Evening star., 1932-02-05
$4,000 COMPETE
FOR AUTO PRIZES
Miss Dalton Of Clarendon,
Va, Wins First Honor
Among 44.

From a stack Of more than $4,000
entries, judges today announced the
selection of "A winners in the auto
mobile puzzle contest sponsored Jointly
by The Evening Star and the Wash
ingtOn AutOmOtive Trade Association.
held in conjunction with the annual
automobile show now in progress at
the Washington Auditorium.
Cash prizes totaling $l00 and nearly
a hundred free tickets to the auto show
were awarded to the winners in the
contest. Awards were made for the
best slogan on Why Washington
should have an automobile show next
year, submitted together with correct
solutions to the series of automobile
name puzzles published in The Star
during the past three weeks
Some of the contestants according
to R J. Murphy, manager of the au-
tomotive association. prepared elabo-
rate folders with attractive cover de-
signs in submitting their solutions to
the puzzles and their slogans. In max
ing the awards, Murphy said these
factors also were taken into conSidera-
ton. Correct answers to the puzzles.
however, was a prerequisite to cOnSid-
GRAFTON of the slogans themselves In
some cases, cleverly Worded slogans
were thrown out because the puzzle an
sWerS were incorrect.
First Prize Winner.
Miss Dorothy Dalton of 341 Marion
avenue Clarendon. Va, was winner of
the first prize of $50 and six tickets to
the auto show. Second prize Of S25 and
six tickets went to Carl L. Fearing. 260l
Eleventh street; third and fourth prizes
Of $40 and s., with four tickets each,
went to Miss Josephine LeeSnitZer of
2063 Park road and Frederick E. Lange,
1876 Eighteenth street, respectively, the
judges announced.
Ten prizes of 81 each and two tickets
to the automobile show were sent to
the following: Lorraine E. Watt, Kew
Gardens Apartments; Florence French,
AS Manor place; Fred Brandt. 52ll
Thirteenth street. Joan Thompson, 1884
Farragut street: L. H. Hughes, 4l9 M
street; Mrs. Joseph H. Loveless, Glen
Echo, Md Paul N. Peck. 1718 Twenty
second street; Mrs Edwin E. Mays, 1918
D street northeast Mrs. Mary j.
Michael. 6l5 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, and Nelson Warner, 80 Lloyd
avenue, Alexandria, Va.
Winners of Tickets.
Two tickets to the automobile show
were awarded to each Of the following:
Mrs. w. c. James, 1877 Carroll avenue,
Takoma Park, Md; Miss Helena Taylor,
4O1 Seventh street; Elizabeth Beall, 9
South BallSton avenue, BallSton, Va;
Miss Henrietta F. Murphy, 26l1 Adams
Mill road, Charles E. ManSy, 8l8
Ninth street; Miss Dorothy Crandall,
1840 Biltmore street; Miss Margaret
Thomas 7l3 Massachusetts, avenue
northeast: Clay G. Walker 404 Ray
mond street, Chevy Chase, Md; H.
Walter BarroWS. Manor circle,
Takoma Park, Md: Edward H. Coulson.
1901 Calvert street: John Scott, jr,
Grant avenue, Takoma Park, Md; o.
E. Lancaster, 815 Fifteenth street;
]. S. BuynitSky. 1927 Eighteenth street;
Milton M. RoWzee, I'LL Glennross road,
Silver Spring. Md; Jesse L. TeWsbury,
18 Ninth street southeast; Mrs. Theo-
dore Ruoff. Al Carroll avenue, Takoma
Park, Md; B. B. Lezin, $500 Thirteenth
street; George M. Hawkins, 2446 Kalo-
rama road; M L. Keyes, 5732 Fourth
street; Mrs. Clyde Bell, 121 Fifteenth
street southeast; Mrs. Frances S.
Alexander 1917 Columbia road, Mrs.
Guy F. Allnut. Seneca Md; Mrs.
Pauline B. Werner, 121 House Office
Building; Mrs, M. Forney, 104 Arling-
ton avenue, Clarendon Va; Mrs. H. J.
Sykes. 4425 Fourteenth street; William
H Kephart, Herndon, Va. Kenneth
Elliott, East Falls Church, Va; Mrs.
Margaret R. Carrothers SOB Fifth
street: H. M Dodd, 239 Rock Creek
Church road; Lillian S. Munzberg,
1925 TWenty-seventh street.