Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1930, Page 4

STUDENTS ARRANGE FOR ORATORY TESTS sHigh Schools Forming C,ansti- ' tution Clubs for Debate of ', Current Problems. Wollowing & conference last Wednes- «day in the Mayflower Hotel with Ran- doiph Leigh, director of the National Oratorical Contest, and the organiza- tion at McKinley Manual Training High School of a Constitution Club, a group of Eastern High School students met and definitely decided on the for- | mation of a similar society, contest headquarters in The Star Building was informed today. | Another meeting will be held Wed- | nesday, when more students are ex- g:emd to be present. Then the club will organized formally and _officers elected. Miss Kate D. Bucknam, con- test _committee chairman, is acting as faculty adviser to the group. Policy of Club Outlined. The preliminary session Wednesday vesulted in several definite decisions as fo the policy and conduct of the club. It was said that the requirement for admission will be the writing of an essay or the delivery of an oration on some governmental topic, the merit of the essay or speech to be judged by the club members. Debates will be held each week on current problems and interest will be encouraged not only in the Constitu- tion, but in many other timely subjects. All Students Welcomed. Although its principal purpose is to focter belief in the fundamental prin- ciples of American Government, the club will welcome into its membership 2 Communist or radical of any nature, s0 as to enliven the meetings with the expression of views differing from those entertained by the majority of the stu- dents. According to Miss Bucknam, However, there {8 no such person in the entire high school. With the formation of the elub at Eastern, thepe will be Constitution Clubs at_four Washington high schools. Besides Eastern and McKinley Techni- cal there are Business and Western. SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and Sailings From New York. ARRIVED. Pastores—Port Limon . DUE TODAY. @alifornis—Glasgow ... aturnia—Triests .. ... . Ggorse Barmii tuttgart—Bremerhaven co—San s Lore; ini u Voltaire_Ruenos - Aire Magallanes—Barcelon: Santa Flisa—Valparai: Virginia—Kingston terey—Vera Orus F7 ncastri u ance—Mediterra pUB Qarabobo~Ls Guayra ... esident Adams__worid' eruise. rottningholm—Gothenbure Arcadian—Bermuds Aquitania_8outham avana_. a Cecilia—West derik VITII—Copenhagen. . DUE WEDNESDAY, MARCH Ji —Antwerp. . . L MAr s Remerican Legion Bermiids ‘Mareh 17 MUnAmAT—NAASN ...« ‘March 18 DUE THURSPAY, MARCK 20. Bermuda—Bermuds. ‘Maren 18 Silvia—St ¥ .March 18 jetapa; ingston restphalia_—Hamburg Albertic—Liverpool .. DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 31. DUE SATURDAY. MARCH 22. American Parmer—-Hambows. DUE SUNDAY, MARCH 23. _adiin, Y A A group of 11 students of the Chevy Chase-Bethesda High School who are faking part in the National Oratorical Contest being sponsored in this region by Each one fs to speak in the eliminations for choosing a school rep- The Star, resentative in the Maryland district finals, A PASHION INSTITUTION N Washington . Neafive lua—Por San Jacinto—Ver OUTGOING STEAMERS. SAILING TODAY. ® Jefferson—Norfolk. SAILING TOMORROW. Ancon—Port au Prince and Oristobal. _Bahia. | !tnho--‘uonu Afres. BAILING WEDNESDAY. MARCK 19. o Te “Guayrs, Curacao, dfl and Mars Ibo. o Bfioidad and Demerara. Plymouth, Cherbourg and ambu Rochambeau—Havre. Santa Marta_Kingsion, Oristobal. O Puerto Colombia and Santa M Virginia—Kingston. Hooslef_Porto Cortez. J.L. Luckenbach—Pacific Const. 1if: Nordpol —Buenos Aires. L Eagneald Jarl-Maracaive. Bud Cubano—Buenos Aires. 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Davison told the committee | that in the opinion of the majority of ‘ithe experts who Investigated the dis- aster, the explosion was caused by the i | | The explosion at McCrory's § and 10 | | in some part of the store while steam was flowing from the pipe. This, he | explained to the committee, would set | up a reverberation or hammer in the | pipe which would be transmitted to the large storage tank in the basement with | a force greater in proportion to the | size of the tank. When this -hammering began in the | storage tank, he said, the defectively | welded bottom gave way, releasing 200 | gallons ot water which was superheated |to a temperature of approximately 300 | degrees F. As this water came in con- | tact with the air, according to experts, | a force of about 300,000 horsepower was zenerated in the vault in from one-tenth to one-quarter of a second. “When you realize that,” Maj. 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CHEMNITZ, Germany, March 17 (). —A violent fight between Communists ‘And Fascists and Natlonalists broke out | 1ast night in the course of a meeting |and demonstration by the Steel Helmet | orqanization and Fascist groups against the Young plan. One Fascist was killed and seven persons were severely injured. ‘The police, who arrested 10, were at- tacked with stones, and half a dozen ARCH 17, | Jowitt, aAnnounces 1930. GIALDINI ARRESTED BY ITALIAN POLICE| | Davison Says Sudden Closing of Faucet When Steam Missing London Stock Crash Fig- Came Out Caused Blast. i ‘ | ure Caught in l Milan. ! By the Associated Press. | MILAN, Italy, March 17.—At the re- quest of the British authorities, John | Gialdini, missing director of the Hatry | group of companies which failed in| London last Fall, was suddenly arrested | by Itallan police Saturday night. Gial- dini had fled to Italy just before the| crash of the Hatry shares. | The arrest, however, does not neces- sarily involve extradition. 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