Show fORD LIBEL sun suit OPENS IN UI U. SI SIC S C COURT URT TUESDAY Newsboy Ex-Newsboy Now Rich Sues Auto Manufacturer for One Million HOT BATTLE LOOMS Linking of With Conspiracy DETROIT Mich March 12 UnIted United UnIt UnIt- ed Press Thirty years years ago a tattered Jewish walt waif ro med the streets or of San Sian Francisco Fraacisco sellinG nEwspapers At the same time in a a. dingy Detroit De- De troit workshop a young lad from the farm labored nights to complete the model o of a two cylinder automobile automobile automo- automo bile an invention which a few years later was to take its place as a revolutionizing factor in the world Tuesday the two both grown to positions ot of national and world prominence and great wealth will begin a battle in federal court with witha a million dollars at stake The walt waif Aaron is the organIzer of hundreds Ot of cooperative cooperative tive marketing associations amon among American farmers From Henry Ford whose automobiles have earned him the title ot of the worlds world's richest man he 1 is asking for alleg alleged d lIbelous articles published pub pub- in Fords Ford's the publIcation Dearborn In inQ j i ident 1 Ford who has often used the Independent Independent In- In dependent for for- or- or bitter attacks on Jewish business ventures is charged by bv with linking his name I with a Jewish to gain control of American agricultural markets through the medium of the cooperatives CHARGES PREJUDICE maintains the issue isue is one of racial prejudIce Ford through his attorneys has declared it IS ore of economIc fraud The real issue probably will be be determined Monday when Senator James A A. Reed of Missouri Fords Ford's head counsel and William Henry Gallagher attorney go into court to wrangle over Fordi 0 Continued on page 10 I I i 1 FORD LIBEL SUIT OPENS IN U. U S. S COURT TUESDAY Copt Cont from page 1 1 page plea The plea twice r refused Is said to be one of the longest in court history Reed who vho Is said to have received a retainer fee of for defending defend defend- ing the car matter is determined the case shall be fought on on the issue that cooperatives s ar are profitable prof- prof only to the organizer and that the farmers gained nothing Efforts to Lo becloud the issue in inthe inthe the cry of racial persecution Will wll not be permitted he declared Whether or not Henry torl 1011 willbe will willbe be called to the witness tand Is a matter of conjecture Gallagher do- do dares clares he had a subpoena served ser on lord Ford at D Dearborn arborn Mich last fall Defense att attorneys although h refus- refus refusing ing to deny their client will tale take talethe the stand state that Ford has n- n formed them no subpoena has been en serve served WIll CAll FORD Ford Is going to be canel callei to 10 testify tes- tes early In the trial Gallagher Itu said It Is the long aWl opportunity for the Jewish people to make Ford show his hand on the pUblished published pUb pUb- attacks on them major charges are That he was branded as a mem- mem bel of a Jewish conspiracy to t. gun lin control of American farm That the articles in 11 the Dearborn Independent untruthful un un- truthful attacks on his methods f organIzation thereby causing him to lose thousands of dollars That his name was inked those of Julius Rose wal Otto Otti Kahn Bernard Baruch Albert D. D Lasker and Eugene Meyer Jr as members of a conspiracy to teach communism In rural l schools I IS S attorneys will ask the court Monday to order Fords Ford's plea amended to give direct answer to the main charges contaIned in the complaint |