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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fog 6 the stars and stripes Friday july 10/1959 House group gets disputed afford votes Washington up two armed guards have delivered3,000 to 4,000 disputed ballots in the Alford Hays Arkansas con Gressional election to the House elections subcommittee. Chairman Robertt. Ashmore . Said committee members hoped to agree at a closed door meeting on procedures for inspect ing them. The ballots were carried to a locked hearing room from the sergeant at arms office. They had been under his Safe keeping since they arrived by mail last week. Subcommittee sources said the ballots May play an important role in determining whether Dale Al Ford an avowed segregationist is entitled to his House seat. Alfordson last november s election by 1,256 votes Over Veteran Brooks Hays a moderate on the school integration Issue. Inspection later the subcommittee did not planto inspect the ballots but hoped to formulate plans for doing so. The ballots were selected by the subcommittee and its staff for further inspection during a spot Check in Arkansas. The subcommittee during that inspection rejected some of the remaining ballots As invalid. But it has refused to make any announce ment of what its partially completed recount  campaigned As a segregationist attacking Hays Moder ate stand on the racial Issue. Gov. Orval Faubus backed the Alfor write in movement but it takes a fictitious decision court rejects Chessman bid san Francisco up con vict author Caryl Chessman Mappe Legal Maneu vers in his death Row cell in the face of a new Rebuff by the California supreme court in his 11-year fight to escape the san Quentin Gas Cham Ber. The court unanimously affirmed the two death sentences of the 3fr.yearrold prisoner. He was condemned for two convictions of kid Nap rape under California s Littlewind Ergh  the supreme court decision be comes final in 30 Days. Then it goes to Superior court in los Angeles where the Date of execution will be set 30 to 60 Days from the Date of its hearing. Execution Date could be in late october or Early november. Chessman now has 15 Days under Law to file for a rehearing of the state supreme court which then will have 15 Days to Grant Ordeny it. Lawmakers manage to tie teeters in spell Bee Washington up three congressmen engaged in a spelling Bee with three teen agers. It ended in a draw sort of. Bee officials As rattled As the three Long ago schoolboys at first declared rep. Ken Hechler . Had won for the lawmakers. Hechler a balding pm. D. And former professor had slowed through Geranium Abdomen fallacious Centennial Melan Choly camouflage Rhododendron tercentenary and skin  but it turned out that one of the three teen age girls Mary Mcfarlin a 14, of Ukiah Calif., had t muffed fictitious after All a originally ruled. She spelled it correctly but the judge s guide list of words had it  the error was Dis covered in a later Check. In that Case i guess Well have to declare it a draw decide judge Matthew Nimetz. Techler s two colleagues reps. Jeffery Cohelan a Califa for Mer Fulbright scholar at Oxford and Clement w. Miller a Calif were eliminated earlier. Cohelan put an extras in  Miller spelled Tonsillectomy with one  the two other teen age entries in the contest arranged by the Santa Rosa Calif chamber of Commerce were Carolyn Storts 14, of Gualia Calif., and Valerie Turner 13, of Petaluma Calif. Carolyn hobbled Seismograph by beginning it with a  Valerie tried to spell tercentenary with an Ery on the end. The youngsters winners of the Redwood Empire spelling contest conducted by the Santa Rosa Calif press Democrat challenged the congressmen after they trounced a group of Santa Rosa businessmen. Besides the inconclusive finish the Bee boasted other features which would have been frowned on by any self respecting spell Down. For one Miller was allowed to take an unheard of second try at one of his  he spelled it first with one a but was allowed to Correct himself. The Bee also skipped quickly from round one to round four and then to round eight when pro bouncer William Duddleson was nudged about the press of con Gressional time. Trooping the family line water Sun conspire to set automobile afire Bay City Mich. Up a l Jug of water set an automobile on  
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