September 10: ON THIS DAY in 1935, Huey Long is dead

September 10, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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ON THIS DAY IN 1935, the Eagle reported, “Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 10 (AP) — United States Sen. Huey P. Long, known the world over as the dictator of his native Louisiana, died at the age of 42 today of a wound inflicted by an assassin. Physicians battled for 31 hours to save the political chieftain’s life. They performed one operation, five blood transfusions and administered artificial oxygen to no avail . . . The widow who married him 22 years ago after her alibi testimony saved him from charges in a shooting scrape was led dry-eyed from Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. She had been at the bedside in constant vigil since Sunday night . . . The gunshot wound was inflicted by Dr. Carl A. Weiss Jr., kinsman of a Long political enemy, in the corridor of the Louisiana State Capitol at 9:20 p.m. Sunday . . . Dr. Weiss, a 30-year-old eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, pressed a gun into the senator’s stomach and fired. His arm was deflected before he could fire a second shot, and Long’s bodyguards, state highway policemen, killed him on the spot with a fusillade of nearly 60 bullets.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1872, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The enlargement and improvements being made in the Eagle building — now rapidly approaching completion — will afford residents and visitors to Brooklyn a better opportunity of witnessing in operation Hoe’s Lightning Presses than can be obtained, perhaps, anywhere else in this country. These presses are accepted, the world over, as among the most remarkable triumphs of American mechanical genius and skill. The necessities of most printing offices, in which they are used, involve their location underground, where they cannot be seen to advantage, and where they are visited only with inconvenience, especially by ladies. By the purchase and occupation of the building known as 38 Fulton Street, in addition to the buildings now used by us, we are enabled to provide for the accommodation of two of those monster machines, above ground, where they may very soon be seen in operation, from the sidewalk.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1901, the Eagle reported, “Chicago, Sept 10 — Emma Goldman, whose speeches are alleged to have fired the brain of Leon Czolgosz, the would-be assassin of President [William] McKinley, was arrested here shortly before noon today. Miss Goldman’s manner was defiant as she was led into the office of Chief of Police O’Neill, but she disclaimed all knowledge of Czolgosz and his crime, admitting only that she met him here July 12. ‘Do you know that your words are what Czolgosz claims stirred him to shoot the President?’ she was asked. ‘I do not, [she said.] I never advocated violence. I scarcely know the man. I was leaving for Rochester, via Buffalo, when Czolgosz had a few words with me.’”

It was also reported, “Anarchists Musts Leave New York . . . Police Commissioner Murphy this morning issued a general order to all commanding officers in the Police Department, whether of precincts or squads, directing them to take a census of all anarchists living in their districts and to forward the lists to headquarters, where the Central Office Department is to conduct a general surveillance upon the anarchists of the city. The purpose of this, the Commissioner says, is to make life so disagreeable for anarchists in New York City that they will move out of it.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1925, the Eagle reported, “Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 10 (AP) — Miss Dorothy Knapp and Miss Kathryn Ray, New York show girls, whose appearance as Miss Manhattan and Miss Coney Island in the national beauty tournament, now in progress here, threatened its disruption, today voluntarily withdrew from the contest. In letters to the pageant committee announcing their withdrawal they declared they had taken the step rather than embarrass the pageant management. ‘It was my belief that the public desired sheer beauty,’ wrote Miss Knapp, ‘regardless of the occupation of the contestant, but I have come to the conclusion that it is more desirable that the pageant honors shall be awarded to an amateur, and hope that this will form the precedent for the future. I also believe that all other professionals in the contest should withdraw.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1945, the Eagle reported, “A still sharper increase in post-war crime in Brooklyn was predicted today by First Assistant District Attorney Burton B. Turkus . . . A sharp rise in robberies, muggings and other forms of violence which has been noted since V-J Day was reported yesterday in the Brooklyn Eagle. Much of the crime wave is attributed, not to organized mobs, but to youths who were recently laid off by war plants and are unwilling to go back to school.”

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THE X-FILES BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1993. “The Truth Is Out There” was the mantra of FOX’s scary and brainy sci-fi drama, now a cult classic. Special FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) solved the cases too weird for the bureau and also uncovered a vast conspiracy involving aliens and human-alien hybrids. TV Guide named “The X-Files” one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Two feature-length films were created as well. The series ended in 2002.

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