Show Reno Forced House to-House to Huge Influx Of Divorce Applicants in Tent City RENO Nov Nev June Junc 9 United Press Scores of tents sprang up on vacant lots throughout Reno today when the established divorce colony found it itself itself itself it- it self unable to care for tor the In Influx ux of week six-week residents More than 70 colonists their newly issued decrees wrapped in bright blue ribbons left today for permanent homes in other states but so 50 many others arrived to take their places that the city council was waa compelled to revoke an old la law to mee meet the situ situ- atlon The divorce a applicants won the decrees at another w wash h day session session ses sea sion sian In Washoe county's county two superior courts A total of or 88 filed suit but 15 c cases s still were on the ooiJ I I court closed and were put over until today FOLLOW CUSTOM CUSTO Most of the divorces followed the time-honored time Reno custom of ot kissing n a courthouse pillar throwing their I outmoded wedding rings Into the nearby Truckee river and then hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- leaving town town despite despite the fact fac that they had just testified that Reno Rena was their permanent residence nce and they intended to remain here With new divorcees esi gamblers sightseers and tourists entering town however the council found existing facilities totally inadequate Against their will the councilmen permitted permUted tents to o be bo pitched and Continued on Pus Pace Thru Reno Forced to House Huge Influx Of Divorce Applicants in Tent City Continued from tram Pate Page One passed a resolution condemning the I practice of hotels Increasing rates beyond normal levels I I The Reno chamber of commerce opened an Information and housing bureau at the railroad station to di direct direct dl- dl arrivals to n available lodgings Private ate home owners were asked ked to help in the crisis brought about b by bythe bythe the week six divorce law wide Ide open gambling the absence of dry laws and Jack Dempsey's July 4 prizefight BUSIEST IN WEEKS The Monday wa wash h day was the thein busiest in weeks Judges were Unable unable unable un un- able to meet the demands although every cry applicant was as limited to 10 minutes Only one complainant Charles Sharks Read of Seattle was unable to lo meet the requirements He al alI almost al- al I most ruined Mayor Ed Roberts' Roberts rec rec- ord of handling separation suits The mayor a divorce lawyer whose boast was that he lost only one case out of 2000 and that when the applicant applicant ap ap- ap- ap failed to appear hustled Read to the stand In a suit against Jennie E. E Read charging desertion What city is your home began Mayor Roberts intending to bring out the Important nil fact that Read was a permanent Seattle ScattIe answered Read apparently apparently apparently regarding his six weeks' weeks stay in Reno as a n vacation Where U is your home anxiously repeated repeat d the mayor pacing the floor Seattle Re Read d replied again Judge Ben Curler ordered Read off the stand but the agitated mayor maor won a promise to take the case under advisement It was the only untoward event Inthe Inthe in inthe the day that saw 72 decrees granted |