Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1927, Page 5

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" (RATORS PREPARE THE SUNDAY e FOR FORENSIC FEAT ;iernational Contest to Be| Heid in Washington Audi- torium Friday. school oratorical tions are bei thei where they rrival ! | 131 Universal, | vepuhlic, s reached its ivery of the Main John- adian pub rophy to oratorical the champion ve contest represent Carlson of Salt otson, Keith Watson, 1 Introduction by Preceding the intr Musie, Trowbridge “Battle by way Tittmann will Hymn of the Rey H voung Mr. Wat Gretchen Hood will render “Rule Britannia,” in honor of England’s son. “La M will be sung by Flora Mc v welcome | 3 Ruby | I da” the youthful Hotson, & Milla_ Ibarra Domi wife of an| attache of the Mexi ulate in | New York City song of Mexico before the platform. musical i ants will rtment. del oration h try. and for the benefit of those of the | audience not acquainted with all three of the lanzuages which will be spboken, printed interpretations of the Mexican and French orators’ speeches | istributed. In compliance ural demands of such a speaking prozram, the judges, who will be announced before the of the contest skilled lingui: ble_of passing Judg: in English, French and Spanish. Applause Is Barred. The same_regulations in force for the recent Fourth National Oratori- cal Contest will be in effect in the Auditorium Friday night. The co test will begin promptly at 8 o'clo and exactly at that hour tickets fo reserved seats become void. The audicnce will be instructed that no applause during the delivery of a speech will be permitted, as each con- testant will be allowed but 10 minutes in which to make his bid for the championship, and no allowance will be made for interruptions by the au- dience. A half-hour band concert will ede the contest to entertain the | g audience, This afternoon the contestants will be guests at a reception in their honor at the quarters of the ct chapter of the Leazue of can Pen Women, 1108 Sikteenth street. The committee of hostesses at the reception includes Dr. Ani Boggs, Mrs. Louis Ludlow, Mrs. Wi liam Wolff-Smith and Mrs. Theodore Tiller. SALES OF SYNTHETIC BENZINE HELD GOOD| German Dye Chemicals Corpora-| tion Reports Increase in | Its Commodities. By the Ascor FRAN Corpor ia tion in | NT FIGURES IN ORATORICAL CONTEST AND TROPHY ! STAR, WASHINGTON. D. ¢, OCTOBER 9. | VENLE AR HAS WADE 5 0P8 | Albert Winston Funkhouser, 9, Ciaims Capital Record for His Age. Albert Winston Funkhouser, 9-vear i son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 1 IFunkhouser of 5 Colorado avenue, nodestly and v lays claim Deir E most experi enced juvenile aivman by virtue of having made 50 or more “hops” for 1 total flying time of X Qours, during the past pring ¢ mmer. tition to xperience though fowing to his mother's objections. | Like every other person who | flown to any great extent, the novelty | of fiving has worn oft with Albert and he would much le a pony plane as 90 miles to vight: Sir Esme H Ambassador es, who will m: s at the second international con Main Johnson, chairn airmai Went to Gettysburg. contest committee Albert’s opportunity to get in so of the ¥ many hops cam ‘\\Ihn his father N et the | came connected with the Potomac Fly inge s ampion. r ¥ o be awarded | P hop . [to hold two persons one cockpit, with ano | mediately behind for the pilot. ! persons would visit the field for singly, lea an_empty seat avail able. Albert, who frequented the field - it | [wvould Stalk m of that seat | Malaga as Alfonso Rctwrns. |, /g ride around th with the pas MALAGA, Spain, October 8 (8. sen Coincidental’ with the return here of | ‘Then Funkhouser loft the I'o- Gz Alfonso and Queen Vietoria, who | tomae Flying Service and opened up a “hop serviee” at Gettysburg dur- in port | ing the Summer, after acquiring two Alfonso again weni aboard | planes. “Albert went along and con- of which he is an|tinued to “hook z whenever a or, and compliment Ad ant seat became availabl se, chief of American| Iew of his playmates in European water Albert i ¥ flyer de the port until those hearing the h lale School last The American ships remained out- | Spring, on learning of it by accident, | side the port until those heari \sked the boy why he hadn't vty and escort had o nounced it himeelf. Albert r , but later joined them, ihat he “didn’t think anybody would ing of the Fall term Albert became |a student at the West School. £ Sl |ve interested.” He was then RAIL OFFICIAL KILLS SELF | manded to get up and tell the clas: | Mails and Express Superintendent | ¢ oph the winner. KING ViSITS U. €. SHIP. American de by side in er cockpit im often Souadron Arrives at have Amer | King {the Detroit | honorary s i Bu been visitir 1 squadron in Marocco, an ut his experiences. With the open New Service Planned. opportunity to get in addi- time will come to Albert . as his father, in co-op- T. Howard Duckett, a . and Herbert Fahy, ane pilot, have leased the shington Horse Show grounds, site Hoover Field, for the purpose ablishing a “hop service” under {the name of Capital Work on conditioning nway has been goin Cuts Throat in North Carolina. WILMINGTON, N. .. October 8§ (#).—John DeWitt, superintendent of |mails and express traffic of the At {lanc Coast 1 |teday committe | here” by cuttin labout 60 | desponden An effort was | his son. John DeWitt, from New Bern to ¢ de to reach en route a tructed | 1927—PART 1. t | Young Airman | | | has | st week and M hoped to open the tield yesterd the rain prevente The two V ated at Gettysburg the present, but, Mr. rined, nefotiations are now w the acquisition of two R gham monoplanes, similar in « en to the Spirit of St. Lo aco with a Whirlwind engine. “acos now on hand have the 90 epower OX-5 power plant, roughout the Winter Mr. I { houser said work wil go forward toward ccnditioning that & L for | 7vinz field and in the Spring he hopes have an up-to-date airport estah- A han se the planes e huilt. he \ h the launching of the Caj Airways, Inc, South Washington. Va., becomes the center of r activity for the Cap The Potomac Fly- ing holder of a on Hoover opened up on modern followed by two | s which fly out of Arlington That area is not far from the proposed airport site which now is a mud flat between Iunter and Gravelly Points. Jewelry and Cash Stolen. Mrs. Charlotte Arendes of 4027 “onnecti enue returned last night fter an ¢ absence to find her ansacked and jewelry val- 1ed 0 missing. Furniture had :n overturned and the entire plice s in disorder. notified the police and on fe | vestization it was found that entraace [to the apartment had been obtained | by forcing a kitchen window. Visiting Doctor Sought. ce last nizht were asked to make n effort to get in touch with Dr. W stin of Jersey City, who is | n him his father — I— e were of international _significance ing the war for independence, sentatives of three foreign nas tions were present today as well a) |of American State and National Gov ernments. Spokesmen for Great Britain, and Poland joined with Gov New York, Gov. Weeks of Gov. Spaulding of New CAPTALHAS PART INSHRATOGAFEE 552 [Sesqui Attended by Mrs. e ey ¥ ere Adotph BI'OUSSEBU Chilton and | s , publisher of the New Yoli‘lf French Military Attache. hairman of the da Assistant Secretary | of War; Ganson Depew, State regent of the Sons of the American Revolu- v and Mrs. Alfred J. Brousseau \Washinzton, president general of the Daughters of the American Revo By the Associated Pr H Ni'¥., 160,000 persons, Alf the number livin |entire colony of New York in Revolu of including the for- nary times, ered today on the |eicn representatives. Great Britain's toga battle northwest of this spokesman was Henry Chilton of the to the State’s com- | British embassy at Washington; Po- | memoration of the victory won there Lochner of the Polish {hy the American Army und e in New York 3 rs ago. There were Thenault, French and a mammoth spoke for his Octobe ddresses were made by the and_ by the other honor, a e State today took official pos: | sfon of one-fourth of the battle area | for use as a public pa Four Nations Parti Turkish Soldiers Freed. October § (). — Angora re- ceived word that the Turkish officers | their reward when Conservation Com-|and soldiers recently seized by Kurd- missioner Alexander MacDonald ac- |ish bands have been liberated. 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