Evening star., 1946-07-26
HutchinsonWins
Support Of New
Alexandra Unit
Senator Byrd Attacks
Richmond Attorney as
100 Pct. Republican
By Alex R. Preston

By Alex R. Preston
Organization of an Alexandria
committee to elect Martin A. Hutch
tnson, Richmond attorney, to the
seat now held by Senator Byrd,
today marked the latest develop
ment ir Northern Virginia's primary
campaign.
At the same time Mrs. Elizabeth
Chiffon Murray, Arlington candi-
date for Representative Smiths seat
from the 9th District where she has
been conducting her campaign by
sound truck tours, today charged
"a strange ban against the use of
sound trucks has sprung up in
many Virginia towns and cities" of
the district.
Asserting she had been prohibited
from using her truck for a political
address in Culpeper, she wrote the
town manager there asking that the
matter be placed before the Town
Council for an official ruling.
Byrd Predicts COP Opponent.
Senator Byrd, speaking last night
at Richmond, said his opponent
would be practically 100 per cent
Republican" according to the lat
ter's standards of Interpretation.
1t was the Senator's final cam
paign speech scheduled in the State
capital before the primary August 6.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Hutchinson was
making plans to pay a return visit
to the Northern Virginia area.
Scheduled to speak from Station
WRC at 7:30 pm. Thursday, he
will make a personal appearance
the same day in Odd Fellows Hall,
Falls Church, at pm, when he
will speak on proposals to improve
Virginia public schools if he is
elected.
The Alexandria Committee for
Hutchinson is headed by Maurice
D. Rosenberg, attorney, and for
several years a delegate to the
General Assembly.
Mr.. Hutchinson was described bv
the committee as IAN experienced
public servant, moderate progress
oAFS anu dIl llluepeQQenU.
End of "Bossism" Urged.
The committee asked voters to
support their candidate to replace
Senator Byrd who has consistently
oostructed policies of the Democratic
party and of Democratic Presidents"
and ito put an end to machine con-
: troll OF the State of Virginia where
Byrd's bossism has become as abso-
lutte and as ruthless as Tammany
bossism at its worst"
The committee charged Virginia
school children are not getting a
fair break because Byrds fetish is
'economy'-a false economy"
Listed by the group as sponsors
are Frank Ludlow, Raymond Gala
CHER, Charlotte Goodman, Kate AL
friend, the Rev. William Basom,
CHARLOTTE Hunt, Walter Angel.
Thomas w. Bevis, Evelyn sAkerley.
Kenneth Crawford, Edith Dodge,
Carmelita Smith, Mark Kransoff
Ann Creighton, James C. Crump,
Mary Louise Hunt, Beatrice Van
Tassell, Walter H. Gable, Richard
Keating, Elizabeth Williams, Nora
Lamborne, Betty Heating and Henry
H. Fowler.
Replies to Smith Assertion.
Mrs. Murray's charges concerning
a strange ban" against use of sound
trucks in Representatives Smiths
district was made in reply to an
assertion by her opponent at a Tues
day rally in Arlington that both he
and Senator Byrd were prevented
by important matters pending in
Congress from waging an aggressive
campaign while their opponents had
ample opportunity to do so.
in applying for permission to
make speeches on my sound truck in
Alexandria" Mrs. Murray said, II
found that their price for a license
was $25 per day. In Manassas the
fee is SIS per day regardless of what
use the loud speaker is put to. In
Culpeper when I applied for a Ii
cenSe the town manager
sent word to me by his secretary
saying there was no use applying
for a icense-it was against the
city ordinance.
"Since the concentration of popula-
ton is in the cities and small towns
of the eight district, 1t is almost i'm
possible for me to reach the voting
public"
Byrd Rebuts Charges
Senator Byrd last night built up
his Republican" rebuttal out of
discussion of the Hutchinson charges
that his senatorial voting record was
81 per cent Republican. Mr.. Hutch
inson, he asserted, has made only
one positive statement as to how he
Hutchinson) would stand on voting
issues raised. This. the Senator
added, was that Mr.. Hutchinson
"unalterably opposed" a section of
the Truman railroad strike bill to
draft striking workers in essential
industries.
There" Senator Byrd said, "Mr.
Hutchinson placed himself under
the banner of Senator Taft, who led
the opposition to this legislation. I
voted for President Truman on this.
Following Mr.. Hutchinson's stand
ards, he'd be 100 per cent Repub-
hcan, on the basis of what he's said ;,