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Show M LIEUT. CONNORS ! I) TESTIFIES IN I THE FORD CASE fP MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. June 2.' Lieutenant James A. Connors tcst'- fied today at the opening of the fourth k , week of Henry Ford's $1,000,000 -ibel i A suit against the Chicago Tribune that he had been told by Frank L. Kingen-smith, Kingen-smith, general manager of the Ford Motor company and John R. Lee. one o! the directors, thai all employes of the company who went with the national na-tional guard to ihe Mexican border would be reinstated upon their return and that their dependents would be i,i j? looked after durinr their absence, jpll Connors was recruiting for a battery 'fc in Detroit when the secretary of war ; called for the mobiliZfU ion of the na ui tional guard for service on the Mexf an border. The Tribune editorial of Tune 23, 1916. was based in part on .i news dispatch dis-patch from T iroit dated June 21. to F ' the effect that the Ford Motor com pany would not hold positions open care for dependents, nor pay salarie of employes who followed the colors to the Rio Grande Asked by Attorney Weymouth Kirk-land, Kirk-land, reprf scnlin. the defendant, if he put the name of the Cord Motor company com-pany among the names of other 'irms placarded on the wall of the Detroit armory as having pledged themselves to reinstate employes who enlistr.J and the care of their dependents, Mr. Connors admitted he had not |