Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-23
Medals for County Cham
Unconstitutional FinaIists to
Receive European Trip.
DIVISION ESTABLISHED
AS ADDED INCENTIVE
Tour Will Feature Visit to Ober-
ammergeau and Attendance
at Passion Play.

Special awards for Virginia and
Maryland high school participants in
the National Oratorical Contest have
been arranged for by the contest COM
mittee to augment the attractive prizes
established for district and national
winners, 1t was announced today.
Each pupil adjudged champion of his
county will be awarded a gold medal.
The contest committee today made
known, at its headquarters. room 404
Star Building, the prizes for the con-
test and the details of the European
tour which will be awarded the seven
participants in the national finals.
Prizes Same as Last Year.
The prizes will be the same as last
year. The award for the pupil who rep
resents the district comprising the Dis
trict Of Columbia and Maryland and
Virginia counties in the national finals
will be 5000 and participation in the
European tour. Eleven prizes of 500
will be awarded to the winners in each
division in the district.
The Virginia and Maryland division
has been established by the contest
committee as an added incentive to
pupils In those States who thus will be
eligible for awards of merit regardless
Of whether they qualify in the national
1nals, which is to be an event of
May "a. On that day the winners In
seven districts in this country viii com
pete with representatives of other ma
tons for international honors.
The 1880 prize tour. with all expenses
paid, will be awarded to each Of the
seven finalists. An important feature
| OF the tour will be a two-day visit to
Oberammergau and attendance at the
presentation Of the Passion Play. De-
tails OF the tour, made known today,
disclose variety Of interesting cities
and sections.
SAN From New York July 2.
The tour party will SAN from New
| York July 2 on the steamship Amer
lea Of the United States Lines, and
land at Hamburg July ~. Nine DAYS
will be spent In visits TO Berlin, Munich,
Heidelberg and Leipzig and the party
viii reach the village OF Oberammergavl
the evening Of july 49, After attending
the Passion Play short excursions will
be had in the Bavarian highlands
among famous royal castles.
/ Travelling to Austria. the party will
make Innsbruck the center for various
side trips and then will proceed to
switzerland. visiting Interlaken, Geneva,
Montreux and other places attractive 10
students and tourists From Switzer-
land the party VIII travel to France and
with Paris headquarters make excur-
sions to the Chatealix country, the bat
tle1elds, Versailles, Fontainebleu and
other cities. In Belgium the party viii
stop at Brussels and in Holland visit
The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Excursions to Oxford.
The Hook Of Holland route viii be
| traversed across the English channel.
and the party, proceeding to London,
| will make excursions to Oxford, the
lake district and the Shakespeare coun-
try. On September the party will
sail from southampton on the steam
ship George washington, the vessel
which transported the American dele
CATION to the London Naval Conference.
Arrival win be made at New York Sep
tember ~.
The contest committee explained that
the tour Is arranged with a few basic
stops, the itinerary being kept flexible
to permit visits to any nearby locality
that proves especially enchanting 10
the party. The tour is more like one
by family or group of friends than
by clients of a travel agency, It was
pointed out. The committee is nov
arranging for the contest preliminarirs.