Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-15
His Wife srofed Him. the Wealthy Broker Told the Court
With $4,000 Shopping Spree and Employed the scorehed
Earth Policy in Cleaning Out Their Two Apartments But She
Solid 1t Was He Who Turned Their Bliss Into BIi+z

- He "sCorchcd earth policy" is by this time
a familiar tactic in wars between nations
Now ii may become equally familiar
in wars between husbands and wives thanks
10 a recent separation suit
For according to the charges Of Alfred l..
Stamm wealthy New York stockbrokcr his
OK show girl wife, in retreating from his home
last summer did not leave enough on the
premises 70 keep even the mice alive.
Mrs Stamm is the lady who back in 1881
wandered into the Rado-E Electrical Worlds
Fair just as a casual visitor and so impressed
the exhibitors with her auburn hair and strik-
ing hazel eyes that they elected her Miss
Tcleyision" on the spot.
Telcvison in those days OF course. was
hiding around the corner, along with pros
pcrlty So as its personification the beauti-
fll Eugene Stamm. then operating under her
maiden name OF Salmon was some years
ahead Of everybody else Like Flash Gordon
Of the adventure strip. she may have grown
used 10 living in the future. and, If SO this
would explain her recent farsightedncss IN
clearing the decks before the legal shooting
n ct,Fccn herself and her husband had begun
In any case, the latter in combating her
suit for separation. 81 900 a week amony
and So 900 counsel fees attributed a lot of
vision 10 her. il not teevision
The Stamms being millionaires. we're not
content with just one lavish New York apart
ment. They had a couple Of them. And this
abundance naturally complicated the problem
Of Mrs Stamm's tactical retreat, putting it in
n class with that Of the Russians in evacuat-
ing Ukraine.
In her husbands opinion, she attacked it
with the same thoroughness and dispatch
they showed Indeed she did even better.
What the Russians could not take with them
they destroyed Dispatches from the Stamm
legal front said nothing of her having to de-
stroy anything; her husbands communicates
stated that she took il all with her
MY wife" Mr. stamm asserted was
feathering her nest on the eve Of leaving me.
Throughout the month Of August 1871.
She was busy in our apartment at the Eldo-
RADIO preparing to loot. She had the carpets
taken up cleaned and packed. On August 30.
1871. Saturday. she had all the furniture
and carpets sent to a warehouse. She even
had the moving men chisel the wooden hand
carved mantelpece off the wall.
Her attention was also directed to our
rooms in the Carlyle She stripped them Of
every belonging we had there except my wear
ING apparel taking not only radios and kitchen
equipment but even ashtrays, and on August
80 sent all this to the SAME warehouse
"She went further Not only her used
clothes but also her newly acquired clothes
we're taken from the Eldorado and the Carlyle
and shipped to several places. Some she
shipped to her brothers home in Detroit some
TO Alpena. and the balance to the warehouse.
] Everything was stored in her name"
Nor was Mrs. Stamm's ingenuity in adapt
ing the scorched earth, or leave EN- nothing,
policy to the home front confined her husband
testified. merely to the worldly goods he ac-
tualy had Perhaps with the aid Of that
fiturstc tclevision Of hers she was also able
TO apply it TO some he didn't have
This incredible feat, he said, was accom-
plished by means of shopping tour but such
a shopping tour Awe and envy were written
ON tho faces Of the ladies in the courtroom
audience as he described il.
For here they bohcld the most popular Of