Evening star., 1938-07-31
TROOPS TO WATCH
MEMPHIS VOTING
Trains Ordered to Carry
Guardsmen for Duty .
on Thursday.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, July 80
Troop trains were ordered today to
transport approximately 1900 Ma
tional Guardsmen to Memphis for
duty in Thursdays Democratic pri-
mary, in which Gov. Gordon Brown
ing and National Committeeman E. H.
Crump are commanding opposing
forces arrayed for q finish fight over
supremacy in Tennessee.
The orders call for the militiamen
d begin moving into Mr.. Crump's
stronghold at $50 am. the eve of the
balloting and to remain until the polls
close.
Gov. Browning, seeking renomina-
taon. has declined to reveal his plans,
but trains were ordered to take 1,157
Officers and men Of the 117th Infantry.
That would provide about a squad of
soldiers for each of the 1875 polling
places.
Governor to Reveal Plans.
The Governor said he would make
known his intentions Tuesday follow
ing a campaign speech in Memphis.
where Mayor Watkins Overton said
"every possible police protection"
would be given Gov. Browning and
that propaganda that he is liable TO
be hurt is, of course, just wild, silly
talk"
Adjt. Gen R. o. Smith announced
the ll7th Infantry would be mobil-
lied tomorrow subject for duty in
the State"
Mr.. Crump, in bristling statement,
served notice on the Governor that
I'VE will not accept humiliation tame
ly." Saying that Gov. Browning
wants to stick bayonets through u.s."
he called upon his fellow Memphians,
with their moral bearing. their per-
sonal fearlessness, their love for our
city," to SAY to this braggart, you'll
never do it,"
The Memphis Press-Scimitar said
Crump organization attorneys ARE
busy on possible legal steps to stop
troops from coming or to curtail their
power" adding that "an appeal for
a Federal Court injunction to keep ont
the troops was mentioned as a posi-
bility"
Contest Is Indicated.
The Senate Campaign Investigating
Committee, in blistering report made
after an investigator had surveyed the
senatorial situation in Tennessee. said
It lis Of the opinion that the evidence
already before 1t with respect to as
sessments Of Federal employees by one
group in the primary and of State
employees by the other group points
sharply toward an election contest in
the United States Senate regardless
Of which candidate triumphs."
The committee reported "every
scheme and questionable device that
can be used" to raise funds and in
fluence votes seemed to be lin full
swing" Two additional Investigators
were sent into the State to make
final check-up.
In the senatorial race Gov. Brown
ing is allied with Junior Senator
George L. Berry. whom he appointed,
while Mr.. Crump and senior Senator
Kenneth D. McKellar are backing
Tom Stewart of Winchester, a district
attorney general
Three Others in Race.
There are three other candidates.
Representative j. Ridley Mitchell Of
the fourth district, who calls himself
"peacemaker," is running for the
senatorial nomination on harmony"
platform. Other aspirants are DR..
John r. Neal of Knoxville, an attor-
ney, and c. L. Powell, farmer Of
Sumner County.
Roy c. Wallace Of Lenoir City, a
former State controller, seeks the
guberna torial nomination on q plat
form that includes a local option
plank.
All Representatives are trying for
denomination except Mr.. Mitchell.
-Four are unopposed They are 3. Car
roll Reece and ]. Will Taylor, Repub-
licans, and Jere Cooper and Walter
Chandler, Democrats
In the fifth district Joseph w.
Dyrns, jr., son of the late Speaker of
the National House of Representatives,
Is seeking the Democratic nomination
to the congfiressional seat his father
held for more than quarter Of
century. He is running against Repre-
sentative Richard NJ. Atkinson.