicated the National Guardia has abandoned President Vasquez and has seized control at widely separated points. —— | Camera’s ‘Shot’ Fells Gangster tures in the future.” James Doles of Western Air Ex- press will be chief pilot. There will Husted, arranging changes in the, Harry A. Husted, Cleveland manufacturer (left), who, in a Fokker F-32 plane, hopes to encircle the world in 10 days. James Doles (right), Western Air Express flyer, will be chief pilot. Map shows tentative route. be plenty for the crew of four to do besides operating the ship. Husted will have maps to check the layout of strange countries, In the nose of the fuselage will be still and motion picture cameras, half -tone and col- ored, and over every inch of the way he hopes to keep them clicking These will be the first pictures of a world-girdling flight and, because of their educational value, several hundred thousand feet of them will be given to the bureau of education in Washington. There. will also be “household duties.” ‘Husted will be the cook. He a cook everything, he said, except pies. is Catwalks around each of the four Pratt and Whitney Wasps will per- jmit overhauling of motors in flight. The engines will be mounted in two tandems. The fuel and oil will be of special type and the plane, which will weigh 12,570 pounds, will be able to carry 15,500 pounds of fuel. Between 60 and 88 gallons an hour is the anticl- pated gasoline consumption. 14 Marriageable Girls) Must Pick Husbands From Only * 21 Eligible Males MISSIONARY DESCRIBES LIFE Alcohol, Crime, Autos, Planes Unknown in South Atlan- tic Community Buenos Aires, Feb. 25.—(#)--There are 14 girls of marriageable age on the lonely South Atlantic island, Tristan Du Cunha, which is so far removed from the rest of the world that a ship comes but once a year. There are 21 young men of mar- riageable age from which those 14 i chosen, through necessity, probably will remain bachelors, since few ever leave the island, and few come there to live. Rev. Philip Lindsay, who has just come here from three years spent in mission work on the island, and whose mother lives at St. Albans, Vt., says 157 inhabitants live on Tris- tan Da Cunha with almost unbeliev- able simplicity. Doubt Planes, Autos torian manner, and doubt the exist- ence of airplanes and automobiles, of which he has told them. They can- not even understand how men can ride bicycles, the like of which they have never seen. : firearm, an old blunderbuss. There is no currency, and alcohol is un- known. No doors have locks and there is no crime. \ The principal crop ts potatoes. They used to raise wheat but ravages girls may pick husbands. Those not/| in They still dress after the early vic- SEVEN YOUNG MEN DOOMED TO CELIBACY ON LONELY ISLAND FEDERAL FARM FACTS |. Farm wages increased during the first 10 months of 1929, but with de- ; creased industrial activity and an in- jcreased supply of available help, the jindex dropped during the last two ‘months. On January 1, 1930, the in- \ dex of farm wages stood at 159, or | three points lower than January, 1992. x *e Careful study of farm production and planted acreages is necessary |during the current year for agricul- tural success, according to the Agri- cultural Outlook recently issued by the U. 8S, Department of Agriculture. Make the supply suit the demand, is the gist of the whole outlook. ** * Stability of burley tobacco prices jeannot be brought about until the |growers act collectively in producing and marketing their product, accord- ing to James C. Stone, vice chairman of the-Federal Farm Board. z* 8 Receipts from national forest activ- j ities during the last six months of 1929 were $3,245,164, an increase of nearly 10 per cent over the same pe- riod of 1928. Nearly three-fourths of this revenue was realized from timber cut under gbvernment supervision. se Airplanes are playing an important part in the sofis survey being con- ducted by the U. 8S. Department of Agriculture. The entire county of NEW ANTARCTICA LAND Oslo.—Riiser Larsen and Lutzow- Kemp Land and Enderby flew over the land, came open stretch of sea and of Norway, claiming the: terri- tory for their country. 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