FIFTEEN ARE KILLED WHEN KENTUCKY GOES TO POLLS
 

WISCONSIN RAPIDS DAILY TRIBUNE WISCONSIN RAPIDS WISCONSIN 08 NOV 1933 FIFTEEN ARE KILLED WHEN KENTUCKY GOES TO POLLS   --------------- REPORT OF FIVE MORE SLAYINGS IN TWO COUNTIES ADD TO EARLY TOTAL OF ELECTION DAY SLAYINGS Prestonsburg, Ky., ---(AP) - Reports of five election day killings in FLOYD and KNOTT COUNTIES were received here today, bringing to 15 the number of such killings in KENTUCKY. Two men were slain, another probably fatally stabbed and three others were wounded slightly in FLOYD COUNTY. ARTHUR THOMPSON, who was shot here Tuesday afternoon, died early today in a MARTIN hospital.   Officers were told his alleged assault, CLYDE CLARK, nephew of a candidate for magistrate, was coming in to give himself up.   CLARK, the officers said, was severely beaten and THOMPSON'S brother, WILLIS RAY THOMPSON, was wounded slightly.   One version of the fight was that the men quarreled over an old bet, while another was that they fought after one of them was struck accidentally with a cue stick in a pool game.   Officers said they did not believe the shooting was connected with the election.                 ------------------- YOUTH DIES DENNIS SPEARS, 18, died in the MARTIN Hospital after having been shot at the mouth of BUFFALO CREEK, eight miles from here.   MONT LAFERTY, said by officers to have shot SPEARS, was stabbed in the back during the quarrel and was taken to a hospital.   He was not arrested. Stabbed in the lung, FRANK BURCHETT, 22, was believed fatally wounded in another FLOYD COUNTY fight blamed by officers on a drinking bout.   His alleged assailant has not been arrested.   BURCHETT is a son of Deputy Sheriff TURNER BURCHETT.   ---------------------------------- COUSINS SHOT Reports from HINDMAN said BALLARD HALL and ORVILLE HALL, cousins, and a man named MULLINS were shot to death in KNOTT COUNTY Tuesday afternoon in a fight, the nature of which was not learned.   KNOTT COUNTY officers could not be reached for their report on the affair. Five men were fatally wounded in a gun battle at LAYMAN, HARLAN COUNTY.   They were Z.B. BLANTON, 46; JOHN BLANTON, 24; JESSE BLANTON, and A.H. HENSLEY, 57, and his son, ZACK HENSLEY, 21.   JESSE BLANTON died late last night. OTTO RAMEY, 22, was slain in CARTER COUNTY.   HANNIBAL SHARP, 38, negro, was killed at MIDDLESBORO, and HUGH CHILDS, 50, negro, was fatally shot in LOUISVILLE.   Several others were wounded by bullets and knives in election fracases throughout the state.        Submitted by Ona Hall Scalf