The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 June 1936 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, 0REENOASTLE, INDIANA MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1036.

Exposition Offers Visitors Sixteen-Mile “Walk’ ^ Twin Twins Serve on Airlines

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General view of promenade t Sixteen miles of asphalt roadway will link exhibi* I this view of one of the exposition streets, the auto* tion halls, booths and "villages’’ at the Great Lakes motive building can be seen at the right. The exposition in Cleveland, beginning dune 27. In ] position continues for 100 days.

tkst i:k\ kai.s in u ( rKACY OK KVK-W ITMISSKS MINNEAPOLIS, (UP) Eye-wit-ness testimony, often vital in law courts, has been tested in an experiment at the University of Minnesota department of psychology. The experiment consisted of an unusual incident in a classroom where ■J16 psychology students were listening to a lecture by Prof. Kenneth Baker. Despite simplicity of questions asked following the incident.

I the students gave widely varied answers. The experiment was conducted in this manner: Prof. Baker's lecture was interrupted suddenly by Prof. Howard P. Longstaff, who walked to the platform carrying a slip of blue paper. He wore a brown overcoat and a red baseball player’s cap. “Mr. Professor,” he said, “here is a telegram for you.” Prof. Baker tried not to accept the paper, but it was forced into his hand, and the messenger left the

platform. The action was staged with no foreknowledge of the class. The procedure lasted 15 secondl. Immediately after the students were asked a series of questions. The results follow: Virtually all of the class said Prof. Longstaff wore a brown coat. Fortyfive said he had on a baseball cap. 10

Only 18 said 15 seconds, while the great majority of the class estimated :»0 seconds or more, 27 said a full minute and a few said as high as two minutes. Out of the entire class. 53 admitted they had no idea at what time the demonstration took place. The majority of estimates were fairly ac-

This wasn’t a case of double exposure on the pari of the Kansas Lily cameraman who look this photo I he two pretty ladies, above, left to right, are Marjorie and Margaret Stueckeli of Chicago, twin hostesses on T\ A airlines skylmers, and the young men are twin brothers, Merrill and Maurice Williams, IVA pilots and graduates ,of the army training school at Kelly hieldj^lex^ _>»

just “cap,” and 30 said a red cap. curate. Several, however, said he wore a hat. [ Most of the class said the message two said he had nothing on his head. ! was on blue paper but 28 said it was and others described the headpiece on yellow, and nine said white, as a skull cap. stocking cap. or tarn. J The greatest error occurred on the Estimates on time varied widely, question as to which person struck

the other. Although neither man struck a blow, »>2 students said the messenger struck the lecturer, and 11!» said the lecturer struck the messenger. Only 18 said no blow was ' struck. I Prof. Longstaff. the messenger, had previously lectured before the 1 class and conducted two quizzes. Yet 58 were unable to identify him. and six gave wrong identifications. Only 70 of the 216 said the messenger addressed Professor Baker as "Mr. Professor." Eighty-four asserted he said “professor.” Others said the messenger called him “Professor Baker,” “Mr. Baker,” “Mr. Teacher,” “Hey, mister,” “Teacher” and other variations. BANNER W’ANT ADS PAY

roUKT RULING REVERSED WASHINGTON. June 22. (UP) ■ The United States court of appeals today reversed a lower court ruling granting a stay in suits attacking tiie constitutionality of the WheelerRayburn utility holding company act. As a result the suits brought by North American Company and the American Waterworks and Electric Company must go on trial The stay order, granted by District Supreme Court Justice Jennings Bailey, was to have been effective pending a decision in the Electric Bond and Share Company case by the supreme court of the United States. The stay was requested by Attorney’ Genera'. Homer S. Cummings who pleaded that the multiplicity of suits would “break down the machinery of the justice depai tment.”

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