The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

laws aimed at further suppression
Of political opponents. and Lee o
Lester. vice president of the mill
family anti-Long Square Deal As
ISOLATION. called upon Louisianan!
to remove the yoke Of dictator
ship"
Now is the time for the people tC
act. Lester said.
one Of the spite" laws Chairman
Fredcricks intended to push TOWARD
passage VIII gerrymander Judge B
II. Pavv Of Opelousas out Of Office
Judge Pavv is the father-in-law Of
the late assassin and it was believed
that that law gOaded the studiOu'
youth. who brooded over the quail
ties Of the Long machine. 70 his des-
perate deed.
States Debt Tremendous
Long died in a room on the Sec
ond floor Of the sanitarium over.
looking the tiny lake separating il
from the Capitol built during hi
regime as Governor when unparal-
leled expenditures built hundred.
Of miles Of paved roads. scores OIL
bridges. dozens of other public
buildings and lifted the state.
bonded debt from a figure below
$4,000 900 10 S126 600 00O
Longs body will lie in state in
the rotunda of the Capitol. Flu
neral services still were indefinite
but it was believed they would be
public. His secretary, Earl Chris
tenberry. announced burial prob
ably would be in Winfield, La.
where he was born 43 years ago. a
poor farm boy.
In addition to threatening violent
political upheavals in Louisiana
Longs death brought a profound
change in the national political pic
ture. A bitter enemy Of the New
Deal and of President Roosevelt
he had organized "Sharesthe-
Wealth" clubs throughout the
country and was believed to plan
welding them into the nucleus of
a third party to back his presidential
aspirations either in 1886 or 1910.
Militia Still on Duty
His death did not eliminate the
intensity that gripped Louisiana the
moment it was known he was
wounded. In New Orleans three
companies of militia stood by
awaiting orders that may send them
TO the capital to Illustrate any effort
of Long opponents to seize the gov
eminent by force. or to guard his
high ranking Sub-leadeTs against g
similar fate.
In Baton Rouge. a heavy guard OF
state police and of Longs secret pO-
lice. still maintained a ring of sub
machine guns around the capitol
Those who entered were searched
for weapons and those without spe-
Cific business we've refused admit
lance.
With the exception of Longs fam
lily. all those around him when he
died had benefited from his pOlit-
ical regimes. Even the doctors at
his bedside.who rank high among
the states phySicianS-wer state
Office holders.
They were DR.. E. L. Sanderson
superintendent of the Shreveport
Charity Hospital. and DR.. Arthur
Vidrine, superintendent of the New
orleans Charity Hospital Others
who treated him we're DR.. Urban
Macs Of New Orleans. information
ally known surgeon. and DR.. Clar-
enCe LOriO of Baton Rouge
Fights OF Oxygen Tank
Earl Long and his wife returned
to the hospital soon after a m
in response to a summons. Mrs
Stuart Hunt. Longs sister, and her
husband arrived soon afterward
Mrs. Long and the three Long chill
dren already were at the bedside.
Gerald L. X. Smith. clergyman
and president of the Louisiana
"Share-the-Wealth" Club. was sum-
mOned to the bedside at 3:42. Re
ports Immediately circulated that
his Offices were desired in his first
capacity.
In delirium, Long fought of The
oxygen tent. one of the last weapons
marShaled by science to save hi,
life. He thought it was a device tC
take his picture against his will.
Two men were dispatched from
Our Lady Of the Lake Sanitariun
in an emergency search for ephe.
drine. a heart Stimulant. They were
instructed to race from drug store
to drug store until they found The
drug.
sinking Rapidly" Is Word
Seymour Weiss. chairman of the
New Orleans Dock Board and treas
urer Of the Long organization that
holds absolute power over all o.
Louisiana. made this announce
ment:
He has had all the blood trans
fusiOns he can take and is sinking
rapidly. We do not expect him tC
live through the night
Longs state highway police and
plainclotheS members of his State
Bureau Of Criminal Identification
formed an inpenetrable guard
around the S5.OOO.OO state capitol
Gov. Allen, Noe. Public Service Com
missioner James O'COnnor anC
Weiss cOniei4oG periodically II
whispers in the corridor of the sani-
tarium. outside the boss room.
Several prominent members Of the
Long opposition. including Rep. J. y
Sanders Jr. and former Gov. John
NJ. Parker. attended the funeral OF
DR.. Carl A. Weiss. Longs assassin
and stood bare-headeG IN pouring
rain in token OF their respect to his
memory.
An inquest into DR.. Weiss death
continues today. He was shot down
by Longs bOdyguard an instant after
he fired one shot into the dictator S
body n a corridor of the capitol
Sunday night. More than 80 bullet
wounds were found in Weiss body.
The lobby and corridors of the
hospital reflected the intense, ORA
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