Undressed Governor

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Undressed Governor

During Mardi Gras at New Orleans this year Commander Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, captain of the German cruiser Emden, was startled, insulted by being formally received by Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana clad in green silk pajamas, a red-&-blue lounging robe, blue bedroom slippers.

Now installed in the new $150,000 executive mansion at Baton Rouge, Governor Long last week received Maj.-General Frank R. McCoy, commander of the Army's southeastern corps area, and his staff, an engagement made a fortnight before. The reception scene: Governor Long sitting on his rumpled, slept-in bed in a white, one-piece suit of underwear.

Declared the Governor afterward: "At least I didn't have on pajamas. I've been back up in the country since I wore those green pajamas and I promised my folks up there I'd never be caught in them again."

General McCoy, not insulted, appeared amused.

Political criticism of Governor Long continued last week in New Orleans as informal as the Governor's attire. Because the city would not support him on a bond issue, he compelled its banks to call their municipal loans. This prompted the States, published by Col. Robert Ewing, onetime Long supporter, to declare:

AN UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE

"Governor Long's latest outrage . . . eclipses any of the infamies of this counterfeit Mussolini. . . . We might search in vain the history of the carpetbag era for any parallel to this scandalous and high-handed act.

"The descendants of the valiant heroes of the Fourteenth of September . . . will not permit the little chincapin-headed misfit now in the Governor's chair to run roughshod over this great city."

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