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Show ! PRESIDENT HEARS PLEA Stay of Execution for Sixty Days Is Granted Grant-ed in Goodwin Case Washington, March 13. 'An unueu-1 unueu-1 ally long list of callorB had engagements engage-ments with the preBldont. He talked ftrst with Senators Martin and Swan-ion Swan-ion of Virginia about the appointment jtf .Robert M Woolley a8 an assistant Secretary of the treasury 1 Representative Johnson of Spartan-JbrXTS, Spartan-JbrXTS, 8. C, followed with an appeal to the president to grant a respite In Jtbe caBe of John B Goodwin, Ben- Kaiced to be executed tomorrow at lobe Ariz.., for a homicide committed hn an Indian reservation The president presi-dent granted a stay of fiO days so that Goodwin's relatives In South Carolina, fwfro. it appears, have Just been ap-Jprlsed ap-Jprlsed of the oaee, may make a thorough thor-ough inquiry It was his first enten-ion enten-ion of executlre clemency, i The president aiso talked with Senators Sen-ators Smith and Townsend of Michigan Michi-gan about the appointment of former iReproeentative Edward S Sweet of Grand Rapids as an assistant secretary secre-tary of commerce The principal engagement for which tiie president reserved a longer time was that with National Chairman Wil-Hmd Wil-Hmd McCombs Mr. McCombs had en offered the po6t of ambassador to France and It was said his decision to accept or decline would bo made IfliowT) today |