Evening star., 1927-05-11
LOKER TO RECEIVE
AWARD TUESDAY
Presentation of Stars $500
Check to Winner in Oratory
Finals Arranged.

William Alexander Loler of the
Leonard Hall School, Leonardtown,
viii receive the first fruits of his vic
tory In The Star finals of the fourth
National Oratorical Contest next
Tuesday morning, when Fleming New
bold. business manager of The Wash
ington Star, will present to him this
newspapers check for 5000.
Plans are being made now for the
presentation at a meeting in the
LeonardtoWn Courthouse at 1880
O'Clock Tuesday morningI In addition
to the award of the cash prize, "Aleck'
is to be told formally that he will rep
rent The Star in the national finals in
the Washington Auditorium. May 81.
The $500 is one of the prizes that
"Aleck" has merited through his ora
tory and it is the only one that he
can receive from the hands OF any
person. The tWo-and-a-half tour
of Europe ne himself must go after.
and he'll do that July 2, when he
sails out of New York harbor on
the United States steamship Levia-
than.
Mr. Newbold will be accompanied to
Leonardtown by Randolph Leigh,
founder and director of the National
Oratorical Contest, and Miss Louise
Proctor, contest manager for The
Star.
Tentative Program.
The tentative program for the pres
entation will include an address of
welcome to the Washington party by
J. Roland Duke, mayor of Leonard
town, who has displayed keen inter-
est in the contest since its establish
ment. Instrumental musical numbers
will augment the program.
After Mr.. Newbold has presented
the check, "Aleck" himself, the cham
pion orator of the area embracing
Maryland. the District of Columbia
and Virginia, will make a brief ad-
dress of acceptance. That speech will
constitute the youthful orators first
public speech since he won the re-
gionai championship, and arrange
ments are being made to accommo-
date a record audience.
The courthouse contains Leonard
towns largest auditorium. When the
group contest was held, early in the
course of the oratorical competitions
in this region, the hall was crowded
and many would-be listeners to the
speeches were obliged to stand outside
the doorways and find lodgment in
the precariously high windows. An
even greater crowd is anticipated for
next Tuesdays meeting in view of
young Loker's recent triumphs.
Junior Class Debate.
The night before the meeting the
Junior class of Leonard Hall will
meet the junior class of the
Mechanicsville High School in a
debate on THE Abolition of Capital
Punishment Leonard Halls de-
baters will contend that such punish
ment should be abolished, while the
other school will carry the negative.
students are expected to return to
Leonardtown to hear the champion
orator. Loker, and to witness the
presentation of the award he has won.
Judge William M. Loker, "Aleck 1"
father. who is on the bench of the
seventh Maryland judicial district,
will be unable to see his boy receive
his rewards, due to his duties in
another section of the State. Judge
Loker's i'll luck prevailed also when
"Aleck" contested in The Star finals
and triumphed, for on that day, too,
the father was obliged to sit in court.
However. as Brother Ambrose. G. f.
X, director of Leonard Hall School,
said this morning, the senior Loker
is with his son in spirit in all the con-
tests, and
Hell be at the national finals in
Washington the 27th anyway