RENO RUSH FOR DIVORCE

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 4 May 1931, Page 10

RENO RUSH FOR DIVORCE

<£ busy PERIOD FOR JUDGES. ONE EVERY" TEN MINUTES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) NEW YORK, Hay 2. Bcmarkaolo, scenes were enacted at Reno to-day when, under a now law granting divorces after only six ■weeks residence in Reno, attorneys stood in a line from six o’clock in the niorning filing application in the county clerk’s office for clients seeking the termination of the marital relations. One divorce application was filed every two minutes. Before the office shut’ over 200 applications were mane, chiefly by women. They will bo heard on Monday and 10 is expected two judges will grant divorces at the rate of one every ten minutes.

With each application a fee of 20 dollars was paid. Some lawyers filed as many as 15 applications at one time, but the average was seven.

Many prominent names figure among Hie applications and lawyers make up an important part of Reno’s officialdom, including the Mayor and various State attorneys, all of whom under tne Nevada State law may have a private practice. One group of four brothers and sisters all filed divorce and separation applications to-dav, establishing what is believed to be a record, even in America’s divorce capital.