Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-06-04 | Page 2 | Three Wives of Soldier Testify in Ford Libel Case

Three Wives of Soldiers Testify In Ford Libel Case MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Tune 3 Three women, wives of soldiers who joined the colors for servico on the Mexican border In 1916, testified to day for Henry Ford in his $1,000,000 libel suit against .he Chicago Tribune. They were Mrs. Mabel Richards, Mrs. Floyd Bertaw and Mrs Gertrude Baker Bak-er Mrs Baker, admitting on cross examination ex-amination that she had lied to get her husband out of the army under the dependency law. asserted that the ends of justice sometimes require a lie, and audecj "Uncle Sam doesn't always tell the truth either " The husbands of each of (he women wore Ford employes and two of them testified thai they began to receive relief payments from the Ford educational department about a month after mobilization of the guard. On cross examination Attorney Kirkland for the Tribune, continued to emphasize that for a month after iheir husbands left, the women received re-ceived nothing from the Ford company com-pany but none of them confessed any resentment at the delay, although it was admitted that their resources were slender while their husbands, who in civilian life received $5 a day. were absent with the colors.