Evening star., 1927-11-17
TWO BABIES TIED
FOR SHOW HONORS
81 Mere Added Yesterday in
Elimination contests-Fi-
nails to Be Saturday.

Washington can be justly proud of
its quota of healthy and happy
youngsters. judging from the wealth
of well nourished and we'll cared.for
babies which have been entered in the
healthiest baby contest staged each
afternoon as features Of the annual
food show being presented at the
Washington Auditorium by the local
Retail Grocers' Association.
A grand total of ISL baby boys and
girls. over ! and under years of
age. have been entered by their moth
ers in these contests to date, and the
winners of each days Judging become
eligible for final contest Saturday
afternoon at 4 pm. The winner Will
be awarded a IS gold coin. presented
by the Franklin National Bank, Off
cials in charge said
3. Babies Entered i'm Day.
Each day the number of entrants
in the baby contests has increased CO.
incident with mounting attendance
at :he matinees of the show, and yes.
terday total of 81 representatives of
Young America" were presented from
a platform at the west end of the
lower fioor of the hall for the iudg-
ment of the audience.
Two.year.old Bobby Whitam of 2119
H street and Mary Martha Wood. also
,, of 1889 Spring road. apartment 102,
were declared tied for first honors.
Both are to be entered in the Satur-
day event.
other entrants yesterday were: Vir-
ginia Stuart Coley. 705 Eighteenth
street: Mary Alice Swanson, 1442 G
street southeast; Frances Gilroy. 4020
Grant street northeast: Bobby Cofren,
1876 Morse street northeast: Helyn Il.
Clayton. 1I09 Harvard street; EVELYN
V. CLAYTON. 1109 Harvard street; Bobby
Armand. 3701 Macomb street: Bobby
Johnston. ir.. 1914 B street southwest:
Peggy Stockett. S12 Fern street: John
! Hessler. Rodman Apartments; Helen
Mare Harris. 102 Fifteenth street
southeast: Mollye Stewart. Ballston.
Va; Walter Johnson Norford: Betty
Lee White. 1926 3 street southeast;
Marjorie Cook, 9a2 Eighth street
northeast: Shulamith. Atkin. 1921
Thirteenth street; Rosalind Bishop.
1907 l street southeast: Arthur
Hillyard, 2s02 Beech street, Mount
Rainier, Md: Lowell Finch, 700 Ken
lucky avenue southeast; Peggy Dim
mick, 1104 D street southeast; Julia
B. Boileau. 1913 .Twentyeighth street.
Mount Rdln1er, Mo, James OeCll WON"
bray 1914 Twenty-fourth. street north
east Emma E. Petry, Alexandria, Va;
Betty Clark. SO Fifteenth street
southeast: Virginia Pearl Jarvis. lO9
II street southwest: John F. DeX. 1349
C street southeast: Anne Lewis, 301
Tenth street southwest: Charles r.
! McCiary, Hyattsville. Md; George
| William Zimmerman. 1916 Queen
street northeast. and Grace Viola
| Tucker, l02 G street southeast.
Largest Attendance Noted.
A crowd estimated at nearly 1000
attended the food show last night,
when the feature of the program was
bathing beauty contest, with 10
Young women participating. Miss
Margaret Ford of Az Eleventh street
! northeast won first honors, and Mrs.
Katherine Taylor of 215 L street
southeast won second place.
Tonight Miss Lois Delander, Miss
America of 1927 will attend the show
as honor guest. and will officiate in
beauty contest. making the presen,
tation Of the award to the winner.
Poland will spend sl.650.0on in con-
struction of government grain eleva-