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Show FORD 1C1 PUT TO GRILLING QUIZ Plaintiff in Libel Suit Continues Con-tinues Testimony in Michigan Court. Memory Proves Decidedly Faulty, Newspaper Counsel Coun-sel Brings Out. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., July 17. Henry Ford's fourth day on the witness stand in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune was much like yesterday in subject matter and in the prolonged multiplying of questions to obtain ob-tain specific answers. Today 'while he was being questioned concerning a letter sent by Theodore De-lavlgne, De-lavlgne, who was his peace publicity man in 1916, to Henry A. Wise Wood, the following went into the record. Mr. Ford I don't know anything about the letter. I know that he wrote it, sent it out. Mr. Stevenson Do you think that he would have made that 'statement If It were not true? Attorney. Murphy That is objected to as argumentative. Mr. Ford I don't know. The court He does not say he did not; he says he doesn't remember. What did you say. Mr. Ford? Mr. Ford I don't remember; whatever the stenographer has got there. Mr. Stevenson You don't remember what? Mr. Ford Whatever you asked me. Does Not Remember. The Delavigne letter concerned a speech by Henry A. Wise Wood In Detroit. Before Be-fore making the address, Mr. Wood called on Mr. Ford and in his speech quoted Mr. Ford, as wishing to ignore all national boundaries and stating that after the war he would pull the Stars and Stripes from his factories and hoist a world brotherhood brother-hood flag. This speech was reported the next morning in the Detroit Free Press, and that evening the Detroit Evening News had an editorial on it. Mr. Delavigne sent this letter to Mr. Wood In New York: "Mr. Ford, after reading the story of your address to the Detroit board of commerce as printed in the Free Press today, has requested me to mail to you the inclosed editorial from the Detroit News. This Mr. Ford deems all that is necessaxy to answer your very interesting disclosure of his Interview with you, for which he is deeply grateful." Editorial's Designs. The editorial referred to was designed to refute Mr. Wood's preparedness arguments. argu-ments. Mr. Ford testified that Mr. Delavigne Dela-vigne told him of the flag feature of Mr. Wood's speech, but that Delavigne wrote the Wood letter on his own responsibility. He admitted that he had never asked the Free Press to deny the truth of any portion por-tion of the speech, although he said ho had denied it often In other quarters. "Apparently you now think the statement state-ment that you were going to lower the flag was a reflection on you?" suggested Mr. Stevenson. "It was a detriment, yes. sir." "You have denied it since? In the senatorial sen-atorial campaign?" "I don't remember." "Was it published in the senatorial campaign?" "I did not pay any attention to the senatorial sen-atorial campaign. They are liable to say anything in a campaign." Scattered through his testimony it appeared ap-peared that Mr. Ford ascribed the world war to a variety of causes, including bankers, muni lions makers, alcoholic drink, kings and their henchmen and. school books. John Reed, a magazine (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) FORD ICI PUT TOOfllLLIli QUIZ (Continued from Pago One.) writer of New York and recent Russian Bolshevik emissary to the United folates, disclosed the alleged facts in an article published in 1916. Reed, in his story, said he reminded Mr. Ford, who opposed drink, that the French and Germans prosper on wine and beer. "Yes, and it was one of the causes of1 the war," said Mr. Ford. "How?" asked Mr. Reed. "Jt made them suspicious of each other." He criticised school books as glorying In wars and the heroes of them, thus instilling in-stilling the military spirit In the youngsters. young-sters. The Detroit manufacturer, In explaining explain-ing why he forgot so many things, said that hundreds of persons visit the factory, and that in those days he talked to many of them, making casual remarks which passed from his head almost as soon as made. For instance, he said that he remembered re-membered little of what his talk, with Mr. Wood was about. I |