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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

"The Germans aren't a family" says Norman Cloutier, director of the band, "they're an epidemic"
 There are four Germans in the Madcaps personnel. The best known of the Clan Berman is Tiny" renowned among radio listeners as radios biggest musi- cian." Tiny who manipulates the bass yiol and the tuba, stands more than six and @ half feet in his size fourteen shoes, and weighs 365 pounds. And when Tiny" slaps bass vio1. 1t stays slapped. Before he joined the Madcaps he played with Guy Lombardo's, Gus Kahn's and the Great White Fleet orchestras. 4s s
 Len Berman Is the rubber-fin- gered pianist who writes many of the Madcaps' special arrangements. He Is perhaps the most popular solo performer of the WTIC musi- cal staff. Prior to his afflliation with the Connecticut 50,000-watt radio station, he was pianist of Joe Smallwood's Broadway night club and of Meyer Davis Hotel Biltmore orchestra in New York city.
 Freddie German is the hot trumpeter of the Madcaps. The roll of orchestra leaders under whose direction he played previous to joining the Madcaps is Q list to conjure with. Among them are Rudy Vallee, B. A. Rolfe, Barney Rapp, Felix Ferdinando and Ed win McEnelly.
 Louis Berman has footed a saxo- phone reed for several of the lead- ing dance bands of New England. His last position previous to his alignment with the Madcaps was at the Seven Gables inn in Milford. Besides the four Germans there are nine other crack musicians un- der Cloutier's direction. The Mad caps personnel has remained intact for nearly two years and during that period have broadcast more than 500 hours of dance music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
State Hospitals
 Get More ''Lungs''
Arrangements Made for Placing Eight Resprators to .. Combat Infantile Paralysis Cases

Harvard infantile paralysis com mission. Parents should realize that early medical care is impor- tant. Perhaps the most suggestive early sign warranting attention is a stiffness of the spine and neck in a sick child, best shown when the child is asked to sit up in bed and bend the head forward be- tween the knees.
 "3-Infantile paralysis is spread by personal contact with patients or healthy persons carrying the in- lection. Children's contacts there- fore should be restricted to the usual groups of associates. Camps and children's institutions are ad- vised to discourag e visiting by outsiders.
 "4-Children now in camps un- der controlled conditions and ob- servation had better stay there rather than increase their contacts by leaving. Health authorities of the several states are prepared to cooperate with and assist all camp directors"
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Pathetic Tragedy
 in Death of Four
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either. but I just couldn't bear to think of evicting her with those two beautiful children"
 Mrs Fish was near tears as she unfolded the story of the tragic finale of the ever.tragic Williams family. She was bitter against Florine Williams for killing her two children-"those beautiful, in- nocent little children!"
 Two versions of the asserted theft of Mrs Coles $3,400 were ob- tained, one from Mrs Fish and one from John H. Dickerson, tanitor, who discovered the bodies.
 II overheard private detectives, who have been watching the apartment building. say that Mrs Williams had forged Mrs Coles name to a series of checks on an account Mrs Cole had in a Los Angeles bank" said Dickerson.
 "The detectives stopped another woman tenant in the corridor Sat- urday night, in my presence. under the impression that she was Mrs Williams" ,..
 Mrs Fish said Mrs Williams had found Mrs Coles bank book. after the nurse entered her employe three months ago, and had secretly forged drafts and sent them, with the pass book attached, to the Los Angeles bank. These drafts were honored for a total of $4,400 be- fore Mrs Cole discovered her ac- count was being drained, Mrs Fish said.
 "She became aware of what was happening when the bank mailed the pass book back to her and not to Mrs Williams" Mrs Fish added.
 "She immediately confronted Mrs Williams and obtained confes- sion. Rather than cause an ar rest at the time-this was last Thursday--she gave Mrs Williams until to-day to make restitution.
 Saturday night Mrs Williams admitted that she had raised only $500 of the $3,400. Mrs Cole left the apartment, and announced that she would ask warrant for Mrs Williams arrest.
 Sunday morning we found Joan Constance and Earle Williams and Mrs Walz dead and Florine Will Hams dying"
 Joan Constance was seven, and Earle four.
 In a court action in Los Angeles some time ago, Mrs Williams as serted that Wallace Harvey or that city was the father of her son. Complete solution of the tragedy hinged, the officers believed on contents of five black edged letters left stamped and sealed. It was believed two had been addressed by Mrs w illiams and three by Mrs
 "The letters undoubtedly contain the answer to this riddle" declared Deputy Coroner Anthony Trabucco. The letters were to old friends, in- cluding Attorney Harry Mckenzie
 The letter to Mckenzie said: T am taking mother and the babies with me as l am all they have. can not go on any longer, If I am wrong. let God be my judse."
 It was written by Mrs Williams Mrs walz wrote one letter to Mrs Fl. Maruse of New Orleans which concluded; Goodbye for' ever"
 She also wrote to Mrs Blanche We'll, Brooklyn. a sister. referrina to personal property she had IT storage in Brooklyn. Sell them They ought to be worth more thar $1,000," she wrote.
 Tn a letter to Mrs Madge Fish owner of the apartment in which the family lived. Mrs William' wrote:
 "Eove the baby and myself ere mated and our ashes placed in ar urn and taken to my mothers lol in Brooklyn. Mother wants to bs nla ced in . easkat and her bod
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
Soft Drinks Test
 o. K. In Connecticut
Only Three Out of One Hundred and Eighty Samples
 Found Falsely Represented

New Haven, Aug 10.-In 180 tests of soft drinks consumed last year in this state, only three sam ples were found falsely represent ed, it is revealed in the annual foods and drugs report for 1880, Bulletin 329 of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr F. M. Bailey. chemist, author of the report, says,
 "A number of beverages sold Cola, o. c. KoKla, Coco Cola and proximately the proportions found in tea infusions as ordinarily pre- pared"
 Milk Frequently Adultcrated Dr Bailey again points out that milk dispensed by the glass rather than in bottles is likely to be of variable quality, and sometimes below standard. An unusually large market milk survey was made and ,785 samples all submit ted by the dairy and'food commits sioner, were analysed. Of these, AS per cent were found adulter- ated or otherwise below standard {. Dr Bailey writes:
 "The large proportion of samples found to be in part skinned in ex- plained by the fact that many were found in places where milk was dispensed by dipping, or from quart bottles rather than from in- diivdual service bottles. The law required that milk when served by any hotel. restaurant. lunch room, fountain or any other place of public entertainment shall be served in the original bottle, the cap of which shall not be removed except in the presence of the pa- tron."
 Test Jamaica Ginger
 Experimental animals fed with a suspected sample of Jamaica gin ger extract, underwent some loss of weight, but "there were no in- |
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
The Third Degree
 Is Condemned
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 Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Fl Paso were absolved of criticism on such counts, and no conclusion was .announced on Dallas, Texas.
 Tn it's comment on New York, the commission cited Mayor Walker as advocating "the old fashioned night stick as far more effective than new scientific ideas"
 The third degree. 1t said. twas brutalIy employed" in New York city.
 And the commission went into details, not only on revolting po- lice brutalities in New York but in the other nine cities named.
 The zeal of politically ambitious prosecutors has resulted in "a de- plorable prostration of the pro- cesses of justice," the commission said.
 A thorough revision of American criminal procedure was recom- mended. States and congress were urged to act at once. Eleven sug- gested corrections were submitted to MT. Hoover by the commission Magistrates should be authorized to examine prisoners instead oi leaving them at the mercy of po- | licemens fists and night sticks, the commission suggested. Medical methods of mentally or physically tortuEing prisoners until they confess to get relief were cited by the commission. Neckties are pulled about the throats oi prisoners; they are beaten witf fists, rubber hose and telephone books; water was poured in the nose to strangle one; negroes ir Texas were fogged with the cal O nine tails. unprintable abuses o1 men are common.
 l Investigation of 106 cases In tho lappellate courts in which third de. gree methods were charged be. tween 1920 and 193O convinced tht commission the practice was wide spread in small towns. It pointed out that 45 of tho 106 guilty yer. diets were reversed by appellate courts because of use of the thirt degree.
 Threats and methods of intimi dalton are frequently used," tho commission stated. Physical bru tality. illegal detention and refusa to allow access of counsel Is com mon.
 "The third degree brutaliZcs thu police, hardens the prisoner agains society and lowers the esteem il which the administration of justice Is held by society"
 The conditions found In elite follow in summary: | New York;
 | Mayor Walker recently stated that for successful police work thu ld-fashioned night stick was ia more effective than new scientih ideas. The third degree is widel! and brutally employed in Nev York city. Physical violence is no used 50 much now. Instead ther' is continuous questioning with ac companying mental strain. But tn number of cases in which injurie are visible remains large. 1 Third-degree methods authori tatively reported as recently em ployed include punching and hit ting, kicking, tightening the neck tie. keeping the prisoner awake Starving him. A case was cited II which police surgeon took tn pulse of the prisoner while he wa being beaten in order to tell detec tive how much he could stand.
 The investigators were repeated Iy told that the courts know tha some of the prosecutors are crook led and the prosecutors know tha
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

and crashed into a stonewall. Leav- ing his injured companion In the wrecked machine. Mahoney neo into nearby woods and traVerseo two miles.
 Then he held up a milk truck driver and forced him ct gunpoint to drive him toward Leicester Tn that town more state troopers were waiting. Mahoney saw them in the roda ahead. leaped or the truck, and dashed through the grounds oY Leicester tavern. He was scalirg a fence when Trooper James Fl. O'Neil fired the shot that mortally wounded him. Though near death, Mahoney fired at three troopers as they ap-. preached. The shot went wild ana a moment later the youth had been dlsarmed.
 "Well, put one over on you 1 guys this time," were Mahoney's ] last words.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
Body Found in Lakewood To-day
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ter "F'" on the buckle. His under wear is size 40.
 The lieutenant went on to say that the mans cap, purchased In the Kings hat store, was of gray material. His shoes were brown oxfords, and on the left hand, sec ond finger, was ring with pur- pie stone.
 It was learned further that the man had but one penny In his pocket. The body had not been in the water more than 48 hours, 1t was explained by police.
 The body was pushed to the shore from it's eight feet of sub mersion by a branch of tree pro- pelled by Officers Jerry Hunihan and Robert Phelan.
 Dr Walter r. Morrill,. assistant medical examiner stated that he will perform an autopsy this after noon. It was stated that a lew remarks were heard at the scene of the alleged drowning, whether suicidal or accidental, that the man showed no evidence of wa ter in his body, showing possi- bility of foul play.
 Attorney Walter Smyth. assist ant coroner, is busy on the case, aided by police.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

dications of paralysis, or other signs of illness or discomfort" In comparison, a sample of known both made in the laboratory, were fed on the latter, typical symp- toms of "jakey" paralysis ap- peared, and the animal almost died before the test was terminat- ed.
 The chemical analysis of the sample submitted by the insurance company, as well as the feeding experiments. appeared to prove variety but merely a standard ex- that 1t was not of the poisonous tract double strength.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
IS Additional ' Boys Will Face 1! Court Tomorrow
II Arraigned To-day Are Told That Reformatory Sem Y tences Will Result If Glass Broken in Duggan
 z School Is Not Paid For

eff the 143 panes of glass brok- en in the Duggan school are not paid for. these boys will go to the reform school" said Judge John F. McGrath at this mornings ses- sion of court to eleven little boys arraigned in connection with the breaking of glass in the school alleged to have taken place dur ing the past few weeks. The case was continued until tomorrow morning, and 15 other boys will ba brought in to fact the court.
 The youngsters, ranging in ages
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

from 10 to 14 years. were lined up in front of the judge, all plead ing that they had nothing to do with 1t.
 The judge told police to get them all in together and warned the boys to make arrangements to pay for the damage or they would be severely punished.
 By method of having one boy tell" on the other, police were successful in getting eleven of the twenty-five boys alleged to be im- plicated in the breaking of the panes of glass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
''Tiny" Berman
 With Madcaps Appears Wednesday Night at Hamilton Park
 Pavilion

The name Berman occupies a large section in the roster Of the Merry Madcaps, popular dance band of station WTIC, which Will be featured at the Hamilton park pavilion on Wednesday evening, August 12.
 If a page boy were to stick his head inside practice room dur ing a rehearsal. of the Madcaps and yell. "TeIephone for MT Der man." four musicians would drop their instruments and dash for the door, .,- .-a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
COMPENSATION

Compensation at the rate of s19.65. weekly, was awarded Tony Guerra of 127 Fulton Park avenue today in a grant approved by com pensation Commissioner F: M. Williams Guerra, while working for Tremaglio Brothers Of 1.5oo Highland avenue, sustained a her mia. The payments will be made while defendant is incapacitated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

sent to the same place."
 In the apartment were found other messages one was from Jo- seph M. Schenck, noted film pro- ducer. It said simply. "Tell mo where to send the thousand
 Another note signed Constance" was believed to be from Constance Talmadge. It told Mrs Williams that $500 had been placed to her credit in a San Francisco bank.
 Up until The time her actor hus- band died tn 1927, Mrs Williams lived in luxury. She had many friends among the movie stars. Americans smoked 115.37o.-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

The United States maintains 55 embassies and legations and 34o consulates in foreign countries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

The worlds largest single store of radium is said to be held by the Memorial hospital in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10

Americans smoked 1l5.37o.-
 197.000 cigarets in 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-10
Ex-SOldier Bad
 Boy Shot Dead

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
DEMAND GROWING
FOR MORTGAGES
Dealers Say Investors Are
Turning Away From Com
merciaI Banks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 23-Oficers of
prominent mortgage companies said to-
day investors, discouraged by the low
return being paid by commercial banks
on deposits, are displaying revived in
terest in guaranteed mortgages and GER
tificates.
Several reported that the demand ex-
ceeds the supply and predicted that the
mortgage market may come down by
Midsummer to Az per cent. They said
the prevailing rate Is from 51a to 6 per
cent.
Mortgage companies officials said that
they have uncomfortably large supplies
of cash and that they cannot get SUM-
cient mortgages to sell or deposit against
sales Of certificates. While the demand
is Unsuitable, they said that the business
depression has operated to restrict the
supply of new mortgages. Some of the
large companies report they have not
been encouraging new projects in New
York, believing 1t to be overbuilt.
Those who were interviewed were vir-
tually unanimous in attributing the in
satiable demand for mortgages from in
dividuals to the vagaries Of the stock
market. They said that presumably the
inquiry came from persons who in more
normal times would be buying shares or
bonds.
Further light on the mortgage situa-
ton is thrown by the statement of the
New York State League Of Savings and
Loan Associations showing the total
loans by its members In April reflected
the biggest months business this year.
The aggregate was 1922 loans for a
total OF 1891 PAL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
REALTY SITUATION
STUDIED BY BANKS
Mortgage and Insurance
Companies Also Ponder
Decrease in Values.
DAVID S. BETHUNE,
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The STAR
KANSAS CITY. Mo, May 23.-Just
what is to be the outcome of the
realty situation during the coming
year Is being seriously discussed by
banks that hold considerable acreage
and by mortgage companies and repre-
sentatives of life insurance companies
that are large lenders in the interior.
Prospects Gloomy.
The great decrease in corn belt land
values has been serious to every f1nan-
cial interest and seems unlikely to show
any material improvement for . long
period ahead. Iowa, where the land
boom ran rampant, registered, accord
ing to Federal reports. a percentage
value per acre of SO this March, COM
pared with a pre-war 100 and with 213
in 1920. Nebraska, which rose to 179,
is LOG; Missouris 1877 Is 70; Kansas,
where the average value was $50 in
1920, is now at $50 an acre. The entire
corn belt Is below the pre-war figure.
AS these figures include improvements,
it means small margin for the loans
made five or more years ago.
Every failed bank in the farm States
was carrying real estate, taken in the
process of its loan making. In many
instances its burden caused the failure.
These lands are mostly yet he'd, while
the insurance companies and mortgage
companies have thousands of farms
taken under foreclosure. While some
loans were made on as high a basis as
so per cent Of the appraised value gen.
orally a 40 per cent limit was fixed In
this latter instance the loans are safe;
II high rating was given, the farmer
may think he has made good sale and
move out
Renewals Reduced.
Strict limits, with general indisposi-
ton to extend loans, have materially
cut down the renewals Some leading
insurance companies have withdrawn
from the field and make no new loans.
But the farmer must be financed IN
der present conditions he Is unable to
pay the principal-indeed, he is strug-
cling to keep up the interest-and he
has no added increment to his realty
value as q further collateral The old
time procedure Of transferring current
obligations to capital loans and thus
caring for bank obligations is impos-
sible under today'S conditions. APP
parently a heavier burden must be
placed on the Federal Land Bank in
taking over loans that cannot be re-
newed elsewhere and in making any
new accommodations.
Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
COTTON PRICES DROP
TO RECORD LOW MARK
Market Closes Barely Steady at
Net Declines of % to
"a Points.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 23.-Cotton broke
into new low ground for the season to-
day October contracts sold of to 9.33,
or rs points net lower, and closed at
9.35, with the general market closing
barely steady at net declines Of % to
"a points.
The opening was steady, s to 8
points lower on overnight selling or
ders, encouraged by expectations of
rising temperatures in the South over
Sunday. There was considerable COW
ering and trade buying. which alb
sorbed the initial offerings. but the
selling continued and became more ac-
tive as the stock market showed signs
of weakening and the official forecast
encouraged the expectation of improy-
ing weather.
Some stop orders were uncovered dur
ing the progress of the decline, with
Southern and Wall Street selling be-
coming more active. Later in the morn
ing July broke to 8.96 and December
the high price touched on the rally Of
Friday morning. Closing quotations
were 2 or 3 points up on some of the
later months
The combination OF better weather
news with the continuance of unsettled
conditions in the stock market was
considered chiefly responsible for the
selling. This was supposed to include
further liquidation of old long &C
counts, as well as reselling by some
more recent buyers for an upward re-
action. Houses with Southern and
Wall Street connections were particu-
larry active on the selling side of the
market, while the trade was said to
be the best buyer. The demand in
cluded considerable buying by brokers
with Japanese connections.
Liverpool was closed for the Whit
suntide holidays and will not reopen
until next Tuesday morning, so that
there were no cables to influence senti-
ment here either way.
The days trading included further
switching from near to late months,
particularly from July to March, but
while differences widened out slightly
early, they showed very little change at
the close. The amount Of cotton on
shipboard awaiting clearance at the
end of the week was estimated at TO-
900 bales, against $4,000 last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-24
Trade Trends
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Observation-Disclosures Of airplanes in
the United States during the first quar-
ter this year showed an increase of
81 over the final quarter of last year
to total of 672. The number of planes
built for domestic civil use was 342,
an increase Of SO over the preceding
quarter.
Copper-Very little business in cop
per was reported at the close of the
week. The price held unchanged at
834 cents pound, delivered, in the
domestic market with buying light.
There was no foreign buying because
Of the Whitsunday holidays abroad.
Lead-World output of refined lead
amounted to 131 926 short tons in April,
compared With 145,4B9 tons in March
and 1919 tons in April last year. the
the. American Bureau Of Metal Sta
tisticS reports.
Petroleum average prices for
crude oil at 10 representative fields
were unchanged last week from the
preceding week at $50 cents a barrel,
compared with an average of $1.465 a
barrel last year, according to Oil, Paint
and Drug Reporter. Gasoline at the
refineries also was unchanged at 4.187
cents a gallon at four principal re-
fining centers, compared with 749
cents a gallon year ago.
Silver.-Bar silver sagged in both
primary markets at the close of the
week. In New York the drop was Ave
eighths Of cent to 261s cents an ounce
and in London the decline was fiv-six-
teenthS of penny to IL 5-l6 pence.
teel-Operations Of steel mills in
the Youngstown district next week will
remain unchanged at Al per cent of
rated capacity. Activity of Republic
Steel Corporation will be at As per
cent, gain of per cent.