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admitting that she had sexual
relations with him.
The prosecutor said she had
changed her original story
about their visit to the Finch
home. AS she left the witness
stand, she was arrested and
charged with murder.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Fred Viii
chello said:
II am satisfied they con-
spired together, and that she
aided him in committing this
crime. I believe their plan wa;
to tie Mrs. Finch with rope
give her an injection Of soda
tive, put her in her car. anC
push the car over a cliff"
DR.. Finch was ordered helc
without bail for trial. Carolt
will be given a preliminary
hearing this week.
At the end Of DR.. Finch'l
hearing Judge Albert Miller
observed:
Nov, someone, please, with,
out rejecting on the intelli.
gence Of the court. tell me how
anyone would expect the terms
of a divorce settlement to b
discussed by a woman wher
she is accosted by her es-
tranged husband and the hus.
bands female companion ir
the middle Of the night.
Maid Spoiled" It
"The whole trouble was that
this charming young woman
(the maid) turned up and
spoiled the whole thing
There was that wife lying
on the front lawn. with death
her only companion, the exact
results the doctor must have
had In mind when he took
after her."
DR.. Finch was indignant al
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returned to Las Vegas. Carole
covered in the shrubbery for
hours. then drove back to Las
Vegas in her own car. DR..
Finch was asleep in her apart
ment when she arrived.
DR.. Finch was arrested there
a few hours later. He wouldn't
tell the police a thing-not
even what happened to the
gun. 1t is yet to be found.
Arrested at Hearing
Carole told her story to
police. Then she testified at DR.
Finch's preliminary hearing.
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they do, by Carole's testimony,
maintain that Mrs. Finch
pulled a gun when the doctor
and the girl walked UP to her
and it went off after she
struggled with DR.. Finch.
DR.. Finch's father says:
MY son is sick. He should
have been put away before this
awful thing happened. He has
been off the beam for the last
three or four months. You
just can't work IL, 10, IA hours
a day at surgery without crack
ing up"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02

lets, rope. a poison liquid, a ny
podermic. sleeping pills.
Carole says that when Mrs
Finch drove into the garage
she and DR. Finch stepped out
of the darkness. Mrs. Finch
pulled a gun, Carole contends
Carole says she ran and hid
In bushes and heard shots.
The maid. Miss Lidholm, told
police that she ran to the ga
rage when she heard Mrs. Finch
scream. She said DR.. Finch hao
a gun and chased his wife onto
the lawn. Then there were
shots.
DR.. Finch stole a car anc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02

the judges remarks. In a Jail
interview, he said:
II can't get over a man with
the great reputation Of Judge
Miller saying what he did with
out hearing both sides of the
case. After all, he never heard
my case.
"I'll tell just exactly what
happened when I'm allowed to.
Apparently this isn't the time.
I have perfect confidence in
my attorneys and will respect
their suggestion that I say
nothing about my side of the
case now"
Father Says He's Sick
DR.. Finch's attorneys have
not disclosed their defense. But
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able and had a terrific mem
ory."
DR.. Finch made her his per-
sonal secretary.
Attraction between the two
lflared.
The affair didn't remain
secret long.
Carole's husband learned
about it, and the doctors wife
found out.
Mr.. Papa recalls:
Last July, Barbara phoned
me and said. Jimmy, I guess
you know that my husband and
your wife are going out to-
gether.'
II told her I had heard about
it; that they had been seen to-
gether a Palm Springs and
other places. She asked me to
come to her home so we could
talk about it. But we couldn't
come up with any definite So
luton"
Carole obtained divorce last
January and regained her
maiden name.
Then Mrs. Finch sued for di-
vorce May 20. charging her hus-
band tried to strange her.
Maid Tells of Injury
A short time before that, says
the Finch housemaid, Marie
Anne Lidholm, her mistress
turned up with a bandage on
her forehead. Miss Ldholm
says Mrs. Finch explained she
was hurt in a scuffle with her
husband when she told him she
wanted a divorce.
DR.. Finch, according to his
wife's statement to the maid,
threatened to put her in a car
and push it over a cliff if she
went ahead with divorce plans.
William S. Lewis. a private
detective, says Mrs. Finch came
to him after filing for divorce
to arrange for a bodyguard and
to ask about carrying a gin.
When he advised the gun,
Mr.. Lewis says, Mrs. Finch
made the ominous prophecy:
II probably won't be alive by
Christmas"
She was dead within two
months.
Three weeks before the kill
ing Carole moved to Las Vegas,
New. She says she was trying to
avoid being named correspond
ent. She rented an apartment
and had no trouble getting a job
as cocktail waitress on the
Strip" where girls who serve
drinks are as pretty as those in
the chorus lines.
Murder Kit" Described
DR.. Finch Joined her. They
drove back to West Covina on
July 10. Carole says it was to
discuss the divorce with Mrs.
Finch.
The prosecution charges that
the lovers took with them a
"do-it-yourself murder kit" 1t
contained butcher knife, bull
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02
Humphrey TO Address
Air Cadet Exchange

Senator Humphrey, Demo-
crat Of Minnesota, will address
100 cadets representing 81 for
eign countries, who are par.
ticipating in the international
Air Cadet Exchange, at a
luncheon on Wednesday at the
Mayflower Hotel. .
Sam Pryor, jr., executive vice
president of Pan American Air
ways, will be host at the noon
luncheon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02
Cast and Plot of Finch Murder Case
Would Do Credit to Mystery Writer
BY JACK LEFLER
Associated Press star Write


WEST CovINA. Calf, Aug.
Violent death, illicit love, a
wealthy doctor. two beautiful
women
The Finch murder case has
all Of these.
A welter of tangled motions
exploded in this typical sub
urban community the night Of
July IS and exposed as sleek
a cast of characters as a mys-
terry story writer could imagine:
Mrs. Barbara Finch, 80, a
1.-THE, brunette socialite-dead
of a bullet in her back.
Her estranged hus b an d,
crew-cut, tennis-playing DR..
Bernard Finch, 4l-charged
with numbering her.
His love partner and for
mer secretary, red-haired di-
Vorcee Carole Tregoff, %.
charged with helping him MUIR
der Mrs. Finch.
Snapped Wives in 1851
Assembly of this cast began
with a mate-swapping in 1851.
Handsome DR.. Finch married
Mrs. Barbara Daugherty. His
wife. Frances, wed Lyle
Daugherty, a television repair
man. The Daughertys live here
with Mr.. Daugherty's daughter
by Barbara and Mrs. Daugh-
erty's three children by DR..
Finch.
DR.. Finch is the son of an
optometriSt, DR.. Raymond r.
Finch, a member of a pioneer,
prosperous and somewhat aus
tere family of this suburban
Los Angeles area. The family
comedies Bernard was pam
pered.
He received his medical
training at the College of Med
ical Evangelists and, after
military service, went into
practice here. He was a quick
success and soon opened his
own clinic. Only recently he
opened his own hospital.
Like his father, he has been
a lifelong tennis enthusiast
and played a fine game. He
played regularly at the Swank
Los Angeles Tennis Club and
took great pride in his trophies.
Met While She Was Patient
DR.. Finch and Barbara met
while she was his patient.
Their love affair split two fam
lilies which strangely -arrang-
ed themselves.
Barbara, possessing a vivid
personality along with bubbly
beauty. quickly fitted into her
husbands social life built
around the tennis courts.
She was so popular at the
tennis club that the club presi-
dent presented her a special
plaque. 1t read:
ITO Lady Barbara"
The Finches have a son,
Raymond, 6.
Four years ago a slender.
red-haired 18-year-old girl
with piercing eyes went to work
in DR.. Finche's clinic. This was
Carole Tregoff Papa. She was
married to her high school
sweetheart, James Papa. She
says of herself:
Il started fashion modelling
in high school in Los Angeles
and did it for about two years.
In school (where she admitted
being a good student) I took
an academic course, majoring
In Latin I wanted to be
an interior decorator.
Very Capable, Doctor Says
DR.. Finch told a reporter last
week that when Carole came
to the clinic she went to work
as a receptioniSt and, wanting
to improve her position, "beg-
ged me for a job as medical
secretary. She was very cap
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-02
$500 to ST. 10 Imported coshmere-Lombswoo To

Iion cashmere is woven with 5OQ6 finest Ionnbswoo
and handsomely tailored into coot of unbelievable
beauty. Raglan or set-in sleeve models in navy,
tan, Oxford or Cambridge ereys, Furnished
brown
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$3.50 to SIS outereoots Of Imported Fobries

Africon coPewooI woven in Scotland, Irish tweed
West Of England herrinobone cheviots Italian We
ours, Scotch IombswooI, hoPsock cheviots. Ne
Continental English raglan, set-in sleeve and NJ
turoI shoulder models. Also Soxonies with reno
able Innings.
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Topcoots and overcoots of choicest imported and
domestic fabrics including English Soxony, Scotch
Raglan set-n sleeve styIines in modified outhen-
tic natural shoulder models
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
Color Shows

Sunday-Ruroi America.
7:3o o.m.-e
Chef Huntley Reporting.
$50 pm.-4
Music Shop. 7:3o p.ni.-4
Steve Allen Show. 500 p.m.-4
Art Carney Show. 900 p.m.-4
Mondsy Through Fridey-ln Our
Town. l:30 p.m-4
Truth or consequences.
Hoeois Booois. 2:3o p.m.-4
Mendcs--Arthur Murray Porty.
1000 p.m.-4
Tuesdey-Some Of Monie's Friends.
7:5o pm.-4
Wsdnesdey-Price Is Right.
$50 p.m.-4
Bell Telephone Hour.
900 p.m.-4
Thursdey-The Ford Show.
$50 p.m.4
Masquerade Party.
1880 p.m.-4
friday--Time for Science.
ll:3o o.m.-5
Northwest Possooe. 7:3o p.m.-
Ellery Queen. 500 p.m.-4
Seturdoy-PerV Como Show.
500 p.m.-4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-03-01
Sports
Bosketboll

Sundsy-Boston OF St. Louis.
2:3o p.m.-H
Saturdoy-coIleoe Basketball.
800 p.m.-
Bowling
Sundoy-Bowlino Stors.
4:3o p.m.-7
Mondoy-strikes n Spares.
7:3o p.m.-7
Fridsy-Joekpot Bowling.
io:45 p.m.-4
Ssfusdoy-Bowl the Chomp.
400 p.m.-7
Women's Bowling. 500 p.m.--4
Boxing
Wednesdoy-Nino Noldes vs..
ChorIes Powell. 1000 p.m:-7
FFidey-Gospor Orteoo VS.. Stefon
Redl. 1000 p.m.-4
Golf
Sunday-All-Stor Golf.
400 p.m.-ll
sy-Som Sneod vs.. Billy
Moxwell. 500 p.m.-7
Hockey
Satusdey-New York OF Chicago.
200 p.rn.-2, 9
Wrestling
Tuesdoy-Wrestlino. 7:3o pms
ThuFsdey-Copitol Arena.
900 p.m.-5
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

sTUDKBAKER so Commander
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hardtop; red and white; low mile
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AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE Aul

PONTIAC SO $50" 6-passsngeF.
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MCNEIL PONTIAC
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'B7 super "ss" Dc
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NASH ARLINGTON

sOiS Mr. \; M YH9Tr e. EScsslyn' :
IA. $1,000 End Of Key Bridge
OLDsMoBiLE 1855 Rocket esq
Holiday sedan. hydramatic, Z. and
h., Wv. tires; beautiful 2-tons
green and white factory finish;
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ROYAL CHRYSLER

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PLYMOUTH 'bs Bslveders style
VS.: auto. trans.. heater. e-tone,
W.-w. tires like new. Pull price
only si.OSb.
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station wagon Economy "6";
Alaskan blue: heater, undercoat,
acc. kity other extras: display car:
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STANnARn PONTIAC
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1900 18th 50 hU. $4,000
VOLKsWAGEN $50 e-dr.; Sunroof:
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VOLKSWAGEN 1885, black: sun
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power .sssTins sna brakes. Wv
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PACKARD 1893 4-dr.: uitramatle,
$500. OWNER, 1910 Risss pl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-04
Paris Paintings
In Washington
By HARRIET CREFITHS
Star Staff Writer

LOT has been said about French art stopping with
IA MatisSe and PcasSo
In a sector yourself challenge Of that premise the
Corcoran Gallery of Art next Saturday will open to the
public exhibition of SO paintings watercolors and
drawings by Fifteen Painters From Paris"
Two years Of planning, letter writing teephoning,
comforting and visiting abroad behind the show
After November 8, it will circulate to museums in Co
lumbus, Toronto, st. Louis and San Francisco
This is the most important French show Of post
World War II art put up in this country" says
Henri Dorra assistant director of the gallery and at
tending physician for the newborn exhibit "It Is up
to the moment Some of the paintings done within
the year-the paint is still fresh
cit demonstrates that French art is vigorous as
ever" he adds CONTINUED
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-03-26

SENTlN E [ o aSs,Tee''S rs.
RH.-Thursdsy, March 10. 1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Equitable Life
Adds O'Connor,
Smith to Board

William j. O'Connor, pres
ident of Southern Wholesalers,
and Carleton D. Smith, vice
president of National Broad
casting Co., have been elected
directors of Equitable Life In
surance Co., President Charles
E. Phillips announced yester-
day.
Mr.. O'Connor also is a direc-
tor of the Bank of Commerce,
the Better Business Bureau,
the Electric Institute of Wash
ington and Merrick Boys Club.
Mr.. Smith is general man
ager of Stations WRC and
WRC-TV here. He started with
NBC as an announcer in Wash
ington in 1881 and went to
New York as director of tele-
vision network operations in
1947. He became vice president
in 1851 and returned here in
1858. He designed the new 81
million NBC plant completed
on Nebraska avenue in 1858.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Coop 10 Open
Al ForestVi||e

Greenbelt Consumer Serv-
ices, Inc, has leased the $4,000
Square-foot building now under
construction at the Penn Mar
Shopping Center in Forestville,
Md, it was announced yester-
day by Samuel F. Ashelman,
jr., general manager of the
Coop organization.
The building will'become the
10th Coop supermarket of
the G.C.S. chain, a consumer
owned cooperative. 1t is the
third market now under con-
struction.
Redesign of the interior of
the $5O0,000 building will in
clude customer restrooms at
the front of the store, a "kiddie
corner" a snack bar and a
"see-thru" meat department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Higher Trend Seen
In MORTGAGES Rates

Mortgages loan interest rates
for the Washington area have
increased by " to " per cent
since last spring, a survey by
the Washington Real Estate
Board disclosed.
Reported in the current is
sue of Washington Realtor
magazine, the survey covered
savings and loan associations,
banks and mortgage bankers. A
total of So lenders participated.
The predominant rate for
conventional loans on new
homes was reported at So per
cent with loans up to Is years
based on 6625 per cent ITO rs
per cent of appraised value. A
trend toward 6 per cent on this
type was indicated.
For existing homes, q rate OF
6 per cent for up to 20-year
terms at 662s per cent to 70
per cent of appraised value
predominated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Luncheon Will Honor
ID. G.. Life Underwriters

Life Underwriters Association
of the District of Columbia will
be honored at a Presidential
Arms luncheon Monday. Given
by the Institute Of Life Insur-
ance and the National Associa-
ton of Life Underwriters.
The DR.. Louis I. Dublin
Award of the national associa-
tions will be presented to the
District association for the
most outstanding public serv-
ice Of the year among ESQ mem
Der associations. The award
given for the District associa-
tons promotion Of training
program for United Givers
Fund volunteers.
DR.. Leroy E. Burney. surgeon
general of the United States
Public Health Service, will be
guest speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
PEPCO Directors Vote
Preferred Dividends

Directors of Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. declared quar-
terly dividends of 81 cents q
share on the $2.44 serial pre-
ferred stock and 611a cents a
share on the $2.46 serial pre-
ferred.
Both dividends will be paid
December / to holders of record
November 5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

J-K
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

trolls and close attention to in
ventory was given the credit.
Electronic data processing
equipment replaced mechanical
methods Of handling merchan-
dising and related data.
The company had 2,508
stockholders in 38 States at
the years end. The total was
1,705 a year earlier and 1895
five years earlier. Preferred
holders numbered 384 on Au-
gust l VS.. 1894 a year earlier
and 407 five years earlier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
Woodward s. Lothrop
Has Outstanding Year
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
star Financial Editor

Woodward & Lothrop made an outstanding record and
earned $698 share in the fiscal ended August
compared with $649 share in the preceding year, the
annual report to stockholders disclosed yesterday
Net income of $2,566.576 was up ISL per cent from
733 the preceding year. The company paid 500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER a. 1859

Quotations Furnished By the Associated Press
- 1889 Stock and Sales Net
High Low div. rate Add 90 High Low Close chg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-25

$2,O5l,733 in the preceding yea
lin dividends and retained ST.
525,067 Of net profits in the
business. Dividends were in
creased to SO a year during the
period.
Record sales of $69,4l6,620
were 1l.3 per cent ahead Of
So, 1858, 046 in the preceding
fiscal period. They contrasted
with $48, 460,243 of sales in the
year ended in 1854 and $751;
848,2l3 in the period ended in
1850.
Growth Above Average
Signed by President Andrew
Parker and Executive Vice
President Robert E. L. johnson,
the report said that while COM
pany sales rose 11.3 per cent
in the year, the average for
all area department store sales
rose 7.3 per cent in the same
period.
The main downtown, store
had a sales gain of 6.8 per cent
for the year, while the average
gain for all downtown depart
ment stores was 1876 per cent.
Although the company sold
100000 additional com m o n
shares publicly last January to
raise $2,643,607 to help finance
furniture and fixtures, inyen-
tories and accounts receivable
for its new Wheaton, Md, store,
book value Of the common
stock rose to $66.46 a share on
August /, compared with $63.90
a share a year earlier.
The report was distributed
this week end along with proxy
material for the annual stock
holders meeting at the main
store, Eleventh and F streets
NV, at 1890 am. on Mon
day, November 2.
Opening in February
The new 81 million Wheaton
store with 1892 square feet
of floor area will open next
February. 1t will be a part of
the huge Wheaton Plaza
Regional Shopping Center.
Woodward & Lothrop also
has purchased property on the
southeast corner of First and
M streets NE, for expansion
of warehouse facilities. The
property provides 40,284 square
feet adjoining the company's
present service buildings. Con-
struction will start in the near
future.
The company's branch store
program has contributed i'm
portantly to growth of the
last year, the report said.
Turnover for the year was
4.03 times against 3.61 in the
previous year. Better mer-
chandising, classification con-
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