April
25, 1957
Los Angeles


Charles S.
Howard and his estranged wife, Rowena, have declared a truce in their war over
two shotguns as they divide their property in a separate maintenance agreement.

Howard had already agreed to give his wife a $150,000 home at
133
S. Mapleton Drive in the Holmby Hills ($1,074,792.57 USD 2006) and payments
of $1,900 a month. However, he complained that she kept a portrait of his father, a wealthy Buick
dealer and racehorse owner; a bronze statuette of the family’s prized horse
Seabiscuit; a cashmere topcoat; a red bathrobe; and a 12-gauge Belgian shotgun.

His
wife countered by saying that he had failed to turn over her .410 shotgun, which
he had given her as a present years ago.

Judge Joseph W. Vickers called a recess in proceedings so the couple and their
lawyers could talk. At the end, the Howards agreed to return each other’s
shotguns.

Charles S. Howard Jr. married his third wife, Louise, in Reno, Nev., May 27,
1958. He died in June 1966 at the age of 63.

Seabiscuit died May 18, 1947, at the age of 14.

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