(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A motion for mistrial threatened yesterday by Stewart Hanley, counsel for Ford in Aaron Sapiro’s $1,000,000 libel suit against him, is expected tomorrow when court, which had been adjourned owing to Senator Reed’s illness, will be reopened.
The basis of the motion, according to Ford’s counsel, is the alleged talkativeness of one of the women jurors. Adherence to the intention to take this step was the only statement available from any source after the eight attorneys involved gathered in the chambers of Federal Judge Fred M. Raymond for a secret conference with him immediately upon adjournment of court.
A gentlemen’s agreement sealed their lips, said Sapiro, his counsel and the four lawyers who represented Ford. In the afternoon they met again with Judge Raymond, but the compact not to talk still was in force. Judge Raymond promised that today might bring developments.
Mrs. Cora Hoffman, eleventh juror chosen, wife of the proprietor of a hardware store, was the woman accused. Charges were filed against her by Ford counsel who acted upon reports of Ford detectives. She was questioned by Judge Raymond for 45 minutes Monday night and last night. J. Miller, a real estate dealer with whom she was alleged to have talked in a corridor outside the courtroom, was taken to the Federal Building.
It was understood that the affidavits filed against her by the Ford lawyers were turned over to the Federal Department of Justice which continued the investigation initiated by Judge Raymond through the officers of his court.
One of the causes cited by Hanley in requesting adjournment yesterday morning until tomorrow morning was the condition of Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, chief of the Ford counsel.
The Senator was said to have been stricken with an attack of acute indigestion as he returned to Detroit last Monday morning from his second trip to Washington since the trial started.
Meanwhile from no source was anything available as to the condition of Ford, reported to have been injured more than three weeks ago when his light motor car was knocked off the highway by a larger machine.
The automobile manufacturer was indicated as the next witness after Sapiro, and while his counsel maintained he never had been served properly with a subpoena, they promised to produce him in court when necessary, “God willing.”
Gerhard Foreman, president of the Foreman National Bank, Chicago, Ill., was elected president of the Standard Club, Chicago’s largest Jewish club. Other new officers are Henry X. Strauss, vice-president; Moses E. Greenebaum, Jr., treasurer and Daniel W. Fischell, secretary.
Many Jews have received appointments in the city administration by the new mayor of Chicago, William Hale Thompson. Leon Hornstein, who has held the office of second assistant corporation counsel, was re-appointed to that post. William D. Saltiel was named city attorney. Hyman B. Ritman was named assistant corporation counsel. Robert L. Levy, formerly U. S. Marshal, was appointed to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Alderman Arvey was appointed chairman of the City Council Committee on Gas, Oil and Electric Light.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler will be the principal speaker at adinner in honor of Judge Benjamin N. Cardoza, Chief Justice of the New York State Court of Appeals, to be given by the Columbia Law School alumni next Saturday at the Hotel Astor.
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