The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1924, Page 1

) { i | « { Li WEATHER FORECASTS Generally Thursday. fair tonight and Warmer Thursday. ESTABLISHED 1873 DAY, MAY 14, i eee THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK. » NORTH 1 DAKOTA, WED | FINALEDITION _| ee PRICE FIVE CENTS THREE CHILDREN DIE IN HOME FIRE STATE'S HOME _ BUILDERS LOSS BRINGS TAXES Tax Now Being Eevied Not Sufficient, and Is Likely To Be Continued HOW, LOSS IS FIGURED $240,000 Now Levied to Make Up Deficit in Four Years By Taxation ‘The sins of the Home Building As- sociation of North Dakota, one of the state-owned industries, will be visited on the taxpayers of the siate probably longer than was #xpected when the legislature dec’ to close up the business." Taxpa now are contributing one-twentieth of a mill of their taxes to meeting the deficit in this enterprise, but the amount of money which will be rais- ed by this tax for the four years it was imposed by the legislature }.ro- bably will not be sufficient to meet the deficit. The next legislature is likely to be asked to continue the tax to further reduce the deficit. The tax provided by the legislature was calculated to raise about $60,000 a year for four years, and the deficit was estimated at about $250,000. The tax is being collected this year, and \ * reports show that $54,456.68 is realiz- ed from the tax. The great difficulty faced by the Industrial Commission in winding up ) the business, and the difficulty which is likely to make the deficit greater than optimistic legislators figured it, is that the Industrial Commission cannot by: clever “horse trades” or plain business get any more out of a large number of houses built by the association than the supreme court decided it could get. One of the bones of contention when the Home Building Association was the center of state politics, was the contention on the part of Inde- pendents that the law provided no house could be built costing more than $5,000, while the Nonpartisan administration held that this was not the correct:interpretation. However, District Judge Thomas Pugh, nomin- ated by Nonpartisans, and the su- preme court, when it got through with the case, left the Industrial Commission with an order to deliver to any person to whom an estimate, or verbal contract, was given that his hous¢ ould not cost more than $5,000, the house at the estimated pric \ Settled At Estimate There were 18 houses built which the state-owned enterprise estimators said would cost less than $5,000, Al- Athough some of these houses actu- ally cost the state $2,000 to $4,000 more than the estimate, the Indus- trial Commission must deliver the house at the estimated price. For example, one house in Fargo was es- _ timated to cost $4,700. It actually + cost $7,572.67. The state is forced to deliver'the house for $4,700, there- by losing $2,872.67 in addition to ad- ministration cost in the liquidating process. Another house of the same class was estimated to cost $4,700 and actually cost $7,712.00. These houses are worth more than $4,700, according to the appraisement, but under the court decision the Indus- trial Commission must deliver the houses at the original figure, so that in each case the home buyer is pro- fiting from $1,000 to $1,500 by the mistakes of the Home Building As- sociation employes. The Industrial Commission is pro- ceeding as rapidly as possible to curry out the orders of the legisla- ture to liquidate the Home Building Association business. To date 23 of the 50 houses left on the comm sion’s hands, with home buyers in them and no price fixed, have been settled. Excepting where the com- mission was forced to deliver the houses at the original price, the set- tlement price has been that of ap- praisers, The commission was faced by the problem,of getting the most possible out of the houses. Under the court decision the home buyer could turn the house back and de- mand the money paid in, but most of them have been willing to accept the houses at a fair appraised value. Houses Settled With the deficit of the association listed at approximately $215,005 at present, it is apparent that finai set- tlements will carry the figure to $300,000 or more, or almost $6,000 a house, The Association built or sold 53 houses and a barn, The Associa- tion had an appropriation of $100,000. The logs on houses settled for is at present as follows Fargo—J. W. Boeing, $4,778.64; C. L. Sonquist, $2,- 386.80; W. O. Folendorf, $3,487.96; Edgar Potter, $2,042.85; Fred Wim- mer, $1,829.33; J. T. Erickson, $1,- 927.65; Nels Anderson, $2,337/69; C, O. Borg, $3,318.47; A. C."Seely-——; Bismarck—C. S, Fossum, $2,453.15; A, Svendsgaard, $2,387.96; J. B. Hol- lenbeck, $2,991.26; J. N. Hagan, $4,- 014.52; T. J. Taylor, $2,465.64; A. J. Arnot, $2,879.77; Dr. G. R. Lipp, $5,- 125.36; George Wallace, $3,706.99; O. S. Jacobson, $2,097.04; Mandan—B. L, Surface, $2,393.10; A. J. .Peterson, 152.91; Anton, Finz, $2,710.57; W. BMurry, $2,067.26, ‘Phe average loss is $2,699.31, which is less than the average los& on houses in cases where the Industrial Commiasion was without any discre- tion, t] ‘ Patricia Edwina, infant Mountbatten, posed for her Chapel ‘Royal, Savoy, England. in the world, has the Prince of Wale SUNYAT SEN, NOTED CHINESE’. FIGURE, DIES Became First President of China—Called George Wash- ington of the East pictur HAD MANY DIFFI LTIES ja’ | Dr. cuth Hong Kong, China, } Sun Yat’Sen, president of the China government, is dead. tatesmen, known more ups and victories and defeats, more loyal hery than Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the first provisio president of China, frequently ¢: “the Father of the Republi Few if any present, have downs, more past or often referred to the “George Washington of the Far East.” The name of Dr. Sun fi gan to appear in newspapers of the West- ern World back in the late 80's, when his vigorous pronouncements against his arch-enemies, the dynastic Man- chu Empero' China, attracted | some slight a n. He was then living in the Hawaiian Islands with his widowed mother, who had mi- grated to Honolulu with her husband, an agent of a Christian mi on, when Sun Yat Sen was an infant. Since 1895, however, when he essay- ed the first of his many revoluticns, his name has become almost as well known to the Occident as it js to the 400 million Chinese nationals on be- half of whom he spent a lifetime of unremitting hardship and constant danger. Dr. Sun was’ twice named to the highest constitutional office in China —the first time in the Fall of 1911, when he was proclaimed the first provisional president of the Chinese Republic, and again in May, 1921,/ when he was elected Presidert#of all| China, Preceding his first election the Chinese people, rising in their wrath against centuries of bad government under the monarchial Manchu and previous dynasties, \ overthrew the existing government and set up republic, naming as president Dr. Sun, who was understood to have en- gincered the uprising. All of South China and most of the Yang-tse pro- vinees were thus brought under” a single banner emblazoned with the principles of republicanism. Beginning Of End The strongest man in North China at that time was Yuan Shih-kai, Gov- ernor of Chi-li Province. Determin- ed that the country should be united, under one leader, Dr. Sun, after es- tablishing what might be termed an experimental government in the South, resigned in favor of Yuan} Shih-kai. This marked the begin- ning of the end as far as Sua's in- fant republic was. concerned, for while Yuan Shih-kai was strong enough to guide the ship of state, he likewise had personal ambitions cen- tered in a new dynasty. 2 daughter The child, | State Compilsaion and heiress of Lord and Lad e just before being christened probably the richest baby es for godfather. SAYS FARMERS ARE NOT BROKE N.D., May 14, orth Dakota are not enerally believed in but on the majority Grand Fork Farmers of } “broke” as some quarters hand while the hard circumstance other are in re rying on” and figh odds according to Rex Willard, farm st of the stat ricultural college who was in Grand Fork Mr. Willard was county agent her s ago. sing, with further fication methods i ushy a more profitable method than one crop farming he declared. He bases his statement partly on evi- dence in four townships of Foster county where farmers raising live- stock about $4,000 better off than their neighbors who do not ‘keep livestock. ADDRESSES FOR ‘CAMPAIGN ARE NOW ARRANGED For in ‘ventative Schedule Ca Governor to Open Jamestown, May 21 Governor Nestos wilt be asked to open his campaign speaking tour at smestown on May 21, under ten~ ative plans announced today by W. H. Stutsman, campaign manager of the Real Republican organization. Other tentative speaking dates ar- ranged for the Governor include Mil- |g. nor, Thursday, May 22 and Enderlin Friday, May 23, these to be night ad- dresses. Some afternoon addresses also will be made at place yet u - decided. The Governor also will make com- mencement addresses at Enderlin ‘and Wyndmere. REDUCTION OF RATES ASKED . Joins Western Livestock Case North Dakota will intervene in and join complainants in the case in which western interests have com- bined to seek a 25 percent reduction ir railroad freigh€ rates on live stock, E. M. Hendricks, traffic ex- pert of the state railroad commis- sion, said toda: The case, instituted by the Ameri- can National Livestock Association and others, affects all railroads west of Chicago, Mr. Hendricks said. The ccmplainants ask that all increase riade since general order number 28 of the US. railroad administra- Having tasted constitutional free- (Continuea on page 3) Jap Workers’ : May Organize Tokio, May 14.—The largest labor organization in Japan, expected to include 50,000 workers in govern- ment arsenals, ‘is now in process of formation, to be known as the Go- vernment Workers’ General Federa- tion. The organization will hold its inaugpral meeting in Tokio on May Day, the holiday of labor, according to present plans. tion on June 25, 1918, be abolished, making a reduction of approxima- tely 25 precent. The complainants also ask for abo- lition of accessorial charges, such as switching in yards. and feeding end watering, Mr. Hendricks said. The .case has not yet been ‘set for hearlng by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Ry GS BOBBED HAIR PASSE SOON ‘Cleveland, May 14.— Prediction that bobbed hair will be passe in another year wag made by leaders ‘of the Ohio Hairdressers’ associa- tiom at its annual demonstration there last night. ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE DRIVES ON 2.75 BEER Wayne Wheeler, Counsel, Says Bootleggers Petition to Congress Is “Fake” DENOUNCES METHODS Also Declares 2.75 5 Per Cent Beer Could Not be Legal- ized in Many States Washington, May petition from the ‘“Bootleggers Union of America” protesting modi- fication of the Volstead act to per- mit sale of 2.75 percent beer, was assailed today by Wayne B. Wheeler, general coungel for the Anti-Saloon League, before the House judiciary committee as ‘a sample of the lengths the opposition goes to make people believe that prohibition is a failure He branded the petition 14,—A__ recent Wheeler told the committee, which resumed hearings on bills proposing modifieation of the prohibition laws that there “never has been as deter- mined and wide-spread an effort by bootleggers of beer, rum runners, bre d their allies, to discredit any policy of government, as that used to break down the enforcement of prohibition.” The beer bill, if enacted, he as- serted would mean “multiplied mi lions to brewers whose silence is ally when others plead Beer of 2.75 percent is no cure for lawlessness, he declared, and to amend the law to permit the sale of this beverage “will feed the appe- tite which is the use of evil.” He predicted the sale of beer would 4 seitore the saloon or its counter- and frustrate the purpose of pr hibition. n if the law were enacted,” he said, “it could not legalize the sale of 2.75 percent beer in three- fourths or more of the states where it is prohibited by state law. The appeal is based upon appetites and supported ‘by avarice. Americans will not swap the constitution for a nye of bee: THRIFT COSTS HIM ARREST Decision to Make Own “Hootch” Brings Action Practicing thrift may prove costly to Jack Petefer, residing on South Tenth street. Petefer, according to States At- torney Allen, told him he had been buying “home brew” and decided to become thrifty and make it himself, thereby saving money. He found a coil in a sack, thrown away by some. one, and rigged it up to a boiler. He was stewing the stuff when local po- lice arrested him, according to the officers, He waived examination and was bound to district court. Ellsworth Finlayson was with Pete- fer at the time, the states attorney said. Charges have not been prefer- red against him 4 coed | Weather Report | - a For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. Temperature at 7 a, m, . 38 Highest yesterday Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation Highest wind velocity WEATHER FORECASTS For Bismarck and vicinity: Gener- ally fair tonight and Thursday. Warmer Thursday. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Thursday. | Warmer Thursday and northwest portion to- night. Probably light frost tonight in southwest portion. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure remains low east of the Mississippi River and light pre- cipitation occurred in the Great Lakes region, upper Mississippi Val- ley and in eastern North and Scuth Dakota. Precipitation also occurred in Oklahoma and Texas. The pres- sure is high along the northeastern Rocky Mountain slope and generally fair weather prevails from the Mis- souri Valley westward and south- westward to the Pacific Coast, An- other low pressure area has appear- ed in the Canadian Northwest. 'Tcm- peratures are still slightly below normal from the Mississippi Valley westward to the Rocky Mountain re- gion and killing frost occurred in parts of northwestern North Dakota. North Dakota Corn and Wheat Re- gion Summary For the week ending May 18, 1924. Weather conditions during the past week were unfavorable for both farm work and for the germination and growth of grain due to cold, windy and wet weather. Seeding of all grains except flax is nearly com- pleted and some flax has been sown. Plowing for corn id mostly done and corn planting is well under way. Ear- ly-sown grain is up to-good stand and color, Pastures and ranges are good to .éxcellent, although growth was slow during the past week on ac- count of the cool weather. HUGHES DENIES J becoming CONNECTION IN SALE OF SHIP Secretary of State Answers Criticism Growing Out of Sale of Seized Liner ACTED AS .A_ LAWYER Secretary Says His Connee- tion With Matter Ended Before He Became Official Washington, May 14.—Secret Hughes today declared to be “al lutely false” the statement that “had anything to do with the stes ship Martha Washington to its form er owners by the shipping board.” In a formal statement, prompted by the reading of correspondence before the House shipping board in-+ vestigating committee in which Sec- Hughes was said to have ap: peured for the former owners before retary of State, Mr. Hughes declared he had nothing to do with the subject since entering the cabinet. Rep. Davis, Democrat, Tennessee, yesterday read the correspondence as well as records of hearings by the House merchant marine com- mittee to show that Mr, Hughes, in December, 1920, three months before he b me Secretary of State was active as counsel for the Trieste Corporation to have title’ of the ship, seized from Austria during the war, transferred back that company. He also produced a resolution of the shipping board two years later under which the ship wi sold for $60,000 to the corporation, after the board has’ been advised by the state department that the Trieste Com- was then Italian owned through annexation of Trieste. to “The statement that I had any- thing to do with the sale of the Martha Washington,” Secretary Hughes said in his statement today, “is absolutely I have nothing to do with this matter since I became Secretary of State. “In 1920 when | was practising law an before I had any idea of becom- Secretary of State, 1 was con- stlied by the attorney of the Italians who claimed the vessel. 1 beiieved their claim was a just one and took the matter up. While the vessel had been seized by this government be- cause she flew the Austrian flag -she belonged to Trieste and a corporation organized and owned by _ Italians. When Trieste went to Italy the cor- poration was recognized by Italy as an Italian corporation and the Ital- ians sought return of the vessel. “The question was whether the government should really confiscate a vessel which really belonged to its false, FRAZIER DOESN’T KNOW WHAT CAUSED AUTO CRASH; MEMORY FOR 5 DAYS GONE Driver of Car Says It Was in 1 Gaod Mechanic. Having Been in Garage Ju He al Condition, lriv—Both and Sorlie Much Better st Before ov Frazier of Crosby, member of side of his head, the bridge of his League State exe-| nose is bande ged, his ankle which an rivet Of Tel saemined’ ig inleele iOS andl mobile which was wrecked north | WS Spramed is Ughtly bound, and resulting in the} he bears may body bruises, death of B.F, nd the serious | Frazier denied a report that he nad injury to A. G. Sorlie and Mr. Fra-| been informed that the steering gear zier, docs not know how the acei-|of his car was out of order before dent happened he left Bismarck and that he refused “[ remember noticing fpsinn About| to have it fixed? He suid! he hud tak: two miles from where the accident | en his car te age, told them to happened,” snid Frazier in the hos-| put new brake bands on it and pital here today. “It gresemblew «| straighten a bumper, but that the railroad crossing sign, but there was! steering gear was in good order, He no railroad there, and Mr. Baker, Mr.|is himself a mechanic, he said, do- Sorlie and myself commented on] ing most of his repair work. Hew this. That's all I remember until fast the party was going he does not last Thursday here in the hospital.| know. The road had been dragyred I have been told things T inthe} out of Steele and they were going meantime which sound r but | slong at a ood rate of speed, he T have no recollection of them. said. Frazier, whose skull was fractured,] A, G. Sorlie is also recovering has recovered rapidly, He is able! rapidly and able to sit up in bed, al to be about, and will go home this! though visitors have “bebn barred, week, He is badly battered up, his! He enjoys an occasional cigar smoke, head being bandaged where his skull] Roth men have received many was fractured, on the right, front, flowers during their illn LOOT SECURED EHR PROPOSED FOR N. D. SENATE Minot, N. D, May 14.—The Ward IN BANK SAID county democratic legislative com- mittee appointed by Chairman Chart Barton of Lone Tree at a cent meeting of the county commit- tec, met Minot and indorsed a ticket headed by John as candidate for state y from the 29th district. In in TO BE $18,000 Than Greater at First aie cond legislative district the! Thought — Search Fails to only indorsement made was Wil- liam G. Riebe of Carpio for state] Reveal Trace of Robbers representative. poten, eee, Wert, Geis] “Fargo, May 14—No further trace tianson, Sawyer, Noel” D. Welty,| had been discovered last night of Sawver and Fred L. Anderson, Mi.| the unmasked robbers, three to five in number, who Monday night wreck- since $60,000 was taken from a For- est River, N. D. bank on May 1919, the yeggs cut all wires leading into the town, made prisoner one of its residents, smashed through the brick wall of the vault, blew the safe with nitroglycerin and escaped in a toufing car, taking about $3,800 in cash and more than $14,000 in Lib- erty bonds. After an early morning and day of combing the Minnesota roads rvn- ning south and east of Abercrombie the search was continued last night by local authorities in the neighbor- hood of Minnesota towns in “the Graceville vicinity east and south of Wahpeton, county seat of Richland county, in which Abercrombie is lo- not, were indorsed as candidates r oy the office of state represent- ed the ult and safe of the State ative. bank of Abercrombie, N. D,- and es- fence = caped with $18,000 in cash and Liber- . ty bonds. UPHELD AGAIN IN COMMONS Labor Government Sustained on Motion Made by Con- servative Leader London, The labor gov- ernment again came out victorious in the house of commons last night, associate in the war. My connection with the matter ended before I be- came Secretary of State.” RUN OVER BY TRACTOR; LIVES Presence of Mind Saves Bur- leigh County Farmer Ernest Burbage was seriously in- jured in the Glencoe neighborhood last Friday when he fell and was run over by a tractor with which he was plowing, according to word from the Glencoe-Livona correspondent of The Tribune. He was working on the tractor, as it was moving along, when his foot slipped and he fell. One front wheel passed over his left arm, breaking a bone just above the wrist, and bruising ‘his shoulders badly. The bones in ‘his left foot also were torn apart. He had pre- sence of mind, to turn himself under the tractor to escape the drive wheels, and then by getting hold of the engine pulled himself out of the way of the plows, after the tractor had passed over him, the report says. He managed to get home with the tractor before he obtained medical aid. He is now in a hospital. BUILD BRIDGE AT GRAND FORKS Grand Forks, May 14.—A fixed- span bridge to replace the present drawspan ‘bridge across the Red River between Grand Forks and East Grand Forks, Minn, is planned by the Great Northeyn railroad this summer, according to infonmation given out Monday by divisional officials. Tite estimated gross cost of the project is $44,000. Work on the structure is expect- ed to begin some time next month and is expected to be completed in about two months. Traffic over the bHidge will not be stopped during the work officials’ state. NO CONFERENCE TO BE CALLED London, May 14. (By the A. P.)-— Prime Minister MacDonald told a questioner in the House of Commons today that he would not consider calling a conference, including the United States, on the inter-allied war flebt, until conciusions have been reached regarding the issues raised by the report of the expert commit- tees. when the conservative motion, moved by former Premier Stanley Baldwin, for retention of the McKenna duties, which Premier MacDonald had ac- cepted as a motion of censure, was rejected by a vote of 317 to The debate on the motion was a most exclusively devoted to the au- tomobile indust and the effect the removal of the duties would have on unemployment in that field. On the whole, the proceedings were de- void of excitement and great stretch- cated. Tires Are Clue Study of the tire tread left by the car, used by the robbers, made pos- sible the following of their trail ly yesterday to a point south of aceville on the road toward Or- tonville, where the trail disappeared. Sheriff R. V, McMichael of Wahpe- ton said last evening that he b lieved the men had lain low during the day and would again start out last night. Cs eh nenches Wee AES, ae sev- | “He based his estimate of five men ER . a ~|number would have been needed in servatives solidly supporting the an operation of the magnitude of the ee, Et Pate ies Grassi Abercrombie job. He also declared sere liberals voted” with the con-| Mis belief that the job had been pull- ed by clever and experienced yeggs. The tires by which the automobile was tracked were a Royal cord on the right rear wheel and a Goodyear Allweather tire on the left rear wheel. N. D. PRINTING CONTRACTS LET Most of Work Will Be Done in Bismarck servatives, and not a laborite voted against the government. Mr. Baldwin, launching an attack upon the proposal of Phillip Snow- den, chancellor of the exchequer, said that the repeal of the McKenna duties was one of the most stupid things ever attempted in this coun- try, He compared it to shoving a swimmer back into the water after, by a hard struggle to save himself from drowning, he had just succeed- ed in getting his feet on the bank. He was certain that it was going to aggravate unemployment, put more men on: the dole and encourage American dumping. “BAD” SPOTS IN CITY SHOWN Clean-up Reports Are Made By the Boy Scouts Tle state printing and publication commission yesterday —_afternoun awarded contracts for state printing for the next biennium. The awards were made on the basis of the low- est bids. The result means that most of tne work will be done in Bismarck, in the two years from January 1, 1924, whereas most of it is now done in | Fargo. } Fourth and fifth lasses, compris. ing printing of session laws and the miscellaneous printing, respectively, the fifth class being the largest con- tract, were awarded to the Bismarck Tribune Company. First and seeond classes, embracing the legislative printing, were awarded to the Quick Print of Bismarck and Mandan and third class, comprising biennial re- ports, was awarded to ge Knight Printing Company of Fa ‘Clean-up reports rolled into the Association of Commerce offices today. They came from Boy Scort! troops, who gave their services in inspecting the city and listing the “bad” places. From these reports. officials of the Clean-Up ‘and Paint-Up cam-! paign will show the unclean places! in ithe city on a big map, by use of} tacks of different colors. The map will be exhibited in a downtown window, and the unsightly places will be shown to passers-by. Although Clean-U» and Paint-Up week was retarded somewhat by thé cool weather, the committee helieves that a great deal of splen- did work was done by citizens in helping to make Bismarck a clean and healthy city for the summer". Monthly inspections will be held,' ers. Aecording to the latest report and efforts made fo have all un-| the whaling industry during the sighitly places made clean during| last. season yielded products valued the spring and summer months. at 70,000,000 crowns. Norway Leads _ In Whaling Christiania, is now the leading country in the world as regards ,the whaling trade, with 30 companies employing 4,000 work- GIRL, 12 YEARS OLD, BURNT IN RESCUE EFFORT Dropping of Oil Lamp Causes Minnesota Fire Fatal » Three MAKE ME ESCAPE Father Unable to Reenter House to Rescue Two Tots Sleeping There Bemidji, Minn. May 14.—Three children were bur to death when fire destroyed their home early to- day, one of them a car-old girl, {dying ina proie attempt to save her two younger brothers. The three were the children of Mr. and Mrs. Enevild Stangeland of Ny suburb of Bemidji, and the that caused their death also injured cther members of the family who tried to rescue them or put out the fire. The dead are Anna, aged 12; Mel vin, aged 11 and Mr. angeland, a. om. started down light a fire in the heating stove. Just he reached the bottom of the stairs the lamp he was carrying exploded, enveloping the room in flames, Calling a warning to his family upstairs, Stangeland sought to put out the flames, his wife joining him in this effort. Meanwhile Anna and orman iving: 230 the stairs to another child—a boy had fled from the building. When Melvin and Norman failed to appear, Anna rushed back into the house, heedless of the warning shout from her father, — struggled up the collapsing. stairs and died with her brothers when flames cut off their escape. Besides the boy who fled from the building with Anna, three other children escaped, one boy jumping from un upper story window. He wa — seriously bruised and is in the hospital here but attending surgeons said he would recover. The six members of the family who escaped—the parents and four children—hid only their night «: and lost allother clothing and fects in the fire, which left the family destitute.’ The father is a labo lives in Noi A married h Dakota. COOLIDGE IN NEW EFFORT ON JAP EXCLUSION Fight to Have Effective Date Postponed Is Resumed in Washington daughter Washington, ay 14.—Further steps were taken by the administra- tion today to obtain the postpone- ment of Japanese exclusion. With the immigration bill embody- ing the exclusion provision pending final action ‘in the House, Presi- dent Coolidge called into conference at the White House Secretary Hughes and the ranking House lead- ers of both parties, The President is understood to have presented again the administra- tion's view that Japanese exclusion should be postponed until diplometic negotiations can be conducted with Japan. The basis for the adminis- tration’s anxiety over the matter was set forth to the House members by Secretary Hughes, UNDERWOOD MEN QUIT Give Delegates From Ken- tucky to McAdoo Lexington, Ky.. 3 14.—With- drawal of the presidential candidacy of Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama from the prospective con- test with William G. McAdoo tor the Kentucky delegation in the state De- mocratic convention today was an- neuned by Underwood managers. “In the interest of party success” was the reason given. The decision, according to McAdoo managers, gave the former treasury secretary unchallenged claim to Ken- tucky’s 26 votes in the national con- vention and forecast adoption of a unit’ rule by the state convention. DEMANDS VOTE ON POWER PLAN * Washington, May 14.—Demand was made on the floor of the Senate to-. day by Senator Shielas, Democrat, Tennessee, and Heflin,, Democrat, Alabama,.for a vote en a measure to develop Muscle Shoals at this session of Congres Chairman Norris of the agricul: ture committee, which has the que: tion under consideration, replied that he favored a yote at this ses- sion, and said no Errore was" being made to prevent one. %