Los Angeles, July 17.
One of the speediest divorces on record in United States courts was granted to-day to ' Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo.
The sult for a divorce from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo was filed by the daughter of the late President Woodrow Wilson this morning and. immediately after the petition hi been filed, the case was heard.
Th support of the charge of "cruelty," Mrs, MeAdoo testified that the tastes and interests of herself! and the Senator had grown me compatible.
'The couple were married in the White House at Washington May 7, 1914, at which time Senator McAdoo was' Secretary of Treasury in the Wilson Cabinet, and their divorce came as a great surprise, there hav-Ing been no intimation of any diffleutties in the "McAdoo home in Berkeley Square,—here—United Press.
Los Angeles, July 18.
The hearing lasted only five minutes.
The Superior Court, which granted the divorce, also approved of a property settlement which, however, was Jnot published, and granted Mrs. Me-'Adoo custody of the children.
understood that an inquiry will bbe held into the speediness of the proceedings but the presiding judge declared that, in his opinion, the decree will not be invalidated. Reuter.
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