Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-03

primary. This is particularly applicable
70 Fairfax and Prince William Counties.
Election Of John w. Rust Of Fairfax. 20
represent this district in the State Sen
ate seemed assured. Little opposition
was expected from his opponents, Will
liam L. Norford, Alexandria Landon
Cabell Painter, Hybla Valley, and Mrs.
Julia Morgan Jones, Alexandria.
j. Fred Birrell had no opposition for
the Alexandria House Of Delegates seat.
He has represented Alexandria for sew
eral sessions. There was little interest
being shown at the polls there.
Early activities at the polls in Ar
lington County indicated that there
would be a record vote cast today as
a climax to the most aggressive cam
paign for county Offices ever conducted
there. There are approximately 5000
qualified voters in the county, and 1t
was believed that a greater proportion
Of these would cast their ballots.
Activity at the voting places was I'M
precedented, there being rs candidates,
to say nothing of their numerous back
ers, distributed among the eleven pre-
cincts Of the county and making last
minute appeals for votes. These were
also making tabulations of the way they
thought the ballots were cast.
Police Aid Sheriff.
The entire county police force, with
the exception of Edward Duncan, jr.,
who was acting as jailer. was diStribu-
uted among the precincts to seek sup
port of Sheriff Howard B. Fields for
reelection. Duncan Is son of the
supervisor from Jefferson district, who
is opposing Fields for the Office of sher-
III, and was placed in an inactive place
at his own request. It was believed,
however, that A. G. Clements would
poll a heavier vote than the jefferson
district supervisor, but that 1t would not
be sufficient to overcome the strength
of the incumbent. The other two can
didates for sheriff, 2. o. Hines and
Carl A. Schulze, were not believed to
be in the running.
The commemorative attorney race
was expected to be much closer, there
being three strong candidates In the
field. These candidates are William G.
Cloth, incumbent; Lawrence w. Doug
las and Clarence r. Ahalt. Douglas
was generally believed to be Cloths
most dangerous opponent, despite the
fact that Ahalt is the Republican NOM
inee. Political observers predicted the
reelection Of Cloth by q not too COM
Portable margin, with Ahalt q close
third. The other two candidates for
this office. Amos c. Crounse and Emery
N HoSmer, were not credited with suf-
ficient strength to make them dan
gerous.
Prophecy Hard to Make.
1t has been extremely dificult to make
any kind of reasonable prophecy as to
che outcome OF the race for justice of
the new County Court. Among the eight
candidates who were seeking this Office
there was but one who had the adj
vantage Of being an officeholder This
candidate is Supervisor B. NJ. Hedrick,
who also had the added advantage of
being the Republican nominee.
Certainty of Hedrick'S election was
being loudly proclaimed by many Of
his supporters, but the ''old-time" poll
ticianS of the county were not so GER
tain. They pointed to the fact both
Walter U. Varney and Bryan Gordon
have considerable open support and
that j. Hammond Brewer, jr., who has
been conducting silent" campaign,
might nave accumulated SUFFICIENT sup
port to gain the office. These four
were held to be the strongest, thereby
eliminating the other four, w. Thomas
French, H. W. Dudley, Hugh M. Nc
Catfrey and Melvin G. Ely.
Hugh Reid, present member of the
General Assembly, was expected to be
reelected, but not by the plurality en-
| Joyed by him two years ago. His OPP
ponent, j. Foster Hagan, Republican
nominee, is native of Arlington Coun-
ty and has many friends in both polit-
ical parties who were expected to give
| lieved that Hagan is the strongest Re-
publican nominee selected here in many
years, but he is faced by one problem
that Is hard to overcome. Many i'm
portant questions coming before the
General Assembly are decided in
Democratic caucus and since Repbli-
cans are not permitted to participate
many voters fear a lack of full repre-
Sentation unless Democrat is Sc
lected.
Little Doubt on Green.
There was little doubt rs to the re-
election Of Harry X. Green as COM
missioner of revenue and no doubt as
to the reelection Of f. Wade Ball as
county treasurer. Green was heing
opposed by c. w. Clever, Republican
nominee, but the latter was not credit
ed with any great amount of strength
Ball had no opposition. being the only
present office holder to find himself
IN such happy position.
To prophesy the exact outcome OF
the county board race was deemed next
to impossible. There were i've places
TO I'LL from 81 candidates and while q
certain number of them were consid-
cred leaders, no political prognoSticator
could be found who would commit him
self to the task Of naming the i've who
would be successful Among those
named as leaders were:
Fred A. GoSnell, John G. Gall, Rob
ert H. Forman. F. Freeland Chew, E C.
Tlrnburke. Harry A Fellows, Robert E.
Plymale, George d. Kicker, Louis c.
Carl. Maj. F. H. Con, William c. Hull.
Lyman NJ. Kelly, Mrs. Elizabeth Barron
Magruder William A. E. McShea. VIII
liam r, Rose. Fred N windridge and
Albert H. Cohen.
There was a general feeling Of opti-
mtsm among voters as to the outcome of
county board selections, many express
ing the opinion that the election Of any
i've Of the above-named candidates
would insure a capable selection for
county manager and an eficient ad-
miniStration OF county affairs for the
next four years.
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