Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-11-05


Candidates Attack
Big Lie Technique
And Smear Tactics
Nearby Virginia voters will g
to the polls beginning at 6 o'clocl
tomorrow morning to decide tn
winners of an election campaign
which is winding up on a note O
unprecedented bitterness.
Charges of smear tactics" ''bis
lie technique" and personal at
tack" were heard as candidate
for State and local offices ISSUED
their final appeals to the voters.
Polls in Virginia will close at
pm.
Outside of the Arlington-Alex.
andria- Fairfax County area, cam.
paigning has been notably listless
and uneventful. All 140 members
of the General Assembly will be
elected, but only 20 House seats
and 10 Senate seats are being
contested.
All Counties Have Elections.
All 100 counties will have cleo
lions for local officials also, and
some areas will have side issues
One of the hottest is in Richmond
where residents will decide wheth-
er the city is to have a non.
stop. no-trafflc light expressway
through town.
In Arlington County, the three
Democratic incumbent legislators
State Senator Charles r. Fen
wick and Delegates j. Maynard
Magruder and George Damn are
opposed by Republican Oren r
Lewis, candidate for the senate
and James H. Berkey and Fred N
Windridge.
Anonymous Charges Attacked.
The non-partisan candidates
for the two vacancies on the
County Board, T. Oscar Smith and
Alan L. Dean, attacked as "anony-
nous lies" charges that supporters
of Henry Wallace are included
among Mr.. Deans ''close campaign
advisors"
A letter. which carried the spon-
sorship of "a group of independ-
ent voters not allied with any
political party" but was otherwise
unsigned, also accused both nom
partisan candidates of being
closely identified with the group
that has brought the County
Board to its present state of dis
ruption."
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Dean said
they had never supported Henry
Wallace nor signed any petition
for him. They defended the
County Boards achievements of
the past two years.
One of the non-partisan mem
bers of the board who is not up
for reelection, Robert w. Cox,
issued a statement commencing
the non-partisan candidates and
urging their election.
Solicitation Called Absurd.
Meanwhile, Leonard o. Hilder,
chairman of the Arlington Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, char
acterized as absurd" COP.
solicitation of votes from Demo-
Gratis.
Mr.. Hilder declared that in
1948 the Republicans Endorsed the
non-partisan candidate for the
board and since then did exactly
nothing about the County Board
In all of these three years, he
said, the Democratic Party had
candidates for the board.
Democrats also announced that
their party headquarters in the
Rucker Building, Clarendon, will
be open all day to assist voters.
Arlington School Board Member
Barnard Joy today hit back at
criticism from Harley NJ. Williams,
vice president of a citizens group
MIR. Williams had said there is a
school machine in Arlington
County and it has a political boss
Barnard Joy is the boss"
Machine Called Impossible.
Mr.. Joy replied, mo one could
organize the capable people who
are elected to positions of leader
ship in our PTAs and civic organi-
cations into machine, and nc
one could boss them"
Mr.. Joy. who is a candidate fol-
reelection, said he had disagreed
with Mr.. Williams before. The
board member said cit is under.
stood that Mr.. Williams anc
James r. Miles, ST., president O.
the Arlington Forum on Public
Schools) are 'write-in' candidate
for the School Board. That is {
good idea. People who believe ou
teachers and other members O.
our school staff should be sub
jected to irresponsible public
criticism should vote for Mr.. Viii
liams and Mr.. Miles, not for me.
The Fairfax County candidate
for the House of Delegates. incum
bent Democrat Edwin Lynch ant
Republican Douglas A. Clark
continued to exchange blasts owe
Mr.. Lynch's property in the Burk
airport area.
Mr.. Clark said he had attempted
to bring out the true facts sur
rounding the purchase of land il
1947 and 1948 in the Burke air
port area" The COP candidate
said, "No man holding public of
flee had the moral right to prof
from the sale of personal propert,
to the government at the expens
of the taxpayers"
Mr.. Lynch replied that, "Voter
who are outraged by this type o
character assassination, whethe
it be against a candidate and hi
family or against a government
official or employee, must go to tn
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