Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-27
DENLY Vote Orators Ready
First of cHs High Schools Pick It's Best Boy and Girl Speakers
for Speech Contest in Get Out-BaNot Drive

regular prep school in Detroit. TO-
day became the first OF the city''
10 high schools to pick its best
boy and girl orators for the city
championship speech contest In
The Detroit Times get-out.the'
.ivote campaign.
Out of $500 students At DENLY
Miss Shirley Saccoman and Roger
Brown, each II and a senior, won
the right 10 represent DENLY in
the final contest, which will be
held later this week as soon as
all the high schools pick their boy
and girl oratorical representatives
Pershing High, through Theo-
dore Baruch. director OF speech
there. announced today IL has las
contestants for the Pershing vote
oratory championship. Pershing's
finalists are to be decided by to-
morrow night.
SIMILAR CONTESTS HELD
Each OF the 10 high schools Is
holding similar individual elimina'
ton contests TO pick their repre-
sentatives In the Times final
contest.
The best boy and girl orators in
the whole city will be picked in
the final, to address Detroit's
electorate over Radio Stati o n
WxYZ next Tuesday morning. one
week from today, as the polls open
for the general election.
The students talks will climax
the get-out-theyvote campai & r
which the Times and the board
of education will have been wag.
ing for a month preceding election
day.
Trophies for all 3S high schoo
oratorial finalists to carry back tc
their schools, bearing the speak
ers' own and school names, viii
be awarded by the Times.
SELECTION ANNOUNCED
The selection of Denby's cham
pions. Miss Saccoman and Brown
was announced by Morris Weiss
director of the English depart
ment, and Henry Hartman, socia
studies director at the school
Shirley is the daughter Of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Louis f. Saccoman, 1850
Hickory street, and Roger Is thu
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II
Brown, 1898 Flanders. avenue
They were chosen as the bes
among more than 200 speech stu
dents and members of the DENLY
High student speakers bureau.
All high schools are asked Il
notify the get-out-the-vote desl
at the Times, Cherry $500, as soor
as their representatives are named
Besides DENLY and Pershing, the
high schools competing are Cas-
Tech. Central. Chadsey. Cooley
East Commerce. Eastern. the High
School of Commerce, Mackenzie
Miller, Northeastern, Northern
Northwestern, BEDFORD, South
eastern. Southwestern, Western
and Wilbur Wright.
FLAG AWARDS, TOO
In addition to trophies for high
school oratorical winners. the
Times will send to each OF the
citys $50 schools, elementary and
intermediate included, large hand
some replicas of our flag and the
American creed, in colors, which
are being prepared especially for
hanging in libraries and social
study halls.
The board Of education Is CO.
operating in every phase of the
Times get-out-the-vote campaign.
This paper has compiled and
printed 10000 copies Of a booklet
containing the pleas of leading
men and women urging every
registered voter TO get to the polls
next Tuesday. The booklets are
being studied in school rooms and
carried home to parents and
neighbors as part of students and
teachers plea for a heavy turnout
by Detroit's electorate.