New Britain herald., 1920-02-02
USED THE MOVIES"
 IN HIS PROPAGANDA
9ne Picture Showed Hero" Reviewing United States Navy From Bridge of Dummy Man-o-War.

Grand Rapids. Mich, .Erp. 2- The fraudulent clectiun conspiracy which the yoverntuent charsy,,>, i.5; ins, T. S. Senator N'whorry an,l his co defendants. had ita inception in Now York i'll 19I. according to tue opeiI- ing statement. wEi:; E'ra~k C. Daley. ass stant attorney general. made to the jury in L.. $. district court here today. He named Senator Ncwi,ci.ry and Frederick CGdy. whom he de- scribcd as q legislative agent for tn: large corporations, particularly tho Amer can Telephone and Telegraph { company as the men WhG mad, the. American Book company was large ''preliminary arrangements" He added:
 They had determined to purchase . the United States senators,.?ip in Mich < iSan for MT. ewbcrry.'
 "PatriCtic Work in Navy. $ Mir. Dailey told the jury that the senator was then on "patriotic work" i in New York city as lieutenant com Inander in the navy. adding that the American uBok company was large ly" controlled by the Barnes family. to which Mir. Newberry was related by maria gc.'
 Mr. Daley said Cody was commits stoned to hire Il manager for the cam raign and that J. c. Hayden. Wash ington correspondent of the Detroit News was offered $500 d month but refused the position beca use Inc did not want that kind of d job" Mir bailey sLid solicitation of Hayden ceased suddenly after the latter had advised MT. Hayden not to conduct n barrel campaign"
 MT. Daley then shifted the scene 4t" Detroit. where. he said, in February there was conference of Michigan politicians known as Cody men, This conference. he said. selected Paul II. King, ono of the defendants as manager of the campaign
 Secure a Manager
 During the campaign', said Mr. Daley, MT. King visited practically every county in Michigan He om- ployed many agents and paid out Il vast sum of money
 The prosecutor then sketched the publicity campaign Of the Ncwbcrry organization charging they sought ad- Vertising space in every newspaper and magazine in the state.'' He named several publications in which he said the advertising appeared, in- cluding Russian. Finnish, Italian and
 
 . published in the German language He then turned to the use of motion pictures saying that Thomas R. Phil lips ot Detroit one of the defendants was sent later to negotiate for them.
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 Phillips purchased about 1000 feet of an old film showing a review of the United States navy" said Mir. Daily. '"The sub-titles were changed. so as to make the pictures applica- ble to the propaganda for which they were intended Mr Phillips also employed moving picture company 10 take 125 feet of new film.
 MT. Newberry posed in various at ttudes in the new film. He went to 5attleship located on dry land in a New York park and stood on the bridge of the ship ard turned slow ly to face the audience while th% camera caught him in this attitude. He next played that he was pay ing a visit of inspection to this battle ship.
 gro divert attention from the fact that tho film was z Nowbcrry advcr- tisen7 cnt and r"nL~, it moro mislead- ing tn" film terminated with Sn ap- peal for cnlistm"pts. in thc navy
 Mr DaiIev %aii th" film was dis tributcd in Michigan. advertised by NnwhcrrH agents posing As theatrical advuncc t"rn bnt that ''patrons oe the moving picture houses over the state paid th" gular price of admission to sct this iln1.
 tcl""ran to Roosevelt.
 Tie prosecutor read telegram which he said was sent in Septem Der, 1918, to Colonel Theodore Roose- welt at Oyster Bay bidding. for his aDnrovaI of the Newberry candidate He said this telegram was signed "Newberry volunteer copmittee, Charles A. Floyd. secretary"
 The telegram stated that $176,000 had been contributed to the campaign by many subscribers but according to :, (Co ltinued on EleYenth Page.)