St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 11, 1911

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Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

VOL. 63. NO. 175. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 11, 1944. PRICE ONE CENT

MRS. ALLEN FED WORKERS: DENIES SIGNING CHECKS FP Bride of a Week, Lately Miss Irene Catlin, Testifies She Never Had Checking Ac- -count, and That She Spent No Money to Elect Brother to Congress. SIDEWALK THRONG SEES HER ARRIVAL She Asked Acquaintances and Men Servants for Their Votes, She Testifies, but Dinner to Mansion Em- ployes Was Afterthought. ‘Miss Irene Catlin Allen, bride of a week, gave her deposition Saturday in behalf of her brother, Theron E. Catlin, in Patrick F.. Gill’s contest for the congressional seat to which Cat- lin was- elected last November. Her testimony was given at the in- stence of her brother's ‘lawyers, and does not, it is understood, relieve her fron: the requirement of testifying March 14 at the instance of Gill's law- yers. The subpena requiring her ap- pearance at that time was served on her in the Catlin mansion in Vande- venter place last Saturday :fternoon, shortly after her wedding. With her kusband. Frederick W. Al- jen, she came in a touring car from the Catlin country home at Glencoe, where they have spent the first week of their honeymoon. The Security Building en- trance was surrounded by a curious throng awaiting her appearance. The scene of the hearing is the office of Henry Heideman in that building. The first questions asked of Mrs. Al- len related to the dinner to bricklayers at the Catlin home, on the day after election, said to have been promised them in the interests of Theron Catlin’s candidacy for Congress in the Eleventh District. Asked Worker’s Vote. “Was there a dinner given for work- ingmen at your father’s home?” asked Attorney Cleveland A. Newton, Catlin’s counsel. “©, yes,”’ said the bride, “I'll tell you how it happened. I was talking with our: yardman about 1 o'clock election day, and I asked him to vote for Theron $f he could, and he said that my brother I told him I did not and I was afraid he was all right. know about that, would get beaten. “T said I was afraid we would all be grieving the next day, and the yard- man said we would all be celebrating. “When the returns showed Theron was elected, we were talking it over the next morning, and I told my father of my talk with the yardman and of his confidence in the result. I said we ought to give all the servants a cele- bration, and he told me to go ahead. “It was 10:30 the morning after elec- tion before we decided to do this, and I ordered a turkey at that hour. Acted as Hostess, “We arranged a dinner hurriedly and I told the yardman, as he was the cause of it, to notify all the men work- ing around the place. Some _ repairs were being made, and there were some bricklayers working there; I don't know how many. When the dinner was ready all the men and won working for us sat down to it, and addition the servants of Daniel K. Catlin, and I did all I could to make things pleasant for them.”’ When asked by Attorney Newton’! what she had done toe help her brother | during the campaign, Mrs. Allen said: “T asked all my personal friends to vote | for him if they could. I also asked the men servants. Outside of this, I did | nothing.” “Did you disburse any money?” eed Newton. “No, sir,”” answered the bride. Never Had Checkbook, Then there whs an extended inquiry whether Mrs. Allen. had signed checks ior campaign expenses, which developed testimony from her that she had never ' ' | er brother, Theron, regarding the cost | cf campaigns for Congress, and that he told her he could legitimately spent but! pad a checking account in a bank. Mrs, Allen testified she talked with a few hundred dollars. She was asked whether she put any./ money under the plates of the laborers’ “who were invited to dinner at the Cat- lin ‘mansion the day after the election. She declared she never thought of such “T recall the night that © dinner was ahem given to the Congressional Committee - of the Eleventh District at my father's home, Mrs. Allen testified. ‘That was Nov. 8 I think. I remember that Nat = Goldstein, Nick Polito, Justice George - Riechmann and several other commit- teemen were there. “Mr, Goldstein asked for permission “to invite Daniel \. Kirby. After the ar was over Mr. Kirby had a meet- the committeemen, but I do what transpired." he DM. and was excused. . Sat ot to leave’on your bridal

[ELIOT FAVORS 8 BIRTHS TO WOMAN Stel Peedint tanttes Says Mother Should Bear Child Every Two Years. BOSTON, Feb. 11.—That the normal number of children in a family should be five or six, and that a woman should

; himeelt as a Democrat. bear a child every two years from the lage of 24 until 40, with allowances for 'death to cut down the average of eight thus acquired, is the belief of President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard. He expressed this view following a meeting of the Twentieth Century Club last night, at which he had taken issue with Dr. John Lovett Morse’s argument for the discouragement of a high birth rate among the poor. Before a fashionable audience Dr. Eliot declared his ‘‘belief in monogamy, equal chastity for men as for women, and the normal birth rate.’’ He de- clared the economic reasons for a lower birth rate, as denoted by Dr. Morse, should not hold good. “The real cause of the trouble,’’ Dr. Morse gaid, “is that people have chil- dren they can’t take care of, and which they know they can’t. It is no credit to them to bring children into the world under such circumstances, the great American boss to the contrary notwithstanding.’’ It was this statement that drew from Dr. Eliot his expression of disagree- | ment. BRYCES NOT INVITED TO GOULD NUPTIALS Strained Relations May Keep Lord Decies’ Mother From White House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Tea_ table gossip here has it that the absence of British Ambassador Bryce and Mrs. Bryce from the wedding in New York of Miss Vivien Gould and Lord Decies was due to lack of an invitation. A revival of rumors attended the ar- rival here of the Dowager Lady Decies and her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Wil- kinson, who are guests of Mrs. Oliver Cromwell, mother of one of the bride- maids. Should the obvious strained relations prevent the British visitors calling e: the embassy, their visit will be withoit official recognition, as it is a rigid ru.e of diplomacy that no foreign visitor can be received at the White House except on presentation of the Ambassa- dor or Minister of his or her govern- ment. HEAD OF AUSTRIAN ROTHSCHILDS DIES Baron’s Opposition to His Son’s Engagement to Chicago Girl Is Recalled. VIENNA, Feb. 11.—Baron Albert S. A. Rothschild, head of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild house, died to- day. He was born in 1844. The death recalls the romance of the Bargn’s youngest son, Oskar, who died suddenly in the Rothschild Palace here in July, 1909, following the breaking off of his marriage engagement with Miss Olga Menn, daughter of Dr. Rudolph Menn of Chicago. It was widely _ re- ported that Baron Oskar committed suicide by shooting, though the family asserted that death was due to apop- lexy. ® During the year preceding the young man made a tour of America, met Miss Menn and they became engaged. His father objected to the match and Oskar returned to his home, dying two days after he reached Vienna. He was 21 years old. GAYNOR NOT A DEMOCRAT

New York Mayor Registers With- out Declaring for Any Party. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—The enroll- ment lists, which have just been is- sued by the New York Board of Elec-

' tions show that Mavor Gaynor. when he registered last fall, did not declare The space ' where the voters aro expected to mark party preference was left blank by the | Mayor. Friends of the Bas or explain that he } | has always held that he.is an inde- pendent in politics.

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