Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-28
AWARDS FOR HFTY-7WO
ACTS Of HERO|SM MADE
Father of Cumberland, Nd, Boy
Who Lost His Life Il
Given a Medal.
By the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, October 2s.-Fifty-
two acts Of herofsm were recognized
by the Carnegie hero fund commission
at its fall meeting here In six cases
silver medals were awarded: In forty
six, bronze medals. Twelve Of the
heroes lost their lives. and to the de-
pendents Of six Of these pensions ag-
gregating 1920 yearly were granted
To the dependents Of three Of the
others who died. sums totaling $4,000
were granted. to be applied In various
ways subject to the direction Of the
commission.
Two of the heroes sustained injuries
which disabled them. In the case OF
one. benefits of 1925 were granted, and
in that of the other a pension of $50
a month was allowed.
In addition to these money grants, H.
nine cases, sums a sgregating $4,000
were appropriated for educational pur-
poses. payments to be made as needed
and approved. and In twenty nine
were made for other worthy purposes
Payments in these cases will not be
given until the benefciaries' plans for
the use of the awards have been ap-
proved by the commission.
Cumberland Boy Lost Life.
To the father of George G. Reftmeier
deceased. Is West list street. Cumber-
land, Md. medal was awarded. Reit-
meier. a ten-year-old schoolboy. died
attempting to save ffteen-year-o
glass worker, J. Louis Labor. from
drowning at Cumberland. January 20.
1915. The Ice on a canal broke. and
LABOR was plunged into a hole. Reit.
xvh fa hal In hnr
who was rescued.
To the mother of Julius T. Malone.
Athens. Ca. was given q silver medal
and $40 monthly for support during
thirry-eight, saved an indeterminate
number of persons and died attempting
to rescue others from burning at Los
Angeles. Cal. November Is. 1912. Fire
vator shaft on the second door of &
six-story hotel building. The elevator
man after making a few rescues de-
serted his post. Malone, who was the
hotel engineer, took his place and
brought down one or more loads OF
guests. Again ascending he was forced
to abandon the lift at an upper story.
A few minutes later he tum bled down
the stairs into the lobby with his cloth
ing afame. Hurried to a hospital, Ma
lone died from his burns.
Schoolboy Saved Two.
Carnie G. Logue. San Antonio, Tex.
was given q medal. Logue. q fourteen
year old -schoolboy. saved two twelve
year-old children, Carmen E. Hampton
and John Rix. from drowning In San
Antonio river. He dived from the bank,
placed himself between the two. and.
finding himself unable to swim with
them, let himself sink and waded under
water twelve feet with them to shallow
water.
John Murray, Chicago, also won a
medal. Murray. twenty-seven. laborer.
saved Patrick Eustace. a laborer. from,
a fatal fall In Chicago June 81, 1911.
Murray saw Eustace topping from the
twentieth door of an uncompieted
building into an elevator shaft. Grip
ping an arm around an upright. Muir.
ray leaned out over the shaft and threw.
his free arm around Eustace's body
The latter bore Murray to the floor 30
that his head and shoulders were over
the shaft. Their grasps on each other
were broken, but Eustace'e course was
SO altered that he alighted safely on
tho eighteenth floor.