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L ORATORY CONTEST JIDGES ANNDLNGED All Five Speak Languages of | Students Who Wil Compfte. : The judges of the third international | oratorical contest were announced here | today by Randolph Leigh, director gen- | eral of the contest. Scholars and multi-linguists_con- | versant in the four languages which the contestant fleld will use. they are: Dr, Jules-Bois, editor and lecturer of Paris; Dr. Richard Henry Wilson, head | of the romance language department of the University of Virginia; Dr. Guil- THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER_ 4. 1928 [ JUDGES IN INTERNATIONAL ORATORICAL CONTEST I WIFE CALLS HUSBAND | | HOPELESS DRUG USER | Woman Asks for Committee to | Take Charge of Dr. J. A. Rich- ardson, Jr, Estate. Dr. Joseph A. Richardson, jr. 1631 Harvard street, is called” “a hopeless | drug addict” in a petition filed vester-| day in the District Supreme Court by his wife. Mrs. Elizabeth 8. Richardson, now residing with her parents at Mar- | tinsburg, W. Va. The wife asks the| court to appoint a committee to take charge of the $200.000 estate of her husband, of which $120,000 is in per- sonal property, and to provide funds for the support of herself and child. Mrs. Richardson, through Attorneys Frank J. Hogan, Edmund L. Jones and Kilmer & Byrer, tells the court she was married May 24, 1918, and has on child. Shortly after marriage, she says, her husband became addicted to the ver star citation for Flll!nlry in action. TWO COLONELS RETIRED | *Ci L steit aha « from Tiinors. served| PHYSICIAN TO SPEAK. ON ACCOUNT OF AGEHn the Philippine insurrection and the | vt .2 Br g 4 World War and reached the grade of | . colonel In duly, 1930, Col. Braaford s | OF- J-'G BeXhardt of Restarel Bu | reau Will Talk on Child. Tavelly of Cavalry: ane: Anduss: of | oy LA EIE A0q e N e G| | In July, 1920, he was promoted | Dr. John C. Eckhardt, research physl- r as a colonel of Infantry, National | ‘my. Infantry Are Transferred [io,ths arade of colonel in the Regular | cian of the Washington Child Research From Active Service. cstablishment. Col. res is from | o o | Mi o | Center, is scheduled to speak on' “The Col. George E. Lovell, U, 8. Cavalry, | ichigan. and was made & colonsl In| Relation of Child Development to Eo- at San Antonlo, Tex., on leave of ab- | clal Welfare” at a meeting of the sence, and Col. Edward H. Andres, U. S. | A | Council of Social Agencies Monday at Infantry, at Grand Haven, Mich., have Air Speed Record Claimed. | noon in the Y. W. C. A. Bullding, Sev- been transferred to the Army retired | enteenth and K streets. list on account of age, arrd Col. James| HAMBURG, Germany, October 4 (#).| The general topic for the council this H. Bradford, U. S. Infantry. stationed | —A world speed record for 60-horse- | Winter has been announced as “Rew at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., will be re- | power airplanes is elaimed for the flight | Developments in Social Welfare. tired January 4 on his own pnlication | of Ernst Hans Petersen and Werner | —_— 'fg;lsmg’ew@l"ll:‘g‘B&r':!dl;ir;e:“j:Cz" du. | Yon, Langsdorfl, who attained a spsed | 1If you need work, read the want col- ates of the Military Academy and Col of 214.5 kilometers an hour. umns of The Star. Andres was commissioned a second leutenant of Infantry in 1901 after having served in the Spanish War as a captain of the 32d Michigan Infantry, for which service he was awarded a sil- | WIS DROOP'S | 1300 G Hoover, Smith, Borah, Ritchie— —and there are many more brilliant men and women Other Great Performers! excessive use of narcotics. l} q He is incapable of properly managing | B> his estate, the wife declares. and is unable to carry on his professional du- ties. -He has failed and refused to pro- vide for her and the child, she asserts, and, on advice of another physician. she ‘left him about six weeks ago and went to her parents’ home. Upper, left to right: Dr. Louis J. A Mercier, Dr. Jules-Bois and Dr. Guil- | termo Rivera. Lower, left to right: Dr. Richard Henry Wilson and Dr. William A. Nitze. lermo Rivera, author and modern lan- guage professor at Harvard University: | Louis J. A. Mercier, also of the modern | language department of Harvard, and | Dr. William A. Nitze, author and head | of the romance language department of the University of Chicago. | Dr. Jules-Bois, a native of France. long has been distinguished among edu- | cators as h~ad-professor in the ~2ole de Psychologie of the Sorbonne at Paris. He is at present lecturing in American universities upon French culture. H~ is also a representative here of several French newspapers and periodicals and i widely known in French political circles. Dr. Richard Henry Wilson, for the Jest 28 years head of the department of romance languages, University of Virginia, was _educated chiefly in | Prance, Spain, Italy and Germany. He | has made the French and Spanish de- | partments at that institution among the best known in any of the American i uniyersities. His writings in the field | - | of fiction. as well as that of history, are 4 in French, Spanish and English. and the language of his household is | Prench. He was born in Kentucky 58 years ago. Dr. Guillermo Rivera is a native of Perto Rico. He is the author of th | Spanish version of “South America.” | by James Brice, co-author of “En Bpnm"nnn‘d collaborator in other text | . He is now professor of Spanish at Harvard Unlvers‘;ty. ~ Dr. Nitze is a native of this country, who received his -education at Johns Hopkins University and in Eutopean gmnrsmes. _He is managing editor of ‘Modern Philologv.”_auther of numer- ous works, including a handbook for French students and. a history of French literature. He has been head of the romance languages of the Uni- vetsity of Chicago since 1909. Dr. Mercier was born in France. edu- cated at Layola University at Chicago, the University of Chicago and at Oolumbia University. During. the war he. served as interpreter with the British expeditionary forces at - the front. He has charge of the annual French-speaking contest at Harvard, Wwhere he is now a professor of the mgl_;:ee ‘languages. - young orators who will present their best forensic efforts for th: judg- ment of the scholarly board are James R. Moore of the United States, Efrain Brito lo_of Mexico, Heinz Barth of Germany, Rene Ponthieu of France, Fox, jr. of' Canade, Dudley = &a'eh'erofoé“ b!:l‘lagd' Julio Oesar Fernan b - an ‘Tomaso of Argentina. % s DELEGATES DUE TONIGHT. British Group Will Come Here to Study- Telegraph Traffic. A group of d tés of the British Post Office ent, now in ‘this oountry studying, American telegraph are scheduled to arrive here lew York - tonight, to make a three-day inspeotion of the methods of handling telegraph traffic here. A “The del 85 _are accompanied by T. Carroll, general manager of the division of the Western Union who will be “on the air” before this campaign is over! 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