Evening star., 1935-08-07
.|NCUMBENTS WIN
ARLINGTON FIGHTS;
.B|RRELL DEFEATED
Rosenberg Nominated to
House Over Alexandria
Veteran.
FAIRFAX NAMES WOMAN
TO SUPERVISORS POST
Rust Victor Over Reid for Vir.
ginia Senate-Fields Beats
0denthal.


day Endorsed all present officials TO
carry the party banner in the general
election, while Fairfax County voters
for the first time in history nominated
woman for a seat on the Board oil
Supervisors as they gave sweeping VIC
tories to State Senator John w. Rust
and Judge Paul E. Brown, the latter a
candidate for Commonwealth's attor-
ney.
Another high light of the balloting
was nomination Of Maurice D. Rosen-
berg to the Alexandria seat in the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates. He garnered
1921 of the 2,8l4 votes cast in the
city to defeat Capt. George H. Evans,
retired Army officer. and the veteran
]. Fred Birrell.
Loses Arlington.
Rust lost in Arlington County, but
was supported by Alexandria, Fairfax
and Prince William voters, and de-
feated his opponent, Hugh Reid, for
mer member of the House Of Delegates,
by 1000 votes altogether.
In Arlington Sheriff Howard B.
Fields. Treasurer Charles T. Jesse,
Commemorative Attorney Lawrence
w. Douglas and Board Members Eliz-
abeth Barron Magruder and William
E. A. McShea won. C. Benjamin Lay
cock, deputy commissioner of rev.
enue, received the nomination for
county clerk, having bested three op-
ponents, I. Chance Buchanan, Ralph
E. Remington and Lyman M. Kelley.
Fields Beats Foe.
Laycock's vote was 2,143, with Bu-
chanan receiving 1915; Kelley, GIL,
and Remington, 1888.
Fields carried 10 Of the II pre-
cincts, losing only Clarendon by %
votes. The total vote for Fields,
1870; Odenthal, 2,266.
Jesse defeated Board Member Harry
A. Fellows by 3,288 to 2,4O9. losing
only the Lyon Park precinct and this
by Al.
Out of a total vote of $500, Douglas
received an even 3,l0o, with Emery N.
Hosmer running second with 1,5o2
and John Paul Jones trailing with
1,007.
In addition to Mrs. Magruder and
McShea, those winning nominations
for the County Board are George M.
Yeatman with the high score of 3,l09
F. Freeland Chew with 2,620 and
James Buchanan with 2,557 votes.
The vote for the other four board
candidates was Leo c. Lloyd, 2,29l;
c. w. Lee, 2,076; Thomas r. Mechem,
1880, and Edward Duncan, 1894.
Brown Gets Largest Vote.
Judge Brown received the largest
vote of any Fairfax candidate in the
primary, defeating George B. Robey,
2,288 to 1854.
With three opponents. Miss Edith
Rogers of the Dranesville district took
the honor of being the first woman
nominated to the County Board, de-
feating her closest rival, T. A. VANS
ley, 289 to 168 George F. Harrison
and E. E. Gillette, other candidates in
the race, received 134 and 70 votes,
respectively. Nomination is equiva-
lent to election.
DR.. F. w. Huddleson, veteran
county treasurer, was given 1,442 votes
against 1,214 for c. C. Carr, his near
est opponent o. w. Whitley, third
candidate, received 688 votes.
Unofficial returns indicated c. H.
Powell, incumbent on the Board of
Supervisors from the Falls Church
district, had defeated his rival, John
w. Kerns, by the scant margin of
two votes, Powell receiving 234 to
232 for Kerns.
Others Renominated.
Other incumbents on the board were
renominated in each case with sub
stantial majorities, the results being:
Chairman w. F. P. Reid of Mount
Vernon district, 240 votes; ]. B. Par
nell, 1877; Providence district, G. Wal
lace Carper, 816 votes; o. B. Camp
bell, 294; Centerville district, D. w.
Buckley, incumbent, $50; John Fergu-
son, 1875, and r. Cotton Lewis, 131.
The primary brought about the
breaking of long-existing deadlock
on the Alexandria Democratic Com
mittee. One of the two factions of the
party seeking control of the commit
tee, obtained 10 of the IL committee
seats. Previously, the committee had
been divided, 6 to 6.
Carlin Sent Back.
Results of the committee election
sent three committeeman, Charles c.
Carlin, jr.; DR.. o. A. Ryder and
Charles Davis, back to their committee
seats, and saw two members seeking
reelection from the sixth ward,
Charles E. Burgess and William Sellers,
defeated.
The vote by wards for committee
posts was:
First ward-Armistead L. 'Boothe,
293; Charles Davis, 237; Jack How
ard, 1873; DR.. E. A. German, So.
Second ward-Powell Roberts, 304;
Clyde C. Lamond, jr., 295.
Third ward-T. Wilfred Robinson,
375; c. C. Carlin, jr, 264; Walter
Cline, 1853.
Fourth ward-R. Samuel Luckett,
275; DR.. o. A. Ryder, 257; Robert v.
Duncan. 21l; DR.. Carl Dreifus, 140;
A. e. Burns, 20.
Fifth ward-Richard L. Ruffner. 429;
Orlando H. Kirk, 256; Louis E. De
Moll, ITO; Joseph Everly, 100; Joseph
H. Kretschmer, SO.
Sixth ward-Alan Prosise. 270; Ar
thur Campbell, 254; Charles E. Bur-
CESS, 1874; william Sellers, 1874.