Evening star., 1923-04-06
D. A. R. TO HONOR
|. BOY SCOUT TROOPS
Forty-TWo Parade Size Flags
Will Be Presented To-
morrow Afternoon.

| Forty-two large parade size Amer
lean ags will be presented to the Boy
Scouts of the District in recognition
OF their patriotic work during the
world war, especially their three
months daily service without pay at
the conference on the Limitation Ct
armament, by the children and sons
of the republic committee of the Dis
| trict Daughters of the American Re
Volution at ceremonies on the south
portico of Memorial Continental Hall
! tomorrow afternoon at 800 o'clock.
Each regent Will present her chap
. ter nag to troop of Boy Scouts. A
number of patriotic societies will be
invited to participate in the exercises.
Hughes to Speak.
Secretary OF State Hughes will
| make the principal address. The flags
Will be formally received by Houston
Thompson. president of the executive
board OF the Boy Scouts of the Dis
, trict. The drum and bugle corps of
tne scout organization will play. Mrs
william Il. Hardy, state regent Of the
District ID. a. r.. will lead the state
regents in the flag-presentation pro-
ceSSion. The exercises will be in
/ charge or Mrs. Frank Foster Green
wait, ex-State regent and chairman
or the children's and Sons of Republic
committee. Invocation will be by Rt
| Rev Alfred Harding. Bishop of Wash
ington.
The following chapters will give one
or more flags. each of which is
marked on the staff with metal plates:
Chapters Giving Flags.
American Liberty, Ann Hill. Army
and Navy. Col. John Donelson. Column
bia Constitution, Continental, CONT
mental Danes, Dorothy Hancock
Eleanor Wilson, Frances Scott, Kath-
/ crime Montgomery, Keystone. Living
ston Manor. Magruder, Manor House
Martha Washington. Mary Bartlett
Mary DeSha. Mary Washington, Mon
: ticello, Our Flag, Patriots Memorial
Ruth Brewster, Sarah Franklin. Susan
RfViere Hetzel, Telles de Rocham-
boau. Thirteen Colonies, Thomas Mar
snail. Wendell Wolfe and Lucy Hol-
combe
Mrs. Gaius NJ. Brumbaugh, past state
regent; Mrs. Amos G. Draper regent
OF Mary Bartlett Chapter. and Mrs
Frank Meyer will make,personal gifts
OF large flags. Continental Danes
memory of Walter Granville Guss, son
Of its regent.
Mrs. A. Howard Clark, honorary vice
president general, D. A. r., will pre-
sent large flag on behalf Of at
large members of the District of Co
lumhia D: A. K. The following D. A.
X. VIII present personally parade size
hass, suitably marked with a metal
plate on each staff, as memorials TO
world war heroes: Miss Mabel T
Poardman. Mrs. Larz Anderson. Mrs
!4isle ). Lipscomb, Mrs. William L.
West, Mrs. William B West and Miss
Lillian Chenoweth, on behalf of Manor
House Chapter
Flag Presentations.
Miss Boardman will rrAsa,, bar
nag 70 Troop loo. in memS Of Lieut.
Walker Blaine Beale: Mrs Lipscomb
20 Troop p. in memory of William
". Gallaher; Mrs. West, to Troop 49,
in memory Of Lieut. David Putnom
Miss Chenowith, in memory of Cor
poral George K. Thornton
Mrs. Larz Anderson. in Red Cross
uniform. will present TO Troop 80 a
large silk memorial flag in memory
Of Scout Edward Comegys, the ONLY
Boy Scout of Washington killed in
the world war. He was a flyer and
was Killed in action September IS, 1918.
, Thirty-nine was his own troop of
! scouts.