Evening star., 1925-07-19
BOY SCOUTS

The two Boy Scout camps of Wash
ington-Camp Roosevelt, at Calvert
Cliffs, on Chesapeake Bay, and Camp
Wilson, at Burnt Mills, Md.-tomor-
row open the fifth week of this sea
son. Each of these camps is having
the largest attendance in it's history.
As Camp Roosevelt will close its sea
son on August 10, all Scouts desiring
to attend this camp should make res
Srvations at once. The seventh week
of Camp Roosevelt this year will be
known as &C. NJ. o. week and viii
he open only to members of the &C.
NJ. o." the honorary fraternity of the
camp.
In order to become a member of this
organization a Scout must have won
his camp letters and have been in
camp total of at least two weeks,
either this season or other years.
over 800 Scouts have become mem
bers of this organization during the
past five years, and many are plan
ming to come back from their vaca-
tions in other parts of the country TO
participate in the special activities of
that week There will be no increased
rate for that week, the charge being
the same as for the other weeks,
/. e., 81.
The Woodrow Wilson Scout Reser-
vation is becoming more popular each
week, and promises 10 have a much
larger attendance in August than it
has had in July. After the close of
Summer School many Scouts who have
not been able to so to camp thus far
are planning to spend week or two
at Camp Wilson.
This camp is unique, in that any
registered Scout in good standing may
attend without charge if he provides
his own food and cooks his own meals
For those who desire to have good.
wholesome food provided. meals which
are prepared by the camp cook can
be secured at very nominal rates Of
81 per day
Arthur A. Schuck of New York, as
sistant national field director of the
national headquarters of the Boy
Scouts of America, spent two days in
Washington this past week.
The following Scouts will attend
Camp Roosevelt for the week begin
ming tomorrow: Troop l, Jim Boswell
Bill Boswell, Guy Glassford, Pelham
Glassford, William r. Nesbit, Edward
Duvann: Troop s. Lee Harrison: Troop
10. B. Perry Collins, Leroy Voshall
Snowden Fluckey, Eugene Fluckey
Eric Durand; Troop Is Floyd Willett;
Troop II, Roscoe Mcclure; Troop 90
Donald Craig, Gilbert Hedges; Troop
2l, Douglas Frederick; Troop 49,
Wagner Lawder, Albert Harmed
Robert Weigel, John Matson; Troop
AZ, Charles Morgan, y. Page Worth
ington, Bartlett Judson. E. Angelica
Robert Boyer, Robert Bourke; Troop
43, Theodore Tiller, w. Memler Nor
ris Ruckman; Troop A, David Moore;
Troop Al, Oscar Seigel; Troop As, Rob
ert Emory; Troop ga, Edward Watson:
Troop 81. George Strong; Troop So
Howard Whiteby. Robert Cron; Troop
go, Paul Steinkuller, Kenneth Appold;
Troop 81, Paul Malth, David Morris,
Edward Roberts, Robert McCauley,
Brown; Troop 73, Jack Cohen; Sam
Dick, Sidney Collegeman, Samuel
Lancy, Oscar Sherman, Everett
Simon, Herbert Weiss, Sidney ShoS-
tick. Robert Shostick; Troop SO, NJ
Dimette: Troop 90, William Sudwarth,
Wallace Bassford; Troop "a, Francis
Weller: Troop SO, John Kelley; Troop
80. Andrew Norris, Francis McGivern,
Roger Cooper, Edgar Huguley. War
ren Callahan, Joseph Bayer, Jordan
Schwartz, Joseph King, John Dorsey,
Joseph Bailey. Francis Bailey, Gerald
CuSh, Paul Jones, Arthur DorSch, Ed
ward Farrell Daniel Connors; Troop
100, r. Mickey, r. Sawtelle; Troop
106, Richard Hunter; Troop 10S, Rich
dIu NOIuOIlr Troop lUJ, James "A.
Smith; Troop 113, William Kilgord;
Troop 12S, Charles Kadel, Donald
Dudley, Glenn Wrenn. Owen Harnes,
William Bogardus, Theodore Corner;
Troop 1913. William Barnette, John
Barnette; Troop ZAP, Clarence Cork
ran, William Pace, Charles Markland,
George Chadwick, Karl Becker, Jack
Marklend, Stuart Seaton; Troop 143,
Joseph Wist, Louis Vezina, Hugh
nEapC I'D
ford, Kenneth Lyons. Francis Buck
ley, Curran McGhee, E. Lannon, Will
liam SchwarZ, William De Vaughan,
Cullen McCaffrey, Roland Brown
The biennial conference of Scout
executives will be held at Fayettes-
Vile, Pa, in October, it was an
nounced yesterday. At this conference
executives from all parts of Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware
and the District of Columbia come to-
gether and spend four days in con-
ference on problems of the Scout
movement
Assistant Scout Executive H. B.
Holbrook is now on leave at Haver-
hill, n. H.
From the hands of the Vice Presi-
dent of the United States 14-year-old
Tenderfoot Scout William OKeefe of
Evanston. Ill, recently received the
medal for heroism. The award is the
highest honor which the Scout move
ment confers for Iife-saving Bill
Okeefe. at imminent peril of his own
life, saved three children from. drown
ing.
The rescue took place last Summer
at Portage Lake, Mich. The scout was
standing on the pier when he sudden
ly heard a commotion in the water
and saw three children struggling in
the deep water just beyond a gentle
sloping ledge of the beach. Here oc-
ours treacherous pitch off to a depth
of II feet.
Bill diyed in. He quickly reached
the trio. Grasping one of the fright
ened children, a girl weighing 80
pounds more than himself, the young
life-saver pushed her to safety. He
then returned for the second girl
and got her to safey. BY this time
the boys strength was almost spent
Calls from the pier, however, told Bill
that a boy was under water. The lad
for the third time quickly swan out
on his errand of mercy.
II dived down and saw him lying
on the bottom" stated the Scout. Il