Evening star., 1946-07-19
Rival Says Byrd
|Iqnored Chance
To Aid Norfolk
Port Possibilities
Left UndeveIoped,
Hutchinson Asserts
BY the Associoied Press

NORFOLK, Va, July 19.-Martir
A. Hutchinson foresees a great new
era of prosperity for the Hampton
Roads area-with Norfolk the lead
ing seaport of the East Coast and q
broad military highway linking this
section directly with the National
Capital. He said last night that
much of the program could already
have been realized or at least we'll
launched except for the negative
philosophy typified by Senator Byrd.
The Richmond attorney accused
the Democratic organization of Sem
ator Byrd of "sabotaging" the pro-
gram of the late Gov. Price-the one
Governor they could not control
and said Mr.. Prices program would
have put the Commonwealth of
Virginia back in the front rank of
the 48 States.
That rule-or-ruin attitude has
cost Virginia heavily" he said in
radio address in furtherance of his
campaign for the Democratic pri-
mary nomination for Senator Byrd,s
Senate seat. 1T must not be al
lowed to stand in the way of the
great opportunities which we now
have"
Port Advantages Cited.
He pointed out that the area with
a population of some 100000 had
the greatest population density in
Virginia. the port of Hampton
Roads was the finest on the Atlantic
Seaboard; here centered we're Vir-
ginia S trucking and shipbuilding in
dustries as well as a nerve center OF
the Nations national defense.
Mr.. Hutchinson said he under
stood Hampton Roads was second
only to the port of San Francisco
in tonnage cleared during the war.
and added that he wondered why
should she stand lower in time OF
peace, adding ARE we going to wit
ness again. as we did after the
World War, period of dryrot in
which the prosperity of this area
will again collapse for the benefit
of New York and Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Boston"
Mr.. Hutchinson said the first Of
Tidewaters needs for the prosperity
that he envisioned was adequate
road communications.
IF l go to the Senate" he said,
"one of my first acts will be the in
PRODUCTION of bill providing for a
great military highway, running
from Washington across Tidewater
Virginia to Norfolk"
He said he believed the highway
should and could have been built in
the 1930s and said it's construction
instead of being extravaganza would
have saved American money and
lives by facilitate troop movements
and the shipment of munitions.
Need for Waterways.
! Another need, Mr., Hutchinson
said, was the joint State-Federal
undertaking of improving Virginia's
inland waterways to bring tho
James and Appomattox Rivers into
their own as commerce highways.
He said the benefits would not only
accrue to Norfolk. but to Ports
mouth. Newport News, Richmond.
Petersburg and Hopewell. but that
the work could only be done if our
State government drops its hostility
toward cooperation with Washing
ton
Mr.. Hutchinson recommended an
intensiflcation of the soil conserva-
ton program of the truck farming
area that has suffolk at its center,
and, for Norfolk itself erection of a
great trade school and clearance of
slum and city developments to keep
pace with the growth of the area.
Mr. Hutchinson said Senator Byrd
was fond of quoting remark by
Grover Cleveland to the effect that
the people should support the Gov
ernment and not the Government
the people" and he believed that was
Mr.. Hoover's attitude when he OBJ
/ lected to helping the victims of the
great Mississippi food"
MY view of the relationship be-
tween the people and their Govern
ment." he added. lis that that re-
lationship is not a one-way street.
dislike and mistrust deficit financ-
ing, but if, as member of the SEN
ate, have to choose between bal
ancing budget and acting to check
human suffering, shall not choose
the balanced budget. Where wise
Government expenditures can in
crease the national wealth, or the
opportunity of people to produces
wealth, I shall support such ex-
penditure"
Meanwhile, at Richmond, Collins
Denny. jr., Richmond attorney.
commenting on a denial by i. G.
Welsted, secretary treasurer of
Norfolk local Of the AFL Teamsters
Union, that he had said the caE~s
penters' union would spend ABOUT
100000 to defeat Senator Byrd this
year, said "Mr. Welsted's memory
simply failed him"
Mr.. Denny, in an affidavit re-
leased Wednesday by Byrd CAM
paign headquarters, reported hear
ing the union official assert, in 1914,
that the carpenters were ready to
spend about $4,000 to defeat Sena-
tor Byrd Mr.. Welsted came back
with prompt denial that he had
ever made any such remark, and
said he could produce witnesses to