Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1925, Page 15

the Liverpool, England, Cathedral, was the first speaker. Charles R. Gardner, Omaha, speaking on the ob- ance of Boys' week in the United | States and Canada, urged that boys be given an opportunity to show “their pr ss from yed year.” “The main issue in the world today | 1= not_the money on deposit or the | raw material passing through mills, Bishop C. | 1. Mead of the Methodist Episcopal Denver Convention Dele- | Church, Denver, declared. “As the boy of today becomes the man of to- gates Put on Show With Im- morrow, the problem of giving to the ported Ammunition. |but the boys and girls,” Championship of America to Be Decided From Among State Winners. important problem of the time." i BOY, 15, FAINTS AT RITES CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 17.—After OF FATHER HE KILLED experiencin, eral kinds of weather, | 3 including a hailstorm, heat wave, cool Dreees and heavy riins, since areiv- | Shot Parent When He Threatened ing in Cleveland, delegates and visito to Kill Entire Family, boy a right start becomes the most Spellers will hold the center of the stage tonight, when champions from nine States meet in the finals of the national spelling bee to decide the championship of America, after meeting_President Coolidge at the will be reserved for Washington school children, all of whom have been invited through Dr. Frank Ballou and through Father Davey of Gonzaga College. The bee will be open to the public. Carry Books on Trips. Spellers here for the contest are having a hard time seeing the sights of the Capital and “boning” for the finals, and a spelling text usually is tucked under the arm when the sight-seeing rounds start. Patrick Kelly of New Haven, Conn., has brought 22 texts for study, and Al- meda Pennington of Houston, Tex., brought along the biggest dictionary she could find. The champions have been given a sight-seeing program since Monday, when they arrived. The Congressional Library was visited last night, and Thursday the party will go to Ar- lington. Thursday night all cham- pions will be guests of the Courler- Journal at a dinner at the Harring. ton Hotel. Friday they will meet Government officials and Representa- tives from their home States. Prizes in the finals will be $1,000 in gold, divided as follows: First prize, $500; second, $250; third, $159; fourth, $100. A gold medal will be given the grand champion. The “baby” of the natlanal contest is Kelly of New Haven, who is only 10 years old, and the speller with the record for distance traveled is Almeda Pennington of Houston, Tex. The White House appointment with the President is for 12:15 o'clock, when the President will shake hands with all contestants. Rated as Floaters. From the Kansas City Times. Sunday School Teacher—Can any one tell me where Noah lived? Pupil—I don’t think he had a regu- lar home. I guess he and his family belonged to the floating population. especially those from the South, the sixteenth annual convention of t Rotary International were given treat today k. gation from Denver, where convention will be held, | a snow ball battle in Public | Square. The demonstration was in support of Denver’s slogan, “sunshine | and snowballs, Denver, 1926." | which fell in Colorado The snow, two weeks ago, was brought here in a refrigerator car. Trucks hauled it to the square, where the Denver Rotary Club’s delegation and girls in bathing suits snowballed each other and the crowd. The snowballing was preceded by a parade. Nomination of candidates for presi- dent, treasurer and seven directors was the principal business before the delegates. The leading candidates to succeed President Everett W. Hill, Oklahoma City, were Donald A Adams, New Haven, Conn., and Paul H. King, Detroit, first vice president tor, respectively. The elec- tomorrow. Georgia Youth Says. By the Associated Press. BUCHANAN, During funeral service: her here vesterday Hoke Golden, 15, who ad- mits shooting his parent to death with® a shotgun, fainted twice and became so hysterical that he had to be taken from the church The boy was granted special per- mission to attend the funeral by Sheriff Richards, accompanied by deputies. “I knew if I did not kill daddy he would kill mother,” was the statment of Hoke Golden before being taken to_the funeral. Mrs. Golden and another son were in a garden near the house when they heard the fatal shot, they said. Rushing to the house, they found Mr. Golden dead, in a pool of blood. “Daddy had said lots of times he would Kill mother,” the youth told newspaper men. ‘At dinner yesterday White House at noon. The New National Museum audi- torium will be the scene of the con- test, in which Connecticut will meet Oklahoma and Michigan will conclusions with Texas. the first of its kind ever held and will be presided over by John J. Tigert United States commissioner of education, who indorsed it when the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., ini- tiated the movement last Fall. Doors of the museum will be open at 7:30 and the program will begin at 8 o'clock. A section of the seats F MOTHS - MOS BEDBUGS ~ FLEAS Most POWERFUL HOUSEHOLD INSECTICIDE You Can Buy. THE TANGLEFOOT CO. GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. was the principal topic of 3 he said he intended killing all of SEE ANNO! 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MIDDLEBURY, Vt., June 17.—He who flouts a law because he disap. proves of it joins the forces of dis order and weakens the fiber of or- ganized soclety, Attorney General John G. Sargent declared in an ad- dress yesterday at the 125th com- mencement of Middlebury College. The great problem of the Nation to. day, he sald, is that of self-control and ‘Increases the burden of taxation for the proper observanec of the rights of others. oFor any one {o say."” Mr. Sargent asserted, “that because he does not i avprove of a particular law he will g,“.‘:‘:‘n:‘:;;“".m flout it and disregard it is mischievous Y il in the highest degree. * * * He enforcement of law; he weakens the fiber or organized soclety.” Emphasizing the importance of proper child training, the Attorney General said that the pampered child, when denied what he wants, in later life grows rebellious and becomes “‘a fertile ground for lawlessness." 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