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Show HUSBAND WASHED DISHES TO SAVE WATER, SAY'S WIFE (By International News Service.) ST, LOUIS. Mo., Henry Aschcr. apartment house owner and roputed worth at least 100.000. was so miserly mis-erly that he washed the dishes himself because he claimed his wlfo used too much water, tho wife, Mrs. Blrdlo Aschcr, testified in her suit- for divorce di-vorce on grounds of cruelty, claiming he beat her and choked her .bocauso sho was patriotic during tho war, took the ex-Kaiser's picture from the wall of their living room and broke up a Gorman phonograph record to keep her husband from playing It. He was pro-German, sho declared. Aschcr contested the divorce, claiming claim-ing they were never legally married, as the ceremony performed in Bell-ville, Bell-ville, 111., In 1911, was less than a year aftor his wife had been divorced by Samuel Schucat In ""Wisconsin. |