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...named Carl Austin Weiss Jr. did it seemed fairly plain to local newshawks. Young Dr. Weiss, a Tulane Medical School graduate who practiced with his father in Baton Rouge, had married Miss Louise Yvonne Pavy. Mrs. Weiss was the daughter of Circuit Judge B. H. Pavy, a rabid anti-Longster in St. Landry Parish. One of the 39 bills up for passage by the Legislature was to gerrymander Judge Pavy's judicial district in such a way as to effect his ouster. Brooding darkly on this piece of petty politics, Carl Weiss apparently thought he was doing his father...
Louisiana has had almost no hand in controlling the distribution of Federal relief funds within the State. Early this month Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins quietly destroyed the State's last hold on Federal relief funds by appointing Frank Peterman, a bitter anti-Longster, to administer Louisiana relief. Last week Senator Long piped his State legislators to Baton Rouge, commanded them to rubber-stamp bills empowering his State agencies to seize and administer all Federal relief and PWA monies sent into the State, clap Frank Peterman into jail if he did not knuckle under. "This," commented an anti-Long...
...Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor of the Crescent City...
More important political business kept Senator Long out of Washington. New Orleans was about to hold a Democratic primary for mayor, equivalent to election. At stake were Huey Long's power and prestige as State boss. In the field were three candidates: an independent, a Longster named John Klorer and Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley seeking re-election for the first time. Buzzard-bald Mayor Walmsley heads the Choctaw Club, New Orleans' Tammany. In 1930 the Choctaws joined up with the Long State machine but cut loose last summer when it became apparent that the blatant demagog...
...parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...