Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1930, Page 11

| ARTY DEMOCRATS ORY ASSURED 'Montgomery Regulars Did Not Poll Majorities Anticipated by Leaders. ' Unofficial returns from Maptgomery | * County’s Democratic primary elections | Monday, compieted early this morning, | show victory for every candidate on the | county organization ticket, but by a [ much smallerrmargin than had been | anticipated by leaders of the winning | gaction before the balloting began. The majority rolled up by the organ- tration ticket as a whole fell a little short of the 2,000 votes which Maj. E. Brooke Lee, organization leader,, had the powerful showing made by the or« ganization in the uj sections of the county, where the ives consid- ered their greatest strength lay. A similar upset oceurred in the sub- urbs, with the Progressives exhiblting unetpected strength in Chevy Chase, Bethesda and Takoma Park. In the first-named precinct E, Barrett Prettv- man, candidate for the House of Dele- gates; Prescott Abbe, candidate for delegate to the State Convention, and Carey Quinn, secretary of the Progres- sive Executive Committee, had worked for months to swing the vote in their favor, while in Takoma Park, Dr. E. Clyde Shade, candidate for the House of Delegates, and Raymond Schreiner, campaign worker, had made strenuous efforts to obtain a Progressive ma- Jority. Sitver Spring Leads. Stlver Spring and Colesville, as in past years, gave the largest majorities to the organization. Next to Lacy Shaw, Preston B. Ray, clerk of the €ircuit Court, received the largest vote for a county office, with 7,170 ballots cast in his favor. Dr. George L. Edmonds who has served several terms in the House of Dele- ates, led the legislative ticket, 6,675 votes. Miss -Lavinia Engle, for- s PHE EVENING STAR, Was‘fixfie'ron D. O, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE 130 WOMEN SEIZED FOR GANDHI MARCH Procession Honm:ing British Girl ‘Who Was Converted Is Broken Up by Police. By the Assoclated Press. CALCUTTA, September 10.—Thirty | women were arrested yesterday for tak- ing part in a procession in honor of “Mirabal,” a British girl, who forsook Christianity for “Swaraj” and became & disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. | Before her conversion she was Made- | line Slade. She is the daughter of a| v 7 British admiral. Mirabai arrived in Cal- cutta yesterday afternoon and immedi: ately members of the party ar- ranged the procession in honor. Police ordered the marchers to dis- and placed them under arrest|. refused. en they . The crowd then stoned the police, one inspector and two European sergeants being injured. After the disturbance police raided -one of the buil attached to Cal- cutta University. Ten students, includ- ing the son of a high court &‘me, and ten persons not connected with the uni- versity, were injured during the raid. Supported by Bananas and Milk. Notto Pipp, a Norwegian vegetartan, recently walked from Olso to Christian- sand, a distance of 250 miles, in five days, on a diet consisting of bananas and milk. SERGT. COOK LEADING IN RIFLE TOURNEY i Sergt. Blakley of Marines Is Close Second in Final Stages at Camp Perry. By the Ascociated Press. CAMP PERRY, Ohio, September 10. —Firing for the national individual rifie championship reached the final stage today with Sergt. E. R. Cook of Tueson, Ariz., out in front of 1,658 other competitors by. a slender margin. Cook shot his way up from second ! place in the first two stages yesterday and finished with a day’s score of 195 | out of a possible 200 for the first !oux! stages. Sergt. J. M. Blakley of the United States Marines was a close sec- ond with a score of 195, but less accu- rate targets omr the long range. Behind these two men were Capt. R. T. Presnell, Washington, Marines, 194; Sergt. J. R. Tucker, Bellington, Wash., Marines, and Corpl. A. W. Dumsha, Baltimore,” Marines, and Lieut. C. M. Cox, Clarence, Mo., U. S. Navy, with 192 each. p Today's final stage was over the 1,000- yard range at slow fire. Yesterday the competitors . fired over -the 200-yard ranges at rapid and slow fire, 300 yards at rapid and 600 at slow fire, Assistant Secretary of* War Frederick | H. Payne will fly here from Washington for Friday's and Saturday’s events. was sold in London recently for l’l&(mo,l CLOSES PERMANENTLY Executive Says Tire Business Con- Tire Co., which has operated at Mill- town since 1907, will be closed perma- | 4 nently, A collection of old arms and armor | Mi MICHELIN FACTORY ditions Make It Impossible to Operate. By the Associated Press. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., September 10—J. H. Michelin, vice president, sald | today that the plant of the Michelin The plant was shut down on ay 1. Michelin said operations were stopped because conditions in the tire “made it impossible to run our with any chance of breaking even. “Independent tire dealers are ping out fast, while the t- for ume- in tire sales goes on between stores and gas Stations on one side the factory-controlled retafl other.” g New shoes are being sold in India 3¢ &_pair. i WIGS and Patent TOUPEES ans| st in the worl K guaranteed. talpené ce: ree. LOMBARD BAMBINA Co,, A™"" 113 Monroe S(.. Lynn, Mass. predicted during the latter stages of the counting. | mer director of the Maryland League of | Women Voters, and the only woman to | run for the House of Delegates from | Montgumery County, was next highest, Margin Lowered. Robert G. Hilton, candidate for the ) . Oopposed administration measures and \ jority of approximately 500 less votes State, Senate, was nominated by a ma- than the margin of victory of his fel- low candidates. His opponent, Dr. | Eugene Jones of Kensington, the pres- | ent State Senator, ran well ahead of | his ticket with ‘5,344 votes, as against for Hilton, was the seeond closest race. J. | ¢ille, candidate for | from the fourth | 280 votes of the winning Mr. Peter is county district, . | @ son of tk years fought with former Sen- ator Blair Lee, father of the present or- | ganization leader, for supremacy in Montgomery County politics, His broth- | er, Edward Poter, jr., is & member of | the Executive Committee of the Pro- gressive Democratic party. The vote cast Monday was the largest | in the history of the county. The total | is reckoned at 12,500, with almost 500 | ballots thrown out because they were not properly marked. The official fig- | ure of baliots counted was placed at | 12,028, approximately 5,000 more than the record primary election vote cast in | 1926. | Long List Causes Delay. | The extremely large vote and the length of the ballol, which listed 176 | names, ‘caused the delay in the com- | pletion of the count by clection officials. | The most overwhelming victory was | scored by David J. Lewis of Cumber- | land, candidate for the Democratic | nomination for the House of Repre- sentatives from the sixih congressional | district. With his name marked on | 8,218 ballots in Montgomery County he | led his opponent, Fuller Barnard, also | ©of, Cumberland, by a 6,711 margin. Mr. Lewis had besn indorsed by the | county organization and the Progres- sives offered no opposition to his can- didacy, although not officially announc- ing themselves in his favor. y The race for judgeship of the sixth Judicial circult, the only other race not purely local in nature, was won by Judge John S. Newman of Frederick, who now, holds that office. He was backed By the Lee organization. W Clinton MeSherry of Prederick, the Progressive candidate, received 4311 votes, as against 6471 for Judge New- man. Samuel A. Lewis, also of Fred- erick, who ran as an independent Demo- crat, was given but 794 votes. Race Centered in Senate. Lacy Shaw, county commissioner of the fifth commissioner district, led the rely local ticket with a total of 7,223 llois. His _opponent, William H. Thompson, polled 4,261. Chief interest in the race centered in the contest for the State Senate, and it was not until the last four districts were heard from_ was it certain that Mr., Hilton would win. Dr. Jones, the Progressive candidate, had served in the Senate for four terms, Until the last session of the General | Assembly. he was affliated with the organization. At the 1929 session he at the beginning of the present cam: paign announced that he | over to the anti-organization camp. He was considered their strongest | candidate. It was the vote in the Colesville, Sil- ver Spring and Bethesda districts which ' definitely swung the election against him. These three were the last to complete their count. Of the 24 precincts in the county, 15 returned majorities for most of the or- | ganization candidates, 4 were stand- | offs, with the remaining 5 going for the ' Progressives, Or® of the upsets of the election. was with 6,494. Progressive candidates who ran ahead of their ticket included John T. Culver, for trcasurer; Willlam ‘L. Aud, for sheriff, and Thomas D. Darby and Mr, Prettyman, for the House of Delegates. The campaign which the primary election terminated was the bitterest the county had witnessed for many véars. Personal attacks were made by both sides. An unusuai feature was the issuance of platforms by organization and progressive factions. Sturtevant Blowers For Burning Buckwheat Coal Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 10th St. N.W. 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