Advertising For Wife Ruled A Civil Right

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28157, 21 December 1956, Page 13

Advertising For Wife Ruled A Civil Right

(Rec. 10 p.m.) CHICAGO. Dec. 19. A judge today upheld a contention that advertising for a wife is a civil right—even if the advertiser already is married. Judge Harry Hershenson, of the Superior Court, refused to enjoin Frank Dominik, aged 54, a tailor, from nlacing such advertisements in a matrimonial publication. Mrs Mary Dominik, aged 53. filing a separate maintenance suit, had sought the injunction “to save this man from himself.” It was stated that Mrs Dominik was the tailor s fourth wife—the result of an advertisement he had placed. She said she was leaving him because he did not have substantial financial assets. The judge said: “Getting a wife

through the mail is ‘grab bag’ matrimony. Marriage is a serious business and spouses should not be selected blindly. But I will not enjoin him from advertising for a new wife because I have no legal right to do so.” In Mexico today it was anounced that a fake marriage "factory” operating in lower California has victimised hundreds of Americans. Some of the ceremonies in Tiajuana and other border cities were not legal because they were never registered. Mr Agustin Barrera, the Registrar in Cuernavaca, said that the trouble came to light when the civil registry began receiving “many” requests for copies of marriage certificates that do not exist. He estimates that “hundreds—perhaps thousands” of persons have been victimised.