Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-05 | Page 2 | Navy Secretary Commends Tars

NAIIY SECRETARY COUEiS TiUS WASHINGTON, Jan I. A swinging coal bag struck Chief Boatswuin's Mate Charles Baur while his ship, tho Minnesota, was coaling at Gravcsond, England, Docombei 1 The man was knocked overboard and Injured so as to bo entirely helpless. Notwithstanding tho low temperature, tempera-ture, tho cold and tho dangerously rapid current, Michael J. Malono, Now YorkB blue-Jacket, leaped overboard and rescued Baur For this ho has rocoived tho commendation of the socretary of tho navy. Coxswain T. S. Swain, of Brlddlewa-ter, Brlddlewa-ter, Mnss., blue-Jacket on tho Idaho, has also been commended for a similar simi-lar action when Musician Alfred W Ogden fell ocrboard from the Idaho at Green Hithe, England, December 5.