Evening star., 1927-09-29
ORATORS TO ARRIVE
IN CITY THURSDAY
international Finalists Are
Feted in Mexico and Re-
Ceived by Gales.

The FIVE International Oratorica
Contest finalists viii be greeted by {
welcoming delegation and a bant
when they arrive at Union Station
next Thursday in readiness for the
international finals a week later.
The party will be escorted from the
station to Central High School. where
welcome to Washington" luncheon
will be given them by Principal Nil
Ter and representatives of the faculty
and student body. Members of the
faculty and representatives OF the
students of all other high schools III
the city will be present. Among the
special guests will be w. A. Loker OF
Leonard Hall, Md, now student al
Georgetown University, who repre-
sented this area in the national phase
of the contest last Spring and thereby
won a European tour as a prize.
Series of Entertainments.
The return journey of the finalists
from Mexico City to Washington
which will begin Saturday night, will
be marked by a series of large-scale
entertainments and celebrations along
the way.
There will be a students reception
for them at Monterey, Mexico, where
they will spend Sunday night. Shortly
after crossing the border at Browns
vile, Tex, on Monday afternoon, they
will be given a welcome to the United
States by President H. c. Barker and
faculty and students of Edinburg Col
lege, Edinburg, Tex, who will meet
them at the station Ell masse and
escort them to the college campus.
The entertainment program will be
under the supervision of Capt, George
Il. Hurt. director of student activities.
ThaV hp hn Of ha
which has a high school department
of 4.200 pupils. for "a hours. Gov.
Dan Moody and DIR. Walter NJ.
Splawn, president Of the University of
Texas, will speak at the meeting in
their honor to be held in the Audi
torium of Edinburg College on Tues
day morning. AT that meeting the
1927 oratorical champions of England.
France. Canada, Mexico and the
United States will appear together on
the same platform for the first time
in the United States.
Names of Finalists.
Leaving Edinburg, Tex, on Tues
day night, the orators will go via
New Orleans to Birmingham, where
they will remain for four hours on
Thursday as the guests of the Bir-
mingham Age-Herald and the Phillips
High School of that city, which has
furnished national finalists three out
of four years in the National Oratori-
cal Contest.
During their stay in Mexico, the
international f1nalists, Frederick Hot
son Of Canada; Georges Guiot -Gullain
of fFrance, James Keith Watson of
England, Dorothy Carlson of the
United States, and Arturo Garcia-Fer-
menu of Mexico, have been given an
Nnprecedentedly cordial welcome. They
Were met at the railroad station upon
their arrival Sunday by hundreds of
students, who had looked forward for
weeks to their arrival and who
greeted them with cheers and band
music.
Presented to Gales.
Yesterday they were presented to
president Gales at Chapultepec Castle
Throughout the week they have
visited historical points in and around
the largest really ancient city on the
American continent, and have been
received by various members of the
Mexican cabinet. Tomorrow night
they will speak in the Hidalgo Theater.
On Saturday night prior to their de-
parture for Washington, they will be
the guests Of FL Universal, the Mexi-
can newspaper sponsor of the con-
test, at a banquet to be attended by
diplomatic and educational leaders of
the community.
AS they will arrive in Washington
only week in advance of the inter-
national finals, which will be held in
the Washington Auditorium on October
IA, the orators will have but little
time in which to rest themselves for
the final competition in which the
secondary school oratorical champion.
ship of five nations will be determined.