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Chicago Tribune Counsel Recalls Caustic Comments Of Auto Maker Reminds Jury That Millionaire Re fused to Pay or Take Back Employees That Enlisted Tn National Guard

MT. CLEMENS, Mich, May 16.- Opening statements of counsel in the libel suit of Henry Ford against the Chicago Tribune occupied the entire day in Judge Fuckers court.
 Weymouth Kirkland, of counsel for the Tribune, who spoke in the after noon, had not concluded when court adjourned until Monday. He will re- sune then, after which the question of scope of evidence will be argued by counsel.
 Former Judge Alfred J. Murphy, of counsel for the plaintiff, occupied the forenoon in stating his case, in the course of which he alleged that the Tribune's advocacy of intervention in Mexico was due to pro- -Germanism, and a desire to aid the International Harvester company and the Standard OU company.
 Mr. Kirkland, in his remarks, ridi- culed these claims and claimed not only Justification of it's comment on Nr. Ford in whcih he was called an anarchist, and accused of ignorance, but asserted that MT. FOrds wealth, position and pacifist propaganda had made him a public character, it was the plan duty of the newspaper to call him to account for a policy which, in tae Tribune's opinion, would render the country impoteut, while Europe was in flames. and anarchy reigned south of the Rio Grande
 Called Generals murderers
 MT Kirkland referred to General Pershing and to Marshal Haig and Generalissimo Foch, as among the sol diers on whom MT. Ford would em- blazon the word ''murGerers." He was on the subject of the military career of Colonel R. R. Mccormick, publisher of the Tribune, when the poin came up.
 "McCormick got to be a lieutenan1 colonel said Attorney Kirkland, 'an. General Pershing, one of the profes- sioual soldiers that Judge Murphy say; Mir Ford said should have the worj murderer embroidered on his breast made him colonel And when the! tell you that you cannot put nor, than one meaning on the word an archist,' I want you to remember th' mental gymnastics that Judge Murph7 dN here this morning, in trying tt make you believe that Henry Ford when he advocated the brand mur. derer,' did not mean the boys wht joined the army in 1917 but profes siOual soldiers, s,-soldiers like Pershin- and Haig and Foch, who have beer professional soldiers all their ltves.n
 Mir. Kirkland told how the news iten on which the alleged hbelous editoria was based, had it's origin, the nationa guard was being recruited for servic on the Mexican border, and many en ployers were publicly announcing tha the pay of their men who joined tn colors would be continued and thei jobs held for them.
 Inquiry at the Chicago branch c the Ford company elicited a statemen that the branch manager was await ing instructions from the main office This was only two or three days befor publication of the editorial on June 2, 1916, he said. The Detroit correspond ent was then appealed to by telegraph This correspondent, the lawyer sait was informed by General Manage Klingsmith of the Ford company, man who was customarily accepted a an authority on Ford policies, that tn Ford company would not continue tn pay of it's men who enlisted, nor woul it hold their positions open, nor giv them preference, should they retur and ask for their former positions.
 Answering Attorney Murphy charge, that the Tribune sought to em brOu the United States in a war wit Mexico, in order that munitions re quired at home would not be shippe 10 the enemies of Germany, MT. KirI land asserted that this was sufficient answered by the fact that the Tribur had advocated intervention since 191
 He urged further than Mexican rait along the border, the murder and rol b6Sy of American citizens in Mexic f0I ample seasons why the Tribune shou advocate intervention, and certainl he said, more convincing that a rounC about method of helping Germany aiding the Harvester company Standard Oil.
 The relationship by which the tH big corporations were said to infh ence Tribune policy was said by Jud, Tucker, on objection by Attorney E liOtt c. Stevenson of counsel for. u Tribune, to be irrelevant. As given l Attorney Murphy, it was that Haro Mccormick, president of the harvest company, married Edith Rockefelle a daughter of John D. Rockefeller, al that Harold Mccormick was a cous of the late Ambassador R. s. McCo mick, father of Colonel R. R. McCo mick. From this, Murphy drew t conclusoin that the harvester cor pany's interest in Mexico sisal and N Rockefeller's interest in Mexican cru oil