OCR Text |
Show A Hero Every Day,' Tho secretary of the navy lias ruin-mended ruin-mended Axel J. T. Adnlphsou, chief machinist's ma-chinist's mate. U. S. fleet naval reserve. L". S. S. ..Barney, for hia self-sacrificing heroism displayed on board October IP, 1918. While a safety valve wag being tested, a gasket of a stestni drum boiler blew out, causing the fire room to be instantly filled with -steam. Adolphson. realizing that a heavy .fire was being carried, car-ried, that water in the steam drum wa.s getting Inw, and ihat all valves permit- I tins water to he renewed had been closed, entered the steam-filled npurt-me-nt at the risk of beinju scalded, and opened the nectary valves to permit the water to enter the boiler. When Adolphson enlisted he gave as nexr of kin. his father. Thorvald Adolph-aon, Adolph-aon, Copenhagen, Denmark. |