Evening star., 1937-06-26
SCOUT VANGUARD
EXPECTED TODAY
FROM -FOUR STATES
D. c. Boys Also Among 5000
to Occupy Jamboree
Tents.
VISITORS ARE INVITED
TO INSPECT F. B. /.
British Columbia Pair Cycling
Way Here as Other Foreign
Delegates Reach New York.

The vanguard OF $1,000 Boy Scouts
who will storm Washington next week
for a Today jamboree was arriving
today at the 35o-acre tented city
along the Potomac River.
Some 5000 Scouts, mostly from
Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia and the District OF Columbia
will have established themselves in
tents near the Lincoln Memorial by
tonight. officials estimated Twenty
six trains are expected to bring con-
tingents today.
The early arrivals will form an Off
cial reception and host group for the
crowds of boys who will follow them
into camp for the grand opening
next Wednesday.
Jamboree officials announced today
that in accordance with the expressed
attitude Of their organization in favor
of fingerprinting for nom criminal
identification purposes. all Scouts will
be given an opportunity to be finger
printed if they desire, at the Federal
Bureau of, Investigation.
Arrangements have been made with
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
F. B. l.. to take the fngerprlnts of
any Scouts wishing to be listed in
the civil identification files of the
bureau. The Scouts will visit the
crime museum of the bureau in
shifts during the encampment
Visit to F. b. !. Planned.
I'VE believe visit to the bureau
will be a real object lesson for the
boys it vas stated at camp head
quarters, The fngerprinting will be
incidental and optional. Our organ
| ization. however. recently adopted
resolutions indorsing fngerprinting of
Scouts on voluntary basis. and
many have recorded their prints for
use in such emergencies as accidents,
cataStrophes. amneSia. etc"
One hundred Washington Scouts
were among the first to move into the
encampment today. They will live
in the camp for the entire period with
the boys who have come long dis
tanCes.
approximately 1000 other local
Scouts today were completing a spe-
clal course of training as guides to
the visiting Scouts and their friends,
These boys will sleep at home, re-
porting to camp early each morning
The guides are being thoroughly
Schooled in their duties, which will
Include escorting groups of visitors
to various points of interest in Wash
lneton and answering questions of
the sght-seers.
Cycling Way Here.
Two British Columbia Scouts are
cycling their way here. it was dis
closed today. They carry a message
OF greeting from Premier T. D Pa
tullo OF British Columbia to President
Roosevelt. The youths. Arthur E.
Freeman. l8. and Philip La Fortune,
l6, had pedaled 3349 miles when they
reached New York this week. They
started toward Washington Yesterday
and expected to arrive in leisurely
fashion by next Tuesday.
Also in New York are "a Polish
Scouts. 7 Lithuanians and a number
OF other foreign contlngents. They
are sightseeing in Manhattan prior
TO coming here. More than 400 for
eigners in all from "a countries will
be here by the middle Of next week,
1t was announced
Today's arrivals were coming bv
tram and automobile AS fast as
they arrived they were registered at
headquarters and assigned to the
tents reserved for them in Potomac
Park. Each boy was given bundle
OF equipment. which he was to set I'D
in military style
From now until the end OF the en-
campment they will eat. sleep and
rise according 10 bugle calls.