Show VOTERS DEFY GOVERNOR I 0 t tOt 0 00 0 0 0 4 0 6 THOUSANDS OF MEN IN ARMS I f POLLS I Walton Does Not Use I Troops To Prevent Voting I THREATS ARE MADEI MADEI MADE I I Sheriffs Take Precautions Precaution To Protect All I Voters I OKLAHOMA Okla Oct CM W Oklahoma's special state election at which will wiil be decided the ques ques- question ques- ques question question tion of at whether the state legislature shall meet to consider impeach Imp ment Impi-ach-ment meat ment charges against Governor J 3 JC JC C Walton alton swung Into full move rooe movement ment early today with reports In- In Indicating indicating In Indicating tha polls were opened throughout the state with the ex- ex exception ex exception of at four full counties and anda a part of a fifth firth Indications were that an unusually heavy y vote ote was being cast An election unequalled In the records of America drew the In- In interest In Interest terest of at virtually the whole ot of Oklahoma today Rumblings Rumbling of Intimidation and I violence were vere heard as thousands ot of special deputies les took their eta sta- sta stations at pi booths booth through throughout out the state Climaxing a bitter I struggle which began when the gOvernOr opened his warfare on the Ku Klux Klan the question of In the state legislature authority to convene on their 0 own n I call and Investigate the tho official act of ot the executive will be voted on I Impeachable offenses ha has have e been charged I Early Indications were that In 72 counties at least the governor governors governor's I strategic jocke Ing In ele hour efforts to block the election will ha have hae e no effect Only five of the 77 counties comprising Okla Okla- Okia- Okia Oklahoma horns homo hav have signified that they will willObey Obey the governor s comman command to present the election by force of at arms It necessary on ground that It it It 11 n ill be illegal I lIoT C c P STOP ILIano Arrayed against the executive are rulings of the state supreme court ourt the attorney generals general's department and the state election board i These held In effect that once called no man has the power to prevent an election Upon this ibis authority the attorney general based his orders which were telegraphed to all county of- of officials officials of officials Instructing them to use useI I every means to protect the voters oters To officials In the five counties and others W C McAlister secre secre- secretary secretary secretary tary of the state election board dispatched a warning early today that any person who Interferes wit with an election Is subject to Imprison Imprison- Imprisonment imprisonment Imprisonment ment Those who attempt to ob- ob obstruct ob obstruct the election will election VIII bp be b vigorous vigorous- vigorously vigorous vigorous-ly I II I ly prosecuted he decla declared red No man not even the ItO can pre prevent eat ent an n election SecretarY I asserted OFFICIALS THRE TEXI D Despite the warning however George D Key chairman of the Oklahoma county election board that nu numerous election of- of officials officials of officials had been ben threatened In in anonymous telephone alls and messages In Oklahoma City where citizens with special waited on call to aid election of- of of officers a woman In 11 whose hose homO the ballot box for a II township to I 13 placed was warned by sn an unsigned letter to get that box out of sour l house by morning or something Bill w ill happen In no case caso It wa s said td have the thc threats been noticed A clash narrowly was averted a at Tecumseh late last night hen Sheriff Butter of Potta atomic county with deputies went nent to the courthouse to obtain the tho ballot boxes for tor delivery to election of ot He lie was met at the entrance by 60 armed men said to have been beed acting under orders of the county attorney who declared they had instruCtions to shoot to kill Ull anyone who attempted to touch the tion supplies The sheriff went Immediately be- be before before be before fore District Judge Hal lal Johnson at Chandler and sad obtained an inJunction tion restraining any interference the election Early tOda today authorities were reported that the election would be held THOUSANDS GUARD POLLS Similar restraining ord orders rB were granted on the petition o citizens citizen and election officials at Tulsa Oklahoma City Enid Ardmore- Ardmore Ardmore MeAl McAlester ester Atoka and ana Ml Madill I In these hese and and other cities clUes where special deputies have been com corn commissioned commissioned It ItIs itis ItIs to protect the election Is estimated that thin more more than men mea are guarding the polis Numbers of at o special officers t I dl reeled by Governor Walton ap- ap appeared at different points In that th t Continued nuNI on p PS o 0 l Three 00 00 OF OP MEN IN ARMS GUARD POLLS C Continued From Irom Pago One state stat yesterday and attempted to gain control ot of election supplies but with aith Ith one exception they dis- dis dispersed dispersed dis dispersed persed peaceably when ordered away by the th civil authorities Six men who claimed they were es from the go ot- ot office of office fice were acre ere arrested at Madill for tor thrEatening the secretary ot of the local election board They The ar are tobe to 10 tobe be heard In court today loda The attitude o ot of authorities In the fh fi e co counties where apparently there will be b no seems seemA to be summed up tip In Ing state state- statement statement statement ment from Crom one of ot the tho officials OS GOVEn GO OK on I 1 have two taO messages concern concern- II ig the holdIng ot of o an election In Inthis inthis Inthis this county one on from Governor Walton demanding that It not be beheld beheld beheld held ind nd nd one on from froni the attorney general that It be held I prefer to obey the tho orders order of ot th the Inthis In Inthis inthis this case casc Governor Walton Wattons final attempt stop to-stop tho the election machInery was wa made mad In a call last night for tor an election on December 6 to vote vot on tile the constitutional amendment aUthorizIng the e cell The ex e reiterated his charge i that today's today proceedings I will be Illegal I He H said however that he be h Is will- will ling lag to submit the questIon at II a fair faIr and l legal i l election STATEMENT STATE DL Ul H He fe also Issued a a statement Ini deni-Ini dens den denIng densing Ing that h lie he Intended using mine the militia to pre present ent the th election to- to today today to today day Legislative opponents of ot the gov- gov governor governor t v In the tho movement for tor his hia Im- Im Impeachment impeachment followed the tb new nw elec elec- election dee dee- deetion election tion call with a 0 statement appeal appeal- appal ling hag to the people not to be b swayed by threat or oc- eleventh bur propaganda In addition to the Initiative pro pro- proposal proposal pro tor or cop th the l cl rivo other amend amend- amendment amendments meats ment Including a soldiers bOhUS lire are to b ted tiC dif en today Governor Walton yalton Issued lud the call for tor election on ox on August 13 the petition for the th legis leg leg- legislative amendment had been ben circulated Then early wever toll owIng tho the collapse of ot a bitter court tight to keep the th from the th ballot he h Issued a 1 procla prOcla- proclamation mation postponing the tho election |