Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-06
Ne W MEXICANS To /.
TESTIFY in FORD
SUIT FOR LIBEL
Attorney for Tribune Says that
Serial Story of Border Trou-
bIes viii Be Told On the
Witness Stand,
pv MORNING IeuRn.t spsc,Al ,sAs,o war,

Mount Clemens. Mich, June e.
Witnesses who came here four weeks
ago from Texas and New Mexico to
testify for the Chicago Daily Tribune,
which is being sued by Henry Ford
for $1.000,000 damages on a charge
of libel, and who have been growing
restive, were cheered today by infor-
nation that in all probability their
testimony would be called for tomor-
row.
Counsel for the plaintiff today in
troduced dispositions. editorials and
even cartoons for the purpose of show
ing that specific maIica lay behind the
Tribune editorial of June 20, 1916, in
which the Detroit manufacturer was
called an anarchist. AT adjournment
Attorney william Lucking said he had
but one brief deposition to read to-
morrow and two witnesses whose tes-
timony probably would be short. This
he said, would complete direct presen-
tation of the plaintiffs case.
Attorney Weymouth kirkland of
counsel for the Tribune stated that the
border witnesses would be the first
called. All have business interests
which they say demand their early re-
turn to their homes, Mr.. kirkland
said that serial story of Mexican out
RACES all along the border on Ameri-
can soil would be unfolded by sue
ceeding witnesses, beginning with
those in the Brownsville, Tex, district
and working west through the Big
Bend district and Ell Paso to Column
bus, N. NJ, the scene of the most
serious of the raids. This story hav-
ing been told, the defense plans to
enter Mexico itself with tales of mur-
dered foreigners, robberies and vast
properties IDLE while their American
owners. In fear of their lives, were
refugees in the United States. 1t is
estimated that six weeks will be re-
CURED to complete the case.
Counsel for tive Tribune objected to
all of the evidence introduced today,
most of 1t on the grounds OF remote
ness to the issue on trial.
The editorials and the cartoons were
introduced by plaintiff to support his
charge that the Tribune urged war
against Mexico to divert supplies
from the enemies of Germany. and
that specific malice arose in the
breasts of the publishers against Mr..
Ford because he opposed the use of
force in the country south of the Rio
Grande
Dispositions read included those
from officials of the International
Harvester company and the Standard
OH company. They We're designed to
show that a family relationship be-
tween the families of Col. r. r.. Nc
Cormick, one of the publishers of the
Tribune, and Harold +. Mccormick,
president of the International Har-
Vester company, and certain property
interests influenced the Tribune 8
Mexican policy. The harvester COM
pany gets large quantities of sissl
used in binder twine, from Yucatan
while the Standard oil company i'm
ports crude oil from another part of
the republic.
Judge Tucker said the relationship
established seemed very remote. The
deposltions showed Mrs. Katherine
Medill Mccormick, mother of Col. r,
X. Mccormick. owns 500 shares of
harvester stock of a par value of $50
O00 and that Colonel Mccormick has
165 shares.