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torneys on both sides. G. 3. Longley,
of counsel for the auto maker, assert
ed today that Mr.. Ford had not been
subpoenaed
To this William Henry Gallagher.
for Sapiro, answers: "A subpoena was
tossed into Mr.. Ford's lap several
months ago. am confident he will
not make 1t necessary for us to ask
the court to have him brought in"
Just what testimony plaintiffs coun-
sci plans to get from Henry Ford. the
witness, against Henry Ford. the de-
PENDANT, was not revealed.
While the defense plans to summon
about $50 witnesses, the plaintiff s.
counsel has named only Mr.. Ford.
Additional witnesses, Gallagher said,
would be determined by the nature
of the testimony brought forward by
defense attorneys.
$50 Dispositions Taken.
Testimony of the big array of de-
Tense witnesses will be supplemented
by approximately $50 dispositions
taken from potato growers in Maine,
Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota and New
Jersey; cotton growers in Oklahoma,
Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas and
South Carolina; wheat growers In
Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana, and fruit and vegetable
growers in all parts of the country.
Elaborate arrangements have been
made for the accommodation of spec
tators, formidable array OF lawyers
and other notables, the long list of
witnesses and newspaper men, In the
courtroom of Judge Fred Raymond,
brought from Grand Rapids to sit In
the case.
The Ford side of the counsel table
will be in charge of Sepator Reed:
Associated with him will be Richard
J, Higgins, his law partner in Kansas
City; Raymond K. Watson, also or
Kansas City, and three Detroit at
torneys-C. Il. Longley, Stewart Han
Lev and Ward N. Choate. Mr.. Long.
lev is general counsel for the Ford
Motor Co.
Sapiro's interests will be in charge
of Mr.. Gallagher and Walter +. Lynch
Of Chicago, law partner.
Wide Interest Shown.
A large number of newspaper cor
RESPONDENTS already have arrived.
The newspaper writers include repre-.
sentatives of several agricultural and
racial publications. 1-.. u
The hard wood benches that serve
spectators in the courtroom set ASIDE
for Judge Raymond promise to be
damned when the suit gets under way
tomorrow. Possibility that Mr.. Ford
himself may appear unheralded mas
served to arouse more than ordinary
interest. =.
Among the possibilities as wit
nesses have been heard the names or
Frank o. Lowden, former governor
of Illinois: Bernard M. Baruch, chair
man of the War Industries Board dur
ing the Wilson administration; Eu-
gene Meyer, IT., managing director OF
the War Finance Corporation, and
other notables.
Counsel for Sapiro asked permission
today to strike out the nineteenth and
twentieth of the 21 counts made in
his declaration. These two counts
complain of statements published In
the Independent January A. is2o'
and April II, 1925. Under the Michi-
gan law a demand for retraction was
made before the two statements were
published.
Says Race Is Not Issue.
Neither the principle of co-opera"
tive marketing nor the Jewish race IS
on trial." said Senator Reed today.
I'VE are accused of libeling Mr.. Sa-
piro, and 1t is therefore his work and
the plan that he expounded that we
seek to test. We claim he was selfish
in his motives, domineering in his
tactics, harmful in his activities and
dangerous to the agricultural move
ment because Of his attempts to con-
troll it."
Mr.. Gallagher, for Mr.. Sapiro, de-
clared the race question was the para
mount issue in the case and will not
be excluded from the amended COM
plant. THE libel Is explicitly against
a conspiracy of Jews of which Mr..
Sapiro was alleged to be a member"
he said. This is the issue to which