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Ao VETERANS' CLAIMS PROBED BY JURY Federal Judge Launches In- quiry in $5,000 Suit for War Insurance. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 11.—In what he said was an effort to determine if a conspiracy to defraud the Government existed, Federal Judge John P. Barnes nas ordered a grand jury investigation of a $5000 war risk insurance case. The court halted the case abruptly yesterday and cited the plaintiff for contempt. Glven Wide Scope. United States District _ Attorney Dwight H. Green in commenting upon Judge Barnes’ action said the jury was unlimited irr the scope of its investi- gation and might extend it to include any of 500 similar cases pending and involving $5,000,000. The judge gave the order for the grand jury investigation to Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Kennedy, | St saying: | want you to begin a grand jury investigation of this case as speedily as possible and with due diligence.” The case was brought by a former veteran, Richard Birdwell, 42, colored, on a plea that he had contracted tuber- culosis while in the service in France. Tuberculosis Denied. 1 was_ represented in court by At- Edward H. S. Martin and ex- timony wes given by Orlando F. Scott, pl an and psychiatrist. The name of State Senator James J. Bar-| bour appeared as a counsel in the rec- ords. Barbour denied any_interest in the case, declaring he and Martin have offices together, but are not associated. Government witnesses testified Bird- well was suffering from chronic bron- chitis and not from tuberculosis. LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS AND CHILD DOING WELL Weighing Three-and-Half | Placed in Incubator Son, Pounds, in Philadelphia Hospital. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 11—Libby Holman Reynolds' new baby boy, Dr. Norris W. Vaux said today, weighed 315 pounds at birth and is being kept in an incubator. Boih mother axd chiid, said Dr. Vaux, the obstetriclan who attended Mrs. Reynolds, are doing “very well.” The child, heir to a large share of his father's tobacco fortune, was born at 6:48 o'clock last night in the Penn- lvania hospital and came as a sur- prise to outsiders, for previous an- nouncements from the actress’ home had said the baby was expected early in February. Arrival of the much-discussed infant recalled the death of his father, Smith Reynolds, 20-year-old heir to one- fourth of the R. J. Reynolds tobacco fortune. He was found fatally shot at Reynolda, his family's palatial home at Winston-Salem, N. C., last July 6 after a gay birthday anniversary party. As soon as it became known that Smith Reynolis was to have an heir there was much discussion as to the disposition of the father’s share in the Reynolds fortune, which share was estimated at between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. Attorneys expressed doubt as whether Libby Holman Reynolds would have inherited it, but under the terms of the will of R. J. Reynolds, sr, and North Carolina Jaw, it was said, there & no question of the new baby's rights. —AE et SON OF B. E. F. MARCHER NAMED FOR GLASSFORD Former Washington Police Chief Is Honored for Aid Given to Destitute Veterans. Pelham Glassford Sayre is the name which Mr. and Mrs, Henderson Sayre, one of the holdover bonus army fami- lies, have christened their newest child, a 7-pound 8 ounce boy, born January 4 at Gallinger Hospital. Sayre, a Cornell graduate, decided on the name in honor of Brig. Gen. Pel- ham D. Glassford, former Washington police chief, with whom he had come in contact during the days of the B. E. P. Sayre, who came here with the bonus army and built himself a complete min- iature bungalow on the Anacostia mud flats, said he had chosen “Pelham Glassford” in order to perpetuate the name of the man who did “more for destitute war veterans than any other single person.” Minute Mysteries Solution to SLEUTH HOUND HELD FOR MURDER. (See Page A-3.) McNichols entered by the win- dow and said he had not left the room. Had his story been true, his fingerprints would have been only on the INSIDE doorknob. However, they were found on BOTH (inside and outside) door- knobs, proving his story false. IT ALMOST ALWAYS HAP- PENS THAT THOSE WHO USE CUNNING TO COVER THEM- SELVES IN ONE PLACE LAY THEMSELVES OPEN IN AN- OTHER.—Rochefoucauld. 'BREAKS UP A COLD IN A JIFFY Feel Like a New Person Almost Before You Know It If you want quick relief from a cold, g0 back to first principles and use something you know does the busi- ness—don’t start “trying” a lot of fancy ideas or remedies. Get Hill's Cascara Quinine. A sci- entific formula made to do ONE THING WELL: to knock a cold in a §iffy, not to cure a hundfed different things. ‘Take two tablets now. Then follow directions on box. Drink lots of water, too—that's all. Soon those mean, aching pains in head and body begin to go; the cold breaks up; poisons leave your system and gou feel like a new person. If it doesn’t do that, your money bock. Get a box now. Youll be gurprised at the speed with which it works. Costs only a few cents. | to District’s Heroes in the World War Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jaeckel. 8 recorded in the official cita- tion, Alexander E. Williams, colonel, Quartermaster Corps, U. 8. Army, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distin- | guished services in a position of great | responsibility. As chief quartermas- ter, Army of Occu- pation, he dis- played untiring zeal and admin- ) istrative ability of the highest order in the organization and operations of the supply system of the 3rd Army. : By his sound judg- ment, initiative and resourceful- ness, he solved many perplexing | problems of supply and finance in a| most satisfactory | manner, thereby | effecting a great saving for the United | tates. | Residence at appointment, Washing- ton, D. C. With the rank of brigadier general, he is assistant to the quartermaster | general in Washington and resides at) 6314 Connecticut avenue. e SCHILDHAUER NOTE SOUGHT IN COFFIN Widow of Slain Bandmaster Report- ed to Have Placed Object There at Funeral. By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, January 11.—An envel- ope reported to have been buried with | the body of Edwin O. smfldhauer,] slain high school bandmaster, was the object of & police hunt today in con- | nection with their investigation of the | mysterious circumstances surrounding his demise. Police Capt. John Stege said he would demand the exhumation of the body of Schildhauer, who was shot to | death and pitched out of an automo- bile in suburban Cicero the night of * December 10, to see if the envelope contains anything that will help solve what has proved to be one of the most baffling shooting mysteries in Chicago | police history. | Stege said he had been told by sev- ‘ienl witnesses that they saw Mrs. | Frances Schildhauer, the bandmas- | ter's widow, slip the envelope into Schildhauer’s casket when she took her last view of her husband at the funeral. The Herald and Examiner said that Lieut. Thomas Duffy, who has been working on the Schildhauer investiga- tion, was on a mysterious mission to | the home of Schildhauer’s father in | New Holstein, Wis.,, last night, and that it was believed he had gone there to obtain permission to exhume the body. This can be done only by order of the coroner and with permission of | a relative. Persian Ships at Mohammera. MOSCOW, January 11 (#).—The Tass (Russian) News Agency correspondent at Teheran, Persia, reported today that ! two Persian warships had been moved “from Bushire to Mohammera, a port on | the River Karun not far from the site of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. concession. Great Britain and the Persian gov- ernment have been in dispute for sev- the oil concession. | means they eral weeks over Persia’s cancellation of | THE KEviuniNG STAR, PICCARD VISIT STIRS INTEREST By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, January 11.—The | fascinating possibility that many left- | handed persons may be but halves of a twinned person, whose other half failed to reach birth, will be emphasized to American sclence witn tne arrival of Prof. Auguste Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, who is due here today or to- morrow on the steamer Champlain. These scientific twin studies are the work of Prof. Piccard’s twin brother Jean, himself a scientist residing in Marshallton, Del., and the two brothers are living examples to support the theory. Few persons except some scientists know that the Picard twins are “iden- tical,” that rare combination which are halves of the same physical person, developing from the same ovum. ‘The two look so much alike that they are mistaken for one another. Like many identical twins, one is left- handed the other right. Prof. Piccard is the natural “lefty” of the pair, & fact usually concealed because he has trained himself into antbidexterity. Jean Piccard married an identical twin, a fact which has concentrated his attention on some features of twinning so unusual that he presented them privately to sclentists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science mesting in Atlantic City. Issues Statement. What happened there, Jean Piccard told in part today in a written statement “I discussed the problem of identical twins and handedness,” he stated, “with league at the University of Chicago, the author of the ‘Biology of Twins,’ and with Prof. W. R. Miles of Yale Uni- versity. Prof. Miles has asked me to publish my theories in a scientific pe- riodical. I intend, however, to check up some of the theory before publish- ing it. “It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left- handed, while the other is right- handed. It is well known, also, that there are many more left-handed per- sons who never had any twin. ADJUS No package con- tains genuine’BLUE BLADES" unless it carries the portrait of King C. Gillette. Prof. H. H. Newman, my former col-| * IN LEFT-HANDEDNESS OF TWINS Brother Has Theory That Characteristic in Single Child May Mean Other Half Died Before Birth. “We may therefore either assume that there are two entirely different kinds of left-handedness with two en- tirely different causes, or that all the left-handed people are—originally— twins. The other twin may have died in infancy or may have been still-born. “In the latter case the mother will often not even have knowledge of the fact that she ought to have had twins. We haveevidence, however, that in many more cases the twin has died during the earliest stages of his am- bryonic life. Identities Confused. “The resemblance of my brother and .ayself is only one case of many. It is such that during our whole school time there was only one teacher who could distinguish us. The resemblance is now considerably less pronounced, but even now frequently one of us is taken for the other. “At the Atlantic City meeting I met a European professor whom I had a hard time to convince that I was not the Prof. Piccard whom he had met last year in Brussels. “My brother is left-handed, but he has acquired &' complet ambidexterity. Many modern physicians advise against forcing a left-handed child to use his | right hand instead of his left. It may produce serious trouble like stuttering and confusing right and left in read- ing ‘spot’ and so on. “When, however, the instruction to use the right hand is given very early in childhood and if it is given without severity, but with kind persistency, then such trouble need not develop. No such dfficulties have been met by my brother, nor with two of my boys who were born left-handed. “The phenomenon of twins and left- handedness bears problems, the solu- tion of which has important possibili- ties. The early discovery of left-hand- edness is of prime importance. Fortu- nately the direction of the spiral of the hair at the back of the head is a good indication of the handedness of any human being. “Right-handed people have their hair turn clockwise, left-handed people have |1t turn counter clockwise.” TABLE A slight turn of the razor handle instantly adjusts the “BLUE BLADE” to the requirements of your face and beard. This is one of the many important advan- tages that contribute to your shaving comfort when you use the “BLUE BLADE” with its patented slot. WASLHINGTON, D. C, Such people will read ‘pots’ for | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY GENERAL TAX STRIKE THREATENS ILLINOIS State-Wide Movement Given Con- sideration as Notice Is Ordered to Legislature. 11, 1933. T League adopted more than & dozen | dation and stmplification of overla) resolutions demanding revenue reforms |local governments, reduction of nm and governmental economies. of officeholders and employes, elimina- More than 300 delegates from tax- |tion of superfiuous employes, reduction payers’ leagues in 30 counties approved |of election expenses by combi sending of a motice to State legislators | county, city and township elections, an GAS RANGES New Magic Chef and Other Styles $55 w Convendent Terms If Desired that “pigeon-holing or side- of | delegating to county supervisors author- these proposals * * * will be met With ity t0 fix salaries of COURty oMoers. a determined effort to inaugurate & 3 State-wide tax strike.” 4 The major resolution provided “a 1 Picks Good Fighter. per cent maximum general property| OKLAHOMA CITY (#). —Jimmie tax on the full fair cash value be es- & tablished in conjunction With provision | WAtSOn, 27, made a mistake. He tried <. 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