Thursday, October 31, 2024

Otis Whitehead, Charles Foster, E.A. Pipkin Are Heroes, Nov. 1, 1924

Three Tar Heels Given Medals for Acts of Heroism

Pittsburg, Pa., Oct 31—The Carnegie Hero Fund commission, at its fall meeting here today, recognized 48 acts of heroism by awarding three silver and 45 bronze medals. Three North Carolinians were included in the awards.

Otis R. Whitehead, Ramseur, N.C., died attempting to save a fellow workman from drowning in Ramseur, May 31, 1922. A silver medal was awarded to his father.

A bronze medal was awarded to Charles S. Foster of Ronda, N.C., who saved an engineer from suffocation at Benhan, N.C., June 2, 1923.

Edward Ashby Pipkin, route 2, Morven, N.C., was also awarded a bronze medal. He saved a negress from drowning at Ansonville, N.C., January 13, 1923.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 1, 1924

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1924-11-01/ed-1/seq-1/#words=NOVEMBER+1%2C+1924

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