Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1933 — Page 11

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SCIENCE CASTS DOUBT UPON TWINS CLAIM Medical Experts Look With Skeptical Eyes on Yankton Case. FATHER WINS POINT Tells Court He Is Father of One Child, Neighbor Parent of Other. Jiy I nitr.l Prrttt CHICAGO. Dec. 28. —Medical scientists were skeptical today of the claim of a Yankton <S. D.) man that he was the father of only one of twin boys born to his wife. While granting the phenomenon was scientifically possible, Chicago scientists said such a claim would be almost impossible to prove. The case attracted wade interest among geneticists. Professor H. H. Newman, Chicago university scientist and leading geneticists expert, said he very much doubted the authenticity of the claim. Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of the American Medical Association Journal, likewise was skeptical. Views Are Varied Their views differed from that of medical testimony presented at the court hearing on a divorce petition filed by F.dwald Pcddie before Judge A. B. Tripp in Yankton yesterday. Judge Tripp recognized the legal possibility of the claim when he granted Pcddie a divorce on grounds of infidelity. Peddie claimed his wife had admitted she was unfaithful. The suit was not contested. Peddie maintained he was the father of one of the twins born ten years ago to his wife and that a neighbor was the father of the other He asserted one of the twins resembled him while the other resembled the other man. Agree With Opinion The opinion of a medical expert entered in the court records said: “In cases of fraternal twins, the children might develop from separate cells of the female, impregnated at two different times within the interval witich might be as great as several hours.’’ Dr. Fishbein and Professor Newman agreed with the medical opinion expressed in court, but stressed the difficulty of establishing proof of such a claim. “Such an occurrence is scientifically possible, but most difficult of proof.” Professor Newman said. “It is quite true that the ova might be fertilized by different sperms, but scientific proof of the parentage is almost impossible.” No Proof Ever Furnished A few cases similar to the Yankton twins have been claimed in the past, but no proof ever has been furnished to substantiate the phenomenon, Professor Newman said. "Parentage tests can not be made until children are at 7 to 9 years old," he said. "Even then such tests are largely negative. The most reliable of proof—blood tests—might be useful, although that would be accidental.” Dr. Fishbein said proof of parentage would require elaborate tests, w’hich might not be entirely reliable. "Naturally,” he said, “the case opens tremendous possibilities ..or speculation.”

RAILROADERS’ BANK ANNOUNCES DIVIDEND 1 Per Cent Declaration Brings 1933 Total to 3 Per Cent. The board of directors of the Railroadmen’s Building and Savings Association 21 Virginia avenue, has declared a 1 per cent dividend on paid up stock and on installment stock, making a total of 3 per cent dividends for 1933. Fermor S. Cannon, president, announced yesterday. The United States Building and Loan League, Chicago, of which the Railroadmen's Savings Association is a member, has announced that 10,000,000 shareholders in building and loan associations will have received by Jan. 1. an average of $15.50 each as dividends on their savings during the last six months of 1933. Long-term loans to home owners constitute the sole business of the 11.000 institutions in thus category, financing being provided for more than 2.000.000 home owners by the savings so invested. BRIG.-GEN. E. L. KING SUCCUMBS IN GEORGIA Former West Point Athletic Star Stricken on Hunt. Bit l'nit id Pram FT. MCPHERSON. Ga„ Dec. 28. Ft. McPherson and Fourth corps area military circles today mourned the sudden death of BrigadierGeneral Edward L. King from a heart attack as he was taking part in the annual holiday drag-hunt on the reservation yesterday afternoon. Funeral services will be held Saturday at West Point military academy, from which General King graduated in 1896 and where he was an athletic star and captain of the football team for two years. He was detailed as Army football coach during a period in 1903. AVIATION DANCE IS SET Indianapolis Aero Club Sponsors Event at Ben Davis. Airplane pilots and enthusiasts from a number of neighboring cities are expected to attend the -Mammoth Dance of Aero Clansmen" to be held at 8:30 tomorrow by the Indianapolis Aero Club in the Legion hall at Ben Davis. Congregation to Give Party The New Year's eve party sponsored by the United Hebrew congregation will be held Sunday night, beginning at 9. at the Talmud Torah building. Union and McCarty streets. Members and friends are invited.

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It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

NEW YORK, Dec. 28—I like Christmas but on the day after I have an uneasy feeling that we all have been let down a little. In other words, men and w’omen are inclined to crowd their good will and peace on earth into a single twenty-four hours and then turn up on the 26th of December saying: “Now we can get back to w’ork in the same old usual way.” I wonder just what would happen if a very large number of people decided that peace on earth and good will to men w r as actually a practical doctrine. We thrill to certain phrases and slogans but even as we thrill we keep our fingers crossed. And yet some of the adages which are supposed to come out of hard rock experience are much more impassible and fantastic than idealistic ones. For instance take the familiar attitude of the nation toward the problem of war. We are fond of saying that in time of peace w'e should prepare for war. That is offered as common sense and it is one of the silliest things I ever heard. The best way to obtain war is to prepare for it. If you wanted to raise a crop of radishes in your garden plot you would go out and prepare for radishes. You would put the proper seed in the ground and rake it and water it and in due course of time you would expect radishes. Indeed you would be very disappointed if you didn’t get them. And so when we sow poison gas, battleships, cruisers and guns it is as certain as spring growing that presently these things will come up out of the earth. a a a IITE will have our crop of wars! ’ ’ Why is peace on earth an impossible slogan? Every one in every land says he wants peace. When a war has just been completed we all agree that it was horrible, that it must never happen again and promptly we get out the rake and me bag of seed and start anew one. And take the slogan "Good will to men.” What is impossible about that? Naturally I’m not thinking of a world in which no person ever has a crass word for another, but is there any utility in nursing group grudges, in maintaining by statute and by speech racial and religious animosities? I always have felt that in the case of race prejudice both sides suffer. It is a tragic thing to be a member of any group which is despised and put upon and it is a tragic thing to be among the despisers and the tyrants. Nothing weakens the fiber of folk so much as an aggressive sense of superiority. Asa matter of fact as soon as it becomes aggressive it isn’t real. The man or woman who parrots over and over again “I’m better than you and you” already has felt in his heart the unease of uncertainty. He is among the whistlers who fear the moonlit graveyards. Vast numbers of people in various parts of the world have gone down to decay because they had no time or energy for anything except to be superior. And couldn’t we extend this theory of good will to men, to our courts and jails and penitentiaries? Is it really common sense to sentence a maladjusted man to five years in jail and then turn him out with $lO and a suit of clothes and say “Go and do better this time?” Which w 7 ay w’ould you bet in the case of such an individual? My bet runs that he’ll do worse a second time. I’ll lay ten to one on that. The man w 7 ho has failed dismally to become a socially useful person doesn't click into some helpful cog after a jail term has deepened his sense of insufficiency. Man ' T HAVE talked to men just out A of jail and they tell me of their quandary. "If I conceal this thing w 7 hen I ask for a job it will come out sooner or later.” they explained, "and I'll get fired. And if I do come forward frankly and say ■yes, I spent four years in jail’ I just don’t get the job.” “Do better this time" we say to men against whom all the cards are stacked. We tell these people, too, that they have sinned against society and that the jail term is a payment for that sin. but we do not permit them ever to pay in full. They have fallen into the hands of the money lenders. For the rest of their lives they must go on paying interest on the debt. Never is this mortgage lifted. a a a GOOD will to men would not include the savagery with which we handle criminals who most distinctly are not normal. In fact, in every brutal crime I gravely suspect that we are dealing with some kind of mental aberrancy It took us centuries to discover that there was nothing to be gained by beating and torturing lunatics. We plant the seed and reap the crop and in our city slums there is never a field which lies fallow for a season. It has been said that there is a clash between the Bible and the teachings of science and I will grant I do not believe a large fish swallowed Jonah or that Joshua made the sun and the moon stand still. But I do believe that there are aphorisms in the code of Christian ethics which blaze even brighter through the process of scientific research. Good will to men is not merely a wall motto. It is a program for salvation. It was on the lips of many Monday but how 7 about today and tomorrow and the day which comes after? (Copyright. 19SS, by The Times)

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1934 BUSINESS OUTLOOK GOOD, LEADERS FEEL Increase in Employment and Improved Earnings Forecast. I UPTURN STARTED IN 1933 Trend Generally Expected to Gain Momentum Next Year. (Copyright. 1933. bv United Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 28 —American business leaders are looking for steady improvement in acceleration of industry in 1934. a United Press survey showed today. Forecasts generally are for greater employment and improved earnings. There was unanimity of belief I that the pickup started in 1933 would be continued, but various in- ; dustries have different viewpoints on I the rate of improvement expected during the year. A cross section of ! the opinions shows: Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of j General Motors Corporation: “We are better off on practically ! all counts than we were a year ago. IWe must appreciate that such a trend, having definitely manifested itself, is bound to gain momentum as time passes.” Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Company: “We are looking forward with confidence that 1934 will be a better year than in 1933 in employment and in industry.” * Cotton Industry Hopeful George A. Sloan, president Cotton Textile Institute: “Application of self-regulating powers promises a more stabilized market and employment situation in 1934 than has been experienced by the industry for the past four or five years.” C. M. Chester, president General Foods Corporation: "With more widespread employment and purchasing power, the food business as a whole should be able to make progress.” O. C. Huffman, president Continental Can Company, Inc.: "Present prospects for the can making industry next year are bright.” Thomas J. Watson, president International Business Machines Corporation: “I am convinced that .1934 will W’itness an acceleration of the improvement now taking plane here and in other important commercial nations.” Oil Situation Improved F. A. Merrick, president Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company: "It can be said that the outlook for 1934 is definitely in the direction of improvement.” Edward G. Seubert president Standard Oil Company of Indiana: “I am hopeful of seeing real progress in recovery in 1934.” W. R. Boyd Jr., executive vicepresident American Petroleum Institute : "The end of 1933 and the dawn of 1934 finds the oil situation in an improved position, and that improvement should be progressive.” Thomas A. Buckner, president of the New York Life Insurance Company: “I look forward to 1934 with confidence.”

COMMISSION ASKED TO IMPROVE ROADS Highway Betterment Sought by Three Groups. The state highway commission today was considering requests of three delegations for highway improvements presented at conferences yesterday. Improvements sought are the paving of State road 67 from Worthington to Spencer, paving and rerouting of State road 17 from Logansport to Culver, and improving of State road 56 by widening and elimination of curves. Commission members said excessive cost of right of way has delayed improvement of Road 67. The group interested in Road 56 asked a survey to eliminate several bad curves from Aurora to Madison. The commission refused to recommend designation of Road 62 as the “Wonderland Way” across southern Indiana. HUMORIST WILL SPEAK AT FAIR GROUP DINNER William Rainey Bennett on Program; C. A. Ha’leck to Preside. William Rainey Bennett. Elgin, 111., noted humorous lecturer, will be speaker at the annual banquet of the Indiana Association of County and District Fairs at the Claypool Tuesday night. C. A. Halleck is toastmaster. The banquet will follow the annual business meeting to be held throughout the day. LieutenantGovernor M. Clifford Townsend, state commissioner of agriculture, will deliver the welcome address. PETERS, SENATORIAL CANDIDATE, TO SPEAK Democratic Aspirant on Program of Wilson Day Dinner. R. Earl Peters, former Democratic state chairman and a candidate for the nomination for United States senator, will speak tonight at a Wilson day dinner at Winchester, it was announced at his campaign headquarters here. Charles Wall, Tenth district Democratic chairman, will preside. Mr. Peters also is scheduled to speak at Whiting, Jan. 9, and Knox, Jan. 12.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933

HERE COMES CONGRESS!

Tax Dodgers, Bootleggers Will Be Targets

This is the third of a series of five articles on “Here Comes Congress.” giving the background of the many important issues that will be at stake during the session to open Jan. 3. BY RODNEY DUTCHER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Bootleggers and wealthy tax, ! dodgers will be the chief victims of congress when it w 7 orks out changes in taxation. At least so it is hoped. There also is some prospect that the burden on persons with small incomes will be lightened. Revised liquor taxes will be rushed through early in the session. Repeal caught the treasury with a hard liquor tax of only sl.lO a gallon and that figure is likely to be doubled in an effort to increase revenues and get the added federal “profit” coming in at once. Every one hopes the tax will be low enough to allow 7 legitimate industry to compete with the bootleggers. Hot debate as to w 7 hether it can be done may be anticipated. Liquor prices will be scrutinized and congress also will consider the issue of liquor control. Repeal automatically eliminates about $200,000,000 in special taxes, and as much more in "nuisance” levies may be wiped out at this session. The administration hopes to raise about $500,000,000 through beer and liquor taxes. ana 'T'HE normal budget will be balanced in the fiscal year 193435, according to present plans with a sizable surplus left over. Hence, no additional taxes or higher rates are contemplated except as to liquor and as regards unanimous disposition to plug loopholes revealed last summer, when it was learned that J. P. Morgan and other millionaires weren’t paying income taxes. Progressives, however, will w 7 age another fight to "soak the rich.” They would like higher inheritance and big income rates. Some of them want to go after the $35,000,000,000 of tax-exempt securities. The average tax-paying reader, how'ever, will be interested chiefly in the proposal—indorsed by both treasury and house w 7 ays and means committee—to low 7 er tax rates on earned incomes of less than $25,000. This may mean a restoration of the pleasant privilege, granted until this year, of a deduction of 25 per cent of the ordinary income tax as a credit for earned income—as distinguished from income from investments.

CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON of ways and means has forecast a whisky tax of between $2.10 and $2.40 a gallon. He proposes that 20 or 25 per cent be returned to states which agree not to tax liquor by volume, confining themselves to occupational liquor taxes. But so many states have leaped into the liquor tax field, imposing levies of a dollar a gallon or more, that it px-obably will be some time before that issue of double taxation is straightened out. This matter of federal-state taxation has a direct bearing on the bootleg problem. The whisky tax eventually may be set at $2 or even lower, since congress probably will bear in mind that states will superimpose taxes of their own. There’s a vague but general feeling here that palatable whisky should become available at $1.50 a quart and that such a rate should discourage bootlegging. Unless liquor prices begin to sink toward that figure, investigations are promised. tt a tt SENTIMENT also has arisen for cutting the present $5 a gallon import duty on hard liquors to $3 or $4.

Housing Project to Be Approved, City Men Say

Committee at Washington Optimistic Despite Rejection. Optimistic outlook for federal approval of the $5,000,000 housing project for this city was expressed today in reports from Washington, where a committee of local men is conferring with government officials. The project, which was planned to provide low-cost rental property in the northeast and southern sec- ! tions of the city, entails a federal grant of $4,460,000. Earlier plans demanded a local subscription of $787,000, but it is understood that the amount may be reduced to $500,000, a sum already pledged. Misunderstanding regarding the final date for a report from the local housing corporation caused the premature announcement that the project had been rejected by Washington, it was asserted today. The deadline had been Dec. 20, and when that date passed without definite word from the local committee, the project was considered abandoned, according to reports from Washington. The local men, who rushed to Washington on learning of the rejection announcement, explained that on Dec. 18, an attempt and been made to obtain an interview with Secretary Harold Ickes, who was ill at the time. In Washington for the conferences are William H. Trimble, J. Rand Beckett and Frank Prince of the housing corporation; Charles S. Lutz, president of the Indianapolis Building Trades Council; Henry Ostrom, representing local builders, and Earl Russ and Merritt Harrison, architects. Son Born to Governor's Wife By L nit at Press TOPEKA. Kan., Dec. 28.—A son was born at Stormont hospital here early today to Governor and Mrs. Alfred M. Landon. A daughter was born to the couple eighteen months ago and the Governor has another daughter by a previous marriage.

Three veterans of rrfany a legislative battle and anew acting chief of the treasury . . . they'll play an important part in the coming congress session. . . . Senator William E. Borah, Idaho, sketched upper left, will war on monopolies . . . Henry Morgenthau Jr., upper right, will guard Uncle Sam’s coffers

The struggle over that proposal, as well as other liquor measures, will furnish an idea of the strength of the “liquor lobby” now functioning here. Roosevelt may be given discretion to fix import duties on foreign wines, liquors and beers in reciprocal trade agreements with other countries. In that case, Scotch and Irish whiskies might be admitted for as low as $2 a gallon, with wines as low as 60 cents, instead of the pressent rate of $1.25. Liquor control is something else again. It now is intrusted to the federal alcohol control administration, under Joseph H. Choate Jr., which supervises codes covering distilling, importing, rectifying, wholesaling, and beer. Under those codes, the government has almost completed power over the industry and can control prices and supply. Administration leaders in congress, apparently reflecting the White House view, prefer to wait and see how FACA control works out. All kinds of control measures will be advanced, meanwhile, however, including some providing for no control beyond federal protection for dry states.

Fresh Eggs 90 Million Years Set as Age.

B.y Science Service BOSTON, Dec. 28.—Dinosaur eggs, discovered in inner Asia some years ago, are hardly classifiable as “strictly fresh.” They are something like 90,000,000 years old, if the estimate of Dr. Frederick K. Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is correct. Before an audience of geologists attending the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science here today, Dr. Morris told of his critical examination of the various lines of evidence establishing the probable age of the famous eggs. His final estimate was that they belong to the geologic age called late Cretaceous, and that, according to an estimate accepted by many scientists, was only a little under a hundred million years old.

CHANGES SOUGHT IN STATE UTILITY LAWS Public Service Company Rate Cut Asked. Sherman Minton, public counselor with the public service commission,! today received the Lake county grand jury report recommending drastic changes in Indiana utility laws and a 50 per cent rate reduction from the Northern Indiana Public Service Company. The company is one of the former Insull concerns and the grand jury investigation resulted in indictments of Samuel Insull Jr., and other officials. They are charged with allegedly illegal securities juggling. Mr. Minton asked for the report in a letter to Robert G. Estill, Lake county prosecutor. He will use it to press a rate reduction case which he | has been months in preparing, he said.

. . . Representative R. L. Doughton, North Carolina, lower left, will be busy as chairman of the ways and means committee . . . and Senator George Norris, Nebraska, sketched lower right, will carry on for progressive policies.

T ATE in the session some control bill is likely to be introduced with administration backing. It might provide, as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell urged, a federal corporation to buy the output of distilleries and sell it to the wholesale and retail agencies. Roasevelt is believed to be interested in the idea. Besides the taxes automatically eliminated by repeal, several nuisance taxes which now bring in> only aobut $20,000,000 a year may be repealed because they are expensive to collect and bring little return. Such taxes include those on bank checks, candy and chewing gum, soft drinks, radios, refrigerators, matches and firearms and shells. Acting treasury secretary Morgenthau has stressed the taxation principle of “ability to pay” in precongress discussions and the issue will be fought out on the floors of both houses. A proposed single normal income tax rate instead of the present two classes of rates would be accompanied by higher surtaxes to offset resultant decreased revenues. Measures to reduce tax avoidance include revision of capital gains and losses provisions and of the partnership provisions, both of which helped Morgan and his partners to escape income taxes, as well as compulsory joint returns by husband and wife. Once more there will be a movement for a sales tax, but it isn’t likely to get anywhere. A showdown is certain on taxa-

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tion of tax-exempt securities, with the outcome doubtful. Senator Borah of Idaho is one of those who have come to believe congress should impose such tax and then let the courts decide whether it is constitutional. a a a SENATOR AUGUSTINE LONERGAN. one of the chief proponents of the plan, estimates the tax would raise from $140,000,000 to $l5O 000 000 a year. Tax-exempts include federal, state, coymty and city securities. The chief objections raised to taxing them are the questionable constitutionality of it, the moral issue involved in "breaking faith” with investors, the possibility that necessarily higher interest rates would offset revenue gain, and the added difficulty of selling such bonds when no longer tax-exempt. Progressive hopes for return of the excess profits tax at a higher rate were raised by Morgenthau’s suggestion that an excess profits tax for large business be considered. They also will ask publicity for income tax payments as a method of preventing tax evasions. Senator Norris of Nebraska has promised an attack for inheritance taxes such as will prevent the passage of huge fortunes from one generation to another, and progressives generally feel that surtaxes should be increased from their present maximum 55 per cent levy on net incomes above $1,000,000. (Copyright. 1933. bv NEA Service, Inc.) NEXT—The Recovery Measures and Congress.

BEST DRESSED MEN ELECTED; WALESIS OUT! Popular Prince Not Named Among Ten Leading Fashion Plates. BRITON AT TOP OF LIST American Movie Stars and Sportsmen Included in Rankings. By United Prrtit NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—'Tailors of London, New York and Hollywood today named the world's ten best dressed men—and the prince of Wales was not on any list. On a vote basis, the earl of Westmoreland. British sportsman and race horse owner, stood at the head of the list, with these following: Prince George of England, youngest brother of the prince of Wales. F. Fraier Jelke. New York stock broker and social registerite. William Goadby Loew\ broker and social registerite of New York. Michael Farmer, husband of Gloria Swanson. Adolphe Menjou, motion picture actor. Sir Austen Chamberlain, former British foreign secretary. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Philadelphia society man. The British Marquis of Cholmondeley. Sir J. W. Buchanan Jardine, British sportsman. Paris dressmakers, in a United Press poll recently, elected Mrs. Harrison Williams of New York as the world’s best dressed woman. But the tailors’ votes were scattered. King George Also Missing Adolphe Menjou and Prince George trailed Westmoreland in the voting. The prince of Wales, it was said, was omitted because of the startling innovations he has sponsored, to the horror of conservative tailors everywhere. King George, who by tradition ought to be the fashion setter, voted himself out many years ago when he appeared in public with his trousers pressed down the sides, instead of the front. He never was forgiven. Prince George was not on the London list, although he was mentioned as the best-dressed member of the royal family. All the nominees appear well in anything they wear, tailors say. None are stout. And all are of a build to bring an “Oh” or an “Ah” when their pictures appear in the rotogravure section. IT. S. Votes Are Split That London had more nominees than New York was due to Hollywood, "which spent almost all its votes on movie actors, whereas the tailors of the other style capitals were morecatholic in their selections. Twenty-three men. in all, were considered in the voting. Runners up included: Fred Astaire. American dancer. Anthony Eden, Britain's young parliamentary undersecretary for foreign affairs. Sir John Gilmour, British home minister. G. Reeves Smith, director of the Savoy hotel, London. Former King Alfonso of Spain, who appears always in the exact costume suited to the occasion. The Douglas Fairbanks, father and son. The younger Fairbanks got in on the strength of clothes he bought recently in London and revealed on his return. William Powell, Warren William, Ricardo Cortez, Ronald Colman, Warner Baxter and George Raft, all motion picture actors.