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Piracy & Patronage. Earl had a sharp political instinct and, unlike Huey, the courage of a bull. He fought Huey's childhood battles for him, and later after he followed Huey from their Winnfield homestead as a traveling salesman, lawyer and political guerrilla, he fought some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish...
...Earl broke with Huey, spoke of him publicly as a "big-bellied coward" and set out to oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...
...correspondent who was a poor map reader was as helpless as an orphan unable to dress himself. At Lake Charles (headquarters of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Third Army) and at Winnfield (headquarters of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army) the correspondents assigned to each Army were told that the war would begin about midnight. Eventually they received word that action had started 100 to 200 miles away. Then they saw the last of headquarter comforts and were off into the dawn...
Stricken at his home in Winnfield, La. lay Huey Pierce Long Sr., 85, father of Louisiana's late Senator, with his son Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long at the bedside...
...Hustler rolled down the tracks near Winnfield one midnight last week shotguns flashed in a bordering wood, ten loads of buckshot poured into the tram, killed a guard, wounded the engineer and fireman. Unintimidated President Couch set guards and inspectors patrolling the line from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference...