Show PLEADS POVERTY IN SUIT SEATTLE Wash Oct 12 By 12 By The Associated Press Edward Edward S S. Curtis nationally known author lecturer photographer and authority ty on Indian lore pleaded poverty yesterday In fighting his divorced d wife's demands that he be adjudged In contempt of oC court for failure to pay back alimony Curtis was arrested here hero Sunday upon his arrival from Nome Alaska after art r a tour of oC the north The e author Is financially insolvent he told the court At the present time he is writing a 20 volume 20 work on the tha American Indian Do I understand und the court asked that you will get gel no iso money for this work Why are you jou doing it Your honor Curtis replied S it was Wa my Job my duty the only thing I could do which was Wa worth while It Is la my lifes life's work |