Baton Rouge, Feb, 2.
An ugly incident marked' the arrival to-day at New Orleans of Senator Huey Long, self-styled dicta for of Louisiana, en route to the capital of his "kingdom."
Senator Long, whose sobriquet, is the "Kingfish," was hastily returning from Washington to Baton Rouge, allegedly to help in the prosecution of a group of citizens who are members of the "Square Deal" Association, which had been formed to oppose his activities, As the "Kingfish" clepped off the train of New Orleans, be was sur~ rounded by his bodyguard whose frst act was to beat a prose photographer and smash his camera to The cameraman had just Anished snapping Mr. Long's picture, as he was stepping off the train, when Joe Messina, chief bodyguard of the Senator, struck him in the mouth. The photographer, whose name was Trice, dropped his camera from the shock of the blow.
"Give it to Him"
Mr, Long, witnessing the incident, shouted: "Give it to him, Joo! Do anything you want" Messina, there~ upon, struck Trice with a blackjack on the back of the head and knocked him down, He was taken to hospital destroyed tis camera and staked off while others. ofthe bodyguard his arrival at Baton Rouge, the Senator was met by a bodyguard of 200 soldiers and police, under whose protection he swept ' through the streets of the capital of his empire, Tenge feeling was apparent, as the "Kingiish" drove to his hotel, among the citizens who were smarting under the eleven drastic orders passed under Mr. Long's recent proclama-of martial law.
The regulations, among other things, prohibit more than two people to congregate In the streets, and Jnisn orobibit the newspapers. from printing anything derogatory to the State administration, 'Martial law was. proclaimed on January 26, following the d.scovery of an alleged plot to murder the "Kingfish" who laid the charges of the plot against "four sheriffs, one district attorney and possibly' one district Judge,"—Reuter,
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