LATE HUEY LONG.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 2

LATE HUEY LONG.

WAS A MARKED MAN. GIRL CONTROLS FINANCES. Received September 12, 12.25 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. Rumours, alarums, and curious facts about tiro late Senator liuey Long came from many sources to fill the front pages of the newspapers to-day as he was lying in state m the nag draped skyscraper Capitol at Baton Rouge, which was built through his energy and efforts, and in whose shrubdotted grounds to-morrow he will be buried. Mr Earle Cliristenberry, secretary to the late Senator Long, stated that the senator knew in advance that lie was marked for death and that a dictagraph secreted in a room where a gang, of which Dr. Weiss was a member, met, revealed that lots were going to be drawn for the selection of tho assassin. “AA’eiss got the short straw. He realised it was suicide but figured it would be better to die a martyr to some people rather than be found on a lonely road with his own throat cut, ,) said Mr Lin istenberry. 0 , AYhilo the successor to Senator Long’s mantle is as yet problematical, an interesting disclosure lias been made that a young woman, a, former secretary to Senator Long and through his inllucnce appointed to the position of supervisor of public accounts, will control, without any' possibility of interference, all of the State funds, approximately 44,000,000 dollars. Senator Long m his own interest in maintains his power over the pursestrings of the State, had laws passed making interference with the supervisor impossible. It is therefore seen that she, at the present time, holds tho balance in the coming struggle for control over the State’s affairs. Baton Rouge was rapidly filling with mourners to-day, principally farmers in mud spattered “flivvers” from the country roads. Observers, however, noted that no tears were being shed, the atmosphere being more one of carnival.