Evening star., 1937-06-24
5000 BOY SCOUTS
OCCUPY jAMBOREE
TENTS SATURDAY
Advance Guard From D. C.,
and Nearby States
to Be "Hosts."
1000 LOCAL YOUTHS :
WILL ACT AS GUIDES
Offices Opened in General Head.
quarters Buildings in Quad.
rangle Near Monument.

approximately 5000 Boy Scouts
from the District and four nearby
States will move Saturday into the
350-acre tented city erected along tho
Potomac River for the National Scout
Jamboree, which opens next Wednes.
day.
The vanguard Of Scouts from Wash.
mgton and from cities and towns in
Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and
pennsylvania has been designated as
host to the more than $1,000 Scouts
from all parts Of the Nation and from
many foreign lands who will attend
the unprecedented Today encamp.
ment.
One hundred Washington bows will
live IN the jamboree tents during tho
celebration.
A thousand local boys have been
named as guides to the visitors. Train
ing OF the guides was under way today.
The guides will live at home, but Will
report early each day to the lam.
ooree officials. The local and nearby
Scouts who will live under canvas
have been assigned tents south of the
Rejecting Pool.
Executives Open Offices.
National executives of the Scout
organization have opened Offices" in
general headquarters" tents ar
ranged in quadrangle near the
Monument. Commissioner George E.
Allen, chairman of the Presidents
Special Jamboree Committee, inspect.
ed the headquarters during a lunch.
con conference yesterday afternoon.
| At the conference it was estimated
more than 10000 boys will arrive be.
fore the official opening of the CANT
and VIII take a three-day course OF
training to prepare them for the lam.
boree program.
The remainder will arrive on o,
about next Tuesday, after having
completed three days of similar train.
ing in their home cities
The headquarters community, com.
prlslng double row of large tents on
the east-west axis of the Mall. lust
west of the Monument, includes q
pubic relations and press tent, a tent
IN which will be prepared daily ths
"Jamboree Journal" official publica.
tion created for the encampment;
postal tent, broadcasting studio, ar
auditoriuns telegraph Office. a trad.
Ing post or store. tent-ofhce fol
Boys Life official Scout magazine;
1our theater tents, a dispensary,
stationery store, reception tent and
a short-wave radio headquarters.
Dan Boards Headquarters.
Dan Beard, 87-year-old pionee,
Scout, will have his headquarters nea.
the reception tent.
The special camp of 1900 Eagle
scouts, VINO have received highes,
awards in scouting and who will &c
TO the world jamboree in Holland
after the show here, will be near
headquarters.
i Inc Jamborees opening spectacle
WILL be great camp fire next Wednes-
DAY night on the Monument grounds
A mass convocation will be held
Sunday night, July 4.
An outstanding event will be the
big review along Constitution avenue
on July 8, when the thousands OF
scouts Will bank themselves along
both sides of the avenue and stand
at attention while President Roose.
welt rides through their ranks from
the Capitol to the White House.
The Scouts will be guests of the
Washington base ball club at on.
OF tn games. An invitation was de.
lvered at the headquarters conner.
ence yesterday by Edward B. Eynon
lr, club secretary. 1t is probable the
boys will be divided into three shifts
Others attending yesterdays confer.
ence were Arthur A. Schuck. Comdr
w. N. Derby. Coast Guard; Capt. H
A. Baldrldge, U. S. N, retired: L. F
Gaines, Edward A. Dent, Lieut.. A. j
Bolton. U. S. N; Capt. Lucius D
Clay, U. S. A.; Capt. Chester Wells
U. S. N, retired; DR. James E. West
Harvey A. Gordon. Harry Slattery, Dr
E. N. Bressman, Ross Haworth, Ma,
w. v. Renner, U. S. A.; Linn c
Drake, E. G. Bliss, E. S. Martin ane
Earl Goodwin.