Evening star., 1933-11-19
FINANCING
WILL Be PR0BED
Committee Will Summon
Bankers to Learn Operations
of Political Machine.
BY the Associated Press.

~ biAN noSbNlatCl Elcaos
NEW ORLEANS, November 18.-The
searchlight of Senate investigators will
be turned on the financial operations
of the Huey P Long political organiza-
ton next week through testimony of
New Orleans bank officials.
Three cashiers and two bank Huuida-
tors have been summoned to appear
Monday before the Senate Committee
Investigating the election of Senator
John H. Overton, who rode into Office on
the support Of the Long political ma
chine
So far the committee has been un-
able to touch the subject of Longs cam
paign funds except to learn that most
or the transactions were in cash 1t
was this subject that caused Seymour
Weiss, Longs political treasurer, to defy
the committee last February and re-
fuse to answer questions propounded
by the former committee attorney, Gen.
Samuel t. Ansei. The committee said
Weiss would be recalled to the stand
If the bankers gave them leads that
justified further scrutiny into the money
end OF the campaign.
Probe To Last Two Weeks.
Two more weeks will be devoted to
the investigation in Louisiana, the COM
mittee decided today, one week more
for committee testimony and the last
week for Senator Overton's rebuttal
testimony.
Senator Overton protested that he
was allotted only one week to counter
four weeks of testimony and Mrs Hilda
Phelps Hammond, chairman of the
Women'S Committee of Louisiana, en-
tered a protest, saying her committee
felt the Senators should remain in
Louisiana until all testimony was ex-
hausted and hearings should be held
In other parts of the State.
Shirley Wimberley, representative of
the Francis Williams political faction
which has produced all of the witnesses
heard this week, also urged the COM
mittee to go forward with the inquiry
and not shut it off at the end of two
weeks.
Invites BrouSsard to Return.
Chairman Tom Connally, Democrat,
Texas, invited the Honest Election
League and former Senator Edwin
BrouSSard, who filed the charges of
fraud and corruption against Senator
Oyerton, to return to the investigation
and submit witnesses. Senator Brous-
sard and the league withdrew from the
investigation on the grounds that they
had lost faith in the Senate Committee.
Several witnesses we're heard this
morning before the week end adjourn
ment, and they testified to seeing
ballots disappear people being allowed
to vote with improper registration and
mil TOW int, do
Broussard workers.
w. H. Cobb, who served as a Brous-
Sard commissioner at the fifth precinct
of the seventh ward in New Orleans.
said % votes disappeared at his pre-
cinct, but when he seized all of the
Overton ballots and refused to sur
render them until the votes were re-
turned, he said they appeared from
somewhere like magic.
Ballots Appeared Suddenly.
When I raised my kick" he said,
the Overton representatives, IA of
them who had been counting the ballots
on the table, went scurrying around
all over the place, pretending to be
looking for the ballots. Then thepI
came back to the table and the ballots |
all of sudden appeared"
He said a sheriff kept coming into
the voting booths while people were
voting, and he had to chase him away
four times and threaten him before |
he would stay out.
He said he was picking up old
paper" said the witness.
When the polls closed, Cobb said !
people rushed into the place and began |
scrambling with the ballots
Did you protest?" the witness was |
asked
mo. do you think I was foolish?" |
he replied.