Medicine: Baby Fight Ended?

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Chicago's able publicist and health commissioner, Dr. Arnold Henry Kegel, last week again assembled a pack of reporters and photographers, led them to the Charles Bamberger home, picked up Mr. & Mrs. Bamberger and their disputed child, drove to the William Watkins home. Commissioner Kegel was going to put a real end to the fight over the mixed babies of the two families (TIME, July 28, Aug. 4). Argumentative Mr. Watkins was not at home. But Mrs. Watkins was. She and the Bambergers now decided, with Commissioner Kegel's persuasion, that for over a month they had been nursing the wrong infants. Under the commissioner's approving smile the mothers removed the babies' clothes, which they were certain belonged to them, kissed the infants, exchanged them, wept. When Mr. Watkins returned home from a baseball game he exclaimed: "They took advantage of my wife. . . . I'll sue." The now Watkins baby had been given a Roman Catholic baptism as George Edward Bamberger, the now Bamberger child had been given a Presbyterian christening as Charles Evans Watkins.