Evening star., 1947-07-21
CandidatesCan
Appeal Today on
Disqualification
Group in Alexandria
To Review Cases of 18
Barred in Arlington
By Robert c. RoIlinqs


Democratic Committee will be heard
this afternoon in Alexandria.
Unless last weeks disqualifying
action of the committee is reversed,
it appeared that the group will
have five vacancies in its member
ship after the August S primary
election.
Chairman Gardner L. Boothe has
called the Eighth District Demo-
cratic Committee together today to
hear appeals by 18 would-be candi-
dates for the County Democratic
Committee who have been ruled in
eligible by the county organization
to run for membership on that
group.
Charles r. Fenwick, a member of
the County Committee who has
qualified as a candidate for re-elec-
ton, also is a member of the Eighth
District Committee Mr. Fenwick
said today he has disqualified him.
self from sitting on the appellate
body because it will review action
taken by another group of which
he Is member. Mr.. Fenwick also
seeks the party nomination to the
State Senate in the primary.
Four Have Withdrawn.
In addition to the 18 disqualified
in the race for Arlington Democratic
Committee membership, four others
have withdrawn and fifth, Thomas
j. Crack, died Saturday. Unless the
Eighth District Committee reverses
the ruling of the county organiza-
ton there will be 33 certified candi-
dates remaining.
Three members are to be elected
from each of Arlington's II pre-
cincts. Of the remaining 80 candi-
dates, however, more than three
have filed from some precincts while
less than three have filed from
others with the net result of five
vacancies existing as follows:
Two in Glen Carlyn and one each
II Ballston, Cherrydale and Rosslyn
precincts.
In Glen Carlyn, Mrs Elizabeth w.
White was disqualified; Leonard o.
.ilder and S. R. Harrison withdrew
Ind Nixon A. Brewer was certified.
Gawen Disqualified.
Perry F.. Gawen was disqualified
in Ballston and M. NJ Caskie, jr.,
and w. Henry johnson were accept
ed as candidates there.
In Cherrydale the committee
failed to certify James o. Franklin
and Mrs. Beatrice B. Smythe, but
certified Thomas J. Broyhill and
Homer Lee Krout
Albert A. Carretta (who has quail
ifled as Democratic candidate for
the State Senate nomination. failed
TO qualify as a member of the
County Democratic Committee along
with H. Smith Rucker and William
S. Tickle in the Rosslyn Precinct,
but Glenn H. Deem and Mrs. Beulah
Goss were accepted as candidates.
Under the Democratic Party plan,
vacancies are filled by the Executive
Committee, which elects candidates
nominated by members from pre-
cincts where vacancies exist.
16 Failed to Appear.
Sixteen of the 18 who were dis
qualified did not appear before
special certification subcommittee to
check on their qualifications. The
subcommittee report was adopted
by the parent committee with the
stipulation that uncertifed candi-
dates could appeal to the Eighth
DjStrict Committee
Precincts in which no vacancies
are anticipated and the number of
candidates remaining in each, are
as follows:
Arlington, four; Carne, four; East
Falls Church, four; Virginia High
lands, five, and three each Gun
contesteO in Clarendon No. l.,
Clarendon No. and Lyon Park.
Other aspirants who were dis
qualified by the county groups
action and who sought Office from
the precincts where no vacancies
are anticipated are Harold Schilz,
Esther I. Cooper, Vincent A. Ira
monte, Ellsworth H. Mosher, Vir-
ginia Thatcher, Carl P. Sanderhoff,
Edward F. Behn. Irving N. Hoddes,
Martha P. Wildhack, Josephine Y.
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