Show CARNEGIE FUND RECOGNIZES 1 15 HEROIC Five Young Women Honored Three of Heroes Lose Lives PITTSBURG May lay 2 By A. A P. P P.- P. Fifteen heroic deeds brought recognition recognition recognition from the Carnegie hero fund commission at Its spring meeting here late yest yesterday The commission commission commis commis- sion awarded bronze medals to the heroes three of whom lost their lives granted pensions aggregating 2880 monthly gave gave for educational edu- edu cati nal purposes purposes and for other worthy purposes Five young women were recognized as as' as heroines 1 The heroes who went to their deaths while Seeking to aid others were Louis uis Pickens ens Rochester f N eI Ti e attempted tt i m fed fedt t to rescue a boy f from oin Lake Lale Ontario July 17 1924 The widow received a bronze medal and 75 a month with 5 5 additional for a son I R. R Carlyle Stephens Washington D D. D C. C was drowned June 29 29 1924 when he tried to rescue two girls from the Occoquan river at Occoquan Occoquan Occoquan Occo- Occo quan Va A bronze medal with 70 a month and 5 for fo each of ot two children chil chil- dren ren was awarded the widow Andrew C. C RowE Parkersburg W. W V. V Va was drowned when he attempted attempt attempt- ed to rescue a man at Vienna W W. Va July 21 1924 His Ills widow re received received re- re a bronze medal and 75 a with 5 additional for additional for a son WOMEN ARE HONORED The five young women who re received received received re- re bronze medals were Helen E E. E Mason 1 21 21 of Johns Hopkins Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- kins hospital Baltimore Md lId at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to rescue ue a girl from drowning at Venango Pa July 21 1924 Ruth L Lysle Justice 18 of Pittsburg PiUs Pitts- burg Pa went to the aid of ot Miss Mason and the girl s-Irl she sought to aid She rescued both of ot them Esther R. R Beard 20 of Parkersburg Parkers- Parkers burg W. W Va saved a girl irl from drowning at Oxford O. O November 3 1921 Elizabeth S S. S Wise 15 of ot Baltimore BaIt Balti more Md saved a boy from drowning drowning drown drown- in ing at Chester Md August 16 1923 Edna Mae Good 15 of Bradford Pa saved two young women from drowning at Salamanca N. N Y August August August Au- Au Au Au- gust 2 1923 OTHER HEROES The other heroes who ho received bronze medals were Robert J. J Royal jf M Uniontown Pa a negro miner rescued a timber timber timber tim tim- ber worker from ti-em a cavern In a mine at Lamberton Pa July 12 1923 W. W J. J Bryan Bogart of Kirwin Nan Jan rescued a fellow student from drowning at Kirwin June 19 1923 Homer B. B Martz Marta of ot Pittsburg Pa railroad fir nan saved an aged woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man from being killed by a train at Cumberland Md 1 June Juno 1 1924 William C. C Cagle of Baltimore Md l a negro saved a gas worker from froni being suffocated in a manhole at Baltimore January 4 1925 James E. E Ruble nuble of Parkersburg W. W YI Va attempted to save saYe a man manfrom manfrom manfrom from drowning at Vienna V. V W. W Va July 21 1924 Lewis Spence Green 9 9 of Morgan lor an Pa a schoolboy saved a small girl Airl from being killed by an nn automobile at Morgan December 5 5 1923 Ellsha Elisha F. F Scott of Columbus 0 O. saved sayed a man from drowning at Cheshire 0 O. June 24 24 1924 |