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Last week Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
Viewing with Alarm. These accomplishments have not silenced many a Louisianan who views the Long record with utmost alarm. The "Kingfish's" critics point out that he has raised the State's indebtedness from $11,000,000 to more than $100,000,000. The public payrolls have been loaded down with his fawning followers. Under him New Orleans has slipped from second to fifth among U. S. ports. Prisons are so overcrowded that last week Governor Allen had to release hundreds of offenders to save money. The gasoline tax has been upped from...
...Chief, a Louisianan and not a West Pointer, entered military service in the Spanish War as Captain of volunteers. In the Philippines his men were once demoralized by peppery fire while fording a stream. Drawing them up beneath a sheltering hill, Lieut. Fuqua drilled them in the rudimentary manual of arms until their nerves were steadied. Again, plunging through Philippine underbrush, he found an orphan Filipino being flogged by his uncle. The Lieutenant bought the boy for 30 pesos ($17). gave him freedom, education, employed him as personal servant...
Chains. Unjust are the sneers which currently link Louisiana's bankers with Louisiana's onetime lotteries. Unkind are pictures of bewhiskered, bejuleped col- onels. As every Louisianan knows, New Orleans can boast many an active, enterprising apostle of sound finance. One such journeyed to Philadelphia last week to address fellow-bankers on bedrock principles of their profession. No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. German-born Banker Hecht has become so substantial a support of Louisiana industry that the Times-Picayune gratefully hailed him as New Orleans...
...TIME, "Louisianan Governor:'' "Republicans being as scarce in Louisiana as frogs in the Sahara...