ELECTION FIGHT
EIGHTEEN WOUNDED IN TENNESSEE NEW YORK, August 2. Former servicemen who backed up their ballots with bullets—and won —in a six-hour battle that left 18 wounded and the county gaol in Athens, Tennessee, in shambles, are patrolling strife-torn McMinn County with rifles to maintain order. .Sheriff Pat Mansfield, who is the leader of the opposing faction in the polls feud, is reported to have fled, after the former soldiers chased him and the deputies from the gaol with demolition blasts early this morning after besieging them with fire from pistols, shotguns, rifles, and at least one machine-gun. , Later to-day the former servicemen turhed law and order in Athens it-
self back to the police chief, but affirmed that they were still holding control of the county. State officials decided against proclaiming martial law after the battle died down.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 August 1946, Page 6
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