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Show MUST BE EXECUTED ON A RESERVATION TV ASHING TON, March 10 Treasury Treas-ury department officials today declined to" permit the custodian of public buildings build-ings at Spokane to use -the roof of the federal building there as a location for a scaffold for the execution of Edward Mavbrrrv, sentenced to die March 20 bv the federal court. Capital punish-I punish-I ment being forbidden in Washington, a federal reservation is the only phire where the man could be executed. The request had b'en referred i.o the attorney attor-ney general, but today, without waiting Lu iuar from Uc dearlmcDt uf justice, Acting Secretary Newton "absolutely! declined" to grant the authority re-j quested, on humanitarian grounds. |