New Britain herald., 1927-04-02
REED POUNDS AWAY,
 QUIzzING SAP|RO
Says He'll Show Plaintiff Made
 Close to Million

Detroit April 2 tRy-The defense in the $l,0OO,0o0 libel suit of Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford and his publication, the Dearborn lndepen- dent. gave jurors hearing the case list Of fees received hy the plalntih for work in connection with farm marketing organizations 10 ponder over the weekend.
 United States Senator James Reed, cd Sapiro was prompted by motives other than altruistic in carrying on the work, has announced that nc will show Sapiro and his law part ners received in the neighborhood ot $l l,G00, ,0U0 for this work. Previous 10 yesterdays session he drew from Sa- piro testimony that the latter re- Celvcd around Sa5o,0o0 in fees and before court adjourned for the week end the list was materially increased,
 And as Sapiro on the witness stand recited the list of fees he received. he was frequently interrupted by the query from Senator Reed: Didn't you tell them that you were not ln- terested in the fec? That he vel fare of the farmers was the big thing" To which the witness shot back: "I may have, and if did I did with affect
 Yesterdays examination brought out that Sapiro received S3,20o as q retainer fee and s4,45O in fees from the Arkansas cotton planters; Sl,- 100 from the Mississippi growers Tn 1923: $l9,0U0 for representing the Texas farm bureau cotton assocla- ton in negotiations which resulted in substantial loans from the war finance corporation: S37,30o for work in the Texas cooperative movement; s975 from the Missouri 1 cotton growers; s700 from the Ten nossee cotton growers, $4,lo0 from south Carolina cotton growers: s. o5O from Alabama cotton planters:
 s2,35O from the Louisiana Farm Growers cotton association; S7,4ho from the Georgia cooperative cot ton association and $7.l50 from the North Carolina cotton association.
 Other fees paid Sapiro by asso- ciation's winch benefited by loans
 from the war finance corporation were listed as follows: California prune and apricot growers, S2Ooo; Washington and Idaho wheat grow CTS, S%,o00: Texas Farm Bureau Cotton association. s3,500; Okla | l., f,,t Georgia cotton, Sl,000; North Caro- { lima cotton growers. S2,ooo; Arkan- sas cotton, $1.550; Arizona cotton. l $l.750 and Alabama cotton, sl.55o. Sapiro will resume the stand again Monday for further recital of
 his operations.
 Meantime officials Of the county
 prosecutors office moved to pune
 ture the obscuritv surrounding the automobile crash in which Ford
 was injured here last Sunday. Prosecutor Robert NJ. Toms. ask pany for q complete report of their investigation of the affair. Mir. Tom said he did not intend to initiate an 1 investigation unless the Ford office report was such as to warrant ar
 rest of those responsible.
 { Tn the face of persistent reports
 that the Ford coupe in which the
 man who makes them was riding,
 deliberately was knocked from the
 road by q large speeding closed car,
 MT. Toms said he wanted to find
 out what it is all about" Official in
 yeStIgations were made by only two 1 agencies, the police department of 1 Dearborn, the Detroit Suburb jus,
 outsd" of which Mir. Ford's car was sidaswlpod, and the constable in ! charE" of patrollins that point. Both reports leaned toward the
 theory of unavoidable accident.