Scouting’s highest honor, the Silver Buffalo, as awarded to Frank. L Weil, president of the National Jewish Welfare Board at the 6th annual meeting of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America held here. Mr. Weil was one of nine men, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester Nimitz and Vilhjalmur Stefanson, who received the award for “distinguished service of boyhood.” He entered scouting in 1913 and has been chairman of the National Jewish committee on Scouting since 1935.
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