| Show Huey Longs Long's Death Brings t Plans 0 of Foes for Battle Artist Sketches Terrifying S' S Assassination Scene r Si f t t I f r frY r f F 4 wl J y 4 3 1 Jr y 4 I g 4 k my l z t 1 f r rJ J rs y f f Y d Jv r T rr r r F f box rt y t A Y 1 1 Y l' l N y r Y iF yr t I 4 4 4 Vr V M r Y rAl l Y d p 5 b j. 4 a i i r l I. I r- r Cf Sketch ketch ket h by y E E. H. H G Grinder Gunder for The Telegram J 1 Jl L tI U rt S rr rJ r Y 1 t s r ri i y r o yd y i t. t St i 4 7 It r r r i r lf 2 s f r x i 1 J Ns r f rA s l E I Above is st's conception of of the terrifying scene as Senator Huey P P. Long grappled with his his' assailant a n moment before ro a fatal bullet tore fore through Longs Long s' s body Y Yin in the first floor corridor of the Louisiana capitol at Baton Rouge The assassin Dr Carl A. A Weiss is shown in the sk sketch tc l as he pulled the trigger and also in inset photo l lower left The lower photo is a recent picture of the late senator with Vit his yi wife e. e 1 Square Dealers Rally to Repeal Dictator Laws La ws Senator Dies of Assassins Assassin's Bullet Ear Early Tuesday Funeral Plans Due W Wednesday Wednes- Wednes edn s. s r I. I day Buri Burial May MayBe Be at Ca Capitol P 1 BATON ROUGE La Sept 10 A 10 A concur concurrent concur concur- rent resolution adopted unanimously today by t the e Louisiana senate J provides f for r burial of or Senator j s Huey Buey P. P Lo Long g o on the grounds of or the state capitol capito J J By United Press BATON ROUGE La Sept 10 Se 10 Senator 10 Senator Hue Huey Y Long w who v van died inthe in the dark hours before dawn today of an assassins assassin's ass bullet t may be buried on the lawn of f the th 5 Louisiana capitol he heb built Formal funeral arrangements will Win be tomorrow Earle J. J Lo Longs Long's gs g's secretary said saia late to today y The I propos proposal 1 to bury Long on the statehouse gro grounds ds awaits family approval Beginning Dg tomorrow at 1 p. p m. m Senator Long g bad body will Ji lie he in n state in in th the rotunda of r memorial hall in the capitol where it itt may be bei viewed Wed red by this friends the berrY announce and citizens of state m ment nt said Only members of lof the family are permitted in the funeral home hoine where Longs Long's body was removed fr from m mOur Our Lady of the Lake sanitarium where the dynamic senator di died d after a hour 30 fig fight ht He was shot Sunda Sunday Y night by Dr Carl A. A Weiss who was slain slam by Long Longs Long's s 's bodyguard Long ong b barely rely was dead dea when his enemies began began- the fight to exterminate his political organization and his his' friends began jockeying to succeed to t the throne The burial of the senators senator's youthful assas assa assassin l sin sin 12 hours earlier was attended attend d by honors which indicated some sections of the Louisiana population already al ea r regarded him as a martyr The time has bas come ome for the people of Louisiana to act and remove themselves from oke of pf this thus dictatorship ship Lee O. O L Lester ster vice president of the Long anti Square Deal assoc association declared within an hour after the death of the senator Lester warned members of the legislature to 2 heed h ed the exam example le of the man vho who has just passed away and repeal the unjust laws now on the he books WARNING TO LEGISLATORS i iThe The Square Dealers claim odd members in in the state But the tile legislators sno should ld be the he first to realize realizes their duty toward to their state It Iti It-is is s their their honor honor bound duty to repeal th the laws pl placed ced upon the te statute books i that make us nothing but slaves The man who wh was vas res responsible p sibl for this has t f pass pas's passed d away J The legislators now can act without v fear fc-ar and trembling ng r F I i. i Should they fail to repeal the unjust laws now 1 upon the books they had best heed the example of of the man who has just jus passed away Lester had ad nO nothing to say regarding plans of I t. t the Square Dealers Dealers' now now th that their principal foe was K dead h 6 It It is is too early to seAk that he said l I It have only just h heard ar l of the senators senator's death and I am am sure sure there has been Ii no plan put forward as yetI yet I I cannot even sa say what w hat form our action actio will take Senator Longs Long's death was signalled b by a n light m i in in the sanitarium window v v flashing off and on Im Immediately mediately n a a door opened d and Abe Shushan stepped 1 into a corridor crowded r ded with Longs Long's political fol i lowers ers Senator Long is is dead he announced Shushan financed Longs Jigs first political cam eam oa en rue late Senator Huey Long Dies Foes FO S Plot Upset of Empire Pau d Pare One and ana is among the Long politicians av awaiting trial on indictments charging income tax frauds FAMILY FAl AT BEDSIDE Over Over- his shoulders was vas heard the tIie hysterical ical sobbing sobbing sobbing sob sob- bing of Mrs Long A moment omen later she appeared inthe in inthe inthe the door on th the arm of her year old daughter laug e Rose who vho was vas eyed dry-eyed serenely composed Next Net from the room the room came Governor O. O K KAllen Allen and Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Governor James Noe then Longs Long's sons Russell Russell Russell Rus Rus- sell 16 arid ard P Palmer lnier Reid 12 then two of his brothers broth broth- ers George and Ea Earl l an and and- two of his si sisters Mrs Stuart Hunt I and Mrs R. R B. B Knott After fter the rel relatives ti es had g. g gone ne neut out out- ut into into the rain rain Governor Allen tears streaming down do his cheeks issued an oral statement that formally eulo eulogized his chief An n hour later the first move in in the scramble for succession was vas reported Governor Allen was vas expected expected expected ex ex- to resign p permitting Lieutenant Gove Governor Noe to succeed him Noe then would appoint Allen Al AI i. i len to succeed to Longs Long's senate n nate te seat Long alternately was vas d delirious and unconscious unconscious in his last night of of life while the best physicians best physicians in Louisiana labored to save him hirn He received five blood transfusions F Four FOu ui tanks of oxygen were vere used Adrenalin and ephedrine were vere injected hypodermically hypodermically cally to o bolster his heart l. l Governor Allen sav saw him three hours before death Move ove over Oscar he he- whispered p th breathe rea e The Th tent was lowered lovered t ga again n and m more oxygen more r oxygen gen pumped into it My university boys he whispered Wl What it vill will happen n to them The he question referred to his interest interest- i iw- iw Louis Louisiana iana State university the beneficiary of expansion and generous appropriations during the seven years he ruled Louisiana He Ie fired the L. L S. S U. U coach who lost too many football games and caused ih the expulsion sion of eight students who ho criticized him in a stu student en newspaper WILL SPITE LAWS LAWS His body still body still was beneath the oxygen tent when A. A A A. Fred Fredericks ricks chairman of the senate finance committee announced that his committee would meet today to r report port his newest nevest group of spite l laws s 's aimed at further suppression of political op Ope op- op Chairman Fredericks One of the spite laws intended to push t toward ward passage win wilt gerrymander Judge Jude B. B H. H Pavy of of- Opelousas out of office Judge of th the assasSin and it it- Pavy is the law father was believed that that I law lW v goaded the sw studious ious youth who had brooded over the qualities of the L Long ng machine machine machine ma ma- chine to his desperate deed Long died in l a room on the second floor of the sanitarium ove overlooking ing th the tiny lake s separating it from the capitol built in his regime as governor when unparalleled expenditures built hundreds of f mites miles of paved roads scores of bridges dozens of p public buildings and lifted the states state's bonded debt from a figure ligure below belov to Longs Long's body will vill lie in state in the rotunda of the capitol Funeral services still were vere indefinite His secretary Earl announced burial probably would be in Winnfield La where he was vas born 43 years ago a poor farm boy In addition to threatening v violent violent- political up up- found change in the national political picture A in Louisiana Longs Long's death brought a pro pro- bitter enemy of the New v Deal and and- of President Roosevelt Long had organized Share the Wealth clubs throughout t the count country y and was vas believed to plan welding them into the nucleus of ot a third party to back his presidential aspirations either in 1936 or 1940 TROOPS IN READINESS His death did not eliminate the intensity y that gripped Louisiana the moment it was known he was vas wounded In New Nev Orleans three companies of miltia stood by awaiting orders that may send them t to the capitol to frustrate any effort of Long opponents to seize seize the government by force or to guard his high high- ranking against again t a similar fate In Baton Rouge 3 a heavy guard of state police and of Longs Long's s secret police still maintained a ring of submachine guns around the c capitol pitol Th Those se who vho entered were searched for weapons and those without without with with- out specific specific- business were refused admittance nce With the he exception of L Longs Long's ng's famil family all ll those around him when hen he died had benefited from his political regimes Even the doctors at t his bedside were vere state officeholders They were Dr E. E L. L Sanderson San ders derson n superintendent of the Shreveport Charity hospital and Dr Arthur Vidrine superintendent of f the Ne New v Orleans Charity hospital Others who treated him were vere Dr Urban Macs Maes v Orleans s internationally known surgeon and Dr Clarence ClarenceL L Lorio io of of- Baton Route Adjutant General Ray Fleming ot of othe ot I Ithe the he Louisiana national guard left New few Orleans for Baton Rouge to take ake command of ot an honor guard over o the theLong Long body as It lay In lit state Fourteen men arrived from New Orleans to comprise the guard Company A of ot the Infantry at Baton Rouge was mobilized for similar purposes No Autopsy Planned It was stated staled authoritatively that no 10 autopsy was planned on Longs Long's body ody The physicians physician's report t Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day stated that the bullet entered the he right abdomen and ranged up ward penetrating the colon in two places and graz grazed d a kidney and emerged from the back i I The body was taken to the Rabenhorst Rabenhorst Rabenhorst Raben- Raben horst funeral parlors It was the same sam funeral parlors to 10 which the body of Dr Weiss who fired the fatal shot into Longs Long's body was taken after Weiss had I been riddled with bullets after the shooting Sunda Sunday night Flags in Baton Rouge Rougo were at half halt Rain which fell ell during the tho night ri had ceased by midmorning al although although although al- al though the skies were still sullen and gray Groups on Corners In the city citizens stood on the corners in little knots discussing Longs Long's death At the Heidelberg hotel headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters for the tho Long organization the lobby was filled with groups conversing earnestly There Thero was an air o of dejection at atthe atthe the state state- house In addition to personal personal per per- feelings at Longs Long's death there was the thought In many minds that jobs might be gone Senator John H. H Overton D. D DLa La Longs Long's junior colleague was expected expected ex ex- to arrive in the capital later in the day Governor Allen said he be favored burial of Long an on n the the state house grounds but that he planned to consult con con- suit sult the family and defer deter to their wishes If It they approved he said he ho would have a resolution Introduced introduced introduced intro Intro- in legislature V Wanted Allen to Run Formal Format announcements of the funeral and burial plans was neing delayed pending that decision It was learned that Senator Senator- Lon Long spent three hours Sunday trying to 10 convince Governor Allen to DC ne a candidate for congress in hi the January January Jan Jan- uary ua-lOY congressional primary but Allen Allen Allen Al Al- len de declined I told Hue Hucy Huey that I had no more political ambitions and wished to get et out out- of public life Allen saidI saidI said I 1 was a lieutenant of ot Hu Hucy's Hueys ys y's and andam am nm proud of it But as to seeking further public glory I haven desire de dc- sire for it The senate finance committee met metas metas as scheduled It functioned with customary precision and advanced one onD after atter another the bills the administration administration ad ad- ministration sponsored George Wallace assistant attorney hey ney general replaced Long in explaining ex CX the bills Committeemen were solemn and seldom raised their voices above a a. lower conversational conversational conversational conver conver- tone o I Longs Long's life Story on OIL Page Twelve |
