Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-06
NO SCHO0LBOYS
I GET A.A.A. MEDALS
Awards Presented by Safety
Chairman Cans at
Annual Rally.

Forty members of the A. A. A. school
boy traffic patrol were awarded medals
yesterday afternoon for saving the lives
Of schoolmates during the past year.
The awards were made at the annual
rally Of the 1900 patrolmen in divisions
to 9 at Business High School.
The award of medals for acts Of hero
ism was in addition to the presentation
of liz award of merit medals for
outstanding acts in protecting children
en- route to and from school.
Isaac Cans, chairman of the safety
committee of the D. c. division of the
A. A. A., presented the medals. He
praised the patrol system and declared
that it is one of the bright spots in
the Capitals traflc problem.
Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of
schools, was also present and paid
tribute to the meritoriouS work being
done by the patrols.
Others who were present and who
spoke favorably of the boys work in
cluded Lieut.. B. A. Lamb Of the Police
Department, Howard M. Startling, A..
A. A. director of safety, and Selden M.
Ely, supervising principal in charge of
safety in the schools.
More than ] 900 certificates were pre-
sented to boys who have served on the
patrols during the year. Awards in
divisions 10 to IS were made Wednes-
day and those in the private and pa
rochial schools today. ~
It was revealed that fatal accidents
to children of school age have been
reduced SO per cent in the District
since the patrols were inaugurated in
1926. There are approximately 1000
boys serving in 1853 patrols in operation
in the District, including "a patrols in
parochial schools and Q in private
schools, while % have been organized
in territory adjacent to the city. The
District now has an average of one
patrolman to every 40 school children.
Members Of the patrol system, from
divisions ! to 9, who were presented
with life-saving medals were: Force
School, James B. Hare; Bernard School,
Maynard Robinson, Allen Latimer
don School, Wilson Ausherman, Billy
Simpkins; Randle Highlands School,
Clinton Burgess; Corcoran School, Jo-
Seph Kelliher; Jackson School, Thomas
Donohue; John Quincy Adams School,
Richard Schneider; Bradley School,
Alvah Grips; Brightwood School,
Ernest Crooks, Philip Brodsky, Wilmer
Helmuth, Fernleigh Graninger, Robert
Galentine, William Dickens; Raymond
School, John C. Swank Paul Junior
High School, William Derrick; Blake
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School, George Eiker, Arthur Harry;
Henry School, Robert Racoosin; Gales
| School, Gus Koustenis. Fred Scaldaferri,
Kenneth Padgett; Peabody School, Earl
Wheeler, Tony Marine; Hilton School.
Sam Desimone, Richard Haig; Carbery
School, George FELTON,, Ben Mitchell;
Emery School, Linwood Cecil James
Monroe School, Sylvia Rogers; Edmonds
School, Thomas Whinerey, John Kenna
Killers, James Lawrence; Adams School.
Victor Purse; Truesdell School, Harold
Bacon; Smallwood School, David Glib
bon.
Patrolmen of schools in divisions 10
to 10 who were presented medals were:
Myrtilla Miner Normal School, Lafayette
Arts Monroe: Cleveland School. John
Simms; Douglass School, John Walker,
Eugene Collins; Wilson Morgan School,
John Henderson, Birney School, Rich
ard Lane; Stevens School, James Frye.