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Show FDHD IGNORANT, LIffflGUfIS Newspaper Attorney Intimates Inti-mates Manufacturer Is Unable to Read. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Aug. 12. Arguments in the $1,000,000 libel suit of J innry Ford against the Chicago Daily Tribune closed Uxlay with the summing tp addresses of 10! hot t G. Steve ns'm, senior counsel for the Tribune, and Alfred Lucking, senior counsel for Mr. Kurd. Mr. Stevenson took up the editorial on which Uie suit is based and read one of the alleged libels. "A man so ignorant of the fundfiinentals of government as Henry Ford." "Well." commented the lawyer, "what did he tell us on the stand ? He s;iid be did not know what the fnnri:trn"ntals were and didn't care. Ayl tiny put Kord employees on the suuid to prove that he could read and write. 1 was never so shocked In my life." Mr. Stevenson reeounterj bow Mr. Ford I'. peft'diy evaded rr-adirK while on the witness stand, and finally vi id he was wi.lii:p the impression should go out that be could not read. The Trib.ine lawyer said that irvddent aft-'-r Incident occurred while the plaintiff v. as on The stand to prove the charge of Ignorance. "It was pitiful." eontinued Mr. Pleven-son, Pleven-son, "but, they had demanded proof, arid I had to go on until Judge Tucker himself him-self said: " 'Mr. Stevenson, you ha ve irone fa r enough More this lir.f . Gentlemen, that p-iase of the proof was completed right tl-.'-re." S;r- e '-.. on said he wondered if Mr. Ford would have still (;.,'-'( S'-unihg s'.lnb r to the Mexican burOr jf he had : r--n in Jesse f M-emer's p.'-e : r ):.- T-Hpe-; ir;o .M'-xlro. m j "Aii'l ii'.w eoiries Mr. T'orn and fx ' h rep eat;'"- ha br.;; r-j:rerl, 1 i!r- 1. d. i.y th; e! i ; . ,r . : . . vt-:.t on I Mr. -':.'?.. "Gr''Hl , :--, (f'-n- it;. 'iT V .-. -o rusr.ef M , - i . : : ; , two ' '-in. ,!':' vote for prt-s.or.:: Pr xl-n i : IT . ; : ; k of it. Some r-f ;-ou jurymen n v r.-ive -o-.ed for h!n,. I don't l:i dw, b':t if j o j ;n iv.it v Go'j forg: v ve-j. ' ' |