| Show r WANTS TO KEEP BOTH MATES Navy Nurse Two Husbands Unab e to Reach SAN FRANCISCO Oct 12 UP lIP lIP- Discharged from a II hospital as out of ot danger Mrs Claire Burnett Friday was confronted again with a complex marital tangle tangle tan tan- gle which developed as aJ her first navy hu husband band returned from a Japanese prison camp She had meanwhile married one of his former former for for- former mer shipmates The former navy nurse 32 2 2 re received received re- re received hospital treatment Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day for an excessive dose of seda seda- tives This followed a long conference conference con con- ference with her two husbands which apparently developed no so solution solution tiO- tiO lution to their problem For two weeks week she has known that her first husband Chief Gunners Gunner's Gunners Gunner's Gunners Gunner's Gun Gun- ners ner's Mate Virgil Elmo Elmo Earlywine vine 32 was back from the dead dead after being reported lost aboard the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine Perch in the Java tea sea in March 1942 Held By Japs Jape She received a telegram a fortnight fortnight fort fort- night ago from Earlywine in Manila Manila Manila Ma Ma- nila saying aying he had been rescued after more than three years of imprisonment by the Japanese at in m the Celebes islands Tuesday he arrived here and was visited by his wife at the hospital where he was taken for a routine examination She told him she had believed him dead and had remar remar- ried A meeting of the three was arranged at her home for the fol following following fol- fol 01 lowing day There Earlywine his twice- twice married wife and the second husband husband hus hus- band Robert E. E Burnett 32 also a navy chief petty officer talked for hours but didn't get anywhere The two men said the distracted wife excused herself and went to the kitchen came back pale and mid faint and moaned Its too late now Takes Sedative Police Pollee Officer Harold J J. J Bell who investigated said Mrs Burnett Burnett Burnett Bur Bur- nett told him she had taken an overdose of sedative because as long as somebody has to be hurt it might as aa well be me mc I didn't want to give either one of them up Ironically Burnett is 11 reported to tobe tobe tobe be a a. onetime shipmate of Earlywine Earlywine Earlywine Early- Early wine who introduced the two years ago The womans woman's marriage to Burnett Burnett Burnett Bur Bur- nett was her second since Earlywine Earlywine Earlywine Early- Early wine was reported missing and presumed presumed pre pre- Burned dead She married John Pershing Ryder another navy man in Cleveland 0 O. in December 1942 but had the marriage annulled annulled annulled an an- in January 1944 after radio listeners said Tokyo broadcasts had named Earlywine as a survivor or of the Perch But this renewed hope vanished when no official word came through from the navy or the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross so BO a few months ago she ahe married Burnett |
