Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
ORDER OF WINNERS
SPEECHES IN SIXTH
ORATORS TEST TOLD
Star Finals to Be Held To-
morrow Morning in Nine
Auditoriums.
JUDGES WILL TRAVEL
ON CITY-WIDE CIRCUIT
Lack Of Ceremony to Mark Meet
ings Held in Eleven
Contests.

The order in which the IL district
winners in The Stars Sixth National
Oratorical Contest area will deliver
their orations in this newspapers finals
tomorrow when they compete for the
forensic championship of the District
of Columbia and nearby counties Of
Maryland and Virginia Is announced
today.
Scheduled to be held in nine separ-
ate units In as many different audi
forums throughout the city, The Star
finals will get under way promptly at
8:45 o'clock tomorrow morning at
Eastern High School. and will continue
until early afternoon when they Will
conclude in the auditorium of the Ma
tional Museum. Each of the spokes-
men for the eight public high schools
of the District will be heard In the
auditoriums of their own schools, while
the champions of the private and pa
rochial, the Maryland and the Virginia
districts will speak in the National
Museum Hall. The board OF judges
will travel from one auditorium TO the
other in their city-wide circuit to de-
terinine this areas champion.
The order in which the contestants
will speak. with the scheduled time they
are to be heard and their respective
orations, follows:
Time Of Speeches.
Ruth Goldberg of Eastern High
School, on THE Citizen: His Privileges
and Duties'-8:45 am.
Harry Schonrank of Mckinley High
School, on THE Origins of the Con-
Stitution"-9:10 am
George C. Morris of the Cardozo High
School, on Lincoln and the Constltu-
tion"-9:35 am.
Charles w. Thomas of the Dunbar
High School. on Lincoln and the Con-
stitution"-9:50 am.
Tayloria Amanda Dick of the Arm
strong High School. on THE Constitu-
ton as a Guarantee of the Liberty Of
the Individual'-10:05 am.
Stanley Segal of Business High School.
on THE Development Of Democracy
Under the Constitution"-10:25 am.
John M. C. Belts of Central High
School, on THE Origin Of the Constitu-
tion'-10:45 am.
vladimir Boris Grinioff of Western
High School, on Forward, American
1l:10 am.
James Leonard Butsch of st. Johns
College, champion Of the private and
parochial district. on THE Constitution
and the Individual''-11:3 IS am, in the
National Museum Auditorium;
Mary Eugenia Hardy of the Takonla-
Silver Spring High School, champion
of the Maryland district, on THE
Origins of the Constitution
am; and
Carey Howard Blackwell of the Alex
an6ria High School, champion OF the
10 liefv ~ frTha T1ouo1nr1fSaoY1t
and Purpose of the Constitution
1851 am.
Lack of Ceremony.
While there is to be no ceremony
at any of the meetings while the judges
are present, Stephen E. Kramer, first
assistant superintendent of schools in
charge of high schools. will announce
the three speakers in the National
Museum. The official party which ac-
companies the judges on their rounds,
will deposit this newspapers check for
500 at each of the eight public high
schools SO that as soon as the judges
have left the hall, members of the
schools faculties can present the dis
trict" prize to their respective winners.
The champions of the private and
parochial, the Maryland and the Viz
ginia districts already have received
their 500 prizes.
The judges, as announced in The Star
last Sunday, will be Speaker Longworth
of the House of Representatives, Sena-
tor George H. Moses of New Hampshire,
President Pro Tempore of the Senate:
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen OF
Florida, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, di-
rector of the Veterans Bureau, and
Wade Hampton Cooper, president OF
the Continental Trust Co.
Tomorrow'S contest will determine
which one of the three girls and eight
boys will enter the national finals of the
contest in the Washington Auditorium
next month as the champion Of this
section of the country. Besides that, to-
morrow will decide, too, which of the
IL young orators will have the right to
Journey through South America for
three glorious months this Summer
right which will be clinched by the
victor's appearance in the national
finals-and an additional cash award of
5000. The winner will be announced in
tomorrow afternoons edition of The
Star and not at the conclusion Of the
final meeting. This is done in accord
ance with the plan followed in each of
the preceding contests here as the only
means of absolute fairness to all the
audiences. The winner further will be
announced over radio station WMAL
during tomorrow nights flashes from
The Evening Star.