PLURAL WIVES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 125, 27 May 1944, Page 5

PLURAL WIVES

Reed. 9.45 p.m. New York, May 26. A Salt Lake City message says that 15 polygamists, who have 56 wcves ana 283 children, have been sentenced from on P to five years’ imprisonment for unlawful cohabitation. In one of the strangest cases in legal history, based on written stipulations and involving no witnesses, a district Judge convicted 15 polygamists on a charge of “unlawful cohabitation with 55 plural wives." The United Pre>.says those convicted staled: “We prayed for conviction, because we want the issue to be settled by lhe Supreme Court once and for all." The wives told an interviewer that most people were so afraid of problems of plural marriage that they would never advance far enough to learn its advantages. Italy is growing in intensity, owing to the enemy’s increased use of tank formations." The communique claims that a number of beachhead attacks have been repelled, but says: “Our troops in the Littoria area, acting on orders, retired north-westwards to the mountain slopes to link up with the German forces withdrawn northwards from the Terracine sector.” Stiff resistance was offered to Polish attackers by enemy parachute and mountain troops in Piedemonte and on the southern slopes of Monte Cairo, despite the threat to their rear, stated a correspondent at Allied headquarters. British troops have been in close contact with the enemy and pinned .him to his defences in the Aquina (sector.