WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 Presenting Faye Bainter and Ray Collins on the DuPont Cavalcade of America. 00:06.000 --> 00:25.000 Tonight's cavalcade play is called Witness for the People and is brought to you by the DuPont Company, 00:25.000 --> 00:28.000 maker of better things for better living through chemistry. 00:28.000 --> 00:36.000 One of those better things is Speed Easy, the DuPont wall finish that is so easy to use over wallpaper or any other wall surface. 00:36.000 --> 00:42.000 It comes in 11 beautiful colors. One easy coat will cover soiled, ninjy wallpaper. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 So your rooms will look bright and cheery again. 00:45.000 --> 00:50.000 Speed Easy is a cinch to use. You thin it with water and apply it with a large brush or roller. 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 It dries in less than an hour. 00:52.000 --> 00:59.000 Speed Easy is made by DuPont. 00:59.000 --> 01:02.000 Good evening friends, this is Walter Houston. 01:02.000 --> 01:07.000 Yesterday I was telling a friend of mine who works on a newspaper about this evening's cavalcade play. 01:07.000 --> 01:11.000 I told him it was about a woman who fought to win freedom for the press. 01:11.000 --> 01:16.000 And he said, Walter, you should have put on that show last week. It would have been more appropriate then. 01:16.000 --> 01:18.000 It was freedom of the press week. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 Well frankly, I had to disagree with him because to my way of thinking, 01:22.000 --> 01:28.000 a free press is something we ought to thank God for every day of every week in the year. 01:28.000 --> 01:35.000 Why do you suppose the Nazis made bonfires of the very same books you will find in the bookstore around the corner? 01:35.000 --> 01:42.000 Why do you suppose Japanese newspapers are forced to carry stories about successful Japanese invasions of California? 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 It's because tyrants are afraid of the power of a free press. 01:46.000 --> 01:51.000 So I say again, our cavalcade play tonight is more than appropriate. 01:51.000 --> 01:58.000 It tells the exciting story of Anne Royall, a woman who helped our nation win its battle for freedom of the press. 01:58.000 --> 02:04.000 And now, the DuPont Company presents the talented and lovely Faye Painter as Anne Royall with Ray Collins 02:04.000 --> 02:08.000 as President Andrew Jackson in Witness for the People. 02:08.000 --> 02:20.000 PENY OF PRINCE! PENY OF PRINCE! 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 Anne Royall's latest paper is just off the press! 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 PENY OF PRINCE! PENY OF PRINCE! PENY OF PRINCE! 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 Some people laughed at Anne Royall. Some pretended not to hear. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 But everyone did hear all the same. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 It was even heard in the President's mansion. 02:35.000 --> 02:44.000 And there on a day early in spring, Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, is talking to his Secretary of War, John Eaton. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 I still think you ought to see him, Mr. President. 02:46.000 --> 02:54.000 By the eternal John, since when it has been the function of the Secretary of War to make appointments for me to see any old busybody who happens to run a printing press? 02:54.000 --> 02:58.000 Well, this isn't just any old busybody. This is Anne Royall. 02:58.000 --> 03:01.000 I don't care if it's the fellow who invented the printing press. I'm a busy man. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.000 But maybe she can help us. We've got the fight of our lives on our hands with this United States bank crowd, and as I've said before... 03:07.000 --> 03:12.000 The pen is mightier than the sword. What are you doing as Secretary of War, if that's what you think? 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 Well, one doesn't have to choose between them, you know. 03:15.000 --> 03:22.000 I was talking to Mrs. Eaton about this woman. Peggy says she's a real power in Washington. And she's no fool either. 03:22.000 --> 03:24.000 She knows what you're trying to do, and she believes in you. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Peggy say that? 03:26.000 --> 03:32.000 She did. At least you can do is see her. You waste enough time seeing politicians who want offices. 03:32.000 --> 03:34.000 Well, all right. Let her come in. 03:37.000 --> 03:39.000 Come in, Mistress Royall. 03:39.000 --> 03:42.000 I thought you were the President, that anyone could see any time. 03:42.000 --> 03:43.000 Mistress Royall? 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Yes. Mind if I sit down? 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 Oh, sit down by all means, ma'am. 03:47.000 --> 03:50.000 I'm as tired as a Mississippi mule trampling around these streets. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 I'll come in again later in the day, Mr. President. 03:52.000 --> 03:58.000 All right, young. Well, Mistress Royall, what can I do for you? 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 What can you do for me? Did you ever hear of the power of the press? 04:02.000 --> 04:06.000 I know. The pen is mightier than the sword. 04:06.000 --> 04:07.000 Well, don't you believe it? 04:07.000 --> 04:11.000 Well, maybe I'm a little biased, ma'am. I'm a soldier. 04:11.000 --> 04:15.000 Well, I'm a printer, so we ought to get along famously. 04:15.000 --> 04:19.000 Now, General, you don't mind if I call you General, do you? 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 Anything you wish, ma'am. 04:21.000 --> 04:26.000 I'm a printer, as I've said. A sort of one-woman newspaper, you might say. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 I suppose you've seen some of the broadsides I put out? 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 I have, ma'am. 04:31.000 --> 04:37.000 Yes. And I can see you don't think much of them. Neither do I. And that's why I'm here. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Well, you'll forgive me, ma'am, if I fail to see the connection. 04:39.000 --> 04:43.000 It's just this. The other day I suddenly thought to myself, 04:43.000 --> 04:47.000 since Andrew Jackson moved to Washington, there are more important things happening here 04:47.000 --> 04:51.000 than courtships and scandals and all that kind of flapdoodle. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 And it's the duty of anyone who has anything to do with the printing press 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 to find out about them and tell the people about them. 04:57.000 --> 05:01.000 And I thought the best place to find out was right here. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 You follow me? 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Yes, ma'am. 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 Now, the big issue today is this United States bank business. 05:08.000 --> 05:13.000 What is it? Who's behind it? And why are you fighting it? 05:13.000 --> 05:16.000 Well, what are you going to do if I tell you? 05:16.000 --> 05:17.000 Print the truth about it? 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 How do you know I'll tell you the truth? 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 I don't. But I'll find out. 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 Hmm. Sounds fair enough. All right, I'll tell you. 05:26.000 --> 05:30.000 It's a simple story, an old, familiar story, I'm afraid. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.000 The United States bank controls the finances and the credit of the United States. 05:34.000 --> 05:39.000 It can issue money and withdraw it. It can cause panics and it can cause booms. 05:39.000 --> 05:42.000 The United States Treasury has to keep the government's money in that bank 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 and pay for the privilege. And it's all owned by a few at the expense of many. 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 You mean the government and the people don't have any say about it at all? 05:51.000 --> 05:52.000 Nary a say. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 Well, they ought to. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 That's what I say. And that's where the fight begins. 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 Why can't Congress do something about it? 05:57.000 --> 06:00.000 They could. In fact, they're the only ones who can. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 Then why don't they? 06:01.000 --> 06:07.000 Well, you see, lately the bank's got in the habit of loaning money to congressmen. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Do you mean to tell me there are congressmen who won't vote against the bank 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 because they owe money to it? 06:13.000 --> 06:18.000 I can't prove that. But it wouldn't surprise me if it might have something to do with it. 06:18.000 --> 06:23.000 Well, of all the white-libbered, thieving scoundrels, who are they? 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 You know which ones are fighting me on this issue, don't you? 06:26.000 --> 06:34.000 I think I do. Look here, General, you haven't had much luck fighting these fellows with the sword, have you? 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 The laws being what they are, no, ma'am. 06:37.000 --> 06:42.000 I have a feeling that when I get through, you will begin to agree with me about the power of the pen. 06:42.000 --> 06:45.000 It'll have to be a mighty sharp pen, ma'am. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 It is, General. It is. 06:55.000 --> 07:00.000 Extra printing and Royal's latest paper all about the United States bank scandal. 07:00.000 --> 07:07.000 Penny of print, United States bank scandal. Penny of print, penny of print. 07:13.000 --> 07:20.000 Mr. Speaker, I demand an immediate public investigation of the affairs of the United States bank. 07:20.000 --> 07:25.000 We have lately heard charges against this institution in the public prints, 07:25.000 --> 07:32.000 which, if true, indicate a threat to our freedom as great as any since the war for independence. 07:32.000 --> 07:36.000 This issue can no longer be called a political quarrel. 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 Yeah, how many copies you want this time, Miss Royal? 07:48.000 --> 07:50.000 How many have you printed so far? 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 About 1,500. 07:52.000 --> 07:56.000 Better run off another 500 or so if you're not too tired. 07:56.000 --> 07:58.000 We never seem to have enough nowadays. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Anne, you ought to get some sleep. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 I will, Sally. Soon as these are run off. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 2,000 papers, Anne. It doesn't seem possible we'll sell them. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 We will, though, and wish we'd printed more. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 Anne, listen. Who's that on the stairs? 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Sounds like visitors. 08:15.000 --> 08:20.000 Probably some idiot that got kicked by a horse and wants to be sure I printed it in the paper. 08:20.000 --> 08:26.000 Well, don't you knock when you enter a house, or do you always break in? 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Good evening, Mistress Royal. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 Who are you men, and what do you want? 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 We've come to discuss a matter of business, Mistress Royal. 08:33.000 --> 08:37.000 Certain friends of ours are anxious to go into the printing business. 08:37.000 --> 08:40.000 Well, why don't they, if they have the wits to? 08:40.000 --> 08:45.000 They're particularly anxious to acquire this property of yours, this press and so on. 08:45.000 --> 08:48.000 Well, they can't have it. Good night. 08:48.000 --> 08:54.000 They're willing to pay very handsomely, provided you remain here as, shall we say, manager, 08:54.000 --> 08:58.000 and consult with them, of course, on the nature of your future publications. 08:58.000 --> 09:02.000 I thought so. What makes you think you can bribe me? 09:02.000 --> 09:06.000 Who do you think I am, one of their thieving politicians? 09:06.000 --> 09:10.000 You go back and tell your friends that I wouldn't touch such a filthy proposition, 09:10.000 --> 09:14.000 not if I was starving in the gutter. Now get out, all of you, get out! 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 You refuse, then? 09:16.000 --> 09:20.000 I not only refuse, but I intend that the people of Washington 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 shall know tomorrow morning why I have refused and what I have refused. 09:24.000 --> 09:25.000 Now clear out! 09:25.000 --> 09:28.000 All right, boys, smash up that press and fire that paper. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 What are you doing? 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 Just a minute, just a minute! 09:31.000 --> 09:33.000 Look, she's got pistols. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 Indeed, I have got pistols, and I didn't grow up on the frontier 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 without learning how to use them. 09:39.000 --> 09:40.000 Go ahead, boys, I'll handle this. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.000 One more step, very well. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 That one's through your hat. The next one will be through your gizzard. 09:47.000 --> 09:48.000 Now get out! 09:48.000 --> 09:51.000 Maybe we'd better. 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 All right, come on, boys. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 But I warn you, Ann Royall, that we're going to smash you 09:57.000 --> 10:00.000 if we have to buy the whole city of Washington to do it. 10:00.000 --> 10:16.000 The next time you call on me, watch out for skunk traps. 10:16.000 --> 10:21.000 Sally, how can a woman get out of newspaper with that going on all day and half the night? 10:21.000 --> 10:25.000 Now, Ann, I'm sure Mr. Sims and his folks mean all right. 10:25.000 --> 10:30.000 But why in the name of all this frightful do they have to set up shop right under me? 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Well, Ann, worse things could happen. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 Nothing worse could happen. 10:35.000 --> 10:39.000 What? Ann, listen, they're coming up here. 10:39.000 --> 10:41.000 They are. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 They are! 10:42.000 --> 10:47.000 We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the kids. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 What on earth do you idiots think you're doing? 10:49.000 --> 10:54.000 Sister Royall, we have come to save your soul. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 Save my soul? 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 Get out of here while you can still save your skin. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Now, Ann. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Now, sister, I see that we have come none too soon. 11:02.000 --> 11:06.000 We have heard grievous reports of late of your unbridled talk. 11:06.000 --> 11:09.000 Listen, mister, I'm a hardworking, God-fearing woman 11:09.000 --> 11:13.000 who's trying to run a newspaper and serve her country as best she knows how. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 But I can stand only so much. 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 Down on your knees, sister. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 What? 11:19.000 --> 11:20.000 Down on your knees. Here, have me, Brother Jones. 11:20.000 --> 11:21.000 Why, let go of me. Let go of me. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 You must, sister. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Where's my umbrella? No! 11:24.000 --> 11:25.000 Quiet, quiet. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 You hungry-headed, law-brained simpleton. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 You hypocritical buzzard. 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 You hurt me, brother. You're a blundered city. 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 You filthy, selection stealer. 11:33.000 --> 11:36.000 Get out of here before I wrap this umbrella around your turkey neck. 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 You've broken the law, Mrs. Royall. Do you hear me? 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 You've broken the law. You're a witness, brother. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 Get out of here before I break your neck. 11:42.000 --> 11:45.000 So, you've had your turn all these months, Mrs. Royall. 11:45.000 --> 11:56.000 Now we're going to have ours. 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 The President will see you now, Mrs. Royall. 11:59.000 --> 12:01.000 Thank you. 12:01.000 --> 12:03.000 Come in, come in, Mrs. Royall. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 Thank you, Mr. President. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 Well, it's a fine pickle you've got yourself into now. 12:09.000 --> 12:12.000 The United States versus Ann Royall. 12:12.000 --> 12:17.000 They tell me there's a warrant issued against you for being a common scold. 12:17.000 --> 12:22.000 Yes. I guess I walked right into the trap and slammed the door behind me. 12:22.000 --> 12:26.000 Common scold. I don't believe that charge has been used in 50 years. 12:26.000 --> 12:31.000 It's all trumped up. Something they dug up out of the Middle Ages, but it's still on the books. 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 You think the bank crowd put this fellow Sims up to it, do you? 12:34.000 --> 12:37.000 I know it for a fact. Of course, I can't prove it. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 You know, between us, we've got that bank worried. 12:39.000 --> 12:43.000 Yes, but the trouble is, right now, they've got me worried. 12:43.000 --> 12:48.000 My trial comes up in three days, and you know what the legal penalty is if I'm convicted? 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 Well, theoretically, it's the ducking stool. 12:51.000 --> 12:55.000 Yes, you're right. And they're building one right now down at the Navy. 12:55.000 --> 12:58.000 By the eternal. Well, that's one thing I can do something about. 12:58.000 --> 13:04.000 I may not have much control over the United States bank yet, but I surely do control the United States Navy. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 Oh, they're not going to use it. They just did that to scare me. 13:07.000 --> 13:09.000 But there are things they can do. 13:09.000 --> 13:13.000 Mistress Royal, you know that I'll do anything I can to help you. 13:13.000 --> 13:15.000 Now, what can I do? 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 That's what I've come to talk to you about, General. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 Not because of any help I may have been to you in this fight against the bank. 13:21.000 --> 13:25.000 I'm in that fight because it's the plain duty of any honest journalist. 13:25.000 --> 13:31.000 Why, I did come to you in this. They're going to try to shut down my press. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 And that makes it different. And they can do it. 13:33.000 --> 13:37.000 But find bombs to keep the peace and junctions, yes they can. 13:37.000 --> 13:42.000 And that makes it an attack not on me, but on the Constitution of the United States 13:42.000 --> 13:45.000 that guarantees a free press in this country. 13:45.000 --> 13:47.000 That's why I've come to you. 13:47.000 --> 13:52.000 By the eternal. Why, I'll go down to that courtroom and I'll tell those scoundrelly sea lawyers. 13:52.000 --> 13:55.000 No, no, no. You're going down there would do more harm than good. 13:55.000 --> 14:02.000 But maybe you could just let the court know somehow that, well, you know Anne Royal. 14:02.000 --> 14:05.000 And that you know she's an honest, truthful woman. 14:05.000 --> 14:07.000 You can depend on that. 14:07.000 --> 14:11.000 I've got a little ammunition of my own. But it's you I'll count on most. 14:11.000 --> 14:18.000 I don't know how I'll do it, ma'am. But one thing you can be sure of. I will do it. 14:18.000 --> 14:23.000 The New York Times 14:28.000 --> 14:33.000 You are listening to Faye Boehner and Ray Collins in Witness for the People on the Cavalcade of America, 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 brought to you by the DuPont Company, 14:35.000 --> 14:38.000 maker of better things for better living through chemistry. 14:38.000 --> 14:43.000 The New York Times 14:43.000 --> 14:49.000 Back in 1830, Faye Ann Royal published a penny newspaper that exposed a national scandal. 14:49.000 --> 14:54.000 Naturally, there were those who realized it would be to their advantage to keep her quiet. 14:54.000 --> 14:57.000 But as our story now reveals... 14:58.000 --> 15:01.000 Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. 15:01.000 --> 15:05.000 The federal court of the District of Columbia is now in session. 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 Oh, Anne, I'm scared. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 I don't feel too chipper myself. 15:09.000 --> 15:13.000 Look at that jury. Every one of them is hooked up with the bank some way. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 The clerk will call the first case. 15:15.000 --> 15:18.000 The case of the United States versus Ann Royal. 15:18.000 --> 15:23.000 The defendant is charged by the people of the United States with being a common disturber of the peace, 15:23.000 --> 15:27.000 a common brawler, and a common scold. 15:27.000 --> 15:29.000 How does the defendant plead? 15:29.000 --> 15:33.000 What do you think I plead to such nonsense? Not guilty! 15:33.000 --> 15:37.000 But, Mistress Royal, as your attorney, I... Order in the court! 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 The prosecutor will call the first witness. 15:40.000 --> 15:43.000 Mr. Alexander Sims, to the stand. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 Raise your right hand. 15:46.000 --> 15:49.000 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God? 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 I do. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 Mr. Sims, you are a minister of the gospel, are you not? 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 I am. 15:56.000 --> 15:59.000 He's no more a minister than I am. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 Order! 16:01.000 --> 16:05.000 Mistress Royal, I must caution you against such outbursts in this court. 16:05.000 --> 16:07.000 Proceed, Mr. Swan. 16:07.000 --> 16:13.000 And on the day of the war and charges, you visited Mistress Royal, the sit-in of hers, at the place of her business, did you not? 16:13.000 --> 16:15.000 I did. 16:15.000 --> 16:19.000 And was it at that time that she used the vile and abusive language of which you complain? 16:19.000 --> 16:21.000 Indeed it was, sir. 16:21.000 --> 16:23.000 What did she say? 16:23.000 --> 16:25.000 Well, I... 16:25.000 --> 16:29.000 Go on, go on, tell them. They'll see that much is true anyway. 16:29.000 --> 16:31.000 Mistress Royal. 16:31.000 --> 16:35.000 Well, she said I was a... 16:35.000 --> 16:41.000 a large-brained simpleton and a hypocritical old buzzard. 16:41.000 --> 16:45.000 And a pumpkin-headed penny-filching collection stealer. 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 Please, please, Mistress Royal. 16:47.000 --> 16:50.000 The defendant must not interrupt the testimony. 16:50.000 --> 16:52.000 That will be all, Mr. Sims. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Does the defense wish to cross-examine? 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 Go on, go on, ask him what I told you to. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 But, Mistress Royal, it's not admissible as evidence. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Well, then I'll ask him. 17:01.000 --> 17:06.000 Acting as my own attorney, Your Honor, I'd like to ask the witness just one question. 17:06.000 --> 17:08.000 Proceed, Mistress Royal. 17:08.000 --> 17:16.000 Mr. Sims, did you or didn't you recently acquire five shares of stock in the United States Bank? 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 Why, yes. 17:18.000 --> 17:19.000 I object. 17:19.000 --> 17:21.000 The question is completely irrelevant to the indictment. 17:21.000 --> 17:22.000 Objection sustained. 17:22.000 --> 17:26.000 Irrelevant is it. I suppose it's irrelevant that you, Your Honor, 17:26.000 --> 17:32.000 were loaned $10,000 by the United States Bank the day before this trial opened. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 Mistress Royal, one more such outburst and I shall hold you in contempt of court. 17:38.000 --> 17:39.000 But it's true. 17:39.000 --> 17:42.000 And you may hold me in contempt of court if you like. 17:42.000 --> 17:52.000 For I have the most complete contempt for this court and everything it stands for. 18:00.000 --> 18:04.000 Mr. Prosecutor, have you any further witnesses to call against Anne Royal? 18:04.000 --> 18:06.000 No, Your Honor, I haven't. 18:06.000 --> 18:07.000 The prosecution rests. 18:07.000 --> 18:11.000 The defense may call its first witness. 18:11.000 --> 18:12.000 Your Honor, I... 18:12.000 --> 18:15.000 Sit down, sit down. I'll handle this. 18:15.000 --> 18:21.000 Your Honor, there's just one witness I should like to call in my own defense if he is present. 18:21.000 --> 18:25.000 And that is Mr. John Eaton, the Secretary of War. 18:25.000 --> 18:30.000 Mistress Royal, I must remind you again that a court of law is no place for idle pleasantries. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 This is no pleasantry, Your Honor. 18:32.000 --> 18:33.000 Sally, where is he? 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 I don't know where he is. 18:35.000 --> 18:38.000 Is Mr. John Eaton here? 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 If you will proceed with your defense, Mistress Royal. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 One moment, Your Honor. 18:43.000 --> 18:44.000 Sally. 18:44.000 --> 18:45.000 It's old Eaton. 18:45.000 --> 18:46.000 What is he? 18:46.000 --> 18:47.000 The Secretary of War. 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 I knew he wouldn't be here. 18:49.000 --> 18:51.000 He's here, Sally. 18:54.000 --> 18:59.000 Mr. Secretary, do I understand that you are here to testify on behalf of this defendant? 18:59.000 --> 19:00.000 I am. 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 We are honored, I assure you, Mr. Secretary. 19:03.000 --> 19:04.000 Will you take the stand, please? 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 Certainly. 19:07.000 --> 19:09.000 Raise your right hand. 19:09.000 --> 19:12.000 You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 I do. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Proceed, Mr. Eaton. 19:15.000 --> 19:20.000 Your Honor, what I have to say will not take long. 19:20.000 --> 19:25.000 I come here to speak on behalf of the defendant, Anne Royal, as her friend. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 I have known Mistress Royal for many years. 19:28.000 --> 19:34.000 And whatever her faults, I know her to have one virtue which far overbalances any faults. 19:34.000 --> 19:40.000 I know that when Anne Royal speaks, she speaks the truth, openly and fearlessly. 19:40.000 --> 19:47.000 It is my sincere hope, gentlemen, this fact may be not without influence in your judgment of this case. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Oh, Anne. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 Wasn't it wonderful? 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 Sally, I don't care now. 19:53.000 --> 19:54.000 They send me to jail for life. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 They can't convict you now. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 Oh, yes, they can. 19:57.000 --> 20:02.000 It's not what they hear, but what they get that influences those gentlemen. 20:02.000 --> 20:04.000 Does the defense have anything additional to add? 20:04.000 --> 20:07.000 Just a word to the jury, Your Honor, if I may. 20:07.000 --> 20:08.000 Proceed. 20:08.000 --> 20:12.000 Gentlemen of the jury, I know what you think of me. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 I know it's useless to appeal to your chivalry or any of that nonsense. 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 But one thing I must say to you. 20:19.000 --> 20:21.000 This is a trumped up charge. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 It was brought to close my newspaper. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Remember that when you render your verdict. 20:27.000 --> 20:30.000 And one thing else remember. 20:30.000 --> 20:34.000 There is a document called the Constitution of the United States. 20:34.000 --> 20:40.000 The First Amendment to that document guarantees as the foremost privilege of Americans. 20:40.000 --> 20:43.000 The freedom of speech and of the press. 20:43.000 --> 20:46.000 Remember this, gentlemen of the jury. 20:46.000 --> 20:52.000 And while you are pondering what vengeance you will wreak upon Anne Royal. 20:52.000 --> 20:56.000 Ponder also if you attack your Constitution. 20:56.000 --> 21:01.000 What vengeance posterity may wreak upon you. 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached a verdict? 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 We have. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 I'll find you the defendant, Anne Royal. 21:20.000 --> 21:22.000 Guilty or not guilty? 21:22.000 --> 21:37.000 Guilty. 21:37.000 --> 21:40.000 Anne, you must try to rest. 21:40.000 --> 21:42.000 Haven't I been resting? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 No dear. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 I've got a little fever. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 From the excitement of the trial and all. 21:49.000 --> 21:50.000 What time is it? 21:50.000 --> 21:51.000 It's late. 21:51.000 --> 21:53.000 It's almost midnight. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 I suppose in the morning they'll come to take the press away. 21:56.000 --> 21:59.000 Take the furniture too most likely. 21:59.000 --> 22:01.000 What are we going to do Anne? 22:01.000 --> 22:03.000 I don't know. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 We'll get along somehow. 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 Always have. 22:06.000 --> 22:10.000 I don't see how they could have done it to you. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 And after what Mr. Eaton said. 22:12.000 --> 22:13.000 He did his best. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 It was money that did it. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 Money to buy judges and juries. 22:17.000 --> 22:21.000 But to fine you so much when they knew you couldn't pay. 22:21.000 --> 22:24.000 That's what they got me up there for. 22:24.000 --> 22:26.000 To shut me up. 22:26.000 --> 22:29.000 Looks like they've just about done it too. 22:29.000 --> 22:32.000 Tomorrow they'll take the press. 22:32.000 --> 22:37.000 Anne, there's someone on the stairs. 22:37.000 --> 22:41.000 You don't suppose they'd come for it tonight do you? 22:41.000 --> 22:47.000 Open the door Sally. 22:47.000 --> 22:49.000 Oh Anne. 22:49.000 --> 22:51.000 It's the President. 22:51.000 --> 22:53.000 Good evening Mistress Royal. 22:53.000 --> 22:55.000 Why General? 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 I'm sorry it's so late. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 There was a cabinet meeting. 23:00.000 --> 23:02.000 I came as soon as I could. 23:02.000 --> 23:05.000 General, Mr. President. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 You didn't have to come to me. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 I heard what happened. 23:09.000 --> 23:13.000 I just wanted to tell you that your fine was paid. 23:13.000 --> 23:17.000 Some folks that were grateful for what you'd done. 23:17.000 --> 23:20.000 Yes, they got up the money. 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 You don't owe me that General. 23:23.000 --> 23:27.000 I thought you'd want to know that now they can't attach any of your property. 23:27.000 --> 23:29.000 Take your press or anything. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Thank you. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 And by the way, you know I think we finally got that bank crowd licked. 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 Have you? 23:35.000 --> 23:40.000 Yes, talking to some of the boys this evening. Oh it's going to take time of course. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 But we've got them. 23:41.000 --> 23:42.000 I'm glad. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 The thought should be. 23:44.000 --> 23:50.000 You know General, I've been kind of sassy to you sometimes. 23:50.000 --> 23:53.000 Considering you're President of the United States. 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 Why, I don't recollect it ma'am. 23:56.000 --> 23:58.000 I have though. 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 But you know, it's just my way. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 I know, I know. 24:02.000 --> 24:07.000 And General, now that you've found me in a weak moment. 24:07.000 --> 24:15.000 I just want you to know that old Ann Royall thinks you're a really great man. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 Folks will remember you General for a long time. 24:18.000 --> 24:22.000 Why, thank you Mistress Royall. 24:22.000 --> 24:45.000 I think folks will remember you too. 24:45.000 --> 24:52.000 Our thanks to you Fay Boehner, Ray Collins and to all other members of tonight's DuPont Cavalcade. 24:52.000 --> 25:01.000 You know, when a plane has to make a forced landing it's bad anytime. 25:01.000 --> 25:05.000 But to be forced down in the Pacific is particularly tough. 25:05.000 --> 25:08.000 Because you're either at sea or in dense jungle. 25:08.000 --> 25:11.000 To which you must hack your way back to safety. 25:11.000 --> 25:16.000 While fliers are supplied with combat emergency rations like other soldiers on active duty. 25:16.000 --> 25:23.000 They sometimes have to live off the land and kill small game for food when they're forced down. 25:23.000 --> 25:30.000 The only gun a flier can carry when he bails out crash lands on water or jungle is a pistol. 25:30.000 --> 25:36.000 Jane Whitman has some interesting facts for you about special ammunition for these pistols. 25:36.000 --> 25:44.000 The Remington Arms Company, a DuPont affiliate, has developed a special pistol cartridge just for the purpose Mr. Houston just mentioned. 25:44.000 --> 25:46.000 To kill small game for food. 25:46.000 --> 25:50.000 Ordinarily, as you know, a pistol shoots a solid bullet. 25:50.000 --> 25:56.000 The new ammunition developed by Remington Arms is a cartridge which shoots more than a hundred shot pellets. 25:56.000 --> 26:05.000 Tests by Remington's technical division show that the new caliber 45 cartridge puts an average of more than half of these pellets into a 30 inch circle. 26:05.000 --> 26:07.000 At a distance of 40 feet. 26:07.000 --> 26:11.000 It is the first cartridge of this caliber and type to be developed. 26:11.000 --> 26:16.000 The case is of brass with a thin waterproof top wad held in place by crimping. 26:16.000 --> 26:21.000 The cartridge is a little longer than the regulation caliber 45 combat cartridge. 26:21.000 --> 26:26.000 Because extra space is needed for a heavy powder charge for killing small game. 26:26.000 --> 26:34.000 For that reason, it must be fired one shot at a time because the cartridge is too long to fit into the clip magazine of the pistol. 26:34.000 --> 26:43.000 That's good though because a man can shoot an animal or bird for food and then quickly snap the magazine loaded with regular cartridges back into his gun. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 So as to be ready for anything that might happen. 26:45.000 --> 26:48.000 A Japanese sniper for instance. 26:48.000 --> 26:53.000 The new cartridges offer a better chance of survival to a flyer adrift at sea too. 26:53.000 --> 26:57.000 Because seagulls and other overwater birds can be brought down with them. 26:57.000 --> 27:05.000 Every flyer's jungle kit now contains two waterproofed boxes of these new shot cartridges developed by the Remington Arms Company. 27:05.000 --> 27:13.000 As a result of long experience, Remington Arms makes the right ammunition for every kind of game and every make of gun. 27:13.000 --> 27:16.000 And now here is Walter Houston. 27:16.000 --> 27:20.000 Next week to Pond Cavalcade is the authentic story of a girl you may know. 27:20.000 --> 27:27.000 She may have been your next door neighbor, the girl who left your town to go overseas with the Red Cross as a club mobile girl. 27:27.000 --> 27:33.000 She probably told you that her work was to laugh and joke with the men to make them forget about the war. 27:33.000 --> 27:37.000 Well, she left this country and was assigned to an air base in New Guinea. 27:37.000 --> 27:43.000 And there she found the work of a club mobile girl who was not only laughing and joking with the men, 27:43.000 --> 27:49.000 was not only serving donuts, coffee and bug juice to the men at the end of their missions but more. 27:49.000 --> 27:56.000 She found that she had become an important non-combat member of a team of American young men and women fighting this war. 27:56.000 --> 28:03.000 Listen with us to this exciting and moving story of the American Red Cross club mobile workers next Monday evening 28:03.000 --> 28:08.000 when we present the lovely and talented Lana Turner in Donut Girl. 28:08.000 --> 28:20.000 Thank you and good evening. 28:39.000 --> 28:45.000 Ray Bainter, star of tonight's cavalcade, is currently working in the Paramount picture, The Virginian. 28:45.000 --> 28:49.000 Ray Collins will soon be seen in Universal's Can't Help Singing. 28:49.000 --> 28:54.000 Music on tonight's cavalcade was composed and conducted by Robert Ambruster. 28:54.000 --> 28:59.000 This is Gain Whitman inviting you to tune in next week to Donut Girl starring Lana Turner. 28:59.000 --> 29:19.000 Brought to you by the E.I. DuPont Dinamour's Company of Wilmington, Delaware. 29:19.000 --> 29:29.000 This is the National Broadcasting Company.