Show f I ILLNESS FATAL irs ir's j Go Gay Gov Fred B. B Balzar Baizar DEATH CLOSES HALlAR CAREER Never Defeated Since Entry Into Nevadas Nevada's P Political 1 Arena in 1907 CARSON CITY Nev March 22 UP UP-A UP A col colorful rul political career career which had carri carried d an time old western west ern era stage driver to to the thc highest office e of his home state was ended t today da with the death of ot Governor Fred crick erIck Bennett Balzar 54 famed am d libe liberal lib lib- e eral al leader of Nevada n Balz Balzar's rs r's policies a are expected to tobe be continued by his his sti successor r. r Lie Lieutenant Lieuten te ant t i Ra G GoVernor y t i ld R nb Griswold assumed the du duties duties du- du ties of ot the governorship immediately upon Balzar's Balzar death late y yesterday in inthe inthe the executive exe mansion here Known wn as s Fr Fred d t to every ery one of his its constituents B Balzar was ns a liberal wet Republican who had never met defeat in his contests for public off office ice I since he entered the political arena areia in n 1907 S' S His policies policies' found in his ready approval l of f the easy Sy divorce di v vorce and wd wide open gambling laId aid before I him by y the Nevada legislature legis legis- lature in 1931 Illness had d quieted d. d the he l late te gover goves governors governor's PV nors nor's activity during the last last six months Physicians said he Buffered sUffered from rom a long Jang condition Soon after his his' lis return from Los Angeles where he le had sought treatment treatment he became bedfast ledfast at nt his official home h here rc Four Fou da days ago he lapsed int into a coma Balzar Baizar was born in Vi gini City Nev Nc site silo of the famous Comstock lod ode lode He worked as a stage driver a b butcher a miner and a railroader r before his election to the state lc legislature legis- legis iS- iS lature in 1907 Thereafter he lic fol fol- towed owed political life serving as state senator and Mineral county o nty sheriff before his elect election on in 1927 to the gov cov In that office he succeeded succeed succeed- Cd ed James now Nevada Nevada's lone one member of ot house of representatives |