Show TROOPS WATCH f- f VOTE KENTUCKY KENTUCKY VOTE f r- r FRANKFORT I Ky sept 7 A Eight hundred Kentucky national rt guardsmen marched Into Ha Harlan lan J cou county ty today oday took over vcr the reins of government in the town of Wailin Wai VaI rt lI lin and patrolled voting places over tho the county in the Democratic runoff runoff run run- Il off prim primary ry election Kentucky Democrats were ballotIng balloting ballot ballot- ing today to to nominate nomina e cand candidates dates for tor governor and other statewide of of- f 01 1 fi fies es The troop movement to HarIan Har Har- it lah paralleling a similar simiJa t In hc first primary August 3 which i still is-still reverberating in the courts It and a bitter personal fight light between t li Thomas Thoma S. S Rhea and Lieutenant L Governor A. A B B. Chandler for the 1 nomination for governor overshadowed o H owed all other aspects of the i I mary i Troops moved Into Harlan throughout tho the night The entire force assembled at the armory for forS S a 3 o'clock br breakfast before breaks break 1 t lug biG up Into small mall groups group to patrol this torn strife coal mining county's county's coun- coun tys ty's 71 voting places The polls I uX opened at 6 i Governor Ruby Laffoon whose J 4 administration is Backing SackIng the the can can- ft 4 for tor Rhea specified in his L executive order directing troops to toS S Harian Harlan that they should not Interfere inter- inter Vo fere tere in hi the voting 1 I S The Th guardsmen he ordered were V I the peace and nd protect conS conI con I rights of of citizens The S gov governor expressed fear of possible t t r mob violence over over- the dynamite r. L killing of Cou County ty Attorney Elmon this week I The troops were in command of 4 r. r Lieutenant Colonel John rJohn Polin Adjutant Ad Ad- t General Henry H. H Denhardt was understood tood to have stationed himself at nt In In nearby Bell k county to direct operations The general is under bond ond J In lna s 's a Harlan county contempt case S and faces another charge for alleged t r i illegal ac acts In connection with the f August 3 troop 3 tr op movement Sheriff i S. S Theodore R. R Middleton had bench w warrants fo for General Denhardt and r for a score of ot other national guard guardS 7 S i I. I officers based on Indictments ref ret returned re- re f t turned by a Harlan county grand grandI I jury after alter an investigation tion of the thc previous tr troop op movement Officers named in the warrants v. v however were reported to have haveS S been replaced by other officers to I minimize the danger langer of ot a clash be bel beI between be- be l I tween ve t en deputy sheriffs and soldiers Townspeople freely expressed S fear of violence should troops at atSy attempt attempt at- at Sy tempt to take lake ake charge of voting places k Reports at H Harlan said men to took k charge of of Wallin after l' l i national guard officers were told of of- i frt of ot that t town wn planned to fix the election there I Harlan county officials formally f. f tat d the belief that the Ute slaying of County Attorney Middleton was the 1 re result lt of his pis is activities against slot machines and commercialized gamY garnyS gam garn- yS Y b bling ng a killing Jling had no political J significance they said More than thanS S 60 60 co slot IQ machines were brought Jn JI by y deputy sheriffs in a roundup t ordered by Circuit Judge James M M. Gilbert S S Six men and a woman were under i arrest charged with murder inthe the y 11 Middleton case today The The county county 4 attorney wasa was a cousin of the sheriff |