Show FLIER HERO WINS BRAVERY AWARD w WASHINGTON ASIU Jan 8 AP AP- AP Lieutenant William A. A Matheny winner r of ot the 1929 Cheney award for tor attempting to rescue a a. fellow officer from a n. burning airplane although although al although al- al though his own clothes were cro saturated saturated saturated sat sat- with ga gasoline today was given gl tho the soldiers' soldiers medal for tor his de deed d. d The two army fliers crashed Inthe inthe In Inthe the Nicaraguan gunn Jungle while taking a largo large piano to the canal zone Thrown to safety after alter a a. bursting tank soaked him with gasoline Matheny pulled his companion Lieutenant Dwight D Canfield from the burning plane The clothes of ot both caught fire and Mathony W was S unable to extinguish the flames on his companion who ran Into the Jungle After Atter rolling In wet grass though painfully burned he went after Canfield but tho the latter tatter was wasso wasso so 80 serious seriously I burned that he died later I |