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Medical
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cessfully carried out a boycott
against G. H. A, its doctors, it's
patients and others in violation Of
the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Documents Ruled Out.
When court opened this morning.
Justice James M Proctor ruled
against the doctors, held the evi-
dence inadmissable and sustained
the objections Of the Government.
The documents, which now cannot
be shown to the jury, had been
brought to the courthouse from Con-
gress by Senator McCarran of Ne
vada; from the General Account
ing Office and from the Home Own
ers Loan Corp.
The defendant witness from whom
Defense Counsel William Z. Leahy
drew the first testimony of the day
was DR.. William C. Woodward, os
this city, former director of the
Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legis-
lation of the A. M A. He had been
on the stand for parts of two days
last week.
DR.. Woodward told of a conference
with Raymond r. Zimmerman. one
of the founders of G. H. A., in the
summer of 1887. The witness de-
MED some of the statements which
previously had been attributed 10
him by Mr. Zimmerman from the
witness stand on February II.
Referring to previous testimony
by Mr.. Zimmerman defense counsel
asked Dr. Woodward:
Did you say that G. H. A. was
going to be given a going-over at
the A. M. A. meeting?"
"I said nothing susceptible of that
Interpretation" replied the witness.
Tried to See Contract.
Did you predict that would be the
end of G. H. A?"
81 did not"
DR.. Woodward said he called at
Mr.. Zimmerman's Office sometime
later to see again if he could get to
see the contract between the H. o.
L. G. and G.. H. A.
did you see him?" asked Mr..
Leahy.
mo"
"DiG you see his secretary?"
"Yes, left a message for him"
What was the message?"
That his entire setup was un-
lawful"
Defense counsel then turned to a
number of documents which already
had been admitted into evidence
from the Government files.
From one of these, identified by
DR.. woodward as minutes of the
A. M A. Mr.. Leahy read to the Jury
this sentence: The Federal Home
Owners Loan Corp. has granted
$4,000 year to the Group Health
Association. Thus the Federal Gov
eminent has provided funds to a
corporation to practice medicine in
the District OF Columbia despite the
fact that corporate practice Of
medicine is Illegal, according to nu-
merouS court decisions"
Defense counsel also read to the
jury statements from these minutes
which the prosecution itself had read
to the jury previously in support
of the Governments charge that
the doctors had engaged in an
Illegal conspiracy. One of these
sentences heard again by the jury
today said that "A. NJ. A. headquar-
tiers Offices had done everything it
could to combat the &C. H. Al
movement"
Picking up document which the
prosecution had introduced to sup
port their charge that doctors had
sought to start political backfire
against G. H. A, Mr.. Leahy turned
to letter written by DR.. Woodward
to DR.. G. F. Simpson of Purcellville,
Va, president of the Virginia State
Medical Society.
Asked by defense counsel why he
had written this letter, DR.. Wood
ward testified that it was because
G.. H. A. was "overrunning into
Virginia.
Il called his attention to this"
DR.. Woodward said, so that he
could look after the welfare of his
medical society in that State"
The long article criticizing G. H.
A. which DR.. Woodward had writ
ten for the Journal of A. M. A.
was turned to by defense counsel,
who began reading excerpts to the
jury.
DR.. Woodward is one Of the five
defendent officials of the A. M. A.
and the second of these to appear
on the witness stand:~ The first,
DR.. William D. Cutter, has com.
pleted his testimony.