Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
ORATORS TO REACH
CAPITAL TUESDAY
High School Contestants in
International Event
=. Are Sightseeing.

Girded for forensic battle, the cham
pion high school orators Of eight nations
will reach Washington Tuesday for
their participation in the finals of the
Third international Oratorical Contest,
irf the Washington Auditorium Saturday
night. - ? I
Six of the contestants vii come here
from Chicago, where they enjoyed a
week of entertainment, following briefer
visits to New York, Niagara Falls,
Toronto and Detroit They, and their
of Somerset, KY. United States;
Efrain Brito Rosado, Mexico; Dudley
Raymond Barker, England; Heinz Barth,
Germany; Rene Ponthieu, France and
William Fox jr., Canada.
The two other principals in the COM
ing match are Julio Cesar Fernandez Of
Cuba, who will reach Washington by
rail- from Key West, Fla. on his trip
from Havana, and Jose ade Tomasco of
Argentina, who will come here from New
York where his ship. the Western
World, is to land Tuesday morning.
Preparations Advanced
Meanwhile. plans for the finals are
being completed rapidly. Randolph
Leigh. director general Of the contest,
announced last night that Mai John A.
LeJeune, commandant of the United
States Marine Corps, and Mai Gen
Amos A. Fries. chief of Chemical War
fare Service. U. S. A., will clock the
contestants under the strict ruleSqof the
contest. Themselves accustomed to
established regulations, these two dis
t3nguished men of the service will allow
each speaker in the match exactly 10
minutes in which to deliver his ora
torical BID for the world championship
The time will begin with the first
word of the speech itself, rather than
with the initial utterance of a con-
teStant in pronunciation of his saluta-
ton. II contestant is speaking 10
minutes after he begins his speech. a
signal will be sounded, and If he con-
tlnue to speak after that he will be
dropped automatically to last place in
the judges rating -
of, however, contestant, against
whom the signal is sounded stops speak
ing at the blast Of the whistle, he is to
De rated by what he has said within the
time boundary Is
aGen. LeJeune' and Gen: Fries will
enforce the time rule rigidly, and they
VIII not be allowed to grant a contest
ant time OUT for any seconds or
minutes wasted for them by applause.
As In previous contests, the audience
wtl be requested to refrain from applause.
until a contestant has finished his
speech
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81 Judges Instructions.
Z The five scholars who will act as
Judges of the contest will not reach
Washington until the day of the meet.
They are to assemble in Mr.. Leigh's
ONCE in The Star Building to receive
their instructions some time during
saturday afternoon, and they will not
meet again until after they have pre-
ssnted their individual ballots of iudg-
nlent at the conclusion of the last
Contestants speech.
THE Judges as announced in last
Thursdays Star are DR.. Jules-Bois.
editor and lecturer of Paris: DR.. Rich
ard Henry Wilson. head OF the romance
language department of the University
Of. Virginia; DR.. GuilIermo Rivera. au-
thor and modern language professor at
Harvard University: Louis j. A. sMercier,
also of the modern langauge department
OF Harvard, and DR.. william A, Mite.
author and head OF the romance Ian
gLIage department of the University Of.
Chicago.
when the contestants come here
TueSday they Will be met by BENJAMIN
Earl Hinden, who, when q. Central High
School senior last May. represented this
area in the fifth NATIONAL .Oratorical
Contest finals. and an official of the
contest, who will escort them to the
Mayfiower Hotel. While in washington
the boys will live at the .Maynower
2 First Time in. Country.
I'm coming to Washington to a com
mon platform the eight contestants
bling with them from various sectors
Of the world the characteristics of the.
high school youths OF, their respective
lands. Two of them never have been
To- the United States before, and come
ia the Capital direct from Cuba and
Argentina. Neither Fernandez of the
former republic nor de Tomaso of lat
ter has met any opponents, and they
themselves will reach the city unac-
qjIainted.
The Europeans, on the other hand,
have become fast friends through their