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Show , Heroic Boy Scout Saves 1 The Life of Little Girl LESSIE DELABOUT. First Aid Principles in Drowning Drown-ing Case Used With Satisfactory Sat-isfactory Results. j rPTLH LESSrR DELABOUT. 1 daughter of Abraham Uelabout, J j 001 ' Hooscvelt avenue, owes her life to the presence of mind and training of Loui'b Uoaonlund, patrol leader for a local boy scout organization. or-ganization. Tlie girl fell iuto Mill creek near Klcvcnth South streot .Friday aflor-iioou aflor-iioou and was dragged from tho stream, supposedly dead, by a laborer 100 yards down stream. Young Jloacnlund was first to arrivo on the sccno in response re-sponse to 1 lie laborer's cries for help. He found tho little girl lying on tho bank and though every eyidenco of death was at hand, ho sprang to her side and began applying his first aid principles while his companion ran for a doctor. "When tho physician arrived t.ho child had rocoverod consciousness under rJosenlund's persistent efforts to rcsuscitato the spark of life. She is none .the worse for her narrow escape. Young I?osonlund avoys he did what any boy scout would do, remembering his pledged duties aud instructions. i0UlS |