Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-06
RooseyeIts' Hearing
Bares Home Finance,
High Living Standard
BY the AssoeiOted Pres.

PASADENA, Calf, Feb. O.
Intimate details of James Roose-
velt's complex financial affairs
and his family's standard of life |
have been barred in a court fight /
over temporary support for his
wife and three children.
Lawyers will delve further into
his income and expenditures
when the support hearing is re-
Sumed February Is.
Proceedings were recessed last
night after an attorney tried to
question Mr.. Roosevelt about one
of IL women with whom, his
wife charges, he committed
adultry.
Superior Judge Kurtz Kauff- |
man ruled such questions proper
only when Mrs. Romelle |
Schneider Roosevelt's suit for
$500 monthly separate MAIN
tenance comes to trial. A
crowded calendar will delay the
case for six to eight months.
Mexican Trip Mentioned.
Mrs. RooSevelt's complaint |
names three. women as CORE
sponderitS and Incorporates let |
ter, signed by Mr.. Roosevelt, in
which he admits infidelities with |
nine other women. Since her suit |
was filed, Mr.. Roosevelt has
denied misconduct with any of |
the IL.
The question about one of the |
correspondents. Gladys Irene
Owens, came just after Mr.. |
Roosevelt had related from the |
witness stand that he went to |
Mexico last December % and
returned early in January, on |
q trip partly for business and |
partly for pleasure.
Were you accompanied by |
any one on this trip?" asked Ar
thur Schifferman, one Of Mrs. |
Roosevelt's lawyers.
The court sustained an OBJ /
lection by Samuel B.. Picone.
Mr.. Roosevelt's counsel.
Were you accompanied by |
Glayds Irene Owens?" persisted |
Mr.. Schifferman.
The court again sustained Mr.. |
Phones objection.
Wife Weeps at Times.
The day-long hearing, during
which Mr.. Roosevelt glared at |
his wife, and she on occasion
burst into tears, brought testi-
mony ranging from the price of
her dresses to Mr.. Roosevelt's
assertion that he built up def
cit of $4,000 in four and a
half years. Some of the high
lights:
Mrs. Roosevelt said her hus-
band sold, for 81, his one-fourth
share in business interests worth
81 million. The sale, she said,
took place one week after he
asked her for a divorce.
::'Mr. Roosevelt's financial pic
ture began to change after he
said he wanted a divorce she
remarked.
MIR. Roosevelt. an insurance
man, referred to the business in
terestS sold for 81 as worth
less" and observed:
81 want to leave some Of my
money. if I ever have any left
now, to my children. I guess
I'm getting poorer by the min
ute"
Costs OutStrip Receipts.
introduced in evidence was a
statement showing Mr.. Roose-
velt's receipts from January l,
1913, to July 81, 1852. were $217,-
034.60. while his expenditures
were $338,684.36.
Mrs. Roosevelt said her esti-
mate of monthly needs was based
on "the manner in which we
have lived for the past IL years."
In that period, she said, her
dresses cost $500 apiece, she and
Mr.. Roosevelt often dihed out at
$40 for the two of them, they
occupied $80-a-day hotel suites
when they travelled. Household
expenses, she said, included $465
monthly for servants and $3.50
for food.
Mr.. Roosevelt said his monthly
expenses included 500 for cloth
ing. SIS, for taxis, $500 for insur-
ance, .$409 payments on $780,
600 loan from his mother, $135
for rent and 500 for food. His
net income. he said, is $2.425.57
a month plus 500 semi-annually
in fees from the estate of his
father, the late President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
About the 100000 note he