The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-04-09

Speaker LongwOrth's body will (. be taken directly to Cincinnati
 fer family funeral there at
 ? o'clock Saturday afternoon.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Apr. 9.-Flags were at half staff i 15 minutes after the death of i Speaker Longworth this fore
 noon.
 President Hoover dispatched
 Col. Campbell Hodges, his Mill
 itary Aide, to Ai:xen, by air
 plane, to assis. Cars. Longworth.
 AITKEN, North Carolina, April 9.-Nicho.as Longworth, Speaker of the National House of Repre- sentatives, died this morning at 10:49 o'clock. His amazing vital- ity, physicians said, alone kept him alive during the night and until his death. Longworth became i'll last Monday with pneumonia, which affected one lung.
 Mrs. Longworth the former Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the former President Theodore Roosevelt, and a friend, Mrs. James F. Curtis, at whose home MT. Longworth died, were at the bedside. His daughter, Paulina, was not with him.
 Forty-eight hours after the di- sease was diagnosed, physicians admitted MT. Longworth's condi- tion was desperate.
 Hoover's Coincidence
 A message from President Hoo- yer said: Speaker Nicholas Long, worth contributed greatly to the welfare of the American people during more than 8 years of serv- ice"
 No funeral arrangements have yet been arranged.
 Nicholas Longworth was round- ing out his 20th year as a member of the House of Representatives when he was selected in 1925 by his Republican colleagues, who he'd safe majority for the 68th Con- gross, as their candidate for Speak, CT.
 This honor came after a steady push toward the top through the various stages of apprenticeship as 6 boy" representative from Ohio, distinguished service on the powerful Ways and Means Com mittee, and one term as the ma jority floor leader. It also assured Ohio, which had furnished the Union seven presidents, It's first Speaker, since the early eighties when General J. Warren Keller wielded the gavel the first Ohioan to preside over the House.
 Born With Wealth
 Born with wealth and position on November 5, 1869 in Cincin- nati, his home ever since, MT. Longworth, after attending Frank lin school there, was graduated in 1891 from Harvard He spent one year in Harvard Law School, then transferred to the Cincinnati Law graduating from that in- stitution in 1894.
 Although admitted to the bar, he did not practice to any extent. Instead he became interested in civic affairs, and soon was im- mersed in politics in the city over which Boss" Cox then held sway. Despite his persistent inclination to remain regular" in political controversies, he declined to take i dictation from the Cox organiza- i, ton, and never was identified | closely with 1t.
 After serving as member of the Cincinnati school board, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. Later he became a member of the Ohio Senate, serving there with Warren G. Harding and forming a friendship with the future President which continued until MT Harding's death.
 Elected to Congress
 Elected to the 58th congress in 1902, when only B years of age, 1 MT. Longworth first served as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Later he was assigned :, to the Ways and Means Commit tee which has initial jurisdiction over tariff and revenue legisla- ton. Applying himself to close study of revenue and tariff prob