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(By the Associated Press.) Both candidates in Virginia’s Senatorial Democratic primary race carried their candidacies be fore the voters last night, Senator Harry F. Byrd speaking at a po litical rally at Kilmarnock, and Martin A. Hutchinson, Byrd's op ponent, making his next-to-last radio speech of the campaign. Senator Byrd’s state campaign manager, former Governor Colgate W. Darden, Jr., addressed a Ches terfield Courthouse gathering last night, and tonight will speak at a rally in Ashland. Hutchinson's radio speech, broadcast from Station WRVA, Richmond, over a network of sta tions including Roanoke, Lynch burg, Danville and Newport News, will be aired by transcription to night over stations at Harrison burg and Bristol. Byrd At Kilmarnock Byrd told a Kilmarnock rally that his attention ‘“‘has been called to the fact that the executive council of the Committee for Vir ginia, headed by Mrs. Clifford Durr, formerly from Alabama, is publishing an advertisement in the weekly papers throughout the state, headed: ‘Byrd Has Worked Against the Farmers.’”’ The Senator charged that the “same misinformation has been circulated” by his opponent. “Mrs. Durr,” Byrd said, “is the sister-in-law of Hugo Black. I voted against the confirmation of Hugo Black as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.” Byrd said he cannot be lieve Virginia farmers “will be misled by any such false propa ganda as this, especially coming as it does at the eleventh hour, and from one who has cause to have a grievance against me.”
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Winchester Evening Star
Winchester, Virginia, US
Wed, Jul 31, 1946
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