Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-03
Soap Box Derby Cars
Must Be Finished by
Wednesday Night
Boys Urged to Answer
Queries on Readiness
For Race Saturday

Today's Soap Bor Derby Pa
rade iUiH be broadcast oUer STD
ton WMAL at AS pm. Tune
in for interpietDs 1Dith Dick Hdll,
supervisor OF Fourth Precinct Po-
lice Boys Club, and members OF
the club Who are entered in the
Derby.
Boys who expect to race next
Saturday in the second annual
Washington Soap Box Derby were
advised today to finish up work on
their coaster racers by Wednesday
night
o. C. Holleran, director of the
Derby, urged the boys to send in at
once their postal card replies, if
they have not already done so,
stating whether they will be in the
race and, If so, when their cars will
be ready.
These cards are very necessary
to our plans for the Derby" Mr..
Holleran said. THUS far approx
mately 400 boys out of the entry
list of 655 have replied to the
recent letters in which the postal
cards were inclosed. Most of these
400, in fact all but 20, have indicated
they will be in there racing for the
championship Friday. We haven't
heard yet from the others, and we
want their replies within "a hours"
Only three days remain in which
the racing aspirants can wind up
their 1899 construction job. All
cars must be turned in on Thursday
to the Chevrolet dealers with whom
the boys registered. The coasters
will be subjected to inspection and
those approved will be transported
to American University gymnasium
for weighing in Thursday night and
Friday prior to Saturdays races
which will be run on Massachusetts
avenue NV.
Legion Committees to Aid.
The Derby course runs from Ward
Circle almost to Fordham road, west
of Ward Circle and paralleling the
university campus. The starting
ramps will be placed about 100 yards
below the circle, with the finish line
just below Forty-siXth street.
Committees designated from the
ranks of the American Legion. which
with The Star is sponsoring the
Derby, will furnish the man power
to stage the Derby. Legionnaires
will move racing cars down to the
starting ramps, place them in posi-
ton for each heat and at the finish
line will separate winning and losing
cars for the truck trip back uphill.
Women Legionnaires will be back
on the job again this year. Mem
bers of Jacob Jones Post will act as
clerks of the course, while Jane
Delano Post members comprise the
First-Aid Committee
Campus Derby Headquarters.
American University campus will
be Derby headquarters from Thurs
day night until the day after the
Derby. Racing cars will be housed
in the university gymnasium Thurs
day and Friday nights, with any
overflow going to the cafeteria
nearby. University officials are CO.
operating to make the running OF
the Derby a success.
Up and down the race course will
be tents, furnished by the District
National Guard. The tents will be
used by various Derby committees.
All-steel helmets and sweatshirts
which are given to every boy &C
tually driving his car in the race
will be issued from a tent at the
top of the course by the Quarter
master Committee.
Most of the streets in the neigh
borhood of the race course will be
available for the parking of specta-
tors automobiles. The university
campus, however, will be reserved
for parking of official cars and for
movement of trucks returning losers
racers from the gymnasium to the
finish line.
Watch The Star for Derbu NeUs.)