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CHARGES DEFRERE ~ BROKE UP HOME e Ballimorean Asks $100,000 ‘i Damages for Alienation of " Wife’s Affections. ! By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 15.—Willlam J. Burke, who married Hilda Hopkins when she was a 17-year-old choir singer s home was | frere, Cheags who married his ex-wife last week. Burke has entered suit against De- frere in Baltimore City Court, asking $100.000 damages for alien-tion of af- | fections. Defrere and his Chicago Opera Co. prima donna bride have left Baltimore and could not be reached. “My former wife first met Defrere when she went to Chicago to make her debut with the Chicago Civic Opera Co.,” Burke said. “I met him, tco. I haven't seen him since and I have no desire to. “I don’t know exactly when my wife tecame friendly with him. When our divorce loomed up, my wife didn't men- ticn Mr. Defrere as the reason. I haven't seen my wife since she came to Baltimore after the wedding. I think they are leaving town. That's all right, of course, but he will have to come back when the suit comes up. | “I did not have anything to do with the trouble they had in grieting a license in New York. When my wife filed divorce papers in Illinois I was | served all right, but I was served in | Baltimore. I believe that New York Tequires that a man be served either | in the State where the divorce is filed | or by a representative of thit State.” Burke said that when his wife mu Mr. Defrere the latter w of the Chicago company divorce action filed by Mrs. Burk was dismissed. Burke was divorced in Tilinois Defrere in New last Thursday. when he landed from a liner bringing him from his France. New York officials declined to issue the license, as did those of Newark, N. J. Defrere and Mrs. Burke came to Bal- timore Saturday and told of being mar- ried Thursday at West New York, N.J A drought in an African village waz attributed to the missionaries wearing a certain kind of cap during the serv-| ices which stopped the rain. th, One-Voter District Boasts Two Now As Girl Passes 21 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 15.—The voting business in the 183d elec- tion district of the fourth assem- bly district is picking up. The district used to have one voter— Sol Ferretti—and now it has two. Sol's sister, Anna, has come of age. MISSING MEXICAN SHIP FOUND IN WEST INDIE Believed Have Seized Steamer to Join in Supposed Laborers to Venezuelan Revolt. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY. October 15—The Mexican steamer Sugrior, which dis- appeared two weeks ago while taking supposed chicle workers from Vera Cruz to the territory of Quintan Roo, has arrived at Curacao, Dutch West Indies, the ccmmunications department said yesterday. The department had learned that the pascengers were members of a purported Venezuclan rebel movement, who had seized the ship and were en route to Venezuela. Details were lacking. but it was be- lieved the rebels seized the crew, silenced the radio and stcamed to Venezuela, where they disembarked, allowing the crew to continue to Curacao to refuel. says Bertie Bedbug 9 “Move or KILLS ALL INSECTS A Product of The American 0il Company THE EVENING EXPERT ADVOCATES - PAR FOR TAXATION \Princeton Professor Would Apply Rules of Golf to ' Public Expenditures. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, October 15.—What these taxpaying United States needs is a par for courses of public expenditures, That's what Dr. Harley Lutz, Prince- |ton_University professor and 'tax au- | thority, says. He i5 attending the an- | nual Congr | sociation here, and spoke in opposition 'to placing a limit on tax rates | “Present-day expenditures and bud- get criticism,” Dr.” Lutz said, actly like deciding what is good golf on a course where par is urynown. “The taxpayer wants cagles, birdies | and holes in" one, while the bu“"-i ie” -~-soys PRESENT o YOU. Five successful vears—five vears in which George's has forged to the front as Washington's leading Radin dealers. STAR, ss of the National Tax As-| “Is ex-| WASHINGTON, |maker may want a Civil War score— |out in 61, back in 65. | “Both the budget-maker and his ,critic—the taxpayer or the taxpayers’ |assoclation—need to apply the basic principle of golf to the determination iof expenditures. They must set up pars |for each department and the whole | budget. ‘ “Instead of determining by referen- dum whether to add 80 policemen to the town force or firemen or janitors. ilet the city fathers consult the par of | job analysis.” Dr. Lutz said no perscn is required to do better than par in golf, not even Bobby Jones, and no taxpayer can do better than par his expenditure course. Budget Depression-Proof. “The par for 150-yard holes has been established at three strokes and present day expenditures and criticism of the | budgst is exactly like deciding a golf course par,” he said. “Limiting the tax rate may force every department to a holée-in-one standard, or it may actually permit some of them five to six strokes for | three-par conditions. “At best, the tix rate limit must be G THURSDAY, OCTUBER 15, 1951 regarded as crude in comparison with control by par. “Budgeting is more nearly depression- proof than any other industry, when par is proven.” BURGLAR PLEADS GUILTY Daniel McCarthy, 38, of Syracuse, N. Y., who, police said, was surprised by a watchman when he was attempt- ing to open a safe early yesterday in Conger’s Laundry, Twenty-third street and New York avenue, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted housebreaking before Judge John P. MaMahon in Police Court yesterday. 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