The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-12
FUNERAL
WILL, BE- HELD
4 P. NJ. TODAY
Thousands File by Plain
Casket Holding Body
of Late Senator
FAMILY COMPOSED,
NONE in MOURNING

/ -
I-CUP).-City and country folk
came today to the capitol funeral
of Huey Long. The body of the
assassinated dictator, clad in a
tuxedo, lay in a plain casket in
Memorial Hall as thousands from
all parts of the state filed by and
were urged on when they slowed
up by burly state police.
At 4 p. m. today the Rev. Ger
aid Smith will preach the funeral
eulogy over the casket. 1t will
then be lowered into the yawning
hole dug during the night in capt.
toll lawn.
Mrs. Long and three children
arrived from New Orleans for the
funeral. None wore mourning and
all Of them were composed.
BATON ROUGE, La, Sept. 10.
-(UP).- Huey p. Longs allies
turned away from his coffin last
night, vowing to seek Indictments
against any person suspected of
participating in an alleged plot
which ended in the U. S. senator's
death.
While the high and the humble
were streaming past Longs coffin
in the rotunda of the state capitol,
Earl Christenberry, the senator's
secretary, was pressing an investl-
cation into charges that Longs
murder was decided weeks ago at
a secret meeting at which lots
were drawn to determine who
would do the shooting.
Longs friends will not hesitate
to fling the accusation of conspir-
acy to murder against any person,
it was said, and they are prepared
to 90 before a grand jury to do it.
ChriStenberry said sufficient evil
dence already had been found to
point to a conspiracy, but he re-
fused to indicate the nature of it.
"There is no doubt that there
was plot to kill the SENATOR" he
said. eve already know some
things about it. You can bet your
last dollar that as soon as we get
some more evidence there is going
to be action around here"
All this was going on back OF
the heavy bronze door in the cap
itol where Longs political allies
have their offices. Out in the vast
rotunda of the capitol the people
of Louisiana were enacting an
other drama as they filed past the
coffin where lay Longs body, clad
in a tuxedo suit, was lying.
SCENE is BLEND OF
DRAMA, NOISE, CROWDS
That scene was almost a sum-
nation of Huey Longs life - a
blend Of noise, drama and crowds.
The mourners' line curled into the
front door and past the coffin. AS
they departed they had to go past
a half dozen carpenters who had
opened their kits and spread their
tools on the expensive marble floor
of the rOtunda. They were build
ing two wooden fences to keep In
line the crowds that will move
slowly past the coffin until p. m.
today when the funeral will be
held. Outside there was a clang of
picks and spades. Grave diggers
were hacking away at the turf in
the sunken garden outside the
capitol. AIS
cts unlucky to leave a grave
open at night" man in the crowd
At dusk lights were strung up
so that the grave diggers could
continue work.
National guardsmen, unarmed
but straight and tall in their
brown uniforms, stood guard at
the coffin. The wall behind the
casket was smothered with flow
ers.
1000 FILE PAST BIER
AS DARK FALLS
At dusk 1000 persons had drift
ed past the coffin. TAKING hurried