Evening star., 1939-06-13
Manual Arts Teacher
Al Stuart Junior Hiqh
To Tell Derby Plans
20 Boys Assemble Cars
At School,; WMAL Carries
Broadcast Tomorrow
ATTENTION BOYS!

Al i EN- 11ON 0OxS. ed.
Registration for the 1889 Soap
Boz Derby aDill close Saturday
night. The Derby ,oil be run on
July 8. No1r is the time to sign
up and to begin tDork on your
racer it you are not already en-
tered. Boys 10 to IS years old, in
cluSiOe, are eligible.
Walter S. Griest, manual arts in
structor at Stuart Junior High
School, will tell about the Soap Box
Derby racer building program at
Stuart in another Derby program to
be broadcast over Station WMAL
tomorrow at 4:45 pm.
Stuart is expected to have ap-
proximately 20 boys entered in the
second annual Washington Derby,
sponsored by The Star and the
American Legion, and virtually all
the candidates are assembling their
coaster cars in the school woodshop
under Mr.. Griests direction.
mot all of our boys working in
the Derby have registered as yet,"
Mr.. Griest said today. but we are
seeing to it that they sign up before
the entry list closes Saturday night.
The sign-up campaign is being con-
Quoted in each class as it reports
for the regular shop period"
There is a Derby assembly line in
the Stuart shop, and the boys re-
port there each afternoon after
school to cut out the framework
and assemble the parts for their
jalopies.
Boys to Answer Questions.
Mr.. Griest and two schoolboys
from Stuart will be cross examined
on tomorrow'S Derby broadcast by
Raymond Michael, N. B. c. an
nouncer.
Youthful entertainers who will
appear on the same program are
Preble Earl Donoho, 8, the prodigy
pianist, who will play the Second
Valse" of GODDARD and Amelita
Ward, 16, who will sing. Miss Ward
is the daughter Of c. L. CUncle
Bud) Ward and Mrs. Ward, directors
of the National Childrens Frolic,
N. B. c. weekly radio feature which
is furnishing talent for the Soap
Box Derby radio parade
Rosel H. Hyde, II, of 2709 McKin-
ley street NV. student at Alice
Deal High School and a second-heat
winner in Washington's first Derby
last year, is listed today as one of
the new entries for the 1899 event
Rosel raced in class B last year
and he will be in the same class
when starters roll off the ramp on
Derby Day. just three weeks from
next Saturday.
Other New Candidates.
Other new Derby candidates are
Richard Ellsworth. II, of 2739 Nc
Kinley street. neighbor of Rosel,
who goes to Lafayette School;
Charles Tyson, IA, Brookeville, Md,
Sherwood High School, Sandy
Spring; Harry Sessums, IA, of 1904
Thirty ty-fourth street, Mount Rainier.
Md, Mount Rainier High; Tommy
E. Cramer, 13, of 200 Lincoln
street, Bethesda. Md, Leland Junior
High; Robert F. Parker, 10, of 4O1
Concord avenue NV. Whittier
School; Samuel A. Mawhood, 13, of
1923 Sixth street NV, Jefferson
Junior High, and William Inman,
13, of II Charming. street NE,
Langley Junior High.
More than 500 boys in Washing
ton and nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia have registered for the July
8 Derby, sponsored by The Star
and the American Legion.
Derby Director o. c. Holleran to-
day reminded boys who are inter-
ested in entering that only four
days remain after today in which
to sign up. Directions for registra-
ton will be found elsewhere on this
page.
watch The Star for Derbu Mems