The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
BOSS GONE, GREAT LOUISIANA
POLITICAL MACHINE SHOWS SIGNS
OF CRUNIBLING, DYING WITH CHIEF
KingfiSh Sinks Rapidly and
Passes at 4:10; Family
at Bedside.
GOV. ALLEN IN TEARS
Modern Science Helpless in
Efforts to Save Die
tatOr'S Life.
CcOpyrisht. 1888. BY united Press,


BATON ROUGE, La, Sept.
10. = Senator Huey Pierce
Long died in the rain-flled
hours before dawn today as
physicians fought with every
modern device to save him
from the lethal effects of an
assassin's bullet.
The picturesque "Kingfsh"
expired under an oxygen tent
at 4:1O a. m. in Our Lady of
the Lake Sanitarium. There
he had battled against death
for 80 hours after DR.. Carl A.
Weiss Jr. shot him down in
the $5,OOO,OOO state capitol
which Long had erected as 4
monument of his amazing
career.
Long was barely dead when his
enemies began the fight to extermi-
nate his political organization, and
his friends began jockeying to sue
coed to the throne. The burial of
the Senator's youthful assassin II
hours before was attended by
honors which indicated some Sec
lions of the Louisiana population al
ready regarded him as a martyr.
A light flashed on and off, dark
ening momentarily a window of
the Sanitarium. IL was a signal to
relatives outside that the man who
aSpired to become President of the
United States advocating a program
of sharing the wealth, was dead.
Immediately door opened and Abe
Shushan stepped into a corridor
crowded with Longs political fol-
lowers.
Senator Long is dead" he an
nounced, breaking down before the
last word left his lips.
ShuShan financed Longs first DO
litical campaigns and is among the
Long politicians awaiting trial on
indictments charging income tax
frauds.
Mrs. Long Hysterical
Over his shoulders could be heard
the hysterical Sobbing of Mrs. Long,
A moment later, a broken figure,
she appeared in the door on the arm
of her 20-year-old daughter Rose.
who was dry-eyed, serenely COM
posed.
Next from the room came Gov.
0. K. Allen and Lieut.. Gov. James
Noe; then Longs sons, Russell. Is.
and Palmer Reid, II; then two of
his brothers, George and Earl. and
two Of his sisters, Mrs. Stuart Hunt
and Mrs. r. B. Knott.
After the relatives had gone out
into the rain, Gov. Allen, tears
streaming down his cheeks, issued
an oral statement that formally eu-
logized his chief.
An hour later the first move in
the scramble for succession was re-
ported. Gov. Allen, it was believed.
will resign, permitting Lieut.. Gov.
Noe to succeed him. Noe then will
appoint Allen to succeed to Longs
Senate seat.
Five Blood Transfusions Given
Long was alternately delirious and
unconscious during his last night of
life while the best physicians in
Louisiana labored desperately, try
ing every means, to save him. He
received five blood transfusions.
Four tanks of oxygen were used.
Adrenalin and ephedrine we're in
jected hypodermically to bolster his
neart, all without avail.
Gov. Allen saw him three hours
before death.
Move over, Oscar" he whispered.
Let me breathe"
The tent was lowered again and
more oxygen pumped into it.
A few minutes before death,
which came at that hour of the
morning when human vitality is the
lowest, Long was conscious and ra-
tional
My university boys" he whis-
pered. What will happen to
them?"
Anti-Long Men Rising
The question referred 10 his inter-
est in Louisiana State University.
the beneficiary of expansion and
generous appropriations during all
of the seven years ne ruled Louisi-
ana. He fired the L. S. U. coach,
who lost too many football games
and caused the expulsion Of eight
students who criticised him in
student newspaper.
His body still was beneath the
oxygen tent when A. A. Frederlcks,
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