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Show Shouting Crowd Demands Ousting of J); A.i Boos Governor in Louisiana Scandals fined to hear In court yesterday. The scene In the ' courtroom yesterday was one of the first public outbreaks against Louis) ana authority sine the assassination assassi-nation of Huey Long and was inspired by series of spectacular spectacu-lar scandals. Federal grand Jury Indictments, were announced yesterday against Frank Costello, slot machine ma-chine manufacturer; Jimmy Mo-ran, Mo-ran, former prize fighter, bootlegger boot-legger and pal of Longi and four others charging that they had ' evaded Income taxes on H, 500, 000 profits from .the skit machine racket in 1936 and 1337. : I NEW ORLEANS. Oct 10 (UP) A cheering crowd of 5000 citizens, citi-zens, meeting today In front of the criminal court building, ! shouted approval te a petition demanding an election for the recall of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. The crowd booed every mention men-tion of the district attorney, hit aids and Governor Earl K. Long. They booed in the recounting of the arrest yesterday of two parish grand juror who had sought to petition District Judge George B. Piatt for dismissal of Byrne aa district attorney and counsel for the grand Jury. The crowd cheered E. H. Powell Pow-ell and Sidney De Armas, the arrested grand Jurors, aa heroes and champions of constitutional rights. Jamea Colomb. one of the speakers attacked Byrne and At- torney General David M. Elll- son as a combination of the precepts pre-cepts of Adolf Hitler, Goering, Goebbela and Stalin, then shouted: shout-ed: "God forbid this should come to Louisiana.' Jamea J. McCain, another speaker, cited the example set by the New York grand Jury which overrode Its district attorney, attor-ney, obtained new counsel by gubernatorial appointment' and brought convictions of dim and vice lords. . -' The crowd was urged to obtain copies of the petition and help collect signatures of 2S per cent of the registered voters of Or-' leans parish for aa election to recall Byrne. - When the meeting adjourned In a roar of applause the crowd surged Into the building toward the open hearing being held by Judge Piatt on the petition of the grand Jurors, which he re- |