Word: winnfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...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...