Evening star., 1933-12-05
ARMED CITIZENS
CLOSE POLLS AND
ROUTLONGFORCES
Voting for Mrs. Kemp Pro.
ceeds HaItingIy in Nine
Other Parishes.
WARNING OF BLOODSHED
SENT TO GOV. o. K. ALLEN
Court injunction Fails to Halt Dis
tribution of Baflots-Men With
Pistols Check Voters.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La. December S.
Senator Huey P. Longs political forces
were put to rout by violently demon
strating citizens in of the II parishes
Of the sixth congressional district today
and were forced to cancel the congress
sional election in those 8 parishes when
the residents made a display Of armed
resistance to the proposed ba1loting.
Elsewhere in the district the election
was ordered to proceed, but balloting
was very light. as both State highway
police and armed citizens stood near
the polling booths tallying those who
came to vote.
The election was designed to send Mrs.
Bolivar E. Kemp, Senator Longs candi-
date, to the vacant sixth district Con-
gress seat in suddenly called election
without the holding Of party primary.
The Parishes Of Tangipahoa. home Of
Mrs. Kemp: Livingston and st. Helena,
in the eastern sector Of the district,
tions, in which the Kemp ballots were
seized and publicly burned and Senator
Long and other administration leaders
were hanged and burned in efigy.
turned out heavily armed today 10 pre-.
vent the balloting
Voting Cancelled.
Lee Ponder. chairman of the Sixth
District Democratic Committee and
Longs spokesman in the section,
quickly announced the election had
been called of in those parishes. Pom
der said the cancellation was due to
an Injunction issued by Judge Nat Ty-
Ger late yesterday. Similar injunctions
issued elsewhere failed to stop the elec-
ton.
Voting proceeded here in the State
Capital, the Feliciana parishes. West
Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee and Iber-
vile, but many boxes had not had
single vote cast In them long after the
opening hour
The only ballot box" in evidence in
Tangipahoa was a garbage can set up
on the main street of Harmon, pron1i-
nently labeled vote Here II You
Want To-
Long Directs Set-Up.
Senator Long. as generalissimo Of the
tion set-up under guard from the top
lioor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Or
leans.
Warnings have been sent to Senator
Long and Gov. o. K. Allen from leaders
of the II parishes in the district that
bloodshed might ensue If opposing
forces met. Hundreds of citizens have
been sworn in as deputies to enforce
court injunctions to prohibit the dis
tribution Of ballots.
Shots were exchanged last night at
the Amite River Bridge between Is
citizens and occupants of truck. who
they believed were bringing new ballots
from Baton Rouge to replace those
burned earlier In the evening in Liv-
ingston Parish. Windows were shot
out of the truck, but no one was in
jured The truck escaped down a
swamp trail.
Trouble Flares.
Trouble started eight days ago when
the Parish Executive Committee met
IN New orleans, outside Of the dis
trict, in secret session and announced
that Mrs. Kemp was the Democratic
nominee and called general election
for today with only the name of Mrs.
Kemp on the ballot
The temper of the people rose as
election time approached and yesterday
efhgies of Senator Long. Governor o.
K. Allen and Judge Ponder were hanged
and burned on the street of Hammond
The ballots for the parishes of Tangi-
pahoa, Livingston, East Feliciana and
West Feliciana, have been burned by
| irate citizens