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normal.
Polls Open Till I O'Clock.
Members of the Montgomery
County Charter Committee were
stationed near about a dozen Be
thesda and Silver Spring polling
places soliciting signatures for pe-
titions to place the charter issue of
home rule" before the voters in
November. Twenty per cent of the
voters are needed to call referen-
dunn on the question of naming a
charter board and to elect its mem
berS
Polls remain open until 7 pm. in
Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties.
Gov. O'Conor's office predicted
he would capture more than 100
of the 152 convention votes while
Gov. O'Conor claimed he would
carry substantial majorities in
Baltimore and in the counties. Each
candidate is running on his own
record and Senator Radcliffe has
emphasized the CIO-PAC indorse-
ment Of his opponent while Gov.
O'Conor has said such support was
unsolicited.
Three-Way Race.
A three-way race for the Repub-
lican nomination for the Senate
exists among State Senator Joseph
A. Wilmer, La Plata Roscoe F..
Walter, Derwood, and D. John
Markey, Walkersville, all of whom
have conducted unspectacular cam
paigns.
Although the gubernatorial con-
test Is among seven Democrats, only
three of the Democrats and the two
Republican candidates have waged
an aggressive campaign.
The Democratic leading contend
ers are w. Preston Lane, jr., Hag-
erstown publisher and President
Roosevelts Maryland campaign
manager In 1914, who said he and
his running mates will have a
comfortable margin including four
Baltimore districts; State Controller
j. Millard Tawes, who has had the
active support of Senator Tydings
and who predicted SO convention
votes for his ticket, and the third
candidate, Representative Baldwin,
who claimed he would win three
Baltimore districts and receive more
votes there than any of the two
other leading candidates.
J. S. White on Ticket.
Each of the Democratic guberna-
tarial candidates has a ticket in
cluding contenders for nominations
for attorney general and controller.
Among those on State tickets is
John s. White, Hyattsville attorney
who has been speaker of the House
Of Delegates and before that floor
leader for many years. He seeks the
attorney generalship on Repre-
sentative BaldWins slate
Herman L. Mills, Hagerstown busi-
nessman, fired final shot for the
Republican nomination for Cover
nor last night in a radio talk In
which he criticized his opponent.
Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin of
Baltimore, for bureaucratic gov
ernment."
House races in the nearby areas
feature the Democratic contest in
the fifth district between Represen-
tative Sasscer, and Richard E. Lee,
Beltsville. Republicans will not bal
lot in the fifth district today for a
candidate since Edwin A. Glenn,
Suitland, is their nominee.
In the sixth district, a three way
tug-of-war exists for the Demo-
cratic House nomination among
Arch Mcdonald, Washington radio
sports announcer who has the Lee
organization support; William F..
Carlin, Silver Spring real estate man
and Dawson J. HORNE, Myersville.
Here, too. the COP has no contest
since their candidate, Representa-
tive Beall, is unopposed.
Intraparty strife as we'll as inter-
party rivalry has existed to a
marked extent in county campaigns
for General Assembly and local
Offices.
Fight in Prince Georges.
In Prince Georges County fight
by insurgent Democrats, constituted
as Veterans Committee, against
Mr.. Sasscers organization, threat
ems to make inroads In two or more
posts. Most dramatic developments
over the week end occurred here
when Chairman Henry Cord of the
Democratic State Central Commit
tee and who is State land commits
sioner, changed his allegiance at the
last minute and announced support
for the veterans candidates and
solicited their support for his own
reelection to the Central Commit
tee. At the same time he shifted
his Endorsement from Representa-
tive Baldwin to Mr.. Tawes in the
gubernatorial campaign.
Mr.. Cords changeover came as
a complete surprise to many and
belied preprimary statements of
party harmony by members of the
SasScer organization.
In Montgomery County interest is
focused on an anti-Lee organization
slate headed by the State Senate
aspirant, Edward S. Northrop, who
opposes organization-sp sponsored Jo-
seph A. Cantrel. Mrs. Alice w.
Hostetler, former member of the
Charter Committee, is third candi-
date for the post and heads another
faction within the county.
Returns from Baltimore City and
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