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Show MAYOR STANDS SHARP QUIZZING Thompson May Testify Again This Week in Great Libel Suit CHICAGO. June 3 William Hale Thompson, mayor of Chicago, prob-j prob-j ably w ill be called to the witness stand again by the Chicago Tribune when , his $500,000 libel suit against the newspaper Is resumed next week. It was announced today Attorneys for The Tribune subpoenaed sub-poenaed Mayor Thompson late Friday I and placed him on the stand as a de-I de-I fenso witness In the caso which grew out of the newspaper criticism of the mayor's administration, his war rec-I rec-I ord and patriotism On the stand the mayor engaged in sharp tilts with Weymouth Klrkland of The Tribune Counsel, referring to j Ellhu Root as a profiteer and saying there was a slight doubt In his mind as to whether Frank O, Lowdon, for-( for-( mor governor of Illinois, was a profl-t profl-t teer. He added that he believed John i D. Rockefeller lost no money during the war. Thompson did not call j Lowden a profiteer. "There was a meeting at the stock I yards In the latter part of April or the arly part of May, 1917. addressed ad-dressed by Theodore Roosevelt." Mr Klrkland said. 'Was he a profiteer?" profi-teer?" I wouldn't say that he was no," j the mayor replied. "Some federal Judges have decided twice In actions on traction questions, aro they profiteers?" 'Well, those that decided tho 7 cent faro and gave us a chance to win the first lctory, and save the city sixty i thousand " ' Would you say they were profi- teers ?" "I would consider that they were economists." "Would you sav they wore profiteers profi-teers f "Not when they helped the peopl." "A man that decided against you is a profiteer?" "No, but decides against tho people." peo-ple." The mayor said ho no longer reads The Tribune; that he has not much confidence In it and that It would be a good thing for the community If the newspaper wont out of business |