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GotGuard Rescues Six, Boy in Boat Six young saiiors are thankful that Sunday is not a day of rest for the (J. S. Coast Guard station ýat Wil- mette, directed by Capt. M. A. Jacob- son. The, six boys ini a boat-a tiny Snipe Class sloop-were cruising briskiy about a mile out from Wil. mette harbor when the craft iurcbec and the sail took a sickening slap against the water. It was ail ini a day's workfor the coast guard who fnom bhis observation tower saw the boat capsize-but it xvas a big, moist moment (severai of them) for thesix boys who clutched desperateiy at the smnooth sides of the littie sloop*whiich xvas floating wnong side Up. The Coast Guard moton surf boat sped to the nescue of the seveix float- ing units. Six expressed their tbanks as they were picked up and heiped inito the boat, and the seventh-the liedraggied yacht-iooked more or iess sulien as it was towed back to the biarbon by the Coast Guard craft. The other Sniipe resýiie on Suindav xvas inerelv a towing task without the thnills of the six-boy splash. Aniother towing job was tackied Satunday of iast xeek xvhen the Coast Gýuard motor life boat took the 72-foot sloop, Shadow, fnom Wauke- ganl to Belmnont, barbon. The Sha- (10w caught fine txvo and one-liaif nmiles out froin Racine Fnidax' niglit, injuring -tvo penson 's aboard. The U. S. coast guards of Racine took the boat to the harbor befone tow- ing it to Xaukegan wlere the Sha- dow was picked up by the Xilnette coast. guards. Traveling Gold Buyers Victimize North Shore Last week a Wilmette bousewife narrowiy escaped being victimnized by an itinerant buyen of old goid, who called at ber home. Among othen things the householden bad, a gold watch of outmoded mnodel for which the buyer. off ered ber $7, alleging that figure to nepresent the veny higbest price for the gold, content. Refusinig to seIl the watcb, the wo- mn aftenward took it to a reliabie local jeweler. wlho appnaised the goid1 value at $21.50. 1 Silice gold was nationaiized, es-1 tabiisbed dealers' say, a swanm of buyers of the pnecious metal have1 been going from bouse to bouse ini seanch of je,%elny, watches and othe«r articles, in many instances niot only offering far less than' actual wortb, but also imposing upon tbeé seller tbrough short weights., Estabiished, government lcne dealers in old gold and silver admon-« isli alil wo desire to dispose of these mietals take them to a dealer in whom they have confidence, and avoid any -chance of ioss tbrough undervalua- tion or underweîght.. UNDERGOES OPERATION Miss Pauline Jones, 737 Park ave- nue,. daugbter of Mrs. Peanie P. Jones, was operated on for appendi- citis at. the Silver Cross bospitai int Joliet on August 16, and -is now con-c valescing. Miss Jones was visiting at t the borne of ber aunt, Mrs. Carie i Gowey, at the time she took ill. c Mrs. Erniest Fleischmann, 235 Lei- l cester road,, Keuilwortb, wiil enter- tain at tea Friday in honor of Mrs.a William McPbariin of Detroit, fonm- & erly of Kenilwortb. Her guests will 'i be ail old Kenilwortb friends of Mrs.y Ioy OYSCO SEA SCOUT SHIP OUILMETTE ' PLACED SECOND The. Sea Scout spipe, Noreaste dcame in second in Sunday's race oý Wilînette Harbor. The race, spon sored by the newi1y organized Wil emette Harbor Snipe Fléet, laste neariy two hours over a four mil course. A strong nonth wind bli steadily the whiie and offered thriil a pienty. e Olie, owned and skiped by A. C BY urglund, came in first and the Glad iator, owned and skiped by Bar tPrice placed third.- The entire Wii -mette Harbor fleet, of seven boat5 sentered the race, and ail finishei ýexcept Valkyrie, who carried awa, part of her rigging. DAILY NEWS REGATTA. Trhe Seà Scouts have entered thei: 7canoe in the atinual.I)aiiy Newvs Re- tgatta, to be sailed Saturday, Augus 25, off Navy Pier.1 jIn preparation for this event th( b)oat lias l)een put in dry dock and-ivil receive a nexv coat of paint. SNIPE CLÂSS SLOOP .. . The snipe class sloop, designed b-% W., L. Crosby, for the Rudder mag.a- zine in 1930, is rapidly becoming thE largest one-desigu lboat afloat. In- tnoduced four years ago, and devel- oped by amateur boat builders, it ha5 prognessed in the eyes of y'acht imeni and is higbly nespected. There are fleets in nearly everv port f nom San Francisco to Newv Yonk, from Texas to Canada and the close of this season, xviii see a first class fleet ini Wilmette hiarbor. -R.E). IH. Close Best Camp Year; Many. Awards Achieved Camp M a-Ka-Ja-Wani, the Scout camp for the Scouts of the North Shore Area. council. has just coin- pleted its sixth season. A total of 841 "Boy Weeks"' were spent at. camp this summer xvhich was an increase of 30 per cent over iast year. The prognam was rich ini fun for ail Scouts and many of tbem are ex- pressinga wishi that they were back up at camp at' Spring Lake again. Advancement and menit badge wonk xvas also in excess of last year, there being a total of 385 menti badges passed in the six weeks and many Scouts progressing from Second class to First class. A total of eight Scouts achieved Eagle rank; thitteen Star Scouts, and eleven achieved nank. of Life Scout. Grand-Daddy Beard Is Speaker on Scout Day Thursday of this week Boy Scouts and leaders were invited. to celebrate Boy Scout Dayat the Worlds Fair. Approximately 15,000 scouts ivere to be on the grounds, ailladmitted to the grounds and concessions at the child's rate of five cents. Daniel Car- ter Beard, the grand-daddy of scout- ing in America, and National Scout commissioner was to be on the pro- gram held in the Hall of States at 10 o'ciock in the morning. Uncle Dan, as he is. intimately cailed by Scouts all over the country, is well above 80 years of age, but is still very active n Sîcout work and conducts each year a Scout camp in thé mountains n the East. Parents and Friends Get Big 'Kick' Out of Camp Xith the "Family Week" at Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-XVanl as the last week of the season, camp xvas fitly closed for not only Scouts, but for their friends and parents who wene thene to celebrate a week in the woods xith a nelaxed pnogram of sxvînming, i)oatilig, hiking and handi- cnaft. Some fifty people enjoyed a solid- week of -neal pleasure and miany of that numben bad neyer been to camp before, but ail came back thor-oughiy "soid" and are inquiring alneady about the possii)ilities of a sirmilan expenience next yean. In 79 Days Fair Leads Sesqui-Centennial Gate Attendance at tbe 1 9 34. World's Fair bas surpassed the total attend- ance of 6,408,289 for the entire Sesqui- Centennial held in Philadelphia in 1926, Lenox R. Lohn, genenal man- ager of, A Century of Pnogress, bas annouuced. Total attendance at the 1934 Fair up to and including Mon- day, August 13, the 79th day of this year's exposition, was 6,840,731,. as compared with the lesser total of visi- tons to the Sesqui-Centennial Exposi*- tion for the entire 184 days it was open, Mn. Lob-r said. BAHWI LECTURE "Wbat Is Fate or Divine Decree," will be the subject of a talk to be given at Foundatioli hall, Baha'i House of Wonship, on Linden avenue and Sheridan road, Wihnette Sunday aften-t noon, August 26, at 3:30-o'clock. The speaker will be Ali Kuli Khan of Persia. there xvould be nîo emptv, seats ini cither park wvleîî the boys square awva% for the title games.î ih urîbose of the Americar<--'e- gion li supporting- and sponsornîî these junior i)ali ciubs throuirhout the couintrv is to train the boys ini the principles of cieaîî sport, and the chanipionshil> games are an îîcentive for tiejrn to do their best, Mr. 1,eaciî asserted. GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS -"Prehistoric Life, and Minenals,'7 will be the subject of a guide-lecture tour to be given for the genenal public at Field Museum of Natural Histony Friday morning, August 24. at Il o'clock. 'Next Monday at the same hour the subjectwill be "Plant Life";, on Tuesday, "Primitive and Civiiized Peopies," and Wednesday, "Animal Groups." In addition to these speciai tours, there are givený twice daily, except Saturday and Sunday, at 10 a. m. and 3 p. m'., geti- enal tours of anthropological, botan- ical, geological and 'zoological ex- hibits. These tours are conducted by staff lecturers, and no charge is made.. AIl museum visitons are in- vited to panticipate. Parties gather With the lecturer inside the nortbh en- ttance. M r. and Mns. Frank A. Pollock, 1406 Washington avenue, accompan- ied by. their children. Priscilla and Charles Sankey, returned this week from a vacation spent, at Sault Sie- Marie and Mackinac Island. 0o- Mn. and Mrs. H. G. Petensen, 212 Warwick road, Kenilworth, who.with their family are spending the season at thein summer home in Mercer, Wis., have been in Kenilwonth the past week' and are returning Friday. UT NLS CIUbsMet in invite. Scouts to View TteGie Junior 'World Series' The American' Legion of. Illinois On August 28, _X) and 30 there will be heid in Chicago, the national bas invited *ail Boy Scouts to attend ciiampionsh-ip>. gaines of the junior the World Series Junior Basebaîl basebail clubs of America. Sponsor-, piay-off,à Sox p ark and Cubs park ship of these contests was awarded to next Wedniesday, Thursday and Fri- the Americanism' committee of the day, August 29, 30 and 31. The first Cook county division of the Ameri- game is to be piayed Wednesday, canl Legion by its national com- at Comiskey park on the South side. mander, Ed Haves. with the under- The second game, Thursday, is to bie standing that thýe Cubs and Sox bal played at Wrigley field. The games parks would be filled to overflowing start at,~3 o'ciock. but ail Scouts and with patriotic boys to see the games. their leaders are to be- on hand at The championship wiil bie awarded to 2 ociok o st i aspeialBo Scutthe teamn winning two out of three section. Those xvho wish tickets may gte us. Graindviternx atebexve have as many' as they nleed for the teCb )r n h o ak àsking at Boy Sc out headquarters ini Picked from Large Croup Highland Park, or, if they are not l'le two teams contesting for the able to get them in time, will lie big honor will, le the best of some able to procure them at the gate. The 8MM0 or 10,000 teams, composed of tickets are good for any of the three boYs tunder 18 yeans of age, which gaines and more tickets cat ibe ob- have been sponsored by American tained upon leaving the bail field. The '1, egion posts throughout. the coun- trdame will bie piaved, if neces- trv, and, according to David C. I.eaciî, sarv, at Sox park. 1417 Forest avenue, they arc no sand- lot aggregations. b)ut play real base- Look Forward to Scout bal. thils assuring excellent sport. j ational Commander Hayes bas Jamboree Next Summer personaliy guaranteed the expense of Plans are being miade for a Na- these championshilp games, but the tional Boy Scouit Jaml)oree to lie Cook county Americanism commit- i ield'at Washington, D. C.. somne tim2i» tee expects that the sale of adult next sumnier. Approximiately thirt-vitickets xviii be sufficient to relieve, thousand Scouts are expected to pa r - Conuna nder Haves of the financial ticil)ate in this national demionstra- iurden. tion of scouting and camping. Ap- Aliot Free Tickets 1roxiimately forty- fhve -scouts wiil ie i r. I.each states that xith e%-erv- privileged to attend the Jamboree aflotiient of aduit tickets to Legion from the North Shore Area counicil. posts tiiere %vill l)e aliotted one tn Definite polîcies-reg-arding the, selec- <red* tickets of admission for boys tion of Scouts for this hionor xill inder 17 years. without charge. bie outiined shortly and any questions Àlso. %vith eacli purcha.se ofý an aduit or inquiries regarding this celebra- ticket. one or more of these free boy tion should lie made to Scout head tcesxiib xvre.S tios quartens at Highland Park. tikes il Te wade . Soitloks Augus t - .23, 1934 WILMIEITTE LIFE