Evening star., 1952-11-02
Maryland 10 Send ,
Al Least 4 Freshmen
To Senate and House
By Alex R. Preston

By Alex R. Preston
There will be at least four new
faces in Congress from Maryland
as a result of Tuesdays voting.
There could be more, if any
of the four Representatives stand
ing for reelection fails to make
the grade when voters 60 to the
polls between Z am. and z pm.
In a strict sense, one of the
faces would not be stranger to
Capitol Hill. if elected. He is J..
Glenn Beall, who has represented
Western Maryland in the House
for 10 years.
But Mr.. Beall, a Republican,
is giving up his House seat to
run for the Senate against George
P. Mahoney, former Democratic
National Committeeman and for
mer State Racing Commission
chairman, Of Baltimore. Senator
O'Conor. Democrat, did not seek
4C-ClCCG1OAI G1lIo yCdI.
A second new face will come
from Mr.. Beall's 9Th District.
Both of the principals in this race
come from Montgomery County
where more than 40 per cent of
the registered voters in the dis
trict live.
9th District Candidates.
The. candidates in the 9th are
State Senator Dewitt s. Hyde. Re-
publican, a Washington attorney
who lives in Bethesda, and Mrs.
Stella B. Werner. Democrat. men,
ber of the Montgomery County
Council.
A third newcomer will be sent
from the other neighboring Con-
greSsional District - the 5th.
There. Representative Sasscer of
Upper Marlboro, dean of the Free
States delegation to Congress, is
retiring after his defeat by Mr..
Mahoney in the Democratic pri-
mary for the Senatorial nomina-
ton.
Contending for Mr.. Sasscer's
post to represent Southern Mary
land are Republican Frank Small,
jr.. chairman of the State Racing
Commission, and Richard E..
Landlord. member of the Mary
land General Assembly. MIR. Small
lives in Prince Georges County
and operates an automobile busi-
ness bearing his name within a
couple of blocks of the Capitol.
Mr. Lankford practices law in An
napoliS.
The fourth new face will come
from the recently created 7th Dis
trict. with Baltimore. Population
gains reflected by the 1850 census
entitled Maryland to this addi-
tional seat in the House.
William LaukaitiS, chief police
magistrate in Baltimore, now on
leave, is the Republican candidate
against Democrat Samuel Friedel,
member Of the City Council, I'M
the 7th.
4 More Years for Butler.
The term of Senator Butler, Re-
publican, does not expire until
1856.
Here are the incumbent mem
bers of the House who are fighting
for reelection:
Representative Edward T. Mil
ler, Republican, of Easton, COM
pleting his third term from the
1St eastern Shore) District. Mr..
Miller, who is 81, is opposed by
71-year-old Dudley G. Roe, Dem
ocrat, a former member of the
House for one term.
Representative James P. ST.
Devereux of Stevenson, the retired
Marine Corps brigadier general
who was hero of Wake Island
during World War II, is a Re-
publican completing his first term
from the I'd District. Democrat A.
Gordon Boone, a Baltimore County
attorney who is a Navy veteran
and is majority floor leader in the
Maryland House of Delegates, is
opposing Mr.. Devereux.
In the Sd District, Representa-
tive Edward A. Garmatz, Balti-
more Democrat who first was
elected to fill vacancy on
July Is. 1947. is opposed by
freshman in politics, Jerry Toula,
Republican, also of Baltimore. Mr..
Toula is a lawyer.
Representative George H. Fall
Ion, is another Baltimore Demo-
crat. now completing his eighth
year in office. Opposing him in
the 4th District is a relative new
conner, Samuel Hopkins, Repub-
lican, whose first public Office was
election to the Maryland House of
Delegates two years ago.
State Regarded Critical.
Maryland will cast only nine
electoral votes for President.
Nevertheless, the national party
headquarters apparently regard
the picture for the Nation as a
whole so critical that they have
sent all four of the presidential and
vice presidential candidates into
the State to bid for support.
Gov. Dewey of New York carried
the State for the Republicans by
something like 5000 votes in 1948
although President Truman won
a majority in Baltimore City
alone.
For the first time in history,
more than one million voters are
registered. The division is about
100000 for the Democrats, 325, ZOO
for the Republicans and $4,000
who are members of minor groups
or declined to state a preference
But the predominant Domo-
cratic registration doesn't mean a
whole lot TO the voters Of the