Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-25
MARYLAND GROUP
CLASHES TONIGHT
Three Boys and Girl Vie for
0ratory Honors at Upper
Marlboro.

The second contender for the for
ensic championship of the Maryland
district in the Sixth National orator.
cal Contest will be chosen at 3 O'Clock
tonight in the Episcopal Church Par
ish Hall at Upper Marlboro, when three
boys and a lone girl will deliver again
the orations which won their respec-
tive school finals contests, for the
Judgment of a board of thre Judges.
The third Maryland championship
contender will be determined in the
group contest at ST. Marys County
Courthouse. Leonardtown, tomorrow
night, when five orators will be heard.
In the order in which they will
make their bids tonight's contestants
and their orations are:
Cary Euwer of the Marlboro High
School on Testing the Constitution"
Catherine Naylor of the Surrattsville
High School on 1.-THE Present S.gnifi-
canoe Of the Constitution"
william Cusick. ir, of the Oxon Hfl
High School on The Development OF
the Constitution"
Robert Wyatt Connick of the Baden
High School on Personalities OF the
Constitutional Convention
Alexandria Boy Wins.
While the contest in the Maryland
district is progressing in the interschool
stage. the Virginia district, whose group
meets are not TO be STAGED until the
week following Easter, still is choosing
its school representatives. One of these
is announced today following the flnals
in the Alexandria High School IN the
victory of Carey Howard Blackwell. AT
the same time. another MARYLAND dis
trict school, the Hyattsville High School,
announces its final victor as Mary
Payne. :
Nicholas Orem, superintendent OF
schools in Prince Georges County, VIII
preside over the Upper Marlboro meet
ing tonight, while the judges will be Il.
M Watkins. instructor in public speak
ing at the University of Maryland; Mrs.
Earl Knott of Indian Head, who as MISS
Myrtle Posey, Eastern High School stu
dent. captured the championship OF The
Stars area in the 1926 contest, ana
Arthur Fleming, instructor IN pubic
speaking at the American University.
Music for the meeting will be furnished
by the Baden High School Orchestra.
Cusick is the NEST recently chosen OF
tonight's contestants He is Is years
old and the son of Mr.. and Mrs. CuslcK
of Fort Foote He hopes to be gradu-
ated from Oxon Hill High School In
1881 and then he plans to enter the
University OF Maryland. After that he
plans to become newspaper reporter.
At Oxon Hill he plays base ball.
Already announced. the other three
contestants are recalled as Cary Euwer,
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter ii.
Euwer OF Upper Marlboro: Miss Naylor.
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Naylor of Camp Springs, and Wyatt
Ccnnick. the son of Mr. and Mrs. w.
r. c. Connick of Baden.
Wins HyattsviIIe Prize.
Miss Payne, the Hyattsville victor,
won her school championship with her
Grafton on "The Personalities OF the
Constitutional Convention" She Is 16
wears old and is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. T. PAYNE of 5 Wells ave-
nue.. Evansville. In the school finals
Miss Payne won the decision over Leila
Smith who was second. Mary Jacoby
who was third, Sylvia Edlavitch, Helen
Lemon. Emily Wolfe and Helen Mills.
Through her school victory Miss Payne
won the Hyattsville High Schools own
prize of So Similarly Miss Smith re-
ceived the SIS award for second place
and Miss Jacoby captured the third
place award of $3.50. The contestants
had worked on their speeches since
November, and IN the course OF tnelr
preparation they made several visits
to the Congressional Library for original
research. X ]. Morris, principal of
the school. was largely responsible for
the efforts expended by his schools
orators.
Young Blackwell, the Alexandria
High School winner, has the distinction
of having won over the largest field
in any district of The Star areas con-
test this year. The Alexandria High
School, with an enrolment of 583 stu
dents. entered its entire student body in
the contest and every pupil wrote an
Grafton following studious preparation.
Blackwell's victory was accomplished
with speech on THE Development
a Purpose of the Constitution" The
contestants who went down before his
oratorical drive to better his last years
mark-he reached the Virginia finals,
where he lost the championship