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Tax Dodgers . . . No. 6—

Huey Long Became a Lawyer

Because He Longed fo Be Politician - By ELMER L. IREY, A old to : 2

uey became a lawyer at 21, after preparing for only siontha, Normally, it should have taken him three years, but : . was unquestionably Streets gifted. pever: much law, and his explanation

beaten, but in 1928 he won, in a campaign predicated on “Every Man a King but No Man Wears a Crown” and a promise of free paved , roads and free textbooks. He also promised that the people of Louisiana would not have to pay for them, but that the “corporation high mucketymucks” would bear the taxes. He was quite wrong on this. The people paid and paid snd paid. So did the corporation “high muckety-mucks” pay too. : But the corporations quickly learned that Huey could be rea.sonable with arguments based on cash. . t

¥ . FINALLY "the State House of Representativees impeached “The Kingfish” on 19 charges. But 15 state Senators stated they would not vote to impeach Huey no matter what he had done. In. 1930 and 1931 my mail seemed. to consist mainly of

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A few uation, later walked into my office in W

stealing everyining| in the state . + + and they're not paying taxgs op the loot.” I sent Burford and 32 agents into Louisiana at once and things really began to hum. Long was now a U. 8. Senator. A Democrat, he was pressuring|tive the Hoover administration to call me off. When Hoover was beaten In

of the Treasury, Ogden Mills, called me and said: “Suspend your ‘investigation immediately and write a full re. port. After all, the Senator is one of their (the Democrats’) bables.” , Lc 4 - LS . : AFTER Henry Morgénthau Jr. became Secretary:-of--the Treasfor me. “Get all your agents back on the Louisiana job,” he said. “Let

Burford and I decided that the technique that had put Al Capone and his gang in jail would be reasonably applicable to Huey Long and his gang. So, we set up headquarters in New Orleans. ‘Pat O'Rourke, the undercover agent, was told to find out what

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Long's right-hand man, Seymour Weiss. who had risen quickly from ‘barber shop manager in the

ington. “Chiet,” he said, “Louisiana is ia IT crawling. Long and his gang are Hey Long... "Every Man a King"

the thips fall where they may.”

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O'ROURKE moved info Weiss’

He sat around the lobby and after a week or so was exchanging pleasantries with. Weiss.

November of 1932 his Secretary|O'Rourke grumbled to Weiss of

the difficulties he was experiencing getting an FCC: permit (the FCC had been carefully briefed not: to issue the permit). A few days after O'Rourke grumbled about his problem ela suggested that he talk fit with Monte Hart, who O'Rourke knew was right behind Weiss in the Long hierarchy and

ury in January of 1934 he sent!therefore thé No. 3 man.

Hart had obviously had O'Rourke's FCC application checked, because he had hardly shaken O'Rourke's hand when he sald, “I can get that radio permit thing fixed up for $5000.” O'Rourke begged off, pleading momentary insolvency. but he became friendly with Hart, and soon he was sitting in on card games with Hart, Weiss and occasfonally a foulsmouthed lout

he could, particularly about Huey, who became insane when he was

losing—the Kingfish himself. We were ready to indict early in 1935.

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“Burford had dug up something that might get a conviction. It was the story of the “Win or Lose Corp.” “Win or Lose” was formed in 1934. Huey P. Long owned 31 shares, not a red

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THE company’s first deal was - when Gov. 0. K. Allen sold title to an oil and gas lease near New’ Orleans to a wealthy operator for 32740 50. That money went into the kitty, although the Governor sold state property. | “Win or Lose” also owned 20

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man, Gov. O. K. Allen, The corporation offered two big gas companies there locations at The companies said no.. - Long's handpicked Governor and his fried Noe, who was also

Rotel. He posed as a radio ates RREMIdent pro tem of the state

Senate, announced that the. State of Louisiana was going to inicrease the taxes on natural gas, The corporations thereupon offered “Win or Lose” $18,000 for, each of the 20.locations: “Win or Lose” accepted the $320,000 and the bill to increase gas taxes was, never again heard of anywhere, “Win or Lose” promptly declared | a dividend of $2000 a share and Huey’s loot was $62,000, On Sept. 8, Dr, Carl Weiss (no| relation to Huey's No. 1 boy, Sey-| mour) and Huey Long were pu dered in the Louisiana State Capitol. Pr. Weiss is given credit| for assassinating Long. Weiss had a 22-caliber pistol in his hand] when Long's bodyguards mowed him down. Long died as the result of a’ single bullet wound made by a 45-caliber slug. Nobody has xplained that yet.

TOMORROW: The Kingfish | was dead, but his cohorts carried on. They had learned it was wise to pay taxes on income, But the looting didn't stop, says Mr. Irey.

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