INVASION OF TENNESSEE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 14

INVASION OF TENNESSEE

GUARDS FOR "WILD LIFE"

LOUISIANA FOOTBALLERS

j NEW YORK, October 26. [ To-morrovf Senator Huey Long, of Louisiana, who hopes some day to be President of the United States, will march into Nashville, Tennessee, at the nead of the student body of Louisiana Stat© University. They are going to see a football match between Louisiana's team and that of Vanderbilt University, and there is no reason why any of undergraduates should* fail o get there, for the bountiful Mr, Long uts not merely provided the Cadet Corps; 1500 strong, and the military

band of 150 members with new uniforms specially for this event and arranged

to take them free in special trains to Nashville, but he has lent £1 8s each to approximately 1000 other students of both sexes, so that they, too, may e© the. match. It is a grand plan, but until last night there was one serious obstacle in the way of its realisation. The Sena-

tor, who has more than a, generous measure of exuberance himself, was only too well aware how exuberant 3000 or !OCO students can become when they are roing to a football match by special trains, and nSO he had arranged that 25 well-armed Louisiana State policemen should accompany the expedition in order to preserve the amenities. There

re laws, however, which forbid the nvasion of one State by armed forces rom another. Mississippi, where Senaor ( Long's name is- magic, made, no

difficulties about allowing Louisiana policemen to go through her domain, but Tennessee's Governor and her At-torney-General felt that they were without authority to suspend the prohibition for their State.

Here was an impasse. Fortunately, however, last night at almost the last minute. Tennessee found a way out. The Slate Pish and (lame Commission notified Senator Long that his policemen would be welcome as "Deputy Game Wardens" to guard "whatever wild life von may see fit to import into our State."