Show COMMENDED I 1 FOR HEROISM gunner a mate R life to save his comrade washington acting secretary new berry has formally placed on record the ravy departments hearty commenda com menda tion of the self sacrifice and bravery exhibited by edward wade whitehead first class gunner gunners s mate in fearlessly risking his own life to save that of a comrade the details of the act for which whitehead Is commended arp set forth in the letter of acting secre tary newberry to the commandant ot of the station at tutuila samoa from which it appears that a landslide had destroyed the barracks at that station and whitehead at great risk and with his own body had prevented sergeant john F cox from being abeln crushed beneath a slowly adv advancing ancin avalanche of concrete and earth until a relief party from the united states tates ship adams was able to extricate the men |