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...Maul. In New Orleans, a cat scratched Mrs. Julian Hebert, who grabbed a revolver, gave chase, tripped over her son. The gun went off, shot the son in the knee. Mrs. Hebert threw the gun into the back yard, where it went off again, shot Mrs. Hebert in the foot. The cat escaped...
...Capitol Hill, jealous of their old prerogatives, clinging to their oldtime dignity, were bewildered and sore hurt. They were tired of being laughed at. Yet they did not wonder why they no longer commanded respect; instead they seized upon the press. Louisiana's Representative F. Edward Hebert warned darkly: "Unless something is done to curb that section of the press which holds in ridicule the keystone of democracy . . . our whole system of Government is going to collapse." Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead accused disrespectful newspapers of "sedi-tious conduct," cried for a Justice Department investigation...
...supervisors met to finish the job of de-Hueyizing their university. They elected as president Blackie Hodges, now a major general. A group of undergraduates, irked at getting a soldier president, lowered the University flag to half-mast. But Louisiana's Acting President Paul Macarius Hebert, who had done a bang-up job of cleaning up after Smith, swallowed his disappointment at not getting the job, told General Hodges: "You may count on [our] enthusiastic support...
...Long the remnants of his dictatorial machine were all but erased. Of eight Longster Congressmen, four were beaten, two were forced into runoffs, one failed to run, only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when the paper broke the building scandal which doomed the crumbling Long...
Administrator Williams promptly put the University on a strict six-months' probation, refrained from blacklisting it entirely only because the University's new board of supervisors and Acting President Hebert appeared to be making an honest effort to clean house...