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Show Estranged Wife Seeks 'Better' Divorce Plea Ex-Army Private Makes 'Model Prisoner' as Bride Studies Legal Tome Plans to furnish "bigger and better'1 grounds for divorce were being made Wednesday by Ruth Elaine Hibbcrt Barnson, 21, as her estranged spouse, Macrae Lawrence Barnson, 21, former for-mer enlisted man of the United States army, continued' serving r ten-day jail term imposed as a direct outgrowth of the mari- lal squabble, The original divorce suit, filed , hy an attorney representing Mrs. Barnson, charged nonsupport and rirew the Ire of District Judge Herbert M. Schiller, who refused to grant the divorce Monday and liinted strongly his belief that i here is collusion between parties io the action for not only frce-ng frce-ng Barnson of his month-old marriage mar-riage vows, but also to gain his discharge from the army. This law business is Greek to me, but I'm willing to learn," said Mrs. Barnson as she thumbed hrough legal tomes in a county -uilding library. "There's more to be told about the case if I just I knew how to say it legally," she added. Meanwhile, "saying it legally" became the problem of her attorney, at-torney, whom Judge Schiller granted grant-ed permission to reopen the case, previously continued . to October 16. on next Monday if he has additional ad-ditional evidence to place in the pleadings now on file. Barnson, described by jailers as "a, model prisoner," was sentenced because he allegedly failed to obey a court order directing him to pay his estranged wife $10 temporary alimony. Hunts Path lo Freedom I . ill "THIS LAW BUSINESS IS ALL GREEK TO ME" Ruth Elaine Barnson . . . "I'm willing t learn t |