Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1935, Page 4

A—4d wn HUEY LONG ROSE FROM LOG CABIN Obsession for Power Made Him Both Revered and Hated. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., September 10. | ~Huey Pierce Long, mowed down by | an assassin’s bullet at the height of his spectacular career, was an epic in| his own age. | No other public character of the| generation combined the diverse qual- {ties that made his name a household word through the Nation and across the seas. Born on August 30, 1893, in a four- room log house on a 320-acre farm near Winnfield, La., Long rose from | printer's devil and traveling salesman | to become one of the best known men | in the United States and at the Mme‘ of his death was looked upon as likely | presidential timber. Had Obsession for Power. His obsession for power led him to tremendous heights of daring and bravado that left his enemies non-| plussed and made him both revered and hated. He achieved the unprecedented power to rule his native State of Lou- | isiana like @ monarch of old, beat down and subjected corporate wealth, single handedly defied the United States Senate and openly challenged the | President. His rise to power was a series of gigantic explosions marked by savage vindictiveness probably never equaled in the history of the country. His friends called him a ‘“genius,” the “greatest man of the age” and a *“friend of the poor man,” while his enemies branded him “demagogue.” *“madman” and “political racketeer.” Used Variety of Stratagems. In Louisiana he unseated elected officials, crushed municipal govern- ments and used every old political stratagem and many new ones to beat down opposition. For almost eight years he ruled Louisiana with an iron hand and n} calculated delirium which left op- ponents gaping helplessly. | Above: Pallbearers carrying the Sunday | By the Associated Press. (Time is Central standard.) SUNDAY. 9:20 p.m.—Senator Huey Long shot Long Assassin He loved bizarre displays and rev- eled in such opposite activities as directing the Cadet Band at Louisiana State University and commanding | National Guard armies drawn up to intimidate enemies. He jokingly rewarded foot ball play- in abdomen by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, jr., who is immediately shot to death by guards. Senator taken to hospital. 11:15 pm.—Blood transfusion performed. MONDAY. 12:15 a.m.—Operation is performed ers by making them State Senators | and handed out colonelcies for touch- 2 am—Physicians issue bulletin: “Senator Long was wounded by one is downs bullet entering the upper right side Early in his career his major obses- | emerging from the back. The colon xion developed—redistribution of | was punctured in two places. The wealth—an automobile, a radio, a first blood transfusion has been given home and $5,000 for everybody. | the Senator with good results. The He wrote a book, “Every Man n}rondiuon of Senator Long is thuc- King.” exposing the political tricks | oughly satisfactory. It will be 72 ‘o he played on enemies and expanding 90 hours before furtBer developments on his “share-the-wealth” program. | can be expected.” On his death bed he praised a second 4:45 am—Second bulletin is i book he was preparing to issue, “My | sued: “Senator Long was shot throueh First Year in the White House,” and | the right upper quadrant of the ah- deliriously talked of it as & best-seller. | domen, the bullet going through the Feared Murder Plots. [ body. There were two penetrations of He talked of “murder plots,” sur- | the transverse colon and consideraile rounded himself with burly armed | hemorrhage from the mesentery and bodyguards on the twenty-fourth floor | omentum. The patient's condition is of the ornate skyscraper State House satisfactory, and no important infor- he built. | mation will be available for about 72 He took a docile Louisiana Legisla- | hours.” ture and used it to put his plans into | effect to turn Louisiana into a *Utopia.” 6 am.— Senator's secretary visits bedside and emerges with statement: “He has improved more in the last 15 In 1932 he had debts suspended for | minutes than during all of last nigh:.” | two yvears. Then he started a law- | making spree that saw seven special sessions of the Legislature meet in a year and give him powers never befote dreamed of in a Democratic State. | That legislative campaign, from | August, 1934, to September, 1935, was | marked by a ruthlessness that built | up hatred to the point of obsession in | his toes. it was possibly such an accumu- lated venom that drove the slim, | youthful Dr. Carl A. Weiss, jr., to give up his own life to fire one bullet into | Long’s body. | Long's first work, aside from the chores on the farm, which he avoided as much as possible, was as a printer's “devil” when he was 13. Entered Debate Contest. . Two years later he started toward oratorical fame by winning nothing | better than honorable mention in a | PBtate-wide debating contest. He left home for good in 1909 as a traveling agent for a packing com- pany. When he was 19 he married | Miss Rose McConnell of Memphis, | Tenn. With $400 borrowed from a brother | he lived with his wife in a dingy New | Orleans apartment while he com- pleted a three years' law course at Tulane University in nine months. He hung out his shingle at Winn- | fleld but was soon lured by politics. | Only 24 years of age, he searched for some office with no minimum age| requirement and found he could run| for railroad commissioner. He was elected and gained State- wide notice by securing substantial telephone rate rebates. He bucked the old line politicians and excited laughter when he sought the office of Governor in 1924 but he Wwon s0 many votes that veterans began | to take him seriously. Successful in 1928. At the next election, in 1928, he was successful but his methods from the start aroused such protest that he was impeached the next year. He| escaped conviction in the Senate and | removal from office. Long came back with & $75,000,000 eoncrete road-building program, using | a successful campaign to defeat Joseph | E. Ransdell for the United States Benate as authority from the people | for the expenditure of the money. Then followed a period in which Long kept his office as governor until | February, 1931, to prevent his enemy, Lieut.-Gov. Paul N. Cyr, from becom- {ng governor. He finally shunted Cyr from office and placed one of his followers in as governor. Long warmly supported the cam- paign of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency in 1932 and was credited with giving considerable aid in secur- ing the Democratic nomination for Roosevelt at the party convention, Senate Probed Election. A Senate committee investigated charges of fraud and corruption in the election of John H. Overton as a United States Senator in 1932, but no action was taken. Long supported O. K. Allen, a boy- | hood friend, for governor, and con- | trolled the State through his ability | to dictate to Allen. | Long by that time was easily able | to carry the country vote, but he had | not been able to break the power of the “old regular” Democratic ring in New Orleans. In September, 1934, he conducted a legislative investigation before the September primary, exposing “graft eand corruption” charges in the city government, and beat the candidates ©f Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley. - The pre-election days were marked 4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, casket of Dr. C. A. Weiss, jr., shot to death after he fatally wounded Senator Huey P. Long, into the church at Baton Rouge, where funeral services were held yesterday. Below: Mrs. Yvonne Pavy Weiss, widow of the assassin. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Long’s Fight for Life Louisiana Senator Loses 31-Hour Battle to Recover From Gun Wound by Assassin Night. 8:30 am.—Hospital reports he is gaining strength. Noon-—Reported to be passing blood. Second blood transfusion given. 3 pm.—Oxygen released in sick room. 7 p.m—Attendants report serious sinking spell. 8:30 p.m.—Doctor says: Long is holding his own 10:30 pm.— Unofficially reported Senator growing weaker. Head nurse tells Sehator's friend over telephone, “There is little hope.” | 10:45 p.m.—Physicians order blood | types taken as high State officials | abandon hope for Senator's recovery. | 11:10 pm—Tank of oxygen pro-| cured for use in oxygen tent Midnight—Third transfusion com- pleted. Senator’s pulse rate increases from 91 to 118. Fact that rate cor- responds to count taken at 9:30 p.m indicates Senator’s condition approxi- mates that of two-and-a-half hours earlier. “Senator TUESDAY. 12:15 am—Senator becomes de- lirious. Talks irrationally with persons at bedside. 2:25 am—Physicians order emer- gency prescription without divulging nature. Fourth transfusion performed. Fifth and last transfusion completed. 3 am.—Dr. E. L. Sanderson says: “Senator Long is dying.” 4206 a.m.—Senator Long dies. by a stirring military display, with Long in command of the militia and ‘Walmsley directing the police. The opposing “armies” faced each other for days across a narrow street, with the police occupying the city hall and the guardsmen the registration office opposite. Took Walmsley's Powers. Through the series of special ses- | sions Long crippled the finances of the City of New Orleans and took powers away from Walmsley, so that a few months ago his party sur- rendered to Long and left Walmsley a mayor without a city. In his special session Long had | made himself commander of a plain- clothes State army, authority to use the militia for any purpose, name the vote counters at elections and a host of other powers. | Opposition became so fierce in Jan- | uary, this year, that citizens rose in armed rebellion, but were captured or routed with one casualty in an engagement on the parish airport fleld. Long then conducted a ‘“murder plot” hearing, in which he charged a number of officials with conspiring | to assassinate him. Martial law was | proclaimed and soldiers, manning ma- | chine guns, surrounded the State | house. | It was during the past vear that | Long definitely launched on a na- tional campaign, breaking with Presi- dent Roosevelt and defying the entire Senate. 5 Critic of New Deal. He became a bitter critic of Presi- dent Roosevelt's New Deal and en- acted laws in Louisiana which would give the State control of the ex- penditure of work relief money. In the session in progress when he was assassinated was a law pro- viding for imprisonment of Federal ANEW SENSATION? CLOVELLY Cork Tipped CIGARETTES with the hew, delightful clove flavor! PACKAGE ng cigarettes, re #o different from any ou've ever smoked. For Sale By officials conducting “unconstitutional” activities in Louisiana. He said the | measure was designed to preserve States' rights. Long had charged the Federal Gov- ernment planned to pour money into Louisiana in an attempt to defeat him in the January, 1936, election, in which Long himself planned to seek re-election. Long had definitely announced he would be a presidential candidate if the Democrats nominated Roosevelt and the Republicans named Hoover. Observers considered him a threat to the Democratic party because of the possibility he would carry some of the Southern States if he ran | on a third party ticket. | Long had organized “Share Our | Wealth” clubs throughout the United | States, which would have formed the nucleus of his political party, Sl i Putnams Buy Home. LOS ANGELES, September 10 (#).— Amelia Earhart, America’s foremost | woman fiyer and her husband, George Palmer Putnam, New York pubhsher.‘ have bought a home in North Holly- | | wood. The residence is close to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, where Miss Ear- hart centers most of her flying ac- tivities. Exactly 82 | money Buried at Baton Rofige Louisiana (Continued From Fir: great courage to his political oppo- nents, who were split into several fac- tions, one reason for Long's ascent to power. There was talk Gov. Allen would resign the governorship and accept appointment from Noe as United States Senator in succession to Long, but Allen said last night that when his term as Goverror expired next Spring he would retire to private life and never accept public office. Nothing in the direction of reorgan- | ization of the Long machine was ex- pected until after Long's funeral. However, there was one thing certain —there will not be another dictator of Louisiana of the Long ilk. There was only one Huey. After him, they broke the mould. In personality, Long have little in common Gov. Allen is an aristocrat, born to plenty and a lover of regularity. He dislikes disputes and the whirl of political life. His health has forced him to strict habits of ab- stinence and there is nothing he en- joys better than light literature in a quiet place, Lieut. Gov. James A. Noe is a rotund lover of life, a man who makes in quantity and spends it freely. His love for politics is a love for fellowship and the joy of being in the midst of activity. Seymour Weiss is an ambitious man who seeks constantly to elevate him- self both socially and materially. He is suave and smart and would like to be the second Huey Long in Louisi- ana. Allen Ellender, Speaker of the House, is driven by an ambition to become Governor. He comes from the French country of Louisiana, & lawyer and & farmer. Abe Shushan is a large man, & wholesale merchant, who first went into politics with Huey Long for the fun of it. George Wallace, legal and legisla- tive adviser of the late Huey Long, has been regarded as the brains of the Long lieutenancy. 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The 30-year-old eye specialist, in turn shot down by Long’s bodyguards, was buried yesterday following serv- ices attended by thousands of persons representing every strata of society. ‘The physician’s parents, his wife of two years and his associates could give no reason beyond a passive political opposition to Long for shooting the Senator. Burial in Heavy Rain. His bullet-torn body was lowered into the grave while the throng at the services stood in a heavy rain. Six physicians, his associates, served as pallbearers, The office of the dead was chanted by Rev. F. L. Gassler. Burial was in Roselawn Cemetery. Wreaths from the Kiwanis Club and the Young Business Men's Club decked the casket and large delegations of each organization attended the fu- neral. Others present were former Gov. John M. Parker, Representative J. Y. Sanders, jr.. Dean R. L. Tullis and District Attorney John Fred Odom, Details Unknown. “I 2m convinced beyond any doubt,” Dr. Weiss' father said, “that my son did not go into the Capitol Sunday night to kill Long. Whatever hap- pened there between him and the Senator and those who killed him I do not think I shall ever know. That is something we'll never know. And ! what happened there, what brought him there, will always be between him and his maker.” | The mother, too, could give no motive for her son's action. “We had no word, no intimation, nothing.” she said. *“All that we know is that he took living seriously. Right GOV. 0. K. ALLEN. LIEUT. GOV. NOE. day left the Louisiana Legislature without its guiding hand. Long, shot down by an assassin, CAPITAL SHOCKED - BYLONG'S SLAYING Expressions of Grief Wait as Use of Violence Is Deplored. By the Associated Press. Shock, sorrow and wonder about the | political effect mingled in varying de- | grees today as the Capital awoke to | read that an assassin’s bullet had cost | Senator Huey P. Long his life. The extraordinary nature of the man was illustrated. The customary expressions of grief at the passing of | & public figure were deferred, as high and low first gave voice to their horror that gunfire had removed a national political figure, On all sides there was tremendous interest in the barest details. Dif- ferences over Long himself, and these were many and deep, went un- mentioned amidst recollection of his whimsical and boyish side. Try to Gauge Effect. Within the administration, and the Republican organization especially, at- tempts to gauge the political effect were made. Although New Deal leaders had | publicly not given much weight to | Long’s plans to attempt to wrest the presidential nomination from Roose- velt next June, and to run ihdepend- | ently if failing, Republicans had wei- comed his intentions on the theory it might split the Democratic vote in | November. Senator Smith, South Carolina Democrat, believed the ‘“share-the- | wealth” movement—as built by Long | —would collapse without him. In 27 years as Senator, he said, “I've seen nobody there comparable with Long— and I don't mean solely in exhibi- | tionism and buffoonery. He was a | genius. He had a mind extraordinary in both power and quickness.” Intentions Lauded by Glenn, “More power to him!” former Sen- ator Glenn of Illinois had exclaimed in Chicago when the fallen legislator in mid-August announced his 1936 in- tentions. GEORGE WALLACE. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. HELD FOR MURDER STAMFORD, Conn., September 10 | with him was right above every-| had directed six special sessions of thing.” | the law makers since last August and “We were just a happy family Was in the midst of a seventh when (®).—Mrs. Ada Mildred Schueler, 25 was held criminally responsible today group,” the mother said. “We have always been so proud of him. Hel had the whole world in front of him. | When he did a thing like that he must have known he would be killed.” Bill Denied Motive. Weiss declared his son’s attempt on Senator Long's life was not motivated by a proposed bill | before the Legislature that would ha'.ei transferred his father-in-law, Judge P. H. Pavy of Evangeline Parish, from | one district to another. | “Absolutely not,” he said. *“He had no reason to take that seriously be- | cause the judge did not take it seri-| ously.” | Dr. Weiss, a graduate of Tulane University, was known among his| associates as a “conscientious worker,” | a “serious fellow.” He served his in- terfiship at the Touro Infirmary inf New Orleans and at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. | In 1933 he married Yvonne Pavy,! a graduate of Newcomb College in | New Orleans and of the Sorbonne in The elder Dr. {in a coroner’s finding for the death | of her 9-year-ola stepdiughter Mari- lyn, victim of a beating which police charge was administered by her step- mother. E. Gaynor Brennan, Stamford city prosecutor, said Saturday night that he was wounded Sunday night. The Louisiana “dictator” and self- styled kingfish took particular joy in engineering his legislation into law and was at his best in appearance be- fore committee sessions. These were not limited to the pres- ‘The Louisianan also had spoken of striking at members of the House and Senate whose re-election next vear is considered important to the present administration. Notable these latter were . Senators on of Arkansas and Harrison ssippl. “He won't be back,” Long once said “Now this here bill,” Long would say, smiling, “is just a mere formal- Long Ushered Bills Through. “Move favorable report,” the com- mittee chairman would chime in. “Without objection the bill is re- ported favorable.” And so the routine went. Long ushered his bills through the House Ways and Means Committee Sunday morning. The 39 measures approved by Long | before he was wounded moved through the assembly with just as much ease as if Long was personally directing them. Several bills make a fresh attack on President Roosevelt’s administra- tion, others give financial aid to the | City of New Orleans, which Long con- Mrs. Schueler, a former student nurse. | | confessed she beat the girl in a fit of anger because she didn't eat her lunch | largely with the election to the Se: | fast enough. | ate of Mrs. Hattie Caraway to succeed Mrs. Schueler is held without bond | her late husband in Arkansas two on a murder charge. | years ago. bluntly of Robinson. He was credited trolled, and still others care for odds Paris. He had been associated with his father, also an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. and ends. | The House passed the bills yesterday | and sent them to the Senate, where | | they were referred to the Finance | Committe for favorable approval this morning. | by the bar as an able constitutional| Going back to the Senate at 2 pm lawyer and as a deadly cross-exam- | today they are scheduled to be passed | iner. He is quiet and retiring in| to third reading for passage Wednes- | manner, but carries a load of pride. day morning Outstanding opponents of the Long | The House held its session yesterday | machine contain men of many clas- | without a single reference being made sifications. Most prominent among to the shooting of Long in a Capitol | them has been Mayor Walmsley, who | corrider, but the Senate opened its | was to the manor born. He has been | meeting with a prayer for his recovery. | brought up in an atmosphere of cul-| The prayer was given by Rev. C. E. | ture and eduction and entered poli- | Bordelon, pastor of the Church of the | tics, he said, “in the hope of raising | Nazarene. it to a high plane.” “We pause a moment before begin- Second to Walmsley in anti-Long | ning the important work of forming leadership perhaps is Eugene Stan- | the laws of this great State to peti- ley, former district attorney of New tion Thee fervently regarding the life Orleans, who resigned when Long | and health of a fellow citizen, a bene- passed a law which made his office | factor of humanity and a personal subservient to that of attorney gen- | friend, our beloved senior Senator of | eral. Louisiana,” he said. Col. John M. Sullivan and Edward| The Senate stood in silent prayer Rightor, who go on and on politically, | for Long just before adjournment. are about as different as two men can be. Both are lawyers. Together they have managed to. wield an influence politically in the city of New Or- leans for many years. 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