Money for Mothers

Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty. One claimant had given birth to three stillborn children. Five of another woman's children were not products of wedlock. To these two maternal runners-up went $12,500 each as consolation prizes to insure against further litigation. Still left in the Millar till were assets worth about $75,000, which will be divided later among the four big winners after all legal expenses have been met by the estate.

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