All Scout Candidates Successfully Pass Tests

Boy Scout candidates for promotion to second and first-class ranks at the first court of honor of the new year, held in Judge Everett Smith's courtroom at the County-City Building Wednesday evening, faced the most thorough examinations given for some time, W.L. Hayward, scoutmaster of Troop 2 and chairman of the training committee of the council, was the examiner.

Not one of the candidates failed to pass, and those who received their badges and the congratulations of Judge Smith, presiding, were:

First class -- Hugh O'Donnell, Troop 42; Wilbur Hough, 153; James Hammond, 282; Richard Woodruff, Ronald 1. Second class -- Wilbur Springle, Jack Schack and John Schack, Troop 42; Howard Rowe, 43; Karl Kasson, 46; Franklin Jensen, 57; Frank Hastig; 81; Lawrence Anderson and Hilding Tuvison, 104; Edwin Stiles, 153; William Fast and Arthur Edwards, 160; Harold Spalding, 282; William Gadke and Hal Holstein, Ronald 1; James Crum, 124; Harold Whitmore, 141, and Raymond Lincoln, Hunts Point 1.

Candidates for merit badges, examined by Scout Executive Stuart P. Walsh, and the badges awarded them were:

Earl Robinson, Troop 1, first aid; Louis May, 1, scholarship; Alex Gould, 1, pathfinding; Harrison Sargent, 1, firemanship; Stewart Sargent, 1, personal health; Tommy Williams, 1, conservation; R.R. Rudiman, 1 personal health and public health; Howard Frederick, 5, carpentry; Harold Gibbons, 5, carpentry; Robert Paulus, 5, carpentry; Jack Keller, 33, first aid to animals; Everett Royce, 44, conservation and cooking; Leonard Woolf, 44, first aid to animals; Cecil Minaker, 44, first-aid to animals; John Pinne, 51, bird study; Hector McKay, 57, cooking; Eiler Ferguson, 72, carpentry; Edwin Hastig, 81, personal health and public health; Robert Nelson, 81, public health; William Morris, 125, conservation and craftsmanship in wood; Arthur Stroble, 141, scholarship and camping; Elmhurst Duckering, 153, first aid to animals and physical development; Raymond Hough, 153, firemanship; Lewis Hunter, 153, first aid; George Nakashima, 204, carpentry; Rex Palmer, 242, firemanship; Scott Edson, 263; camping, Sam Harby, 147, surveying; Paul Davidson, 153, first aid to animals; William Barnett, 282, firemanship; Francis Deignan, 282, music and swimming; Arthur Barnett, 282, surveying; Charles Hammond, 282, firemanship, Roger Gee, 282, firemanship and swimming; Jack Frisk, N.P. 1, life saving and first aid; Elmer Eckland, N.P. 1, pathfinding and pioneering; Charles Rothweiler, N.P. 1, signaling; Harold Hall, Ronald 1, craftsmanship in wood and pathfinding; Ralph Badham, Ronald 1, handicraft; G.C. Hatt, 42, civics; Horace Harby, 147, life saving; Gilvert Loewing, Hunts Point 1, camping and pathfinding; Herbert Landon, 147, safety first.