The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-19
Seditionists' Trial Drops
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN IlnikNh RrAaN Staff ENrrASnOMIlNni

United Press Stan COrreSpOndentl
 Washington, Oct. l9,-(UP) -- Adolf Hitler turns out today to be accused with 20 others in Federal Court on charges of trying to turn us into e nation of NNGiS and that, friends, isn't all, It isn't even the beginning,
 This marathon mass sedition trial before long suffering Judge Edward c. Richer opened last April l7 with one of the defendants thumbing her nose at statue of Abraham Lincoln on the courthouse lawn; 1t continued with another shouting at intervals to assorted enemies, You rat, you dirty rat, you"
 It soon developed Into one of the wierdest legal proceedings yet, with the courtroom frequently resem. bling Q waterfront bar during . brawl. At this writing, more than six months and 100000 words later, the end is not in sight, The boys haven't got Q good start.
 When I walked Into the green- walled courtroom to have look Ot the long-run legal performance, the judge was sitting in Q black robe and Q red neektle with his head in his hands, while 20 lawyers, including two of the defendants acting for themselves, took turns oss-eXamining Herman Rauseh- ming, the anti-NaA German author, RNusehning testified in barely un- derstandahle English about his opinion that oo-conspirator Hitler Is Q maniac,
 Lawrence Dennis, one-time boy preacher turned pamphleteer, alrea- dy had spent 10 hours examining RauSehning, with time out to de- mand six mistrials and to remark at intervals, T object, this tS crazy" He said 10 hours wasn't enough. So the judge let him have 15 minutes more at the last.
 Albert W, Dilling, representing Mrs, Elizabeth Dilling, said If Dem his had 10 hours, he ought to have 10 hours, too. His recently di- vorced wife nodded her eurlS and elutehed in her lap Q copy Of her book, the Red Network"
 silence
 William Dudley Policy, the silver shirt organizer, Stroked his goatee and three defendants sat glaring al their lawyers. They don't speak to 'em. Claim they don't want the lawyers appointed for them,
 Judge Richer didn't even look surprised at billings demand.
 But I had hoped that you could finish in one hour," the judge re' marked,
 "Hmpf," said the gray-haired Dil. ling, who soon was wanting tt know how Rauschning felt, per sonally, about the Jewish question
 Court opens now at l p, n,, ane runs until 6, to give the lawyers their mornings to earn eating money. Most are court appointees and have been serving to earn eat Ing money. Most are court ap' pointees ana have been serving the defendants without pay. They shic if they didn't get to do Q little work for themselves, their babies would starve,
 GluM Jurors
 The jurors, consisting of 10 mer and two women, look glum. They earn $4 per day for sitting there but mostly aren't able to work a' their regular jobs. Some of th' defendants have gotten part-tim' work, Mrs. Lois De Latayett' Washhurn, who showed up at Q pre- lIminary hearing in & blue satif niRhtgown, was reported to DO teaching night class in steno' Rraphy. Another landed himself spot as Q waiter in Q hotel dining room,
 As for Hitler, nobody seems tt know what is likely to happen tt him. He's listed in the complaint though, as a co-conspirator and IT drop in next year some time, or th' year after, to see what the jur' decides.