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SAUNDERS TRIAL
EVIDENCE FINISHED
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eating officers, several of Saunders
employees who claim he defraudec
them, and other persons having
knowledge Of the case
The four charges were consoli-
dated at the opening of the trial.
Saunders told the court yesterday
he will require at least as minutes
to present his summation to the
jury. The state asked Is minutes
Edgar L. Vow was assisting Dis
trict Solicitor David Sinclair in tn,
prosecution. Judge John J. Burne,
is presiding.
Sergeant w. Dewey Thompson
testified that the defendant hao
used funds derived from selling
stock, borrowing money, and re.
curing cash bonds Of his en-
ployes solely for the operation o:
his purported publishing house
business here.
Miss Hazel Hall, defense witness
testified on cross-examination by
the state that she and other EN-
ployes. had been threatened with
discharge unless they bought stock
in the company and posted higher
cash bonds.
Miss Hall also testified that she
and other employees. to her know
ledge, had never made application
to a surety company in connection
with the request for posting cash
bonds demande1 ~ the defendant IN
order to secure work.
The state witnesses placed on the
stand yesterday morning in the trial
OF saunders included: Miss Edna
Mae Lewis Roy Koff, Mrs. H. E.
Braswell, and Charles Reisz.
They related in detail their rela.
tons with Saunders and each testi-
neo lhey were required to post cash
bonds OF varying amounts in order
to secure employment with the
p%urported business.
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FACING 1T OUT

1t is reported that when HITLER and Mus.
soL1N1 parted, after their momentous confer.
ence, HITLER was livid and drawn and Mrs.
soL1N1 was smiling.
Can this mean that the Duce outflanked
the Fuehrer in their war of words? Or does
it indicate that HITLER was overcome and
MUssoL1NI overjoyed by the outcome?'
q. If facial expressions truly reflect mental
attitudes, it appears that MussoI1N1 got more
and HITLER less than expected.
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clared it was about time that No,
pie stopped asking what Hitler an,
Mussolini were going to do bg
what Chamberlain is going to d.,
Scores Government
Hore-Belisha, whose attack nj,
last week on the governments fail.
ure to get ~large-scale help to Fin.
land produced today's statement br
the prime minister, today scored
the government for not sending an
air force to Finland when Dover
full onslaughts from the air would
have broken the Russian or.
slaught."
If the Allies failed. he said. i.
was. because they were not deter.
mined enough and not quick
enough
Hore-Belisha pointed TO the block.
AIDE as the sole offensive Weapon
the Allies have employed so far
against Germany and asked. is
it enough, or must We intensity our
pressure in other d~irections?'
The house of commons was 50
crowded for ChamberIaln's gXyusa
that numerous members had ~ ST.
in the galleries.
In the diplomatic gallery, United
States Ambassador Joseph ?. Ken
nedy an. Soviet Ambassador Ivan
M. Maisls sat side by side.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-20
Man

By George Tucker

NEW YORK, March 10. - Most
broadway reporters have these
hooks on their desks-W. Somerset
Maugham's 1.-THE Summing Up;
Katharine Cornell's II Want to Be
an Actress; Noel towards pres
emf Indicative''; Edna Ferber's "a
Peculiar Treasure; Sir Cedric
Hardwicke's Lets Pretend"; 10.
seph Werner Reeds THE Curtain
Falls"; Oscar Levant's "a smat-
tering of Ignorance; Angina En-
ter's "First Person Plural; Helen
HAYES Browns 'The Story Of Helen
| Haves'; William A. Bradys. "Show-
man."
Their value to reporters is the
fund Of factual information that
humanizes the great anne of the
theater and makes of them SUBJ
stantial, everyday people. They give
an intimate, revealing background
of, well, say Noel Coward, whose
first glimpse of Broadway left such
an impression on him that, years
after. he wrote, broadway was
more sharply beautiful than I could
ever have imagined - a slightly
A--.-x ao,,+ Iafoohnd INNER.
sonal, and a little scarifying." He
was broke in those days, of course,
and borrowing money from all his
friends.
You turn a page and come upon
st, John IRVINE, the guest critic
from London, who hurries to Ills
typewriter to record this prose Rem
brandt of Katharine Cornell: Her
fine intelligent face, as sensitive as
a seismographic instrument which
records the most intimate and re-
mote tremblings of the earth, has a
dark, ivory-colered beauty that Is
almost Amerindian in its quality.
Her dusky eyes have a stiffness in
them that is found in deep, dark
water, but is not the stiffness OF
s%tagnation; it is the stiffness Of life
so quick that the whole Of a thought
or a feeling can be expressed with
the flicker of an eyelid."
You turn another page and find
George Gershwin and Oscar Levant
in a drawing room, speeding
through the night. They are on
their way to the coast to compose
the score for a musical film. How
is it," demands Levant from the
upper berth, that you get the lower
while m up here?"
That's the difference between
talent and genius" explains Gersh'
win.
You tur another page and find
Joseph Werner Reed, at the Ritz in
London, staring into the eyes of
Jane Cowl. "They were," he says,
"as black as liqui7 tar" Reed
isn't so well known throughout the
country perhaps, but his confes.
sions as a producer are among the
most human and most revealing
documents on the theater ever
written. He vas the man who
found a tall, gawky girl named
Katharine Hepburn and gave her
her first chance in the theater, to
the deep disgust Of the rest Of the
cast.
I like these books because they
are good working tools for a man
whose shop is on Broadway. They
give you the background and the
picture, and they give you the pri.
waite opinions of the authors about
their contemporaries, unflattering
though many of them are. They
ave a lot of steps, and a lot Of re-
search. And besides, they are
darned good reading.
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snat wora "boondoggling"? What.
eser peealn Of that seriously in.
terest'ng project in Ohio Of having
wa oeauticians instruct inmates
~ ,ne state hospital for the insane
tr,,e 49, parlor art? Is it really
roads ta WPA has built enough
ed o,, 80 tnat' if they were stretch.
shin enae way, You could go from
times .oh to San Francisco 147
ronts Without taking the same
u twice? And if 81 W.. SAM an
axe in the rainy season?
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CHAMBERLAIN TELLS
COMMONS BRITAIN
INTENDS TO FIGHT
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Chamberlain probably will form
during the Easter recess. Members
Of parliament agreed that, for the
present, active opposition to the
government had been squelched,
and said the cabinet reshuffle would
follow Chamberlain's own ideas on
the subject; not the opposition's.
Chamberlain stiffly refused to be
hustled into, adventures" He
promised critics Of the govern.
ment's "slow but sure policy that
Britain would strike when the op-
portunity presented itself but not
when there was 'little chance of
success; much of danger and per.
haps disaster"
Minimizes Bombing
Weighing his words, the prime
minister minimized the German
Scapa Flow bombing of Saturday
evening, saying that only one war.
ship was damaged slightly and that
no capital ship had been scratched.
He added: 1.-The responsibility for
the consequences must rest upon
the authors!"
The house cheered for fully a
minute, for informed listeners in.
%terpreted this a. the go.ahead for
further British raids on German
naval bases. One civilian was kill
ed ard several injured in the Scapa
Flow raid, in which Chamberlain
said 121 high explosive and 500
incendiary bombs were dropped over
100 square miles. :
Chamberlain gave a, point.by.
point account of Britain's aid to
Finland. He disclosed the Allies
were preparing to send 100, 900 men
to help the Firms and their Scan
dinavian neighbors and they would
have been at the front by the end
OF April. He called the Russo-Finn+
ish peace "this tragedy" and placed
responsibility for it "squarely upon
the shoulders. of Germany"
Its terms, he said, brought grave
danger to the very "doorstep". Of
Sweden and Norway. +
Germany, he charged, terrified
the Scandinavian nations" bv
threats of invasion if they allowed
passage of the Allied troops.
No Ground
Slowly and carefully, the prime
said there was no Ground
Tor criticism of the Allies for fail.
to help Finland, least of all by
individuals in countries far away
from the seat of war"
From the labor side of the house
the shout:
Tell America thatr'
OF Sumner Welles, the limited
states Presidents fa%ct-finder. Cham.
said he felt sure that he
lad received from all parties here
full account of the nations
Speaking to a half-filled house
Chamberlain had finished.
Attlee also praised Welles and said:
:! think he realizes the determine.
ION OF the people of this country"
he urged Chamberlain to be
ruthless with inefficiency' within
us government and declared: 1.-THE
a must not be left with
1ltler. We cannot have a policy of
wait and see."
want to see a war cabinet
nat lays down war princinles.
hat makes decisicls."
Sir Archibald Sinclair, the liberal
eaoer' also asked the government
. seize the initiatiye' and, do.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-20

mail from this country to Germany which
may contain funds, information or other ma
terials useful to Great Britain's enemies, it
is still reasonable to condemn the British use
of marines to enforce her right Of seizures
at Bermuda, which led the clipper operators
to do away with the stop there.
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MEN KILLED .r
IN PLANT BLAsl
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Continued From page on''
900, twisting the structures s
frame. uop.ba
lead inside the buildinS p'o' IN.
flames and, with an eNPlo7'v'
minent, they rushe5 for eS''s ND:
A column Of smoke which , r,5
skyward after The ilrSl "s!.aEer,
described by Dr.. + w. foil.
who viewed it from lis ito',' tsar
miles distant. as "spactaepl9f' sffos
tifully co1ored with rose anu
tints." r2rtd
was shaken signify
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-20

That killers brain" has been
eransplanted again - this time nv
surgeon karloff to save the life OF
friend Ridges. Ex-monster Kar,oft
ought to know better, after Prank.
enstein'-but Universal's string OF
smokers must not be broken and
slack Friday is a fair enough sam
pie. Ridges does the acting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-20
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
B Cooas.

A1OAAI WOOb, Mdrcn ~. lne
House of the Seven Gables" Screen
play by Lester Cole and Harold
Greene from Nathaniel Hawthorne
novel. Directed by Joe May. Prin
cipals: George Sanders, Margare1
Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Nan Grey, Cecil Kellaway, Alan Ma
pier, Gilbert Emery, Miles Mander
Charles Trowbridge.
The Pyncheons, and Maule's Curse,
and New England in the early 18th
century-here they are for the first
time on the screen.
A story obviously difficult Of
adaptation for pictures, it had tempt
ed no film factory until Universal
with its special fondness for tales
of atmosphere, undertook the job,
The vast gloomy old Pyncheor
house, built on land wickedly
mulcted from innocent Maule in the
witchcraft era, is effectively present.
ed. In an eerie rainstorm arrives
Jaffrey Pyncheon (Sanders) from
Boston at his fathers summons
they're going to sell the old home.
stead to satisfy brother Clifford's
just demand for his share of the
wasted family fortune. Clifford
price is a musician in love with
Cousin Hepzibah Lindsay who
shares his scorn for family tradi-
ton and superstition.
When the dose of atmosphere
has been served, the film settles
down to its melodramatic plot. Cliff
is accused of numbering their father
by sweet brother Jaffrey, who knows
all along he's innocent. Jaffrey
wants to keep the old house to
search for legendary treasure sup
posed to be hidden about. With
Cliff sent up for life, gold.greedy
Jaff is set for tearing the house
apart, but Cousin Hep proves to be
the real heiress and boots him out.
While the house falls to pieces,
Cousin Hep sours in solitude and
remains faithful to Cliff. Hep let's
rooms and opens a shop to keep
going, while wicked Jaff prospers.
Roomer Holgrave (Foran) and pref
ty Cousin Phoebe Grey brighten
the atmosphere with romance, and
in the end Jaff gets his, Cliff is freed
and sour. Hep practically blooms
again.
AS a longtime fugitive from Haw-
thorne novels I can't report how
closely this adheres to it's original,
but I suspect rather frequent re-.
semblances, ~pardonable if accidental.
It's not a bad picture, and at times
it's pretty good. Price, apparently
unrestrained, hams enthusiastically
as a youth, mellow5 with age. San.
ders, too, could have stood a halter,
but if that Lindsay girl isn't care
full she's going to be a Grade-A &C.
tress.
"Stranse Cargo Joan Crawford |
Clark Gable, Ian Hunter, Peter
LORE, Paul Lukas, Albert Decker.
A Christ-like mar from nowherel
Hunter) regenerates a gang oil
TOUCHES escaping from a penal is
land with a tough cafe mol. Good
job, though heavy now and then.
if you don't care for this s,,.
business. Hunter fine.
interesting.
blouse Across The Bay" .1oan|
Bennett, George Raft, Walter Pidge-
on, Lloyd Nolan, Gladys GEORGE
knight.
Good cast, acting, in a warn about
the big shot who went to A1catraz
ms ever-lovin' wife, and the old
.ouble-cross.
'oan dressed to kill, displays her
singing voice as well as wardrobe.
BLACK Friday" Boris Kar,otf
Lusosi, Stanley Ridges,
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TOP o. THE MORNING

In the Bedttitudes Christ described but one
character. Where poverty OF Spirit, mourning
for sin, meeEnesS, merictNlneSs, purity OF
heart, and love of peace are genuine, they
are found together.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
BRITAIN APPEALS
FRIENDS HERE
England Fighting Desper-
ately to Defeat Nazi;
Moral Aid Needed

New York, July 19.-With England
girding desperately to hold democ-
racy's battle line against Nazi as
saults. an urgent appeal that Amer
lean volunteers organize branches
of Bundles For Britain in cities where
they do not yet exist is being made
by Mrs. Wales Latham, national
president of the movement.
every woman who can knit, every
man who can help us purchase the
medical supplies and equipment
needed in England for this humane
tartan work should be part of Bum
dies For Britain Mrs. Latham said.
I'VE have pledged ourselves to do
everything in our power to alleviate
the suffering caused by Nazi bombs.
England has set up base hospitals
throughout the islands but those
hospitals need equipment There
must be x-ray machines to find the
cruel steel splinters, TRANSMISSION ap-
paratus to put life-giving blood into
the veins of victims-and there are
women and children among them
Warm knitted garments are
necessary for the brave men holding
the last line in the Old World
against the onrush Of HitleriSm.
Bundles for Britain is organized to
supply these vital needs through
the generosity and swift energy Of
Americans. Please help"
A letter to national headquarters
of Bundles for Britain at 484 Park
avenue, New York city, will bring
authorization and detailed instruc-
tons for the creation Of new chap
ter. Sixty-eight are now function
ing in 81 states.
Wool, at cost price is supplied to
volunteer knitters who can make the
sweaters, sea-boot stockings, scarves,
wristlets and aviation helmets need
ed by Englands soldiers, sailors and
airmen. Donations can be made
either to local chapters or to head
quarters.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
FATHER Waldo
ON AIR AUGUST 4
Rev. John Wade to Con-
duct Series of Addresses
on Catholic Hour

Rev. John j. Waldo, pastor of
Corpus Christi church, Oklahoma
City, Okla. will conduct a new series
of four addresses, Americas Debt
to the Catholic Church" during the
nationwide Catholic Hour, beginning
Sunday, August 4.
The program, heard each Sunday
at 900 p. M, EDST, over the Red
Network of the National Broadcast
ing company, is produced under the
auspices of the National Council Of
Catholic Men.
Father Waldo, kown to his listen
ers as "the radio priest of the south
west" began broadcasting in 1925.
It is believed he was the first Cath
Ollie priest in the United States to
give a consecutive radio series on
religion.
Since his ordination in 1922, Faith
er Waldo has established an unus-
ual record of conversions having
brought 1886 persons into the church.
In addition to his broadcasting ac-
tivities he edits a column, Library
Cleans" for the Southwest Courier
official organ Of the Diocese of
Oklahoma.
During his NBC series Father
Waldo will speak on the following
subjects: Aug. 4, 1.-THE March of
the Cross; Aug. II, THE Torch of
Liberty; Aug. Is, 1.-THE Torch of
Learning and Charity" and Aug. Is,
1.-THE Bulwark of the Nation"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19

Historical spots dating back more
than 400 years will be visited by
participants in the Hartford DID,
cesen Peace Pilgrimage to the
Shrine of ste. Anne de Beaupre, in
Quebec, Canada, next month. The
pilgrimage, under the leadership of
Rev. w. Arthur Routhier, of st.
AIMS Shrine Church, 800 Park
street, Hartford, has been officially
approved by Bishop Maurice F. Nc
Auliffe.
Waterburians Included
The group of travellers from Wa
terbury, Bridgeport, New Haven,
Hartford, and other Connecticut
cities will entrain from Hartford on
August 10, and will visit the world
famous shrine on August IA and Is,
the latter day being the Feast OF
the Assumption. Special ceremonies
at the baScilica have been arranged
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
FraternaL
Neus
King SOlOmOn's Lodge

King Solomon's lodge, A. F. and
A. NJ, of Woodbury., celebrated its
l75th anniversary Wednesday eve
ming with a meeting at lodge head
quarters and a dinner. Chairman
of the committee on arrangements
was George r. Sturges Of Wood
bury, one of several past grand
masters taking part. Assisting him
were Oscar F. Warner, worshipful
master Of King Solomon's, George
N. Plat, secretary, and William
j. Burton.
Among those present from Wa
terbury was Joseph B. Hall, whose
ga years as Mason gave him the
seniority over all the others. Rob-
ert s. Walker of this city was one
of five past grand masters attend
ing. Representatives also attended
from the Harmony, Euclid, Con-
tinental and Liberty lodges, Of
Waterbury.
A number of grand lodge officers
and members of daughter lodges
from all parts of the state helped
the Woodbury. members celebrate
their anniversary.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
EDDIE MEAD HAS
BEEN SUSPENDED
Manager of Armstrong Is
Out of Fight Business
for 90 Days

New York. July 19-(UP)-Eddie
Mead, manager Of Henry Arm
strong, was suspended for 60 days
today by the New York Boxing
Commission.
The action was taken because
Mead refused to remove the band
ages from Armstrong; hands be-
fore Wednesday nights fight in
which Henry knocked out Lew
jenkins.
John ]. Phelan, chairman of the
commission, was In Armstrong;
dressing room before the fight. He
was informed there was private
agreement which allowed Arm
strong and Jenkins to use more
fnandages on their hands than the
rules permit.
Apparently Phelan ordered Mead
to take the bandages off so they
could be measured and Mead re-
fused to do so.
All persons connected with the
fight were summoned before the
commission today and Armstrong;
md jenkins purses were held up.
Mead, coming out of a private
meeting of the commission, said
Armstrong; purse of $25, 404.48 had
been released. by the commission
after Armstrong agreed to make the
next defense of his welterweight
championship in New York. Arm
strong was told that he must post
q $4,000 forfeit to guarantee he
would go through with the fight
and agreed to fight before Novem-
Der.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
dies UNCOVERS
VAST SPY RING
Foreign Group Operating
Right in His Own State
of Texas

Houston, Texas, July 19.-Rep.
Martin Dies, D., Texas, whose con-
gressional committee has investigat-
ed Communists on the west coast
and German-American Bunds on the
east coast, believed today he had
discovered vast foreign spy ring
operating in his home state.
He said he had evidence indicat-
ing that photographs of major Texas
industrial plants, principally oil re-
fineries and terminals, had been for
warded by the spies to foreign gov
ernments.
Dies believed the evidence was so
important that he planned to hold
herings here for week. The hear
ings will begin in a few days, he
said.
His information apparently hinged
on testimony presented by Norman
York, chairman of the local Veterans
of Foreign Wars Americanism COM
mittee. Immediately after hearing
York yesterday Dies announced his
spy ring discovery.
Packages have been transmitted
through Houston by way of German
ships" he said. I'm going to look
into that, too"
Dies is acting as one-man sub
committee on his House COMMITTEES
investigating un-American activities
He has held executive sessions in
Austin and Beaumont, investigating
Bund activities in Texas and Com
munist activities on the west coast
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
Police Changes

Supt. of Police William J. Roach
last night made three shifts in the
personnel of the local police de-
partment. Motor Patrolman James
Magner was assigned to special
duty; Motor Patrolman Raymond
Grady promoted from a drivers
assistant to driver on Platoon G;
Frank Leary, a supernumerary. was
made an assistant on the motor
patrol squad.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-19
SLAYER TEACHER
FACES NEW TEST
Ralph Huntington Rice Ac=
cused of Killing 70
Year=Old Woman

Oak Bluffs, Mass, July 19-(UP)
Ralph Huntington Rice, "a New
York eleocution teacher, today faced
mental tests before his arraignment
next month on first degree MUIR
der indictment in connection with
the sex-slaying of 70-year -old Mrs.
Clara M. Smith.
Rice was indicted yesterday by a
special grand jury at Edgartown
which deliberated only 10 minutes
after two-day hearing of evidence
in the fatal bludgeoning June 80 of
the elderly Boston Christian Science
reader.
District Attorney William C..
Crossley tentatively set Aug. 5 for
the arraignment. When brought in
to district court eight days after the
Staying, Rice pleaded not guilty and
was held without bail pending grand
jury action.
The trial was marked for the
September sitting of Dukes County
superior court at Edgertown. De-
tense Counsel Frank &c. Volpe
stating that his client was not well
said he would move for transfer OF
rice from Martha's Vineyard Is
land to the mainland where he
would get proper care pending trial.
Rice was seized after detectives
read a letter he allegedly had writ
ten to a New York Christian Science
practitioner on the night of the STAY
ing. Mrs. Smith was criminally as
saulted, bludgeoned and robbed Of
diamond ring and watch in a
dorrnitory room of the Rice School
of the Spoken Word here where she
was studying with Rice as her die
ton instructor. The murder weapon
was believed to have been her own
hickory walking cane which still is
missing.