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Show "contempt" of the people of Michigan over hifi son's exemption. FUND'S EXEMPTION SUBJECT OF ATTACK WASHINGTON, July 15. Exemption from military service of Edsel Ford, son of the Detroit automobile manufacturer, was the subject of an attack in the senate sen-ate today by. Senator Sherman of Illinois, Illi-nois, Republican, who said young Ford whs - "a presidential pet" and had been saved from serving in the army by an abuse of executive power. The Illinois senator asserted that as a member of the committee considering the Ford-Newberry senatorial contest he had asked Secretary Baker for a copy of the proceedings in the Ford ex amp ti on proceedings, but that the request had been denied on the ground that the hearings were not a public record. Mr. Sherman said he desired to establish estab-lish that Henry Ford had been defeated in the senatorial election because of the |