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REID'S WINE-COLORED BOW TIE UNCHANGED SINCE TRIAL BEGAN
[[?]] - 11/15/26
Sartorial Presence of Mitchell's Counsel Furnishes Contrast to Some of More Striking Dress Features, But He Is at Least Consistent.
That mythical, hypothetical and theoretical coterie of persons at the Mitchell general court-martial, repeatedly referred to in the newspapers as "observers," discovered Friday, just before the court took a three-day recess, a hitherto unobserved feature of the proceedings.
Since the trial began the observers have observed Mrs. William Mitchell's black velvet tam-o'-shanter and one or two other hats she has worn over the long period; they have observed, whenever it occurred, a break in the frozen and apathetic physiognomies of the major and brigadier generals comprising the court: they have observed that Maj. Gen. William S. Graves got a haircut the other day; that the bald spot on the accused's head appears to be increasing in diameter; that Col. Sherman Moreland, the trial judge advocate, has not yet adopted the now universally known "Pershing cap," but still wears the pre-war headgear; that Mrs. Douglas MacArthur constantly is in attendance at the trial and is accompanied by her husband's military aide; that Col. Mitchell wears more service and decoration ribbons on his left breast beneath the shining silver wings than any other military individual in the big room; that one day he wears "slacks" with his new roll-collar Air Service coat, and the next riding breeches, boots and spurs; but-
Up until Friday they failed to observe the fact that every single, solitary day since the trial began, way back in the last week of October, Representative Frank R. Reid, Republican, Illinois, chief civilian defense counsel, has worn the same mouse-colored suit, the same wine-colored bow tie and the same iron derby. The suit and derby, in the opinion of observers at the trial is admisible under the circumstances, but they hold that the perenniality of the tie is prejudicial to the good order of a well dressed man. The observers are willing to concede, however, that the collar, to which the ornament is attached, has been supplanted many times by similar pieces of linen.
Representative Reid was asked by one of the observers, bluntly: "Why don't you wear another tie?"
The Illinois Congressman, whom Col. Mitchell has charged is a disappointment to him because he possesses no humor, replied, characteristically: "If I put on a new tie, somebody would accuse me of taking a fee."

[[?]] - 11/14/25    Off for Luncheon
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL PHOTO
MRS. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Colonel "Billy," Mrs. Frank Reid and her husband, Representative Frank Reid, civilian defense counsel; (back row), Mrs. F. G. Plain, wife of Judge Plain and General E. E. Booth, jury member, leaving the court at noon recess, all luncheon bound.