Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-29
MICHIGAN ORATOR
GOES into FINALS
Battle Creek Boy Wins East
ern Zone Contest at
Harrisburg, Pa.

A 16-year- old boy student OF the
junior high school of Battle Greek,
Mich, is the first of the remaining
seven orators to be determined as fell
low competitors with James ButSch,
The Stars representative, for the high
school forensic championship of the
United States in the sixth National
Oratorical Contest finals here May 70.
He is Howard Finch, representative OF
the Kalamazoo Gazette. who won the
right to enter the national finals of
the contest in the Eastern zone finals
at Harrisburg, Pa, Saturday night.
Just as James Butsch has his alter
nate in Miss Mary Eugenia Hardy,
Takoma-Silver Spring high school girl
who won second place in The Star
finals, young Finch has his forensic
minute man in Thomas Millikan of
Newcastle, Ind, who was adjudged Sec
ond best in the Harrisburg contest.
Constitution Was Topic.
The four judges of the meet. the sec
ond regional contest to be held, were
James r. Farnum, assistant attorney
general of the United States; Albert W.
Atwood, contributing editor of the Sat-
urday Evening Post; Judge Hugh H
Morris of the United States District
Court at Wilmington, Del, and Repre-
sentative w. z. Evans OF California.
Finch. who, as one of Butschs fellow
contenders for the right to enter the
international finals here next october,
is to become one of the Washington
boys travelling companions on the South
American tour this Summer, plans to
eV1kn TTYHiYynrcifxy IF MioINin0Yr
lowing his graduation from high school,
where he will study either for the min
istry or for career as a lawyer. His
subject in the contest is THE Con-
stitution and What 1t Embodies"
The remaining six competitors in the
national finals in the Washington Au-
ditorium Saturday night, May rs, will
be chosen in regional meets similar to
those in which Butsch and Finch won
their honors. The next of these is the
concluding meet of the Northeastern
zone, which will be staged Saturday
night at Worcester, Mass, where the
representatives of the Binghamton
IN. W Press, the Burlington (Vt) Free
Press, Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
the Portland (Me.) Press Herald, the
Utica IN " Press, the Buffalo IN. "
News, the Albany News and Knicker-
becker Press ana the worcester 1ele-
gram-Gazette will compete.
Other Finals on May 10.
The finals of the Southern and the
Pacific zones will be held May 10. the
former at New Orleans and the latter
at Los Angeles. The Midwestern zone
finals will be staged May II in Kansas
City.
To date, IS boys and girls, champions
of their respective sponsoring news
papers, are awaiting their zone finals.
These are E. Gordon Thomas of the
Burlington Free Press, Rena Lipetz of
the Albany News, Daniel Taradash of
the Jacksonville Journal, Elizabeth A..
Schleicher of the San Antonio Express,
Robert w. Brown. representing the
Drake University, a contest sponsor;
Stanley w. Trachta of the Laramie
Republican Boomerang Adeline Refs
of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ben w.
Swofford of the Kansas City Star, Al
bert Ashley of the Birmingham News,
Mary K. Morris of the Nevada State
Journal, Hal Wooledge of the Fargo
Forum, Eugene Mapel of the Oklahoma
City Oklahoman-Times and Carlton
Wonslow of the Springfield Union.