Iowa
Old Press
Sioux City Journal, Sunday, October 31, 1920
MEDAL FOR A SCOUT HERO
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY REWARDED FOR HEROISM.
SAVED HIS YOUNG COMPANION.
John Druger Seized Another Youngster and Separated Him from a “Live” Wire at the Risk of His Own Life.
John Druger, 14-year-old boy scout, who saved the life of 8-year-old Frank Beckser, 311 ½ South Wall street, last July, by pulling him away from a live electric wire on the carnival grounds, has been awarded the first national honor medal to be awarded any scout in the Sioux City territory, F. C. Woolworth, secretary announced yesterday.
The medal, awarded in recognition of unusual bravery or heroism by scouts in actually saving life, was received by Mr. Woolworth and will be presented to Druger at the next general meeting of the scouts at the Auditorium, November 19.
John, formerly of Sioux City, but now living at Ashton, Ia., is a member of Troop 22 here. On seeing the younger boy lying on the live wire, although he had no rubber gloves to protect himself, seized the boy’s hands one at a time and pulled them away. Through the scout system of artificial respiration, he revived the younger boy.
The medal is a cross on which is inscribed the Tenderfoot emblem and attached to the second class emblem pin by chains, making a first class scout badge mounted on a ribbon. At the top of the cross is the word “Honor” and at the bottom, the words “Boy Scouts of America.”
[transcribed by L.Z., Jul 2020]