Dalton Tru o, 70, Dies• Blacklisted Screenwriter .1 h, *11 ' By Martin Well a library. Both parents traced their 4 . Wistiinston POst Staff. Writer roots to the colonial-period. • Dalton Trumbo, 70, the Screenwriter 'After the family moved to Califor- who Was. ;blacklisted: and sent to niai Mr. Trumbo stayed: behind to prison for refusing in 1947 to tell a. study at the University of Colorado. congreisional committee whether he But, after the death of his 'father, he was a Cornmunist, died yesterday in joined his family in Los Angeles, and his Hollywood hpme. went to work as a bread-wrapper on `, Mr. Trumbo, who wrote more than the night shift at a major bakery. 60, screenplays and the powerful anti- While spending nine years in the war novel "Johnny Got: His Gun," bakery, he'did various •other jobs, re- died of heart failure. One of his lungs viewed movies for a -trade magazine, had been removed in an earlier can- attended the University of Southern ,.:cer operation. California and wrote 88 short stories - ;While -on ,the Hollywood blacklist, and six novels. All were rejected. Mr. Trumbo won an Academy ,Award Finally, Vanity •Fair, The Forum and DALTON TRUMBO in 1957 for the screenplay of "The other magazines began publishing his Brave One" which he wrote, undpr stories and essays, enabling him. to `the name Robert Rich. It was not un- quit- his bakery job. In ,1904, he .be- during World War II, it was filmed by Iast year that Mr. Trurnbo received Mr. `Trumbo in 1971 and won the carne managing editor of the. Holly • ,..,711.1is. Oscar statuette.. , wood Spectator and then joined the Grand. Prix in the foreign, films sec- Before the blacklist Mr. Trumbo Warner Brothers movie studio as a tion of the next year's Japanese Art ,was the a0,hcir of screenplays fe,ir reader in the story department Festival. suchh-films as. '`A Guy Named Joe, "4, -„ Man to Bemember” and '``Thirty Set- • Soon he was writing scripts. He also onds over Tokyo In published' two novels, "Eclipse" and ;1960, he began "Washington Jitters" in 1935 and 1936. ',gaining.' recognition Under his own ;--.Iname and. worked - on filrnt •such as In 1939, he won the Natiohal Book Spartacus", and "Pepin on Award with "Johnny Got His Gun." :Along with nine other Hollywood Moving and ' sometimes painfully :';:-5fi` -gtirea, who in 1947 defied the House 'poignant, it is 'the Story of Joe Bon- :-‘ZUU-Arnerican Activities Committee, ham, who has lost his arms, legs, as:11 ,1r. Trumbo bPcame known as a mem- sight, hearing, mouth—almost every- #:‘,.'ber of Ahe"Hollywood Ten,." „ thing but his brain in the explosion . tri.c They have come to be _-regarded as of an artillery shell during World War - A among the-most prominent victims of h e wave of concern about possible An angry and often bitter book, re- :, Communist infiltration that swept the portedly •banned from Army camps 1')nation. in the ;late 1940s and early : - - • .1n addition,. their appearances be- *qfpre -the committee and the appear ances of; other figures, who did offer 4t,,iinformation And make accusations, ',,tleft deep and lasting scars in the film ; , Mr. Trtimbe, wai porn Dee. 9; 1905, n. Montrose, Colo,: in an apartment ocenpieci by his-, parents in the rear of