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Show Will Get the-Facts. LOPTSVILI.i:. Kv.. Oct. 27. rnitedNi Stales District Attorney Perry B. Miller ; today announced the department of jus- 1 tic.p. at W'ai-diington had instructed him; to ascertain the names, points of origin and destination of negroes or any other' voters from southern states, particularly j Alabama and Kentucky, who recent ly j may have passed through Ixmisville to northern states. 1 1 was stated investigation had dis- ! closed that large numbers of voters had j been transported from t lie south on party tickets to Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. This week it was announced 1 four cars of negroes were sent north through Memphis, Teniu and Louisville,, while large numbers, it was declared, recently re-cently have been transported from Alabama Ala-bama to eastern Kentucky. The department, it was announced, will endeavor to learn whether the exodus was due to attractive wage offers of-fers or to other influences. |