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Show COMMENDED FOR HEROISM. Gunner's Mate Risked Life to Save His Comrade. Washington. Acting Secretary New-berry New-berry has formally placed on record tho navy department's hearty commendation commenda-tion of the sclf-sncrlllce and bravery exhibited by Edward Wade Whitehead, tlrst class gunner's mate, In fearlessly risking his own life to snvo that of u comrade. The details of the act for which Whltehond Is commended nro set forth In the letter of Acting Secretary Secre-tary Newberry to tho commandant ot the station at Tutulla, Samoa, from which It appears that a landslide had destroyed tho barracks at that station and Whitehead nt great risk nnd with his own body had prevented Sergeant John F. Cox from being crushed beneath be-neath a slowly advancing avalanche of concrete nnd earth until a relief party trom thn United States ship Adnms was able to oxtrlcuto tho men. |