Evening star., 1946-08-05
Campaign Ends,
Virginia Ready
ToGo 10 Polls
Candidates Make
Last Radio Appeals;
New Rules Given

IN behalf of Senate and Hous'
candidates in tomorrow's Demo
cratic primary will be made Il
Northern Virginia voters this after
noon and tonight. :
For more than an hour and s
half, beginning at 4:55 pm, WPIK
Alexandria, will broadcast a serie'
Of political addresses starting with {
5-minute talk by Frank L. Ball, jr
Arlington attorney, who is urging
the nomination of Martin A. Hutch.
inson to the seat now held by Sen
ator Byrd, seeking denomination.
At S pm. the Arlington and Fair
fax Committees for Hutchinson will
sponsor addresses by Mrs. Virginia
Spitzenberger, Arlington housewife
Gilbert Hunter, Fairfax veteran
James C. Crump, Alexandria rail
road engineer, and j. Elwood Clem.
ents, Arlington veteran.
Byrd Speakers Listed.
Judge James r. Duncan of the
Alexandria Civil and Police Court
q veteran of World War /, is listed
by the station as the speaker at
Sis pm. in behalf of Senator Byrd
and Bernard M. Fagelson, Alex
andria attorney and Navy veteran
who served in the Pacific in World
War II, is slated to speak for Sena-
tor Byrd at $50.
Charles r. Fenwick, Arlington
party leader, will introduce Capt
Lytton N. Gibson, Falls Church, at
s:45 pm. Capt. Gibson, secretary
of the Byrd-Smith Club of Falls
Church, will speak for Senator Byrd
and Representative Smith, the lat
ter facing four opponents for re-
nomination in the 9th district.
At 6:15 pm. Senator Byrd will
speak by transcription. the station
announced.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chiffon Murray,
leading contender against Repre-
sentative Smith for nomination to
the House, will speak at $50 from
Station WRC. Mr.. Hutchinson will
speak from the same station for
five minutes at 10:15 pm.
OtiiC1 INo OIL lIG Cdllul-
dates for the House are James c.
Tate. former Army Air Forces ma jor
and Frank M. Hurst, Washington
basket merchant, both of Alexandria
No Local Contests.
There are no contests for local
offices in any of the three nearby
areas-Arlington and Fairfax Coun-
ties and Alexandria. In Arlington
however, voters will be asked to elect
A out of 63 candidates to the county
Democratic convention. which, In
turn, will name delegates to the
State convention at Richmond Sep
tember S, where a party nominee
will be chosen to fill the unexpired
term of the late Senator Glass, now
temporarily filled by Senator Burch
who has indicated he plans to retire
at the end of this year.
Thomas P. Chapman, clerk of the
court, Fairfax, today sent notices of
new primary election rules to all poll
officials. One regulation requires
that as soon as the polls are closed
at 1880 pm. and the last ballot de-
posted, election judges shall mark
polls closed" after the last voter tc
cast a ballot "and at once affix their
signatures following such indorse-
ment and proceed to canvass the
vote given at such election, and the
same canvass shall be continued
without adjournment until complet.
ed and the result thereof declared
Unregistered Veterans May Vote.
Veterans discharged after July {
need not have registered to be elig-
lble 10 cast their primary ballots
but should carry their discharge
papers in event they are challenged
Those discharged prior to that date
and who previously were registered
need not register again nor are they
required to have paid their poll
taxes II discharged since January /
1945. A large veterans turnout was
urged by the American Veterans
Committee.
In addition to the senatorial con-
test, five congressional contests will
be decided in tomorrow's voting.
The States senatorial contest, to-
gether with the five district con-
tests, has created considerable
voter interest in the primary and
q heavier-than-usual vote is pre-
dicted. Estimates of the total vote
vary from 10000 to 225, 900.
In tomorrow's primary the new
voting established by the 1916
General Assembly will be observed
for the first time in a State wide
election.
Polling places will be open from
$50 am. to 7:30 pm, instead of
the old sunrise se-to-sunset hours.
In an exchange of letters over the
week end Senator Byrd called on
his opponent to express his views
on the CIO-PAC, and Mr.. Hutch
tnson replied that he thinks it is
q legitimate organization-like, for
example, the National Association
Of Manufacturers-which has been
sometimes on the right side. some
times In the wrong, including in
It's membership both moderates and
extremists. but always entitled to
the free expression of Its opinion
Asks Hutchinson for Stand.
Senator Byrd, in his letter to Mr.
Hutchinson, said either you are for
or against the PAC, and, above all
the people Of Virginia have the right
to know before they go to the polls
on election day, in plain and simple
language what your position is with
respect to labor legislation"
Mr.. Hutchinson In replying said
his position on labor legislation
already had been stated in his radio
address OF June 81 at which time he
said he proposed establishment of q
system OF arbitration board, "cap-
able Of penahzing unions and man
agement alike-a subject on which
you have not yet chosen to commit
yourself"
E. II. Williams, office director a,
Senator Byrd's campaign headquar.
ters In Richmond, said last night
that an oficial of a Richmond CON-
pany which makes photostats had
made an AFFIDAVIT that the company
copied from small photograph and
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