Evening star., 1939-06-04
Boy Roundup Week
For Soap Box Derby
Starts Tomorrow
Saturday, June II,
To Be Closing Date
For Entries
BY ROBERT A. ERWIN.

BY ROBERT A. ERWIN.
Annual Roundup Week" was pro-
claimed today for the 1889 Star
American Legion Soap Box Derby
by Derby Director o. c. Holleran
Saturday, June IT, was designated
as closing date for entries in the
second Washington area Derby.
There will be a general boy
roundup" throughout Washington
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
beginning tomorrow and continuing
through Saturday. of boys between
the ages of 10 and Is, who are
eligible for the Derby.
In line with the Roundup Week
program of last year, Mr.. Holleran
announced that flying squadrons'
of American Legionnaires would be
appointed for roundup duty among
the boys.
There are scores of youths who
already are building their own rae
. ing cars for the Derby without hav-
ing registered and a large number
Of others who plan to get in. The
1899 Derby will be held Saturday,
July 8. The race course will be an
nounced later.
Two Weeks to Sign Up.
Mr. Holleran cited the fact that
400 boys signed up in 1888 and 226
actually took part in the races held
last July 23 We hope to do al
most twice as we'll in 1899 as in
1888" he said
With the entry list closing Sat-
urday, June II, boys now have two
remaining weeks in which to sign
up. Setting aside the week of the
Derby for finishing touches and final
inspections, boys just entering will
have almost a month to WELD ham,
mer saw, screw drivers and other
tools over their cars, in homes, back
yards, garages and schools. Thus
far the 1899 Soap Box Derby field is
well above the 400 mark, Mr.. Hol-
leran pointed out
Meanwhile, plans were completed
for a new series of Derby radio
programs over Station WMAL be-
ginning tomorrow at 4:45 pm.
Instead Of a speaker, there will be
snappy, entertaining features. muSi-
cal and otherwise, by boy and girl
artists under the direction of G. H.
(Uncle Bud) Ward and Mrs. Ward.
The Wards are directors of the
National Children's Frolic programs
which have run for 272 consecutive
weeks and for almost six years over
! National BroadcaSting Co. hookupS.
Interviews to Continue.
This does not mean the end. how
ever, of interviews by Announcer
Ray Michael with boys entered in
the Derby. Plans also are under way
to include WoodShop teachers in the
broadcasts.
tomorrow program will include
Weston Jones, 13-year-old singer:
Lawrence Prescott, who gives read
ings over the radio like veteran
despite his tender age of 4 years,
and Erna Mollari. Is, pianist.
Announcer Michael will interview
Nlcky Scalco, II, of 705 Otis street
NV, and Fred Kramer, 49, of 646
Newton place NV, both students at
Park View School and representing
Park View Playground in the Derby,
and two boys from Mount Rainier
tMdo High School, whose names
Will be announced later.
Tomorrow will mark the end of
the 1899 road for the exhibition
tour of the racing car of Norman
Rocca, the Anacostia Junior High
School youth, who won Washing
tons first Derby championship last
year
The tour, which has covered about
tWoscore junior high schools in
Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia in the past four weeks,
Will close with visits to Hyattsville
. and Greenbelt High Schools in
Prince Georges County, Md.
From $50 m. to 80 am. the
brown and gold car that represented
Washington in the National Soap
Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio. last
year will be on display at Hyatts-
vile High. 1t will be at Greenbelt
from noon to 130 pm.
Latest Derby Entrants.
The tour windup will be conducted
by Hugh Armstrong, assistant Dis
trlct Scout commissioner. and The
Star Soap Box Derby editor, who
have shown the winning racer to
thousands of school boys in recent
weeks and have answered questions
on Derby rules and regulations.
The latest Derby contenders are
Denny Robins. IA, Glenn Dale, Nd,
and Jack Ruhlman, 13, of 839 Arun-
del avenue, HyattSville, Md. stu
dents at Bladensburg High School;
Paul Fox, jr, II, of 817 Islington
street, Silver Spring, Md, Parkside
School; Fred S. Bartlett, IL. of l3
Elm avenue, Takoma Park, Md, Ia
koma Park Elementary School:
Frank Nichols, Il, route /, Silver
Spring, Md, Takoma- Silver Spring
Junior High: James Albert Cole. ir.,
II, of 1921 Tennyson street NV,
Lafayette School; Marvin Winer. 13,
of $40 Quebec place NV. Macfar-
land Junior High; Charles H.
Thorne, jr., II, of 1880 Massachu-
setts avenue NV, Thomson
School; Norman Giaquinto. 13, of
SOB Kenyon street NV, Immaculate
Conception School, and Charles
Baggett, II, of 3423 @ street NV,
Addison School.