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nervousness contrasted sharply with
the studied nonchalance of Won
Richter.
She was attractively dressed in a
simple, sand-colored suit with a
poWder-blue shirt waist and wore a
small. wine-colored fringed bonnet.
Her English was good as she ex-
planned in soft tones that she had
lived in the United States from 1924
to 1882. She was never a member
OF the Nazi Party, she said.
When John M. Kelley, jr. chief
prosecutor, asked the witness If she
saw Miss Gillars in the courtroom
Miss Doman looked at the de-
fendant and nodded her head in
her direction. She Immediately
turned away, and thereafter avoided
looking at the woman with whom
she worked in Berlin.
Tells of Miss Gillars' Work.
Miss Doman made it clear that
she was far down in the Naz
broadcasting hierarchy and, al
though she announced Miss Gillars'
programs, conversed with her only
once.
Il asked her about her visit to
the prisoner-of-war camps" Miss
Doman said, land she said she
didn't like to 60 to them because
the soldiers threatened her"
Threatened her with what?"
asked Mr.. Kelley.
With words" responded Miss
DOMAIN. She said the soldiers didn't
like for her to be there and that
she had to leave one camp &'
Miss DOMAIN said she saw Miss
Gillars playing records and making
announcements without a scrip on
live" bfoadcasts and also watched
her make recordings which were
later broadcast.
Won Richter also testified he saw
Miss Gillars at the microphone while
she was actually on the air with
Axis Sally programs for American
troops in North Africa and Italy.
A tall, brown-haired man, Won
Richter was vigorously chewing gum
when he took the witness chair and
Judge Edward M. Curran sternly
ordered him to get rid of it.
"Oh, I'm so terribly sorry" said
Won Richter with a lisp.
Expelled From Nazi Party.
Won Richter testified he had been
member of the Nazi party until
he was expelled in 1912, shortly
before he was recalled from For
eign Office duties in Brazil and
assigned to foreign broadcasting
duties in the Propaganda Ministry
in Berlin. He had served on the
consular staff in Cleveland, Ohio,
from 1885 to 1910, when he was
sent to South America, he said.
He met Miss Gillars at the Ger
man Broadcasting Co. headquarters
in Berlin in December. 1912, Won
Richter said, and thereafter saw her
frequently and on at least two oc-
casions she was guest in his home.
Asked If he saw her in the court
room, Won Richter looked blandly
at the gray-haired defendant and
responded:
"Oh yes, she's sitting on the first
bench in the black dress"
Recordings in Courtroom.
Miss Gillars was wearing the same
SIMPLE black dress she has worn
since the trial started Monday.
Piled on the counsel table before
the Chief Prosecutor was a stack
Of % wax recordings, and standing
by we're Won Richter, Miss DOMAIN
and Adalbert Houben, another Ger
man witness, all flown here from
Berlin by the American Government
to testify against their wartime
collaboration.
Houben, 40, a little man who struts
like a gamecock, has already put the
finger of "collaborationist" on Miss
Gillars. Late yesterday he told how
she was paid between 1000 and
5000 marks ($S0O and $1,000 a
month for mouthing Na1 propa-
ganda beamed at American troops
and their families and sweethearts
at home.
He joined the Nazi party in 1892
and rose to the position of director
of overseas broadcasts in Goebbels'
Ministry OF Propaganda and Public
Enlightenment, Houben testified
haughtily. And as he reviewed the
contents of the recordings, which
will be replayed later for the jury,
he did his best to expand on the
old Naz propaganda line-that
Germany, a friend of America, had
stood as a fortress between this