Evening star., 1946-07-21
Byrd 70 Attend
Rally tuesday
In Arlington
Green Reception
To Be CIimux of
Primary Campaign
By Alex R. Preston

head OF the State organization, Will
attend reception at the home Of
Arlington's Commissioner of Reve-
nue. Harry K. Green.
Representative Smith, who Is
seeking denomination to the House
from the 9th district; Senator
Burch, who recently was appointed
to fill the seat of the late Senator
Glass, Gov. Tuck, and former Gov.
Darden also will attend the re-
ception.
Charles r. Fenwick, unsuccessful
candidate for the lieutenant gov
ernorship in the last election and
former member of the House OF
Delegates from Arlington, will serve
as master of ceremonies and will
introduce most of the speakers.
Representative Smith will be intro
duced by Chairman j. Maynard
Magruder of the Arlington Demo-
cratic Committee and Edmund D.
Campbell, chairman of the County
Board, who is the sole party candi-
date to succeed himself in the pri-
mary, will head the list of Arling-
IN officials scheduled to attend.
Delegations to Attend.
Delegations from Fairfax, Fau-
quier, Prince William and Loudoun
Counties and Alexandria are ex-
pected at the reception. A women's
committee, headed by Mrs. Beulah
Friess, will take a leading part in
the rally.
No invitations have been sent out
for the reception, although an
nouncement- cards have been mailed
to friends and supporters of Sem
ator Byrd and Mr.. Smith.
In the event of rain, arrange
ments have been made to hold the
reception in the Westinghouse
High School, it was announced.
Meanwhile, Senator Byrd, in his
first campaign speech in the Shen-
andoah Valley, told 1900 Harrison
burg and Rockingham County res
idents yesterday that balanced
Federal budget is imperative if
democracy is to continue and re-
iterated his denunciation of what
he said was the dictatorial powers
neld by the Nations labor leaders.
Introduced by Tuck.
Senator Byrd was introduced by
Gov. Tuck. who pointed to the
service of the Virginia senator in
National and State affairs and
predicted his denomination by an
overwhelming Majority. 49, ,sg...
l. Senator Byrd said he had opposed
the veto power USED by Russia in
the United Nations and asserted
that the As, smaller nations, have
little or no influence when this is
invoked.
On the home front, he declared
national labor unions will destroy
prosperity and bring about the
worst depression the Country has
ever known if they do not cease in
their demands for increased wages.
The Senator said organized labor
has a proper place in the national
life but that the power must not
be abused by leaders like John L.
Lewis, Philip Murray, A. F. Whitney,
Harry Bridges and others. He in
sisted that unions should make re-
ports of their financial status the
same as industry and should be
liable for suit when they violate
contracts.
CIO-PAC Denounced.
Senator Byrd again denounced the
CIO-PAC as the most sinister or
sanitation in the Nation"
Citing his aid to the farmers, he
said his record in the State and in
the Senate would establish his
views. He pointed out that his fight
for the pay-as-you-go road plan,
the abolition of the State land tax
and the Byrd Road Plan had saved
the farmers millions of dollars.
On the State Republican front,
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
yesterday accepted an invitation of
the Virginia Republican Executive
Committee to speak at the State
Convention at Roanoke Saturday,
Chairman I. r. Dovel, Luray, said.
State Senator Ted Dalton, Rad
ford, who was indorsed by Roanoke
County Republicans as a candidate
to fill the unexpired term of Senator
Glass, stated yesterday that he
could not possibly accept the nomi-
Ination."
i In the 9th District, Republicans
at Bristol yesterday nominated
Simpson Holiday Sutherland, Clint
wood, to oppose Representative
Flanagan, Democrat.
i Mrs. Elizabeth Chiffon Murray,
Democratic candidate opposing Rep
resentative Smith, toured Leesburg,
Hamilton, Purcellville and Hills
; boro in Loudoun County Friday
where she reiterated charges that
her opponent was abusing his frank
, ing privileges by mailing his recent
addresses in the House to Northern
, Virginia voters.
Committee Appointed.
In Richmond, Horace ~ Ed
wards, chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee, announced
the appointment of an 11-man COM
mittee to draw up the rules for the
State convention which will meet
September to nominate a candi-
date for the unexpired term Of
; Senator Glass.
The group includes former State
Senator c. O'Conor Goolrick Of
Fredericksburg, former State Sen
, ator E. Sclater Montague of New
port News, State Senator Edward L.
Breeden, jr., of Norfolk; w. w. Bev-
erly, Richmond attorney; Watkins
M. Abbitt, Commemorative attorney
of Appomattox; Ernest c. Lacy,
, clerk of the Halifax County Circuit
Court; Morton Padgett, jr., Bedford
/, attorney; G. Fred Switzer of Harri-
, sonburg, 7th District Democratic
chairman; Dan M. Chichester of
| Stafford County, Thomas B. Fugate
!. of Lee County and J. Frank Wysor
, of Pulaski.
staff, a number of construction
| changes were under way to make
! the Jail more escape-proof. When
, reporters commented that the doors
, to the jail were now locked. despita