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Evening star., 1927-11-02
Chaplains Gather
Armistice Day at
Arlington Shrine

BY the Associated Press
Active and Reserve chaplains OF the
Army who participated in the relig..
ious ceremonies at the interment of
the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
Cemetery in 1921 will gather again
at the tomb Armistice day to re-
new memories of the day and deco
rate the grave.
The chaplains in the group include
Col. John T. Axton, chief chaplain OF
the Army; Bishop Charles II. Brent
of New York, DR.. Morris S. LaZaron
rabbi of Baltimore, and Chaplain
John B. Frazier, director of chaplins
affairs of the Navy.
The ceremonies will include deco
ration of the Chaplains' Cenotaph in
the cemetery, erected in memory OF
the 23 chaplains who lost their lives
in the World War.
Evening star., 1927-11-02
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE
PROPOSAL is Renewed
Contractor and 4 -ociates Again
Ask Permit to Build Structure
Over st. Lawrence River.

By the Associated Press.
ROCKVILLE, Ontario, November
2.-W. Gilbert Freeman of Alexandria
Bay, n. Y, announced here yesterday
that he and his associates planned
to renew their application for per-
mission to construct an international
bridge across the st. Lawrence river.
The private bills committee of the
House of Commons. at the last ses.
siono. refused the application for
charter after the department of rail-
ways and canals announced it was
the intention of the Canadian govern.
ment to construct bridge across the
river near the Great Lakes terminal.
The proposed Freeman Bridge would
cross from a point near Alexandria
Bay, N. Y, to Rockport. Ontario, MAX
ing use of islands in the river
Evening star., 1927-11-02
Mime. Borodin Reaches Moscow.

MOSCOW, November @.-Mme.
Michael Borodin, wife Of the former
adviser to the Canton Nationalist gov
ernment, has arrived here from Vladi-
vostok, Siberia. She was released
from prison in Peking last July. after
having been arrested by tho North
ern Chinese authorities four months
earlier
Evening star., 1927-11-02
Style Sense!

Specialized knowledge and training in them
selves cannot make musician. There must be
something else we call taent-a feeling for music.
In the same way merchants in order to be sue
cessful in choosing fashion merchandise, need ad-
ditional equipment other than knowledge expert
ence and statistical records They should have
fashion instinct-a feeling for style. Buying ap-
parel for you is by no means mere matter of
going through motions.
1t is this "Style Sense" of Lansburgh & Bro.
which makes Our departments outstanding head
quarters for smart things to wear.
Lansbmrgh g Bro.
Evening star., 1927-11-02

The workmanship is exceptionally fine-the
quality excellent-the variety of styles, intrigu-
ing! Sports, street, dress hats-they're all
represented! The warm browns and brilliant
of these hats will speak for themselves-when
you see theml
Evening star., 1927-11-02

Hats of metallics Hats of velvet! Hats
of satin! Hats of felt! And there are clever
combinations of these fabrics! Sleek little
helmets, with odd pins and brilliant stones
hats with saucy upward twist of the brim-
and swagger "pul-on" hats that are the smart
thing for sports wear!
Evening star., 1927-11-02
New Handmade Gertrudes
and Dresses, Tomorrow, 81

Comfortable nightgowns in
two excellent styles, of warm,
soft quality fiannelette. Sizes
long, l and 2 years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
MIXED BABY
DECISION May
HINGE ON TAPE
Two Pieces of Adhesive
Cloth Relied On by Hos
pitaI to Prove Its Case.
FATHER REFUSES CHILD
Won't Take Girl Unless He
Gets Absolute Proof,
Parents EdiCt.
By United Press

CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sept. 21.-
Two pieces of adhesive tape may be
the deciding evidence in the habeas
corpus proceedings of Mrs. Sam
Smith to force maternity hospital
to produce a baby boy she declares
has been replaced with girl.
Philip Vollmer, superintendent of
Maternity Hospital, indicated today
the tape would be the hospitals main
argument when the habeas corpus
hearing is resumed before Judge
Carl V, Weygandt in Common
Pleas Court here tomorrow.
Vollmer said attorneys for the
institution would base their case on
the fact that both Mrs. Smith and
the baby girl bear adhesive tape
Identification marks which check in
all but one detail.
Have Same Number
Both pieces of tape, he declared,
have the number 40" and the
words Baby Smith" written on
them. He admitted that through
some error the Identification tag on
the infant showed the word male"
Three babies named Smith. two
boys and one girl, were born at the
hospital within a few hours of one
another. Mrs. Maude Smith and
Mrs. Alice Smith, the other two
mothers, have boys and are posi-
tive they have the right children.
Mrs. Sam Smith declares that a
baby boy was born to her and later
a girl was substituted.
Efforts of scientific experts to es-
tablish the parentage of the child
were 70 continue today, with the
visit OF DR.. w. D. Glenndenning,
nationally known anatomist, to the
Sam Smith, home to examine other
children OF the Smiths and compare
their physical characteristics with
the baby girl.
DR.. Glenndenning visited the
mother and the baby in dispute at
the hospital late yesterday, but de-
clined to make a statement. He adj
Knitted, however, that the resem-
blance was not striking.
Nurse Held Incommunicado
Miss Ruth Meyer, nurse, present
at the birth of the baby to Mrs.
Sam Smith, will go on the stand
tomorrow, when the hearing is re-
sumed, Luther Day, attorney for the
hospital, announced.
Miss Meyer, held incommunicado
until the hearing opens, has been
quoted as telling hospital arthori-
ties that she distinctly remembers
the Sam Smith baby as being a
girl.
Previously, in an interview in De-
troit, she made the staten mt that
she could not remember the sex.
Sam Smith, father Of two girls
and a boy, intimated to friends to-
day that he would leave the baby
at the hospital if definite proof is
not forthcoming that it Is his child.
MY mind is open to conviction"
he said. IF the hospital can prove
to us that this baby is ours. then
we will take it home and the mat
ter will be forgotten. If their proof
is not conclusive, we never shall
take that child into our home"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
THE BABY NOBODY WANTS
Blood Tests to Be Used
in Effort to Determine
Whether Mother Has
Ground for Insisting
That Tiny Girl Is Not
Her Infant.

EDITORS NOTE: A chubby,
Ohio, is the center of one of the
strongest, most tragic mixups in
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Smith. accord
ing to hospital records, are the par
ents of the little girl. But they in
sist that the child born to Mrs.
Smith at the hospital was a boy;
they declare that hospital authori-
ties mixed Identification tags and
gave them girl my mistake. and
they are now prosecuting a lawsuit
In an effort to get from the hospital
q baby boy born at the same time.
AS last resort. doctors have en-
deavored to determine. by blood tests,
whether the girl baby actually is the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Smith.
What Is the value of such tests?
Can prospective mothers, on entering
hospitals, be sure that they will be
given their own babies2 WAT are
the chances Of mistake such as the
Smiths allege was made by the Fair
view Park Hospital?
DR.. Morris Fishbein, editor OF the
Journal Of the American Medical As
ISOLATION. and one of the foremost
medical authorities in the country,
has written the following article es-
pecially for The Indianapolis Times
and NEA Service. telling medical
sciences best answers to these Ques-
tions. His articles throws a new
light on this perplexing and absorb
ing case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
STATE LEGION
ELECTSIk PARIS
Indiana Representatives on
Committees Named.
BIZ Times Special

By 1fme8 Special
PARIS, Sept. 21.-The Indiana
delegation of the American Legion
Tuesday chose representatives to
serve as delegates on national COM
mittees of the organization through
out the convention.
Paul McNutt of Bloomington, was
chosen president of the delegation.
Other officers were:
John Klinger, secretary; Nat Bus
kirk, Bloomington, credentials; Ray
mond Order, Indianapolis, rules;
Robert Daggert, indianapolis, per-
manent organization; Professor Nc
Mutt, resolutions; Frank Henley,
Indianapolis, finance; Charles KEEL
Ter, indianapolis, organization: r.
A. Cooper of Carmel, yehabilitati IN;
Frank McHale, Logansport, leg,sla-
ton; P. E. McCurdy, La Porte,
Americanism; Lisle Rays, Green
wood, constitutional amendment;
Early Merry, Dunkirk, aeronauctics;
Everett Goodwin, Muncie, naval af-
fairs; L. r. Gignilliat, Culver, mill
tary affairs; I. M. Sacobeer, Clinton,
next convention; P. E. Greenlee,
Shelbyville, child welfare; Ralph
McNeely, Fowler, life membership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
Bernard Thompson Teach
ing Big Class and Wants
More to Join.

Would you like to play your way
through college" on harmonica?
Such is the question Bernard z.
Thompson, 81, of sos N. Drexel Ave-,
is asking neighborhood boys.
Thompson, head teller at Fletcher
Savings and Trust Companw saw
ings department, was unable to go
to college himself, but he wants to
help others to secure a university
education.
Every Tuesday night he teaches a
harmonica class of fifteen to twenty
boys. He Is anxious to recruit fifty
youths to form a band and play
their way through school,"
The class played last Sunday at
Linwood Christian Church.
John Judkins, winner OF the
Times-Publix harmonica contest,
was his pupil.
Thompson first organized a har-
monica band while on the firing
line" in France during the world
war. He was only 10, and while
playing for "buddies" one day SOL
der said, "why can't two of us do
that?" Organization of a band fol-
lowed.
Most folks play a harmonica by
ear, but my students play from mu-
sic. I teach them only classical
music-no jazz he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21


due importance.
FRATERNITY hospitals as a
I'M rule are extremely careful to
prevent mistakes in the
identity of newly born babies. I'M
mediately after birth, steps are TAX
en- to make sure that each baby is
properly accredited to its own
mother.
Among the steps usually taken is,
first, the FASTING on the baby and on
the mother, at the time Of birth, Of
a piece of adhesive tape on which
are printed in indelible ink the
name Of the mother and the num-
Der Of the case.
In many institutions, Immediately
on the birth Of the child necklace
of beads bearing the name OF the
mother is clasped about the neck of
the child. This necklace is not
easily removed and cannot come off
accidentally.
In the Chicago Lying-In Hospital,
and in many other institutions, the
footmarks Of the child are imprint
ed on its chart Immediately after
birth and before 1t is removed from
the room in which 1t is born. The
footmarks serve as an absolute sign
Of Identification.
This is the most practical and
certain method of Identification
The printing of either fingers or
palms is practically out of the ques-
ton because of the intense and con-
slant motion of the newly born
baby.
Since the ridges of the sole are
very fine and soft, little ink is used
The ink is spread over a glass plate,
to which the foot is pressed. Then
the foot is pressed to a piece of
the chart paper. This chart has
previously been fully marked with
the record of the mother and with
other data that absolutely prevent
confusion.
Mistakes in identity are very rare
nowadays. Once they occur, how
ever, it is difficult in the extreme
to get at the real truth. The blood
test has not yet reached the stage
| of infallibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
BY DIR. FORBES FIsHREIN


Editor Of The Journal Of the American
Medical Association.
~ HERE Is no definite 100 per
III cent perfect way of deter
mining child's parentage.
Blood tests are about the best
means science has. Yet they are
by no means infallible.
Within the blood of human being
are certain factors that cause the
red blood cells of other human be-
ings 70 agglutinate, or clump to-
gethsr.
1t has been found that human be-
ings may be divided into various
groups, according to the numbers
and characters of other persons
with whom their blood thus reacts.
This grouping, once established, is
stable matter and is influenced
but little by various changes in the
manner of living tr in the environ
ment.
EIT HAS been learned that
these blood groups are in
herited, and that specific
agglutinating substance could not
appear in child Unless it was pres
ent in one Of the parents. This. has
been confirmed By numerous inves-
tigators all over the world, and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
LEGION BOWS
IN TRIBUTE TO
VERDUN DEAD
PerShing and Men Pay Visit
to Spot Where 100000
Gave Up Lives.
GRAVES UNIDENTIFIED
Story of Choosing Unknown
Soldier OF France Is
Repeated.
GRAVES UNIDENTIFIED
By United Press

VERDUN, France, Sept. al
America knelt today in reverence
and respect before more than one
!, million dead.
The martyred city Of Verdun,
where occurred the greatest slaugh-
ter In history, was visited by Gen.
John j. Pershing, one thousand
American Legionnaires, Premier
Poincare, Marshal Petain, who de-
Tended the city in time Of war, and
other notables.
This town Of few thousand Of
living persons and of hundreds OF
thousands of the dead slowly ris-
ing from the ashes of battle. 1t
was decorated gaily today with
French and American flags. Verdun
is a. great city when her graves are
counted.
Staked 100000 Lives
It was here that the German
Crown Prince, proudly wearing the
helmet Of the Deaths Head Hus-
sars, staked and lost 100000 lives
in an effort to capture the citadel
at Verdun. France spent 100000
lives to save it. Those million men
and others who fell here comprise
Verdun's unseen but ever present
population. Hundreds Of thousands
Of them never will be identified.
Pershing and the Legionnaires
visited the cemetery where lie the
seven unidentified soldiers from
whose ranks were chosen an eighth,
who became the Unknown Soldier
of France in a tomb beneath the
Arch of Triumph.
The visitors were told Of the role
played by the dead men. Shortly
after the war eight collins were
brought to the citadel from the
blood soaked fields. 1t was known
AOnly that they contained the bodies
cf French soldiers. A young soldier
of the Verdun garrison was chosen
by lot to select The hero who was
TO become a national symbol.
Youth ColIapses
A bouquet Of tri-colored flowers
were in the young soldiers hand.
Long he fingered over his task, The
youth almost collapsed before reach
ing a final choice, which he in
dicated by tossing the flowers on the
elected coffin.
From the cemetery where lie
100000 French dead, the officinl
party went to Douaumont, one OF
the Verdun forts, where Poincare
recently inaugurated an imposing
tower Of memory in which are to re-
pose the remains Of 100000 dead
who hitherto htd no sepulchre.
Their remains are being patiently
gathered from the. battle fields by
a French priest, who has devoted his
life to the task. The tower was
principally financed with American
subscriptions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
STATE BOARD
STUDIES TAXES
Rates Certified by County
Auditor Dunn.

Rates for various taxing units In
Marion County are before the State
tax board today. after being certified
by County Auditor Harry Dunn,
Tuesday afternoon. This is the final
action by county officials and
further changes made will be the
action Of the State board.
That group either may approve
or reduce those against which a
remonstrance is filed, but can not
increase.
One remonstrance was filed with
Dunn against the Perry Township
general and school levies. Remon-
strances may be filed up to Sept. 20,
when the State board will conduct
hearings on them. Other re-
monstrances are expected and Dunn
said he will certify them 20 the
State board Immediately.
Total rates for units within the
county as certified by the auditor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21

Here Is 'Baby Smith"-the
month old girl born at Fairview
Park hospital, Cleveland, whose
parentage is denied by Mrs. Sam
Smith Qeft).
Genetics Laboratory Of North Caro-
lima points out that two things are
necessary before any character in
the blood may be used in determin-
ing parentage:
FIRST-One must be able to rec
ognize without question the pres
ence of the dominant factor in any
person.
Second-One must be absolutely
sure of the hereditary behavior Of
the character.
Hence it is still necessary to use
extreme caution in applying these
tests in medicolegal cases. Even If
these factors are present in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21

BIZ United Press
EIOLYOKE, Mass, Sept. 21.-
III Mary and Margaret Gibbs
LII 14-year-old Siamese twins,
whose lives have been endangered
by influenza, today were reported
out of danger. Barring possible
complications, the girls would re-
cover, physicians said. Fear had
been felt for the lives of the twins
because Of the seriousness OF
Mary's condition.
"while of course we do not know
what turn the disease may take,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
SCHOOL BOARD PLANS
MAKING LOAN TO SAVE
Resolution for Borrowing 100000
From Shortridge Fund Up.

A resolution for borrowing $500, 900
from the 100000 Shortridge High
School fund, drawing 2 per cent
interest, instead Of from banking
institutions at higher interest, will
come before the school board for
action late today.
In this way borrowing the money
will cost the school city only the
difference between the per cent
depository interest and probably 4
per cent, which would have to be
paid on an outside loan.
Of the money borrowed, $4,000
is for the tuition fund, 100000 for
special fund, and $4,000 for IL
brary fund. Approval of the State
tax board and board faccounts is
required.
The loan viii be repaid, as in
past years, from the December set
Element of fall installment of taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
ROBBERS IN SHANGHAI
WEAR STEEL VESTS

Recent Street Battles With Police
Show They Have No Fear.
By United Press
SHANGHAI, Sept. 21.-A gang of
armed Chinese robbers. equipped
with bullet-proof vests, is playing a
game of hide-and-seek with the po-
lice of the International Settlement
and have shown their contempt for
bullets by engaging In three street
battles with foreign and Chinese
police constables.
In one night the gang is believed
to have been responsible for seven
robberies. Three Chinese consta-
bles surprised the gang robbing a
Chinese pawnshop. The police
opened fire, but the robbers stood
their ground and returned shot for
shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
Sian1eSe T7eins Are ONT
of Danger i'm Illness

we are hopeful today" she said.
''Mary's temperature had risen to
103 and Margaret's to SO. But late
last night, when the doctors last
took the temperatures, Mary's had
dropped to 1O1 and Margaret's was
normal"
RI HE mother said it would be
III a few days before physicians
III could say definitely whether
the twins would recover.
Except for the fact that their
bodies are joined at the hips, the
twins are perfectly normal, and
their present illness Is the first
serious sickness they have suffered.
Mary contracted a severe cold last
week. Soon, Margaret became af-
fected.
Doctors E. P. Bagg, Jr., and Ar
thur Kline, were summoned.
At a time when physicians be-
heved the twins were recovering,
Mary's temperature began to climb.
Pneumonia, which might end the
lives of both girls, was feared.
tS&
~ MUSICIANS considered what
IP steps might be taken in the
event that one of the girls
should die. They concluded that
any operation designed to seperate
the sisters who were welded to-
gether by nature almost surely
would prove fatal.
With a marked decline in Mary'S
temperature and Margaret's tenn
perature normal, the doctors today
were hopeful the crisis had been
passed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
TED WOMAN LAWYER Is QUEEN OF FEDERAL DRY ARMY

in Michigan, and shortly after the
union her husband became i'll. They
went West and, single-handed, Mrs,
Willebrandt supported herself and
husband, kept house, taught school,
studied law and sent her husband
to law school.
Victor in such mighty UNDER
taking, she finds her new two-fold
duties not burdensome. In fact,
Mrs Willebrandt aspires to even
higher posts. She desires to obtain
Federal judgeship In California,
her adopted State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
KING BEN HITS
BACK AT FOES
Vile Conspiracy Charged
to State of Michigan.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Sept. 21..--
Charging that the State of Michi-
gan had aligned itself with zone Of
the blacklist and vilest conspiracies
the warp and thread Of perjury
could weave" the House Of David
today filed its answer to the States
suit for dissolution Of the religious
colony which has been under fire
for five years.
The bricf, 156 pages long, made a
blanket denial of the charges of i'm
morality and fraud and described
the suit as conspiracy of fifteen
former girl members.
Character assassins" was the
term applied to the latter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21
Want War Unit Reorganized

PARIS, Sept. INSTRUMENTATION
of the administration Of the national
defense Of the United States was
proposed and approved today by the
American Legion convention here.
The legion adopted resolution
favoring the organization Of a de-
partment Of national defense in
which there would be four divisions,
one each for the army, navy air
Service and munitions. Each di-
vision would have separate chief
Aunder a departmental secretary,
who would be a member of the cabi-
net.
LegiOnaires Drink Beer
There's far less drinking in Paris
now, with 10000 American legion
aires and their friends in town, than
during any recent convention in the
French capital, Capt Aman Ouhr
said.
Captain Muir Is in charge of the
Iegion's private police force in Mont
martre, which is working in con-
junction with the Paris police.
Thus far the Paris police have ar
rested not single one of the visi-
tors.
Muir said the legionaires prefer
beer.
Legionnaires cheered and sang the
praise Of the "doughnut girls" as
Evangeline Booth, national COM
mander of the Salvation Army, rose
to address the convention today.
1.-THE Salvation Army owes much
to the Legion" said Commander
Booth, "for it was the returned
soldiers who spread stories which
brought us the fame and popular
ity which enabled us greatly to in
crease our postwar social work."
William Fortune, Red Cross ma
tional representative, pledged con-
tinued assistance to needy veterans.
The postwar work of the knights
Of Columbus among soldiers was
outlined by DR., j. Callahan, supreme
treasurer He. said the K. of @.
spent $430OO,000 in the work.
Iowa Band Wins
Mrs. Walter Davol, East Provi-
dence, r. l., was elected chapeau
national Of the Eight and Forty"
welfare organization of the Legion's
wgmen's auxiliary. She succeeds
\ Mrs Freda Kramer.
For the second year in succession,
the band OF Monohan Post, Sioux
City, Iowa, today was awarded the
title of national champion of the
American Legion.
Harvey Seeds Post Of Miami, Fla,
won the drum and bugle corps
championship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-21

the Treasury in law enforcement
work. When Gen. l.. G. Andrews
was dry car, however. the two had
divided views.
Mrs. Willebrandt was kept in the
background and the prohibition
unit, indirectly. asked her to keep
hands off its affairs.
But as in her many other battles
of life, the assistant attorney gener-
al came victorious from the affray.
When Andrews left Office. Prohibi-
ton Commissioner Doran sought
Mrs. Willebrandt's aid.