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Show WAR DULLS STATE ELECTION IN N. Y. ALBANY. N. Y.. Sept. 19 tj"P) I New Yorkers today voted In a primary election dulled by European Euro-pean developments and confined mainly, for the first time In the slate's history, to selecting noml- nees for county and municipal offices. of-fices. Despite forecasts of fair weather, weath-er, major party leaders expected only a small fraction of the 4.595,-058 4.595,-058 eligible voters to turn out because be-cause of lack of state-wide contests. con-tests. Under a new constitutional amendment, state assemblymen will be elected every two years Instead In-stead of annually. Highlights of the balloting were contests in which the Republican leadership of New York county Is at stake and two upstate Republican Republi-can battles, one for the nomination to congress In the Thirty-fourth ! congressional district and the other for nomination to the state I assembly from Steuben county. |