Evening star., 1935-08-02
CITIZENS SCOUT
GROUP IS NAMED
Arthur HELEN Heads Jam.
boree Contact Com
mittee.

Appointment of Arthur HELEN, local
attorney, Community Chest worker
and member of the executive board Of
the District Council of the Boy Scouts
of America as chairman of the Special
Citizens Committee Of 80 for the Boy
Scout Jamboree August 81 to 80, was
announced today by Commissioner
George E. Allen, chairman of the
Presidents Advisory Committee.
The new committee is to act as a
connecting unit between Scout officials
and citizens of the District and will
arrange for the orderly participation of
spectators in the celebration, it was
explained at Boy Scout headquarters.
The committee will review the entire
Scout contingent with President Roose-
welt the first day Of the jamboree and
will attend the special jamboree ex-
hibits. shows and special ceremonies.
The committee will be in charge of
arrangements for public inspection of
the Scout camps and attendance Of
the public at all jamboree events.
Members Of Committee.
Members of the committee, chosen
from professional, civic and religious
circles, are Charles Carroll Morgan,
Ralph A. Van Orsdel, Corcoran Thorn,
jr.; Edward Stafford, julius Gar
finckel, Paul Sleman, Frank r. Jel-
left, John Saul. Milton w. King, Hugh
H. Obear, DR.. A.. Y. P. Garnett, Roger
j. Whiteford, Arthur May, Charles A.
Goldsmith. w. w. Everett, Y. E.
Booker, Maj. Richard D. LaGarde, P.
S. Ridsdale, Edgar K. Legg, Sidney
F. Taliaferro, J. Bernard Wyckoff,
DR.. Montgomery Blair, Marcy l..
Sperry, Crosby Noyes Boyd, Joseph D.
| kaufman, ]. B. Hyde, Joseph j. Cot
| ter, Thomas P. Morgan, DR.. A. C..
Christie, A. G. Neal, John B. Colpoys,
William G. Grantley, jr.: Joseph C.
Colquitt, Huston Thompson, George
| p. Hoover, Harold G. Moulton, Ernest
N. Smith, Oscar w. Underwood. jr.;
Charles P. Light, Luke I. Wilson,
Merle Thorpe. Robert " Fleming. DR..
John c. Merriam, H. L. Rust, John
H. Hanna, Lloyd B. Wilson. Clarence
Phelps Dodge, Frederic A. Delano, Dr.
Charles Greely Abbot, Maj. Gen. Fred
eric w, Coleman. Joshua Evans. Jr.;
Capt. Chester Wells. Bishop James
Hugh Ryan, Bishop Edwin H. Hughes,
Col. c. o. Sheriff. Bishop James E.
Freeman, Rabbi Abram Simon, Linn
c. Drake, DR.. Paul Bartsch, Dr. Camp
Stanley. Henry P. Blair. L. Corrin
Strong, Samuel H. Kaufman. George
Hewitt Myers. George F. Hamilton.
DR.. Cloyd H. Marvin. Eugene Meyer.
John Splain, James G. Yaden, Harold
| N. Marsh, Arthur Clarendon Smith,
DR.. Chester Swope and Arthur Har-
nett.
A rally for all Scouts and Scouters
in the local council will be held this
evening at 7:30 at Temple Heights,
Connecticut and Florida avenues. as
the outstanding Scout activity of the
week. There will be an entertainment
program and discussion of the duties
Of local Scouts who will act as jam
boree guides.
An official guide neckerchief is to be
made, which will be orange with a
blue border, with the word Guide"
stamped across the corner. The JAM
boree neckerchiefs are to be blue and
red.
Local Scouts Train.
More than 800 local Scouts now are
in training for jamboree duties and a
number have taken the quiz which is
being given each Thursday evening at
the Scout Training Center, 1918
Vermont avenue
Local jamboree registration still is
increasing and will be continued until
further notice. Scoutmasters from two
local jamboree troops have been select
ed. They are District Scout Commits
sioner Ralph F. BARLEY and William
c. Westlake, Scoutmaster of Troop 8.
Westlake led a group of local Scouts
to the jamboree in England In 1929.
Additional local leaders are to be
named soon.
National Scout headquarters has
ordered that wearing of the official
Scout uniform In the District of Co.
lumbia Council and vicinity during
the jamboree period be restricted to
those registered in the jamboree or
those acting as guides.
Aquatic day will be observed at
Camp Roosevelt, District Scout camp
on Chesapeake Bay four miles south
Of Chesapeake Beach, tomorrow. The
program Of swimming and diving will
include diving demonstration by
the crew of the Coast Guard cutter
Apache, which will anchor off Camp
| Roosevelt for the week end.