Evening star., 1933-08-31
LONG UNDER GUARD.
"Kingfish" Dashes- for Home, Slaves
Off Sinner Quiz.

NEW ORLEANS. August 81 LP.--Sen-
ator Huey P. Long, back home after
stormy and eventful trip North. re-
mained silent today about the cut over
the eve he got at a New York cub ana
everything connected with it.
From a guarded stateroom on his
train. the self-styled "Kingflsh'' Of LOU
isiana politics stepped last night TO
the guarded platform OF a suburban
railway station, dashed to an automo-
bile and sped away home-followed py
guards. :.
The Senator's protectors saw to II
that no pictures were made ana those
who shouted questions about the IN
jured optic and the offer OF Coney
island side show to star the Senator at
$1,000 night rerelVed only an angry
glare in reply.
More Deny Sock.
NEW YORK, August 81 Op-The list
of men who did not punch Senator Huey
p Long lengthened today as the saga
of the Kingfish and the sinner remained
a mystery tale, without announcement.
Noted flyers. police chief, socially
prominent professional men-aL nave
been named as the person who scored
the knockdown in the Sands Point
Clubs wash room-but all have declined
the nomination. Here are some OF
them:
l. Afford ]. Williams, 6-footer, for
mer crack pilot for the Navy, former
ace foot baller for Fordham. Told by
the Daily News of belief that he was
the socker, he replied very calmly: ITS
news to me. Furtherfore, it's news to
me that any of my friends would think
such a thing to me-"
2. Clarence Chamberlain, another
famous flyer. said he was in the wash
room at lust about" the critical mo-
ment. But did he do the hitting? on
no! Did he see 1t done? Oh, my. no!
g. Police Chief Steve Webber Of Port
Washington, Long Island, weighs 22o
and has large right fist with what
some newspapers called bruise on its
knuckles. Denying Officially" that he
was the man, he said: II don't want to
be popular. I'd rather hold my job. !
was in the wash room, but you've got to
say didn't do it,"
4. Robert B. Thomas, Park avenue
lawyer, as quoted in the New York
Herald Tribune: I'D be perfectly willing
to take credit If I'd done it, but wasn't
there"
5. Kenneth M Murchison, socially
prominent architect, was quoted in the
same paper as saying he didn't DO 1t,
but knew what happened and thought
the man who did the punching "deserv-
ing of commendation."
The New York Times said Philadel-
phia Jack O'Brien expressed sympathy
for Senator Long over the skepticism
with which some quarters greeted his
story of being "ganged." O'Brien said
that when he was knocked out by Joe
Walcott in Boston 80 years or so ago,
ringside customers saw only one oppo-
nent standing over him. O'Brien said
he saw four or five, but could get no
one to believe he'd been ganged.
Mayor T. S. Walmsley of New Or
leans, as mild as Long is fiery, would
rather not comment on the recent eye
brow injury.
The mayor, in New York on q pleas
ure trip after being in Washington fol
labor arbitration in connection with
the Huey Long bridge at New Orleans
described himself as politically friend
of the Senator by virtue OF a truce
between their respective organizations
He said his only information on the
imbroglio came from published stories
and Longs own statement which said
that he had been "ganged."
Il can't understand how gangsters
got into that club" the mayor said
"Hueys enemies in Louisiana will be-
lieve the entire truth-that is, mean,
the stories as published. His friends
will believe he was ganged up"