AMERICAN DIVORCE LAW

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4457, 14 October 1933, Page 2

AMERICAN DIVORCE LAW

AN EXCHANGE OF WIVES. Two officers in the United States Army, thanks to the Ninety Days’ Divorce Law established in Arkansas, happily completed last month a perfectly legal exchange of wives. In the friendliest manner in the world they have cured a double case of incompatibility. Major Stuart C. MacDonald, belonging to the infantry, Was a schoolboy friend of Captain William B. Bradford, of the 37th Cavalry. He was married to a brunette, Captain Bradford to a blonde, and both are in the garrison at Port Leavenworth, Kansas. The interest that Major MacDonald and Mrs. Bradford found in each other’s company was as much a subject of gossip among the wives of the garrison as the obvious delight that Captain Bradford and Mrs. MacDonald found in a similar companionhip. The voice of scandal, however, was effectively silenced when, three months ago, Mrs. Bradford and Mrs. MacDonald departed for a joint holiday in Bentonville, Arkansas. There the two women lived in the same house until they appeared before the Divorce Court. Two decrees were speedily granted, and as the women emerged from the court room they were met by their ex-husbands. The two couples crossed the street, and before a magistrate Major MacDonald was married to Mrs. Bradford and Catpain Bradford to Mrs. MacDonald. The reshuffled couples then separated, the new MacDonald couple going to the conservation camp at Berwick, Pennsylvania, while the new Bradford couple returned to Fort Leavenworth.