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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
9
The Democratic primary in Frederick County shows 27 votes for Byrd and 5 for Hutchinson. Joris carried the last precinct and lifted Senator Byrd’s county total to 1,012. Election commissioners met to canvass the county vote. members listed as George Bywaters C C Rickard Kert Muse and R Lee Smith.
Cases heard by Judge W Erle Edwards include Wymer Stephens City operators license five dollars and costs. Paul R Mayhew Strasburg no operators license ten dollars and costs. Richard Henry Douglas Free Lee Carson Sours Stephens County drunk in public and resisting arrest thirty four dollars and costs. Robert Randolph Lee Upperville operators license five dollars and costs.
Ahmed Shukairy describes Arab efforts to send a delegation to Moscow while opposing Zionism as a racial capitalist movement. He notes the Palestine Arab Executive’s views differ from Arab League positions and reports on Soviet stance in exchange telegrams.
The Arab Office states that if diplomatic and political efforts do not achieve the Arab viewpoint, the nation will pursue action with full determination by any means.
Wm A Wright Mary vote gave Senator Harry F Byrd the renomination by slight ly less than a 7 to 4 majority 139 633 votes to 81 077 over Martin A Hutchinson of Richmond with all but 71 of the states 1 718 precincts reported. Tuesday's vote of better than 220 000 near the top of pre primary estimates was nearly 30 000 in excess of the previous primary record set in the 1937 gubernatorial primary. In the Seventh District where Democratic Rep Robertson was unopposed for renomination I R Dovel of Page County state chairman of the Virginia Republican Party announced last night his candidacy for Congress accepting the nomination tendered him at a GOP meeting in Staunton on June 29.
The committee describes an FBI inquiry and promises from Comptroller General Lindsay Warren to send two top auditors to audit war contracts. Two IRS investigators joined earlier to review figures, and Warren offers to provide examples of weaknesses and favoritism in government procurement found in wartime contracts.
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