Evening star., 1935-09-17
FRESH DEMANDS
MADE FOR INQUIRY
INTO LONGS DEATH
Connecticut Citizens Join
Movement for Federal
Investigation.
FOUR REPRESENTATIVES
IN PLOT, SAYS BROTHER
Organizer of "Share-the- Wealth
Clubs Names Names in
Message to Roosevelt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE. La, September
17.-Fresh demands for Federal in
vestigation Of the destruction Of Sen
ator Huey P Long, administration foe
and Louisiana dictator, went to Wash
ingotn today.
Rev. Gerald L. K Smith, organ
izer of the aSsaSsinated leaders
share our wealth" movement. said
he named names" IN a telegram to
President Roosevelt
The telegram said:
"A few days ago We laid to rest our
beloved leader, Huey P. Lor-, the VIC
tim of an assassin's bullet. head
Of the Share the Wealth :; ETY. OF
America, with 100000 members. I
! implore you. Mr. President, TO use
every agency at your command as
Chief Executive of the United States
/ to assist our State n locating and
bringing to justice the perpetrators Of
! the assassination of Senator Long.
! Says Plot Long Known.
( January last our State authori-
/
| sassinate Senator Long. Since that
time some of the leaders Of the plot
namely (names deleted) have been
placed on the Federal pay roll. Does
this program Of financing potential
assassins meet with your APPROVAL"
State officials held their own coun-
sci on whatever plans they might
have for pushing further investiga-
ton of the fatal shooting Of Senator
Long by DR.. Carl A. Weiss.
| Inquest into the death Of Weiss,
who was shot down by Longs body
guards, was closed yesterday after
Smith refused to respond to questions
by District Attorney John Fred Odom.
Smith declared Odom has been
named as a murder plot conspirator.'
Odom branded the charge "a malici-
Gus and deliberate lie
Jury Returns Verdict.
The coroner's jury, after hearing
the stories Of Longs bodyguards,
came TO the succinct verdict that Dr.
( Weiss death was caused by pistol
wounds in the head. chest and ab
/ domen, homicidally inflicted" Lou
isiana coroner's juries do not fix
| blame.
| Smith renewed at New Orleans his
charge of murder conspiracy and
announced the appeal for investiga-
/ ton to President Roosevelt. A meet
] ing of several hundred persons in
/ Stamford, Conn, adopted resolutions
asking United States Attorney Gen
eral Homer S. Cummings, residen;
/ of Stamford, to inaugurate an in
quiry.
At De Queen Ark. DR.. George S.
Long, brother of the Senator, told
i share wealth" gathering. at
tended by an estimated 5000 persons.
that Long died las result of a plot"
He said four members of Congress
! plotted the assassination and de-
clared the dead Senator's influence
would be felt in next years Arkansas
/ elections.
At memorial services in New York
Capt. George Maines, member Of the
Federated Share -Our-Wealth Club,
said: The organization is not break
ing up down there in Louisiana. 1t
has been knit closer together than
ever"
Smith conferred in New Orleans last
night with some of the organization
heutenants who have inherited Longs
vast statutory powers. What was dis
cussed was not disclosed.
Asked If he had appealed to the
State for an investigation, Smith said:
That is not necessary"
With Long organization leaders un-
willing to talk about the appeal to
the President. Smith was asked If the
State had any investigation under
way.
THE State has a Bureau of Investi-
CATION which regularly makes investi-
cations" he replied.
rs the bureau investigating Sena-
tor Longs death?" he was asked.
The bureau regularly investigatc
crimes in the State" he said.
Motive Still in Dark.
Longs bodyguards, who testified to
shooting the physician down, all as
serted that Weiss punched a pistol
! into the Senator's stomach and fired
without any exchange of words or
other preliminary.
Attorney General CASTOR L. Porterie,
vested with broad powers under one
of the dictatorship statutes to in
vestigate or prosecute criminal pro-
ceedings, heard all the coroners
eyewitness testimony. which failed
to throw any light on the assassina-
ton motive. He was asked If the
State would pursue the inquiry fur
ther.
II don't know" he replied.