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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
CONVICT DEATH
 COLD FLOODED
Sheriff Claims His Hands Were in Air When He
 Was Shot Dead

Crockett, Tex, Aug. 18- (UP)- John H. Frazier, one of five con- victs who were killed after they escaped from the Eastman prison farm Monday. wsa shot down while he stood with his hands raised, pleading for his life, Sheriff Archie Naples told a grnad jury today.
 Naples late yesterday filed a mur- der charge against Rob Parker, the Eastman prison sergeant in charge of the bloodhounds used to track prisoners in the frequent farm es- capes. County Attorney Leon Rusk and Dr. c. w. Butler, Texas prison board members, said Naples told them he witnessed the shooting and that 1t was a coldblooded killing.
 Naples Testifies
 Lllsk turned the information over to the grand jury and Naples went before it today. The hearing was closed.
 Dr. Butler said that Naples told him that 21-year-old Frazier step- ped from behind a tree at dawn yesterday with his hands in the air. He was about 10 feet from Parker, who had been trailing his dogs through the Trinity river bottoms where the eight escaped prisoners fled after they stabbed 8 guard, took his shotgun and ran from the farm property.
 Naples said Frazier was begging and praying to Parker not to shoot ito spare his life-but that Parker shot anyhow" Dr. Butler said. T am sure that Joseph Wearden, chairman of the prison board, will call an investigation of the entire Eastman break and the shooting of the fugitiyeS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
7hursa Grant Scott Breaks Her Denials OfWeek; ShotHusband After Quarrel In Their Home
Fight Started While Both Lay in Bed; Husband Left She Said to
 Get Gun in Attic
STRUGGLE FOR GUN BETWEEN
 TWO RESULTS IN DEATH

Mrs. Thursa Grant Scott, 25, after week of stubborn denials, confessed today that she fired the shot which fatally wounded her husband, Howard R. Scott, 36 in the kitchen of their home at 89 Sheffield street last Thursday morning. She made the confes sion to Detective -Lieutenants William Foley and Edward McElligott.
 Reveals Tragedy For First Time
 The petite widow revealed for the first time that her husband had been slain between midnight and l a. m, four hours before the time the shooting was previously thought have taken place. She lay the floor in the next room she said while her husband stretched unconscious the kitchen stove blood streaming from wound in his temple Mrs Scott claims that she tainted and did not regain consciousness until almost a. m when she called neghbors.
 Two Shots Were Fired
 Two shots fired from the 32 caber revolver she admitted The first, which she said fired while her husband and she struggled for the gun went into the wall the kitchen The second fired while she stood six eight feet away from her husband inflicted the fatal wound.
 Still held incommunicado without bond Mrs. Scott be questioned further this afternoon by Deputy Cor William B. Hennessy Also scheduled for this after conference in which the participants to be Chief Inspector Joseph Stevens of the detective bureau States Attorney William Fitzgerald Assistant States At torney Walter F. Smyth and LieutS Foley McEligott
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Poison Nurse, Jane
 7oppan, Dies Insane
From 1892 to 1901 She Admitted Killing at Least lO0-Sent to Asylum at Age of 45-Was
 Over 80 When She Died

Taunton, Mass, August 18. - (UP) - Jane Toppan, a nurse who casually admitted that "it would be safe to say that I killed at least 100 persons" died at Taunton State Hospital last night. Acquitted o1 murder because of inherited in- sanity, "Jolly Jane" was committed for life to state hospital June "A 1902. She confessed fatally poison ing 31 persons during her 15-year career as nurse and mentioned several score more poisonings whose victims she could not recall. Death from natural causes-overtook her after a two-week illness. Suffering from chronic myocarditis and broncho pneumonia, she lapsed into a final coma late yesterday. She was 81. Funeral arrangements were delayed as State Hospital attaches sought relatives.
 Born HonOra Kelly
 Born Honora A. Kelly in Boston's North End, she was the youngest of four daughters of an eccentric inebriate known as Kelly the Crack" When the father drank himself to death, Honora was adopt ed by Captain and Mrs. Abner Top pan of Lowell, who rechristened her Jane Toppan. Later her foster par ents were poisoned by Jolly Jane"
 She began her nursing career at 29 at Cambridge hospital and short ly afterward shifted to Massachu- setts General Hospital. There, it subsequently, developed, she at tempted her first poison murder with a fellow-nurse as the intended victim, but the attempt failed.
 Rated As Best Nurse
 From 1892 to 1901, she had the reputation of being the best nurse in Cambridge, yet during this period, she committed several score mur- ders and once or twice administered less s-than-lethal doses to retard the recovery of patients in whose employ she wished to remain.
 Among the victims was her friend. Mrs. Myra Connors, matron of St. Johns Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge. After murdering Mrs. Connors, Miss Toppan sought and obtained her position.
 Late in June, 1901, an old friend,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Beer Selling To
 WPA Help Costly

Arrested yesterday afternoon following complaints that he was selling beer to WPA work CTS, John Kyauskas, 40, of 122 Sunnyside avenue, pleaded guilty in city court today to a charge of selling liquor without . permit. Judge Theobald E. Conway imposed a fine of $50 and costs.
 Kyauskas was arrested by Lieut.. Patrick MOylan and PatrOlman Edward Sullivan of the vice squad. The officers said they found several cases of beer on the premises. In city court, Prosecutor Mitchell Mey- CTS said that Kyauskas oper- ated a grocery store on Sunny side avenue. Though without a liquor license, he said, Kyaus- kas was selling beer to workers from the nearby TPA project in Chase park.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Charges Resulted From Newspaper Article Attack
 on Political Activities
PROSECUTOR SUMMA
 ISSUES WARRANT
Affidavits Were T ak e n From Newspaper Publish-
 CTS Regarding Article

Patrolman Frank Smith arrested Walter Scanlon at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon on a charge of criminal libel preferred by Prosecutor Charles R. Summa on com plaint of Attorney John F. Tobin and Chairman James Hartley of the Independent Democratic Town Committee. Bonds for his release have been fixed at $500.
 Arrest on charge of criminal libel faced Walter w. Scanlon of 18 Kee2e street today as result of an article which he submitted to local newspapers last July 2, pertaining to the alleged political activities of Chairman James Hartley of the h. dependent Democratic Town Com- mittee and Attorney John F. Tobin, a member of the I'D town commit tee.
 On complaint of Hartley and Tooin, City Court Prosecutor Charles R. Summa today issued a warrant for the arrest of Scanlon. Police are expected to arrest Scan- lon, who is himself 8 prominent member of the Independent Demo- cratic Club, early this afternoon. He will be arraigned in city, court tomorrow on the charge.
 Publishers Consulted
 Before demanding the issuance of the warrant by Prosecutor Summa, Attogney Tobin and MT. Hartley ob- tained aff1davits from publishers of all local newspapers, which are to the effect that the allegedly libelous material was submitted by MT. Scanlon, and appeared in all local newspapers July '.
 Immediately after the publication of the article, which in effect
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
CLEVELAND MAD
 BUTCHER SOUGHT
After Four Years of Crazy Killings Officials Raised
 to Action
BY HARRY B. HENSON United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Clevelnad, Aug. 18.-CUP)-Police raiding squads went into action against the mad butcher of Kings bury Run," confident that although he had eluded them for four years and 13 murders, they were on the trail he has made within the past month.
 Led by Elliott Ness, city safety director, the raiders made sortie into the Cuyahoga mud flats early today and rounded up 40 squat ters from dismal shacks and novels The flats are near the waterfront dump, where two dissected and de- composed bodies, wrapped in pack ages, were found Monday evening Victims No. 12 and No. 13.
 Two papers boxes, into which parts of victim No. 12, an uniden- tified woman, were stuffed, had been traced to public markets. They had been discarded 8 month ago.
 "The killers changing his tech- nique," said Detective Peter Merylo who was assigned to the torso mur- der cases when they began appear ing with baffling regularity in 1884 For the first time since the two bodies were found in September 1885, he has left two victims to- |gether again. And also changing his method. he has left the heads on the last two."
 Raid Based on Theory
 The river flat raid, announced in advance and attended by news papermen, was based on the theory that the flats were the logical hide away for such a criminal, and also to allay the feeling of hopeless
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
CITY DEMOCRATS WILL CONVENE.
Two Groups Decide To- night Whether There Will
 Be Primary Fight

Whether there will be primary contest in the local Democratic party depends largely on the outcome of a meeting of two conference com- mittees tonight at which final lists of tentative delegates to the several conventions will be considered. Two units, the conference committee of the Democratic Voters Committee, harmony" organization of Demo- cratic State Chairman J. Francis Smith, and a like committee from the Independent-Democrats headed by Senator George T. Culhane will hold an executive session at 8 O. clock at Hotel Elton.
 The committees, leaders of the units remarked today have been em- powered to accept or reject the ten tative list, to make such changes as can be agreed upon by compromise. But Senator Culhane told The Dem- ocrat this noon that he "has not seen the list submitted by the sub committee" Chairman Smiths con- mittee's list.)
 Hundreds of Names
 He said he understood that "hun- dreds of names" have been offered and that only few of those listed actually will be chosen to select the delegates to the several conventions.
 Chairman Smith, unavailable for comment, is understood to have reached committee agreement on the tentative list, but the outcome of such agreement really depends on the executive meeting tonight.
 Meanwhile, organization in the 32 voting districts has been undertaken by the divergent units to meet the enentuality of a primary. The town committees compromise with Chair man Smiths unit and the consensus of the Culhane unit that solidifica- tion of the party under these condi-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
CASTICLONE HELD
 IN WOMAN'S DEATH

New Haven, Conn.,, Aug. 18-(UP) Accused of staying Mrs. Jennie Bimonti, 54, as the climax Of a neighborhood feud, Eugene Castig- lone. ST., 50, was held for superior court today on a charge of murder.
 A finding of Coroner James J. Corrigan said there had been bad blood" between the families for some time resulting from quarrels among their children. The shoct- ing occurred, the coroner said, after Mrs. Bimopti's 23-year-old son, Joseph, allegedly struck Castig- lone's 19-year-old cripped son, Flu. gene, Jr.
 Mrs. Bimonti was wounded in the abdomen and arm as she started to run into the house when the elder Castiglone reportedly obtained gun and fired one shot through her kitchen window.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18

Break Tn Silence
 The "break" in the case came after a week of patient police work. Mrs. Scott made the confession at 10 a. m., while Lieuts Foley and Me- Elligott were questioning her in the detention room in which she has been confined since last Thursday.
 Lieuts. Foley and McElligott said that all but few minor angles in the case had been cleared up. A few discrepancies still existed, they said, but would be strengthened out later today or tomorrow.
 Quarrel Leads To Crime
 The gist of the confession, accord- ing to the police version, is this: Mrs. Scott and her husband were in bed and began quarreling when he brought up the subject of attentions paid to her by other men. The quar- rel became bitter and Scott got up and went to the kitchen. A few min- utes later she heard the sound of stepladder being set up. Realizing that loaded revolver was in the at- tic, which is reached by trapdoor from a pantry off the kitchen, she rose from bed. AS she reached the pantry, she saw her husband des- cending the step-ladder, with the gun in his hand. She grappled with her husband for the gun and they struggled into the kitchen. As they did so, a shot was fired entering the wall. Her husband then broke from her hold. and stepped back across the kitchen, standing near table. AS he stood sideways to her, she pulled the trigger and bullet en- tered his temple. Scott fell uncon- scious to the floor, and his wife. reeling into the next room, tainted. It was four hours later that medical aid was summoned. Scott, who had lost large quantity of blood, died at Waterbury hospital at 9:30 a. m.,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Outlook For Peace m EuropeIs VeryGloon1y
Great Britain's Campaign to Improve Relations Meets Serious Difficulties = Fear That Our
 Accord Has Lost Ground
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Staff CorrespOndent) Europe's diplomatic outlook for peace today became as gloomy as a London fog.
 For the moment, almost every phase of Great Britain's campaign for improvement of international relations was up against serious diff ficulties. There was fear - against persistent background of war talk that the long struggle for an ac- cord between the democratic and dictatorial governments had lost ground.
 In Czechoslovakia, 8 period of grave uncertainty was intensified by action of the Sudeten Germans in rejecting the governments pro- gram for solution of the minority problem. Viscount Runciman, British mediator, was believed to be meeting with Konrad Henlein, Nazi leader, in an effort to agree upon a basis for further negotiation but there was still no indication of pro- gress toward breaking the deadlock
 New German Threat
 A new threat of German inter- vention against the Czechs was con- sidered possible in October, after Runciman has returned to London.
 In Spain, Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to have rejected the British-sponsored proposal of an international non- intervention committee for with drawal of foreign volunteers from
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Annstrong;s Face Battered So
 Badly Other Fights Delayed

New York, Aug 18.-(UP)-Henry Armstrong; Ambe lightweight world night took such head beating from the Herkme Y probably will not be able fight three
 Dr. Alexander Schif who has been attending fighters injuries for 13 the decorations Angeles Mike negotiations Armstrong defend his weter championship this bout with Ambers during the winter.
 Armstrong has the worst lip in career" Dr. Schf said It badly steak hammer It least 20 stitches properly and do not how possibly an O. to fournn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Aug. IS (UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Aug. 18th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year s1,166,657, 7,942.Q0 $1,030, 0,547,309.S3
 Receipts s67s,ss7. .79oso s712.249,e76.4s 4s7,sso,151.2O s1s,2s7,sa3.34
 Net Deficit s4S7522.75120 ss1s,2s7oS3.s4
 Cash Balance $2,S21,391,9 ,961. .6a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
NURSE IS FOUND
 DEAD IN HOME

New Britain, Conn. Aug. IS - (U. P.) - Miss Elsa M. Roseen, 32, head of the New Britain hospital matern- ity department, was found dead to- day from Illuminating gas in the kitchen of her apartment.
 Her niece, Lorraine Logan, IT, found the body after she smashed a door window and turned of the jets. Miss Logan collapsed from the fumes and was taken to the hos pital where 1t was said she was not affected seriously. Miss Roseen was said to have been in falling health.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-18
Schultz Policy Racket angCheats Employees
James J. Hines, Tammany Leader, Again Hears Danl= aging Testimony - Negro Lottery Banker
 Reveals More Gang Secrets
BY JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Staff Correspondent

New York, August 18. - (UP) - The Dutch Schultz policy racket gang, which Tammany Leader James j..
 Hines is accused of protecting cheated its employes of testified today at Hines conspiracy trial Brunder to the stand today in District Attorney Thomas
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 Fair for Friday Full Weather Report Page 2
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CARDIAC CRIPPLE
PROBLEMS CITED
Social Service Workers Told
Their Cooperation With
Physicians Is Needed.

Employment Of cardiac cripples and
their proper adjustment to enforced
changes in occupation and activities
constitute "a social problem of great
significance" calling for cooperation
between the physician and the social
service worker according to DR.. Frank
S. Horvath, director of the cardiac
clinic at Georgetown University Hos
pital.
DR.. Horvath was addressing a group
OF social service workers from public
and private agencies yesterday after
noon in the second of a series of free
medical lectures being given under
the auspices of the out-patient de-
partment Of Georgetown University
Hospital and the School Of Medicine.
He dealt primarily with the causes Of
chronic congestive heart failure and
its treatment.
Livelihood Endangered.
Because of the severity of civil serv-
ice and workmen's compensation
laws, he said, it is becoming increas-
ingly difficult for workers afflicted
even with mild forms of heart disease
to retain their jobs or to secure gain
full employment. In many cases, DR..
Horvath claimed, Government en-
ployes suffering from high blood pres
sure are forced to retire from service
long before their years Of usefulness
are over
DR.. John r. Cavanagh. director of
the out-patient department. brought
up this problem of the cardiac cripples
and asked the lecturer to discuss the
situation confronting so many of these
persons in both public and private
employment. Compensation laws are
shutting the door of gainful employ
ment to great many persons, he said,
because industry must compensate the
worker whose heart symptoms are ag-
gravated by occupational duties.
Especially in younger persons suf-
fering from apprehension, DR.. Horvath
said, the symptoms are spread over a
long period before they become dan
gerous. High blood pressure accounts
for about 46 per cent of the cases of
chronic congestive heart failure in the
District.
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In majority of such cases. he said.
the afflicted worker can continue his
duties satisfactorily for 8, 10 or is
years before it is necessary for him
TO seek lighter work Yet the rigidity
OF examinations under various laws,
he claimed, bars from continued en-
ployment great many in this group.
Cooperation between the social
service worker and the physician Is
very necessary, he explained, if the
cardiac patient is to be encouraged
and fitted into the groove that best
suits him. Above all. he stressed, his
morale must be fortified if successful
treatment is to be achieved.
.-- Dr. Horvath deplored the great
waste in disqualification" when public
and private agencies fail to maintain
follow up service for the cardiac
patient Social service workers should
see that the doses OF necessary medi-
cine are not discontinued after the
patient leaves the hospital. he said.
Instruction in the amount of exer-
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eral care is equally as important as
medical treatment, he advised. to pre-
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ninth place or Fortieth street between
Calvert and Benton streets, and Ben
ton street west Of Tunlaw road. Park
ing restrictions also will be considered.
Highway Director H. c. Whitehurst
has advised the commission that For
'tieth street Is tn no condition to carry
bus traffic.
Evening star., 1938-10-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
TODAY,

Meeting. Washingtonians. Room 210,
Highland Apartments, Connecticut ave-
nue. and California street NV, 8:15
pm.
Meeting, Society of Free e-Lance Writ
ers, Shoreham Hotel. pm.
Meeting, General Accounting Once
branch, Local No. 2. N. F. F. E., ITO
Fourteenth street NV. 8 pm.
Meeting, Playhouse Chorus, Thom-
son School, Twelfth and l. streets NV,
8pm.
Meeting, Thirteen Club, Willard Ho-
tel, 8pm.
Meeting, Lambda Chi Sorority, VIII
lard Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Alabama State Society, Will
lard Hotel, 9 pm.
Dinner, Georgetown University Law
School faculty, Mayflower Hotel, pm.
Meeting, League of Laymen's Re-
treats. Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Lido Civic Club, Mayflower
Hotel, SPIN.
Dance, West Virginia State Society,
Raleigh Hotel. 9 pm.
Dance, Maryland Society Of Wash
ington, Kennedy Warren, 10 pm.
TOMORROW.
Breakfast, Junior Board of Com
merce, Annapolis Hotel, 8 am.
Meeting, Interstate Conference Of
Unemployment Compensation Agencies,
Mayf1ower Hotel, 10 am.
Luncheon, Reciprocity Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Halloween Committee,
Board OF Trade, Willard Hotel, 1890
pm.
Luncheon. D. c. Bankers Associa-
ton, Willard Hotel, 12:45 pm.
Luncheon, Society Of Mayfiower De-
scendants, Mayflower Hotel, l pm.
Meeting, Music Committee, D. A. r.,
Willard Hotel nm
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proposed to the Commissioners by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
The practice Of certain" night clubs
OF keeping the doors to their bars
locked has raised suspicious that liquor
is being sold after legal hours Of sale.
officials said, ..
The rule would have general appl-
cation. but it is directed at number
OF the clubs which have been investi-
gated by agents Of the A. B. c. Board,
a spokesman for the board said.
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BUS HEARING MONDAY
Proposed Calvert Street Terminus
Will Be Considered,

" AL DC SOuSlucIeOs
Possibility Of placing new western
terminus for the Glover Park bus line
on the north side of Calvert street,
west Of Thirty-ninth street, will be
considered by the Public Utilities Com
mission Monday morning at q hearing
on proposed extension of the line
Traffic Director William A. Van Du-
ger, or his assistant, M. 0. Eldridge.
has been asked to appear TO discuss
practicabiiity. OF operation OF buses
over various suggested streets, includ-
ing Tunlaw road NV. between Ben
ton and Calvert streets; Calvert street
between Tunlaw road and Thirty ninth
street, Thirty-ninth place or Fortieth
street; Thirty-ninth street, Thirty
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being manufactured from petroleum
stocks which previously were consid.
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