GERMANY: Fourth Group

Biologists of the State Medical Department of Württemberg analyzed, last week, blood samples taken from a man, a young woman, a babe. Impersonal, they reported that the man and the young woman belong to the second "blood group," while the child belongs to the fourth. Summing up, they wrote: "A child invariably inherits its blood group characteristics from one or the other parent. As, in the present case, neither the mother's nor the alleged father's blood shows the characteristics found in the child, the only conclusion possible is that parentage by...

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