Evening star., 1933-12-24
LONG IS OPPOSED
BY TWO GROUPS
Voters, However, in Dark on
Registration and Date
of Primary.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, December %
Three bitterly opposed political factions
today squared away for finish fight
over control of New Orleans city hall
in the mayoralty primary scheduled Tor
next month, but the voters found
themselves in the dark on the matter
of registration deadline and even the
date Of the primary itself.
A week ago, registrar of voters, c. 5.
Barnes. member of the Huey P. Long
organization, announced that noon to-
day was positively the last deadline"
for registering to vote in the primary.
Subsequently, Long broke off his al
lance with the old regular city hall
group. withdrew from the local arena,
and then re-entered the picture as the
hacker of third ticket to be headed
by his close friend, John Klorer.
With these developments, Registrar
Barnes was asked to confirm or deny
reports that the registration books
would be kept open for another week.
YES" he said, I'VE are going to ex-
tend it until next Saturday." He then
added quickly: that is an unofficial an
nouncement. can't commit myself.
I may get an order to shut down at
any moment"
He did not say who might issue such
an order. And his Office observed the
regular Saturday noon closing without
clarifcation as to whether it would re-
open on Monday.
Although the local Democratic Com
mittee will not meet for 10 days to call
the primary, January % had been gen.
orally accepted as primary day, in view
of the announced closure of registra-
tiOnS today, 80 dayS before.
Registrations after today could only
be made legal by poStponement OF
the primary by the Democratic Com
mittee and this committees session on
January 2 will provide the first test
of strength between Senator Long and
Mayor T. SemmeS Walmsley old reg
ular chieftain, since their open break
Both claim to control the committee
AS Long worked on his Klorer ticket
with his new allies of the Citizens
and Jefferson Democratic Clubs, who
joined his forces after his break with
Walmsley, old regular sources disclosed
that Walmsley also had formed some
new alliances in preparation for the
primary battle and that friends of John
P. Sullivan, bitter anti-Long leader
who has dictated Federal patronage
in Louisiana recently, would be included
on the old regular ticket,
Long ana WallIlSley curing TIE uay
exchanged vituperative statements, some
OF them unprintable, while Francis
Williams, the third mayoralty condi-
date and a veteran anti-Long and
antiWalmSley campaigner charged the
two with being "co-conSpirators,"
The mass meeting movement, Spon-
sored by anti-Long groups, continued
out in the State and the day saw the
East Baton Rouge Parish Democratic
Committee, in the State capital, vote
its thanks to other parishes and con.
gressional districts for condemning the
method by which Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp
Longs candidate, was declared elected
sixth district Representative without a
primary being held.
The committee gave its approval tc
the proposed citizen-sponsored election
in the district on December 81 when
j. Y. Sanders. jr, is slated for selec-
ton for the announced purpose of con-
testing the seating of Mrs. Kemp.