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His first venture Of this sort
was a job as a sort Of handy
lad and printers devil in the
shop where the Winfield
Weekly Guardian and the
Southern Baptist Sentinel were
published.
At the age Of IA, however, he
was struck by the ease with
which an itinerant book ped
aler auctioned off his wares in
Winfield, and struck out with
Harley Bozeman, later one of
his political associates, to enter
the book-auctioning business
himself.
He laid in a supply Of books
On credit, rented a horse and
buggy on credit, and Jared
forth.
The venture netted q hand
some profit, which was wiped
out on the homeward journey
when the horse SHE'D and viz
tually wrecked the rented buggy;
but at intervals during the next
two years young Huey and Har'
ley Bozeman served as auction.
GERS about the countryside and
sold out stocks Of goods for vari
Gus merchants in and around
WINFIELD.
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Out For Himself

He took advantage Of such op-
portunities as riding downtown on
street cars with some of the pro
fessors, in order to talk law with
them on the way, and during one
of these rides discussed with
Charles Payne Fenner the latter's
statement of the older codes by
which wealth was compulsorily
distributed.
The talk made such an impress.
sion on him that he wrote Con.
gresham Watkins, asking that a
national law be passed of that
sort in the United States, and
wrote letters about distribution OF
wealth to the newspapers.
Having passed his bar exami.
nation with flying colors, Huey
returned to Winfield and entered
into partnership with his brother
Julius to form the firm Of Long
and Long. The partnership was OF
short duration. 1T lasted about
two months during which time ]
made about as many dollars,
Huey once said.
Then he branched out for him
self, but business was slow in com
ing. None-the-leSS the financial
dilemma was solved when Huey
took to the road once more as a
salesman, and in 80 days made
enough money to pay off his
debts, and lay by funds until his
law practice should have matured
This got off to a flying start
when Huey won a case against a
bank on behalf Of a WINFIELD
widow, a Mrs. Martha DeLoach,
which case had been given up by
number Of other lawyers, and
was won by a sentimental appeal
to the jury, as well as by the dig.
ging up of some points of law
that had been previously over
looked.
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Fight Is Won

In July. 1919. wien the first
guns of the gubernatorial cam
paign that was to eliminate in
the election of January, 1920
we're fired, Huey Long took the
stump as an added starter at
the opening program, and stole
the spotlight from the six guber-
material candidates by delivering
a buStering denunciation of Gov
ernor Pleasant, along with the
Standard Oil Company and all its
officials.
In the subsequent campaign he
supported John M. Parker against
Frank P. Stubs. Parker won,
but the pipe line issue was com
promised by agreement with the
Standard Oil Company and other
large oil companies operating
pipe lines, under the terms Of
an arrangement by which the
pipe lines declared they would
transport all independent oil Of
fered them. their lines to be de-
clared public utilities If they re-
fused.
This failed to appeaSe Huey
Long, however, and he denounced
the arrangement and Governor
Long so Unexpectedly that the
latter brought action against him
in the district court at Baton
Rouge before Judge H. F. Brunot
for criminal libel.
On the day of his technical ar
rest in Shreveport his third child
son was born, and the baby was
later named after Huey Longs
two attorneys, Judge B. M. Palmer
Of Shreveport and Judge r. r.
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Gets Elected

Though it took two primaries
to settle the election, Huey was
elected by a narrow margin. Since
most of the commission business
was transacted in Shreveport
Huey and his family moved to
the North Louisiana metropolis
The city was then in the begin
ming of q great oil boom, and
Huey shared in the prosperity
He took oil stock certificates IN
part payment Of fees, bought
other shares in prospective ven
lures, and when one Of them, the
Pine Island field, proved UP, stood
to become a very rich man.
In fact, he did build a $4,000
home in Shreveport.
However, the Pine Island field
was frozen out, when the pipe
lines were closed against its oil
Young Railroad Commissioner
Long Immediately dedicated him
self to the task of making the
companies that had frozen out
the field regret their action. The
immediate target of his attack
then as later, was the Standard
Oil Company.
His primary agitation was for
a law declaring pipe lines to be
public utilities, which would
bring them under the jurisdiction
of the commission of which he
was a member. Governor Ruffin
Pleasant, however, refused to call
special session to enact such
Legislation, and drew upon him
self the main fire of young Mr.
Longs attack.
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Leaves For d. G..

Another factor in the situation
at this time, was the sudden ef-
fort of Lieutenant Governor Cyr
to take over the governorship.
He took oath as governor be-
fore the clerk of court Of Caddo
parish in Shreveport, declaring
Huey Long had vacated the office
when he sent his credentials of
election to the Senate. The State
house was Immediately surrounded
by armed guards, but Governor
Long announced that by taking
oath as governor, Mr.. Cyr had
vacated the office of lieutenant
governor, and under military pro-
lection had Alvin O. King, Of Lake
Charles, president pro TEN of the
senate, sworn in as lieutenant gov
ernor. A long period of litigation
followed, but the supreme court
ruled against Cyr. and the mo-
ment the decision was officially
handed down, Senator Long left
for Washington. He took oath as
member of the Senate on the
day Mr.. King took oath as gov
ernor in Baton Rouge.
DR.. Cyr did set up gubernatorial
headquarters in a hotel in Baton
Rouge, from which he called on
Governor King to abandon the
armed instruction he was main
tanning at the capital. but this
came to nought, and the issue by
that time had been settl d
through the Allen election in any
event.
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Gets Expelled

At IS, when he had been ex.
pelled from high school, Huey
first carried about the city q
petition which he circulated
among the school patrons Of
the community. asking the re.
moval of the principal who had
expelled him; q result which ne
accomplished.
He did not return to school,
but, wearing his first long-pants
suit Of clothes, journeyed to New
Orleans, where he secured a
position as canvasSer Of cote.
lene, with the N. K. Fairbanks
Company.
Most Of his work was the
peddling Of cottolene from door
to door, varied by lacking up
roadside advertising signs, and
occasional calls on merchants.
He frequently has recalled that,
in order to convince house
wife of the virtues Of cottolene.
he would himself cook the supper
for the family or bake. a cake
by way of demonstration.
Later, however, he broadened
the scope Of his salesmanShip by
holding cake-baking contests in
each area, the only condition
Being that the cake be baked
with cottolene.
In Shreveport, at the time
Huey was II, the contest was
won by a girl named Rose Nc
Connell, who had recently come
to the north Louisiana city from
Indiana with her family. She Is
today Mrs. Huey P. Long.
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in the war, and advocating free
speech.
The case was won by some
theatrical trickery by which a
number of jurors were excused
or challenged by the prosecution,
which drew young Attorney Long
a reprimand from the court, but
the youthful barriSter was quite
undiSmayed.
He himself opposed American
entry into the war, and refused
to enlist when placed in Class w
by the selective draft, as a mar
ried man with a child, he claimed
further exemption on the ground
that, as a notary public, he was
a State official.
Meanwhile, he was already pre-
pairing to enter politics. He had
it in mind to run for Senator
Harper's seat in the State legis-
lature, but lacked two years Of
the requisite constitutional age,
so he announced for the office Of
railroad commissioner from the
North Louisiana district, a post
long held by Burk A. Bridges.
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CAREER FILLED
WITH STRIFE.
SUCCESS

ing wealth, he offered to aid her
in her campaign for a full term
in the Senate. He did make a
tour of Arkansas with her for
just seven days, and from an un-
considered position as certain low
man" in a seven.man race, she
leaped to top place almost over
night, polling as many votes as
all six Of her opponents combined.
The following month Senator
Long campaigned Louisiana in be-
half of John Holmes Overton,
then serving out the unexpired
term of James B. Ashwell in Con-
eress, for the the senatorial seat
Of Edwin s. BrouSSard. Mr..
Overton was overwhelmingly
elected, by a majority Of nearly
&C, 900 votes,
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Couch Steps in

Governor Long promptly or.
ganized movements for the recall
of legislators who had been par
ticularly active in opposing him
As one of the results Of this, a
Statewide organization called the
Constitutional League was formed
in New Orleans.
Governor Long labeled 1t the
ConStipational League, and con-
tinued his drive for recalls.
On the first test. that Of the
recall of Representative j. S.
Bacon of Webster parish, Mr..
Long was decisively beaten. On
the next, that Of D. F. Edwards
of West Carroll, he won by a
slight margin. However, through
a suit brought by the law com.
mittee of the Constitutional
League, all the recall proceedings
were declared unconstitutional, on
the ground that the recall pro
vision did not apply to legislators
A committee Of business inter
ests. with Harvey Couch as one
of their active directors, stepped
into the breach at this point, on
the plea that it was time to end
political strife and give op'
portunity for a business upSwing
Their mediation was successful
the terms Of the agreement being
that Governor Long pledged he
would enact no industrial license
tax on manufacturing during his
term as executive; in return the
business interests were to join him
in a survey for raising additional
funds to operate the State institu
lions on a more extensive and
beneficial scale than heretofore.
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ana's lead, and enacted acreage
reduction laws, so that the plan
never went into effect.
Meanwhile the political situa.
ton in Louisiana had likewise
changed by the coalition between
Long and the Walmsley organiza'
tionS for the joint putting over OF
the Long program.
Toward the close Of 1881, both
organizations backed the Long
State ticket, known as the Com
plete-the-Work ticket, and headed
by Highway Commissioner Chair
man Oscar Allen. The opposition
candidates were George Seth
Guion and Dudley Leblanc. Gov
ernor Allen was elected by a
SIS 900 majority.
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Reid of Amite, Palmer Reid Long
Judge Brunot found Commissioner
Long guilty on both counts
sentencing him to 80 days on one,
and suspending the sentence. and
to pay a fine of one dollar OF
serve one hour in Parish prison
on the other. Mr.. Long paid the
dollar.
Henceforth he laid his lines to
campaign for governor himself
He began in 1923, while the khan
agitation was at it's height, with
Hewitt Bouanchaud, then lieuten
ant governor, and Henry NJ
Fuqua, then penitentiary manager
as the two opposing candidates.
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BATTLED HARD
| FOR CREED HE
FOLLOWED

knocked down, his scalp laid open
by q blow with brass knuckles.
Speaker Fournet would not call
a second roll on adjournment, de
claring the house already ad
journed.
Mason Spencer, Of Tallulah
stiIled the tumult by calling the
roll orally, showing a count Of ~
against adjournment and only
seven for it.
George GinSberg, Of Alexandria,
was elected temporary speaker
and the house recessed until the
following day, when a resolution
Of impeachment, signed by four
members and drawn up during
the course of the night was intro
duced.
An investigating committee was
named, a protracted series OF near
ings held, and eight counts OF Inn
peachment we're voted on by the
house.
Speaker Fournet resumed the
chair the following day and pre-
sided over these hearings. How
ever, only one Of the counts was
voted before the day on which
the session of the legislation would
have expired under Governor
Longs original call.
Over the protest Of the Long
floor leaders, and on the theory
that once the house became an
impeachment court it was nc
longer bound by strictly legislative
limitations, the session was ex
tended.
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niless, literally so, but borrowed
IS from a stranger, made con-
nection with wholesale grocery
house as part-time salesman, and
was soon comfortably well off and
active in his collegiate work be-
sides.
AL of this was not confined to
books, for the college was pro-
foundly interested in the presiden'
tial prospects Of woodrow Wilson,
then contesting for the Demo
cratic nomination against Champ
Clark.
Huey Long promptly espoused
the cause Of Clark, issued circulars
attacking Wilson, and managed to
split a college national conven-
ton" on the presidential issue.
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Signs 1t in Bed

The next day the louisiana
legislature had been convened IN
session, and within three days
plus a fraction tackled on fore
and aft to meet constitutional re
quirements, the bill was law.
Governor Long signed it sitting
up in bed, at 2 a. m. in the new
executive mansion, and sent o. K
Allen to Texas with certified
copy of the law by airplane al
dawn.
Both Texas and Mississippi
however, refused to follow Louisi
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NEY LONGS STORMY LIFE REVEALS HIM BORN DICTATOR
HumOr Made Long
Master Snowman
honestly OF ruggedly-but I'll
say honestly"

honestly OF ruggedly-but I'll
say honestly"
The Senate floor with its priv,
ileges Of unlimited speech pro-
vided the Delta Dictator with a
stage.
1t was from the Senate floor
that the Kingfish, cloaked with
the constitutional guarantee Of
immunity, castigated his enemies
and extolled his friends.
Offering a homely mixture Of
countryside wisdom and hu1nor.
the great political speiler spared
none. High and low alike came
in for their dose of his sarcasm
or humor.
AS an example of his humor,
here is one he directed at Vice
President Garner during the all
night filibuster against the NRA: :
About midnight Senator Long
was rambling about the floor
shouting and gesticulating wildly.
(cOntinusd on Page s, Col. -
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Fought Draft

From then on business grew,
and inasmuch as the trial Of the
case against the bank had been
made possible by the loan Of 500
which had been advanced as a
court cost bond by State Senator
Harper, Huey soon had an OPP
portunity to repay this act Of
friendship by defending Senator
Harper, who was charged with
sedition on the basis Of some
pamphlets the senator had issued
opposing American participation
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Interna tiOna1 News Service

international NSW8 SeEVICo
"AlI that am, I owe to my
enemies"
This was Huey Longs mocki1g
recipe for his personal success.
Tracing his spectacular political
rise from salesman to dictator for
the Senate one day, the Kingfish
said that he owed his success 10
the ignorance Of his enemies.
None Of them, he added, thought
Of making the improvements il
Louisiana that have been made
until Huey Long came along and
had to do it," He concluded
"And, the voters Of my State
began to realize that Huey p.
Long would do what the others
fail to do"
Because the people Of Louisiana
believed in him, he once told his
colleagues, he had held every Of
flee worth holding up to the
present one. He said:
II was elected to them too,
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Registered ayes"

Consequently. no matter how
the members voted on the ad-
journment issue. the lights and
voting signals flashed yes. repeat
ing the present vote Of a few min
utes earlier. This precipitated a
physical riot. Representative Gin
ton SayeS Of AYoyelles was
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Evenng POST
Huev Pierce Long IT, was farm what is today
Winfield on August 60 $685. the third Of four brothers Edu
Gated in the public schools he attended the Winfield High
School from which not graduated, since he
PEELED during second year attendance head of secret
society of students which sought run the school, and which
occasionally published school bulletin Of which Huey was the
editor and which vrocay attacked the members Of the high
school faculty now and then.
He was not particularly distinguished among his boyhood
friends One his classmates who F. D. mail
rer was the one regarded likely make his mark in
the world.
While Long family not in want not affluent
one and so Huey something hardship and great deal
hard work. such picking cotton, cutting cordwood the
usual run chores Even boy he made secret OF
the fond such work. and frequently
pressed the ambition to find another way of earning live
1;boo1
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did not control a two-thirds ma
jority.
However, he circumvented this,
by introducing a constitutional
convention bill, which needed only
a simple majority, and. which
would rewrite the constitution to
include the Long amendments.
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OPPOSED PRINCIPAL
B0SSED HIS CLASS
IN SCHOOL DAYS
BY HERMAN B. DEUTsCH

(polca rter orleans ITEM author OF "Hae and
Hev and "The Huey Long, series IN the Saturday
Evening POST
Evening star., 1935-06-13
MARINES ENTERTAIN
MOBILES AT QUANTIC0
Shriners Make River Cruise to
Famous Base for Lunch and
Demonstrations.

The scimitar and crescent mixed and
mingled with the globe and anchor
today when several hundred Mobiles OF
the Mystic Shrine paid visit to the
famous Marine base at Quantico as
featured side trip" of the national
Shrine Concfsve.
The red-fezzed excursionists left
Washington this forenoon on the
steamer Potomac for two-hour cruise
down the river, arriving at Quantico
at IL o'clock.
The visitors we're greeted by the
posts Marine Band and a group of
officers VINO escorted them to the audi
torium. Half an hour after their ar
rival Chow lines" were formed and
the Fleet Marine Force Band pre-
sented a concert as the Shriners ate
their lunch.
Because of the weather last night.
the Marines had prepared virtually
every mess hall at the base to care for
the diners in case of another down
pour.
After the luncheon the Fleet Marine
Force was to turn out for a military
review and demonstration on the pa
rade ground. Later. the Marine avia-
ton units we're to give demonstration
and air circus.
The Shriners were scheduled to
leave the post at 2:30 pm. and to ar
rive back in Washington at 430
o'clock.
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5 BOYS TELL HOPES
TO ROTARY VISITORS
Outstanding Students and Shrine
Guests Attend Luncheon at
Shoreham.

Five OF Washington's outstanding
high school students told visiting
Shrine -Rotarians from all over the
country yesterday noon what their
aspirations for the future are. The
boys and the Shriners both were
guests of the Washington Rotary Club
at a luncheon meeting in the Shore
ham Hotel.
Selected by the club for this an
nual honor, the boys are Michael
Joseph Hanley of Western, William
NARROW of Roosevelt, Marvin J..
Fahrenback of Central Joseph K
PeaSlee of Eastern and Edward Pink
ham of Mckinley. Upon completion
of brief speeches in which Hanley
confessed intention of entering An
napoliS and a naval career. NARROW
of entering American University to
become a doctor, Fahrenback of going
to Yale TO study chemistry, Peaslee of
becoming a scientific agriculturalist
after studying at Maryland University,
and Pinkham of entering West Point
each was presented a diploma by Past
President George Whitwell of the
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ARMY TO REENACT
.MANEUvERS TODAY.
Spectacular Combat to Be
Depicted on ElIipse at
2::30 Pm.

Spectacular combat scenes based on
actual war incidents, methods of ex-
tracing disabled truck trains under
fire. elaborate special drills without
command, and other military events
eliminating in q full regimental re-
treat parade, will feature the final
Shrine Army exhibition to be given by
the saith Infantry on the Ellipse be-
ginning at 2:30 pm. today.
The second of the Army exhibitions.
yesterday afternoon on the Ellipse.
was witnessed by crowd Of more
than 5000 Shrine visitors. Crowds
visiting the 34th Infantry model field
camp just west of the Washington
Monument have been increasing daily
since the regiment went into camp
last Saturday. and record attendance
is expected today.
Today's program will be similar to
that Of yesterday, but with several
additional events and some changes
In personnel. With two days of ex-
hibitions behind them, the officers
and men Of the regiment have ironed
out the few rough spots occurring in
the opening days exhibition and to-
days show Is expected to be a fast
moving program without a dead spot
in the entire three hours.
The climax of yesterdays program
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was a demonstration Of wall scaling
by the I'd battalion Of the regiment,
composed of three rife companies and
q machine gun company, under COM
mand of Maj. George l. Febiger. The
entire battalion went over smooth
wall IL feet high, with full equipment,
the machine gun company setting up
two guns on top OF the wall and going
into action in less than two minutes
from a standing start Company G,
commanded by Capt. Charles M. WAL
ton, got every officer and man over
the wall iE IS seconds from the time
the signal to charge the wall was
given.
A spectator Of the wall scaling was
Gen. Henry G. Learned, u. S. A., re-
tired, who was the first man to reach
the top of the wall at Peking, China,
during the allied assault on the city
during the Boxer Rebellion in 1902.
Gen. Learned, then a second lieuten-
ant in the 14th Infantry, led the first
assault wave against the historic wall
when 1t was carried hu the 9th and
l4th Infantry Regiments.
Yesterdays drIH Oegan with a
demonstration of Butts manual drill,
without commands, by Company G.,
commanded by Capt. Charles M. Wall
ton. Intricate close order drills, also
without command, were given by
Company A. Capt. Russell F. Walthour,
jr-, and Company c., First Lieut..
John M. Brett.
March Played for Shriners.
Between the drills band numbers
were played by the 34th Infantry
Band, led by Warrant Officer Carl H.
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'kAeross the Hot Sands ~

charged, but when some Of the news
boys began to split the sections and
collect 10 cents copy they were booed
from the stands.
The mystery of the missing grand
stand seats for the Shrine parade
has It's solution in the fact that
two sections we're incorrectly num-
bered and two others, for which
tickets were printed and sold. never
were built. Those holding tickets for
seats which were not there were
given other locations upon arrival.
At Shrine ticket headquarters 1t
was explained that the contractor
was unable to build small stands
planned at Tenth and Eleventh
streets and Pennsylvania avenue.
Farther up the Avenue two other
sections were numbered incorrectly.
The fire marshals Office explained
that all stands conformed to Dis
trict fire. prevention regulations, hav-
ing been approved In blue print form
before construction.
Evening star., 1935-06-13

Postmaster General Farley was
serenaded "in absentia" yesterday.
when the band of Hamasa Temple Of
Meridian. under the leadership Of
Representative Dunn of Mississippi. the
potentate, paid an unannounced visit
to the Post Office Department. Nothing
daunted upon learning that Farley
was out of the city, the Hamasa bands
men cut loose In the Postmaster Gen.
erals huge reception room, quickly ac-
quiring a large and appreciative
audience from throughout the depart
ment.
Umbrellas were at premium when
the rain broke in the stands last night.
Cheap paper ones sold from Is cents
to IS cents. If the hawker could get
that much. Later cloth ones appeared
for 50. but even the statesmen admitted
the price was too high.
Early editions of the morning papers
also sold rapidly, not for reading, but
for shielding. Five cents a copy was