Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-25
Eight Regional Champions
Will Compete for Ma
tionaI Award.
SUPREME COURT JUDGES
TO NAME BEST SPEAKER
Formal Grafton by Senator Fess
Will Open Program at Wash.
ington Auditorium.

Excited and calm, each according to
his own temperament, f1ve boys and
thre girls are biding their tine tbs
afternoon as they await the start Of
the Sixth National Oratorical Contest
finals at the Washington Auditorium
at o'clock tonight.
The meet, which climaxes a series Of
intensive elimination contests staged
among 2,500o00 high school boys and
girls the length and breadth of the
Nation during the last six months, will
determine which of the eight regional
winners will represent the United
States in the international finals here
! next Fall.
As Contestants Appear.
The contestants and their respective
orations follow in the order IN which
they will speak on the Auditorium stage
tonight:
Miss Lucille Fletcher of BROOKLYN,
N. Y, champion of the New York zone,
The Constitution: A Guarantee of
the Personal Liberty of the 1ndividual';;
James Leonard Butsch of st. Johns
College, champion of The Stars con-
test area of the District Of Columbia,
Maryland and Virginia. THE Consti-
tuition and the Individual;
Lee Miller of haywood. ILL.,, cham
pion of the Chicago zone, Americas
Contribution to Constitutional Govern
ment";
Miss Katherine Marshall of Ouanah,
Tex. champion of the Southern zone,
! THE Significance of the Constitu-
! ton:
Ben swofford of Kansas City, Mo,
| champion Of the Midwest zone. The
American Constitution and IT'S
Framers":
Howard Finch of Battle Creek, Mich.
champion of the Eastern zone. The
Constitution and What 1t Embodies."
Miss Elizabeth v. Corey of Portland,
| Me, champion of the Northeast zone,
| Hoover and the Constitution.
| Wilbur Thibault of Portland. Greg
champion of the Western zone, The
Constitution Today
! Contest Judges.
| In their bids for the national cham
| pionship and the accompanying hand
some silver trophy. the contestants will
be judged by five members Of the high
est tribunal in the United States, the
| Supreme Court. The eminent jurists
| who will sit in Judgment upon the ora
tory will be Justice Willis Van Devan-
ter, Justice James Clark McReynolds,
Justice Pierce Butler, Justice Edward
Terry Sanford and Justice Harlan F.
Stone.
The meeting itself will be opened by
Randolph Leigh, director general OF the
contest, who will introduce Senator s.
Fess of Ohio Senator FeSs will deliver
the formal Grafton of the contest. and
following a selection by the United
States Marine Band Orchestra under
the leadership of Capt. Taylor Branson,
the first contestant will take the stage.
Last TO Arrive.
Even while the final preparations for
tonights meeting were being completed
this morning the last of the eight con-
testants to reach Washington arrived
at Union Station at 1910 o'clock. She
was Miss Katherine Marshall OF
Quanah. Tex, who, notified she was to
speak only four hours before she could
board the only train which would get
her to Washington in time for the meet
ing made a dash across the continent
to fill breach caused by the with
draWal from the contest of Beverly
Chancellor of Stanford, KY.
Miss Marshall told the exciting story
of her start for the contes upon he.
arrival this morning. She had left
her nome at (Ruandn LOT q lU-Qay au-
tomobile trip and was one day out
when the telegram summoning her to
forensic battle reached her home. Be-
tween the Star-Telegram, newspaper
sponsor of the contest at Fort Worth,
and her parents, she was located at
Fort Worth in a doctors Office, where
she had gone with a friend whose
eyes we're to be tested. The news that
she was not only to enter the national
finals but that she would go on the
three-month South American tour
stunned her Every minute counted
but her mother, Mrs. j. c. Marshall
started action when she left their
Quanah home for Fort Worth with ad.
ditions to the orators automobile tour
wardrobe.
In four hours, after friends, relatives
and oratorical boosters had helped her
pack. she had abandoned the tour and
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