Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-12
FORD LIBEL SUIT
TO OPEN TUESDAY
ST 900, 900 Action Brought
by Sapiro to Go Widely Into
Cooperative Marketing.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
DETROIT, March 12.-Co-operative
marketing in all its phases viii I'M
dergo expert analysis when the VI
0O0. 900 libel suit of Aaron Sapiro
against Henry Ford gets under way
in United States District Court here
Tuesday. A volumlnous declaration.
containing excerpts from alleged
libelous articles appearing in the Dear
born Independent and numerous
dispositions will go into the record.
Sapiro. one-time street gamin and
orphanage waif, who started out TO
be a rabbi and instead became the
leader of one of the greatest agrf-
cultural movements of modern times,
filed his suit against the automobile
manufacturer on April %. 1925, charg
series of articles that appeared In
the Independent, owned by Ford.
The declaration in the suit assert
ed that Sapiro had spent Is years
building up agricultural marketing or
CARNATIONS which now exist in nearly
two score States and that irreparable
damage had been done his reputation
with farmers of America and Canada
by the series of articles.
Quotes From Articles.
legged, accused Sapiro of being one
of "a conspiracy of Jewish bankers
who seek to control the food markets
Of the world" They accused him. the
declaration added. of seeking TO gain
control of the markets for wheat.
potatoes, hops. hay. tobacco and cot
ton and the raiSin and bean industries.
The names of Bernard Baruch,
Julius Rosenwald. Otto Kahn. Albert
ID. Lasker and, f. Myer, ir., were
linked with that of Sapiro, he assert
ed. in the articles that charged him
with participation in alleged Jewish
conspiracy to control American agri-
culture ''or to organize the farmers
of America In the interests of COM
munism.''
In presenting a demand for retrac-
ton. which was ignored, Sapiro
quoted extensively from the articles.
He cited the following from the issue
of August 80. 1924:
This whole Kahn-B aruch.I.asker-
Rosenwaid-Sapiro program is care
fully planned to turn over to an or
ganized international interest the en-
tire agricultural interest OF the Re-
public. Between the lines
one reads the story of the Jewish
Communistic movement in America.
which seeks to make the United
States what it. already has made of
Russia"
Reed Heads Ford Counsel.
Sapiro, fifth of a family of nine
children. was born in San Francisco
AZ years ago. At the age of s he
and his brother Philip. then 8. began
selling newspapers and matches on
the streets of Oakland, otherwise y,
Sapiro once said. I'VE would have
gone hungry"
A libel suit filed by Sapiro against
the Regina Leader and the Saskatoon
Star and Phoenix. dailies of Sas.
katchewan. Canada. 1924. was dismiss.
ed, the courts holding he had failed
TO prove malice in articles published
by those newspapers. The articles
had to do with efforts to organize q
wheat pool in Saskatchewan.
Senator James Reed of Missouri
VIII head counsel for Ford and the
Dearborn Independent in the imnend.
Ing action. Sapiro's counsel will he
headed by William Henry Gallapber
OF Detroit. Judge Fred M. Ravmond
or Grand Rapids will sit in the local
District Court to hear the suit.